The King James Bible: the Story Few literary works have had as tremendous an impact uponthe world as the King James Bible. ... However, manyhave no idea of how the King James Bible came to be. Thestory behind the King James Bible is one that we all shouldknow and understand in order to relate it to modernChristianity in our world.The King James Bible, often referred to as theAuthorized Version even though it was never actuallyauthorized by any legal recourse, began on 16 January 1604 asa request from Puritan leader Dr. ... 97).King James loved the idea. ... 22).Contrary to popular belief, Ki...

• Word Count: 1976
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The Bible has several different versions, i.e., The New King James, New International, New Living, New Century, and New American etc. ... The King James Bible is the most widely used bible amongst Christians. ... A seasoned Christian might use the King James Version because of their strength and maturity in Christ. ... The Old Testament begins with the book of Genesis, the creation of man, and ends with the book of Malachi. ... These 27 seven books are broken down into five parts: the 4 four Gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; Acts (Book Of History), Romans - Hebrews, the 14 books of...

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Statements found in the workbook, and the descriptions in Shirley Guthrie's book on creation. ... He continues to state "it's possible to imagine that God created the watery chaos presupposed in Genesis 1:2 from nothing at an earlier point, but nothing in Genesis 1 demands this conclusion". 1 How does one deduce by adding the word "when", changes the sense of the Statement? ... The statement "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" King James, New king James, New international and many other versions clearly states that God created the earth. ... McFarland's seco...

• Word Count: 1960
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It is obvious when we read the quotation attributed to the serpent in Genesis 3:4 "You will not surely die" that it contradicts what God said in Genesis 2:17, but we understand this contradiction because we know what the serpent said is a lie. It may not be as obvious, why there are contradictory stories of the death of King Saul in the 31st chapter of 1 Samuel and the 1st chapter of 2 Samuel. ... Every Biblical book is conditioned by the language, time and culture in which it was written. ... Every word must be understood as part of its phrase; every phrase as part of its verse; every verse...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The second book of the Christian Bible is the New Testament. ... Arguably the best English translation of the Bible is the King James Version. In 1604, King James collected a small number of England's best scholars to translate a refined edition of the Bible. ... And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done- (Genesis 1: 1-2). ... The story of "Noah and the Great Flood" is told in the Bible in the Old Testament book Genesis and in the Koran in the seventy-first surah. ...

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In the Bible God did, He saw the wickedness of man and brought a "flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life" (Genesis CH 6). ... God and man "King and subject", "Lord and vassal", "Master and Slave" (87). ... Findley's goal, much of the time is to stimulate the reader into an awareness of what is happening, in order "to prevent the horrors that are there in this book" (46). ... In Genesis, God paradoxically exterminates life on Earth because both "man and beast" have degraded Earth with violence (Gen. 6.7-11). ... As I have pointed out earlier, No...

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(Genesis 1:1 Nelson's New King James Version) Throughout time there have been people who have tried to disprove the belief that a holy God created the earth on which we now live. ... In his book, The Battle for the Beginning, John MacArthur states that "One of the unique features of the creation account in Genesis is a repeated stress on the divine creation by fiat--meaning that a simple decree from God brought the created thing into being" (49). ... Arch Bishop James Ussher used the genealogies of the Bible and arrived at a date for the creation of the earth at 4004 B.C. ... No such...

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The Book of Invasions was filled with fabricated stories from different backgrounds of people, made into one to reconstruct Irish history by the king of Munster. ... During the Norse invasions the manuscripts were tossed about in water; an estimate of three hundred manuscripts survived that were written before the seventeenth century (Hazard, Benjamin James. ... For the sake of this research paper and limited time the only version of The Tain that will be used is the one translated by Ciaran Carson. ... This group of people's history was not mentioned in Book of Invasions that the king o...

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As a result of its proximity to original sources, the Gospel of Mark has transformed from a book disregarded for its lowly prose to one of the most important books in the New Testament. ... Simon and Andrew, as well as James and John, drop their nets and follow him. ... The story of Jesus' ministry reaches King Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee who beheaded John the Baptist. ... After dinner, Jesus goes to a garden called Gethsemane and prays while Peter, James, and John wait nearby. ... Jesus is leaving the garden with Peter, James, and John when Judas Iscariot, one of the apostles, ar...

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Much of the book she would publish in 1875, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," contained much of Quimby's material, though Mary would come to denounce Quimby and deny any dependence on his thought. ... She also required followers to buy revised versions of Science and Health regardless of how minimal the changes were. ... It limits its use, however, to the King James Version of the Bible. ... Science and Health • Prayer • Atonement and Eucharist • Marriage • Christian Science Versus Spiritualism • Animal Magnetism Unmasked &bu...

• Word Count: 1876
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Thus the early historical sections of the Bible are concerned with the manifestation of God's will in the events of human existence, while they show the same genealogical interests as the king lists of other peoples. 3 Western Historiography Greek and Roman Historiography It was not until the time of the Greeks that historiography, the writing of organic history, emerged. ... But by far the greatest medieval Arabic historian was Ibn Khaldun, who created an early version of sociological history to account for the rise and decline of cities and civilizations. ... Turner, em...

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