KING JAMES VERSION BIBLE VS. MODERN ENGLISH BIBLE
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AMEN....stated above in their own preface they state that they compared it diligently to English version before it and they even state that they wanted ANOTHER English version....as a matter of fact the O.T. was practically copied verbatim.......man I have heard people say that JESUS and PAUL preached out of a KING JAMES.....shows how ignorant and "cultish" this whole debacle is......
There is this documentary on the King James bible that appears every now and then on the PBS channels.
It describes how King James spent a small fortune hiring the best translaters, who over several years translated all the known manuscripts of scriptures.
Before this translations were mostly in latin, so that the people were unable to comprehend what was written in the Word.
The bible was deliberately kept out of the hands of the people by the clergy (or the Roman Catholic Church), until King James came around.
Additionally, for many years I used to use the revised berkely version in modern English, until one day I read this passage in Hosea 3:1 about how Israeli's worshipped raisin cakes causing them to fall away from God.
Since having a fondness for pastry seemed somewhat of an odd reason causing people to fall away from God, I then decided to look at the King James Version that I had, but which I avoided due to its harder to understand Old English.
In it the same passage showed how the Israeli's love for flagons of wine was the cause for their falling away from God.
As an ecess love for alcohol seemed like a much more credible reason for falling away from God than a love for pastries, I have since kept using the KJV.
Revised Berekley edition: Hosea 3:1 Again the Word of the Lord said unto me, "Go, love a woman now in love with a paramour, herself an adulteress, besides; such is the way the Lord loves His people Israel, even though they keep turning to other gods and love raisin cakes.
KJV Hosea 3:1 [FONT="]Then said the [/FONT][FONT="]Lord[/FONT][FONT="] unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the [/FONT][FONT="]Lord[/FONT][FONT="] toward the children of Israel, [/FONT][FONT="]who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine[/FONT][FONT="].[/FONT]
It describes how King James spent a small fortune hiring the best translaters, who over several years translated all the known manuscripts of scriptures.
Before this translations were mostly in latin, so that the people were unable to comprehend what was written in the Word.
The bible was deliberately kept out of the hands of the people by the clergy (or the Roman Catholic Church), until King James came around.
Additionally, for many years I used to use the revised berkely version in modern English, until one day I read this passage in Hosea 3:1 about how Israeli's worshipped raisin cakes causing them to fall away from God.
Since having a fondness for pastry seemed somewhat of an odd reason causing people to fall away from God, I then decided to look at the King James Version that I had, but which I avoided due to its harder to understand Old English.
In it the same passage showed how the Israeli's love for flagons of wine was the cause for their falling away from God.
As an ecess love for alcohol seemed like a much more credible reason for falling away from God than a love for pastries, I have since kept using the KJV.
Revised Berekley edition: Hosea 3:1 Again the Word of the Lord said unto me, "Go, love a woman now in love with a paramour, herself an adulteress, besides; such is the way the Lord loves His people Israel, even though they keep turning to other gods and love raisin cakes.
KJV Hosea 3:1 [FONT="]Then said the [/FONT][FONT="]Lord[/FONT][FONT="] unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the [/FONT][FONT="]Lord[/FONT][FONT="] toward the children of Israel, [/FONT][FONT="]who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine[/FONT][FONT="].[/FONT]
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So because God was able to use it, It is the ONLY version we should use, there you have it folks, it does not matter if thousands, maybe even millions have been saved who only saw the NASB, and never read a King Jimmy, It does not matter if today many many people are getting saved in churches who use the ESV, The NIV even the NLT (Although I would not recommend that to anyone, God still uses it)
Your saying God is limited. And can not work except only in one bible which in itself is flawed. The english language is flawed. It can not in a word to word translation properly convey the greek text. By this fact alone ALL ENGLISH BIBLES are flawed. Why do you think many greek scholars who are also pastors expand the translation fo the text? Because in order to OCMPLETELY and PROPERLY interpret the greek bible to english, the NT itself would be almost twice as big. Because it would take that many words.
You claim I am limiting God and then go on to say God is limited to the original languages since a word for word translation to English is not possible for our God. Our God can speak English and have His holy word translated into English as He has chosen in the KJV. A word for word translation? Maybe not, but even in the originals we have translations from one language to another, not a word for word. I'm ok with that. Are you?
I was saved through a rock opera written by a nonbeliever. (Jesus Christ Superstar.)
Go figure.
Go figure.
Funny, but I see they are coming out with a new version of that... a movie, I think. I'm looking forward to it. Although, without Helen Reddy, it might be lacking.... we'll see.
It's really a great rock opera, as long as you don't expect it to be Biblically accurate.
edit.... my mistake... it will be live on stage, not a movie.
