stilllearning said:
Hi Crabtownboy
You quoted someone saying........
I have heard this before and this person’s attempt to rewrite history.
The statement that.......
“James the 1st, decided to commission his own translation of the Bible”
Is totally false.
We need to be careful, and check the actual history of the KJV, before posting stuff like this.
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This kind of mis-information, is the favorite took of those who hate the KJV.
For some reason when I hit the "Quote" button on my screen, it doesn't include the quote(s) within the Quote [Must be an
MV-Quote button ---leaves out lots of important stuff! :thumbs: ]
Anyway, most of the quotes that were cited by Crabtownboy were ones that came from me.
They were a surmmarization of the results of my several years of studing the lives and times of various events that occurred in the 16th & 17th centuries in continental Europe and within the realms of the various British Tudor and Stuart monarchs (which would have also included the various fledgling English colonies along the eastern Atlantic coast of North America).
This study has included the published writings of both several well-renowned and highly recognized scholars of the 19th, 20th and early 21st centuries who collectively have earned quite a few post-doctoral degrees from institutes of hgher learning in most every continent on planet earth [Antartctica being the one continent of note from which none have received any earned doctral degrees!], as well as lesser-known authors [who in a few cases possess somewhat questionable backgrounds in solid historical reasearch techniques and dubious compositional skills--{"Cut and Paste" authorship, as some would describe it}].
Some of these writers never touched on the topic of KJVO'ism since they probably either assumed that it was neither a topic that was of such earth-shaking significance in the grand scheme of things nor had the overarching, cut-to-the-core-of things controversy of KJVO'ism yet risen to the level of world-wide importance in their day.
I suppose their focus on such things of obivously less importance such as analyzing the significance of such minor skirmishes such as the various late 19th and early 20th century wars of world-wide imperialism that culminated in "The Great War" / "The War to End All Wars" as it was called back then that shook each continent on planet earth [With, here again, Antarctica being the one notable exception.....Hey, whatsamadder you pengiuns?!!?.....Don't you
KNOW ?!!? :laugh: ], and resulted in the deaths of thousands of people (both young and old; men, women and children; both military and civilian) than the life-and-death topic of why
KJVO'ism must needs reign supreme has since been proven to be a prime example of their mis-placed priorities.
Now, people such as still learning [Interesting that he doesn't include the remainder of his dynamic equivalent citation of 2 Timothy 3:7---H'mmm maybe we've got ourselves a
covert MV'er in our midst here after all! :thumbs: ] makes the implied assertion that little, old ktn4eg (Well, he's half right...I've passed the 62.5 mark on my odometer last month.), because of his interest in studying the history behind such things as to the various and sundry reasons which formed the bases of why and how we now have in our hands the AV 1611, must
of necessity be included within the top echelon of the ranks of those who
HATE his beloved KJV--something for which I'm 100+% positive he's willing to put his life on the line defending to the
bitter end!
As I've indicated to some others on different posts my obvious hatred of the KJV is such degree that I'd:
(1)
Never stoop to citing verses from it to form my BB signature that appears in the some 1.1 k posts I've made on BB over the last 5 or so years of my assocaition with BB [See below]; nor
(2) Certainly
never expend any time or effort in defending the assetion that the KJV translators make a quite proper selection of words such as
baptism /
baptize in their work.
The published results of my findings on this controversial sub-topic of the KJV debate (Which, since I
HATE the KJV, obviously didn't do!) should still be available through the prining/publishing ministry of Tabernacle BC; Lubbock, TX (A ministry whose legacy of defending the KJV via various media is well-known for some 40 years.)
Nope, I've done of those things. Somebody else has--neither with my permission nor authority--viciouisly hijacked my screen name and
for years now misrepresented my true position as one of them thar KJV haters such my partner in this heinous crime as EdSutton and other uneducated and adamantly-unconvinced morons who're cut from the same cloth as old pagan Ed and me!
Where
IS that there
KJVO-posse when you really need'em? :BangHead: