An often overlooked aspect of studying the word of God is translation. You cannot ever expect to understand the Word of GOd without translation back to the greek and hebrew/chaldee in which the manuscripts were written. There have been many scholars who have already done this work for you. The KJV, though with its errors in english, allows the student to go back to the manuscripts using a Strong's concordance. This concordance has every word used in the bible, it's page, number of uses, as well as translations in both hebrew and greek. When you learn translation, you can learn the word of God in much more depth than you can ever achieve reading only the English. The following examples will illustrate this in detail. 1) English: In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the earth. The earth was void and without form. Hebrew: In the beginning God Created the heavens and the earth. The Earth became tohu va bohu(laid waste and utterly destroyed). You can see a lack of translation will not allow anyone to properly understand exactly what this says. In the beginning the earth was created, doesnt say when, then at some point the earth was laid waste and utterly destroyed. Geology and Archaeology prove this. This event is discussed in greater detail in Jeremiah 4:23-28. Some scholars attribute this event as the end of the first 'earth age' or aeon in the greek, and the beginning of this second, or flesh earth age. Jeremiah even describes that this event caused the heavens above to become black as a sign of mourning for this event that destroyed critters and man and cities from the earth. 2) English: Easter. Greek: Pascha, or passover. This discrepancy has led to the worship of a false goddess by christians. Easter, or ishtar is the pagan goddess of fertility and has nothing to do with Yeshua or his shed blood on the cross and our passover from death. The pagan rites of ishtar included orgies in the forest and other pagan delites I won't mention. This is where the bunnies and egg symbology, or fertility rites come from. The early church decided ishtar was a good way to fill the seats. If they incorporated a known pagan holiday, it would be more familiar to individuals and thus became more acceptable.
I agree with what you have stated. Everyone should possess a Greek and Hebrew concordance. They are sold in most Christian bookstores. True believers are aware that Constantine and the Catholic church are to blame for the Pagan influences.
