Featured Yes,the KJV has mistakes too

Sure it is accepted by lots of folks. Why not a history lesson? You know what they say about those who don't pay attention to history;don't you?

 

And you are...

 

You're not that new to the BB.

 

The subject is the mistakes in the KJV.Do you have anything worthy to contribute? Get off your thread-spoiling kick.

 

I'm "going beyond"? Did I say anything slanderous as you have done? I am merely pointing out some documented things especially concerning the history of the KJV. I have supported my info. On the other hand you believe in spreading untruths I suppose in the nname of freedom of speech.

 

God's Bestseller by Brian Maynahan

Some select quotes from his book.

"Where the KJ strays away from him,Tyndale is often more vivid and more plain." (p.58)

"Read aloud,Tyndale almost always beats all comers,King James or more modern." (p.59)

From Ephesians 4. First Tyndale:

Blinded in their understanding,being strangers from the life which is in God.

King James :

having the understanding darkened,being alienated from the life of God.
Moynahan says :"The pulse is gone." (p.60)

Regarding the title page of the KJV: Little of it was,as claimed,'newly Translated out of the Originnall Tongues.' " (p.389)

 

God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson

"By 1870,it had become obvious not only that the manuscripts on which the King James Bible had been based upon were no longer the best available,but that the Jacobean Translators had made many mistakes in translation." (233)

 

In The Beginning by Alister E. McGrath

He says,and it is well-known,that the KJV translators (I call them revisers) didn't have access to "additional ancient Near Eastern texts.' (p.234)

"The KJV translators used classical Greek instead of a much later form of Greek which had more fluid grammatical rules." (237)

He gives as an example of this Isaiah 2:12-16 in the KJV :"For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon...all the ships of Tarshish,and upon all pleasant pictures."

Jeremiah 7;13,29;19 the KJV has "rising up early" when the idiom actually means "do do something continually." (232)

McGrath says the New Testament was written in "the language of the workplace and the market [but] changed into the high cadences of the palaces of Westminster and the high tables of Oxford and Cambridge." He goes on to say that style and elegance is of the translators,not of the passages they translate.(239)

The KJV used "ways of speaking that wetre already becoming archaic in the standard English of the first decade of the 17th century"...ways of speaking "were dying out in everyday English speech." (265,266)

The KJV would actually have "been perceived to be slightly old-fashioned and dated even from the first day of its publication." (276)

'The 'new Bible' was initially regarded with polite disinterest. Nobody at the time really liked the new translation very much." (278)

 

"Bashing"? Seriously. I am documenting historical references regarding the KJV. It should be considered educational.I'm sure you were not familiar with much of what I have quoted.