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The King James Study Bible: Biased?

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Paul:
Is the King James Study Bible extremely biased?

Martinez:

Well I'm no expert by any stretch of the imagination, but when you can have so many English words translated from just one Greek or Hebrew word and you already have a preconceived notion of what those words mean it a given context, then you get a fairly good idea of just how easy it would be to doctrinally slant something.

It's already been done in heaps of bible translations, so I would be very surprised and impressed if you KJV study bible was not.

David:
IMO the simple answer is yes. There are of course several versions of study Bibles, compiled by different theologians. You'll probably find diferences in all of them. The likelyhood is that what you are going to get is the biased theological views of whoever the author or publisher is.
I have a Dake study KJ, a Nelson study KJ and an Oxford study KJ. The best use I've found for the study notes is mostly historical background. The theological views put forward are almost always the orthodox views of the Church. Dakes in particular has some great historical refferences, unfortunately he believes and promotes just about every single false doctrine in the Church.
I prefer refference Bibles. Nelson and Zondervan refference Bibles are exelent, make sure you get the red letter editions.

Paul:
I don't think there's any other way I'll understand the King James Bible, though.

Kat:

Hi Paul,

I like using E-Sword, I can cross reference the different translations and find that very helpful.  Whenever I come to a verse that I don't understand, I will check out other translations and even the commentaries and the dictionaries.  This aids my studies a great deal.

Here is a link to the Bible helps we have available here.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,4470.0.html

mercy, peace and love
Kat

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