Carter's Hero Goofs Again

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> CREA

>     Sorry to disagree with you.  Take another look at Tim's citations:

> 

> 

> >Tim

> >The following quote is from Turkel's original "harmonization" of

> >the Genesis accounts:

> >

> >"Poor King James, people are always pickin' on him. AS OUR MODERN

> >TRANSLATIONS INDICATE, Gen. 2:19 should say, the Lord God had

> >formed every beast, etc"

> >

> >Now, the new harmonization reads:

> >

> >"For quite some time now the classical solution to this problem

> >has been to do what the NIV (BUT NO OTHER VERSION THAT I KNOW OF)

> >has done, and that is to render the verb in verse 2:19 not as 

> >simple past tense, but as a pluperfect, so:

> >

> >Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of 

> >the field and all the birds of the air."

> 

> 

> CREA

>     Turkel/Holding's initial position was that "modern translations"

(note

> the use of the plural form here) used the past perfect (or

pluperfect) in

> rendering Genesis 2:19.  Now how could Turkel KNOW this, if he

hadn't taken

> the time to examine those "modern translations"?   But in his second

attempt

> at a harmonization he admits that while the NIV renders the passage

in the

> pluperfect, there is "NO OTHER VERSION THAT I [Turkel/Holding]  KNOW

OF"

> which supports this rendering.   So, at the very least,

Turkel/Holding is

> admitting that he really DIDN'T KNOW that "modern translations"

supported

> the pluperfect rendering in the first place -- in my book that makes

him no

> better than a common LIAR and a CHEAT, and basically renders suspect

> anything else he may have to say.  And if you'd been reading the

postings on

> the subject, you'd have become aware of the existence of at least

THREE

> "modern translations" which opt for the pluperfect rendering -- most

of

> which have been done by "conservative"/"orthodox"/"fundamentalist"

> translation teams committed to the concept of an inerrant bible. 

> 


Tim 
Yes Jason, please read it this time. Your hero goofed or lied and you
try 
and dismiss it with a wave of your hand. 

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