QUESTION:  Aren't today's scholars better equipped to translate the 
           Bible than the King James translators were?
   
ANSWER:  No.
   
EXPLANATION:  The answer to the question is "No" for two reasons.
   
First is that, the scholarship of the men who translated the King 
James Bible is literally unsurpassable by today's scholars.  Two books 
available best illustrate this and should be read by anyone who wants 
to seriously study the subject.  They are Translators Revived, by 
Alexander McClure (Maranatha Publications), and The Men Behind the 
King James Version, by Gustavus Paine (Baker Book House).
   
The men of the King James translation committee were scholars of 
unparalleled ability.  A brief description of their several abilities 
was given under a previous question.
   
Secondly, it would be foolish and contradictory to believe that 
today's scholars ever could equal or surpass those of the Authorized 
Version.
   
Most Christians agree that the world, with time, degenerates.  Morals 
have degenerated since 1611.  Character has degenerated since 1611.  
Even our atmosphere has degenerated.  Are we then to believe that 
education has gotten better?  Only a worshipper of education could 
pretend to believe such a fairy tale.  Education has degenerated along 
with the entire world system and could never produce a scholar equal 
to those of nearly four hundred years ago.

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