/lit/ - Literature

>>22215702
Consider what it says in the following Scripture passage:

"But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
(Matthew 4:4)

>>21886959
>Committees too often revert to the mean (the KJV) to meet the expectations of readers while also writing for a not very intelligent audience with what is barely an 8th grade reading level.
More like a machine translated level, because the NIV might sell more copies, but it is not actually the most read Bible. There are other purposes for having such bible versions besides reading. Placeholders, IOW. Anyone who actually tries to read it seriously realizes it's a hack, which is why no one does. And I think that's the real point of all these new versions with the critical text, by the way.

>The KJV is a little too rosenkrantz and guildenstern in the former and shoves established dogma into and cleans up the latter
Examples?
>the first "official" translation into English
The Authorized Version or KJV wasn't technically the first official translation (that goes to the Great Bible), but it is the last. A little mentioned fact is that for unknown reasons the British monarchy would not give any kind of authorization to the Revised Version of 1885.

The authorization given to the 1611 translation probably helped it serve as a standard for the English language in its developmental stages, as you see Dictionaries such as those of Samuel Johnson and Noah Webster quoting extensively from it.

>>20985965
>Why should I convert to what is at its core a jewish religion despite being made open to goyim later?
That's not what Christianity is and people who say that are zionists and talmudists. The people who today call themselves Jews have nothing to do with the biblical people group of Israel. They've falsified much of what should be common knowledge about Scripture. Our Creator has a purpose for every one of us, He is willing that each one of us should come to the knowledge of the truth. That's why we have been given the gospel of truth, which is God's word. As it says in Scripture, "we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip." And in the Proverbs, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Amen.