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To: allen 47; All
I find your allegations enormously askew at best.

Satan has absolutely no part in my criticisms of the use of the KJV.

I still personally love the KJV. And often when I use the search engines at Biblegateway--I have to start out with the KJV because that's how I remember the verses.

But I have learned the hard way that with younger people and with ESL Chinese students, using the KJV is NONSENSE. And it is insensitive, unloving, unChristian, arrogant, counter productive, prissy, sanctimonious and a lot of other silly things for me to use it when relating to such people.

The KJV IS *NOT* THE HOLY OF HOLIES of Bible Translations. It has at least as many flaws as the better modern translations.

Personally, I have found that psychology and personality variables have a lot more to do with KJV idolatry than does Biblical scholarship.

The modern Bibles are lacking in substance and should not be considered by a serious student of God's Word.

I consider that an extremely parochial falsehood.

I also consider it an insult to God's care and capacity and practical effectiveness to guard HIS WORD through all the centuries and all the translations.

Every quality modern translation has many qualities of substance to offer to individuals and the Body of Christ--as do healthy Biblical congregations which are different. The nuances enrich the different translations and different groups. And sometimes the nuance can point most powerfully to things of great substance.

In any case, the KJV translators had their own biases and cultural sets which contaminated the KJV just as you accuse modern translators of doing with the modern translations. Myopic blindness to that is not admirable, to me.

59 posted on 08/05/2004 9:20:33 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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