DiscipleDave; ]Are you saying then that thousands of people who did read it and trust it, were wrong to do so?
Do you believe we are in the last days?
Does the generation that live in the last days going to produce BETTER and more accurate Bible Translations? or is it more likely that the generation of the last day people are going to interpret it in such a way that will be beneficial to those living in the last days?
Doesn't Jesus describe the people in the last days? And this generation we are going to trust with NEW interpretations of the Bible.
Which is more likely to be the one you pick.
1) a translation that was not interpreted by the last days generation or
2) a translation that came out of the last days generation?
So my question is , if you do not trust the KJV which has been around for over 400 years, but instead would trust versions that come out of this last days generation. Are you then saying that all those who did read the KJV and trusted in it for their Salvation, and Truly believed it was the Word of God, were wrong to read it and trust it?
which brings me to another question: If those prior to 1970, who did indeed read and trust the KJV Bible, were wrong to do so, were they truly Saved or not?
my point is, if they (those prior to 1970 who did trust the KJV) were Saved because of the KJV, what has changed? Could i not read and Trust the KJV just as they did prior to 1970 and still go to Heaven just as all those who read and trusted the KJV will also go to Heaven.
If then they, who trusted the KJV, were Truly Saved because they read it and trusted it, can't you also read it and trust it and be Saved even as they were, or do you believe they were not Truly Saved because they trusted the KJV which was not to be trusted?
Prior to 1970 the KJV was and without doubt considered the Word of God, but somehow people changed it, the KJV somehow was demoted, was no longer considered the Word of God as it was before. Might this be because the last days generation stepped in, and decided the KJV was in need of improvement, based solely on what man believed to be the Truth, based on man's interpretation of the Word of God.
To me it is ironic. Scriptures over and over again put down those who are learned, yet these are the very people that we (the last days generation) listen to fullheartedly. It is the learned who came up with the new translations, the LEARNED, who we (according to Scriptures) are to be weary of. To me that is ironic indeed.
Do you believe we are in the last days?
Does the generation that live in the last days going to produce BETTER and more accurate Bible Translations? or is it more likely that the generation of the last day people are going to interpret it in such a way that will be beneficial to those living in the last days?
Doesn't Jesus describe the people in the last days? And this generation we are going to trust with NEW interpretations of the Bible.
Which is more likely to be the one you pick.
1) a translation that was not interpreted by the last days generation or
2) a translation that came out of the last days generation?
So my question is , if you do not trust the KJV which has been around for over 400 years, but instead would trust versions that come out of this last days generation. Are you then saying that all those who did read the KJV and trusted in it for their Salvation, and Truly believed it was the Word of God, were wrong to read it and trust it?
which brings me to another question: If those prior to 1970, who did indeed read and trust the KJV Bible, were wrong to do so, were they truly Saved or not?
my point is, if they (those prior to 1970 who did trust the KJV) were Saved because of the KJV, what has changed? Could i not read and Trust the KJV just as they did prior to 1970 and still go to Heaven just as all those who read and trusted the KJV will also go to Heaven.
If then they, who trusted the KJV, were Truly Saved because they read it and trusted it, can't you also read it and trust it and be Saved even as they were, or do you believe they were not Truly Saved because they trusted the KJV which was not to be trusted?
Prior to 1970 the KJV was and without doubt considered the Word of God, but somehow people changed it, the KJV somehow was demoted, was no longer considered the Word of God as it was before. Might this be because the last days generation stepped in, and decided the KJV was in need of improvement, based solely on what man believed to be the Truth, based on man's interpretation of the Word of God.
To me it is ironic. Scriptures over and over again put down those who are learned, yet these are the very people that we (the last days generation) listen to fullheartedly. It is the learned who came up with the new translations, the LEARNED, who we (according to Scriptures) are to be weary of. To me that is ironic indeed.
At the same time that I would not read the KJV, now, or think the Lord wants me to, I think God gave it to the times it was for and it was used by God for a blessing. Even though God tells us over and over not to persecute the Jews, and lets us know to let Him take care of the problems they have with not understanding, and that Christ and the Father are one, many to this day do not hear God tell them that. No gentile could read those scriptures with understanding in the 15th, 16th, 17th, or 18th centuries. Since the Holocaust people can read those scriptures. Now they need a translation that does not need to be careful of anything it says about Jews or their life, but report just exactly as it was originally written. We have those translations.
I think we have to walk carefully with our Lord, now more than ever being we are in the last days. It is true there are so many ideas that say they are from God and don’t follow scripture. But I think we have truly Godly men, and truly Godly translations of the bible. The KJV had a fault that was corrected. I read the best corrected ones I can find, not the KJV.