http://community.livejournal.com/dark_christian/624144.htmlFrom: dogemperor Date: September 15th, 2006 04:48 pm (UTC) (Link)
a) In a fair number of cases, the dominionists pretty much consider *all* translations of the Bible other than very early ones (notably the King James version, with redacted apocrypha) as being influenced by "liberal" churches and "satanic false churches" that have been infiltrated by the devil himself.
The authors of the King James version in particular are often seen to be "divinely inspired" or having had their hands used by God (these same groups tend to think the Hebrew and Greek texts, as well as the King James version, were literally written by God himself with the scribes being "puppetted" in a way as God's own secretaries).
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b) Dominionist groups that aren't KJV-only very often have run their *own* translation committees, feel that modern (and more accurate) translations such as the Revised Standard Version have a "liberal" or "satanic" agenda, and have done their *own* modern English translations with a very specific agenda of supporting a dominionist worldview (the New International Version is a prime example of this--it was written by a group of dominionist denominations, including the Assemblies of God, in the 50's in direct opposition to the RSV, up to and including older and less accurate wordings or even direct rewordings from the KJV version when other scripts indicated the RSV translation was the correct one but not in line with dominionist theology--in some cases, there are translations in the NIV that *literally do not exist in other versions in the Bible* because they're deliberately skewed to a dominionist viewpoint).
In both cases, the reason that the KJV or dominionist-friendly translations like the NIV are adopted is simple--they can claim those versions are the direct word of God and they can *further* use this to claim that the rest of Christianity has perverted the Bible (by using more accurate translations that are not necessarily in support of dominionist groups). As others have noted, it's a tool of control and also a convenient method of demonising mainstream, non-dominionist Christianity.
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Even reference bibles typically used in dominionist sects are skewed like this--in fact, the whole of pentecostalism and dominion theology as taught in pente churches (including the aspects of premillenial dispensationalism, young-earth creationism, the whole "Joel's Army" madness, the whole concept of yammering in tongues being a sign one is Truly Saved, and even going down to very specific urban legends in currency in the pente-dominionist community regarding Russia being the home of the Antichrist) derives pretty much *all* its theological basis from *one* specific reference bible--the Scofield Reference Bible, which in fact is pretty much still the only reference bible used by dominionist groups in the pente movement. (Older versions of the Wikipedia article include the specific quotation from the Scofield Reference Bible re Russia = Antichrist.)
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