Posted on 05/25/2006 7:14:13 PM PDT by Full Court
The lessons that result in closer relationship with God certainly are what matter. And, He has used cowboy's mangling Scripture six ways to Sunday to bring folks into the fold.
No one who accuses me of being a jack ass can be wrong for long.
nuff said
I don't have the slightest reason to consider you such a creature.
Besides, there are far too many better examples hereon.
And sometimes they seem to peer at me from my mirror.
Qx on JM's comp
Gads! your's too! You are bringing back MEMORIES!
LOL
Fans fanning overhead. We didn't have air conditioning in the church in those days. You know, church looks totally different when you lay down and look at the ceiling fans and such.
And after church, either go home with a friend until the 6 PM service, or have one come home with you.
I remember such days, too. Though, no friends to go home with or come home with me. Small church. None my age. But we would often invite whole families home anyway.
That was the other alternative, but we usually did that after Sunday evening or Wednesday evening services. Kids playing outside. Dads playing 42. Moms visiting.
Thought I might be able to reply on my computer but it's all hung up still.
We had supper at the chuch on Wed night.
The KJV has opened up for them the treasuries of the English classics.
Those who would transform nations take steps to cut the people off from their heritage. Ataturk's alphabet and language reforms separated the Turkish people from a millenium-spanning archive. Mao's simplified script put the Chinese classics out of reach. In 1941, Roosevelt's "cultural lobotomy" (calling in the pre-cast lead printing plates, to melt them down "for bullets") destroyed an entire American popular literature, undermining the culture that supported it.
The "KJV Onlyists" seem to have made an idol of a translation, which is definitely going over the top. However, there are pragmatic reasons for steeping your children in this version.
I would guess most extreme advocates of the KJV (not that you're one) have no idea why "you" is used at times and "thou" at other times or why that might have huge implications if they stepped away from our culture's hyper-individualistic framework. It's interesting that such extreme views of the KJV often do not include the ability to actually understand it.
By the way, Tennessee Ernie Ford rocks.
I'm not a flat earth advocate who thinks the Bible was written in Olde English. I just like the KJV because that's what I learned.
I have a couple of his CDs of his greatest spiritual hits.
Very soothing.
The same kind of weakling who considers "alot" and "alright" to be words, and would conflate "amuse" and "bemuse."
Don't even get me started on grammar and spelling. I could go on for DAYS.
"Yearling" has been replaced with "fatling"?
What the hell is a fatling?
Remember that awful '70s Bible called "The Word" or "The Way" or similar? Now that was BAD.
Its cover said THE WORD (or possibly THE WAY) in white outline, and inside the letters were pictures of happy smiling hippies.
Ugh. That slangy piece of trash put me off Bibles for almost a decade.
Well said. It's to be honored, not worshipped.
Don't get me started on Jesus Christ Superstar.
A few good songs. A really sucky play.
I understand that. When you mentioned "thee", etc., it triggered one of my hobby horses.
Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum, si þin nama gehalgod. To becume þin rice, gewurþe ðin willa, on eorðan swa swa on heofonum. Urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg, and forgyf us ure gyltas, swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum. And ne gelæd þu us on costnunge, ac alys us of yfele. Soþlice. Matthew 6:9-13, Old English Version, 990 A.D.
This is the TRUE Bible before the King James gang corrupted it. :)
Do you know how funny it is that it took a computer to show all who have been struggling with the KJB that it is actually easier for them to read?
What do the computers say about sprinkling vs dunking?
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