Do You Admire Any Preachers...

There you go making false assertions again. No one ever said the KJV isn't the Word of God. I dare you to show us ONE, just one post- that says such.

Jesus also uses the RSV, NIV, RV1960, Greek, Hebrew and even the Sign Language Bible. He, being God, is not as limited as some would like to make Him by insisting that he can only use one version in English today.

 

I listen to Alistair Begg occasionally. He is on M-F at 12:30 PM, but my schedule often conflicts. I like him and Charles Stanley. I have also listened to Ravi Zacharias and Woodrow Kroll.

 

While I use the KJV for private reading and public preaching, and would even, if forced, enter into a friendly debate over the issue, I can't distance myself from the arguments of HG on this thread far enough!

Here's my view. I believe the KJV (I prefer to call it the AV), is the best English translation we possess of the Word of God, but it is a translation that could certainly use some updating. I would quite appreciate an updating of language without changing the text. E.g. the verb endings from 'eth' to 's'.

Even in my pulpit reading, I often make those changes when reading. ("he works" instead of "he worketh"). In today's language there is no difference.

God is not limited to Elizabethan-style English. And neither ought we to be. However, other versions than the KJV have some changes that are very suspect and often lead to confusion.

I agree with Jim in his earlier post. The AV/KJV is without a doubt the most "preachable" Bible version. When doing expository, textual preaching, it shines supreme in our English language.

As for favorite preachers who use other versions, I would have to put Pastor Al Martin (now retired) on that list.

 

For preachers using other versions (other than KJV) I am hard-pressed. We were taught from the KJV at Toronto Baptist Seminary, and both Regular Baptist and Fellowship Baptist organizations followed the KJV. We were not KJV only, but we were in that era which faced Liberalism face-to-face, and the Bible one used stood out.

I have every version imaginable on my shelves for reference and free reading, including a few liberal versions, but stick to my old KJV. All my theological texts use the KJV, so you might say my theology is KJV,,,,,,,,,*smile*

Cheers,

Jim

 

It was started as a question primarily to KJVO BBers about which pre-1970s preachers that used other versions they might admire.

 

You said Jesus never used the KJV. Thank you for your reiteration.

God is not limited to His word but His word is limited to what he said.

Nothing new to what God has to say and it is already in printed form. God's word does have boundaries which some versions do violate.

I'll stick with the KJV.

 

OK, Jim, pull them up for the eye's inspection. How do you KNOW what you refer to as the original mss are without the very things you claim about the KJV?

Does anyone else see the veritable yo-yo effect here?

The devil uses the KJV and any other version he chooses so your point is rather pointless.

 

Your opinion introduces the possibility that the word of God is lost in translations.

I will stick with the KJV.

 

Then why did you just knock it with the suggestion the KJV needs updating?

Yo-yo intellectualism at work.

The "eth" was described to me as pretty much an eternal aspect of the verb in action where the "s" suggests a termination of the action as all life in the realm of mortality comes to and end.

I know this doesn't apply to every word that ends in "eth", but your complaint was over-ruled by your concurring the valdiity of the KJV for the purposes you described. Therefore your point is also pointless.

 

He didn't- and you deny that? I should have stopped after Tom's comment. He was right and I'll stop now. Carry on in your delusions. Faretheewell.

 

And for good reason coming from a man of your obvious age and wisdom.

I have other versions too, but I rarely consult them because before when I did it seemed strange to me and went against the ingrained wording I had come to know and love in the KJV.

I noticed similar words used but when they deviated, boy, did they ever seem to DEVIATE!

I did some close word studies on the different words and found the KJV words to be exhaustive in comparison to that which was lacking in essense and the newer words not as explanatory in their meaning.

I'll stick with the KJV, so I suppose if the preacher's admired in 2009 fit into this topic I would be a candidate for some, others would slit my throat.:thumbsup:

 

So there you go, Jesus definitely used the word of God. The KJV is the word of God. You say Jesus didn't use the word of God. I say Jesus used the word of God.:godisgood:

 

It's not an opinion, it is a fact that your statement "Jesus used the KJV" is patently false. By your reckoning, Jesus used what would eventually become the Bishop's, Geneva, Tyndale, KJV, NKJV, ASV, Coverdale, Darby, Douay Rhiems, Quaker, RSV, ESV, Webster's, Wyclif, and CEV Bibles. Jesus didn't use the KJV any more or less than any of the others.

In regards to the Word of God being "lost in translation", the existence of a sole translation does not guarantee that the translation in question is scripturally superior. Further, it espouses a certain level of xenophonia. This is evidenced by the fact that I am currently reading the Dutch state translation. Your KJVO position is that I should abandon my Dutch language bible in favor of the KJV, based on the notion that the KJV is the sole Word of God.

 

So you think that Jesus used versions other than what is proven to be the word of God over other versions?

The KJV does just what you decry it for.

You insert a false idiom. Show me ONCE where I have ever said what you claim?

Show me something to merit this claim of xenophobia?

 

Beside I don't "question" the KJV as you do, I let it question me.

 

I don't question the word of God, I let it question me too. But, that has nothing to do with the KJV.

 

Your dodging the fact that you cannot assert the claim that Jesus used the KJV. But BY YOUR STANDARD, if Jesus used the KJV, then he cretainly also used the Bishop's, Geneva, Tyndale, KJV, NKJV, ASV, Coverdale, Darby, Douay Rhiems, Quaker, RSV, ESV, Webster's, Wyclif, and CEV Bibles. And that also includes my beloved Dutch Bible. You cannot by any stretch say that Jesus used the KJV, but not the Dutch bible.

If you look at my posts in this thead, I haven't made any specific comments about the KJV at all.

You've stated consistently on this board that the KJV is the sole Word of God today, to the point of excluding all other translations. You have not made the distinction to it being for the English language only. That is by categoric definition xenophobic.

Interestingly, just about any KJVO-as-doctrine argument falls apart when introducing the issue of other world languages.

 

I was prolly born closer to the KJV than you, and in England too boot, and I don't understand some of the language in the KJV. Some words are even backwards by to-day's definition compared to what they meant in 1611.

Cheers,

Jim

 

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