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To: tiredofallofit
Dumbest justification for the King James Bible is that "it's the proper translation for the English speaking people".

Oh yeah? Well, WHICH English speaking people?

Language changes and evolves constantly. It's one of the least static aspects of human life. In a few brief decades even, it evolves drastically. If I asked someone to "burn a CD" thirty years ago, they would look quizzically at me, wondering why the hell would I want to throw a certificate of deposit into the incinerator.

English isn't the same thing that it was a hundred years ago, much less four hundred.

15 posted on 01/27/2018 7:10:14 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Liberalism, as with all else evil, can never create. It can only corrupt.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain
Well, WHICH English speaking people?

Good point. That translation came out at roughly the same time Shakespeare was writing plays, and those English-speaking people spoke much differently from us in modern times, obviously.

149 posted on 01/28/2018 8:14:29 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (DACAs: badly spoiled housepets who aren't housebroken)
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