Southside Oracle Archive

Vol. 50, No. 5 _______________SOUTHSIDE ORACLE _______________March 30 2007

The Bulletin Board

            Our Hearts and Minds Seminar entitled "Raising Our Children With a Christian View of the World" will be Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with John Alan Turner as the presenter. The seminar will deal with parenting, but the seminar is not limited to parents and will be of value to anyone in contact with youth including other family members like grandparents, etc. Plan to attend.

            Identified - We welcome into our fellowship Jim and Natasha Morrow who have moved to the Milwaukee area. Jim and Natasha with their son, Cole, live in Wauwatosa. Contact us for their address and phone number.

            The Sick - Bob Ondrejka was hospitalized for several days last week, but is now home .... Patricia Young was also in the hospital, but is now home and much better ....Karen Van Handel is recovering from knee surgery last week and her mother, Pat Peterson, is recovering from a cardiac catheterization.

            Arniando Vasquez, who preaches for our Spanish speaking brethren who meet at Southside on Sunday afternoons, was recently hospitalized with heart problems, but is now home. Brethren from other places are assisting the congregation in his absence.

ATTENDANCE RECORD

(*) first service, 148; second service, 90

            We rejoice with Suzanne Roberts whose recent cochlear implant has apparently been a success. Suzanne, who has been deaf all her life, will have to learn how to distinguish sounds and the process will probably take up to a year.

            Men! Mark your calendar for the annual men's retreat April 20 & 21, at Camp Matawa. Contact Dale Ketterhagen with any questions. Sign up on the sheet on the men's bulletin board so we can get a count for meal preparation and housing.

            The mobile home of Dana and Debbie McMillion in Arkansas recently burned while they were away. They were living in it while building a new home. Fortunately they were not injured. Dana was a Southside elder when they lived here.

            The Wisconsin Challenge will be assembled for mailing Monday night at 7:00 o'clock. Come to the building at that time if you would like to help.

            Guest Speaker - John Alan Turner, who is conducting our seminar, will preach at our morning warship services Sunday. Daryl Miller will speak in the evening.

Calendar of Events

March 31 - Hearts and Minds Seminar, 9:30 - 3:00 p.m.

April 2 - Assemble Wisconsin Challenge for mailing, 7:00 p.m.

April 6 - 8 - York College High School Days

April 10 - Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.

April 17 - Christian Workers' Meeting, 9:00 a.m.

April 20, 21- Southside Men's Retreat, Camp Matawa

May 11 - Mother/Daughter Banquet, 6:30 p.m.

May 12, 13 - Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp youth rally.

Revisions of the King James Version

(Eighth in a Series)

            The King James was published in 1611. It was soon THE Bible of the English speaking world. It contained some mistakes that were corrected in successive revisions. Other revisions modernizing the spelling were made later in 1762 and 1769. The 1769 edition is the text of the King James Bibles today.

            For us today there are two major weaknesses in the King James. Though the translators used the best manuscripts then available, the K.J.V. is based on an inferior text affecting the accuracy of the translation. Also, since English is a living tongue and constantly changing, we no longer use many words used in the King James. This makes it harder to understand the original meaning.

            Because of these factors, a group of British and American scholars made a major revision using better manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and eliminating archaic words. The English Revised Version of 1881 and the American Standard edition of 1901 were the results. The revisions were very literal, helping one to understand the original, but making the translations rather stiff.

            Continuing language change and recently found manuscripts prompted further revisions in the 20th century. The Revised Standard Version was brought out in 1946 and 1952. It was much more readable than earlier revisions. In turn it was supplanted in 1989 by the New Revised Standard. The translators' effort to render it "gender neutral" has brought criticism.

            The New American Standard, a revision of the American Standard, came out in 1963 and 1971. It is the most literal modern speech revision and gives special attention to verb tenses, which sometimes causes it to be somewhat stilted.

            The New King James was published in 1983. It modernizes the King James language, but retains much of the New Testament Greek text used to produce the King James. Its translators felt that recent Greek manuscript discoveries do not represent as correct a text as that supporting the King James.

            Next week we will consider other Bible revisions that are not simply revisions of the King James.

__Monroe Hawley

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