The Christian Bible (1991)

[lomarah]

He sure is. :-)

I understand your being tech challenged. For a 28 year old you'd think I should be able to do so much more than I can lol.

[lomarah]

Sorry gr, been trying to look it up for you but I'm on my phone and it's not cooperating. One interesting thing about that verse - it says biscuit instead of bread. LOL!

[WhiteWings]

I also have the CLV (OT + NT) for whoever wants it. It's from a public file and formatted for PC.
And for a phone. Seems to works well on the phone. At least I'm told so (I have no phone).
I (very likely) can reformat the TCB for phone use too.
Just beep.

[jabcat]

A couple of interesting quotes from The Christian Bible 1991

2 Timothy2:15 You must be diligent to present
yourself approved to God as a worker who has no reason to be ashamed,
continually correctly cutting a straight path through the Word of Truth
[not twisting and misusing the Truth]!
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Hebrews 10:14 For with one offering
He is perfecting for all time those who are going to be purified.
15 Now the Pure Spirit is also testifying to us, for after declaring,
16 "This is the [New] Contract that I will make with them after those
days, says the Master: I'm going to put My laws upon their hearts, and I
will inscribe them upon their minds" [Jer. 31:33], 17 then it was declared,
"and by no means will I remember their wrongdoings and their lawlessnesses
any longer" [Jer. 31:34]. 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these
things, there is no longer any offering for wrongdoing.

Amen.

[eaglesway]

Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.(Heb 4:11-13)

   You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men; clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.
  And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.(2Co 3:2-6)


2 Timothy2:15 You must be diligent to present
yourself approved to God as a worker who has no reason to be ashamed,
continually correctly cutting a straight path through the Word of Truth
[not twisting and misusing the Truth]!

Everyone thinks they are cutting the straight path, until the straight path cuts them and their crookedness is revealed. The Voice that cries from the wilderness, the Spirit that Prepares the Way of the Lord - through a human heart, a living epistle.

It is impossible to "rightly divide" the word of truth until ones heart has been pierced, "divided asunder soul from spirit, bone from marrow"- by the Sword of the Spirit, the Living Word- because the mind of Christ is only available to those who have in them the same attitude which was in Christ Jesus- a broken and a contrite heart.

"Today if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts....... Let the one who has ears to hear Hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches".

It could be said perhaps that all God's words, works & ways are living and active for the purpose of removing us from a life lived by the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, into a life lived as a tree planted beside the streams of living water, bearing fruit in season, with leaves for the healing of the nations.

[redhotmagma]

Yes John. Such sweet waters

[eaglesway]

[url]http://iacmusic.com/play2.aspx?songID=54804&source=John%20Myles%20-%20River%20of%20TearsSong%20Page[/url

River of Tears

[jabcat]

Romans 3:21 Yet now, apartfrorn the.Law, a method from God for making
people right [and just] before Him is apparent (as the Law and the
Prophets are testifying), · 22 even a method from God for making people
right [and just] before Him by means of their faith in Yesu (the Anointed
One) for all those who are continually having faith; for there is no
distinction; 23 for all have done things that are wrong and are continually
falling behind and in need of glory from God, 24 and are being justified
freely by His favor, through the ransom payment provided by the
Anointed One Yesu. 25 For God determined to have Him be a shelter of
mercy by His blood by means of faith, to display God's rightness [and
justness], because of His passing over of the penalties for wrongdoings
that had been occurring previously during His tolerance; 26 with a view
towards displaying His rightness [and justness] during the current time
period, to show that He Himself is just [and right], and that He is the
Justifier of the person who has faith in Yesu.

[jabcat]

The love.  The cross.  The mercy.  Thank you God.

Romans 3  ..are being justified freely by His favor, through the ransom payment provided by the
Anointed One Yesu.
27 So then, where is the boasting? It has been locked out. By means
of what kind of law? Of works? No, but by means of the law of faith.
28 For we are regarding a human to be justified by faith apart from works
of the Law. ..30 since there is one God; and He
will justify those who are circumcised based on their faith, and those who
are uncircumcised by means of their faith. 31 So then, are we nullifying
the Law by means of faith? May it not come to that! No, we are
establishing the Law. -
4:1 So then, what shall we declare that Abraham, our forefather
according to the flesh, has found? 2 For if Abraham was justified on the
basis of his works, he has something to boast about, but not when facing
God. 3 For what does the Writing say? "And Abraham had faith in
God, and it was regarded to him as being right [and just before God]"
[Gen.15:6].

[jabcat]

This scripture is LOADED!  Israel, gentiles, Law, grace, the importance of scripture, Jesus the Answer and Solution, how all those fit together.  Well worth the read.  Blessings.

Romans 9:30 So then, what shall we declare? That the pagans who didn't
pursue being right [and just before God], have grabbed hold of it, yet a
rightness [and justness before God] that is based on faith; 31 yet Israel
who did pursue a law of rightness [and justness before God], didn't
overtake such a law. 32 Why? Because they didn't pursue it based on
faith, but as though it was based on works; they stumbled over the Stone
that can cause one to stumble, 33 just as it has been written, "Notice, I
am laying in Zion [the mountaintop city] a Stone that can cause one to
stumble and a Rock that can cause one to trip, but whoever is continually
having faith in Him, won't be put to shame" [Isa. 28:16].
10:1  Brothers and sisters, my heart's delight and my petition to God
for them is for their Salvation [from Destruction]. 2 For I can testify
about them that they have an enthusiasm for God, but not in accordance
with full knowledge [found in the Word]. 3 For being ignorant of God's
method for making people right [and just] before Him, and seeking to
establish their own method for being right [and just], they weren't
subservient to God's method for making people right [and just] before
Him. 4 For the Anointed One is the Law's completion which is resulting
in rightness [and justness before God] for everyone who is continually
having faith.

[jabcat]

Update on The Christian Bible Old Testament received in mail today;

"it is a work in progress, there are many roadblocks.  Thank you for your interest".

[WhiteWings]

Update on The Christian Bible Old Testament received in mail today;

"it is a work in progress, there are many roadblocks.  Thank you for your interest".

Are the roadbloacks at the start or the end of the road....?
Hopefully not the start because the NT took 10 years to translate.

[Molly]

Somebody needs to go down and visit those people.  rofl

[jabcat]

You're right Molly.   

I'm reposting this for a member.  With The Christian Bible, the translation is great, but personally, a lot of their [ ] commentary I can do without.  Much of it is interesting and helpful however, and I think it's exciting how they nailed this one.

Luke 17:19 "Now there was a certain rich human [symbolic of Judaism], and
he was wearing a reddish-purple coat [symbolic of royalty] and fine linen
[symbolic of being just], having a good time day after day in a dazzling
manner. 20 Now a certain poor person [symbolic of the pagans] named
Lazarus ['God is my help'] had been thrown at his [the rich person's]
entryway, covered with open sores [symbolic of being spiritually unclean];
21 and he continually desired to be satisfied by the things [symbolic-of
spiritual favors] falling from the rich person's table, but even the wild
dogs [symbolic of paganism [Gentiles] ]
were coming and licking his open sores.
22 Now it occurred that the poor person died, and he was carried away
by the Messengers [symbolic of the ones spreading the Good Message about Yesu]
to Abraham's lap [symbolic as the father of the faithful]. Now the rich person
also died and was buried [Judaism died, the Law was no longer in power].
23 Then in the grave, he lifted up his eyes, while existing in tortures [the
Jews no longer had spiritual favors over the pagans [Gentiles] , rather the Christians had the Pure
Spirit], and saw Abraham a distance away, and Lazarus on his lap. 24 So
he shouted out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send
Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue,
because I am in pain in this flame!' 25 Yet Abraham said, 'Child, you
must remember that you got your good things during your life [the time
period of the Law of Moses], and in the same way Lazarus got bad things! Yet
it is a fact that he is being encouraged here [by the Encourager, the Pure
Spirit], yet you are in pain [because Judaism had been deserted, since they deserted
God]. 26 Now in all these things, there has been solidly established a great
canyon between us and you [between faith in Yesu and Judaism], so that those
who want to cross over from here to you, can't do so; nor can those
there even go across to our side to us [Judaism didn't dissolve into Christianity,
but was destroyed by the Romans in 70A.D.].' 27 Yet he said, 'I ask you then,
father, to send him to my father's house; 28 for I have five brothers [the
other ten tribes of Israel], so that he might give testimony to them, so that
they won't also come to this place of torture.' 29 Yet Abraham says,
'They have Moses and the Prophets; they must hear them!' 30 Yet he
said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead [as
Yesu went to the Jews], they will change their thoughts and feelings.' 31 Yet
he said to him, 'If they aren't hearing Moses and the Prophets, neither
will they be persuaded if someone rises up from among the dead.' "

[jabcat]

Meat.

Galatians 2:15 We, who are Jews by nature and not pagan wrongdoers,
16 are aware that a human
isn't justified on the basis of works of the Law, but by means of faith in
the Anointed One Yesu. Even we [Jews] have put our faith in the
Anointed One Yesu, so that we might be justified on the basis of faith in
the Anointed One, and not on the basis of works of the Law, because no
flesh at all will be justified on the basis of works of the Law. 17 Now if,
while we are seeking to be justified through union with the Anointed
One, we [Jews] ourselves have also been found to be wrongdoers,
therefore is the Anointed One a dispenser of wrongdoing? May it not
come to that! 18 For if I am building these things up again that I have
demolished, I am commending myself as a person who steps beyond the
boundaries. 19 For by means-of the Law I have become dead to the Law,
so that I might be alive to God. 20 I have been fastened to the Stake
together with the Anointed One, and it is no longer I who is living, but it
is the Anointed One who is living in me. Now the life that I am now
living in flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and
delivered Himself over for me. 21 I'm not going to reject God's favor;
for if being right [and just before God] is by means of the Law, therefore
the Anointed One died for nothing."

[jabcat]

..whether by living or dying, the Anointed One will
be magnified in my body. 21 For to me, living means the Anointed
One, and death means gain. 22 Yet if to keep on living in flesh
means fruit from my work, I can't even make known which I would
prefer. 23 Yet I am being pressed between the two, as I have a desire to
unloosen [my "tent" (body) to move on (from this world)] and to be together with
the Anointed One (for this is so much better)..  Phil. 1

[jabcat]

Philippians 2:6 Although He existed inherently in God's form, He didn't think that continuing on an
equality with God was a thing to be forcibly taken; 7 rather, He emptied
Himself, as He took the form of a slave and became like humans. 8Now
when He was found in the temporary form like a human, He humbled
Himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a stake.

[jabcat]

Romans 16:25 Now may the One who is able to solidly establish you in accordance with the Good Message that I bring, even the proclamation about the Anointed One Yesu, in accordance with the revelation of the secret that has been kept silent during the times of the past ages, 26 yet now has been made apparent in accordance with the requirement of the God of the ages, and through the
Writings of the Prophets, and has been made known to all the pagans to result in obedience by faith...   

[micah7:9]

I find 1Cor. 15:22 And 1Tim 2:4  very odd in the Christian Bible with it's wording as compared to other translations. And the parenthesizing in CB is some what foreboding, to me anyway.

[mplsfitter539]

I think I have read enough at this point to weigh in initially on this version of the bible. So far with only the verses posted by Jabcat I like that it reads like it is aimed at children because most Christians are little children. I would love to give my parents a copy of this and have them read it out loud to each other. I think hearing is way underrated. 

[jabcat]

I find it a generally good translation, very simple to read and understand, while I don't believe to be "perfect".  It is very literal to the Koine Greek, which they believe was the typical language of the "common man" of the day.  I do THINK their translating may lean in places toward annihilation/ED, but that's just my take.

As far as the [   ] - I like the basic informational stuff (i.e., "#0008 Roman coin", or "that was a country that was by the ____ Sea", etc...but I can do without the ones that are their interpretations of what the scriptures mean.   

So certain things just sort of jump out at me through the translation - maybe made clearer than I'd seen before, or seems especially to the point, etc.   Those are often the things I post here. 

[jabcat]

1 Cor. 1:26 For you+ must be continually looking at who you+ are who have received the Call, brothers and sisters, that there aren't many of you+ who are wise according to the flesh, not many who are powerful, not many who are from high class families! 27 Rather, God has chosen those that
the world considers to be stupid, to put those that it considers to be wise to shame; and God has chosen those that the world considers to be weak,to put those that it considers to be strong to shame; 28 and God has chosen those that the world considers to be base and contemptible, even
those that it considers to be nothing, so that He might make those vanish that it considers to be
something...

[marie glen]

    This version reminds me, in a sense, of the Amplified Bible.. in that it digs into the Word and really amplifies it!! I loved how 1 Cor. 1:26 reads! and the rest I've read too..  

[Lazarus Short]

Marie, where did you get your copy?

[anna274]

Hi jabcat...  I really need to purchase The Christian Bible... but in the meantime, I am interested in their entire Chapter 17 of the Gospel of John...  thank you for both:  posting the entire Chapter 17 and providing me the information I need to purchase The Christian Bible.