| Bible | Ex 3:14 | Ps 45:6 | Mic 5:2 | Matt 24:36 | Acts 7:59 | 1Tim 3:16 | 1John 5:7 | 1John 5:20 | Rev 1:11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King James | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | YES |
| NKJV | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO | YES |
| NAB | YES | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | N/A | NO |
| Rotherham | NO | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| NWT | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO* | NO | NO |
| RSV | YES* | NO* | NO | NO* | NO | NO* | NO | NO | NO |
| NEB | YES* | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Fenton | YES | NO | NO | YES | N/A | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| NIV | YES* | YES | NO | NO* | NO | NO* | NO* | NO | NO |
| Darby | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO* | YES* | NO | NO | NO |
| ASV | YES* | YES* | YES* | NO* | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Lamsa | NO | YES | YES | YES | N/A | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Beck | YES | YES | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Byington | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Moffatt | NO | NO | NO | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Douay | NO | YES | YES | YES | N/A | NO | YES | NO | NO |
| Geneva | N/A | N/A | N/A | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| NASB | YES | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| God's Wrd | YES | N/A | NO | NO | YES | NO | YES | NO | |
| NCV/ICV | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| TEV/GNB | YES* | NO* | NO | NO* | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| REB | YES* | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| MLB/NBV | YES | YES | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Goodspeed | YES | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Jerusalem | YES | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| NJB | YES | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| TanakhJPS | NO | NO | NO | ||||||
| Young | YES | YES | NO | YES | NO | YES | YES | NO | YES |
| Barclay | NO | N/A | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||
| Spencer | NO | NO | NO | YES | NO | NO | |||
| Diaglott | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||
| CEV | YES* | YES* | NO | NO* | NO | NO* | NO | NO | NO |
| Message | NO | NO | NO | NO | YES | NO | |||
| Wuest | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||
| Lattimore | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||
| Living B. | YES* | YES | YES | NO* | N/A | NO | NO | YES | YES |
| NLT | YES | YES | NO | NO | N/A | NO | NO | NO | NO |
Exodus 3:14 [YES]: "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT
I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM
hath sent me unto you." KJV (this is usually accompanied by a cross-reference
to John 8:58 in many Bibles).
[NO] "At this God said to Moses: 'I SHALL PROVE TO BE WHAT I SHALL
PROVE TO BE.' And he added: 'This is what you are to say to the sons of
Israel, I SHALL PROVE TO BE has sent me to YOU." NWT
For further comment see my page on Ex.3:14/Jn
8:58
Psalm 45:6 [YES]: "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and
ever." ASV
[NO] "You throne is from God, forever and ever." NJB
For more see Hebrews 1:8
Micah 5:2 [YES]:"out of thee shall one come forth unto
me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from
everlasting."
[NO] "someone who's family goes back to ancient times" CEV
Brown Driver Briggs Hebrew Lexicon says of OLAM (5769) "long duration,
antiquity" It is even used of the forefathers (Is 24:2) and the prophets
(Jer 28:8).
Some do say that taken together (qedem AND yown owlam) these communicate,
as Jamieson,
Fausset and Brown say, "the strongest assertion of infinite duration
of which the
Hebrew language is capable" Renowned Old Testament scholar Merrill
F. Unger, commenting on Micah 5:2 in Unger's Bible Handbook says, "He [Jesus]
is the Bethlehem-born pre-existent, eternal One"
Obviously, many other Bible versions do not agree with this. The fact
that the Bible says he is the first being created would obviously he is
older than anything else, thus necessitating the stress at Mic 5:2. In
Prov 8:23, the 2 words are used again of Jesus/Wisdom, right after the
scripture says he was created. The same words used in Micah 5:2 are used
for others who are not God. The psalmist could remember qedem AND olam
(ps 77:5).
To Jehovah, OLAM and QEDEM are consistent with the time of Rahab and
Creation, " Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake,
as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not
thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster? Is
it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that
madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? Is 51:9,
10 ASV
It does not have to mean eternity.
Matthew 24:36 [YES]: "But of that day and hour knoweth
no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." KJV
[NO] But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even
the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only. ASV
The removal of "neither the Son" is a textual error. The words appear
in the oldest manuscripts of the Alexandrian and Western text-types,
and they do appear at Mark 13:32 in the KJV.
For more see my pages on the Byzantine text
and the Textus Receptus.
Acts 7:59 [YES]: And they stoned Stephen, calling
upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. KJV
[NO] So they stoned Stephen, and as they did so, he called out, 'Lord
Jesus, receive my spirit. NEB
The word "God" does not appear in ANY Greek manuscript, neither does
the word epikaleomai mean prayer, as it is used elsewhere of others who
do not deserve to be prayed to. That is why the KJV uses the same word
elsewhere to mean (appeal (unto), call (on, upon), surname.) (Acts 10:5;
11:13)
1Timothy 3:16 [YES]: "God was manifest in the flesh" KJV
[NO] "He who was manifested in the flesh" ASV
"The strength of the internal evidence favoring OS ["WHO" as
opposed to QEOS "God"] along with considerations of transcriptional and
intrinsic probability, have prompted textual critics virtually unanimously
to regard OS as the original text...Accordingly, 1 Timothy 3:16
is not an instance of the christological use of QEOS." Jesus as
God-The New Testament Use of Theos in Reference to Jesus, by Murray J,
Harris
1 John 5:7 [YES]: "And there are three who give testimony
in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are
one."Catholic Douay-Rheims Version
[NO] "And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is
truth." NASB
For more on the above Comma Johanneum click here
and here.
1 John 5:20 [YES]: "This Jesus Christ is the real God
and eternal life." God's Word Version
[NO] We know the Son of God has come and given us understanding
to know him who is real; indeed we are in him who is real, since we are
in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, this is eternal life." New
English Bible
"it should be noted that precisely in St. John's First Epistle [O QEOS]
ho theos, "the true God" so often certainly means the Father that it must
be understood of the Father throughout the Epistle, unless we are to suppose
that some incomprehensible change has taken place in the subject referred
to by O QEOS." Theological Investigations, Vol. 1 by Karl Rahner, Third
printing: 1965, pages 136, 137. Compare John 17:3
One person tells me: Christ is the immediate antecedent of the pronoun
THIS, therefore is applies to him.
Reply: Does this mean that Jesus is the true God? Let's look at some examples:
Acts 7:18, 19: "Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph. The same (houtos, just like in 1 John 5:20) dealt subtilly with our kindred, and evil entreated our fathers, so that they cast out their young children, to the end they might not live." KJVDoes this mean that Joseph was this evil person?
Acts 4:10, 11, " Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This (houtos, just like 1 John 5:20) is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner." KJVDoes this mean that the man that was healed was the stone that the builders rejected? Of course not!
" For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist."Does this mean that Jesus is this deceiver? No!
Revelation 1:11 [YES]: "Saying, I am Alpha and Omega,
the First and the Last" NKJV
[NO] OMITTED-Most Bibles do not have this phrase referring to Jesus.
Contrary to what KJV-Only people want to believe, it is not even in the
Majority
of manuscripts.