FEW: "not many persons or things".

Maybe to be more specific I should have used 'minimal'.

Also from Webster Online:

MANY: "consisting of or amounting to a large but indefinite number".

Maybe to be more specific I should have used myriad, countless, innumerable, untold number.

Comparing the alternate readings in the AV to the enormous number of confusing textual & manuscript footnotes in the NKJV is like comparing a spring shower to the Genesis flood.

Thru the years I've tried some of the others. I used the NEB and Living Bible when I was a teenager (1970s) but kept coming back to the AV. I tried the NKJV when it first came out but it was probably the worst of the lot. I spilled orange juice all over it one morning and considered it a good excuse to toss it. I even tried the NIV a few years later (I was foolishly enticed by all of the hoopla) and realized immediately that it was just a terrible translation. I even tried Jay Green's MKJV and Literal Translation in the early nineties but soon realized that many produce translations just for the sake of producing tran$lation$.

As for the few alternate readings in the KJV, they have always been there -even in 1611- but my point is that they are TRULY alternate translational (is that a word?) readings. Read the Translators To The Reader. They explain why they are there. They don't call into question the validity or trustworthiness of the words or phrasing that they reference. They just offer a few true 'alternate readings'.

"Thus, it is a double-standard to accuse the NKJV translators of reporting manuscript variations when the KJV people themselves did the same!"

No it's not. Comparing the few true variant (possible alternate translations of a Greek word or phrase) readings in many KJV editions to the enormous number of doubt-creating NU and M Text readings in the NKJV is absurd. The NKJV isn't offering alternate translations, it is offering optional choose-your-own wording and phrasing based on completely different manuscripts and text bases than the ones that the KJV are translated from.

I know first hand how confusing the footnotes in the NKJV can be. I bought one when Nelson first published it in 1982 (?) and it had me totally frustrated trying to determine which reading was the right one. How can anyone have confidence in a book that calls itself the Word of God yet cannot make a firm commitment to what those very words are?

People are losing their jobs in big numbers because companies are scared to death of what our new Marxist-leaning president has in store for them next year and beyond. They are preparing for the worst.

Combine massive job loss with the fact that most people buy 5 times more house than they need or can afford (because of pride and because everyone else in their Sunday school class bought one) and the results are devastating to the economy.

The new TBS Windsor Text Bible is great. The text is clear and easy to read. I ordered several copies back in October and I love the one I'm using. The print is great and you can't beat the price for a calfskin Bible ($32 for one with Metrical Psalms). It comes with a daily reading plan and a glossary of obsolete words.

"I have discovered that every time I listen to a sermon, I have to discern carefully whether or not it is keeping to biblical doctrine. I should not have to do this, but if I attended every church round here to a radius of twenty miles, I should have to have a good knowledge of the Bible in order to check out the preacher. It is those who are ignorant of the Bible who can fall prey to cults and so on. Every sermon should expound GOD'S WORD, and HIS WORD only. Any more is extra-biblical."

Amen!

Everywhere I went this past weekend (mall, restaurants, shops) business was booming. I mean BOOMING. The only place I went where it looked slower than usual was Home Depot. I actually had a couple of sales associates offer to help me.

I hear that all the time. What does that mean? Nobody shot Ted Haggard. Ted Haggard shot himself by sodomizing a man, no doubt spent money entrusted to him by his church to pay for it, lied and was deceitful until he had no other choice.

"But I didn't hear the word repent, is he angling on a return to church leadership?"

Would he have repented if he hadn't been caught?

"We are all sinners regardless of what has happened in our lives, sin will follow us wherever we go..."

Correct. So what?

"Our leaders should be beyond reproach, I'm sorry that knowing he was struggling he didn't pro-actively step down before his sin came to light. His testimony would be so much more powerful and believable."

Struggling? Ted Haggard was a married man with children, a so-called preacher of the Gospel, a so-called Christian leader and yet he was sodomizing another man. He lied about it until backed against a wall. That's not struggling. Nobody dragged him to his hotel room meetings with a sodomite.