However, as my children have grown and have started memorizing Scripture, I am finding that the KJV is MUCH better suited to memorization than the more modern, conversational-type language. It is also more specific in getting the point across, and often requires fewer words than other versions.

Add to that the fact that it is actually at a higher reading level (similar to a Kindergartener learning Shakespeare - it may suck at the time, but once they get it, they’re lightyears ahead), and I am starting to back more and more teaching them the “oldfashioned” Scriptures.

And you had the answers this whole time. Thanks again,for helping a mother out,so she can teach her son.

Functionally, some of the old KJV language is actually more functional and precise, for example, thou is singular, whereas you is plural. Now all we have the the ambiguous you.

Don’t judge someone else’s religous preferences simply because they are more conservative than your own- most of the time this “assymetrical intolerance” is voiced by someone who has a feeling of guilt or offense, whether deserved or not, at the person who takes the more conservative stance.

Whereas they are often laudatory of someone who takes more liberties with religous practice than they do, in keeping with the liberal spirit of the time, they reserve vile accusations of legalism and idolatry for those who are more conservative.

Of course, this is just the truth popping up its head in their hearts in my view, and their attempts to squash it back down. Or as another archaic English writer said, they “doth protest too much, methinks”.