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The KJV is beautifully written and the most accurate English Bible translation.

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This came out the same week a youtube channel called crashcourse is doing a series on religion. Once again another good video, can't wait for the next one!

Where can I find the rest of the ‘Kyrie’ songs at 2:20?

The Old Testament is filled with unimaginable horrors at the hands of a narcissistic blood loving God. Enough to turn anyone with sense away from this brainwashing nonsense.

Wow, I have never heard of the impact of the KJB on the English language, how interesting! Thank you James for another wonderful video, you enrich my life.

Funny thing about Beowulf was that it was edited by Christian monks. Beowulf as we have it is a Christian work.

Most overrated novelist of all time.

LOTR and Silmarillion are in my top ten books

Nicely done.

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II Peter 1: 1 - 21 II Corinthians 13 II Corinthians 11: 1 - 7 Deutoronomy 4:2 Revelation 22: 17 - 21

Very interesting video! So many idioms, I had no idea

Of course what this English White Supremacist Imperialist will NOT tell you is how it was used by him and his Parents and Grandparents to justify the oppression, slaughter and plundering of literally Hundreds of Millions of human beings simply because they were not White English...

Thank you new King James

Watching and listening to the stories behind some great works really made my day. Too bad this generation will never appreciate the simple life of reading a book while sipping tea or coffee.

I never thought how deep the story is in Moby Dick, I just thought it is about a deranged man trying to get his revenge on a whale.

I love that the victorious became the next authors. A billion light years from faith or spirit. “His words have been twisted, beyond recognition - in order to build your planet Earth’s religions.” Matt Johnson (The The)

Had no idea so many of our common everyday phrases originated from the KJB!

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This is excellent. Thank you.

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I have a copy of a William Tyndall Bible. It is awesome. So to hear that he was a genius linguist is no surprise. So cruel how they murdered him(burned him alive) for his work on the translation of the Bible.

The Clergy wanted to keep Bible in Latin and only for the rich and powerful to have access to the Bible. Thankfully God made the Bible available for all of his human children. Best Selling Book since 1611, more evidence of Divine Origin

The least accurate book of all storybooks.

May I offer a correction here? The Pilgrims arrived in the New World in 1620 and brought with them the Geneva Bible, not the King James Bible. The KJV was seen as the Bible of the English King and the state Church of England which had been persecuting them. My understanding is that the KJV didn't start becoming popular in England until the 1660's.

I am very shocked that Tolkien's widowed single mother converted to Catholicism from Methodism, even though it meant that her dead husband's family totally disowned her and stopped supporting her and her children! Either there was some other pressure for her to go Catholic, or she truly had an unshakeable belief that the Catholic church was the true Christian church...to leave her family in poverty over that decision.

I just watched it with a lifelong friend of mine. Cheers maestro. Thanks so much for what you do, for sharing it with us. Waiting for the next ones! All the best!

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Excellent video, a version with just as fascinating back story is the Douay-Rheims, perhaps do this story next?

Here in the Bible Belt, the KJV is still considered the "only" Bible by many churches. Comparatively, it is so much more poetic than, for example, the New International Version. Not a churchgoer anymore, but when I do read the Bible, it's this version still.

Another great video. Thank you.

This was realy nice

The Great Gatsby is shallow AF. Full of tired allegories and obvious metaphors. Only Americans think this is a great novel.

Brilliant video! Thank you. I appreciate the choice of music as in Pasolini's Passion (or so I seem to recognize)

Magnificent. Thank you so much, MrPayne

I remember i liked this book a lot. Unfortunately I read it in Spanish because English is not my first language and I don't understand anything of literary English 😅 so I lose a lot of the beauty of how it was originally written. Thanks for showing me thag side ❤

Thanks! ❤

Fab video as always!

I am a Christian and it's lovely to see how God works in mysterious ways.

I was only familiar with Marthin Luther and the effects of his translations, but I was unaware of the scale of the english translations. It´s fascinating how simiar it is, just in different scales.

That was a great run through of hundreds of years of history. Very skilfully done. Thank you.

It's mindblowing how much of the most important events in our history were influenced by the Bible. Thank you for another great video!

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Fantastic video, like always! I've always been smugly happy about being born and spending my childhood in a communist country, as it meant no religious education. But you are right, the influence on our society is immense, and it's so enlightening to better understand it! Thank you!

Eye-opening, enlightening and accessible - fantastic video as usual!

Taking on the Bible is a huge topic-I’ve always wanted to understand more about its formation but found it daunting to look into. And quite frankly, the bible is so huge a subject-and my interest is only middling-I’ve never tried. I see why (or at least part of why) you focused on the KJV rather than the basis of all the various books in the Bible. Now I’m going to go back through this video while reading the transcript so I can absorb more of what I heard. This film is understandably somewhat dense; one sitting just won’t do. Thank you so much for this effort!

Without the Reformation you'd still be waiting for a translation. And an education.

The KJV really is stunningly beautiful to read