"There is safety in believing the words of the KJV Bible." A powerful quote by our Board member, JD731.

[Alan Dale Gross]

It bothers me greatly when KJVO people concentrate on English and forget the Great Commission.

I'm not KJVO. Looks like my home church is supporting 25 Missionaries and have organized 40 churches. We're Missionary.

We need to get the Bible into every language in the world to fulfill the Great Commission.

The Trinitarian Bible Soceity shows where I count over 150 translations in foreign languages: TBS Translation Projects - Trinitarian Bible Society

They could probably use your support.

I don't understand what you mean by this.

I never was saying that it is their opinion of the King James Bible from anyone around the World that they would be speaking about, but that if anyone had anything to say on any subject, they'd be hard-pressed to come of with a more true and God-honoring statement of faith than;

"There is safety in believing the words of the KJV Bible."​

 

[John of Japan]

I'm not KJVO. Looks like my home church is supporting 25 Missionaries and have organized 40 churches. We're Missionary.

The Trinitarian Bible Soceity shows where I count over 150 translations in foreign languages: TBS Translation Projects - Trinitarian Bible Society

They could probably use your support.

I am friends with their American representative, a truly blessed Bible translator, currently working as a consultant on five different missionary translations. He was the lead translator on the Mongolian Bible.

The TBS has for years given free TR New Testaments to our Greek students, and I appreciate that. However, we are informally involved with a different Bible translation ministry.

I never was saying that it is their opinion of the King James Bible from anyone around the World that they would be speaking about, but that if anyone had anything to say on any subject, they'd be hard-pressed to come of with a more true and God-honoring statement of faith than;

"There is safety in believing the words of the KJV Bible."​

Okay.

 

[Charlie24]

This, beyond anything else said by you, or anyone else on the Board, or BY ANYONE anywhere in the whole World, is an extremely POWERFUL statement.

And the God Who Superintended over His Words being Preserved there has received this HIGH LEVEL OF BELIEF AS WORSHIP, you can be sure. He is very Pleased when His People believe His Word and this is God's Word. We all better believe that. It is one of the greatest blessings in this life, to know that we can be sure WE HAVE GOD'S WORD IN OUR HANDS AND WHAT WE HOLD IN OUR HAND IS GOD'S WORD.

And since God's Word tell us about WHO HE IS,
GOD HAS MAGNIFIED HIS WORD ABOVE ALL HIS NAME.

"I will worship toward thy Holy Temple, and praise Thy Name for thy Lovingkindness and for Thy Truth: for Thou hast Magnified Thy Word above All Thy Name." Psalm 138:2.

Not only is there safety in believing the words of the King James Bible, it is the perfect place, comparatively speaking, along with the other Providentially Preserved family of reliable Bible Manuscripts, to reference every verse from other publications whose authors and proponents all profess dogmatically that they don't believe we have God's Word in a Volume or a Book, but that it might be contained in the various collections of original language manuscripts, somewhere and so they are going to try to keep looking for it for us......

But, God didn't have a plan whereby His Word would one day need to be reconstructed by the thumb twiddling, navel-gazing fickle of self-absorbed, sin-cursed man's carnality, who had the bright idea to treat its 'translation' like that of any other book, while in the process ignoring its Author.

You have a Message for them, today!!!

I've used the KJV all of my life, never using another version.

I agree there is safety in believing the words of the KJV Bible.

 

[Scarlett O.]

I've used the KJV all of my life, never using another version.

I agree there is safety in believing the words of the KJV Bible.

There's nothing wrong with reading the King James Bible. It's a good Bible, although, not perfect. Nothing is "perfect" except the originals.

It's not my own Bible of choice, but no skin off my back if it is someone else's. Read it daily and read it in peace.

Here's why I don't use it primarily anymore. I teach the Bible.

[1] To kindergarteners every summer at church
[2] To 6th graders at the Christian school where I taught
[3] To the old ladies at church {ages 65-99} who are now all with the Lord.....and now I'm the old lady.
[4] And now to my peers.
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Because I teach I use good and reputable versions that are easier to teach and learn from. The NKJV, ESV, NIV, or NLT.

For example, if I am teaching in Romans 12 and get to verse 9 - Here it is in the King James: "Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good."

I have three college degrees. Three. And I have to break down the word dissimulation to its root parts to understand that it means fakeness or not real. My students, no matter their age, shouldn't have to do that. Most can't.

Here's the same verse in other reputable versions.

NKJV = "Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good."
ESV = "Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good."
NIV = "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good."
NLT = "Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good. "

Read the King James or another good one. Just read.​

 

[Ben1445]

My students, no matter their age, shouldn't have to do that. Most can't.

Is that not the job of a student?
No wonder our children are failing. We don’t expect them to do anything that constitutes learning.

 

[Scarlett O.]

Is that not the job of a student?
No wonder our children are failing. We don’t expect them to do anything that constitutes learning.

For 32 years in the public/charter classroom and for 4 years in the Christian classroom, you had better believe that I expected MUCH from my students. And got it out of them.

Could you, at the age of 10 have dissected the word "dissimulation" and determined it to mean hypocrisy?

Our students are NOT, NOT ALL failing. Some are. Some are NOT. I'll never understand this mindset of Christians towards school teachers. Never.