Just a question I have about the KJV though. Apparently the Greek “Mia Sabbaton” was always translated as Sabbath, except for in 2 cases in the New Testament (I forget the verse numbers) where they were “deliberately” translated as “first day of the week” - apparently to get the ball rolling for Sunday worship. Anyone care to shed light on this issue? It would be scary if even the KJV had an error, worse if deliberate!
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This is especially interesting when you consider that US calendars start their week on Sunday, but in England they start on Monday. (These are the only two I can confirm, being the only two countries I've visited.)
So which "first day" is it?
Does it even matter what day of the week you have your Sabbath on? Of course, it makes life easier if everyone has it on the same day, but the names of the days of the week are arbitrary (as is having a seven-day week, come to that); you can have any one of them as your 'rest day'.
The Church Council of Laodicea circa 364 CE ordered that religious observances were to be conducted on Sunday, not Saturday. Sunday became the new Sabbath. They ruled: "Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day."
Uh, oh, Protestants. Guess who's breaking a commandment.
... apparently to get the ball rolling for Sunday worship.
WTF? By 1611, Sunday had been the day of worship for Christians for over a thousand years.
The KJB does have some deliberate "errors". For example, Deuteronomy 33:17 read "and his horns are like the horns of a re'em:" Not knowing what a re'em was, the translators followed the Greek Septuagint and translated it as "unicorn". But "the horns of a unicorn" didn't make sense; so they changed "unicorn" to a plural: "and his horns [are like] the horns of unicorns :"
The KJB has plenty of instances where they translate two occurrences of the same Hebrew word into two different English words. They explain why in their translator's preface - which many fundies have never read. They also deny that the translation is perfect and warn people not to be like the Catholics who insist on only one translation for all time.
Uh oh, I hope this guy isn't going to go into a conniption when he finds out that Wednesday is named after the norse god, Odin (later changed into Wotan, his day of worship was Wednesday)
It would be scary if even the KJV had an error, worse if deliberate!
Prepare to shit bricks, then. There's one infamous edition of the bible (that, for some reason, didn't run for very long), known generally as the Wicked Bible, with a misprint that commands people, on the highest authority, to commit adultery. Oh, and it was a KJV.
The Wicked Bible:
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Courtesy Wikipedia.
First, and this comes from years of studying the Bible and Christian theology, the KJV is full of errors, according to the ancient manuscripts. Second, whenever the Greek in the NT has been translated as the first day of the week, the Greek is "kyriakon", meaning day of the Lord. But you do know you're going to hell for not believing the KJV was hand delivered to the Apostles by god, don't you?
"Just a question I have about the KJV though." tl;dr...
And I have a question about your question: If you homophobic fundies drool over the KJV so much, why should you be so worried about such a trivial detail, considering it's the creation of - at best - a bisexual monarch?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_relationships_of_James_I_of_England
"It would be scary if even the KJV had an error, worse if deliberate!"
Yet, the notion that the very basis of your beliefs is homosexual you don't find scary?!
Talk about blind faith. Now that's scary. Thank fuck I'm an Atheist.
The fact I'm using something - a computer - the development of such which was mainly by Alan Turing - a homosexual, and an Atheist - is something to be proud of.
Better get rid of yours, Mattwerk. It's gay after all.
> It would be scary if even the KJV had an error, <
Oh! *Gasp* Heaven forfend that you would even suggest such a possibility!!11!@h1TL3R!!12!@
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