I find this odd myself. Persons may have grown up reading the KJV and become accustomed to it, but surely they have to know that it is not the original Bible. Yet in my door to door ministry I have been told this by people. One person even asserted that King James was there with Jesus, recording his every word! How do you reason with an unreasonable one?

I prefer the King James Version, because I believe it is the most accurate version. I do realize that there are some differences from Tyndale’s and previous English translations. For example the term “falling away” in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 (King James Version) was previously translated as “departing first” in seven previous English translations from 1384 to 1608. The Greek word apostesia can refer to a physical departure. Despite this, I believe the KJV is the Bible with the most doctrinal integrity.

the king james had the the bible translated from greek and hebrew into english and in order to get a copy writes for another translation it must be altered or changed by at least 10%.

The 1611 only people are extremists who are apparently insecure over the variant readings in manuscripts. Consequently they assert that God inspired the 1611 KJV (which is quite different from the current KJV) in the same way he inspired the original manuscripts (the “autographs”). Their assertions regarding “corruptions” can easily be disproven and the manuscripts the KJV is based upon are fewer and of lesser reliability than the ones more modern translations are based upon. Their belief in divine inspiration for the KJV (some say all foreign language translations should be made from the KJV rather than the Greek and Hebrew texts!) is something that can not be proven. Of course there is no mention of the KJV in Scripture itself. Don’t be intimidated by them. Modern translations represent better manuscripts, better scholarship, and better English.

i wanna research the 1611 saint james bible, i never heard of it until now. there are so many differnt kinds of bibles and people change the words in some bibles or cut of a scripture in some bibles. Have you ever read a verse in a bible and it didn’t make sense like john would talk about one thing then all of a sudden he would be talking about a nother thing with no explanation

There is no bible representing the true word of God even most Christians acknowledge that people created the bible who were “divinely inspired” yeah okay umm I see people on the subway who are “divinely inspired”.

I believe that some people say that because they have the mistaken impression that it is an “original” version of the Bible or something. I actually find this quite funny myself. It may have been ONE OF the first ENGLISH translations of the Bible, but it is far from the first version at all.

I believe that all Bibles we have available to us nowdays are simply *translations* of earlier texts. Even the King James Bible is simply a translation of earlier texts.. (Unless someone out there just happened to have handy a copy of something from a thousand years before.. heh.. but then.. that stuff would have been in Greek/Hebrew etc.. so the KJV would STILL be a translation of that).

Sad to say, but I think that there are actually people out there that have the impression that the Bible was written in English… Obviously it wasn’t.. heh

Other Bibles are also translations, etc.

The are all God’s true word but just worded differntly. ie: The Message, NIV (new international version)

I was thinking that maybe king james had to have been a prophet if he was allowed to re-write the bible.