Featured Real Reasons to Use the KJV

The reasons given are subjective.

The KJV and NKJV are based on the same manuscripts (and commentary) as technically the NKJV is an update to the KJV (maintaining a translation in the vernacular, which is essential).

But to suggest the KJV is based on a superior text is subjective. The KJV isn't the only translation based on the TR.

We can't ignore that the KJV was also based on other translations (it even retains Latin in the OT). There were translation errors (like maintaining the Latin, translating the "sea of reeds").

Most importantly, however, is that the KJV no longer meets its goal to provide God's Word in the English vernacular.


That said, I love the KJV as I have memorized so many verses in that translation. It is familiar to me.

Would I recommend it to a new Christian? No. I would the NKJV, but not the KJV. I'd also the NIV and NASB.

 

Yes. No matter what manuscripts are used they are subjective.

I agree that there is some subjectively in all translations, even though translators try to avoid it.

I was speaking of the linked article.

 

If all of the available manuscripts are purely subjective then man is the god in them.

But none of the manuscripts are purely subjective.

Whether one believes the older (date) manuscripts are more accurate or the earlier used manuscripts are more accurate involved subjectivity. There are good arguments on both sides.

My view, however, is that God's Word transcends the differences in these manuscripts.

Was the KJV wrong to use a Latin name in the OT? Yes, of course it was as this was an English translation. Should they have translated directly from the Greek and Hebrew rather than translating from Latin to Hebrew to English (in places)? Well.....yes, but they had to work with what was available.

 

Given the translations available, I'm there with you. It seems to serve as a barrier to communicating God's Word (nothing against the translation itself, just that it no longer communicates as it once did).

Too many view the KJV as a superior translation by comparing the translation to itself. We have seen that so many times here these threads become boring.

I have actually heard people pray as if they were speaking a language contemporary to the writing of the KJV. That is troubling as it becomes almost (if not actually) ritualistic.

I appreciate the archaic. But I will gladly set aside what appeals to my antiquated likings to effectively communicate Christ.