Agreed. The problem is that the OP unnecessarily brought bible translations into the picture (so we went off on a tangent). If one made translations an issue, one could get bogged down in 20 translations and fail to actually deal with a particular passage. Not only that this could become a huge bone of contention. Furthermore, Bible study does NOT need to be made complicated (as presented in the OP).
KJV is not the only translation. Even it has been updated using the same manuscripts but translated into modern language (NKJV). But yet the debate is not over English it should be over the original language translation.
As to why we cross and compare translations to the original language.
We would have less heresy if there weren't so many exegetical fallacies, logical fallacies, and poor hermeneutics involved in Bible studies.
It is silly that we are okay translating the Bible into Chinese but some push old English on 2023 teens. Good luck evangelizing using outdated English.
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