Loving Life TV

Home Forums DAILY BREAD BY VIKING BOER BIBLE Q & A WITH VIKING BOER Q&A.132.THE BIBLE-Who was the King James of the KJV of the Bible

Viewing 1 post (of 1 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #404146
    VIKING BOER
    Moderator


    Q&A.132.THE BIBLE – Who was the King James of the King James Version of the Bible?

    When Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, Scotland and England united under King James VI of Scotland
    who then became King James I of England, the first of the Stuart line.
    James, born a Catholic but raised a Protestant, ascended to the Scottish throne in 1567 at the age of one
    when his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, was imprisoned and forced to abdicate.
    The idea of researching and writing a new translation of the Bible was broached at a religious conference
    in Aberdour, Fife. The Scottish Reformation was finished before the English Reformation. Puritans and
    Scottish Presbyterians wanted a new Bible that would not carry the same structure as the Bishops’ Bible
    and the Anglican Church.
    The other translations available were the Tyndale version and the Geneva Bible. King James argued that
    ekklesia in Matthew 16:18 which referred to Christ building His “congregation” in the Tyndale
    translation, should be translated as “church.” And James didn’t like the Geneva Bible’s translation of
    Matthew 2:20 which seemed to brand all kings as tyrants.
    In 1604, at the Hampton Court Conference, James authorized theologians to start a new translation for all
    English-speaking parishes. Forty-seven scholars were convened, worked for seven years, and produced
    The King James Authorized Version of the Bible in 1611. (The first English translation of the Bible, the
    Tyndale was produced just 85 years earlier).
    Its dedication read: “To the most High and Mighty Prince James, by the grace of God, King of Great
    Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.”
    Though his translation of the Bible remains his most famous legacy, James also approved the flag for
    Great Britain, sponsored William Shakespeare as a playwright, expanded trade with India, and was the
    namesake for the first permanent colony in the New World (Jamestown).
    Not all was positive in his reign, however. James was widely unpopular and made many enemies in
    Parliament. He may have been bisexual. He opposed the Pope’s power and wrote against Catholicism’s
    influence in politics. That, combined with his holding fast to the idea that kings were only responsible to
    God (the divine right of kings), led to an assassination attempt. In 1605 a group of Catholics attempted to
    kill James, his wife, his son, and Parliament. The Gunpowder Plot, now remembered as Guy Fawkes Day
    failed.
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    TO KNOW MORE – QUESTION MORE – LEARN MORE
    ALWAYS SEEK THE TRUTH AND LIVE THE TRUTH
    THE TRUST WILL SET YOU FREE. FREE INDEED
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Viewing 1 post (of 1 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.