Saturday, November 29, 2008

Ordering the Red Letter Words

There's a man in Missouri who has spent the last dozen or so years working on a book that puts Jesus' words in chronological order! Why? "It just seemed that to me that, in my own experience, I had found it difficult to make the words of our Lord more important than the words of other writers of scripture..." says Keith Siddens of Words of Jesus. Huh? When asked about the version he used, Siddens said, "I used the King James because ... it is claimed that King James told the writers of the King James version that if he discovered that they had deliberately mistranslated something, he would take their head off. This seemed like a pretty good motivation to do it right. I hope it is not just prejudice because I was raised on the King James version, but I do feel that there is a lot of accuracy there." Again, huh? We can't wait to see what the NT scholars think about this one. It's like the reverse Q.

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