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Originally Posted by 100% ILL
People tend to want to conform God to their image and not conform to his. And there are those who just want to take the thee's and thou's out and change them to you, and so forth. There are not many denominations that still use the King James as their bible, but as a fundamentalist I do.
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Which is ironic, as the KJA was for a long time the official Anglican text (after "The Bishop's Bible") THE major denomination in the UK. The Anglican church is generally considered to be one of the most progressive denominations, and thus having a fundamentalist favour their bible is very curious.
Most fundamentalists prefer something a bit less flexible. Of the evangelicals and assorted fundamentalists I knew, they all considered the "KJA" to be the "sounding nice, but not God's literal will" bible.
Personally I am very fond of the KJA version, not least because of its literary merits. But I do find the fact that the vast majority of it (more than 3 quaters) is word for word Tyndale means that it receives undue credit.