[Faith-talk] Bible Translations

[Jeanette]

i learned many scriptures and did many a bible study with the NIV it was the 
only version i could get in braille for many years, i now have a nkjv and 
enjoy it but have also used the nasv and the rsv for study, many folks, good 
Christian folks as far as i know like all kinds of versions, i thinkit again 
is a personal preference and we should not judge others for the version they 
use, i find the idea that one version is the only one to use part of the 
legalism that some folks love and push, thanks for the information in this 
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Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 5:39 PM
Subject: [Faith-talk] Bible Translations


> Well the topic of good and bad Bible versions has come up, and I
> believe it merits a new thread. As some of you might have guessed by
> my Baptist roots, I hold to the Authorized King James version and
> continue to use it exclusively. However, I used to believe that it was
> the ONLY Word of God for the English-speaking population because that
> was what my church teaches. Not only that, but to my knowledge the KJV
> wasn't copyrighted by a nonprofit corporation with a vested economic
> interest in its usage like the more modern versions. That was until I
> did the research. Turns out, The KJV is public domain worldwide except
> in Great Britain. The laws in force at that time pre-date any modern
> copyright legislation, but the right to disseminate the KJV is
> bestowed upon whomever the Sovereign wishes to grant it to, and today
> that right is held by Cambridge University Press. Not only that, but
> the KJV was written by Anglicans with an ulterior political agenda,
> and nothing could go into the KJV that the king, as the
> self-proclaimed spiritual authority in England, did not first approve.
> However, I still hold to the KJV because it sparked a myriad of
> old-time revivals and turned many a gambling drunkard into a
> Christian. Although the newer versions may be easier to understand,
> some of the corporations producing these newer Bibles tend to water
> the message down and compromise the Word of God to be more politically
> correct. A good new version that claims not to compromise the truth is
> the New American Standard Bible, but old habits are hard to break, and
> I for one will keep my KJV.
>
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