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But an 1828 Websters dictionary is enough to clarify archaic words

When I was first saved almost ten years ago and delivered from king budweiser I was going to church and bible studies almost daily. I could not learn enough. I ran into a lot of false teachings that my spirit told me were wrong.

Then I ran into a old buddy who use to be in prison. He took me to a independant baptist church. I was grounded with IMO the truth about Gods Word. I got a 1828 Daniel Webster and I love seeing how the liberal media has perverted the english language. I pull it out all the time to get the real meaning of words. This is a great thread.

KJV isn't really at all hard to understand and the key doctrinal passages can be read by any child. And the language is so well-constructed it really is an aid to memorization. I always tend to suspect that people who claim that they can't read the KJV don't read any Bible at all, no matter how dumbed down it is. The modern versions are a lot more about publisher's profits and modernist revisionists trying to erode the traditional Bible content.

I kind of hate to even mention it but I have a KJV Bible program (called Bible Thumper) on my Palm PDA and it has the entire 1828 Websters built in (and Scofield commentary and Matthew Henry and John Gill and Geneva, Strong's numbers and Greek and Hebrew lexicons and several more). I can just tap any suspect word and instantly jump to the definition from the 1828 Websters.

Talk about an addictive tiny little Bible study tool, about the size of a small pocket calendar and a half-inch thick! I really neglect all my printed books after getting this thing. With my 256 meg expansion module, I'm planning to install a full version of Calvin's Commentaries along with his Institutes (already got them) and a ton of old-time Baptist writings I've already got (History of the English Baptists and the popular 64 volumes of Spurgeon's best sermons and Spurgeon's daily devotional Morning And Evening and some of the historic Baptist writings).

So easy to haul all this anywhere. Like to bed for late-night reading.

Egads. I'm totally hooked on this little thing! And I've been noticing increasing numbers of Baptists (especially Calvinistic Baptists) who are hooked on 'em too.