river said:Maybe we both need to look further into this matter. Work on the kjv began in 1604. I don't know if it took them seven years to complete it or if there was just a seven year delay between the translation and the authorization. The process they used involved a lot of going back and forth between Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster and other scholars in the kingdom to resolve disputes and questions and get approval. But if Shakespeare was 46 in 1610 then he couldn't have been 46 in 1604.
Well my pastor swears by the kjv so I'd better have a strong argument if I want to call it into question. Otherwise I know what he will say and I don't see the point of talking to someone when I already know what they will say.
I think what Ingo-moetry was saying about Shakespeare's name equaling 46 would make such a question more credible. Not that I doubt the truth of the Gospel. As I have said elsewhere my relationship with Jesus is not contingent on the Bible, especially not the kjv which I find problematic in some passages.
Peace sister River,
If you do ask your preacher any of this, maybe just start by asking him if he knows anything about King James Stuart of Scotland/England. Because if he does not, then how could he soley go by a work in his name.... No disrespect intended!
When I was coming up as a Christian, The KJV is all I/WE ever read from also until I started to read outside of the KJV scriptures and found out who King James Stuart really was. Even the very fact that they never mention his last name is a sign that they are hiding something from us!!
I wish you well if you do present any of this to your preacher sis..........
peace