The best defense is, well, a good defense

Ok, i'll admit it -- i love the word of God. all of it -- even the parts that overwhelm my senses and understanding... which means that i chose to believe the implicit truth of even the parts that overwhelm me. let's face it, God's smarter than i am. This comes to mind:

Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. (2 Peter 3:11-18 ESV)

Used to be, i'd read some parts of scripture and be like Thomas Jefferson, picking and choosing. But after being saved, one day the thought occurred: if Jesus were alive and walking the earth and preaching, teaching and healing, and if when he read from the old testament scrolls, which would have been in the form of the Septuagint, he did not say to the priests and teachers "Hey, this stuff here is wrong, and here, and here! Let me correct it for you!" then it must be all good.

But the Septuagint, like the Geneva, King James, et al., is a translation. And as with almost any translation of any amount of source material, the end may not well represent the beginning; or, it just might.

And because accuracy of scripture is so important, I choose the ESV or English Standard Version of the Bible.

And the good folks at Mars Hill have posited an excellent defense of, and declaration for, using the ESV.

John Piper has many good reasons to use the ESV, too.

Take up and read!