This is my Bible Version of choice.
Posted on 11/28/2017 10:06:27 AM PST by fishtank
Sam Gipp has recorded a very nicely done video that is simply filled with errors--errors historical, errors logical, errors factual, errors biblical. Let's begin the process of setting the record straight.
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A new “ism”? Guess we don’t have enough.
English is like any language: it changes and evolves over time. And it's unreasonable to insist that 21st century Christians acquiesce to the grammar and vocabulary of 1611.
Amen.
But I’d say it’s not a “theology”,
it’s simply a mistake.
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I have had more than one Fundie gag when I reminded them that the KJV was written for the Church of England...
Jesus said “Thee” and “Thou” all the time. In second grade, I saw the movie in Bible School - it’s proof. :)
For poetry of words you can’t beat the KJV - for study purposes I like the NIV.
I like the KJV. Very close to original Greek (yeah, there are different Greeks). Easier to memorize. Not much ‘interpretation’ by the translators, like in other ‘modern’ versions.
But I am reading in NKJV. A little different slant on some of the old english words. Makes me stop and rethink old, familiar verses.
Now, the KJV only:
Humans want security and finality.
Humans want hard and fast rules. I think this is one reason for the rise of islam in the US, prisons, etc. (Compounded by the fact that many of our civil and criminal laws are capriciously enforced, if at all.)
So, KJV ONLY! emerges as a human attempt at security, etc.
But God gave humans a set of rules, and said here you go, but I know you can’t keep them (you just don’t know that yet). So Jesus came to keep the rules, and die for us.
Humans don’t want to live by The Spirit, moment by moment, listening for God - it upsets their secure set of rules, and their own plans.
I have said that it would be easier to triple tithe than to listen to God on when and how to give. ‘Obedience is better than Sacrifice.’
And The Spirit can speak through other translations (or through an ass). It depends on the listener seeking God.
I love the KJV! It’s the version I memorized verses from as a boy, it’s the version I used in Sword Drill, it’s the version my pastor preaches from. Part of why I still love it is the regal language. The Lord’s Prayer and many other passages don’t sound quite right in any other version. I also love that it is a connection to my ancestors because I know it’s the version my grandparents used. And it’s also the version my great-grandafather preached from. I have my great-great-great grandmother’s KJV that dates to the 1820’s.
All that said, KJV onlyism is poison grounded in so much ignorance. There is a dangerous mindset that usually accompanies it. However, a lot of well-meaning laymen simply don’t know any better. They cling to it because of their spiritual leaders.
I have primarily used the ESV for study and when I teach or preach, but last week I bought an NASB. It’s the nicest Bible I’ve ever owned. It’s an R.L. Allan NASB with a goatskin cover.
Kj only? What will people in Germany or France read? Chinese Christians are so bereft of opportunity.
Thanks!!!
You said:
“All that said, KJV onlyism is poison grounded in so much ignorance. There is a dangerous mindset that usually accompanies it. However, a lot of well-meaning laymen simply don’t know any better. They cling to it because of their spiritual leaders.
I have primarily used the ESV for study and when I teach or preach, but last week I bought an NASB. It’s the nicest Bible I’ve ever owned. It’s an R.L. Allan NASB with a goatskin cover.”
It’s not bad for a 48-man English Catholic translation, Apocrypha included, but we wouldn’t touch it now with a 20-foot pole, dry oak, because of it’s lack of safeguards against denominational bias.
Besides, I want a Bible just like the Apostle Peter used! Of course, I can’t read my 1611 version because it’s in middle English, like Chaucer. So, like most people, I have to use the 1769 revision in modern English.
Or that the grammar and vocabulary of 1611 was that of 33 AD.
Obviously the Germans and French need to have translations made from the King James Bible (not from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek).
No doubt, but the Bible in English led to an explosion of sects, and oppression of them.
I thought it was written in the US Constitution (KJV).
Right? And a mandarin translation from kjv.
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