KJV Onlyism | Rapp Report Daily 010 | Andrew Rappaport | SFE | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. So as we've been addressing the issues with the
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- King James Bible, we have to address the issue of King James only -ism. This is the idea that the only
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- Bible that we should use today, and the only Bible that God intended us to use, is the
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- King James version of the Bible. The idea here is that any newer translation is of the devil, that is how it's usually worded.
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- Most often they want to attack the NIV, New International Version, because it is a freer translation than the literal translation of something like the
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- King James. But they are against any of the newer translations, and came out very much against them.
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- Are translations newer than the King James, or other than the King James, wrong? Well, if you were to look at the preface of the first edition of the 1611
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- King James Version, you will see that the translators argued that there was a reason to give a newer, updated translation of the
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- Bible, as opposed to the ones that already existed, like the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible, and Tyndale's Bible, was because of the fact that the language had changed.
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- Remember, the English language was not even standardized before the King James Bible.
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- That's really what makes it such a significant work. It standardized the English language.
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- But those translators expected that the language would continue to change, and that the translation would also need to continue to change.
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