What is the KJV Only movement?
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What is the KJV Only movement? Is the King James Version the only Bible we should use?
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- What is the KJV only movement? Is the KJV the only bible we should use?
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- We're going to answer those questions. Many people have strong and serious objections to the translation methods and textual basis for the new translations and therefore take a strong stance in favor of the
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- KJV. Others are equally convinced that newer translations are an improvement over the
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- KJV in their textual basis and translation methodology. The KJV only movement claims its loyalty to be to the
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- Textus Receptus, a Greek New Testament manuscript compilation completed in the 1500s.
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- To varying degrees, KJV only advocates argue that God guided Erasmus, the compiler of the
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- Textus Receptus, to come up with a Greek text that is perfectly identical to what was originally written by the biblical authors.
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- However, upon further examination, it can be seen that KJV only advocates are not loyal to the
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- Textus Receptus, but rather only to the KJV itself. The New Testament of the
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- New King James Version is based on the Textus Receptus, just as the KJV is. Yet, KJV only advocates label the
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- New King James Version just as heretical as the NIV, NAS, etc.
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- Beyond the New King James Version, other attempts have been made to make minimal updates to the New King James, only modernizing the archaic language while using the exact same
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- Greek and Hebrew manuscripts. These attempts are rejected nearly as strongly as the New King James and other newer
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- Bible translations. This proves that KJV only advocates are loyal to the King James Version itself, not to the
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- Textus Receptus. KJV only advocates have no desire or plan to update the
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- KJV in any way. The King James Version certainly contains English that is outdated, archaic, and sometimes confusing to modern
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- English speakers and readers. It would be fairly simple to publish an updated King James Version with the archaic words and phrases updated into modern 21st century
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- English. However, any attempt to edit the KJV in any way results in accusations from KJV only advocates of heresy and perversion of the
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- Word of God. When the Bible is translated for the first time into a new language today, it is translated into the language that the culture speaks and writes today, not the way they spoke and wrote 400 years ago.
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- The same should be true in English. The Bible was written in the common, ordinary language of the people at that time.
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- Bible translations today should be the same. That is why Bible translations must be updated and revised as languages develop and change.
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- The KJV only movement is very English focused in its thinking. So why should people who read
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- English be forced to read the Bible in outdated, archaic English while people of all other languages can read the
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- Bible in modern, current forms of their languages? Our loyalties are to the original manuscripts of the
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- Old and New Testaments written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Only the original languages are the
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- Word of God as he inspired it. A translation is only an attempt to take the meaning of the original languages and communicate in a way that we can understand in English.
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- However, none of the modern translations are perfect. Every one contains verses that are at least somewhat mistranslated.
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- By comparing and contrasting several different translations, it is often easier to get a good grasp on what the verse is saying than by only using one translation.
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- Our loyalty should not be to any one translation, but to the inspired, inerrant
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- Word of God that is communicated by the Holy Spirit through the translations. That answers the question, what is the
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