Your Bible translation

The National Adult Literacy Survey in 1992 and 2003 showed the following results:




The results show the average adult reads at the 9th-grade level. This accounts for the fact that the popular blockbuster novels are written at the 7th grade level. People like to read recreationally two grades below their actual reading skill. The average newspaper is written at the 11th-grade level, the tolerable limit for a 9th-grade reader.
We must reach people at their level to be effective. Talking over their heads won't work. I have a tested and quantified 200 wpm at over 90% comprehension level. acceptable High School levels are 200-225 wpm at only 75% comprehension. If average people could read the well and understand 400 year old British speak, the King James would be sufficient. Other studies show the to 40 High School texts are written at about a 5th grade level. How can we reach them if we don't translate it to them in language they under stand? Unless Salvation is just for educated snobs. Get real!

I have not nor will ever make such a claim. Did I post such a claim?

Any other circular reasoning you'd like to employ, while you're at it?

The Law does not forbid killing; it does forbid murder. "Thou shalt not kill," whatever it meant in 1611, is not correct 21st century English for the commandment.

In the future, when murder loses it’s modern flare then the your ever changing bible will change with the times. Keep updating it to flow with the times.🤔

This kill/murder debate is ridiculous. The KJV is self-contradictory anyway...

Matthew 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

Matthew 19:18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

Shakespeare nor Chaucer was in the curriculum when I graduated HS 47 years ago.

wow man, i had to read both!
i think i had a bit of a leg-up because i was growing up with the KJV, actually. i tell people, if they have trouble with the KJV, it helps to read Shakespeare. it gets your brain used to some of the dialect.

We read Steinbeck, Hemmingway and Orwell.

We read Steinbeck, Hemmingway and Orwell.

we didn't have to read Orwell, but i did anyway.

We were told not to read Vonnegut , so we did.

I gave an example of killing not being murder that happens too often. You are going through an inteersc
intersection with a green light. A car illegally on a cross street runs the red light. You hit it in the drivers side door killing the person. That is not your fault and is not murder. Trying to make the case that this would be murder is impossible!!

Notice in verse. 13 the difference 400 years makes.

i was told that about WS Burroughs, so i did

And what it made obvious? I somtimes didn,t understandt
the point. Kjv kill is too old yet murder is likewise old. Originally, the two english words carries the same meaning, are we not going to used their intended meaning? I believe we need to understand what the bible is saying and not what today is saying.

Agree, allow the Bible to change us not the other way around.

Attention class, the school district and the state has determined it is inapproiate to read Breakfast of Champions. So do not, go to the bookstore or library and get Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Is that understood? (Lol!) I was 17.

i love you, Bob
we'll have breakfast together sometime

Who cares if languages change. What did the word mean in the translation? Our language has been dummied down, modified and slangified that we don’t speak no English no mo. Should God’s word follow suit? Absolutely not. Study more diligently.