|
I cannot speak for TBS, but real King Jimmy users know that the few textual changes (real textual problems, not the made up ones that come from using faulty texts) that apply to the newer versions, you can apply to the KJV. Real KJV users know this. We also update the KJV to try and reflect what it originally said, as there have been variants. Real KJV users use it for more than a 'historical' translation, but where the original texts come from, and the language that is used. It's written in a 12 grade reading level, so alot of so-called 'unable to understand' comes from the peoples lack of education, not the 'archaic'-ness of it that many people claim. By using a higher level of English, there is more depth and meaning that comes through that the original writers meant.
The Trinitarian Bible Society has a bunch of great articles that expound and refute alot of the 'common' reason that people site as reasons that the modern versions are better. Or that we should even be using them.
Some versions are O.K., But they are best used to come along the KJV and help draw out the meaning for those whose English isn't up to it.
The reason for an English translation is to enable those who don't read Greek and Hebrew to have a copy of God's word that a person can read. And the KJV does it with the most precision of any translation.
|