Comments on: Claiming that the King James Version Is Easier to Read than Modern Versions

By: pastor's wife

pastor's wife — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:13:58 +0000

WIN!!!

By: AnnaC

AnnaC — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:58:14 +0000

O.M.G.

“flee evil every time it appears” Wow. I never thought of it that way. I was always taught the whole “appearance of evil” stuff that of course everyone else here was too. I literally never thought of it as “flee evil every time it appears” until just now, when I read your comment. Totally changes things. And that’s totally the meaning you would get out of just reading the text without having had the whole “appearance of evil” doctrine rammed down your throat repeatedly. But isn’t it crazy how after you’ve heard that so many times, it’s nearly impossible to NOT interpret it that way in your head??? (at least for me- it had never even crossed my mind to think about it any other way before now.) Seriously, thank you.

I have a hard time reading the KJV anymore, and this just solidifies that feeling. I can’t read it without all the condemning ideas and thoughts rushing back. And I just can’t handle that right now. I’ve asked DH to pick up an ESV for me (he’s at the mall a lot more than I am), and I’m hoping that a new translation will help me to see things in a new light.

By: Lee Roy

Lee Roy — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:04:51 +0000

“If John The Baptist used the King James Version, It’s Good Enough For Me” (Thanks, Glory Bugles, for this great song.!) http://www.glorybugles.com

By: RWales

RWales — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:14:53 +0000

If I had a penny for every time I have heard the doctrine of illumination misused to say that the Holy Spirit gives readers of the KJV an instant complete understanding of a language they have never used and don’t fully understand . . .

By: gondalph

gondalph — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:45:47 +0000

“Suffer” then meant allow, as in “suffer the little children to come unto me.”

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:22:49 +0000

The KJV is not easy to read? Why, I’m astonied.

By: Reforming Baptist

Reforming Baptist — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:41:08 +0000

I was there at Pastors School 1996 when Hyles used that thing…brilliant

By: Darrell

Darrell — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:12:12 +0000

1611girl: The studies are actually based on things like number of words per sentence and number of syllables per word.

There’s really no test for things like “changed word meanings”

By: Jordan M. Poss

Jordan M. Poss — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:53:23 +0000

Darrell: I thought so. The idea of a readability issue ties the two together nicely.

What was strange to me were fellow students at Bob Jones who would complain that the dialogue in the annual Shakespearean plays was impossible to understand. Most of these complainers would then try to exegete from the KJV.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:47:37 +0000

In the interest of disclosure, i still do all my personal reading from the King James and most of my study as well.

But I don’t fool myself that the text would be easier for the non-churched person to understand than some other versions such as the NASB or ESV.