No as everyone knows I am not a KJV Only teacher or advocate, however I feel that some of the attacks in some web sites against the KJV have really crossed the line.
Yes the KJV can be criticized for certain things, but some of the accusations are really uncalled for.
The first thing I want to defend the KJV is from the association with King James.
King James was not a saint, he had plenty of faults but whatever faults he had, they have absolutely nothing to do with the character of the KJV Bible.
King James was not a translator, so he had no input in the actual translation of the KJV, all he did was to commission it and to pay the translators.
He did intruded upon the translators by giving them some guidelines for the translations, which in my opinion should have been free to translate freely. Those guidelines were to keep the translators from straying too far out from the conventional doctrines of the times or from doctrines that King James might disapprove of.
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I personally believed the KJV translators are much like translators today. They each had their own personal beliefs and views that was formed by culture and popular religion at that time. I honestly believe they did their best to translate exactly from the texts (just like today).
I personally believe the Lord has had a hand in preserving His word. The scriptures hard to understand aren't merely because of the JKV English. They where probably the hard scriptures of their day also. The translators probably didn't understand the meaning of some of the texts themselves, but they just went on and translated them (imo). The problem with many of the translations of today is for clarity they go further than translating, but they interpret. I don't want to rely on someone else's interpretation, but through study I want to from my on conclusions.
I don't personally think there is error in the KJV, but only misunderstandings. I believe that the essential message is there and unaffected. I have heard of people being converted to Christianity through the mormon bible and the koran. God has influence far beyond what we know and understand so I trust Him to have directed the translating of the scriptures.
I personally believed the KJV translators are much like translators today. They each had their own personal beliefs and views that was formed by culture and popular religion at that time. I honestly believe they did their best to translate exactly from the texts (just like today).
I personally believe the Lord has had a hand in preserving His word. The scriptures hard to understand aren't merely because of the JKV English. They where probably the hard scriptures of their day also. The translators probably didn't understand the meaning of some of the texts themselves, but they just went on and translated them (imo). The problem with many of the translations of today is for clarity they go further than translating, but they interpret. I don't want to rely on someone else's interpretation, but through study I want to from my on conclusions.
I don't personally think there is error in the KJV, but only misunderstandings. I believe that the essential message is there and unaffected. I have heard of people being converted to Christianity through the mormon bible and the koran. God has influence far beyond what we know and understand so I trust Him to have directed the translating of the scriptures.
Yes I agree that the translators did the best they could with what they had and with the knowledge of their age, and they did indeed created a masterpiece.
However in the next centuries after that, we have found thousands of new texts that they did no have, we also have made amazing archeological discoveries that explain much of the Bible and we have increased our knowledge of the world and linguistics.
The world did not become stuck in the year 1611 and neither should the Bible.
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I wish I were joking when I say this but I am not. A few years ago a friend told me that her redneck mother who was raised in Pentecost but was a backslider told her that "the bible was written by King James".
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
I wish I were joking when I say this but I am not. A few years ago a friend told me that her redneck mother who was raised in Pentecost but was a backslider told her that "the bible was written by King James".
I got one better, I knew a guy who told me that his Bible was written by a man named "Thomas Chain."
__________________ "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
~Declaration of Independence
I got one better, I knew a guy who told me that his Bible was written by a man named "Thomas Chain."
I used to have one of Mr. Chain's Bibles!
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
If King James was authorized to write the Bible, then the requirements must be very low.
He was shocked when I told him that King James wasn't Oneness. I told him to read the front of his Bible. He carried his Bible for many many years and never read the Epistle Dedicatory. The Translators to the Reader would blow his mind LOL. I think anyone would benefit from reading those documents.
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