Why the king james?

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hornetguy

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It is apparent this is what is happening...

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John146

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"Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen (75) souls."
(Acts 7:14)

"...all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ​ten (70)"
(Genesis 46:27)


This is not an opinion, this is factual error. And there are many others like this.

But you will not accept that, because your faith in KJV is rooted deeply.
This is an "apparent' contradiction in Scripture. Study it. Read it. Write the souls down as given in Genesis 46. The Genesis account is the number of immediate souls that went in to Egypt. The Acts account includes those souls in the extended family which included those born to Pharez and Beriah.
 

John146

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Believing the words of God is not idol worship. I believe God has preserved His words in the English language in the KJV. That's believing God at His word not idol worship. Do you believe God's word?

Do any of you defend the word of God? If so, which words? If you're out witnessing and a lost person asks you the following question how would you respond: "Hey man, do you really believe every word in that Bible you hold? Can you trust every word to be true?" If you don't trust every word to be true, why should they trust the Savior of the word?
 

trofimus

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This is an "apparent' contradiction in Scripture. Study it. Read it. Write the souls down as given in Genesis 46. The Genesis account is the number of immediate souls that went in to Egypt. The Acts account includes those souls in the extended family which included those born to Pharez and Beriah.
Not "in Scriptures", but in KJV. That is a difference.

LXX has 75 in Genesis 46:27.

And you probably know, that the first church and apostles used LXX as their OT.

But KJV translators used a different source for OT, thats why you will have many contradictions between your OT and your NT which quotes different version of OT you dont have.
 
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Believing the words of God is not idol worship. I believe God has preserved His words in the English language in the KJV. That's believing God at His word not idol worship. Do you believe God's word?

Do any of you defend the word of God? If so, which words? If you're out witnessing and a lost person asks you the following question how would you respond: "Hey man, do you really believe every word in that Bible you hold? Can you trust every word to be true?" If you don't trust every word to be true, why should they trust the Savior of the word?
I believe in God's word and I also trust that the Holy Spirit will reveal the truth to me, no matter what version I study or read....I mean after-all, he is the Spirit of Truth....


So let me ask you a serious question based on a very probable scenario. You are on vacation somewhere in the world and you and your family are kidnapped for ransom money. You and your family had no time to grab one of your precious KJV Bibles.
You finally arrive at the camp they are going to keep you at until ransom is paid. As a token of good will they throw you a Bible and it is a English NLT version. Are you going to refuse it, because your faith is in the KJV or faith in the Holy Spirit who will guide you into all truth and you will read the NLT?

You will most likely huff and puff and blow this down as silly and stupid, but it is based on a real life issue that a real life KJ only missionary faced and God used it to open his eyes about versions. The man came back forever changed after reading a NASB version of the Bible for the 9 months he was held captive. He said he would not touch for the first 2 months, but sadly learned in his debating about version, he never hid those true words in his heart.

If I were the beast, I would also seek to divide believers based on Bible version, because OUR enemy the devil loves to divide and isolate the body of Christ.
 

John146

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If I were the beast, I would also seek to divide believers based on Bible version, because OUR enemy the devil loves to divide and isolate the body of Christ.
Exactly, so how does he divide? Provide more than one Bible claiming to be the word of God to get people to question, has God really said that?

Do you consider the NLT the Holy Bible, the pure words of God without error? Or just another translation riddled with errors?
 
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Exactly, so how does he divide? Provide more than one Bible claiming to be the word of God to get people to question, has God really said that?

Do you consider the NLT the Holy Bible, the pure words of God without error? Or just another translation riddled with errors?
At least a half dozen Bibles were produced long before the KJV was even an idea. By your very own words, one of them must have been "the pure words of God", because the KJV was nothing more than an addition to the Books God already provided us.
 
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eph610

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Exactly, so how does he divide? Provide more than one Bible claiming to be the word of God to get people to question, has God really said that?

Do you consider the NLT the Holy Bible, the pure words of God without error? Or just another translation riddled with errors?
Your refusal to answer my scenario proves who you are, what you are doing. I am hopeful you are never placed into a position where you have no KJ Bible with you.

Welcome to ignore.
 

John146

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Your refusal to answer my scenario proves who you are, what you are doing. I am hopeful you are never placed into a position where you have no KJ Bible with you.

Welcome to ignore.
Why would I accept something that I know is corrupt? As a believer, I'm better off without it. The question should be, what does God think about a Bible posing as His word?
 

John146

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At least a half dozen Bibles were produced long before the KJV was even an idea. By your very own words, one of them must have been "the pure words of God", because the KJV was nothing more than an addition to the Books God already provided us.
Yep, the KJV was the seventh in the purification process. God's perfect number of completeness.

1. 1395 Wycliffe's
2. 1525 Tyndale's NT
3. 1535 Coverdale's
4. 1539 Great Bible
5. 1560 Geneva's Bible
6. 1568 Bishop's Bible
7. 1611 AV (KJV)

"The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."
 
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Yep, the KJV was the seventh in the purification process. God's perfect number of completeness.

1. 1395 Wycliffe's
2. 1525 Tyndale's NT
3. 1535 Coverdale's
4. 1539 Great Bible
5. 1560 Geneva's Bible
6. 1568 Bishop's Bible
7. 1611 AV (KJV)

"The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."
Malarkey. That's cherry-picking a verse which reinforces your position while disregarding anything that refutes it.

This discussion is silly. It'll never, ever, ever get solved. I have my own reasons for preferring KJV to other translations, but none of them hover around the KJV being "perfect" and all others being crap. That's just ridiculous.
 

jsr1221

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I believe in God's word and I also trust that the Holy Spirit will reveal the truth to me, no matter what version I study or read....I mean after-all, he is the Spirit of Truth....


So let me ask you a serious question based on a very probable scenario. You are on vacation somewhere in the world and you and your family are kidnapped for ransom money. You and your family had no time to grab one of your precious KJV Bibles.
You finally arrive at the camp they are going to keep you at until ransom is paid. As a token of good will they throw you a Bible and it is a English NLT version. Are you going to refuse it, because your faith is in the KJV or faith in the Holy Spirit who will guide you into all truth and you will read the NLT?

You will most likely huff and puff and blow this down as silly and stupid, but it is based on a real life issue that a real life KJ only missionary faced and God used it to open his eyes about versions. The man came back forever changed after reading a NASB version of the Bible for the 9 months he was held captive. He said he would not touch for the first 2 months, but sadly learned in his debating about version, he never hid those true words in his heart.

If I were the beast, I would also seek to divide believers based on Bible version, because OUR enemy the devil loves to divide and isolate the body of Christ.
I actually have the NLT and it is much easier for me to read than the KJV. And here comes the "you haven asked for the Holy Spirit" type comments from folks that worship... err, I mean... support the KJV.
 
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Malarkey. That's cherry-picking a verse which reinforces your position while disregarding anything that refutes it.

This discussion is silly. It'll never, ever, ever get solved. I have my own reasons for preferring KJV to other translations, but none of them hover around the KJV being "perfect" and all others being crap. That's just ridiculous.
I certainly give you credit for being your own man, and being honest about this whole thing. I also have my preferences, (actually, sometimes the KJV is one), and it never is because I consider just one of my choices God's only word.
 
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eph610

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I actually have the NLT and it is much easier for me to read than the KJV. And here comes the "you haven asked for the Holy Spirit" type comments from folks that worship... err, I mean... support the KJV.
How awesome for you...continue growing in the Word you will keep reading!
 
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eph610

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Yep, the KJV was the seventh in the purification process. God's perfect number of completeness.

1. 1395 Wycliffe's
2. 1525 Tyndale's NT
3. 1535 Coverdale's
4. 1539 Great Bible
5. 1560 Geneva's Bible
6. 1568 Bishop's Bible
7. 1611 AV (KJV)

"The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."
You forgot the 1599 Edition of the Geneva Bible.

I bet you also go to a Bible Believers Baptist church too don't you?

Let me guess, I bet you shed tears when Peter Ruckman died as well, huh?
 
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eph610

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Why would I accept something that I know is corrupt? As a believer, I'm better off without it. The question should be, what does God think about a Bible posing as His word?
I don't know what God thinks....His Word says his thoughts are not my thoughts....

So are you in violation of his Word, since you can state straight faced you know what he thinks!?!?!

From the KJV:
Isa 55.8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

Careful here false prophet, you have been undone and your pride and blindness don't know it yet.
 

trofimus

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Yep, the KJV was the seventh in the purification process. God's perfect number of completeness.

1. 1395 Wycliffe's
2. 1525 Tyndale's NT
3. 1535 Coverdale's
4. 1539 Great Bible
5. 1560 Geneva's Bible
6. 1568 Bishop's Bible
7. 1611 AV (KJV)

"The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times."
You did not get even this one right.

1. 1395 Wycliffe's
2. 1525 Tyndale's NT
3. 1535 Coverdale's
4. 1537 Matthew's Bible
5. 1539 Great Bible
6. 1539 Taverner's Bible
7. 1560 Geneva's Bible
8. 1568 Bishop's Bible
9. 1582 Douay–Rheims Bible
10. 1611 AV (KJV)

And we are talking about English translatios only, of course.

So if you worship the number 7, you should use Geneva's Bible only and be GB Only guy.
 
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trofimus

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BTW, why is so perfect Bible called with the name of a man and adulterer, king James?

I would not want to read the Bible named for example Dictator Stalin Version, no matter how good it would be... its hard to imagine such book would be perfect and the only one from God.
 

John146

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Brother, at least those of us KJV guys DO have a real and tangible Book that we hold out to the world as the absolute Standard of Final Written Authority from God, and we don't have to pretend to be something we are not. We really do believe in a tangible Bible you can hold in your hands, read and believe every word.

By contrast, what do you have? NOTHING.