Aloha! New with a big question!

[Aractus]

As a past Christian I was taught that the King James Version (what's this version thing?), was the actual word of God , (suggesting that all other bibles [that weren't word for word the same] were false), therefore un-questionable. hock:

The KJV (hereafter referred to as the AV - ie Authorised Version) was based on the wrong Greek to begin with. Yes, about 98.5% of the Greek was totally correct, but 1% was erroneous (didn't belong in the Bible) and 0.5% were errors in the text. Also, it wasn't just based on the Greek, the translators were told to use certain existing English translations too (but not the Catholic version - the Douay–Rheims version of course). The Catholics were translating from the Vulgate - which became scripture at the Council of Trent in the 14th century.

The biggest difference between the Geneva and the AV of course is the study notes from the Geneva Bible were removed. But the text itself of the AV is something like 80% similar to the Geneva, it is abundantly clear that it was built off the back of it, just as the Geneva Bible was built on-top of the Tyndale Bible. So from a purest POV you could argue that the translators shouldn't have had to look at any other translation and work only from the Greek and Hebrew texts.