Permission to use a Bible?

Here's a site with some info on the Mor(m)on KJV, the Joseph Smith Edition:

http://www.bible-researcher.com/jst.html

I've never seen Joey's edition, but as you can see, it could very easily fool a new Christian or anyone who hadn't read an AUTHENTIC BV very much. I hope you alse see how easily any other valid BV and not just the KJV could be thus altered by a charlatan of today if not for strict enforcing of copyright laws.

BTW, I haven't seen anyone have a legal problem from copying extensively from any copyrighted BV for any intended use of a Bible. In fact, I believe the publishers were rather pleased that their product was getting all that free publicity. We have no way of knowing now if this was GOD'S WILL or not, but I'd guess it IS, as he still oversees His word and won't allow it to become too corrupted. Notice that the clearly-bogus versions' sales are nearly zero after "promising" starts by some of them. About the only ones still selling are the cult-specific ones such as NWT, sold by the JWs' own printers/publishers.

 

The KJV-onlyists praise the KJV for (allegedly) not having a copyright, but they get their noses out of joint when someone (e.g. Scofield) alters the text, which of course they are entitled to do to a non-copyright text.

Talk about wanting to have your cake and eat it, too.

 

So do I. I have tyndale's 1535, 1560 and 1599 Geneva, and the Bishop's and the KJV and the NKJV plus other modern English versions. And I can use each and every one of them without question.