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How the King James Bible Changed the Way We Speak

February 7, 2011

King James Bible: How it changed the way we speak The impact of the King James Bible, which was published 400 years ago, is still being felt in the way we speak and write, says Stephen Tomkins. No other book, or indeed any piece of culture, seems to have influenced...Read more

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Questions and Responses

Question: Why do you Protestants fail to see that without the tradition...of an authoritative Church, you wouldn't know what was Scripture?

Question: How does [the Strange Fire Conference speakers making a big deal of Calvin's interpretation] fit with the fact that many of the Reformers continued to hold some Roman Catholic beliefs and practices?

Question: You say, “...Calvinists teach that God is the author of sin....” Dave, this is a falsehood....That you are in error in this is so glaringly obvious I keep wondering why I have to keep pointing these things out to you....

Question: How can you believe both in God’s foreknowledge and that man has the power of choice? If God knows ahead of time that Mr. A is going to do something, how can Mr. A decide for himself? Isn’t foreknowledge the same as predestination?

Question: Please comment on this new bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. It claims the Bible was collated by Constantine and a vote of the Council of Nicea....

Question: The Bible often speaks against following tradition more than the Word of God.

Question: You have referred to the Albigenses as true Christians, yet every encyclopedia I’ve looked into says they...believed in a good god and an evil god, that they were involved in ritual suicide and immorality. How could you make such a blunder?

Question: Dave, I am distressed by some of the ideas expressed [in The Berean Call]. The Lord Jesus and his followers were and remained observant Jews….

Question: Would you be willing to address [Martin Luther's errors] in the Q&A section of The Berean Call?

Question: [Y]ou overlooked what I think is CRI’s most legitimate objection to your thesis that the whore in Revelation 17 is the world church headquartered at the Vatican. [T]he Vatican sits on one hill, not seven….

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