NLT Bible History 📗
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Ken Taylor is not just a random guy, he is the founder of Tyndale House Publishers
Yep… he created Tyndale to publish the Living Letters… and he created a foundation that he gave all the profits to.
But at the time he was a random guy, just a good dad. If I remember right he used the ASV and would read the scriptures on the train/bus on his way home from work and write the living letters then. Dude was awesome
The NLT has such a special place in my heart and I will never stop recommending it. My pastor gifted me an NLT bible when I was 11 and I used it for a decade before having to retire it due to it simply falling apart from use. It now sits on my shelf as a trophy of cutting my teeth in the scriptures. I typically use NKJV now since I’ve had to get a new Bible, but I still visit the NLT almost daily and I like re reading passages in it after reading through a more word for word translation to help me get a rounded picture.
Absolutely love it!! This is my favorite translation! I truly recommend this version to people who are new to the faith. It really is very relatable. ❤🙏
Such cool info! I wasn’t aware of any of it.
I bought the NLT for our daughter and it really helped her understand the Bible!
Thank God! The NLT is such a blessing in my life.❤
The NLT wasn’t actually an update tho, but a new translation, correct?
As a kids pastor who loves using the NLT with the kids I disciple, love this piece of history. Thanks for sharing it with us.
You’re welcome!
Ken Taylor also wrote "The Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes." It is an awesome Bible storybook, not washed down.
Very cool story. Thanks.
Thank you, I really enjoyed this little short! I love the NLT and get a lot out of it. Please do more like this!
My second Bible after kids KJV was The Way in the 70s. I remember hippie black and white photos. It was so easy to understand. I now read NLT.
Thank you Tim. I love learning these things about the Bible and how they got started. I love The NLT version of the Bible.✝️🙏🏽✝️🙏🏽✝️it’s nice to know where it started (I guess you can say…it’s humble beginnings) ❤❤❤
You are very welcome!
Thank you for this great story Tim. Good fortunes to you sir.
I had no idea the NLT was connected to The Living Bible. I have a copy of the Living Bible I bought off of EBay. It was a gift from his and and kids to the mother back in the 1980s. And based on the inscriptions, I think she was a new believer.
I’d always grown up being told that was a Bible that was super popular back in the late 60s/early 70s during the days of the Jesus movement for people who’d never read the Bible before ever.
That's awesome you shared that tim like you I have many bibles and even got the exact same one you had in your hands the filament app is awesome to
The Living Bible was my first read through. I have great fondness for it.
Mine too!
My mom and dad gave me a Living Bible when I was a kid. Had it for many years. Wish I still had it
I actually have that bible! My boyfriend thrifted it and gifted it to me. It’s so cool knowing the history behind such a unique looking bible!
I love the NLT!
NLT study bible was my first purchase in 2016.
That voice was God, he planned so much for you and does ❤
Oh wow! really cool background info!
I love the Living Bible and the NLT is my favorite translation to just simply read the Bible.
I don’t think the NLT is a revision of the LB. The NLT Wiki page reads, “The origin of the NLT came from a project aiming to revise The Living Bible (TLB). This effort eventually led to the creation of the NLT-a new translation separate from the LB.”
They decided early in the process that the work they were doing was more than a revision… but it it began as a LV update.
I am reading the NLT for the first time and I am loving this translation. I am sad though because I still love my King James translation too.
That is so cool! I did not know it’s history. Thank you for sharing.
That’s amazing! My father has that same Bible! Great backstory on it!
That is awesome thanks Tim
When I first got saved in 1970, the only bible I had to read was Thompson chain, KJV. I even got one for high school graduation in 1971. Then the Living Bible came out and I loved it. I read both together. What a blessing it was. Now I understand why I love the NLT and NKJV.
I love the NLT
Great info! I love the NLT and had no idea that’s how it started.
My grandma had that Bible too!
I really like this version of the Bible.
Me too!
I have ‘The Living Letters’ with a forward by a illy Graham… I may just have snagged a 1st edition full NT Living Bible in pristine condition…
FOR YEARS & YEARS , I TRYED TO READ
THE KJV 😱
FINALLY I GOT THE LIVING BIBLE
WHEN IT CAME OUT !!!
PRAISE OUR LORD GOD💜 ✝️🕊
I GOT THUR IT ...
I STOPPED BELIEVING I WAS SO SINFUL ...GOD 💜✝️🕊WOULDN'T ALLOW ME INTO HIS HOLY BOOK 😂
OK OK I HAD TROUBLE TOWARDS THE VERY END ... ALL THE STUFF I HAD TODO & NOT DO 🫣
I JUST KEPT PRAYING & READING THUR IT ...
AFTER A WHILE THE HOLY SPIRIT 🕊
STARTED TO TEACH ME & CLEAR UP EVERYTHING &
AFTER A COUPLE YEARS ... I COULD EVEN READ KJV .... WELL I WAS MOVING AROUND NIV ..
THEN THE NLT IN THE LIFE APPLICATION STUDY BIBLE CAME OUT .. OH MY THANK YOU ,JESUS ✝️
I NOW HAVE 10 PLUS TRANSLATIONS
VIRTUALLY WAS DOING A WORD STUDY FOR MANY YEARS ... PLUS COMPARING SHARING WITH PEOPLE , I MEET OVER THE YEARS
PLEASE PLEASE
GOD💜✝️🕊 BLESS SPECIAL BLESS ,EVERYONE WHO DOES READ THE BIBLE & PLEASE ALWAYS ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT 🕊
TEACH YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD 💜✝️🕊 WANTS US TO LEARN MOMENT BY MOMENT IN ABSOLUTELY EVERY SINGLE THING WE DO ...
READING THE BIBLE & EVERY ASPECT OF OUR LIVES FAITH ,FAMILY ,FRIENDS & OUR WORK & ACTIVITIES AMEN 🙏
What’s the good news translation ? Easier than NLT? Is NIV easier too?
That was my first Bible my parents bought me when I was baptized! 🤭
The NLT is not as ‘based on the Living Bible’ as most would think… I know one of the 90 translators personally ( Professor in Seminary and now a friend ) and he explained the connection to the Living and the translation philosophy of the 90 translators… the NLT is definitely not the Living Bible 2.0
I use the NLT and NET. Both are great to use.
The NLT translation was not published until 1996.
The NLT is a mixed bag. There are some passages that are translated better than the more literal versions, and some parts are dumbed down more than they need to be. However, I really like listening to the audio of Old Testament prophets with You Version.
Hi Jon, are there any particular verses you would prefer to be translated better?
I feel the same way whenever I read the CSB. It's like I'm loving it, I'm loving it, loving it... And then every so often I come across something so dumbed down or needlessly oversimplified it makes me roll my eyes or groan. But no translation into English is perfect. They all have their foibles, just as they all have their uses. If I just want to read the Bible for a few hours without overtaxing my brain, the NLT works just fine.
@@exagem There are too many to list, but here’s one: “Here is the main point: We have a High Priest who sat down in the place of honor beside the throne of the majestic God in heaven. Hebrews 8:1 NLT
The “place of honor” is no more clear than “the right hand of the throne of majesty”.
On the other hand Gen 3:16 is terrific, “Then he said to the woman, “I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.””
@@caomhan84 I have that same experience when reading the Psalms in the CSB or any non-KJV influenced translation. That aside, I think that the CSB is the best fresh English translation .
@@jonasarasperfect examples
Ironically my copy of the Living Bible is my grandmothers copy as well!
and the nlt is a translation and not a paraphrase just to be clear.
So your saying that one of the most popular translations for modern Christians is basically a children's bible... Sadly I am not surprised.
"I tell you the truth, anyone who doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a child will never enter it.” - Luke 18:17 ❤️
So smug
I grew up reading the classics like Jane Eyre. I can read old antiquated books, but the NLT makes it very easy to understand. Yes I use other versions to get a well rounded perspective but no other Bible brings it home as the NLT for me. Does that mean I am lacking in the intellectual department? If so, I don’t care. Whatever version the Holy Spirit can reach me in is the one I want to read.
Taylor also lost his ability to speak during the translating of the Living Bible. He believed it was due to tampering with the word of god.