Change Will Come

In moments of trouble and uncertainty change comes as an ally, in a way destroying all that wasn’t working previously for a new tomorrow. England was in one of these moments of trouble “competing claims of religion and state, obedience to the pope or to the king, loyalty to god or nation.” -Pg. 173 uncertainty ruled all over the place, even in the courthouses. The solution which James saw at the end of the tunnel was to reunite the community attacking the main cause, religious differences due to different manuscripts. “relationship to god through scripture, against a meditated, elaborated and socialized approach through an ancient church, guided by tradition.” –Pg. 180 The information was already there but what was needed was somebody to step out and find similarities between everybody’s religious text.

In my personal experience, I have seen several times something that makes me think about how we are able to listen, understand and apply information, formulating a response to this gained information. Sometimes when in an argument, people are saying the same thing but in different words creating a huge argument because they are completely sure about their opinion, and aren’t able to find a weak point in the other’s argument, simply because it is their same argument. Sometimes this example doesn’t apply to a situation but there is another way of avoiding a conflict. By taking some perspective and making ideas less conflictive, clearer and simple, people are able to find similarities between their opinions and arguments in a way creating a general point of view which is able to reach a greater quantity of people’s minds. The difference between each other’s text was their version of the translation from the original text. “Every translation, however good, was bound to contain errors and so by definition could not be used.” –Pg. 181
I would almost say different translations and versions are of the same fundamental concept/idea/world view...GOD.

Confidence is a great part of reaching impartial judgments, by believing in ones own ideas and being able to articulate them through written or oral language, one is able to act in a mature manner and overall share concepts with others to maybe get to a higher, unifying truth. “That depth of belief in the sufficiency of language is also one of the shaping forces of the King James Bible.” –Pg. 182 Because the text or the main ideas were already there, people were able to appreciate them, the job, the King James Bible’s translators had to be objective, giving the bible the importance and perspective it needed. “Secretaryship is one of the great shaping forces behind the King James Bible. There is no authorship involved here. Authorship is egoistical, an assumption that you might have something new worth saying.” –Pg. 184 By knowing and believing that the ideas weren’t yours, you were able to be impartial, having the assurance that you only had to do your job of communicating them to the public, having no connection to the text. Because words are not equal and don’t have the exact same meaning in all languages, something that this translation is able to do is choosing the right words, with the right meanings still maintaining the sentence fluency and meaning that it had since it was written. “The richness of the words somehow represents a substance that goes beyond more words and that is its triumph.” –Pg. 197 This bible was the change that was needed, this time it was intended to unite a piece of our souls, making us have the same text, the same manual source of our spirituality. No one really owns the truth, it is universal and as formless and yet as powerful as God.