do you think that king james made up the bible?

Answer 1

no it was made up 1600 years before he was born

Answer 2

King James gave authorization to 70 scholars to work together to translate the Hebrew and Greek texts into "modern" (contemporary) English.

Since then, the English language has been changing, and so more modern renditions of the Scriptures are now available. Some or only interpretations, but others attempt to remain faithful to the actual literal texts.

Good News For Modern Man is a very good interpretation, but it is not an actual translation from the original languages.

Modern King James and New King James attempt to follow the actual original text.

Others do a fairly decent job, but not quite up to par with King James' rendition.

If you place all these translations side by side, you will notice that while the wording changes, the basic message remains faithful from one translation to the next. However, any translations that do NOT remain faithful to the basic message should be thrown out and burned.

Answer 3

Gotta love people posting wikipedia.com as a source since these are written by people who chose to post whatever they think too. Also a little funny for people who write what they heard sometime in the past and think its okay to post it as fact.

I teach on the subject of the history of the Bible, especially the King James Version so just a little insight before I say anything else.

1. King James authorized and help pay the expenses for the "King James Version" in 1604 to keep peace with the Puritans. The work was finished in 1611 and updated with the removal of the Apocrypha sometime later.

2. The men selected to translate from the original manuscripts both Greek and Hebrew. These men were not Catholic but mainly Church of England, Anglican but also included other "churches."

3. There were other translations used as reference only. These references included: Reina Valera (Spanish), Ostervald (French), Luther (German), and Wycliffe's Geneva (English). But the translation work was done from the orginal manuscripts called the textus receptus, "Received Texts."

4. Today's modern translation, NIV, RSV, ASV, etc, are all translated from another text family, Westcott and Hort. This is why if you look in Luke 16 of these translations there is usally a note stating that verses 9-20 are not in these manuscripts.

5. The cost to translate the Bible in the method used for the King James translation group would cost literally millions of dollars in today's economy. With this in mind, only a king such as James could have "bank-rolled" such an endeavour.

Answer 4

No. The original King James Translation used the Wycliffe Bible for over 90% of it's translation. Which was the first complete translation of the Bible into English.

Answer 5

King James did not write the Bible, we wrote I quote "The King James Bible"

Answer 6

Hmm I'm sure many of the things that were translated were translated in a way to suit the views of society at a time. But i don't think the original text of the Bible is made up.

Answer 7

no King James had the Bible translated to English. smarty pants

Answer 8

King James didn't have anything to do with it. He was the reigning monarch at the time, who gave his blessing to the work of the translation.

Big deal.

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Answer 9

No, and he didn't even translate it himself either. He just signed the papers that said that that was the Bible. It was all authorized and overseen by the Catholic Church. Look it up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Bible

Answer 10

No, he commissioned a group of scholars to reinterpret and translate the Bible to his specifications.

Answer 11

No. But I'd like to know why it is called that. Perhaps it was copied by monks during his reign