Nothing fascinates me more than people who use the word "version" after Bible (a.k.a. the word of God) and do so unironically.
I remember the "red letter editions" that supposedly had the words of Jesus printed in red. This is really a silly idea, but to Evangelicals it might fit because of "all that blood" that he shed. Jesus just would not stop bleeding and he shed his blood for us all. I think he bled to death.
Hahaha what a lovely topic
Well if you think about it, all versions are translations, and translation, especially from a highly sophisticated language like ancient Greek, always require interpretation... Thus, you have versions/editions of the word of God. God, how stupid when you put it down in words...
I remember a very old episode of "The Atheist Experience" where they discussed a new translation that changed "stoned" to "stoned to death" because too many young people thought "stoned" only meant getting high.
Ashley Perrien quipped, "Now they get REALLY high."
It reminds me of the elderly church lady who, when confronted by a modern language version of the Bible, stated: "If the King James version of the Bible was good enough for Jesus, it is good enough for me."
Yes, I have heard this before. Another lady in my church days said that people talked funny in bible times and she was referring to the King James version.
And it's always so convenient that the "version" they are quoting just happens to agree with them.
When I think about it there should be no interpretation of the Bible. It should stand alone and mean the same to everybody, as the true word of god