I'd like to bring some of this discussion back to the table. Mainly, posters identifying which version they are quoting from.
The first thing that brought this topic to my mind was the KJV usage of unicorn in
Numbers 23:22, 24:8, Deuteronomy 33:17, Job 39:9-12, Psalms 22:21, Psalms 29:6, Psalms 92:10, Isaiah 34:7, and every other version using ox or wild ox. Sure, it is a very minor difference, but it does tend to highlight some of the discrepancies in the many English versions of the bible. No, I do not mean how utterly wrong the bible itself is, just how it can be translated so differently in the same language.
Member jaywill in
Condemn gay marriage, or just gay rape? also made me think of this with his continual referral of MANY different versions of the bible, sometimes even finding a word in a verse that is only in some obscure version.
So, while it may lead to "which version is the inspired word of god?", that isn't so much my rub as is the question "why do you choose one version over the other in a particular instance to suit your argument, then a different version for a different argument?".
"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.