INERRANT BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS

JAMES WHO?

Even though good modern translations of the bible are available today, many fundamentalists refuse to read any translation but the Authorized Version, otherwise known to many of them as the Saint James Bible.

The James to whom they refer is King James VI of Scotland, who became King James I of England when Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603. He did not like the Geneva Bible because it was too Protestant, so he had a panel of scholars make a new traslation suitable for the church of England.

The King James, or Authorized Version was completed in 1611. It sounded old-fashiooned even in its own day, but it is one of the great works of the English language. Even though it is not based on accurate texts, many poeple think it is infallible.

Although King James was head of bothe the Church of England and the Church of Scotland, he was not personally religious. But neither did he permit freedom of religion. If you lived in Scotland, you had to be a Presbyterian; if you lived in England, you had to be an Anglican.

King James loved to hunt, and enjoyed tramping in the warm blood and guts of animals he had killed. And, although he was gather of several children, he preferred to go to bed with young men. Today, almost four hundred years later, King James has become Saint James, the patron saint of fundamentalists.

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