tdh86
Puritan Board Freshman
So...I know I posted about KJV updates recently and, please don't think it's a hobby-horse, but I've got a question that's been niggling since my last thread...
Will there ever be any point at which KJV-onlyists would acknowledge that the language of the KJV can be legitimately updated?
I ask the question because I've just started using the KJV Easy Read edition from Whittaker House and, I've heard/read various comments about the edition to the effect of advising against using it because it changes the KJV. But the KJV Easy Read edition ONLY alters the old verb forms (believeth to believes, etc) and the pronouns (thou becomes you and ye becomes you with a 'P' superscript to indicate plurality.) The publishers say that, in effect, the KJV easy reader is a new edition not a new version and I agree with them.
So, since 'believeth' being changed to 'believes' really is no different from changing 'musick' to 'music', is there any good reason not to change it? Just for the record, 'it doesn't need changing' and 'But I like how it sounds' aren't good enough reasons. Listening to exactly the same sermons that my dad used to play in the car on crackly old cassette tapes but that I now have in cleaned up MP3 audio isn't 'wrong' even if some people might prefer how the old cassette sounds. So, what I want to know is, is there any reason that it would be wrong to update verb and pronoun forms? If so, what is it?
By grace,
Tim
Will there ever be any point at which KJV-onlyists would acknowledge that the language of the KJV can be legitimately updated?
I ask the question because I've just started using the KJV Easy Read edition from Whittaker House and, I've heard/read various comments about the edition to the effect of advising against using it because it changes the KJV. But the KJV Easy Read edition ONLY alters the old verb forms (believeth to believes, etc) and the pronouns (thou becomes you and ye becomes you with a 'P' superscript to indicate plurality.) The publishers say that, in effect, the KJV easy reader is a new edition not a new version and I agree with them.
So, since 'believeth' being changed to 'believes' really is no different from changing 'musick' to 'music', is there any good reason not to change it? Just for the record, 'it doesn't need changing' and 'But I like how it sounds' aren't good enough reasons. Listening to exactly the same sermons that my dad used to play in the car on crackly old cassette tapes but that I now have in cleaned up MP3 audio isn't 'wrong' even if some people might prefer how the old cassette sounds. So, what I want to know is, is there any reason that it would be wrong to update verb and pronoun forms? If so, what is it?
By grace,
Tim