Are there any heinously anti-Catholic renderings in the KJV?

[EphelDuath]

Such that, if somebody were to say, “I recommend the King James Bible because of its literary beauty,” would you respond, “perhaps, but it is horrendously biased against Catholicism,” or would you respond, “perhaps, but there are more accurate translations available?”

 

[daeve]

I’ve never really read the King James Version, except a little of the Precious Moments Bible a friend gave my son for his First Communion (I can’t imagine what she was thinking, giving a Catholic the KJV and a boy Precious Moments…I gave it his nephew’s half sister a couple years ago, I think), but it seems to me there would have to be some pretty fancy translation to give it an anti-Catholic bias. Removing books is one thing, but to change the words enough to do that would really corrupt the meaning of Scripture as a whole.

This is only my very unschooled, never read the KJV, personal opinion based on the assumption that the books in common are pretty much the same overall. I could be very wrong about that.

 

[Augie1530]

what proof do you have to say that words were changed around as far as removing books that was done by order of James VI of Scotland James I of England to calm down the protestant reformers of his day and age, remember England had had a very rough time during the REFORM started under Henry VIII and was almost wiped out by his daughter Mary Tudor “Bloody Mary” when she ascended the throne and tried to literally force Catholicism on the subjects. As far as the literary element that is all the KJV is worthy of and useful for, Since that day and age much better English translations have been made from the original tongues of the holy writ, The New Jerusalem Bible is the best known for accurate translation to English

 

[incense]

remember England had had a very rough time during the REFORM started under Henry VIII and was almost wiped out by his daughter Mary Tudor “Bloody Mary” when she ascended the throne and tried to literally force Catholicism on the subjects.

You seem to be implying that Mary Tudor did something unique which King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I did not do? Some were executed for treason instead of heresy, but they were still executed because they were Catholic.

Here’s some info I found on a quick search:

Number of people executed for heresy in England and Wales.

Monarch Dates Executed

Henry VII 1485-1509 24
Henry VIII 1509-1547 81
Edward VI 1547-1553 2
Mary 1553-1558 280
Elizabeth 1558-1603 4

Cromwell’s army slaughtered 3000 Irish men, women and children in the city of Drogheda, during the Battle of the Boyne.

The great majority of Catholices executed by Elizabath were for “treason,” even though most, like the Jesuit Edmund Campion, were really killed for their faith. The situation of Roman Catholics and separatists was pretty much the same as that of Christians in China today.

Throughout the 1530s and into the 1540s more than 300 people were executed for treason, most for rebelling against the new religious order. Among Henry’s councilors, Sir Thomas More refused to recognize the king as supreme head of the church and was executed for his Catholicism, along with a number of bishops and prominent nobles. In 1536 a serious rebellion, known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, occurred in the northern counties. The rebellion combined economic grievances with an attachment to the institutions of the Catholic Church. It represented the most serious threat to Henry’s reign, although it was ultimately quelled. encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761570153/henry_viii.html

The winner gets to write the history book, but it doesnt’ change history.

 

[Mark77]

First off, the King James Version is incomplete. What true believer would want an abridged version of the Truth?

i am no Scripture scholar, but the KJV is not heinously anti-Catholic, it is just some of the false interpretations offered by the misguided and misinformed.

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. (Mt 7:15)

“And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.” (Mt 24:11).

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

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