Obey them that have the rule over you

[shazeep]

Originally Posted by Sean

In a round about way you are advocating making your own Bible, whether you realize it or not.


Since there are things you dont care for in the KJV, you then use a COMPLILATION of information to find the passage that fits your ideas better.

Something you can find more comfortable to read.

hmm. in order for that to be true, i would need a motivation to deviate from a passage, which i almost never have, and when i have this was revealed to me. Now, i do have a different understanding of a few passages now that i didn't before--"Easter" is just pagan, sorry--but really virtually everything else has been expansive, and not contradictive--similar to journeys from "hope" to "confident expectation." i now think the earth very possibly "became void" there in Gen 1, but that's like the next most fractious verse i can think of.

The things i don't care for in the KJV relate more to the language barrier, as words are weird for me anyway; i'm more of a numbers guy. The ESL Bible is like my fave! but really, there is little to gripe about accuracy-wise in the KJV; one just is forced to mentally re-translate somewhat on the fly. This removes Scripture from the common man, and puts it back in the hands of a few. What more vivid illustration than a pastor reading a passage of KJV, and stopping after every phrase to, basically, re-translate into our current English.