Re: Bible versions (was Re: Subcreation and image [was: RE: Betreft: Re: Steg'swonderful .sig (and a)

Quoth Nik Taylor:
> andrew wrote:
> > The KJV has not been the preferred choice of Bible readers in this
> > country since the release of the Good News Version.
>
> It hasn't?  I certainly meet people who believe that any other version
> is somehow evil, that ONLY the KJV is correct, as if the Bible had been
> written in that Early Modern English, and all other versions were
> translations of it (which I suspect many of those KJV-supporters
> believe).
"If the King's English is good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough
for me."

:)

> And anyway, it's my preferred version for the Psalms.  Of course, I
> also prefer the "Our Father who art in heaven ..." to the Contemporary
> English version.
Wait, what other version is there?  That's the only one I've ever heard.

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