KJV vs Contemporary Translations. You will be amazed, when reading the search results, at the accuracy, precision, and consistency of the Bible over thousands of years and dozens of scribes. Open that Bible that sits on the shelf. Load the original King James on your smart phone for easy reference anywhere, anytime. Load the original King James on your desktop computer to supplement study. Consider the consistency, precision and the interconnectivity of The Word of God, His love letter to us.
Imagine it similar to this image of U. Each scholar was assigned a portion of text, each scholar reviewed each of the other members text, then the team would review the results as a group.
Next, they passed their work to the other 5 teams. Then two from each team reviewed the final text. That's 14 reviews of each word over seven years. The king then sent the final version to the bishops of England for their experts to review, and the results were brought back to the final review team for completion.
The teams focused on verbal equivalence to translate word for word, then formal equivalence to translate noun for noun, adjective for adjective, etc. They removed most footnotes from the Geneva bible and kept mostly cross references.
Their purpose was not a new translation, but to unify the others, making good ones better, into one principal one. The Bible is our contract with eternity. What does your contract with eternity say? Has society improved since the mid 20th C, when the industry of Christianity began to abandon the KJV for contemporary, royalty-driven translations?
