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The KJ Bible is the only English language Bible I trust through and through.
Its majestic cadences are easy to memorize and exude the authority you would expect from the Word of God.
There are more reasons.
Yes, the good old days when we were an optimistic country who felt that we could accomplish anything. When our space program existed to push the frontiers of space rather than to show muslims that they contributed something.
I know I'm off topic here but I'm so tired of our "managed decline". I wish we could go back to the time when our country was forward looking and our President was proud of the nation and people he governed.
From the Nat Geo Mag:
Apple of your eye...
old as the hills...
at death’s door...
at your wits end...
bite the dust...
haves and have nots...
buttering up...
scum of the earth...
skin of one’s teeth...
etc., etc.,
All from the KJV
I usually quote from the King James Bible, with Apocrypha, even though I’m a Catholic. It has been by far the most-used and most-quoted Bible in the English speaking world.
There are a few minor problems with the translation, but nothing serious. And nothing like the problems with the modern, politically correct translations, which are far less accurate and stunningly ugly in style.
When I taught the Bible as literature, I used the Revised Standard Version, based on the KJV but slightly modernized. But that has been replaced by the New RSV, which is a major step backward into political correctness and stupidity. So I find myself continuing to go back to the KJV.
For your info, there was a digitally remastered replica of the 1611 bible available at Wal-Mart (and likely other stores) recently. I picked up a copy and, as I recall, it was just under $10.00. They probably still have them. Its Gothic print is difficult to read but I enjoy making the effort.
The claims by contemporary translations to be based on superior critical apparatuses are mostly based on how early a given text is. The claim that the oldest manuscript is also the most accurate is just that, a claim. Prove it.
The claim that the language of the KJV is so archaic that people today cannot make heads nor tails of it is more often than not a self fulfilling prophecy.
An interesting thing about language is that there must be about a gazillion ways to say the same thing, which gives rise to to old adage that it “aint so much what you say as how you say it”. In my very humble opinion, the KJV translators have said things very well indeed.
The purpose of the King James Bible, which is based on the Wycliff Bible, was to present the Scriptures to the people in a language they understand. That is why it is written in 16th Century English.
This isn’t the 16th Century and we do not speak Middle English in everyday discourse. To insist on the sole use of the KJV in public worship runs against the very ideal that lead to the KJV in the first place. As Article XXIV says “It is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God, and the custom of the Primitive Church to have public Prayer in the Church, or to minister the Sacraments, in a tongue not understanded of the people.”
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The KJV is the only Bible I trust...
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