Here's some background on the issue of whether the KJV is the "true aka inspired" version: Is the King James Version the Only Divinely Inspired Version? - NIV Bible (thenivbible.com) <https://www.thenivbible.com/is-the-king-james-version-the-only-divinely-inspired-version/>
The Rev Talitha Arnold, senior minister at United Church of Christ, gave an excellent course at RENESAN here in Santa Fe on the production of the KJV. Surely no suggestion that it is the only valid version. That is the position of some Fundamentalist groups...and seems to have become a political, hence bumper sticker, issue. George Duncan Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University georgeduncanart.com See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Land: (505) 983-6895 Mobile: (505) 469-4671 My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos. "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion." >From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy. On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 9:36 AM Tom Johnson <jtjohnson...@gmail.com> wrote: > Steve: > Last time I checked it was a couple of years back, but there were > something like 40-50 "translations" of the Bible published annually in the > U.S. > TOM > > ======================= > Tom Johnson > Inst. for Analytic Journalism > Santa Fe, New Mexico > 505-577-6482 > ======================= > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022, 4:21 AM Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > >> Jochen - >> >> I feel like an angel (or devil) dancing on the head of the FriAM pin! >> >> I wasn't able to get traction on the first post due to a blind spot I >> think I have about the details of the history of Christianity. More and >> more of it gets *through* to me each time I read it, but because I have >> *broad* knowledge (with no depth anywhere) I was left with questions like >> "what about the Coptics?" and an anecdote: >> >> A few years ago, driving across Aamon Bundy country in W. Washington A >> 4door dually diesel blew past me (70mph) at 90mph "rolling coal" and >> sporting a bumper sticker that said "if it ain't King James, it ain't >> Bible!". I have no idea what that was all about (any of it really, but >> the bumper sticker in particular). My best guess was that it was a >> dismissal of Catholicism in particular? Or maybe the LDS church or maybe >> Protestant sects that were not close to his? Doesn't LDS defer to King >> James and just layer on their own Latter Day stuff over it? >> >> I will dig deeper into the second post as I have developed a fondness for >> Oracles (primarily the I Ching) over the decades as a method for >> self-examination. >> >> I don't think I know of your published book? Got lost in my COVID spam? >> >> - Steve >> >> >> On 6/11/22 10:36 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: >> >> Today was a productive day: 2 new blog posts, the first about epigenetic >> changes in cultural evolution and the difference of Protestant and Catholic >> church.. >> https://blog.cas-group.net/2022/06/epigenetic-cultural-changes/ >> >> ..the second about the secret of oracles and their religious dimension >> https://blog.cas-group.net/2022/06/the-secret-of-oracles/ >> >> Both are related to my book from 2020, which nobody except Dave has read. >> The printed version sold exactly once and that was a friend here in Berlin >> :-) >> >> Thanks Steve for the comment on this post too! >> >> https://blog.cas-group.net/2022/06/the-strange-phenomenon-of-consciousness/ >> >> -J. >> >> >> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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