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An Introduction to the Geneva Bible
http://www.reformedreader.org/gbn/igb.htm
This article goes against many things a King James Verson Onlyism cult member stands for. Here's a couple quotes:
"For the last three centuries Protestants have fancied themselves the heirs of the Reformation, the Puritans, the Calvinists, and the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock. This assumption is one of history's greatest ironies. Today's Protestants laboring under that assumption use the King James Bible. Most of the newer Bibles such as the Revised Standard Version are simply updates of the King James.
The irony is that none of the groups named in the preceding paragraph used a King James Bible nor would they have used it if it had been given to them free. The Bible in use by those groups until it went out of print in 1644, was the Geneva Bible. The first Geneva Bible, both Old and New Testaments, was first published in English in 1560 in what is now Geneva, Switzerland,* William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, John Milton, the Pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620, and other luminaries of that era used the Geneva Bible exclusively."
"James ascended the English throne in 1603. He wasted no time in ordering a new edition of the Bible in order to deny the common people the marginal notes they so valued in the Geneva Bible. That James I wasn't going to have any marginal notes to annoy him and lead English citizens away from what he wanted them to think is a matter of public record. In an account corrected with his own hand dated February 10, 1604, he ordained:
That a translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek; and this to be set out and printed without any marginal notes, and only to be used in all churches of England in time of divine service.
James then set up rules that made it impossible for anyone involved in the project to make an honest translation, some of which follow:
1. The ordinary Bible read in the church, commonly called the Bishop's Bible to be followed and as little altered as the truth of the original will permit.
Or, since the common people preferred the Geneva Bible to the existing government publication, let's see if we can slip a superseding government publication onto their bookshelves, altered as little as possible.
2. The old Ecclesiastical words to be kept, viz. the word "church" not to be translated "congregation," etc.
That is, if a word should be translated a certain way, let's deliberately mistranslate it to make the people think God still belongs to the Anglican Church - exclusively.
3. No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text."
What sayest thou, /protestant/? I wouldn't willingly use a KJV if I already had a Geneva Bible but for the record, people can come to know about Jesus Christ in many inferior bible translations because it's not so much about the translation rather the underlying concept being described within a translation. Inferior translations creates more misconceptions but for the most part, a general concept is observable by those who have the Holy Ghost within them that convicts them to amend to the Way, the Truth, the Life which then they might look into getting a better translation but also to be a better Christian.
Here's a comparison of six translations of the New Testament: http://www.genevabible.org/files/Geneva_Bible/6_Version_Comparison.pdf
Here's a free PDF download (click the red button) of a 1599 Geneva Bible translation in modern english: http://kirkcameron.com/free/