You have an intereseing posting history. Where have you been for the last 2 1/2 years.
You came out of retirement just yesterday, and now you attack the motive of another Freeper. I wonder what your other screen name is?
I can’t believe how many sleepers aseem to be defenders of Mormonism.
How am I defending Mormonism???
I can only assume now, that my guess as to you having prior problems with the freeper who posted this article, were correct. You may wish to see my questioning of your motives as "an attack", as you put it, if you like, but please, it is much simpler to try and take things at face value, if at all possible. It was only a question.
Since I myself was not able to see the rational sense behind your own comments, I was forced to guess at your motives. So to clarify, I asked.
Sorry about that...but you have now fairly well confirmed that your problem is not with the article per se, but with whom posted it. Or with Mormonism? Ok...
Guessing further, I'll just go ahead and assume that poster is a Mormon? And you, most likely, are not.
What the heck does Joseph Smith have to do with the formation and compilation of the King James, anyway?
I really like the "Authorized" version, myself. I see in the article, it was updated in the 1760's (replacing some of the archaic spellings). I'd forgotten that detail.
Overall, I think the men whom worked to bring us the King James, did a fabulous job, one of which we may all be thankful, and grateful for.
Might we find some agreement on that point?
I really enjoyed the article, too. That doesn't make me, or equate with myself becoming a "defender of Mormonism", in the very least. Except perhaps from some sort of perspective, which lumps all whom claim to recognize this Hebrew Messiah, known to many as Jesus Christ, all into one basket.
If such a basket were to exist, it might be reasonably argued, that it contain many differing sects and denominations. Even Mormons? How about Coptics? How about home churches in China, many of which carry a Pentecostal flavor? Are they rubbing elbows with Greek Orthodox, and Roman Catholics, too?
I guess it depends on just who is gathering what, into which baskets!