For, according to James McGrath, the ignoramuses at ‘PocketDoctrines’ are actually asserting that the KJV is better than the originals- for a list of reasons which demonstrate their inability to think clearly.
‘PocketDoctrines’ must be an assemblage of dilettantes who don’t know anything about how books (from scrolls) developed. Nor do they know how to exegete Jeremiah 36, which says nothing about God destroying scrolls but a wicked king doing so. Nor are they aware of the fact that some of us actually do read ancient languages and- believe it or not, the KJV is derived from those sources, they are not dependent on it. Point 5 is utterly anglo-centric and ignores the truth that most of the world doesn’t read English. And, further, what did the people who lived before 1611 read? Are we to believe they had no bible just because they didn’t have the KJV? Point 6 is just stupidity enfleshed. And point 7 proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the KJV only crowd knows nothing about the history of the text.
In sum, the people who produced the rubbish at ‘PocketDoctrines’ are dilettantes of the most ignorant and uninformed sort. So, here’s your Dilly, ‘PocketDoctrines’:
I thought it was a joke list. That can’t actually exist.
Sadly there are people that ignorant.
I fear that a Dilly is too generous. The problem with dilettantes is that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. However, I would be reluctant to suggest that even a little knowledge is operative in this particular instance.
“Point 5 is utterly anglo-centric and ignores the truth that most of the world doesn’t read English.”
That one alone should give themselves a clue that what they say is pure madness! I confront KJV only often with the same question but I express it this way: “Do you mean that the Kings James English is now the new (or old) sacred language?” “Have all those years that I read the Bible in Portuguese, translated by a Dutch Reformed who is my last namesake, make me a pagan?
Now, reflect with me: if there is no original and even if there were no one could read them because they are in a incomprehensible language therefore being useless, isn’t that the same as to say that if English is not my language and I don’t understand, or comprehend English then the KJV is also useless? Am I making sense?
Are these people actually serious! #speechless