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Most people read KJV, which version are you trying to use where copyrights exist?
NIV is a very popular version, and is copyrighted, as is NASB, ESV, etc.
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Copyrights didn’t exist when most were written (not many people use NIV versions) so what are you on about?
> (not many people use NIV versions) [citation needed] NIV is always on the list of most popular bible versions, and is in heavy usage. KJV is by far the most popular, but NIV is still very popular.
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I'd also add that the very popular New King James Version (NKJV) is both copyrighted and uses different source material from the KJV which means that differences in wording are not just old to new English, but also differences in meaning.
Good point, and I didn't know that about NKJV. Very interesting.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/299402/preferred-bible-v...
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First, stop projecting. Second, I am not disrespecting anyone. There is no reference to any particular religion so I don't see how I am offending this class of people. Third, I should be free to create any system of belief I want, if that somehow makes me feel like I am reconnecting to a higher power. If I feel like creating a religion based on machine generated quotes learned from scriptures, what is the problem wit…
You don’t get to say when you’re offending people, others do. I’m religious and you have offended me. Create whatever you want but if you’re goal is to poke fun at a group of people realize you’re one of the problems people keep pointing to in this world. Instead of saying anything you could’ve simply ignored this post but you had to make your ridiculous and pointless statement that does nothing but spread hate.
> but if you’re goal is to poke fun at a group of people
Aren't you assuming too much?
> You don’t get to say when you’re offending people, others do
You are right, I apologize for my phrasing. I actually wanted to know how that could be offending, because I could not see this.
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The gold standard for the Greek text of the New Testament is the critical edition ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Testamentum_Graece ) published by Nestle-Aland.
Gold Standard? Hardly. It is barely more than a regurgitation of the older Wescott-Horte manuscript. They decided to use the Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, and Codex Alexandrinus. These are of very questionable origin and the presence of forgeries like Tobit in the Siniaticus throw them into serious doubt (and that's before looking at the poor quality of the copy, erasures/replacements, etc). Another point of con…
So absurd how people are really reading this. How can you take so much time on this Text while ignoring all issues this Text contains? All the contradictions? All the advise which is either sexist, rassist, homophobe, non homophobe etc.? I really really want to know, what other people think, when they read the bible every week like in a bible study, just to either: - Following it - Not following it but finding an exc…
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN. I'm sure there are good reasons for why you feel this way, but you can't post like this to HN. It destroys the commons. We ban accounts that post like this, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nonethless i'm still / always surprised to see religion in context of IT/programming.
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You don’t get to say when you’re offending people, others do. I’m religious and you have offended me. Create whatever you want but if you’re goal is to poke fun at a group of people realize you’re one of the problems people keep pointing to in this world. Instead of saying anything you could’ve simply ignored this post but you had to make your ridiculous and pointless statement that does nothing but spread hate.
I have offended you by proposing a system of belief? Isn't this a little intolerant? > but if you’re goal is to poke fun at a group of people Aren't you assuming too much? > You don’t get to say when you’re offending people, others do You are right, I apologize for my phrasing. I actually wanted to know how that could be offending, because I could not see this.
If you’re looking for ready to use data instead of API, there’s prepared jsons for you https://github.com/bobuk/holybooks/tree/master/EN