despite his conceiving the Divine Right of Kings, James I(VI) was not God.
JAMES I
(1603-1625)
Rudyard Kipling
THE child of Mary Queen of Scots,
A shifty mother's shiftless son,
Bred up among intrigues and plots,
Learned in all things, wise in none.
Ungainly, babbling, wasteful, weak,
Shrewd, clever, cowardly, pedantic,
The sight of steel would blanch his cheek,
The smell of baccy drive him frantic.
He was the author of his line—
He wrote that witches should be burnt;
He wrote that monarchs were divine,
And left a son who—proved they weren't!
And he was also a miserable "gay". (not that there's anything wrong with that)
That charge was completely refuted about 10 years ago in a book aptly entitled "King James Defended." I don't remember the author's name.
First, that is an unproven rumor.
Second, it is irrevelant since he had nothing to do with the actual translation.
Third, we know for a fact at least two homosexuals were involved in the translation of the NIV.