Did God write the King James Bible?

The King James Bible is just a translation. The original text was written in Hebrew and Greek .

"One fine English morning in 1611 A.D., the heavens opened and the glory of the Lord shone forth. As His holy angels blew their trumpets, a book whose pages had been inscribed with holy fire was seen descending from the sky and landing on the lap of His Majesty, King James of England."

Seriously, that's *not* how it went, although I've met a few Christians who probably entertain that fantasy. The King James Version was translated by a team of biblical scholars appointed by King James for the task of producing a revised English Bible.

It's too bad that many modern reprints of the KJV no longer include the original translator's preface. It explains how this version came to be, and they even admit that their book is simply a human work of translation, and therefore necessarily imperfect. It certainly isn't the perfect translation that KJV-only advocates claim.

http://dbts.edu/blog/the-embarrassing-preface-to-t...

With the advancement of biblical studies, the discovery of much older manuscripts than were available to the KJV translators, and even the evolution of the English language, the KJV has been rightfully superseded by newer translations.

God didn't write any of them. They are all written by humans. You'd think, if nothing else, the fact that it is written from a third person perspective that it wasn't God doing the talking. Why would God say "And God saw that it was good."? Every mention of God is in a third person perspective. Also, it is written by several authors, not just one. Each gospel is attributed to a different author. Although, whether or not they ACTUALLY wrote it is dubious at best. Each consecutive version is just a revision of the previous one. So IF the ORIGINAL WERE the INFALLIBLE WORD OF GOD,why did it need a rewrite? The bible is a human creation, and so is the God that it promotes.

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The KJ bible, is a translation appointed by King James of England, who more than likely had a polictical agenda.

The KJV is not translated from the "critical text" which are the oldest manuscripts but from the TR which only uses manuscripts that are no older than the 12th century.

Here is a independent accuracy chart that compares most bibles with the "critical text" see where the KJV comes out !:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040602211507/http://h...

No, but God saw fit to use King James to produce an English translation of the Bible that could be understood by people living at that time.

King James VI of Scotland and I of England didn't care for the translations of the Bible in circulation at the end of the 16th century and so he authorized that a new translation of the Bible into English be started. The objective was to have one standard version of the Bible to be used across all English speaking parishes. The task of translation was undertaken by 47 scholars, many of whom were highly skilled in ancient languages. So it was not King James who wrote the Bible, but merely authorised a new translation.

King James VI of Scotland and I of England was an imperfect man whom God used in the outworking of His divine purpose. James may have believed in the divine right of Kings to rule, but it was God who used the people and the events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to ensure His word became available to ordinary people.

P.S. Why has a question about God and the Bible ended up in the Arts and Humanities section?

The finger of God wrote the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone, and also the words on the plaster of Nebuchadnezzar's palace, the night he was overthrown. Jesus wrote with his finger some words in the dust of the ground when a woman caught in adultery was brought before Him. All of that was thousands of years before the King James Bible was translated from its original languages and printed, in 1611.

There is a very interesting history of how the KJV came to be translated and produced, with a long pedigree of the manuscripts it was translated from. The original Bible manuscripts (the autographs) no longer exist. They had been written by various men over a period of some 1,600 years, then faithfully copied by believers over the following centuries.

Did He write the Bible in English? No. Did He write the original manuscripts? No, though the idea that came down to us was that the writers were inspired by Him to write what they wrote.

Since the books of the Bible contradict themselves, I believe the Bible was a record of an enlightenment process over the centuries. They did not know the nature of God, but they wrote what they thought He thought and did - particularly for the Jewish race. We Christians don't know the nature of God either, but we think we're closer to knowing than they were, since we believe that Jesus had the nature of God and showed it to us. We didn't understand, and still don't. (Perhaps if we put our minds to it and did comprehend, we'd have to be less grasping and more welcoming, which we don't want to be.)

No. King James did. Thats why its called the King James Bible.

No. Nor did King James.

The entire Bible are all of God's words.

He told a number of authors what to write.