The King James Only movement asserts that the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible is superior to all other translations of the Bible. Adherents of the King James Only movement, largely members of evangelical, conservative holiness movement, traditional High Church Anglican, and Baptist churches, believe that the KJV is the greatest English translation ever produced, needing no further improvements, and they also believe that all other English translations which were produced after the KJV are corrupt.
These assertions are generally based upon a preference for the Byzantine text-type or the Textus Receptus and a distrust of the Alexandrian text-type or the critical texts of Nestle-Aland, and Westcott-Hort, on which the majority of twentieth- and twenty-first-century translations are based.
Who knows or cares which version of 'the bible' is best? Don't like one version, pick another. I went with other.
Luther's Bible was a bestseller in its time. About 200,000 copies in hundreds of reprinted editions appeared before Luther died in 1546. However, the book remained too expensive for most Lutherans; an unbound copy of the complete 1534 Bible cost the equivalent of a month's wages for the average laborer. Instead, the Bible was bought by churches, pastors, and schools.
The King James Bible is allegedly not the most accurate translation and was written in plain, ecumenical English of its day and age. Much as deifying any version of the Bible, King James or otherwise borders on heresy and damnation.
I was only asking .....Is the King James Bible superior to all other Bibles?
I voted no. I usually just go with the cheapest one.
Men have been tortured and executed for translating the Bible into common languages, men who were exactly as ignorant, racist and misogynist as all other men at the time.Is the King James Bible superior to all other Bibles?
LMAO
Which translation? English? Arabic? Swahili? Inupiat??
Superior in what way? The pictures?
Is there some heretofore unknown version of the King James that wasn't written by ignorant racist misogynist men?
Now one out of 9 voters says: Yes, of course!
Ditto.I also voted no and other.
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