The B.I.B.L.E.

I just got a new Bible!   It's an ESV (English Standard Version) and  I  LOVE it!  It's so easy to read!  I spend longer doing my devotions and understand the context so much better!  I spend no time reading 'man's' commentary trying to explain the old English of a KJV.

I don't have anything against the KJV, I liked it when that was the Bible I was reading, but I like the ESV so much better!

There is a following of "KJV only" where some believe that if you're not reading the KJV you're not even saved.  Any translation from the original transcript is just that - a translation.  And how do KJV followers explain such translations in other languages than English?  Is God able to work through a German translation to save people?  And what did people read before 1611?

Now, I am concerned with some translations.  Any translation that has added books to the Bible, or any that are translated by one person scares me!  The Bible speaks to such things in Revelation 22:18  "I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book:  if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book."  And in Proverbs 11:14  "Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety."

So take your pick, but the best Bible around is the one you are reading!