Claude: I agree.
I find the New American Standard best when studying. It is far easier to understand for that purpose than the KJV or even or the RKJV.
I enjoy reading the KJV, but am experienced enough with it to know what the more complex sentences mean. For anyone not familiar with the text, it can be horribly confusing.
I wrote a story in which the phrase
'create in me a clean heart' appeared. One of my critiqers did write in and tell me that the sentence structure was odd, and I might want to rewrite it because it was confusing...(only 1 out of 16, though).
Merry Christmas to all, and have a greeat Boxing Day.
The KJV, with its archaic flow of language, was and still is a masterpiece.
I've read the New Century Version (based on the Bible for the Deaf), which is simplified, and it certainly sacrificed a great deal of the beauty of the language for simplicity.
LeeAnn:
My husband usually drives that exchange everyday. Today he drove straight down Western, missing the 7 car pile-up. Little bit of ice, everyone freaks.
(Drive from Edmond to Belle Isle)
Yes, the desert can get cold.
Froze my but off in the Outback (fortunately not literally, as James McDonald described). Happpened to get in on a freak cold snap, and had sleeping bags rated only to 32 degrees. I will never again take the weatherman's word for overnight lows again.
Didn't lose any of my butt, but learned it's very difficult to sleep when you're that cold. I gather that when it becomes easy to sleep, then you're in real trouble.
For Lin:
About 18 years ago, El Paso Texas had 22 inches of snow (that was the day my nephew was born, so I remember).
About 200 cars were abandoned on Mesa street that day, and 5 city busses.
That's not being able to drive in snow.
(My brother-in-law still managed to get to the hospital in about half-an hour, though)
I'm a desert kid, and find this all terribly fascinating.
I now live in Oklahoma, and we have the above mentioned "freezing rain" and "ice storms".
They are, in their effects, truly nasty. Worst personal experience: truck driving by in opposite direction splashes dirty water across my windshield, suddenly I'm driving blind due to a half-inch thick sheet of dirty ice.
Ice storms bring down trees, which in turn bring down power lines, leaving some homes without power for weeks in the dead of winter (for us).
Is this a phenomenon that happens up north as well? Or is this just an Oklahoma thing?
A nice piece by Krauthammer!
Being a religious person, I find it distressing that Science teachers are being asked to teach ID in the Science classroom. It is, indeed, not science, and therefore, not their purview.
At the very closest to empiricism, it's Statistics, but numbers so inestimable that they cannot be appraoched with the comprehension levels we have. It would be futile to try to calculate them.
ID is theology...I cannot blame Dover for removing it from the science classroom at all!
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