I told this exact thing to our father, in different words, the other day. I bought a Bible in the newer translation, first time I ever bought a Bible. My Bible had been a King James that I acquired from my parents circa 2004. About the Modern English Version. My spouse has a New American Standard Bible, but I needed one of my own. I had some questions about the veracity of the different translations that our father was able to answer.
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The King James Bible is based on the Hebrew Masoretic Old Testament text, but we Orthodox use the Greek Septuagint. Our New Testament is essentially the same. We include deuterocanonical books that Protestants have taken out.
Interesting. I just learned that the Old Testament is based on Hebrew and Aramaic, while the New Testament is translated from Greek. I must have known that but just forgotten.
I'm still going to the Lutheran Church. Discovering all this now is so interesting. Introducing Bible to our homeschool program was definitely different, but my almost 9 year old is an age where he really needs it. I didn't even realize how secular I had become until I started talking to you more about this. My spouse's family is split not down the middle, but instead only two out of 10 siblings still profess faith in Christ. None of that should ever have mattered to me. I shouldn't have allowed myself to be so influenced.