"How hypocritical and sordid of the church authorities relentlessly to suppress the KJV, only to take it out and gawp at it in an anniversary year, as if it were a museum piece and we were all blundering tourists. The proper place for the KJV is on the lectern in every parish church – to be read, marked, learnt and inwardly digested, week in, week out."
Thank you for posting!
The KJV is what many people were raised on, then they switched to modern versions. When many people pray, they revert to the 16th century English language as it is considered a religious language.
I pointed out in another thread that in the movie THE BIBLE, filmed in ROME, they speak KJV English, and in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA an imman quotes koranic verses in 16th century English.
And you have Strong’s and Young’s Hebrew and Greek concordances to clear up any KJV language issues.
The King James Bible is one of the greatest accomplishments of the British empire.
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I Was saved by the words of John as interpreted by the NIV... But as I have grown in faith, it is the KJV which shows me more meat than milk.
I presume the author is aware the bible was originally in Hebrew, Greek, with a little in Aramaic....but the tone of his article implies he thought it written in the Kings English (or Latin at least).
Peter Mullen: THANK YOU!
I couldn’t get the article to come up at first and just read the entire article. Excellent. Many good examples of foolish translation.
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Mullen needs to tip a pint and cool his fevered mind.
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I grew up learning verses in the KJV. The poetic style is more appealing and easier to remember. I read the Amplified version for study purposes. I pray for guidance no matter what version I read. I’ve seen some awful versions with incredibly misleading interpretations.
It’s a rare Englishman today who’s genuinely proud of England, even more rare its culture.
Excellent.
The King of English translations indeed!
So true. And it’s no accident that the KJV is being thrown aside. Satan has been doing that to The Word Of God since Eden.
The lie in the assertion that modern versions are more readable is the implication that the King James Bible is less readable. That just isn’t true. Linguistic tests have been conducted on both versions and people had more understanding of the King James Version and were better able to memorize passages from it.
Just as ridiculous as the coined “If the King James Version was good enough for the Apostle Paul, it’s good enough for me.”
Like Harley Davidson and their push rod engines.
It should be noted that the KJV is essentially the 4th Edition of the Tyndale Bible. Over 85% of the KJV is taken verbatim from John Tyndale’s translation.
While a majestic work worth great respect, it loses it’s relevance to an audience suffering a multiple-century language gap. To use a more accessible work to expose Scripture to children hardly constitutes “child abuse”. To condemn the translation’s deprication is to condemn the translation itself, as the KJV is but a poor translation of the original rendering as God saw fit.