My connection is: Why should the language that the stories were told in require an update if the stories are still true??? (which they are, of course) The KJV Bible is the only Bible I have ever read those stories in, and they are alive and pertinent today, and they are beautiful in prose and poetry of the KJV Bible.
KJV only??
Discussion in 'Bible Versions & Translations' started by KobrinFamily, Aug 18, 2011.
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It is wonderful that you love your KJV, so do I, but one need not change the stories when updating the language. After all those stories were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Did they lose they power and beauty by being translated into English? -
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Now for your question. No, not all Baptist churches use the KJV. Apart from anything else, there are plenty of Baptist churches in countries that don't speak English, so they would use a bible in their own language.
But even among English-speaking Baptist churches, various translations are used. I've just looked at the first 75 Baptist churches listed in the on-line Church Directory for England published by Evangelical Times.
Of those 75, 23 say they use the NIV, 18 the AV, 25 the NKJV, and 2 the ESV. 7 of the 75 did not state the bible versikon they use. -
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And it's Ruth that uses this bord not my Husbund :godisgood:
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Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner - give that lady a cigar! -
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Ok Debbie, it's time to come out of the closet. Go ahead and admit it. You are KJVO. Only a KJVO would equate translating the orginal languages into modern english with changing the stories of the Bible. Only a KJVO would miss the fact that the KJV was translated in 1611 well over a thousand years after the canon was closed not to mention the fact hat the KJV came after previous english versions not to mention the fact that the 1611 KJV has undergone updates itself. The KJV you have is not the 1611 version. It is an updated version. So, based on your logic the KJV is also guilty of changing the stories of the Bible.
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There is no way you cannot understand... "Ok so I have a question my chuch is a KJV Bible user only are all Baptist churchs that way??"
I get sick of seeing people belittle others on here due to their spelling and grammar, it's uncalled for, and un-Christlike. The only 2 people here to even point out her grammar hold doctorates and have no problem understanding issues discussing post secondary education in great detail over in the seminary forum. Strange everybody else here understood exactly what she was asking... -
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The KJV of 1611 was outdated before it was printed. It was not the common tongue and many words had changed meaning even before 1611.
Remember, royalty only changed from German during the First Great War, when it changed from the House of Hanover (German) to the House of windsor (English). Only the elite of 1611 used a form of English. I have copies of two business letters written in the 1600's and the language doesn't even come close to the 1611 copy of scripture.
Cheers,
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To the Kobrin Family. Most of the Fellowship Baptist churches in Ontario remain true to the KJV, whilst many have adopted the NIV. I think it stems more to our historic stand against modernism than the KJV itself.
I prefer the KJV, with all my marginal corrections, than any modern version, but it does not exclude using many translations for good reading and learning.
Cheers,
Jim
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