Originally posted by Woodencross:


As for the MANY VERSIONS out there, there are some that are considered better than others, but the King James Version, which I don't use actually, is very accurate.



Not to mince words but, "very"?

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The Encyclopedia Americana (1956, Vol. XIV, p. 81) said: â??Much confusion and misunderstanding has been caused through the early translators of the Bible persistently rendering the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades and Gehenna by the word hell. The simple transliteration of these words by the translators of the revised editions of the Bible has not sufficed to appreciably clear up this confusion and misconception.â?

In the King James Version the word â??hellâ? is rendered from she?´ohl?´ 31 times and from hai?´des 10 times.....Vineâ??s Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (1981, Vol. 2, p. 187) says: â??HADES . . . It corresponds to â??Sheolâ?? in the O.T. [Old Testament]. In the A.V. of the O.T. [Old Testament] and N.T. [New Testament], it has been unhappily rendered â??Hell.â??â?



'By modern translations, their more accurate renderings, they do not leave the English reader to imagine that the inspired Christian writers used only one Greek word for our English word â??worldâ? in the King James Version Bible. Even in the Hebrew Scriptures there are five distinct Hebrew words that the King James Version Bible translates by the one English word â??world.â? In the Christian Greek Scriptures there are four distinct Greek words that the King James Version renders into English as â??world.â? You can see that the result of this would be religious confusion of mind.'

"Some older Bibles, such as the King James Version, end the Lordâ??s Prayer with what is known as a doxology (an expression of praise to God): â??For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.â? The Jerome Biblical Commentary states: â??The doxology . . . is not found in the most reliable [manuscripts].â?"

I use the Authorized version in my studies but hardly can we admit it to be VERY accurate.

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So many changes have been made, many of them in the readings of passages, that the Committee on Versions (1851-56) of the American Bible Society found 24,000 variations in six different editions of the King James Version!


And it has been 150 years since then, so no doubt more changes and revisions, but all for the better? Thats's why we refer to translations that use the original MSS as well. Hence, your "accurate" KJV is somewhat misleading. Esp since, as we know, there IS a difference between a version and translation anyway.

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