While I do not deny their right to burn books... I think it's a pretty silly thing to do. And I don't see how it furthers their cause of KJV-onlyism. Sounds to me like they're preaching to the choir. In KJV language, of course!
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The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence. This includes works by Billy Graham, because he occasionally used a Bible other than the King James Version. The congregation will eat fried chicken during the bonfire.
Good grief. Talk about legalists. I took a look around their website and it looks like this is a new church founded on the pastor's warped ideas. Bah!!!
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The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence. This includes works by Billy Graham, because he occasionally used a Bible other than the King James Version. The congregation will eat fried chicken during the bonfire.
No, unfortunately it's not a joke. They're a very small congregation (>20 AFAIK) of rabid KJV-onlyists. What's pretty ironic is that they use the word "Grace" in their name.
Not specified, though they probably use a recipe written before 1611.
The media always have a field day with stuff like this. They always love to find the most heavily drawling, wrinkled, toothless, least eloquent member of the church and get them to comment on tape or on film. Then they squeal with delight and proceed to apply their scorn liberally to Christians across the board.
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No, unfortunately it's not a joke. They're a very small congregation (>20 AFAIK) of rabid KJV-onlyists. What's pretty ironic is that they use the word "Grace" in their name.
"Amazing something for sure, but "Grace" is definitely not it! "Amazing Hubris" could work.
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I ran into this through another thread on the site, and I was rather shocked. This group suggests that all modern translations of the Bible have liberal bias, and they are trying to pull together a truly "conservative" translation.
Now I will grant you that there are some translations out there that definitely have a liberal bias, especially when you get into issues of gender inclusivity and such. Most of them tend to be dynamic equivalence translations (thought for thought) rather than formal equivalence (word for word). And if that's important to you (as it probably is for most of us in this forum) you can choose other, more "literal" translations.
But these folks are going a step farther, and critiquing specific phrases (Father, forgive them) and parables (woman caught in adultery) and saying that because they are too liberal, or are "twisted" by liberal Christians, that they should be removed.
Does anyone know anything more about this project? I'm just going by what I read on their main page (which I link above), and I'm pretty appalled by the idea. Am I missing something?
This has to be a joke.
Originally Posted by Lemmiwinks
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not:
The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence. This includes works by Billy Graham, because he occasionally used a Bible other than the King James Version. The congregation will eat fried chicken during the bonfire.
I've talked to somebody on CF who might go to this church, and if not, he would fit right in. The mental blindness is almost entertaining.
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Do not add to His words, or He will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
- Proverbs 30:5-6
Yet it has the Johannine Comma, which is an addition.
I use the KJV sometimes, but face it, it's not perfect.
__________________ Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
Do not add to His words, or He will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
- Proverbs 30:5-6
Yet it has the Johannine Comma, which is an addition.
I use the KJV sometimes, but face it, it's not perfect.
i disagree, if every word is important then how can we justify the changing of them
God has preserved His word for us today in the language of modern times, He is very capable of doing so, and has
when you go to school does everyone in class get a different text book? how could we all come to the same understandings if we all use different text books?
in order for us all to come to the correct understandings of what the translators meant and to compare texts throughout, we need to be using the correct text book, and that is the 1611 KJV...it has been preserved for us to 400 years, despite all efforts to discredit and destroy it
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