Are you kidding me? The Bible was written in Greek and Hebrew! It was inspired in Greek and Hebrew! KJ English is the dead language! We don't use 2nd person singular, (thees and thous- my spell check doesn't even recognize them as words!) and so many words have dropped out of usage, or changed meaning, meaning things are constantly misunderstood to readers. And that is the beginning of many bad doctrines!
English is is my native language, which is exactly what makes the KJV so unreadable! Because I do know English well, and grammar, but I have never studied, the grammar and vocabulary of 16th century English, it becomes frustrating to try and understand the KJ. Even when someone posts here from the KJV, I have to look it up in a modern translation, in order to have a clue what is being said!
Or, look it up in Greek or Hebrew, which I have studied! Even if someone gave courses in how to understand the grammar and vocabulary of the KJV, I wouldn't take it. Why? Because it is a translation! And a very poor one today, because the manuscripts used were later ones, with many copyists mistakes, and translational issues.
I know some people like the flowery language, but surely the words should be in 21st century English, and not from a dead language from 400 years ago?
You said: …so many words have drop out of usage, or changed meaning… and that is the beginning of many bad doctrines!
My answer: Corruption of the words of God is as early as in Genesis 3:1-5. The hiss of the serpent appears to question the words of God. This maybe in the form of:
Doubting God’s words “Yea hath God said?”
Diluting God’s words “We may eat” vs. Genesis 2;16c
Distending God’s words “touch it lest ye die”
Denying God’s words “ not surely die” vs. Genesis 2:17
Displacing God’s words “ye shall be as gods,”
Willful mutilation of the scriptures is as early as recorded in 2 Corinthian 2:17 that is corruption of the scriptures under the guise of correcting them (2 Peter 3;16). The deadly nature of the corruption of God’s words is the beginning of the Devils Doctrine!
(1)Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
(2)And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
(3)But of the fruit of the tree which
is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
(4)And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die
(5)For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
2 Cor. 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all
his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as
they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.