July 15, 2007

• Why KJV is the Authorized Version

  I am reading a chapter out of this every weekend:

  An Understandable History of the Bible  - read it, your eyes will be opened

  Fighting Back!  - this will help answer some questions and reference to questions if you to are a KJV reader may get asked

  Last year as I was using the yellow booklet called the Disciple's Guide to read thru the Bible in a year, I started with the Bible I had on hand - NIV student bible.  Then my son got a NLT with  a metal cover and magnetic clasp, so I started reading my daily chapters in it.  Once I decided to start posting my notes I took while reading the Bible on this xanga site, I used biblegateway.com to copy and paste the verses I jotted down as wanting to post.  I noticed that the publishers version of the NLT at biblegateway and the version we had - even the verses didn't always read word for word - and that sent up a huge "red flag".  So then I decided to go back to the NIV I was using, until I read the NIV was missing verses.  It's true.  And sure, the NIV has footnotes that say some or early manuscripts say... but seriously how many people really read the footnotes, especially if you have 3+ chapters to read?  I personally find footnotes distracting.  Sure sometimes I like to look at the additional info but most of the time the additional info doesn't address the question I was thinking of any way.

  Which verses did the NIV delete?  Here

  SO I decided to dig out of my childhood box my KJV with the picture of Jesus and the children all around HIM on the cover.  Sure I may have looked silly carrying a "child's" Bible around, but at least it was correct.  And yes, at first it was a good challenge to read it...ya know actually having to chew on something instead of having liquid poured into me...but well worth it.  I know that just by reading it (and also reading Charlotte Mason's writings) my brain seems smarter.

  I'll leave you with a drawing/picture:

  

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