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Listener's Audio Bible - King James Version, KJV: Complete Bible
Accompanied by subtle background music, Max McLean's passionate reading of the majestic King James Version (KJV) transforms the words of Scripture into a thrilling audio experience.
Commuters, joggers, and anybody who loves God's Word will gain inspiration and encouragement from McLean's award-winning narration of this complete Bible.
Public Domain (P)2015 Thomas Nelson Publishers
Commuters, joggers, and anybody who loves God's Word will gain inspiration and encouragement from McLean's award-winning narration of this complete Bible.
Public Domain (P)2015 Thomas Nelson Publishers
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Published December 4, 2015
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May 29, 2022
Know thine enemy...
I read and listen to this on the Bible Gateway site and app. Though I'm not a theist, and tend to avoid Christian sites/outlets like Bible Gateway; Bible Gateway is superb. Several different English translations of the Old and New Testament Bibles with translations supported with audio, often times with several different narrators. For a translation like the King James Version, helped me stay on track on and helped me plow through some really boring parts (for what it's worth, I found Psalms to be a death march, not the usual genealogy lists so many Christians and non-Christians like complain about). Max McClean was my ride or die for the duration of the reading.
First about the Bible in general. I'm sorry, but there is NOT a cohesive theology from cover-to-cover. As a former Christian, raised in an evangelical lite setting, I now see where Old Testament passages are ripped from their context and squished into a Jesus prophecy bag.
Ironically, 35 years as a practicing Christian, not one time did I read the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelations. However, shortly after a deconversion did I set out to read the book. I follow certain Christians that are obsessed with super beautiful additions of the Bible; people that seem to be genuinely moved by the scriptures. Ahh, I remember those days. But, once you've dropped the pretensions that there is something remarkable and sacred about this book, you can help seeing the massive theological and structural issues of the Bible.
I've heard the apologetics. I grew up with the apologetics. I'm open to hearing NEW (very key word) apologetics explaining and making this jumbled mess of writing of different writers from different eras coherent. A plain reading of the Bible, front to back, shows no such coherence. Remarkably, at one time I believed this very flawed book was the inspired Word of God. It was perfect. Jokes on me, it is not.
The Bible is a labyrinth that does not speak clearly to the reader what God wants. Well, it is clear there is one thing God wants above all else - belief and worship of God. For the Bible believing theist out there who point to the Bible as a moral authority vis-à-vis human to human treatment...these morals are hardly mentioned. In fact, what is mentioned regarding morality was written about and discussed before Moses received the Ten Commandments. Do not murder - the theist cannot point to something like this and expect me to take them serious. Non-Christian cultures and religions prior monotheism had the exact same ethic. Does it really bare repeating? No where in the book is there a contra commandment to the culture at the time that one could deem moral. The often cited example is slavery. The ethics of slavery are the same ethics of the other cultures that surrounded the Israelites.
The King James Version is overrated. Having read it, I do not find it the greatest work in the English language. Again, once you strip this version the sacred dressing and read it as a book - you quickly find that it flat out sucks.
I read and listen to this on the Bible Gateway site and app. Though I'm not a theist, and tend to avoid Christian sites/outlets like Bible Gateway; Bible Gateway is superb. Several different English translations of the Old and New Testament Bibles with translations supported with audio, often times with several different narrators. For a translation like the King James Version, helped me stay on track on and helped me plow through some really boring parts (for what it's worth, I found Psalms to be a death march, not the usual genealogy lists so many Christians and non-Christians like complain about). Max McClean was my ride or die for the duration of the reading.
First about the Bible in general. I'm sorry, but there is NOT a cohesive theology from cover-to-cover. As a former Christian, raised in an evangelical lite setting, I now see where Old Testament passages are ripped from their context and squished into a Jesus prophecy bag.
Ironically, 35 years as a practicing Christian, not one time did I read the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelations. However, shortly after a deconversion did I set out to read the book. I follow certain Christians that are obsessed with super beautiful additions of the Bible; people that seem to be genuinely moved by the scriptures. Ahh, I remember those days. But, once you've dropped the pretensions that there is something remarkable and sacred about this book, you can help seeing the massive theological and structural issues of the Bible.
I've heard the apologetics. I grew up with the apologetics. I'm open to hearing NEW (very key word) apologetics explaining and making this jumbled mess of writing of different writers from different eras coherent. A plain reading of the Bible, front to back, shows no such coherence. Remarkably, at one time I believed this very flawed book was the inspired Word of God. It was perfect. Jokes on me, it is not.
The Bible is a labyrinth that does not speak clearly to the reader what God wants. Well, it is clear there is one thing God wants above all else - belief and worship of God. For the Bible believing theist out there who point to the Bible as a moral authority vis-à-vis human to human treatment...these morals are hardly mentioned. In fact, what is mentioned regarding morality was written about and discussed before Moses received the Ten Commandments. Do not murder - the theist cannot point to something like this and expect me to take them serious. Non-Christian cultures and religions prior monotheism had the exact same ethic. Does it really bare repeating? No where in the book is there a contra commandment to the culture at the time that one could deem moral. The often cited example is slavery. The ethics of slavery are the same ethics of the other cultures that surrounded the Israelites.
The King James Version is overrated. Having read it, I do not find it the greatest work in the English language. Again, once you strip this version the sacred dressing and read it as a book - you quickly find that it flat out sucks.
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