re: #32 elizajane

The 1611 King James Bible is one of the great pieces of prose in the English language from the age of Shakespeare. I cannot understand why he would use that version because it’s really hard reading for a child today, and the content is the same, so what’s the point? But as a piece of literature it’s a treasure. Definitely what I choose when I want to read something from the Bible.

King James Only movement

The bottom line: Quite a few fundies weirdly assert that the KJV has some degree of divine inspiration or authority that is lacking in other translations, especially those “compiled using 20th century rationalistic principles of scholarship.”