Which ones are not accurate? and in what way? Don't make broad accusations, be specific in your gripes.
Yes, they are. So the language they are expressed in should not matter.
Of course it's an antique language. No one has spoken Elizabethan English for 300+ years.
Why bring it into the modern idiom? So people can UNDERSTAND. I do believe that the whole point of reading is to understand the material, is it not?
Those who complain it is an Elezabethan langauge as opposed to Biblical langauge then have to face the matter that people do not change Shakespeare (much if at all) langauge . Albeit it is hard to understand the thought patterns of it .
It is not a gripe as you call it .For that would be "murmering " would it not?
Its a serious and grave matter .
I will give you just one example that all modern versions save the KJV and one other which I have forgotten which do .
Genesis 1:1
Most save one modern version has it : In the beginning God created the heavenS and the earth .
KjV In the beginning God created the heaveN and the earth .
The prevailing argument is that the Hebrew word is plural not singular.
This not so . It can be used singular as well as plural.
But to prove that in English it should be HEAVEN I say this .
1:1 In the begining God created the HEAVEN and the earth.
1:2 and the EARTH was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
Note it was not heaven that was in darkness but the earth .
For heaven has no need of sun and moon for God is the light thereof .
Every verse that follows verse 2 is about the EARTH .
untill you get to about verse 8(?) when it says and God separated the waters above the firmemant from the waters that were below the firmament and that firmemant is called what? HEAVEN .
But that heaven or fermiment is of the EARTH and is then another heaven.
What heaven the heaven where the birds fly between the two waters of the EARTH .
and when was the sun and moon created and "the stars also"? after verse two and pertaining to the earth .Thus you have two heavens that are as it were of the EARTH .
This the HEAVENS of chapter two verse 1 .
thus you have three HEAVENS . The heaven where Gods throne is. that was created in the beginning .The heaven where the stars sun and moon are and the heaven where the birds fly .
Was it not Paul who went to the third heaven? whether it was in a dream or in the flesh he knew not.
What modern translators have done is jump to their own conclusions rather than arrive at the truth .
For God is a God of order and he created all things in its order . The invisible and the visible . In the beginning .
he then always brings light before he does a work.
hence the light n before the sun and moon.
For it was not God who was in darkness but man and is ti not written "they that sat in darkness have seen a great light? or in another place "he commanded the light to shine in the darkness of our hearts"?
The word then is HEAVEN for gen 1:1 and HEAVENS for gen 2 : 1
More could be said .But enough for now .
in Christ
gerald