I have done a google search concerning the logo found on NKJV translations and about the only thing I can find is that it is a negative Christian occult symbol. Can anyone here explain the purpose for using that symbol by Thomas Nelson? I am very close to purchasing a copy of the NKJV MacArthur Study Bible and am just curious. How would you answer the critics?
I have done a google search concerning the logo found on NKJV translations and about the only thing I can find is that it is a negative Christian occult symbol. Can anyone here explain the purpose for using that symbol by Thomas Nelson? I am very close to purchasing a copy of the NKJV MacArthur Study Bible and am just curious. How would you answer the critics?
The KJV originally had the Astrological signs on the cover, and depictions of various Greco-Roman gods and goddesses within the pages of the Bible itself. Compared to that, the NKJV's use of the Triquetra is nothing.
The KJV originally had the Astrological signs on the cover, and depictions of various Greco-Roman gods and goddesses within the pages of the Bible itself. Compared to that, the NKJV's use of the Triquetra is nothing.
Haters hate. If you cannot attack truth, you pick at scabs and make issues where none exist.
Welcome to the world of the "only cult". They've picked right up from their fathers, the Adventists.
BTW I have a MacArthur NKJV. I WISH it was the new ESV MacArthur (since the NKJV is based on the same flawed Greek as the KJV - my opinion folks, don't bash)
Send me an email if you want to get me a hardbound ($25) Mac ESV and I'll send you my faux leather NKJV MacArthur ($50). I have my name in the corner of an inside page, nothing more. That is probably worth the money right there!!
(What I'm really recommending is the NOTES of the Mac are great, but the ESV would be far better text that his NASB or NKJV)
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us.
We are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
~C.S. Lewis on learning of his wife's cancer
Haters hate. If you cannot attack truth, you pick at scabs and make issues where none exist.
Welcome to the world of the "only cult". They've picked right up from their fathers, the Adventists.
BTW I have a MacArthur NKJV. I WISH it was the new ESV MacArthur (since the NKJV is based on the same flawed Greek as the KJV - my opinion folks, don't bash)
Send me an email if you want to get me a hardbound ($25) Mac ESV and I'll send you my faux leather NKJV MacArthur ($50). I have my name in the corner of an inside page, nothing more. That is probably worth the money right there!!
(What I'm really recommending is the NOTES of the Mac are great, but the ESV would be far better text that his NASB or NKJV)
I know it may sound silly to many but for one who has been in the Independent Fundamental Baptist King James Only circles for many years, it is hard to walk away from everything. At one time I would have felt as guilty buying any modern translation at a public store for fear that someone would see me as I would buying a bottle of liquor at a downtown package store. I look back now and can't believe the influence Peter Ruckman had on my life.
The "Evidence Bible" which is the Easy Reading King James is really the first non pure King James I have purchased in many years. I'm almost afraid of anything that doesn't have King James in it. I know that's silly.
I know it may sound silly to many but for one who has been in the Independent Fundamental Baptist King James Only circles for many years, it is hard to walk away from everything. At one time I would have felt as guilty buying any modern translation at a public store for fear that someone would see me as I would buying a bottle of liquor at a downtown package store. I look back now and can't believe the influence Peter Ruckman had on my life.
The "Evidence Bible" which is the Easy Reading King James is really the first non pure King James I have purchased in many years. I'm almost afraid of anything that doesn't have King James in it. I know that's silly.
Yeah, that's pretty much how I was when I first started checking out other Bibles than the KJV.
It's a very old Celtic symbol for the Trinity. No more, no less. I'd tell the critics to get a life.
ChuckBob
Regarding the triquetra . . . There is more. Much more.
Goodfibes offers a triquetra that they describe in a similar manner:
"A protective amulet and symbol of the Three-Part Goddess (Maiden, Mother, Crone) and later, a symbol of the Christian Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)."
A related symbol that uses a threefold pattern based on human legs goes under the name Triquetra or Trinacria. Its origins are quite ancient and it is believed to be a representation of Baal in his threefold form of god of spring, summer and winter.
The legs are believed to be representations of phases of the moon. It was used in Phoenicia, later in Greece, and later yet in Sicily where it is still used to this day as a charm. I will leave it to other researchers to prove or disprove its relationship with our triquetra, but the similarity appears to be more than just superficial. Could our more modern triquetra be a more abstract version of this symbol of Baal worship?
Triquetra coins are offered by a company called Magickware that specializes in a wide variety of occult merchandise. The message on the coin reads: "Do as you will, an it harm none" (sic.) This is a common slogan of witches. Like virtually all companies that sell triquetras, this one also sells pentagrams. Another company describes the triquetra thus: "A triquetra is an ancient protective Triple Goddess symbol. The three yonic vesicas are spaced evenly and often a circle is added. Some versions are interlaced as in this one, some are not." One particularly perverted jewelry manufacturer specializes in huge variety of New Age, pagan, Satanic and Egyptian symbols, as well as symbols from many of the world's religions. The Triquetra is one of their most popular designs. They advertise them side by side with a non-abstract 666 design pendant. They seem to know that they are connected, why don't modern church-goers? Yet another company, which is geared toward a sodomite and lesbian clientele, describes their specially designed triquetra variations as trisexual symbols. Their meaning is not hard to figure out by studying them. They mix the male and female symbols into the design. Since Pentagrams are almost always sold side by side with triquetras, as they are from the same ultimate source, will Thomas Nelson put a pentagram on one of their future Bible versions a few years down the line? Do not mistake that question as being sarcastic - I truly would not be surprised.
Regarding the triquetra . . . There is more. Much more.
Goodfibes offers a triquetra that they describe in a similar manner:
"A protective amulet and symbol of the Three-Part Goddess (Maiden, Mother, Crone) and later, a symbol of the Christian Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)."
A related symbol that uses a threefold pattern based on human legs goes under the name Triquetra or Trinacria. Its origins are quite ancient and it is believed to be a representation of Baal in his threefold form of god of spring, summer and winter.
The legs are believed to be representations of phases of the moon. It was used in Phoenicia, later in Greece, and later yet in Sicily where it is still used to this day as a charm. I will leave it to other researchers to prove or disprove its relationship with our triquetra, but the similarity appears to be more than just superficial. Could our more modern triquetra be a more abstract version of this symbol of Baal worship?
Triquetra coins are offered by a company called Magickware that specializes in a wide variety of occult merchandise. The message on the coin reads: "Do as you will, an it harm none" (sic.) This is a common slogan of witches. Like virtually all companies that sell triquetras, this one also sells pentagrams. Another company describes the triquetra thus: "A triquetra is an ancient protective Triple Goddess symbol. The three yonic vesicas are spaced evenly and often a circle is added. Some versions are interlaced as in this one, some are not." One particularly perverted jewelry manufacturer specializes in huge variety of New Age, pagan, Satanic and Egyptian symbols, as well as symbols from many of the world's religions. The Triquetra is one of their most popular designs. They advertise them side by side with a non-abstract 666 design pendant. They seem to know that they are connected, why don't modern church-goers? Yet another company, which is geared toward a sodomite and lesbian clientele, describes their specially designed triquetra variations as trisexual symbols. Their meaning is not hard to figure out by studying them. They mix the male and female symbols into the design. Since Pentagrams are almost always sold side by side with triquetras, as they are from the same ultimate source, will Thomas Nelson put a pentagram on one of their future Bible versions a few years down the line? Do not mistake that question as being sarcastic - I truly would not be surprised.
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Many here will say, "Who cares?" God does. God is light. In him is no darkness at all.
Nobody really knows what the Triquetra means. It's pure speculation as to what it was or wasn't. For all we know, it was an ancient Norse and Celtic stop sign.
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