Another jab at the the KJV. Do you know something? When a translation is hated, burned, mocked, despised, and rejected, it is suffering the same fate as the Son of God, who is also the eternal Word of God. So in fact that is CONFIRMATION that the KJV is indeed the written Word of God. You will not find such malice directed toward any of the modern versions.
Actually, this was not a jab at the KJV as such, but at the reasoning used by KJV-only proponents.
Even if it were a jab at the KJV, that would certainly not confirm that the KJV is the written word of God. That’s simply poor reasoning. By that logic, the NIV would also be the written word of God, because it too is “hated, burned, mocked, despise and rejected”.
As for malice directed at modern versions, that is exactly what I see from KJV-only proponents. I have seen very little malice toward the KJV. What I have seen is opinions and preferences regarding the archaic language and reasoned and researched challenges to its source material and accuracy of translation.
That the KJV translators intended to make “the translation of translations” is not evidence that they succeeded in making it such. If I try to swim to Hawaii from San Francisco, the nobility of my goal has absolutely no bearing on the likelihood of success.
Actually, this was not a jab at the KJV as such, but at the reasoning used by KJV-only proponents.
Even if it were a jab at the KJV, that would certainly not confirm that the KJV is the written word of God. That’s simply poor reasoning. By that logic, the NIV would also be the written word of God, because it too is “hated, burned, mocked, despise and rejected”.
As for malice directed at modern versions, that is exactly what I see from KJV-only proponents. I have seen very little malice toward the KJV. What I have seen is opinions and preferences regarding the archaic language and reasoned and researched challenges to its source material and accuracy of translation.
Anyone with an ounce of information about Bible translations would know that there were a string of English tranlations preceding the KJV, and that it was the translation of all translations because that was the stated goal of the translators (whoe piety and scholarship are yet to be rivaled)...