NCPB - Against "King James Only-ism"

[dalcent]

dalcent:

I appreciate we all need and should have a good Catholic Bible. However Karl Keating recommends in Catholicism and Fundamentalism p.305 buying a copy of the King James Version as it makes discussion with fundamentalists easier.

I recommend using the New Cambridge Paragraph Bible against these people. It pulls the rug from under them. First you show them you have the Critical Text recovering the 1611 original.

The standard editions of the 1611 King James Bible (or Authorised Version) currently available give, with little variation, the text as established by the Oxford edition of 1769…In this new edition of the King James Version the text has been collated with the translators’ original work in order to give the reader as closely as possible the exact text that the translators decided on

Secondly, they get to discover the Original had the full Catholic canon (although the deuteros are between the Testaments). This powerfully shows them the weakness of the link between their unalloyed Reformation faith (obvious fantasy) and the KJV. Let’s face it, the KJV was really the product of 17th-century conservative Episcopalians and there is nothing fundamentalist about it all (it’s very honest), except the doctrines they project onto it!!!

KJV New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha Black French Morocco leather (Leather Bound) $80

Paperback version$11

Witness to them with it! It’s a powerful tool and the presence of its *original *Apocrypha/Deuterocanonicals really throws them! Actually you can make them feel stupid for using their 1769 revision which many claim virtually dropped down from heaven in the form they use it.

 

[Seagirt]

Ahhh! just what we need, more food fights throwing scripture verses back and forth with the fundamentalists.
the Musloms do that too, with their Koran and look what happened to them

So odd that when it comes to religion, every person thinks they are absolutely right about everything. what happened to " walking humbly with the Lord " ?

 

[lak611]

I don’t have this one, but I do have a Cambridge University Press KJV with the Apocrypha. On the title page of the Apocrypha (which includes the Deuterocanonicals, plus a few books recognized by the Orthodox Church but not the Catholic Church), it says “Appointed to be read in Churches”, which shows that the Deuterocanonical Books DO belong in the Bible.