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Old 12-18-2008, 07:30 AM
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There are a few reasons why TBS was a nineteenth and twentieth century organisation for God's truth, and not future-wise. This is because they seem to be going the wrong way.

1. They are not going the "pure" Cambridge way, but even have an article wonderfully commending David Norton's recent edit (i.e. mess-up) of the KJB, full of modern spelling and word changes (some quite silly ones too!).

2. TBS do not stand for the final authority of the English Bible, but the authority for a Greek construct, i.e. that which was manufactured in the late 1800s by F. H. A. Scrivener, commonly called the standard edition of "The Textus Receptus". The problem here is that this kind of view does not see that the KJB itself is the final form of the Received Text.

3. TBS does not promote the KJB only, in the sense that they are promoting translating to other langauges and dialects from the Greek mentioned above. The problem here is that effort/resources are being put into translations which are barely reaching a small number of people when the world is tending to learn English, and that they could just have the KJB instead as the world-wide standard. Since the KJB is perfect and other language Bibles might have some objection placed against them, it is better to present the tried and true KJB than other works.

4. TBS have some local or particular problems, e.g. branch in fighting, technical problems with Cambridge's printing of their "Concord Editions", etc.

Having said that, they are not without merit for various work they have done, and that they are better than many others who have laboured (or sown tares) in the Bible distribution field.