Third Millenium Bible

[Madeline]

I also have a 21st Century King James bible, and I can't seem to recognize the difference between this and the standard KJV.

21st Century King James Bible

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
4In Him was life, and that life was the Light of men.
5And the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7The same came as a witness to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.
11He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.
12But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to those who believe in His name,
13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only Begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

King James Bible

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Should I not use the 21st Century King James Bible to study with?

Love,
Madeline

[John81]

There must be some difference between the two Bibles otherwise they would be one and the same.

What is the difference between the 21st century KJB and the older KJB?

[Jerry]

As has been stated, there have to be word changes or they could never copyright this new Bible.

What does verse 18 say? How about 1 Timothy 3:16? 1 John 5:7? Acts 20:28? Matthew 5:22? Romans 1:16? Isaiah 7:14? Micah 5:2? Psalms 22:16? Acts 8:37? What does it say in Mark 16:9 and John 8:1? Many more passages we could consider.

[John81]

Exactly Jerry! There HAS to be something different about this new Bible.

[Jerry]

For the sake of the argument, we know people might say, "Oh, it's just updated word changes." Sure, that could account for some changes - but practically speaking, each Bible publisher doesn't don't come up with a new Bible every year just to update words - they are changing the content, changing what is being said.

[Will]

I also have a 21st Century King James bible, and I can't seem to recognize the difference between this and the standard KJV.

21st Century King James Bible

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
4In Him was life, and that life was the Light of men.
5And the Light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7The same came as a witness to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9That was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.
11He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.
12But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to those who believe in His name,
13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only Begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.

King James Bible

1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2The same was in the beginning with God.
3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Should I not use the 21st Century King James Bible to study with?

Love,
Madeline

The 21st Century King James was translated from the TR.

[Jerry]

For clarification: are not the KJV21 and the Third Millenium Bible two separate Bibles?

[lettheredeemedsayso]

I have never heard of it.

[Will]

For clarification: are not the KJV21 and the Third Millenium Bible two separate Bibles?

They seem to be. They were put out by the same company, and both use the TR for translation purposes.

Third Millenium on the Textual Underpinnings: http://www.tmbible.com/Related%20Matter ... rticle.htm

[IM4given]

http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/KJ21.htm

This article does a pretty good comparison of the two mmodern version bibles

[IM4given]

This seems to be the biggest difference between those bibles and the King James Version Bible, other than more less obvious changes:

The publishers of the Third Millennium Bible (based on the KJV21) play up the value of the Catholic Douay-Rheims Version and tie the King James Bible and the Catholic Bible into the same bundle. Note the following amazing statement from the Third Millennium Bible web site:

"The Douay-Rheims Version and the King James Version have provided English-language Bible readers world-wide with intrinsically similar, though not identical, wording for well over four centuries. These two historic versions in turn are the only universally accepted English Bible translations developed over the past four hundred years. One of these need only be minimally updated to furnish all believers with a truly universal text. This has now been accomplished. The Third Millennium Bible presents the updated modern recension of the A.D. 1611 King James Version. It stands markedly closer to the Douay-Rheims Version than does either the King James Version or the Douay-Rheims Version to any contemporary Bible. The balance of this preface will focus on how a suitably modern biblical text in the English language for all of Christendom has come to be developed and published" (Publishers of the Third Millennium Bible).

The goal of the Third Millennium Bible publishers is to produce a Bible which will be acceptable to ecumenical Catholics and ecumenical Protestants. In their ecumenical enthusiasm, the publishers of the Third Millennium Bible claim that the Catholic Douay and the King James Bible are based on the same Greek text, but this is a myth. The old Catholic New Testament contained many serious textual departures.

The Third Millennium Bible will contain 14 of the Apocryphal Books. These were written during the two hundred years preceding and one hundred years following Christ's birth. The Roman Catholic Church considers most of these writings to be part of the inspired Scripture, and the Apocryphal books promote Catholic heresies such as prayers to the dead, the use of ritual to overcome the devil, and salvation through good works. In 1546 the Council of Trent decreed that the canon of the O.T. should include them (except the Prayer of Manasseh and I and II Esdras) ... the decree pronounces an anathema upon anyone who "does not accept as sacred and canonical the aforesaid books in their entirety and with all their parts" (The Oxford Annotated Apocrypha, pp. x,xv). The Council of Trent was an attempt by the Catholic Church to counteract the Protestant Reformation with its battle cry of "faith alone" and "Scripture alone." By adding the Apocrypha to the canon of Scripture, the Catholic Church, in effect, rendered the rest of the Bible impotent. "The books named in the decree [of Trent] include the apocryphal Old Testament books, and placed unwritten traditions of the church upon an equal footing with Holy Scriptures as approved of Christ or of the Holy Spirit. Any appeal to Holy Scripture as expressing the supreme will of God was thereafter useless in the Latin Church" (Edwin W. Rice, Our Sixty-six Sacred Books, p. 112

[BlessedChristianlady8]

Something came to my mind here about Bible Versions and in that nature. What if someone tells you well it's a changed world we need an updated version of the Bible?

[IM4given]

God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The world may change but HE doesn't!

[Kubel]

God is the same. Man, unfortunately, is not. Languages evolve, and thus translations must as well in order for man to understand God's word.

In 1611, the KJV was a new translation. And people were, just as they are today, against that new Bible.

[Will]

God is the same. Man, unfortunately, is not. Languages evolve, and thus translations must as well in order for man to understand God's word.

In 1611, the KJV was a new translation. And people were, just as they are today, against that new Bible.

And it took a hundred years or more for the KJV to become the new standard translation among the English people.