What are some arguments against only using the King James Version Bible?
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Although the King James Version is a fine translation, it is in Elizabethan rather than American English. Elizabethan English is almost a dialect. (Easy definition for the word "dialect": A language you can learn in one semester.) Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, can understand the KJV completely without a thick dictionary or a semester of Shakespeare. But the Bible writers themselves didn't stick to "classic" languages. Daniel and Ezra wrote part of their books in the trade dialect Aramaic, and all the New Testament writers except the book of Hebrews, when they quote the Old Testament (which they do a lot) quote the Greek translation of the original instead of re-translating the original. All languages constantly change, and after a number of centuries it will change so completely as to be incomprehensible. King James isn't there yet, but it's getting close.
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