[Faith-talk] Bible Translations

[Joshua Lester]

RJ:
You haven't been preaching at that Skype Church lately.
You never got to finesh, or if you did, I didn't hear it.
If you did, could you send me the link to it, offlist?
Thanks, Joshua

On 11/28/11, RJ Sandefur <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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