(June 18, 2012 at 6:10 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(June 18, 2012 at 5:59 pm)Ziploc Surprise Wrote: I have a question, how accurate is the information on this graphic? http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s394...6235_n.jpg
I'll note that a lot of believers that I've known avoid the KJV for reasons stated in that image. However, some of the criticisms apply to all translations.
Decades ago people used to say that the KJV was the most accurate translation. Usually these were old timers who were resistant to the modern world (of which there were a lot of these type of people especially in certain denominations like the Southern Baptists). They made up a lot of bullshit reasons why that translation was more accurate. Most of it was bullshit so I won't bother to repeat it. My argument at the time (which went mostly ignored like all my other arguments) was that so much was lost in one's own personal translation from King James English to modern English that it was better to have a modern translation.
On a similar note. Is the KJV translation really the form of English used in King James's time or has the English been modernized somewhat? I heard somewhere (but have not been able to verify) that this was the case but I don't know.
I have studied the Bible and the theology behind Christianity for many years. I have been to many churches. I have walked the depth and the breadth of the religion and, as a result of this, I have a lot of bullshit to scrape off the bottom of my shoes. ~Ziploc Surprise
