Why stay with the KJV?
This article responds to a query about why the Protestant Reformed Churches in America continue to use the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible despite the availability of more modern translations. Cammenga explains that the PRCA's consistent use of the KJV across all aspects of ministry—worship, education, pastoral care, and home life—reflects a collective conviction about its translation quality rather than resistance to change or traditionalism. The piece offers insight into the PRCA's approach to Scripture and their practical theological practices.
I enjoyed reading Prof. Ronald Cammenga's article, "'What Saith the Scripture:' The Bible's Perspicuity" in the December 1, 2017 issue of the Standard Bearer. However, after reading it, it did raise a question for me. If Wycliffe, Tyndale, and others worked so hard and even risked their lives to give the English people an updated, understandable English Bible, why do all the writers in the Standard Bearer quote Scripture from a four-hundred-year-old (KJV) version of the Bible when we have...
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