Subject: What is the best version of the Bible? |
Bible Note: I can go along with your view and no one can deny the fruit of the KJ bible. When a person says "Bible" I think of KJ. Since I look for some sense that God wants me to use a Bible He approves of, what I 'feel' is correct will be placed along heavily advertised scholarship claims. Since the marketplace produces bibles for profit, I am justified in avoiding those that 'feel' wrong. Many of the easy reader Bibles have amazing claims of good scholarship and endorsed by my favorite evangelist and can be had for a gift to a ministry. When I spot something I 'feel' is off, I can check it against reference materials and against the KJ. So if I realize something may be wrong in a version I am reading, I have a 'feeling' that I should check the matter as best I can. The Majority Text is a great standard to go by, as well as the lives of the KJ translators, most were hounded into poverty and death, as you may know. The translators risked a great deal to bring the KJ out to the common man, making the Book even more valuable in my eyes. |