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https://www.jesus-is-lord.com/pref1611.htm Is a link to the "preface" of the 1611 KJV. It WAS included in every KJV for quite awhile. It IS pretty "lengthy", which is why I didn't copy and paste it. In a nutshell, the writers WARNED the reader/s, that in FACT, they are just men, COMMISSIONED by "King Jimmy" (lol.that got me). to provide an ENGLISH version from whatever texts they could get their hands on. In a truly humble fashion, (ya just hafta read it to "catch" the actual sincerity that takes many words to explain) they willfully and SELFLESSLY admit their shortcomings.
That being said, in the earlier days of this country, yes folks, there WAS an America BEFORE the "information super hi-way sensory overload" (although us folks who DO understand this, are becoming fewer and further between, and, when we are not "shouted down"), a "time" when America was more rural, and, an archaic occupation known as the "Circut Preacher", was more the norm, then the exception. the KJV (with the preface btw), was the ONLY Bible available. Depending on the size/length of the circut, it might've taken 4-6 weeks to cycle. Of course the "community" would hold services in betrweenst "rounds", if a particular church were in "town". Further out on the "prairie", however, a "country" church may not even be opened until the Preacher came around. Depending on the time of year (spring planting, fall harvesting), he might even skip a round, er 2....ESPECIALLY in the winter. Trying to give a "feel" for what it was like then, and I imagine, there are situations like this even today. Although with technology, and corporate farming, even these, are becoming "relics" of the past.
Be it over "ambered waves of grain", or "down on the bayou", or "up in the hollers", t'was the same. Given the circumstances as they were, it isn't a very hard stretch of one's imagination as just HOW these "fire n brimstoners" could SAY that concerning the KJV! Although, in MOST cases, "THAT" wasn't what C.P. MEANT! But, "that" was the way it was interpreted, by the hearer. Now, carry this forward to a child, who "heard the call", and wanted to "Go to Moody", or some other Bible college (geographically speaking, of course). This is the HOW it became an "doctrinal" issue.
Not sorry if this seems a rather long post. But, rather, SADDENED that technology is turning us into attention deficited, INSTANT gratificationists!
