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KJV still good or a modern versions needed?

Discussion in '2005 Archive' started by Zachary, Mar 24, 2005.

  1. David J

    David J New Member

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    I would like to see Oxford or Cambridge revise the KJV updating the archaic words and correcting the fews(Acts 5:30 and Easter for example) errors in the text. I don't see why anyone would have a problem with this.
     
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    There is a reason Henry Ford was called the "Flivver King." It wasn't because of the plush comfort.
     
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    "Thee" and "thou" were not included because they were common language at the time. They were included for clarity. Thus you have "Thee" and "thou," but you also have "you" and "your."
    I find this very helpful. In English, the second person pronoun in the same for singular or plural - "you." In both Hebrew and Greek, there is a difference between the singular and plural second person pronoun. The KJV translators used "Thee" and "Thou" to show this difference. The "th" pronouns are singular, the "y" pronouns are plural. Great example of this - Luke 22:31, "...Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have YOU (plural - all the disciples) that he may sift YOU as wheat. But I have prayed for THEE (singular - Peter) that THY faith fail not, and when THOU art converted, strengthen thy brethren."
    Of all the arguments against the KJV, I find the complaints about "Thee" and "thou" to be the most trite and uninformed.
     
  4. csmith

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    KJV is still good. Of course I have used it from childhood and the archaic words have become common to me through repeated usage.
     
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    Yes, the KJV is very beautiful, the language poetic. But was original scripture very beautiful and poetic in this way, or was it regular "every day" language? If the original scriptures were not of poetical, beautiful language, then the KJV has added something to scriptures that wasn't there originally, and a "everyday language" version would be closer to the originals in that sense. </font>[/QUOTE]I do not believe that the KJV is beautiful and poetic, so I guess the KJV has not added something to the scriptures that wasn't there originally. Of course, I do not believe everyday language is that beautiful or poetic. Of course, if you put someone like Bach or Handel on it, then the language becomes very beautiful.
     
  6. av1611jim

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    Yes, the KJV is very beautiful, the language poetic. But was original scripture very beautiful and poetic in this way, or was it regular "every day" language? If the original scriptures were not of poetical, beautiful language, then the KJV has added something to scriptures that wasn't there originally, and a "everyday language" version would be closer to the originals in that sense. </font>[/QUOTE]Since we don't have the "Originals" to compare with, this leap in logic won't fly. :rolleyes:

    Nice try though! ;)

    In HIS service;
    Jim
     
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    Yes, the KJV is very beautiful, the language poetic. But was original scripture very beautiful and poetic in this way, or was it regular "every day" language? If the original scriptures were not of poetical, beautiful language, then the KJV has added something to scriptures that wasn't there originally, and a "everyday language" version would be closer to the originals in that sense. </font>[/QUOTE]I could not answer the question about the original language and how poetical it is but I think that you are entirely wrong in saying that there is something wrong with having beautiful use of language in The Holy Bible. If you want something commonplace, try "Streetcar Named Desire." Personally, I will take someone with a command of the language over someone with a pedestrian use of the language everyday.

    Besides, I think God is artistic and I imagine that God gave us beauty in the use of the English language so that we could use it. I don't see the advantage in a translation that is good but good and mundane.

    But I also believe that every individual is competent in spiritual matters. Do you?

    Finally, I once again insist that if you want to evangelize the cults, you should use the KJV, the only translation accepted by the cults.
     
  8. natters

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    I did not mean to imply it was "wrong" to use beautiful language. My point was that such lanuage is "different" than originally given.

    In general, I have found this to be true. I've tried with my NIV and NASB, and was specifically told they would not accept my points from those versions, for those versions clearly affirmed the deity of Christ, while the KJV left enough wiggle-room for them to accept its readings. ;)
     
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    Of course, this is where the cultists were wrong, weren't they? The Jehovah's Witnesses will only accept the KJV.
     
  10. AV1611Preacher

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    Yes, the KJV is very beautiful, the language poetic. But was original scripture very beautiful and poetic in this way, or was it regular "every day" language? If the original scriptures were not of poetical, beautiful language, then the KJV has added something to scriptures that wasn't there originally, and a "everyday language" version would be closer to the originals in that sense. </font>[/QUOTE]
     
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    Yes, the KJV is very beautiful, the language poetic. But was original scripture very beautiful and poetic in this way, or was it regular "every day" language? If the original scriptures were not of poetical, beautiful language, then the KJV has added something to scriptures that wasn't there originally, and a "everyday language" version would be closer to the originals in that sense. </font>[/QUOTE]_____________________________________________

    SORRY ABOUT THAT ACCIDENTALLY POSTED BEFORE I WROTE.
    yOU CAN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE ORIGINALS SOUNDED LIKE, THEY DON'T EXIST ANY MORE. tHEY AHVEN'T FOR CENTURIES.
    BOTTOMLINE KJB IS PERFECT
     
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    THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES USE THE NEW WORLD TRANSLATION
     
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    AMEN!!!
     
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    THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES USE THE NEW WORLD TRANSLATION [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]Must be the Mormons he's thinking about.
     
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    We have more than enough Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, and agreement between them, to know what sort of "language" (poetic or plain) the Bible was originally written in.

    No, bottom line is the word of God is perfect, and they had word of God in 1610 but went ahead and published the KJV anyway.
     
  16. av1611jim

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    natters said, "We have more than enough Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, and agreement between them, to know what sort of "language" (poetic or plain) the Bible was originally written in."

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    No sir. What we have is more than enough MSS to know what language the copies represent, but you nor I nor anybody else can know what the 'origianls' were like. The have long ago faded to dust. They are not available for comparison therefore the best one may be able to do is guess at it based on what evidence we have.

    OR!!! One could take the approach I do and trust that God has given them the pure words of truth without any mixture of error and go preach with it!
    :D

    God bless you this resurrection day brother!

    In HIS service;
    Jim
     
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    AV1611PREACHER: SORRY ABOUT THAT ACCIDENTALLY POSTED BEFORE I WROTE.
    yOU CAN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE ORIGINALS SOUNDED LIKE, THEY DON'T EXIST ANY MORE. tHEY AHVEN'T FOR CENTURIES.


    They wouldn't be in language we'd understand, anyway.


    BOTTOMLINE KJB IS PERFECT

    Bottom line for the CLOSE-MINDED, that is. The KJV has more than one PROVEN ERROR, such as "Easter" in Acts 12:4, "slew and hanged" in Acts 5:30, to name a couple.

    Do you really use the AV 1611, or a later edition, as do almost all those who have "AV1611" somewhere in their handles, thereby telling a fib before their actual post even begins?
     
  18. robycop3

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    AV 1611 Jim:
    OR!!! One could take the approach I do and trust that God has given them the pure words of truth without any mixture of error and go preach with it!

    I do, while not trying to limit GOD to just one version, an the Onlyists of any one version do.
     
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    I disagree. If the originals were in a different sort of language, the copies we have would not be as agreeable with each other as they are. If the originals were of a different style of language, then everything since has been a corrupt paraphrase - which I think completely goes against your understanding of preservation, doesn't it?
     
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    THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES USE THE NEW WORLD TRANSLATION </font>[/QUOTE]Must be the Mormons he's thinking about. [/QB]</font>[/QUOTE]Yeah, I think that Mormons will accept the KJV. I know Jehovah's False Witnesses have their own translation, but I think that you can steer them off onto KJV although I don't think that you can steer them off onto any other translation. They quit working my neighborhood.

    Indianapolis is flooded with Jesus Only Pentacostalism. We have both the white and the black branches here, although Indianapolis is losing much of its white population to the suburbs. Jesus Only deny the Trinity, as you know.

    Indianapolis was the starting place for Jim Jones and People's Temple but few remember him and fewer still want to talk about him.
     
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