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More recent translations modernize the language. They also use a Greek text has been adjusted to take into account manuscripts not known to Erasmus. This text, called the Critical Text, was compiled by B.F. Westcott and F.J.A. Hort in 1881 and is updated regularly. The Critical Text is based on manuscripts of the "Alexandrian" type such as ''[[Codex Vaticanus]]'' and ''[[Codex Sinaiticus]].'' These are the earliest known New Testament manuscripts and date from the fourth century.
More recent translations modernize the language. They also use a Greek text has been adjusted to take into account manuscripts not known to Erasmus. This text, called the Critical Text, was compiled by B.F. Westcott and F.J.A. Hort in 1881 and is updated regularly. The Critical Text is based on manuscripts of the "Alexandrian" type such as ''[[Codex Vaticanus]]'' and ''[[Codex Sinaiticus]].'' These are the earliest known New Testament manuscripts and date from the fourth century.
==History==
==History==
The ''New King James Version'' (1982) is a response to the text-based arguments of KJO writers. This translation is based on the King James Version, but with the language partly modernized. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts. This justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV. As the majority of surviving Greek manuscripts are of the late Byzantine text type, the majority text is quite similar to Textus Receptus.
The ''New King James Version'' (1982) is a response to the text-based arguments of KJO writers. This translation is based on the King James Version, but with the language partly modernized. The preface claims that the work is a fresh translation of the "majority text," i.e. the text of the majority of surviving manuscripts. This justification was developed after lawyers for Thomas Nelson Publishers told the editors they would not be able to copyright a revision of KJV. As the majority of surviving Greek manuscripts are of the late Byzantine text type, the majority text is quite similar to Textus Receptus.
==Variant Views==
The KJV Only movement has, as does any movement, varying views.
On one end are teachers such as David Cloud, head of Way of Life (an Independent Baptist publishing house based in Canada). Way of Life's position statement states that it considers the KJV "an example of an accurate translation of the preserved Hebrew and Greek texts"<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/about/statement.html</ref> (said texts meaning the Hebrew Masoretic and the Greek Received Text). However, Cloud states that he opposes, among other things, any view that the KJV could never be updated for more modern language.<ref>https://www.wayoflife.org/database/king_james_only.html</ref>
On the other extreme are KJV Only proponents such as Gail Riplinger (who opposes any attempt to revise the KJV) and Peter Ruckman (who goes further and considers differences between the Hebrew/Greek and the KJV to be "advanced revelation).
== Criticism ==
== Criticism ==