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To: Shanty Shaker
"The Amish have the Apocrypha in their Bible. "

No, they don't. They use the King James ver. for one.

22 posted on 07/11/2010 12:45:20 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets

The Amish use German. One of the requirements after being chosen an elder is to know or be willing to learn to handle “book German” rather than dialect Pennsylvania German.

Last I checked, the KJV is an English translation.

Now maybe you are referring to some Amish offshoot that has adopted English. But the Amish as a whole still function as a German-speaking community.

Besides, the deutero-canonicals were often printed with early Protestant English translations. Anglicans never accepted your restricted Jewish canon.

The ten reasons given here are all half-truths, as others have pointed out, one-by-one.

Half-truths are the stock-in-trade of propagandists who know they can’t argue their case straightforwardly.


27 posted on 07/11/2010 1:06:42 PM PDT by Houghton M.
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To: spunkets

The Amish do not use the KJV as their standard. And the KJV does have the deuterocanon. Editions of the KJV without the original KJV deuterocanon are abridged editions.


34 posted on 07/11/2010 2:40:23 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: spunkets

You wrote:

“No, they don’t. They use the King James ver. for one.”

The Amish use a German language Bible actually. I am sure some of them have the KJV as well, but the Bible they use in services is some sort of German translation. German is used exclusively when they gather to pray or read scripture. This is why many Amish struggle to pray in English - they’ve never done it before.


41 posted on 07/11/2010 5:23:55 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: spunkets; Shanty Shaker

Old Order Amish do use the Apocrypha.
New Order do not.


63 posted on 07/11/2010 7:40:32 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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