2006-07-13 04:23:22 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they think it's God Sent, it has hundreds of errors, and it was not the first Bible printed in English, it just happen to have King James backing.
From almost every quarter the King James Bible met opposition. Criticism was often severe. Broughton, a Hebrew scholar of the day, wrote to King James that he “should rather be torn asunder by wild horses than allow such a version to be imposed on the church.”
Do these countless persons who use the King James Version know why, despite objections from churchmen, modern translations keep rolling off the presses? Do they know why the King James Version itself was once opposed by the people? Do they know why, despite vigorous protest and opposition, the King James Version entered into the very blood and marrow of English thought and speech?
The reader would learn that the King James Version was a revision of earlier works made with a modest hope of improvement and no thought of finality, In time the clamor died down, and the King James Version prevailed over the Geneva Bible.
Like many people who once objected to any change in the Geneva Bible, many persons today object to any change in the King James Bible. They oppose modern translations perhaps as vigorously as the King James Version itself was once opposed.
King James Bible has been changed; today no one reads the King James Version in its original form. Explaining why this is so the book The Bible in Its Ancient and English Versions says: “Almost every edition, from the very beginning, introduced corrections and unauthorized changes and additions, often adding new errors in the process. The edition of 1613 shows over three hundred differences from 1611.
So many changes have been made, many of them in the readings of passages, that the Committee on Versions (1851-56) of the American Bible Society found 24,000 variations in six different editions of the King James Version!
The major reasons the Authorized Version is so widely accepted is its kingly authority. There seems little doubt that, had not a king authorized this version, it would not today be venerated as though it had come direct from God
2006-07-13 07:17:19 · answer #1 · answered by BJ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most likely the more people can read English and that it was translated from the Textus Reptus Ancient Greek. But some of those College Boys that translated did not understand Ancient Greek very well and in different Divisions of the Scripture that went to various Colleges, the Words were Translated Different. Such as Christ -Anointed+ Spirit-Ghost+ many other words . But if you read King James with that in mind it helps .
2006-07-13 04:30:35 · answer #2 · answered by kritikos43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a word of warning to anyone with an NIV bible. it is missing some of the verses in it. they just didn't include them in it. I can't tell you which ones but look online and then look at your Bible. I like the King James because it's the version God gave to the world. No offense to Catholics but in the early years they added books to their Bible.
2006-07-13 05:16:08 · answer #3 · answered by God's Servant 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was translated from the original greek and Hebrew texts by men who worked miles apart and then got together to meticulously compare every word and decide on the clearest translation.
I personally believe it is the Bible that God intended the English language to have. Every other version has been taken from this one and words added and changed and whole passages taken out.
2006-07-13 04:27:57 · answer #4 · answered by MamaMia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am using them as reference. But it is one of the many version I had.
It is one of the translation. When we read (study) the bible, it is good to have a few version with us.
But if it is for browsing kind of reading, may be other versions will be better.
For memorising verses, KJV is still the best.
2006-07-13 04:31:51 · answer #5 · answered by Melvin C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because its the original translation - nothing was changed but what was recorded in the original text into our language. Newer versions tend to sport what the developers believe and think.
2006-07-13 04:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Says who? There are more Catholics than any other type of Christian dear and we do not use the King James. Although I do have one it is not my first choice of translation.
2006-07-13 04:26:42 · answer #7 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it was shoved down our throats at swordpoint and gunpoint by the English colonists and the British Empire on which the sun has long set.
2006-07-13 04:27:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are probably hundreds of versions of bible now it is next to impossible to find the true bible that is very old book.
2006-07-13 04:28:19 · answer #9 · answered by fire demon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its all in the beautiful prose. Some of the most magnificent in all Western Literature. Shakespearean, almost.
2006-07-13 04:27:40 · answer #10 · answered by virgoascendant 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋