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The fact is there is no perfect English text. It’s impossible because of the flaws of the English language

even if we admit the KJV is the best translation or closest, it still has flaws and is still not a perfect translation

What other versions are attacked because they are "too difficult" to read?

Updated words change the true meanings of Scripture. Words, plural, are important to God.

What does that have to do with my question to KJV1611?

To answer your question, there is no issue, because any reader with at least a moderate degree of intelligence is going to understand the distinction presented by the word, "only"... and all the more if they have read Genesis 22.

Ok, but Jesus specifically said his words are spirit, whose spirit are they if they aren't his?

Joh 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Which versions are ATTACKED at all, because they are too difficult to read?

NONE.

You just have a chip on your shoulder such that you read any criticism of the KJV as an "attack", but you blithely "attack" other translations freely.

For that very reason I differentiated previously, that I feel reverence for the message, but its text I see as an object. A word apple points at an apple but can't be eaten. Jesus says words "the truth shall set you free" but it's just an object, unless the message is taken up. You yourself would have no problem burning a KJV Bible if it meant saving someone from freezing to death (hypothetically, if it was the only thing possible to start the fire). Because you'd not be burning the message of the Bible, but an object out of necessity (and because of reverence for the message, that'd be the last resort for any one of us).

Um... clearly you didn't read what I wrote, but glossed over it.

As to post 824:
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Matthew 9:17 - NASB / wineskins - KJV / bottles
Matthew 1:11 - NASB / deportation - KJV / carried away
Luke 6:22 - NASB / ostracize - KJV / separate you from their company
1 Thes. 2:18 - NASB / thwarted - KJV / hindered
1 Tim. 3:3 - NASB / pugnacious - KJV / striker
1 Tim. 3:8 - NASB / sordid - KJV / filthy
1 Tim. 6:16 - NASB / a pang - KJV / sorrows
Hebrews 7:2 - NASB / apportioned - KJV / gave
Hebrews 12:1 - NASB / encumbrance - KJV / weight
Revelation 6:8 - NASB / ashen - KJV / pale
Revelation 18:1 - NASB / illumined - KJV / lightened

EVERY SINGLE ONE of the words you highlighted from the NASB is in my everyday vocabulary.

Whereas...
- "bottles" is misleading, because the KJV word does not refer to glass containers;
- "separate you from their company" is verbose;
- "striker" is misleading as it's not in current usage in that sense;
- "gave" is less precise than "apportioned";
- "weight" in that context is inferior to "encumbrance" which encompasses a wider range of possible causes;
- "lightened" is misleading because the term today means "made less heavy".

You have no argument... as usual.

You can't see the spirit of Christ, his perfection, his personality, his mannerisms, his sense of humor and the way he relates to us in the scripture?

Every cult out there has that "warm fuzzy" Jesus feeling in them.... That's not the real Jesus.

No... just, no.

In five years on this site I have never seen anyone start a thread or post an argument singling "out the KJV because there are some ... that (sic) actually believe it is God's holy word preserved in English."

In twenty years of learning about the issue, I have never come across anyone doing that.

Not even once.

That's just the massive chip on your shoulder whining again.

Are you accusing me of being a cultist, being guided by feelings, or not seeing His character when I read the Bible? That's quite a misrepresentation of what I said.

I can, and I don't need the KJV to do so.

I didn't accuse you of anything, I asked if you could see those things I mentioned. And I distinguished between the real Jesus in the bible from what some people call Jesus, not you, CULTS. None of that was an accusation against you.

Of course, I am able to discern the character of Jesus from the Bible.

Where do you see God not being able to preserve his word WITHOUT ERROR in the character of Jesus.

Where do you see anything to do with Jesus in a state of disarray or loss or decay.... none of those things line up with the character and personality of Jesus.

Heb_4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Why does the bible say the bible is alive if it's not truly alive?

What other version has a cult that says theirs is the only inspired version?

I'm a big fan of the Good News Bible, simply because its plain speaking. Otherwise I will go for the NIV when studying or occasionally the Amplified because one of my favourite preachers Joyce Meyer uses it.

LOL cat Bible is difficult to read
so is the Chinese Bible as I havent learned all the characters
Da Jesus Bible in pidgin might be easier

I cant make head or tale of NASB and the Message just makes me laugh.

I'm sorry that you see such things in the KJV. Maybe it's time to switch to a better translation.