Free Republic

LESSON SEVEN: The Authorized Version Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? (Ecc. 8:4) LESSON INDEX The Authorized King James Version is the word of the King. It not only contains the name of the monarch who ruled England in 1611, but it speaks with royal majesty proclaiming the words of the King of Kings. No translation of the Bible has had a greater impact on the English-speaking people as has the KJV. This is not opinion, but fact. In literature, it stands immortal with the writings of...

LESSON SIX: German, Spanish, and Early English Versions The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. (Psalm 68:11) LESSON INDEX It has been argued that if the KJV is the word of God, what about the time before 1611? Were believers who spoke English without the preserved word of God until the KJV was published? Is the word of God limited only to the English-speaking people? Such argumentation is clearly either a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the views of Bible believers who hold to the KJV as the preserved word of God for the...

LESSON FIVE: The Traditional Text Line For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. (1 Thess. 2:13) LESSON INDEX INSPIRATION AND PRESERVATION The Biblical approach to textual criticism stands in direct contrast to the concepts and theories of modern textual scholars and their accepted texts and translations. While textual evidence and studies is by no means to be ignored,...

LESSON 2 Comparing Translational Differences ''Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?'' (1 Cor. 5:6). The claim is often made that contemporary versions of the Bible and the traditional King James Version (KJV) differ only in that the modern versions update the archaic language found in the KJV. All one need do to verify this point is ask the average layperson who uses a current version why they use it. The common response will be that the King James is hard to understand and the modern version uses today's language. There are those who are more...