21st Century Version of the Christian Scripture or Mark Heber Miller Bible

Mark Heber Miller, born in 1938 in the Norfolk, Virginia, has always had a strong spiritual bent and a particular love of the Bible. His great-great grandfather William Miller was one of the founding fathers of the Bible Students division now better known as the Jehovah Witnesses. He did 20 years of missionary work in the U. S., The Bahamas, The Netherlands, and Spain. He became a seminarian instructor, writer and photographer and research consultant for the largest publisher of Bible literature in the world, the Watch Tower Society. 19 years before me he suffered a catastrophic and traumatic auto wreck and like me he came near to death. He renewed deep research in the spiritual depths of the Bible.
Several Bible Students wanted to indicate the importance of Christ his offering and found themselves as Friends of the Nazarene. Our Belgian Bible Student Movement of "Vrijë Christenen" or "Free Christians" found the same spirited people to discuss the Word of God. Notes and ideas where interchanged.
Mark Heber Miller brought with his spiritual community of Messianic Christians during the years 1997 through 2001 a monthly On-line Biblical Studies Magazine.
In the mid-90s he determined to create a fresh version of the New Testament, at first designed for computer use on the Internet, which became printed by Living Waters.


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The texts on which the OLB modules MHM and MHMNC are based consist of a new version, the 21^st Century Version of the Christian Scriptures© [NCMM], as an additional part of Nazarene Commentary 2000-2002©. This rendering by Mark Heber Miller may be considered a literal version with limited paraphrase.
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The NIV and the Name of God

In one of my conversations I had on Bible translation, publishing and contribution

TJ had written: > > This continues corrupt practices such as removing God's name from
 the Bible, simply because that's what their target audience wants. And of course popular ministers and theologians get paid for their endorsements and use of certain versions.

to which I wrote: > That is a strong accusation. This would be very bad.


On which TJ had a few comments to add:

Cover for a NIV Bible (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

When the New International Version (the most popular version in the USA) was released, one of Jehovah's Witnesses wrote the publishers asking why they left God's name out of the Bible. The letter was reprinted in the following Watchtower article.

"Why did the recently published 'New International Version' (NIV) of the Bible fail to use the name of God where it appears about 7,000 times in ancient Bible manuscripts? In response to a person who inquired about this, Edwin H. Palmer, Th.D., Executive Secretary for the NIV's committee wrote:

"'Here is why we did not: You are right that Jehovah is a distinctive name for God and ideally we should have used it. But we put 2 1/4 million dollars into this translation and a sure way of throwing that down the drain is to translate, for example, Psalm 23 as, "Yahweh is my shepherd." Immediately, we would have translated for nothing. Nobody would have used it. Oh, maybe you and a handful [of] others. But a Christian has to be also wise and practical. We are the victims of 350 years of the King James tradition. It is far better to get two million to read it—that is how many have bought it to date—and to follow the King James, than to have two thousand buy it and have the correct translation of Yahweh. . . . It was a hard decision, and many of our translators agree with you.'"

Dutch version:

De NIV en de Naam van God

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Russell and his beliefs

Often we hear it mentioned that Russell found the non-trinitarian group which is known as the "Jehovah's Witnesses."  Russell, of course, did not found an organization called "Jehovah's Witnesses." He never heard of such an organization; he did not believe in such an organization, and he preached against the formation of such an organization until the day he died. Russell refused to allow himself or the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society to become a "central authority" over the local congregations, although, individually, and as congregations, many of the Bible Students had come to view him as such.

Russell learned the Biblical truths about hell, the condition of the dead, and about the trinity, as well as "the ransom for all," from others who had become before him. His understanding of these matters did not originate from out of the blue, nor were they simply his own thoughts. It was the proper Biblical understand ing of these matters that led him to reaffirm his faith in the Bible, in the God of the Bible, and in Jesus as the Son of God who gave himself a ransom for all.

Russell had, through his own self-study educated himself along many lines. The fact that he did not receive his education at the hands of humanly-recognized sectarian theological schools does not mean that he did not understand what he was writing about. That Russell did correctly present the usage of Hebrew and Greek words was confirmed, with some few minor exceptions, by Paul S. L. Johnson, who was well-educated and who was a thoroughly trained scholar in both Hebrew and Greek.

Russell gave a summation of his beliefs, what he stood for, in the January 15, 1912 issue of the Watch Tower, page 28:
>What Did Charles Taze Russell Stand For?

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• For more information of the condition of the dead, hell, hades, sheol, lake of fire, eternal torment, etc., see:
  http://hereafter.reslight.net
  
• For more information about the "ransom for all," see:
  http://atonement.reslight.net
  
• For more information about the "trinity," see:
  http://godanson.reslight.net
  
  

• Russell Questioned His Faith
  

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