How come that denominations claiming they follow a first century Christianity strictly and without any later contaminations use a Bible from 1611? Sometimes exclusively?
Because it is the earliest book written in the one language they read.
Religion is dumb. More at 11.
>>1974756
The Douay-Rheims translation actually came first. The problem is, it's Catholic.
KJV is the first fully Protestant translation in English, and afaik I don't think there is very much reader bias in the translation either.
>>1974988
It also still has one of the best translations for Job and Ecclesiastes in English.
>>1974734
Reading the Bible in English is retarded no matter the translation.
How come that denominations claiming they follow a first century Christianity strictly and without any later contaminations use a Bible from 400? Sometimes exclusively?
>>1975078
Ah yes, my mistake for not wanting to learn several dead languages before I can even begin to practice my religion
>>1975116
Christianity has much stricter requirements than just learning a language, if that's already a big obstacle for you, you might as well give up already you lazy fuck.