Thanks Elsie...you have made my point, better than I could have...what I notice that it is the KJV of the Bible that uses the word 'unicorn'...all the other Bibles use a different word, wild-ox or wild-oxen..
Now, I have had some folks tell me, that the really only acceptable translation of the Bible, is the KJV, and they also have told me, that when the KJV Bible was put together, those men were under the direct divine inspiration, and that every word, every phrase, even every comma, and period, and every point of punctuation was put there under direct divine inspiration...meaning that nothing in the KJV could be mistakenly translated..that every word means exactly what it says...
So, if one adheres to the notion, that the KJV is the only
Bible that is acceptable for study, and if one further goes on to state the the KJV is absolutely correct in every word, phrase and punctuation, and that everything must be read literally as is, then how does on explain the 'unicorns'...
This seems to come down to saying, that 'unicorns' are for real, that they really do/did exist, because after all the KJV of the Bible, could not be mistaken, and the word should stand for what it is...and I have heard people argue for this very fact...I have not heard this on FR, but there are many other websites on the net, and some dedicated to strict adherence to the KJV and to the literal translation of every word, and on one of those sites, there really was a discussion, with people saying that 'unicorns' really did exist because the KJV Bible says so...
Well, then, either the KJV translators were mistaken when using the word unicorn, or unicorns really did exist...I guess it all depends on how one wants to look at this....and how important is it, that one insist on using only the KJV?
Your post shows this, quite well...so thanks...
If put aside nearly 10,000 conflicting-bickering-sometimes hostile sects of christianity in the USA alone (more elsewhere with many conflicting sects in Judaism and Mohammedism) and putting aside the false translations, redacted translations, conflicting accounts, outright historical inaccuracies, constant bickering over canon in both old testaments-intererum year texts-and new tesatments--put that aside for a moment: Think about the animals translated from the "unknown" Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin words (some sects reject the Latin because its Catholic while others reject the Hebrew because its Jewish) for the mysterious Leviathan (fire breathing and non fire breathing no less), the fiery serpant of Moses, the absurd detailed breeding habits of the ostrich, the use of the term Orion's Belt in Job (a book attributed to the time of Abraham by many "scholars") when Orion was a diety in a much later foreign religion, the sea serpant that kills sinners in the deepest depths of the sea, the four legged birds, dragons, whales that swallow humans, snakes on Malta, poisonous snakes found on Malta, the catch-all "creaping things" described by an all-knowing God, the famous fowl called a bat, earthquakes from sin that shake the world out of its foundations, firmaments miles away not light years, the physics of 100 lb hailstones hitting the earth in such mass quantities that are reserved in a vault in heaven (with survivors no less in an unaffected atmosphere), the mythos of a flat earth, stars following wise men, mustard herbs becoming trees strong enough to hold birds nests, mustard seeds claimed as the smallest seed, and of course the moon giving light before the sun is made days AFTER plants grow on the earth...it's utterly fascinating. And it's the real truth.
Mom, this is the true ID science of creation. Do not argue. Do not think. Accept. And become ye holy as God is holy. For God lies not nor cannot lie but gives strong lies to those that deny His truth.
BTW, funny thng about grammar and punctuation marks...
All texts were devoid of such things prior to Medievel literature. Since the Bible was reportedly written several thousand years ago, it would be wise for people to think about the curse God's servants put on the Bible that says:
Whoever takes away anything from the Bible their names will be removed from "The Book of Life" and anyone that adds anything to the Bible will receive the additional plagues reserved for really really bad people like Gog, Magog, and those poor Amalakites that God judged long ago will never be given mercy even though He also said He delays His coming that all may be given mercy and saved.
Just a FYI on grammar and another lesson in godly wisdom that is far superior than logic and our limited reasoning abilities.
Yup, them KJV only folks have made an IDOL out of the translation.
It should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of sense that the ONLY way to understand 'scripture' is to read it in the ORIGINAL language!
(Pity the poor Spainard, Frank, German, Italian, Korean or Hindu that cannot read the ENGLISH language KJV!)
I'm sure glad there are many folks who HAVE desired to know the facts from the original languages.
Even more, the one's of that group who want to let the REST of us in on what they mean by giving us (no doubt to the best of their abilities) what the old languages are saying, but putting it into something I can understand.
(Listen in to a bunch of our teenagers talking amongst themselves some time. WE need an 'interpreter' for that!! ;^)