Pictured to the left is a copy of a version of the Holy Bible, known as THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE; being entitled: THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE WITH THE APOCRYPHA. The following quotation is taken from this version of the Holy Bible:
"IN MAY 1946 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland received an overture from the Presbytery of Stirling and Dunblane, where it had been initiated by the Reverend G. S. Hendry, recommending that a translation of the Bible be made in the language of the present day, inasmuch as the language of the Authorized Version, already archaic when it was made, had now become even more definitely archaic and less generally understood. The General Assembly resolved to make an approach to other Churches, and, as a result, delegates of the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, and the Methodist, Baptist, and Congregational Churches met in conference in October. They recommended that the work should be undertaken; that a completely new translation should be made, rather than a revision, such as had earlier been contemplated by the University Presses of Oxford and Cambridge; and that the translators should be free to employ a contemporary idiom rather than reproduce the traditional 'biblical' English.
In January 1947 a second conference, held like the first in the Central Hall, Westminster, included representatives of the University Presses. At the request of this conference, the Churches named above appointed representatives to form the Joint Committee on the New Translation of the Bible. This Committee met for the first time in July of the same year. By January 1948, when its third meeting was held, invitations to be represented had been sent to the Presbyterian Church of England, the Society of Friends, the Churches in Wales, the Churches in Ireland, the British and Foreign Bible Society, and the National Bible Society of Scotland: these invitations were accepted. At a much later stage the hierarchies of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Scotland accepted an invitation to appoint representatives, and these attended as observers." [ See THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE WITH THE APOCRYPHA, NEW YORK, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1971, Copyright THE DELEGATES OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE SYNDICS OF THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1961, 1970, p. v. ]
Galatians 5:26 reads as follows: "26 We must not be conceited, challenging one another to rivalry, jealous of one another."
The apostle Paul ( see Galatians 1:1 ) wrote ( see 6:11, for example ) this letter to "the Christian congregations of Galatia" ( see verse two ). Christians ( see Acts 11:26, for example ) are not to be engaged in rivalry ( as we read in verse twenty-six, above ). Please click on the link below to read today's bulletin, with regard to doing all things for God's glory, and not our own:
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NOTE: You will need to click the back arrow ( on your web browser ) to exit the bulletin back to this weblog. Also, human beings are not to be called reverend ( see Psalm 111:9 ( KJV, for example, and please read all of Psalm one hundred eleven to get the immediate context ), for example ), and women are not allowed to be gospel preachers, and they are not allowed to lead the worship service, period ( see 1 Timothy 2:12, for example ). Religious denominationalism is not authorized in the Holy Bible ( there is one universal New Testament church, the church of Christ - see Matthew 16:13-20 ( especially verse 18, for example ), Romans 16:16 ( KJV, for example ), and Ephesians 1:15-23 ( especially verses 22 and 23, for example ), for example ). Finally, the apocryphal books are not inspired by God ( please read the Thursday, June 12, 2014 entry to this weblog to find additional facts regarding this statement ).
