Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Wed, 28 May 2025 14:22:28 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

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

<pretense that I am a KJV fanatic snipped, but that is what is being
responded to>

This is utter nonsense.  Nobody (except a few ... non
mainstream types ...) thinks the Bible originated with
the translators hired by King James.  I'm talking about
the originals, written mostly in Koine Greek, one or two,
I think may be written in Aramaic.

>
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.

Well, that would be an improvement over the belief that each
translator translated the whole thing indepently and then, when they
were compared, all the translations were found to be the same.

It's not clear from the above what they actually believe. Or how they
reached that conclusion.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"