I live with a King James only person and he says that people needs to be booted out of schools and churches if they use any other Bible's then the King James Bible.
2006-11-23 09:31:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
On another note he says God says in a Bible verse if anyone takes from or add to my word they will be sent to Hell.
2006-11-23 09:38:02 · update #1
Yes, every person who has ever lived before the King James Bible was published in 1611 is going to hell along with all those people now living who do not speak English and use a Spanish, Itailian, Welsh, Zulu, Turkish, Vietnamese, Dutch, Slovene, Swahili, Persian, Japanese or Chinese translation. And if anyone gets uppity by reading the original Greek and Hebrew from which the English was translated instead of the KJV, let them suffer eternal torment as well.
2006-11-23 09:36:32 · answer #1 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People go to hell for rejecting the gift of eternal life that Jesus purchased for us with his own blood. The Bible was written in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek languages. the King James version is what I prefer, but it is only a translation. If I have trouble understanding the King James I read the same passage in other translations so that I can determine what the original is saying. I hope this answers your question but to be sure I'll ask you one. What translation of the Bible did Abraham use or the Apostles or the three thousand that were saved on the day of pentacost? If what this person said is true, then noone could be saved before the year 1611 and that is just absurd.
2006-11-23 10:10:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First we need to see decoding Hebrew and Greek into English is hard. When the King James Version was written- people thought they picked the right words. For instance- the Hebrew word for meditate can mean Study, mummer, ponder, search- but those recorders felt that meditate was the best word to use. The NIV-which I'm sure He's attacking- went back to the original text and said, let's try and find the best words to use. As long as those words match as close the the Hebrew and Greek- then it is God's word. The only exception would be the New World Translation which changes some important things that aren't found any where in the original text. Hope this helps!
2006-11-23 09:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that person believes everything they read (literally) and is doomed to be a judgemental fool for life. so what about the people who were around before the king james version? that person is an idiot.
truly wasting the only life they got given. why do so many christians hold on to the good book like it is god. it has been translated so many times that the translations have lost their earliest intention. it is only the king james version of events, and as soon as a word is replaced to suit a new market place, the meaning is corrupted forever.
we would all do better to commune with god personally rather than get the 'facts' (loosely applied here) from the bible.
2006-11-23 10:14:45 · answer #4 · answered by SAINT G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I read the Greek, which the New Testament was written in. I suppose, since the KJV wasn't compiled until about 1,500 years or more after the Greek, there will be a multitude who go to hell. I totally am against the idea that any English version is God's true word, if anything its just the Greek. And after reading the Greek, I can tell you that the KJV does fudge up a lot of scriptures and misinterpret the meaning. So I suppose the KJV-Only crowd would say the Greek is mis-written, and the KJV has the "intended" meaning.
2006-11-23 09:53:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is not alone in that stance.
I've personally encountered the same belief in more than one group. But it is nothing like mainstream Christian belief.
They appeared armoured against the reasons why the KJV is just one version, and had booklets explaining why all other versions are corrupt.
Even if the KJV was a perfect version when produced (which I do not admit) since then English itself has moved, and words which were good translations then are no longer so.
("let" now means allow, not obstruct, for one minor example.)
2006-11-23 10:03:35 · answer #6 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The King James Version is just that a Version! a student of the bible would compare any version to as many original manuscript that are available and compare it to the original Greek and Hebrew
2006-11-23 09:36:33 · answer #7 · answered by GW 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All bibles are the same. They may differ slightly in wording, but the all mean to say the same thing.
2006-11-23 09:35:25 · answer #8 · answered by sfumato1002 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a person can go to hell in any evil reason not because of not reading the bible.
2006-11-23 09:35:10 · answer #9 · answered by notProudatAll 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cover to cover, and paragraph to paragraph, each sticky sweaty page unto each other.
And especially in english. no darn translations into some wierd language like greek or hebrew.
2006-11-23 09:36:41 · answer #10 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋