Warbler said:

C3PX said:

I have a few questions:

What's up with the Kings James only movement?

Why would people need Bible plans? I don't find it hard to read a few chapters everyday. Maybe they're too busy.

1. Fear of change. The KJV is a very old and very outdated text. There is really no reason to be using it today. Sure, it was very accurate in its day, but we have more accurate English translations today.

old? yes. outdated? I don't know.

It is definitely outdated. It is outdated in that it uses an archaic form of English, and it is outdated in that it predates the Dead Sea Scrolls and it is translated from a flawed manuscript.

Calling other translations special editions would be to suggest the KJV was the original, but just like all the other versions, the KJV is a translation (or more accurately an "interpretation"). The Bible as a whole was originally written in three different languages, and none of those were English. I know a lot of people talk about how it sounds more poetic than other versions, but I think that has a lot to do with it sounding much like Shakespeare. I bet you could make people consider your grocery list poetic, if you simply add a couple of "thee"s and a few "thou"s to it.

The whole notion of the KJV being the only one inerrant word of God is a very Anglo-centric way of thinking.