Bible Studies - Learn from The Bible

Anime Fan asked:


Ezekiel 20:25-26 (God speaking about the Israelites) “Moresoever, I gave them laws that were not good and rules by which they could not live. When they set aside every first issue of the womb, I defiled them by their very gifts - that I might render them desolate, that they might know that I am the Lord.” King James Version. From the book “God: A Biography”, pg. 331: “Laws that were NOT good? Rules by which they could NOT live? Is this how he demontrates that ‘I am the Lord’? What the Lord alludes to in the phrases ‘the first issue of the womb’ and ‘I defiled them by their very gifts’ is child sacrifice.” Jerusalem Bible rendering: “I even gave them laws that were not good and observances by which they could never live, and I polluted them with their own offerings, making them sacrifce all their first-born, which was to punish them, so that they would learn that I am Yahweh.”
P.S. and it’s specifically GOD that gave them “laws by which they could not live”, NOT earthy rulers! Read the text, please, and stop trying to pass off God’s acts as those of someone else!

Gabriel

Laoshi2 asked:


I presently have the Bible (King James Version) and I know it is one of the best translations executed by those two formidable teams of scholars at Oxford and Westminster, I read some parts where there are nice, wise quotes and apply them in my writing. More ideas or scholarly suggestions? Thanks.

Adrian

??????¢? asked:


I am finishing up the last of my summer project for my Global Studies class. I am doing a paper on the origins of man and part of the required reading is part of Genesis in the Bible or Torah. I’m citing all my sources and can’t figure out how to cite the Bible, because it doesn’t have just one specific author or publishing date or publisher. How would you cite the Bible?
I am using the King James version of the Bible.

Cortney