Thank you for your responses so far. Please do not turn this thread into an apologia for the KJV, which is an interesting way to answer the question (so again, thank you for that perspective), but I believe misguided. It's my opinion that newer translations are an important asset to the church as she proclaims the gospel to the nations today, and I think this belief is presupposed in the first post -- a legitimate work to be done (textual scholarship & translations), only it seems to be outside the hands of the church. Further thoughts?

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Casey Bessette
Westminster OPC • West Suburbs of Chicago

"It is part of the calling of the ekklesia to learn to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge and also to make known within the world of science 'the manifold wisdom of God' in order that the final end of theology, as of all things, may be that the name of the Lord is glorified. Theology and dogmatics, too, exist for the Lord's sake." — Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1, p. 46