The KJV Only People Would Consign the Bible to Oblivion

In Britain there’s a move by some to send a copy of the KJV to every school child.  As you might imagine, this has caused Britain’s many secularists to get over-heated.  Enter this letter to the editor of the Guardian-

Secularists should rethink their oppposition to Michael Gove’s scheme to send a new copy of the King James Bible to every school. What better way could there be to consign the living word to oblivion than to bury it in Jacobean-speak?

Very Rev Richard Giles
Tynemouth

Giles understands what the KJV only people don’t.  And that is, if the Bible is incomprehensible, it’s useless.  The Living Word can’t be chained to one particular translation.  It refuses to be the slave of any one people or tongue.

Remarkably, the KJV only folk don’t seem to have the mental faculties to understand such a simple fact, believing, it seems, that one old and now virtually obsolete version is to be preferred to renditions which make Scripture accessible.  Too bad history will leave them behind too, just as it has left behind every translation of the Bible ever produced.

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