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Ask Anything: What's Up With Bible Translations? · Tabernacle Talk - A Bible Study Podcast with Pastor Bryon Self

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  Welcome to Tabernacle Talk Tabernacle talk is a Bible study
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  podcast brought from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Essex, MD I'm
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  your host, Brian Self. We hope this podcast encourages
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  you to know Christ, grow in his word and show his love to others
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  Let's dive right in Welcome to Tabernacle talk and right now we
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  are doing This is our very last episode of the weekday Bible
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  study until we get to Psalm 119. So after after today's episode,
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  which should come out on a Friday, going to be moving to a
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  Wednesday publishing schedule. And so every Wednesday, which
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  will be, you know, about halfway through the week for most
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  people, we will have an episode that's dropping.
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  And so I believe my next one is like Psalm one O 7 or one O 8,
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  if I remember correctly, is where book 5 of Psalm starts.
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  And so I'm going to be walking through and so going to go Psalm
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  one O 7 through 118, doing 1 Psalm every single Wednesday.
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  And then after that Psalm 118 episode, then I'll do a weekdays
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  the 22 sections through Psalm 119.
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  And that way I don't have to do 175 verses in just one day.
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  And so going to do that and then hit it back towards from Psalm
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  120 through 150 and we'll we'll see depending on the time of
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  year, if it's a little bit slower time period, I might go
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  back to weekdays. So just keep an eye on either
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  your Facebook feed, YouTube feed, or if you've got a podcast
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  feed like I do, it notifies me when the people that I follow
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  when they upload. And so I encourage you to do
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  that. Today there was going to be an
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  Ask Anything episode, but I didn't get another question.
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  And so I am doing my own Ask Anything episode, which is
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  Brian, you're on Tabernacle talk.
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  We've done, I think at this point very nearly like 550
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  different episodes. What is your favorite Bible or
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  what is your favorite translation of Scripture?
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  And so today is tell me, you know, it's Ask Anything.
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  Tell me about the Bible or about Bible translations.
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  I'll say this in one end, Bible translation is often the thing
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  that people can get worried about or upset about.
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  But I want to make one thing really clear.
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  I love what the King James translators said in their
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  preface to the readers. They said we acknowledge and
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  affirm that even the very meanest, the very poorest, the
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  the least well done translations of Scripture contain no, they
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  are the word of God and that's the way that they phrased it.
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  And I'm so thankful for the copies of God's word that we are
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  able to have in English. My goal in highlighting some
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  Bible translations for you in this episode is so you can know
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  number one. Are these translations?
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  Are they reliable? I'm not going to be giving you
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  guys any today that you should shy away from.
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  These are all excellent translations that I would
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  encourage you to read from. You don't have to read all of
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  them. Frankly, if you just have one
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  translation you read, praise the Lord for that.
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  I encourage most people to have at least two that they're
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  reading. Not everything that is
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  communicated in the original languages can come across one to
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  one in English. And so if you have at least 2
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  English translations, that can really help you to see some
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  different aspects of what is happening in the original
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  languages. It's a little bit like a diamond
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  where as you look at it from different angles, you can notice
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  different things and you can see its beauty from different
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  angles. It's not that when you look at a
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  diamond in One Direction that you are are somehow missing out
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  on the diamond. You're still beholding it, but
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  you're just able to behold it more fully as you look at the
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  different facets of the diamond. And so I want to encourage you
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  to read God's word. And so going to start today with
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  the first Bible that I ever read, and that is the King James
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  Version of the Bible. And this was not the first
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  English translation, this was about the 6th, 7th or 8th
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  English translation depending on how you break it down.
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  My copy of my main copy of the King James that I have is this
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  one that's rebound by Cherry Hill Bibles and I purchased this
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  several years ago from someone that was raising money for
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  something. And so it is just a beautiful
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  copy of God's word. It is a new Cambridge paragraph
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  edition of the King James. So you can buy those on Amazon
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  or online. And what that does is it takes
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  the text of Scripture and puts it in a single column format,
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  which makes it really, really easy to read.
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  It's about how you would read any other book.
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  And so to me, that's always very helpful to be able to read that.
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  The King James has incredibly poetic language, and it's still
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  somewhat within our common vocabulary for the most part.
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  There are some words that have gone out of date.
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  There are words that have meanings that have changed
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  overtime. So you can read the word Unicorn
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  in the King James. It's not talking about a horse
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  with a horn, it's talking about a rhinoceros.
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  But that was the word that they had for that back in that time
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  period. And so they use that word.
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  And so there are sometimes confusions that can come up if
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  people are only reading the King James or if they come across it
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  and they don't recognize this is not written in the 21st century.
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  This is written translated mainly in the 17th century.
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  In the 1600s, and even a little bit before then, it was actually
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  a revision of the Bishops Bible, which was a revision of the
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  Great Bible, which was a revision of the Matthews Bible.
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  So the King James translators, they didn't make something
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  entirely new. They were working off of what
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  men in the previous century had already done.
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  And we're working to just make a good translation Better is what
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  they say in their preference to the reader.
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  And so I'm thankful for the King James.
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  It's what I grew up reading and memorizing.
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  If you hear me quote verses, most of the time it's the King
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  James that's running through my head.
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  And so you could do a lot worse than to read that.
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  I will say on one end, many cults today, including the the
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  Mormons, the 7th Day Adventists, and others have tried to utilize
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  some of the archaic language in the King James to justify
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  aberrant theology. And that is not the fault of the
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  King James at all. But just be aware that just
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  because someone uses the King James, that does not necessarily
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  follow that they are a an Orthodox, A godly Christian.
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  And so always be be careful, be watchful, but I'm thankful for
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  the beauty that we find within that translation about let me
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  see. This would have been 370 about
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  371 years after the King James was initially published, they
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  released the new King James Version and this was a slight
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  update to the King James, bringing it fully into the 20th
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  century and its language and so updated some old terms.
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  It has tremendous footnotes showing different manuscript
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  traditions and why different Bibles, Bible translations might
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  have slightly different wording in one place or another.
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  The new King James has great notes highlighting a why that
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  would could be. I love the new King James and it
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  it feels a little bit like home for me when I read it because
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  it's so similar to the King James, but it's still within my
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  language. And so I really, really enjoy
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  reading through the new King James.
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  This is a it's called the premiere collection from Thomas
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  Nelson and it's some of the most affordable.
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  What's called premium Bibles in in the world are those that have
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  like genuine leather as opposed to like a synthetic material.
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  And so I really enjoy this. This is also a single column
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  paragraph Bible because that is honestly just the way that's
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  easiest for me to read scripture.
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  And so if sometimes maybe if you have a 2 column Bible, if it's
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  hard for you to read or to understand and you just feel
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  like the format's throwing you off, I encourage you find a
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  single column Bible. Then I have here a new
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  international version and this is an old copy actually just
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  found in the church library from 1979 was the publishing date.
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  And this is also single column paragraph.
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  The NIV was created because a Seattle businessman was trying
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  to witness to someone and as he was telling them the words of
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  scripture, he was using the King James Version.
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  And he said he could just kind of see the person's eyes glaze
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  over like they just when there was the archaic language, they
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  just didn't understand. They didn't get it.
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  And so he talked with his pastor.
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  And the NIV was birthed out of that desire to be able to reach
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  new generations with the truth of Scripture.
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  And the New International Version has been the best
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  selling translation of Scripture for 43 years.
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  If I might be 41, it was either 1982 or 1984 that the NIV became
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  the best selling translation of Scripture all across the world.
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  And so the NIV had some updates that were done in 2011 and then
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  there was also a addition that was done in the mid 2000s called
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  Today's New International Version.
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  The Today's New International Version removed a lot of, if you
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  will, gender specific language, which sometimes can be good.
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  You know, when Jesus says I, when he's telling the apostles,
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  I will make you fishers of men. We know he's not talking about
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  men specifically, like only the male gender.
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  We would know, OK, He's talking about men as in mankind or
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  people. And so take that same approach
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  of saying I will make you fishers of mankind or I will
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  make you fishers of people. And then apply that all across
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  Scripture today. Today's new international
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  version, the TNIV took that and that was how they did their
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  translation work. That was not particularly well
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  loved. And so the NIV revision in 2011,
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  they, they walked back some of those decisions to be a little
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  bit more conservative in how they approach those things.
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  And so the NIV has been used at our church many times.
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  My my friend Doctor Ron Smith has used that throughout almost
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  all of his ministry as he's been preaching for decades as a
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  missionary and church planter and then as an established
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  church pastor. And so I commend that to you as
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  well. Then we have the New American
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  Standard Bible. This is the Nasby is how I'll
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  sometimes abbreviate it, and this is the Nasby. 95 And the
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  New American Standard was made because people wanted to have
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  just a very formal translation of the word of God.
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  That as God has given us in the original languages, Hebrew and
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  Aramaic, in Greek, as he's given us the extant manuscripts that
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  we can read through, copies of, copies of copies of the exact
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  same language as what was originally penned.
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  We want to be able to have a way to know, all right, what word
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  order did God originally put this in, in Greek or in Hebrew?
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  What were the grammatical senses?
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  Is there a particular word that is used over and over and over
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  again? I want to be able to see that
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  reflected in my language. Sometimes that's not possible as
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  you're working from Greek to English.
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  From my limited study of Greek in Bible college, I can tell you
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  there are so many articles or like we would have A and the you
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  can have just thousands and thousands of those within a page
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  of of of Greek. And so if you were to very
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  woodenly take everything from Greek or from Hebrew and put it
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  into an English Bible, it would be unintelligible.
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  It would. We don't have the same language.
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  The difference is not simply that we have different
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  vocabulary words, it's that there are just so many
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  differences between languages. But formal translations like the
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  New American Standard do their very, very best to bring as much
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  of the original languages, vocab, grammar, style into
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  English as they possibly can. It's why sometimes people think
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  that a New American Standard Bible, or the New King James or
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  the English Standard Version or the King James even, might be a
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  little bit harder to read. It seems kind of difficult.
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  It's not because there's like a mystical barrier to you
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  understanding the grammar, it's because in those formal
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  translations, they're bringing as much as they can of the
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  original languages into our language in English.
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  And so sometimes that can make it a little hard to read, but
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  you get to see behind the curtain a little bit of what is
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  happening in the original languages.
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  One perhaps illustration that I can give of this.
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  So the French word for potato is palm de tere.
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  If you speak French and I'm butchering that pronunciation, I
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  apologize profusely. Palm de tere, or if you will,
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  palm apple de of and tear earth. So palm de tere, apple of earth.
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  And so if someone said, Hey, what, what is that vegetable
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  over there? And I were to say or, or what do
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  you call that vegetable there? Yeah, I, I apologize.
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  I'm trying to think through in my brain which way the
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  conversation's gone. If you ask what is that
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  vegetable over there? And I tell you, oh, that's an
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  apple of earth. You might go, oh, very cool,
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  That's great. Can I have an apple of earth?
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  You dive into it and you go, wait a second, this is a potato.
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  I said, yeah, I know. So I told you exactly what it
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  is. I word for word told you exactly
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  what the word was, but the meaning didn't get across
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  because what was literal in in one language or what word
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  etymology was in one language didn't reach into another
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  language. So that is both the benefit of
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  formal translation that you get to peek behind the curtain, but
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  there's also a downside to it in that you might not always be
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  able to understand everything that is going on.
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  The next translation that I want to highlight for you is the
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  English Standard Version. And this is one of the best
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  selling translations of the past 25 years at in most evangelical
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  churches today, at least ones that I've been around ones in
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  particular that would hold to more conservative theology.
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  The English standard version is just taken the world by storm,
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  if you will. It's it's been for the 21st
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  century something like what the King James Version was during
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  the 17th century in the 1600s. And so the English standard
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  version reads very poetically. And most any great expository
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  Bible preacher that you might hear of today, whether that's
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  Alistair Begg, whether that's Mark Dever, whether that's Ligan
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  Duncan, just a whole slew of people will use the English
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  Standard version that they are working from.
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  It's very, very faithful and reliable.
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  I have my favorite edition of it right here, which is the legacy
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  format. And I know they just did a
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  rebrand with some things over at Crossway, which is the Bible
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  publisher. And so they have a new name for
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  it. And I can't remember what the
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  new name is, but it's single column paragraph format.
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  And then it has some nice wide margins that you can write in.
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  And so I definitely do commend to you the English standard
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  version. It's an excellent translation.
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  It's revision of of the Revised Standard Version from 1952, and
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  it is intentionally conservative.
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  I have a loved Crossway and their deep desire to share the
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  gospel, to help missions work all across the world and for the
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  the great equipping that they do of pastors and churches.
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  They're a very giving company. And so I've been really, really
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  blessed by their ministry. They actually just came out with
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  a hymnal. I'm going to grab that hymnal
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  real quick called the Sing Hymnal, The sing hymnal put
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  together by Keith and Kristen Getty and that has both classic
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  hymns of the faith as well as some new hymns that have been
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  written. Saw in there the song How Great
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  is Our God? Matt Redman's 10,000 Reasons
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  Bless the Lord, as well as many songs by Keith and Kristen
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  Getty, Matt Poppa and Matt Boswell, Bryan Fowler, Sky
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  Peterson, Andrew Peterson and others are just great.
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  Laura Story, Bob Coughlin, Devin Coughlin, great new hymns.
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  And so I encourage you, if you have the means, get the Sing
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  Hymnal weather just a copy for your home.
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  It can be a dramatic help to you as you read through and sing
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  through those excellent songs from scripture.
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  Next translation I want to highlight is the Holman
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  Christian Standard Bible. So if you will, this is the dad
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  of the translation that I use here preaching at Tabernacle and
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  that I've used for probably 500 of the episodes on Tabernacle
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  talk the Christian Standard Bible.
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  So the Holman Christian Standard Bible is a translation that was
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  done in the late 90s and very early 2000s.
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  I believe the release date was like 2003, 2004, that the whole
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  Bible was released and it had a couple of unique elements of it.
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  It was right in the intermediate state between formal translation
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  and what's called like dynamic or very readable translation.
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  So it it tried to strike a Direct Line through both of
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  those that it was both formal, that it brought some things over
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  from the original languages as far as grammar, style, vocab, as
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  well as being very readable in today's English.
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  And I think it did that job phenomenally well.
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  One thing that it did that I really loved in the HCSB was it
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  translated the Tetragrammaton, the YHWH or as we have.
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  In most of our English translations, all small caps
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  Lord Lord, which is the name Yahweh.
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  It actually translated it as Yahweh in over 600 spots.
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  I really loved that. It also highlights any
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  quotations of the Old Testament in the New Testament as bold.
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  And so you can see really, really easily where as here in
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  Acts 15, James is quoting from the Old Testament and you can
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  see it marked right here in bold.
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  And so that's a really, really helpful tool.
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  It also translated the Greek word doulos in the New Testament
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  as slave. So we just went over some of
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  that in Ephesians chapter 6 consistently.
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  And so Paul several times calls himself the doulos of Jesus
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  Christ, that he is the slave of Jesus Christ.
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  And that's the, if you will, the relationship that we have, that
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  he is our master. He's also our friend, our
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  father, our brother, so many other things as well, but he is
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  our master. And so that was one thing that
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  the Holman Christian Standard Bible did.
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  However, the use of Yahweh and the consistent use of slave made
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  it so that the CSB was not as well or readily received.
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  Some people weren't used to that name of God yet, Yahweh, and so
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  that did not catch on as well as one might have hoped.
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  Then I also want to mention here as we are closing in on time, I,
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  I want to mention again as I'm going through all of these, my
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  encouragement to you is read the word of God and whatever
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  translation that the Lord uses to be able to speak to you.
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  Wonderful. Or if you're like, man, I have a
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  translation. I love my translation, but maybe
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  I can reference one other. I encourage you to do that.
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  That would be good for your walk with the Lord.
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  Then we have here the New Living Translation by Tyndale is the
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  publisher. And the New Living Translation
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  was a legitimate translation that was begun in the 1990s.
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  And it was taken from the Living Bible, which was a paraphrase
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  that had been around for several decades.
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  And a team of scholars went, what if we took some of the
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  readability of this paraphrase of Scripture, but made a
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  legitimate translation? And so I absolutely love the New
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  Living Translation. It's what I recommend for young,
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  like age wise young believers as well as young Christians that
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  perhaps are new to the faith. I think they can get incredibly
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  blessed through the New Living Translation.
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  Then there's this version which is the modern English version,
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  and the modern English version was released in 2016 and it was
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  a very, very small update to the King James version.
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  And this was done in Britain and was dedicated to the Queen
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  actually. And so the modern English
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  version is very, very similar to the King James.
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  Just think the King James in today's language and that's, it
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  does not have the footnotes that the new King James version has,
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  doesn't have anything like that. If you're like, I love the King
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  James, but I really wish I had it in today's language.
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  I I don't want, yeah, I don't want any footnotes.
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  I don't want anything. Go with the Modern English
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  version and that'll be there for you.
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  Then I have here the New American Standard Bible, the
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  2020 edition. So I mentioned the 1995 edition
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  earlier that it was made to be a formal translation.
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  The NASB 2020 was the latest update to that, 25 years after
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  the previous update. And so it had some areas from
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  the 95 where it needed to be perhaps more literal or more
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  formal, more closer to the original languages, and it did
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  that as well as increased some readability.
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  And I am really, really fond of the Nasby 2020, so I commend
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  that to you. Then second to last one here is
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  the Legacy Standard Bible, and this is from Steadfast Bibles.
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  And the Legacy Standard Bible is one that was done by John
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  MacArthur's Bible College, his seminary, the Masters Seminary.
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  And so they took the New American Standard Bible and did
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  a light update to it, really leaning into the formal side.
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  So if you will, the Legacy Standard Bible might be one of
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  the least easy to read translations in English of
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  Scripture, but it is very, very rich.
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  And so if you're wanting to do word studies, if you're wanting
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  to see how many times a given word is used in Scripture, the
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  the Legacy Standard Bible would be an excellent choice for that.
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  Right here I have the MacArthur Study Bible in the Legacy
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  Standard Bible. And so that is the text of the
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  Legacy Standard Bible with the notes from the MacArthur Study
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  Bible. Perhaps the biggest highlight
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  from the MacArthur Study Bible is every time that the
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  Tetragrammaton is used in the Old Testament.
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  So YHWH are all lower caps. Lord, it is.
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  It just says Yahweh in the text. And so I really enjoy that as
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  I'm reading through the Legacy Standard Bible and then my
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  favorite, and I won't spend much time on this, the Christian
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  Standard Bible is my favorite translation of Scripture.
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  I've been using this pretty much every single day for the past
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  five and a half, six years, actually probably 6 going on 7
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  now. And the Christian standard Bible
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  is incredibly readable. It is very faithful to the
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  original languages. It is a joy to read.
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  It has the Old Testament quotations in the New Testament
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  in bold text. It has great footnotes to let
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  you know where manuscripts differ and why.
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  And if for no other reason, just the amount of time that I've
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  spent in it, it has so helped my relationship with the Lord, my
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  understanding of the word of God.
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  And so I want to come in that to you.
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  This particular edition of the Christian Standard Bible that I
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  have, I actually won in a giveaway not too long ago.
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  And this is a Skyler Bible, which makes, in my opinion, some
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  of the best Bibles in the world. And this is a green calfskin.
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  And I really, really love this, but I want to encourage you,
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  whatever edition of Scripture you have, whatever translation
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  of Scripture that you have read it.
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  The best Bible is one that you are going to read.
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  And I want to kind of close out today through reading Psalm 19.
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  And this is what the Word of God does for us.
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  So the instruction of Yahweh is perfect, renewing one's life.
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  The testimony of Yahweh is trustworthy, making the
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  experienced wise. The precepts of Yahweh are
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  right, making the heart glad. The command of Yahweh is
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  radiant, making the eyes light up.
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  The fear of Yahweh is pure, enduring forever.
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  The ordinances of Yahweh are reliable and all together
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  righteous. They are more desirable than
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  gold, than an abundance of pure gold, and sweeter than honey
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  dripping from a honeycomb. In addition, your servant is
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  warned by them, and in keeping them there is an abundant
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  reward. May we have that same love that
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  the Psalmist had for the Word of God, his precepts, his
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  instructions, his ordinances, and may we find that the Word of
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  God is a safe and sure foundation upon which to build
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  our lives. Thanks for tuning in, have a
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  wonderful day.