Hi, I'm Timothy J. Ticen. I am not an inspired writer as the apostles and disciples were in the first century. My aim in putting this version together is merely to offer the vocabulary and historical meanings that have been lost to our modern language. Also, to offer historical information along on the same page the reader is following on so as not to have to flip to the back of the book and thus interrupt the train of thought of the studier.
I cannot preach perfectly as the apostles of Christ did in the first century AD.
The apostle John said that if everything Christ did could be written down, the world could not contain the books. Jesus Christ sent the Holy Spirit to bring to the apostles remembrance everything He said, taught, and confirmed through the miracles He had done. The apostles and inspired disciples of the first century wrote everything we would need down for future generations to work out their own salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12).
After leaving the military and beginning to read the Bible, I met the woman who became my wife. Her sharing of scripture led me to be baptized into Jesus Christ in 1993.
Wanting to preach God to others and having gone through Greek training with fervor, I was able to preach around the Western United States and later the Midwest.
I became interested in the Bible text itself and Bible versions, realizing that someone had radically changed the text in the past.
In England, I purchased a William Tyndale 1526 New Testament, the first man to translate the scriptures into English from the original Greek text. The English language was really born of Tyndale's translation of the Bible.
Another man by the name of William Shakespeare would use Tyndale's language and style of prose to entertain and inspire generations.
Most changes of scripture happened in the 1800s. My effort is to change back to what you now have in hand--the uncorrupted English version. You will find translations of some ancient Greek in italics, definitions of certain older Bible words, and geographical and cultural notes.
I pray that this may be of use to you in your search for truth.
