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Things That Are Different Are Not The Same
214 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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February 23, 2021
I used to be one of the people who would like to read the same verse from different translations and a few years ago, if you told me that I would be reading this book, I would have laughed. Actually, when my husband told me for the first time about the KJV Bible, I told him: "don't you ever expect me to read that bible...". But I kinda started to look into it when I wanted to buy a new Bible, and slowly I went down the rabbit hole and ended up subtitling into Spanish the documentary "New World Order Bibles" (which I highly recommend).
My husband was surprised, I was surprised. And I can say that now when I read my Reina Valera Gomez side by side with the KJV, I feel assured that I read the whole Bible.
This book is great to get you introduced to this topic. It is easy to read, chapters are short and its thesis is based on the Bible itself. What I mean by this is that the author uses bible verses to prove his point. The book starts with why he believes the Bible is the inspired word of God, and there are many chapters in the book that just talk about how God promised in his word that he would keep it.
Later it goes into the manuscripts, the translators, and ends with two chapters where he compares key verses from the KJV and the other Bible translations.
I think it's a good book to use in a youth meeting because it comes with follow-up questions at the end of each chapter. I started answering those questions but then that made me read the book slower, so in the end, I just skipped the exercises.
One thing that the author criticizes seminaries, but he is not opposed to the idea of having seminaries if they are based on the KJV Bible. He criticizes the "scholars" but from my point of view, one can get also "scholars" in the KJV that have the same attitude as the other "scholars". And it turns out he is the director of a Seminary.
Personally, I am against the idea of seminaries, and I believe they are not biblical, so that is the thing that bothered me a bit about the book. Another is that the book doesn't contain any bibliography at the end, and it just makes the book less academic. The first thing I was taught at university is that you must always quote your sources and if you don't then you might be in trouble. Besides the fact that if I want to know more about this topic, I don't have any references to go and look into it. And therefore I must just take what the author is saying as the truth.
But as I said, it is a good book to give you a taste of this topic, and to give you some general information about what bibles we use.
My husband was surprised, I was surprised. And I can say that now when I read my Reina Valera Gomez side by side with the KJV, I feel assured that I read the whole Bible.
This book is great to get you introduced to this topic. It is easy to read, chapters are short and its thesis is based on the Bible itself. What I mean by this is that the author uses bible verses to prove his point. The book starts with why he believes the Bible is the inspired word of God, and there are many chapters in the book that just talk about how God promised in his word that he would keep it.
Later it goes into the manuscripts, the translators, and ends with two chapters where he compares key verses from the KJV and the other Bible translations.
I think it's a good book to use in a youth meeting because it comes with follow-up questions at the end of each chapter. I started answering those questions but then that made me read the book slower, so in the end, I just skipped the exercises.
One thing that the author criticizes seminaries, but he is not opposed to the idea of having seminaries if they are based on the KJV Bible. He criticizes the "scholars" but from my point of view, one can get also "scholars" in the KJV that have the same attitude as the other "scholars". And it turns out he is the director of a Seminary.
Personally, I am against the idea of seminaries, and I believe they are not biblical, so that is the thing that bothered me a bit about the book. Another is that the book doesn't contain any bibliography at the end, and it just makes the book less academic. The first thing I was taught at university is that you must always quote your sources and if you don't then you might be in trouble. Besides the fact that if I want to know more about this topic, I don't have any references to go and look into it. And therefore I must just take what the author is saying as the truth.
But as I said, it is a good book to give you a taste of this topic, and to give you some general information about what bibles we use.
May 17, 2017
I was required to read this for a college seminary class.
The subject matter is good and I believe everything is correct, but this is more of a surface overview, not an in-depth study. I would recommend it for a middle-school Sunday school class to go through.
The author doesn't site any of his statements (except for Bible) and the reader is just supposed to trust him. In fact, at one point in the chapter about contradictions he said the Bible doesn't contradict itself because "it just doesn't".
I wouldn't recommend this to anyone really searching for answers on the KJV Bible. It's too shallow, not enough backing or proof, and it's not well written.
It seems that the author just sat down at his computer one day and just typed up everything he knew about the KJV and called it good.
The subject matter is good and I believe everything is correct, but this is more of a surface overview, not an in-depth study. I would recommend it for a middle-school Sunday school class to go through.
The author doesn't site any of his statements (except for Bible) and the reader is just supposed to trust him. In fact, at one point in the chapter about contradictions he said the Bible doesn't contradict itself because "it just doesn't".
I wouldn't recommend this to anyone really searching for answers on the KJV Bible. It's too shallow, not enough backing or proof, and it's not well written.
It seems that the author just sat down at his computer one day and just typed up everything he knew about the KJV and called it good.
April 23, 2023
A basic book on the debate over the underlying Greek NT texts. He also has another book "The Elephant in the Living Room" which had some good pieces in it too. These are secondary books. There are better primary books to read but these also contain good, helpful arguments.
May 10, 2022
Everything was written from a logical view, and the comparisons between Bibles was very eye opening. This book puts things in a simple way ,and would be very profitable to read.
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