[Faith-talk] Bible Translations

[Ryan Kwaak]

What Skype church is this? I was tryin to hunt down the infor about
Jeff Miller's Skype church for Andrew, but the website appears to be
offline. Can you post the link for us?

On 11/28/11, Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu> wrote:
> 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:
>> Aman
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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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