Research      The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as follows:                     Research- noun                           1. The act of searching (closely or carefully) for or aftera specified thing or person.                           2. a. A search or investigation directed to the discovery of some fact by careful                                    consideration                                   or study of a subject; a course of critical or scientific inquiry. (Usu. in pl.)                               b. Without article: Investigation, inquiry into things. Also, as a quality of persons,                                    habitude of                                    carrying out such investigation.                               c. research knee-jerk, a knee-jerk requiring special means to elicit it.                           3. Investigation or pursuit of a subject. rare.                           4 . Mus. (See quot.) rare
⁰.                            5. attrib. and Comb., as research assistant, building, bureau, council, degree,                                department,                                 doctorate, fellow, fellowship, grant, lab, laboratory, library, officer,                                personnel, post,                                programme, project, room, scholarship, station, student, unit, vessel, work,                               worker;                               research-minded adj.; research and development, in an industrial context, work                              directed                               on a large scale towards the innovation, introduction, and improvement of                               products and                               processes; freq. as attrib. phr.; abbrev. R and D s.v. R II. 2a.                     verb 1.      a. trans. To search into (a matter or subject); to investigate or study closely. Also,           to engage in research upon (a subject, a person, etc.).                                  b. intr.To make researches; to pursue a course of research. Also const. in(to),                                       on.                                  c. trans. To engage upon research for (a book or the like).                            2. To seek (a woman) in love or marriage. Obs.                                      Hence re searching vbl. n. and ppl. a.                                                                trans. and intr. To search again or repeatedly.       How do you research, what is your method.  Do you have a pre-determined agenda, or do you just find a subject and start looking and let the information fall where it may.        Recently, I’ve had my ability to do research questioned.  I’m not supprised, I don’t have any degrees stating that I’m a research professional.  In case you haven’t guessed, this has to do with Biblical scriptures and I admit that I am nowhere near being a scholar like others claim to be.  I encounter a subject that attracts a little more that normal curiosity in me,  and I try to see what I can find out about it.  Although, I approach some things with a  pre-concieved notion,  if I happen to find more information that contridicts what I initially started with,  I have a tendency to lean in that direction until I find more that confirms what I thought to begin with.  Some of the information that some of the “Scholars” expect me to accept, I find very hard to.  The reason I say that is that some of the stuff they come up with just doesn’t quite sound just right.       I was recently trying to defend my position that I prefer the King James Bible because it has been found to have fewer errors than other newer Bibles.  Which bring me to the reason I’m writing this post.  In trying to find what I was looking for, I was looking to see what the Codex Sinaiticus had to say about certain verses in Genesis, when I ran across this web page that was entitled “ Chapter 10: Deliberating the Arguments” .  It not only provided me with what I was looking for, it gave me a little more insight into how research is done.  Some of which, only confirmed what I already knew.  But, it seams this guy wasn’t pulling any punches as far as Biblical research is concerned.  He covered why certain researchers chose to write certain verses a certain way that differed from the traditional version, the KJV and others that held too the traditional view.       To quote one paragraph, he said:  “In his booklet, All About Bibles,Dr. John R Kohlenberger III has listed the reading level of several English translations as provided by Dr. Linda H. Parrish and Dr. Donna Norton of Texas A &M University,  They list Today’s English Version (TEV) with a 7.29 reading grade level .  The NIV received a 7.80 reading grade level, while the New American Standard Version (NASV) received an 11.55 reading grade level.  The highest reading grade level was 12.00 and given to the KJV.  [John R. Kohlenberger III, All About Bibles (new youk: Oxford University Press, 1985), 12.]  This would mean that anyone who graduated from high school should be able to read this “outdated” version.  Additionally, its reading level is not that much higher than the NASV.”      His next paragraph reads “Once we begin an argument against any translation that is based on simplicity, where do we stop?  Do we reject the readability of the KJV and embrace the NASV as easier to read because it is a half-grade lower?  Should we reject the NASV and accept the NIV because it is even easier to read?  Do we then stop with the NIV?  What if someone cannot read at the seventh grade level?  Do we lower the standard even More?  Do we take the approach that some modern educatirs have and “dumb-down” our language?  Or do we seek to raise the standard higher and educate our people?  These are important questions when it comes to readability.  After all, historically the church has always sought to raise the educational level of the masses, not lower it.”        I would also ask, how much lower if they can’t read at a seventh grade level?  Do we start producing the Holy Comic Bible, or maybe Childrens Picture Bibles, or how about a Bible Vidio Game of Samson slaying the Philistenes with the jawbone of an ass.  While at the same time trying to keep Delilah from sneaking up behind him and cutting his hair?  There ought to be plenty of blood in that for some people. Or perhaps a computer game of David slaying Goliath set up like a pin-ball game to see how many times it takes to get a ball past Goliath’s sword and hit his soft spot, (taken from an episode of Zena).  Wouldn’t those be fun ways to learn GOD’s Word.  Oh! Hey!  If anyone does develop these games, I expect royalties from using my ideas.        It’s not bad enough that the school system has degenerated to this point with it’s progressive education system.  They now have to envade GOD’s teritory.   If you want to read the rest  what this man has to say, go to  http://members.aol.com/DrTHolland/Chapter10.html.  I strongly recommend it, especially to those who have been arguing with me about this and other subjects.