Category: King James Bible

I am extremely grateful to Matt Ruma for his amazing study and the countless hours spent researching and compiling this outline. You can find the original audio sermons that Matt presented to the Detroit Church here. The King James Bible The first way He reveals Himself to us, is through the creation. The heavens declare…

The first reason why I believe the King James Bible is the best Bible translation is because of the superior texts from which it was translated.  The Hebrew and Greek texts used by the King James Bible translators are the best foundations of any English Bible that exists today. The Hebrew Scriptures were written by…

We’ve already seen how the King James Bible translators used superior texts in their translation of the Bible. Now let’s look at the King James Bible translators themselves. What kind of men were they? Let’s first look at the spiritual qualifications of the translators by looking at the introductory remarks to the King James Bible…

Let’s look at the superior technique, or method, that was used to translate the King James Bible. The translators were divided into three groups, Westminster, Oxford, and Cambridge. With each group, there were two subgroups, called companies, for a total of six companies. On an average, each company was made up of seven to eight…

Dynamic Equivalence will often lead to changes in the doctrine, remember it’s thought-for-thought, what the translator thinks the intent of the author is, or the meaning behind what the author is trying to say. Doctrine is a set of beliefs, principles, teachings, or rules that form the basis of a particular philosophy, religion, ideology, or…

This King James Bible was translated at a fortuitous time. The rise of the English empire. “England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare, but the Bible made England.” – Victor Hugo English colonies were beginning to spread around the world in 1611. A settlement was already developing tentatively in Virginia (from…