Why Do Mormons Use Kjv Of The Bible

[RedSoxFan]

All I got to say is that I love LDS people!:extrahappy:

But considering the Dead Sea Scrolls have in aramaic parts of what Protestants call the Apocrypha do you think the LDS Church of Christ will change their cannon of the Bible?

Also any chance that the Book of Mormon can come out with an Archaeological edition like the way the NIV bible has one? Just curious.

~RSF

 

[falisrm]

i have no clue.

 

[falisrm]

Hey people, wouldn’t we be missing the whole point of the bible, which teaches us principles and doctrines of the bible? I mean, you don’t need to read 14 different versions of the bible to read about forgiveness. It is what it is. forgiveness.

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

that is genious. Someone already thought of that for us. Wait a minute. so why does it take so much work and research just to learn a simple principle like “Charity” You can learn about charity everywhere, not just in 14 bibles.

Look at what the Bible says (it amazes me so many overlook these scriptures since they speak of tradition):

1Co 11:2 Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me and keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you.

2Th 2:15 (2:14) Therefore, brethren, stand fast: and hold the traditions, which you have learned, whether by word or by our epistle.

2Th 3:6 And we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition which they have received of us.

Joh 21:25 But there are also many other things which Jesus did which, if they were written every one, the world itself. I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written.

Mar 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my word shall not pass away.

Paul records words of Jesus not found in the Gospels

Act 20:35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring you ought to support the weak and to remember the word of the Lord Jesus, how he said: It is a more blessed thing to give, rather than to receive.

2Ti 1:13 Hold the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me: in faith and in the love which is in Christ Jesus.

2Ti 2:2 And the things which thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, the same commend to faithful men who shall be fit to teach others also.

2Pe 1:20 Understanding this first: That no prophecy of scripture is made by private interpretation.

2Pe 3:15 And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation: as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:
2Pe 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

1Pe 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel hath been preached unto you.

Rom 10:17 Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.

1Co 15:1 Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand.
1Co 15:2 By which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain.

Mar 16:15 And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature.

Mat 23:2 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
Mat 23:3 All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not.

 

[RedSoxFan]

Yeah but it may take many different stories with many themes and the right time in a person’s life to make it “click” in their own head. Different versions would work for different people so a multiple of versions isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

 

[falisrm]

right, i think everyone has come to that concensus. We can all read hundreds of different bibles, works great…

 

[falisrm]

Prodical Son,

The catholic church doesn’t have a problem keeping the origional traditions. What it has done was add to the traditions and develop them over and over again and they get larger and larger. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

 

[CHRISTINE77]

Hey people, wouldn’t we be missing the whole point of the bible, which teaches us principles and doctrines of the bible? I mean, you don’t need to read 14 different versions of the bible to read about forgiveness. It is what it is. forgiveness.

That’s what I told you! Doesn’t matter which version you read, as long as you read it.

 

[RedSoxFan]

right, i think everyone has come to that concensus. We can all read hundreds of different bibles, works great…

Then your objection to the plurality of bibles is what exactly?

 

[falisrm]

My objection is common sense.

 

[tommiatkins]

Mormans use KJV because thats what Jo Smith had access to and the Book of Morman is consequently written in 17th century English rather than ancient Aramic. It uses the Term “Behold!” and “it came to pass” thousands of times simply because KJV uses it and it sounds impressively deistic.

Isnt it funny that God decided to talk like a englishman from the 1600’s? Well whatever floats his ark.

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

right, i think everyone has come to that concensus. We can all read hundreds of different bibles, works great…

The problem, as I see it, is in the interpretations. Through private interpretations of scriptures we now have thousands of different denominations all with slightly different doctrines, based on someone’s private interpretations.

Christ created one Church and taught one Church, as did His Apostles:

Joh 10:16 And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.

Eph 4:3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Eph 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,
Eph 4:5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
Eph 4:6 one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in all.

Rom 16:17 I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.

1Co 1:10 I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Php 2:2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

Rom 15:5 May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Rom 15:6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Joh 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.
Joh 17:18 As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
Joh 17:19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.
Joh 17:20 "I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word,
Joh 17:21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
Joh 17:22 The glory which thou hast given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
Joh 17:23 I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.

1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body–Jews or Greeks, slaves or free–and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Rom 12:4 For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function,
Rom 12:5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Eph 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call,

Col 3:15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.

 

[Prodigal_Son1]

Prodical Son,

The catholic church doesn’t have a problem keeping the origional traditions. What it has done was add to the traditions and develop them over and over again and they get larger and larger. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I’m not quite sure what you’re saying here. What traditions were “added”? You’d have to reference them individually so I can respond.

 

[RedSoxFan]

My objection is common sense.

Ahhhh I get it. Yeah, we would disagree if we were both Mormons or both Catholics. I like choice, and you’re more of a one size fits all sort of guy. Gotcha.

 

[falisrm]

What i’m saying Red Fox is the concept of creating bibles from old translations every year and publishing them is one of the dumbest things i have ever seen in my life and it has no common sense to it at all.

That’s like me writting a text book in the field of medicine (in english). Then someone a few years later takes that text book and rewrites the whole thing in english. It was already in english, why do you have to rewrite it again in enlgish every year?

I can’t believe i actually have met people that support the whole concept.

 

[CHRISTINE77]

Mormans use KJV because thats what Jo Smith had access to and the Book of Morman is consequently written in 17th century English rather than ancient Aramic. It uses the Term “Behold!” and “it came to pass” thousands of times simply because KJV uses it and it sounds impressively deistic.

Isnt it funny that God decided to talk like a englishman from the 1600’s? Well whatever floats his ark.

Yes of course! (And actually, falisrm doesn’t really need to read Isaiah, because Smith smooched large sections of it and stuck it in the BOM.) I think a lot of Mormons don’t read the Bible, KJV or other, they don’t think it is of any value. Falisrmm admitted he didn’t read the Old Testament.

 

[RedSoxFan]

Red Fox?

 

[CHRISTINE77]

What i’m saying Red Fox is the concept of creating bibles from old translations every year and publishing them is one of the dumbest things i have ever seen in my life and it has no common sense to it at all.

That’s like me writting a text book in the field of medicine (in english). Then someone a few years later takes that text book and rewrites the whole thing in english. It was already in english, why do you have to rewrite it again in enlgish?

They do that with college textbooks all the time!

 

[falisrm]

No they don’t. They re write the pinciples of math, the structure of explaining laws. They update the methods of medical treatment and publish new findings.

This is the bloody bible your talking about. Its the same words, over and over again that have been written over and over again.

 

[RedSoxFan]

What i’m saying Red Fox is the concept of creating bibles from old translations every year and publishing them is one of the dumbest things i have ever seen in my life and it has no common sense to it at all.

That’s like me writting a text book in the field of medicine (in english). Then someone a few years later takes that text book and rewrites the whole thing in english. It was already in english, why do you have to rewrite it again in enlgish?

Languages changes. Hence Old English, Middle English, and Modern English which I may point out is a few hundred years and not as comprehensible anymore.

I get what you’re saying. But plurality helps. I really like the way the JB is written, but not the NIV. I think I am better off for being able to read a bible and if the only bible around was the NIV I would not read it.

Would you agree that the bible you read is the best one for you?