Which Bible Should You Read? A Short Comparison and Commentary on Modern Bible Translations

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This book is a brief analysis showing which is the most accurate, safest English translation of the Sacred Scriptures. Not surprisingly, the traditional Catholic English version of the Sacred Scriptures, the Douay-Rheims Version, the faithful translation of St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible - the official Latin version of the Roman Catholic Church - emerges from this analysis and comparison as the best, safest, most accurate Bible in English of the ten versions compared. Shows that the differences are not mere technical differences of style but that they deliberately change the meanings of the passages significantly as well. Compares NT passages from the DRB/DRV with passages from the Clementine Edition of St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible and the Greek text that is commonly accepted as authoritative by the Neo-Catholic and Protestant revisionists, and from 6 Protestant versions and 3 "Modernist" New “Catholic” versions. The "Modernist" (Neo-Catholic) versions · The New American Bible (NAB) · The Jerusalem Bible (JB) · The New Revised Standard Version - Catholic Ed. (NRSVCE) The Protestant versions: · The King James Version (KJV or KJB) · The New King James Version (NKJV) · The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) · The New International Version (NIV) · The New American Standard Version (NASV) · New English Bible (NEB) “As the Lord has spoken: Behold the days come, saith the Lord, and I will send forth famine into the land: not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the Lord (Amos 8.11, DRV). Since the Revolt of Martin Luther, that Augustinian priest who fell under the sway of the Synagogue of Satan (Apocalypse 2.9; 3.9), many Christians have been deceived and tricked that they should take the Sacred Writ into their hands themselves – thereby were led to despise the authority of God through His ministers: the priests (Is. 61.6; Joel 1.13; 2.17; cf. 1 Sam 8.7) of the Levitical race (Deut. 17.9-12; 21.5; 24.8; cf. Ex 29.9; 40.13). Incurring the wrath of God, the dismembered sheep, following false pastors, were left foraging on poisoned grounds; it is written: For the lips of the priests shall keep knowledge, and they [God’s people] shall seek the law at his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts (Malachi 2.7)” – Friar Marie-Elias, C.D. of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel