http://briancrussell.net/2009/01/the-king-james-version-sucks/ Creator of Stories Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:33:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://briancrussell.net/2009/01/the-king-james-version-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-877 Marty Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:33:50 +0000 http://briancrussell.net/?p=44#comment-877 Late reply, and not really much more than an inflammatory comment, but here it is: I take quite literally the advice given in The Bible to pray privately rather than publicly. I have had some long and detailed conversations with God, or at least one of his representatives. We can call this "prayer" if that makes you feel comfortable. In these conversations, the answers I received to my questions have always come to me in the language I speak. Suppose a person only speaks Portuguese. Must they learn olde engrish in order to be understood? A dead language is for a dead religion. Try to keep it alive. The God that I know speaks all languages, even the ones that are made up. Words on paper are meaningless. What is in your heart when you speak is what matters. If you read something in an obscure language where the meaning is cloudy, what can you learn? I live in the south where I am surrounded by KJV only, bible thumping, shiny powder blue suit wearing, big-haired, shouting, bellowing, morons whose only answer to any intellectual challenge is to quote scripture in the most unintelligible babbling language you have ever heard. They even do this if you ask how to adjust the valves on a Honda. These people have come to be the face of KJV-onlyism for me. It's a disease. JUST SPEAK ENGLISH! What is so hard about about that? The modern language is infinitely more accurate and descriptive than anything from 400 years ago. The accuracy argument that the KJV can actually CORRECT the original texts is what really scares me. (Only we have the truth, everyone else is wrong.) Is it any wonder that the youth of today are fleeing into gnosticism? People are getting fed up with being treated as if they are stupid by leaders of churches. The KJV represents a broken line of communication, a stagnation of the brain. Late reply, and not really much more than an inflammatory comment, but here it is: I take quite literally the advice given in The Bible to pray privately rather than publicly. I have had some long and detailed conversations with God, or at least one of his representatives. We can call this “prayer” if that makes you feel comfortable. In these conversations, the answers I received to my questions have always come to me in the language I speak. Suppose a person only speaks Portuguese. Must they learn olde engrish in order to be understood? A dead language is for a dead religion. Try to keep it alive. The God that I know speaks all languages, even the ones that are made up. Words on paper are meaningless. What is in your heart when you speak is what matters. If you read something in an obscure language where the meaning is cloudy, what can you learn? I live in the south where I am surrounded by KJV only, bible thumping, shiny powder blue suit wearing, big-haired, shouting, bellowing, morons whose only answer to any intellectual challenge is to quote scripture in the most unintelligible babbling language you have ever heard. They even do this if you ask how to adjust the valves on a Honda. These people have come to be the face of KJV-onlyism for me. It’s a disease. JUST SPEAK ENGLISH! What is so hard about about that? The modern language is infinitely more accurate and descriptive than anything from 400 years ago. The accuracy argument that the KJV can actually CORRECT the original texts is what really scares me. (Only we have the truth, everyone else is wrong.) Is it any wonder that the youth of today are fleeing into gnosticism? People are getting fed up with being treated as if they are stupid by leaders of churches. The KJV represents a broken line of communication, a stagnation of the brain.

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