lonetree Posted February 21, 2018 Report Share Posted February 21, 2018 (edited) 18 hours ago, NightSG said: For modern "students," it is; they can't handle the language. Too many of them are getting out of high school barely able to comprehend simple, concise English, so the KJV looks as odd to them as Chaucer does to us. Short of re-educating them from about second grade on, a more simplified Bible is about the only way they're going to understand it. Something like this, maybe: http://babylonbee.com/news/tldr-edition-66-books-bible/ To be fair, the course is on the NT in its 'early historical context' and New Testament studies left the KJV behind many, many decades ago(a New Testament seminary prof. said almost the same thing to a class I had in the 1980s)-so his statement 'it's just too old' should be seen in that light. Perhaps I should also be grateful that the translation is still important enough to be warned against using it in a course of this type. It still casts some sort of shadow. Edited February 21, 2018 by lonetree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonetree Posted February 21, 2018 Report Share Posted February 21, 2018 On 2/18/2018 at 10:39 PM, Sunday21 said: My fav is 3 Ne 11 when Christ appears. I do wish the 2nd coming would get here...maybe by the end of March? I really need a vacation! And the genie spoke, saying... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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