Why do people cling to the King James Version of the Bible?
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Because they think it's God Sent, it has hundreds of errors, and it was not the first Bible printed in English, it just happen to have King James backing.  It's long, feel like I just wrote a novel\n.\nPeople in the English-speaking world use and accept the King James or Authorized Version than any other single Bible translation. In fact, so highly esteemed is this translation that many persons venerate it as the only true Bible. This raises some questions.\n\nDo these countless persons who use the King James Version know why, despite objections from churchmen, modern translations keep rolling off the presses? Do they know why the King James Version itself was once opposed by the people? Do they know why, despite vigorous protest and opposition, the King James Version entered into the very blood and marrow of English thought and speech? Do they know what illuminating document is probably missing from their own copies? In short, do they really know the King James Version?\n\nThe purpose of Bible translation, then, is to take these thoughts of God, originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and put them into the common languages of today. Bible translation makes God’s Book a living Book. So true Christians read the Bible, not to be entertained by clever turns of expression, unusual words, excellency of style, striking rhetorical devices or felicities of rhythm, but to learn the will of God. It was for this reason that the King James Version came into existence. That was in 1611.\nFrom almost every quarter the King James Bible met opposition. Criticism was often severe. Broughton, a Hebrew scholar of the day, wrote to King James that he “should rather be torn asunder by wild horses than allow such a version to be imposed on the church.”\n\nThe translators, not unaware that people preferred to keep what had grown familiar, knew that their work had unleashed a storm. They tried to calm the people down. They wrote a “Preface of the Translators” to explain why the King James Version was made. This preface is called by the Encyclopedia Americana “a most illuminating preface describing the aims of the translators which unhappily is omitted from the usual printings of the Bible.” Thus most Authorized Versions today, though they contain a lengthy dedication to King James, omit the preface. Its presence would clear up many misunderstandings about the purpose of the revision. The reader would learn that strong opposition was expected.\n\nThe reader would learn that the King James Version was a revision of earlier works made with a modest hope of improvement and no thought of finality, In time the clamor died down, and the King James Version prevailed over the Geneva Bible. For more than two and a half centuries no other so-called authorized translation of the Bible into English was made. Little wonder that many people began to feel that the King James Bible was the only true Bible. Like many people who once objected to any change in the Geneva Bible, many persons today object to any change in the King James Bible. They oppose modern translations perhaps as vigorously as the King James Version itself was once opposed.\n\nKing James Bible has already been changed; today no one reads the King James Version in its original form. Explaining why this is so the book The Bible in Its Ancient and English Versions says: “Almost every edition, from the very beginning, introduced corrections and unauthorized changes and additions, often adding new errors in the process. The edition of 1613 shows over three hundred differences from 1611. . . . It was in the eighteenth century, however, that the main changes were made. . . . The marginal references were checked and verified, over 30,000 new marginal references were added, the chapter summaries and running headnotes were thoroughly revised, the punctuation was altered and made uniform in accordance with modern practice, textual errors were removed, the use of capitals wa
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Reading the Bible through in different translations helps it to make more sense.  Start with Living Word, then next year, read through in the NIV translation.  In my opinion, too many of us started with the King James, and that is a difficult translation until you get to know the Bible well.\nGood luck and GOD bless, the journey through the Word is worth it.
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Why don`t you try the good ol` King James version of the Bible?It has been working for a LONG time!And it will be working when a lot of other reading material is gone and forgotten.
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I stick to my good ol King James Version.  Here's a site that really lays out the differences in bibles......\nhttp://www.av1611.org/biblevs.html
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Yes! i have read it, its very much like the Kings James version.
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Could be a different Bible version.\n\nToday people love modern Bibles rather than the KJV.\n\nWhen i was doing my Bible studies with 8 Bibles I quickly tossed the "Living Word" as being trash.  The translators took so many liberties with phrases in that one I couldn't deal with it.\n\nI have a friend who collects Bibles and she gives a lot of them away keeping only the ones she personally likes.\n\nBUT, to get to YOUR question, how can YOU say MEAN AND VIOLENT and then use a phrase like IS THIS RETARDED?\n\nIsn't that the pot calling the kettle black?\n\nAnd yes, religious people do play with words.  A sad fact of life.  That's why I don't belong to an organized religon.\n\nThe sad fact of life is these people tell you how to live your life and they go home, get drunk, beat their wives up and make them give them oral sex, like any good Christian should do, right!
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I don't think you're going to hell because you can't read the KJV of the bible.  There are so many versions out there...who can say which is really 'right'?  I think it's all a matter of finding your own path to spirituality.  Tomayto...tomahto.\n\nI do think it's sad how many people can't appreciate older versions of the English language...when I hear good actors perform Shakespeare or I read a classic novel like Wuthering Heights, I realize how LAZY and TRITE modern English is.
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King James was the King of England.  He isn't the author of the King James Bible, but funded its translation, creation, and printing, going nearly bankrupt in the process.\n\nThe King James Bible was not only translated, but the translators themselves were said to have read out loud the resultant text in English, to ensure it sounded as good as it translated.  As you may know, some passages of the bible are meant to be sung, as in the case of the Torah and Koran, though I've no information whether the translators sang out these sames passages.\n\nThe King James Bible is thought to be a wonderful snapshot of that era's English, equivalent in its beauty to Shakespeare.  The translation is revered for not only the message but for the manner in which it is presented.\n\nThink on that next time you rip through modern translations.
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Many people may not see it this way but i think that all these new bibles NIV,nasb, and more are a taktic of satan. you know in the end times every one is going to be of one religion and every one changing to these new bibles i believe is the changing of religions. i use the King James Version AND I LOVE MY GOD.
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It messes with people's comfort zone.\n\nThe people that have used the bible to control the masses\nhave taught us to never question the content that THEY \nprovided.\nSo most of us are trained to believe that if we use the brain that God gave us, and actually applied critical thinking to the provided bible,--we go straight to hell.\n\nGreat form of control.\n\nAnyway, please remember that King James only printed what King James felt we needed to know.\nHow biased is that?\n\nFurthermore, don't forget that Jesus was indeed a man, with\na penis, and carnal desires.\nHe was only human.\n\nBottom line---If King James had his writers include the books that told the account of Jesus marrying and having offspring, it would not be disputed today.\n\nDoes anyone ever question how the Catholic bible has a full\nten books MORE than the KING JAMES Version?\nWhat is in those books?\nIs there knowledge that KJ wanted to keep from us?\nOr are the Catholics on to something?\n\nAnd by the way, to see a true account of the real King James, see Mel Gibson's "Braveheart".
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Because they cant read the original Hebrew for the Hebrew Scriptures, or the original Greek for the Christian's New Testament. Therefore they must rely on someone else's translation. \n\nRemember that modern translations are copyrighted, and the organizations that translated them make money when every book of their translation is sold. The KJV is so old, going back to 1611, that it has no copyright anymore, so it is free. That is why it accompanies many, if not all, computer Bible Programs.\n\nAlso keep in mind that the KJV was the only version available, and then the only version acceptable, to many denominations of Christianity for a very long time.\n\nPlease also remember that the person or organization who does a translation is biased, and their translation will reflect their own theology, regardless of whether or not a verse in the original actually says what they claim it says. No translation is totally right, and some are better, and some are worse, than others.
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What are you saying? That we shouldn't read the Bible because we don't speak Hebrew?\nThere are basically two different kind of translations. There are the literal translations which aim to translate the original text word for word and then there are paraphrases or so called "dynamically equivalent translations", which aim at reproducing the meanings, the original readers would have understood.\nSo not all English translations are inaccurate. In the King James Version, although a literal translation, there were some mistakes, such as the one you mention. These have been corrected in the New King James version. \nIn the NKJ it reads "murder", not "kill".
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BibleGateway.com - Version information: King James Version  \nEnglish (EN) Español (ES) King James Version. Version " King James Version. Testaments. OT/NT. Version Information. In 1604, King James I of England authorized that a new translation of the Bible into English be started. ... prose rhythm has had a profound influence on the literature of the past 300 years. The King James Version present on the Bible ... Bible-Book List ...biblegateway.com/
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Because people dont actualy read their Bibles. Sad.
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I can't for the life of me understand why, if their religious belief is so great, they expend so much energy promoting it.  It should speak for itself.\n\nBut, no, they're every where spouting 2,000 year old fiction just like it happened yesterday.  And, they don't even get that right.  Like they'll say Jesus said or God said, when no such thng is actually in the Bible.  They'll say that the New Testiment was the result of Jesus having changed the Old Testiment.  The truth is that the New Testiment was written by a group of 17th century writers, who were commissioned by King James to do so.  Furthermore, there is a passage in the Old Testiment that states "no man shall change one word of this Bible."\n\nBut, all of this gets caught up in their glassy-eyed mental meanderings and they are not about to hear any of it.\n\nThey are more worrisome than a green flies.
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The kjv is reguarded as the most accurate and most study resources like the strongs concordance and Mathew henry commentary is based off the kjv. I do most of my study from kjv but teach out of the new international version because it is easier for most people to understand. The most important thing is to read from a version you are comfortable with. The holy spirit is our teacher and will reveal things to you reguardless which version you read from.
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I understand what you mean- most people choose to believe only what agrees with them. If something written says what they are doing is wrong they then decide that specific passage is not correct. They want to be seen as perfect so they pick and choose what they want to benefit them. I believe the Bible in its entirety- If you do that then you can't go wrong!