what is the true history of king james?

Question

and why did he feel the need to rewrite the bible and leve stuff out or even reword it?

i my self want to read every single thing god has laid out for us. i dont wont some other person choseing what message god can or can not give to us. if these men took the time to write these books like god told them to do then what gave king james the right?

i have read that he was gay or bisexual and only married to provide an hire

Answer 1

Actually, King James did not personally do the writing. Did you know that King James was gay? Buckingham palace was a gift from him to his male lover.

Answer 2

Skalite, surprising question. I unquestionably have studied this very situation for an extremely long term. the way I are conscious of it and have faith is that, certainly the KJV is the extra effective notice of God. that's the God promised seventh point of purification, tried interior the furnace of earth. II Kings 12:6 The words of the LORD [are] organic words: [as] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven situations. right that could be a itemizing of variations maximum well referred to as much as the A.V. 1611 text cloth German Luther Bible Tyandale Coverdal Matthews super Geneva Bishop's No, the undertaking, from what I see is that no longer that the Christians of the previous getting it incorrect. extra to the reality of why every person might mess with the notice after that element, is the question, quite. do you be attentive to of each and all of the deletions that have occured considering that that element? Why do you think of every person might make the hassle to rewrite the bible and make it extra complicated? Is God the author of misunderstanding? right that could be a itemizing of purely the recent testomony deletions, i don't be attentive to approximately you, yet while human beings bypass approximately deleting complete verses, it quite makes me think of why. Matthew 17:21, Matthew 18:11, Matthew 23:14, Mark 7:sixteen, Mark 9:40 4, Mark 9:40 six, Mark 11:26, Mark 15:28, Mark sixteen:9-20, Luke 17:36, Luke 23:17, John 5:4, Acts 8:37, Acts 15:34, Acts 24:7, Acts 28:29, Romans sixteen:24, I John 5:7.

Answer 3

It has hundreds of errors, and it was not the first Bible printed in English, it just happen to have King James backing.
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People in the English-speaking world use and accept the King James or Authorized Version more than any other single Bible translation. In fact, so highly esteemed is this translation that many persons venerate it as the only true Bible. This raises some questions.

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? Do they know what illuminating document is probably missing from their own copies? In short, do they really know the King James Version?

The purpose of Bible translation, then, is to take these thoughts of God, originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and put them into the common languages of today. Bible translation makes God’s Book a living Book. So true Christians read the Bible, not to be entertained by clever turns of expression, unusual words, excellency of style, striking rhetorical devices or felicities of rhythm, but to learn the will of God. It was for this reason that the King James Version came into existence. That was in 1611.
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.”

The translators, not unaware that people preferred to keep what had grown familiar, knew that their work had unleashed a storm. They tried to calm the people down. They wrote a “Preface of the Translators” to explain why the King James Version was made. This preface is called by the Encyclopedia Americana “a most illuminating preface describing the aims of the translators which unhappily is omitted from the usual printings of the Bible.” Thus most Authorized Versions today, though they contain a lengthy dedication to King James, omit the preface. Its presence would clear up many misunderstandings about the purpose of the revision. The reader would learn that strong opposition was expected.

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. For more than two and a half centuries no other so-called authorized translation of the Bible into English was made. Little wonder that many people began to feel that the King James Bible was the only true 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. . . . It was in the eighteenth century, however, that the main changes were made. . . . The marginal references were checked and verified, over 30,000 new marginal references were added, the chapter summaries and running headnotes were thoroughly revised, the punctuation was altered and made uniform in accordance with modern practice, textual errors were removed, the use of capitals was considerably modified and reduced, and a thorough revision made in the form of certain kinds of words.”

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!

What, then, of the objections raised by persons who say they do not want the King James Bible changed? Since the King James Version has already been changed, they lie on a crumbled foundation. If these persons do not want it changed, then why do they use, instead of a copy of an edition of 1611, an edition that has been changed?

They appreciate, perhaps unknowingly, the improvements the later editions have made. They do not like the odd spelling and punctuation of the 1611 edition; they do not want to read “fet” for “fetched,” “sith” for “since” or “moe” for “more,” as the edition of 1611 had it. Thus improvement, when needed, is appreciated, even by those who say they object to any changing of the King James translation.

One of 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

Answer 4

King James was a human, and like all humans, full of mistakes! NO MAN WROTE THE BIBLE. It is the very literal words of the God who created us as He wants us to know Him.
The Holy Ghost did the writing (through men) and the Holy Ghost did the translating (through men) as was His good will to bless us.
Nothing more. Nothing less.

Answer 5

He didn't.The Holy Ghost gave the King James Translators The Bible from heaven.The King did not have the power to change the Bible nor would he have.The King James Version is the Word of God(John 17:17)

Answer 6

What makes you think he re wrote the Bible and left things out?

The Bible as we know it today is missing books, but, it's because there was far too many books to be included it would have been way way too big. A group of officials went through with a list of specifics that each book that goes into the Bible should meet, and that's how we have the Bible as we know it. The book were purposefully left out, because they didn't meet up to the strict standards of ALL the officials that judged what books went into the Bible, its called CANONIZED.

Answer 7

for the old testament, make sure to use a jewish translation, this will be your most accurate.

you'll also want to look up the Apocrypha, these are books that were left out of the bible,

there were a handful that were left out of the jewish bible, mostly iirc because they were too recent, (such as Macabees, which, ironically is about the events that a holiday judaism DOES have... hannukah, celebrates)

2 books you might be especially interested in for the new testament, are the Gospel of Mary, and the Gospel of Phillip, these have gotten alot of "buzz" lately, with the whole DaVinci code stuff, but in seriousness, they do have some interesting insights.

Answer 8

"James’ paranoia over witchcraft eventually contributed, during the Parliamentary period, to the appointment of Matthew Hopkins, Witch-finder General, and the execution of many people, mostly women, often for no greater crime than being widowed and owning a cat "

Answer 9

http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/history/king_james_gay.html

Answer 10

maybe he was given permission,if not he will be judged