The history behind the KJV | Rapp Report Daily 008 | 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. As we looked at yesterday's podcast, we saw that the

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King James Version of the Bible included the 14 books known as the Apocrypha, along with the 39

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Old Testament books and 27 New Testament books. Why is that so important? Well, we have to understand the history of the time.

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We mentioned that this was not the first English translation. In fact, the first had been the

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Great Bible, commissioned by Henry VIII in 1535. That was the first state

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Bible that had been replaced by the second version, which was the Bishop's Bible in 1568.

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And then, James VI had convened the Hampton Court Conference. He announced a new translation, which was known as the

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King James Version. Why did he do this? Well, when Henry VIII had come to power and separated from the

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Roman Catholic Church, it created a revival, and people wanted a new Bible, and they had used the

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Great Bible. When Mary replaced him, she wanted to return to Roman Catholicism, and in doing so, she replaced the

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Great Bible with the Latin Vulgate. After the reign of Queen Elizabeth, James VI came to power and wanted to bring an end to the disputing over the state

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Bible, as there had constantly been, between the Protestants and Roman Catholics, a fighting over which would be the state

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Bible. James' solution was to create an English Bible, which is what the Reformers wanted, but he included the

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Apocrypha, which is what the Catholics wanted, bringing unity to have one state Bible that would last even till today.

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