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take you there. This is Verity where every woman is a theologian. Welcome back

friends I am so excited to continue the canon series today with our

episode exclusively about the King James version of the Bible. But before we

begin I want to make a very important caveat. I am not doing this episode to be

against any specific version of the Bible, especially not the King James. But we do have many people

in my audience who have family members or come from churches that believe that the King James version is the only viable version of the Bible.

And in this episode, we will talk about why that argument really can't be made from the history and the facts.

This does not make the King James Version any less important, any less of a valuable translation, but we do need to be sure that we're

not adding on to the truth of scripture in saying that this particular version is the only one that God

endorses.

And so I want to make sure that I set that out from the beginning, that I am not anti-KJV,

but I will not support the idea that it is the only version that God has endorsed.

There is a difference between those two things.

So, as we begin, we're going to look at a little history of how the King James Version was first commissioned.

To understand this, you need to understand what progress had already been made on the translations of the Bible,

and that there were already five or six English translations

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