like fifty words or less - were gaining popularity, and that even blog posts were oftentimes three short paragraphs. In short ;) writing was becoming too much like brainwork for people. Of course. MacArthur is old - he's a few years older than my late husband (if Honey was still alive, he'd be 73). Listening to one of his recent sermons, i noticed in his voice, that of coming eightyishness. Made me kinda sad, knowing his time of explaining things scholarly, yet in common language, is growing short.
What i don't get, however, is: what's up with the preaching from a Bible that's not the King James? i don't get it! The King James was preached from, to english speaking people, almost exclusively, for about 300 years. Can ya spell "time-tested?" Up until a century ago, when ya bought a Bible, the only thing you looked for - before paying the clerk - was, is the print large enough for your old eyes to handle it; you didn't have to worry that you came out of the store - and coming up short - with one of ten or twenty (newfangled) versions - which either change or just delete, here and there, portions or entire verses.
i guess when you're really smart and really in the Word, you can handle several different versions, and not miss a beat ;/ Well, that leaves me out. So, think i'll just stick with the one version - ya know, the one, which, if i typed the entire chapter of II Peter 3, checked this single page of text carefully for typos, then printed out 500 copies, and passed them out come next Farmer's Fair (if we're allowed to have it this October) i wouldn't be getting any lawyer-letters.
Yeah, ain't that a hoot. If ya use a non-KJB, distributing copies of Scripture, SCRIPTURE, can land you with legal snare$. And here's the deal - to get a copyright, your version has to be significantly different than any other version. That means like every other sentence. Sounds like wordplay going on...with The Book that warns, on the last page, not to add to nor take away from...yikes!
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