KJV Onlyism - Why?

[deMontfort]

Brittany:

Oh, I certainly do love the KJV. I grew up reading it and I admire its poetic language and the ancient sense that one gets when reading it. I don’t think it’s the best translation, but it is a beautiful one. I’m not against the KJV as long as it includes the deuterocanonical books, I’m only against the claim that the KJV is the only acceptable Bible translation.

That’s a good attitude to have. I’m a firm believer in using a number of translations as the nuances between passages can help gain a fuller understanding.

I have a small number of hard copies, but I have around 9 different translations in my Verbum program.

My most used are the Catholic NAB for daily devotional use, and the Protestant NASB for serious study.

 

[deMontfort]

deMontfort:

I actually have a legit 1611 King James.

I have a hard copy!! It has the weird spellings and everything!
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Oh that is so awesome! You’re a rarity, My Dear!

 

[deMontfort]

It’s pretty neat. I don’t remember what I got it for, though. I think it was an award for something at my church.

Keep hold of it! That’s like an heirloom to me lol

 

[dochawk]

Yeah, you get the hard-to-read word-for-word translation in the interlinear Bibles that have to stick to the word order of the original languages.

Easier to read, though, then those that stay pure to not using vowels . . .



hawk

 

[dochawk]

But the obvious counter is that every translation requires SOME dynamic interpretation just to make the darned thing understandable in your language. To make it flow in a way English flows.

There was actually a project to translate the Bible into Klingon a decade or two ago.

And the project actually schismed in a theological argument: whether to keep Terran animals such as sheep, or to use Klingon animals . . .



hawk

 

[dochawk]

or good Neumann Center at your college.

err, I think you mean “Newman center”. Also, some without those still have Newman clubs.

von Neumann was a computer scientist, month other things.

 

[DaveBj]

Cool! Yours even kept the 17th-century type-face. Mine converted to a more modern font for the actual text, altho the old type-face was still used in the introductory parts. Mine’s easier to read, I betcha

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[artortega]

KJV bibles are the best and uncorruptible bibles.

 

[dochawk]

Oh, definitely. I can hardly tell what mine says!

Ilktnkllnput ;skkuym lrlityyuyy iourthnanbtbh lsut

Gosh, it was obvious . . .



hawk

 

[Spyridon]

Is it a true 1611 copy with the Apocrypha?

 

[commenter]

Probably referred to St. John Neumann. He emigrated from Bavaria to the US in 1836, missionary and later 4th bishop of Philadelphia.

 

[commenter]

deMontfort:

I actually have a legit 1611 King James.

I have a hard copy!! It has the weird spellings and everything!
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Actually there was a special 400th anniversary edition printed in 1611, inspired by God to be available to translation doubters who, it was foreseen, would sprang out of the woodwork in 2011. I have a copy of the 500th anniversary edition myself, printed in 1611.

 

[dochawk]

Probably referred to St. John Neumann. He emigrated from Bavaria to the US in 1836, missionary and later 4th bishop of Philadelphia.

no, the reference was to a center on campus. Those are named for John Cardinal Newman, who was a convert from Anglicanism.

hawk

 

[twf]

This is a faithful reproduction of the original AD 33 KJV which descended to the earth in the wake of the Lord’s ascension. It is the KJV Bible, after all, that guides the faithful in all truth. It was nearly 1600 years later that inspired scholars, under the saintly King James, discerned the divine English language revealed so many centuries prior…
The real reason the Jews plotted against Christ was because they didn’t understand him! All those parables spoken in the strange divine language of King James English… unknown to men in that primitive time.

 

[lilypadrees]

Sadly, they believe the KJV is the only version God authorized and kept protected. All other Bibles (ie: newer translations) have been corrupted by man. And that we Catholics corrupted His Holy Word by “adding books that don’t belong.”

They get mad as heck if you tell them otherwise.

 

[lilypadrees]

King James saintly? Nope.

 

[twf]

Did you miss the sarcasm of my entire post?

 

[lilypadrees]

No, but I had to say it.

 

[lilypadrees]

KJV bibles are the best and uncorruptible bibles.

It’s the best one for diehard Bible believing Protestants, yes, although I was told in another thread that Protestants are now using other Bibles in their services.

Being Catholic, I’ll take the Douay-Rheims for the lovely language the Protestants hold dear in their KJV.

 

[GKMotley]

And you’ve been told that some types never used the KJV. And that the range of translations used is wide and varied. And that not all protestants think as you think they think, as to the KJV.