Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

In article <1017k94$brf$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

Mike Van Pelt  <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

Nobody (except a few ... non
mainstream types ...) thinks the Bible originated with
the translators hired by King James.

>
Nobody who actually knows about the Bible, but you would be shocked to
see how many people in the various Southern Protestant traditions believe
that the KJV is the only possible translation and that the translators of
the KJV were able to correct errors in the documents they were working
from, because they were sustained by God.

Yeah, I've run into a few... A church down the road a bit from
me advertises themselves as "King James Only".  I've never
entered their building.  Or even their parking lot.

There is a dramatic difference between people trained at the Yale School
of Divinity and the people trained at Hooterville Bible College.

There's a pretty big gap between those two extremes.  There are
plenty of "considerably more conservative than I am" churches
that prefer New American Standard, or ESV, or NASB, but aren't
dogmatic about which translation.

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