Alex Jr.: And similarly Muslim.
Alex Sr.: And the other category (of today's avid readers) are the die-hards who are still in college.Genuine The University really wants students to learn and enjoy our culture and rich traditions.
Alex Jr.: Jeffrey Hart of Dartmouth College writes: Smiling after a cultural catastrophe: Towards a revival of higher educationHe's a good example of the Ivy League version, but there are others in the UK too. Some of them are a bit flamboyant, but there are well-known academics who don't just want to manage decline. Go to the club togetherand the de facto formation of a new academy. Outside A system for this purpose, it's like a living room based academic environment.
Alex Senior: Yes. One of the things I did was I accessed the American Bible Society data sets from 2011, 2014, and 2017. Indiana University-Purdue Bible Studies (IUPUI) and our own criteria.
Alex Jr.: Again, UK statistics are not readily available so we used US statistics.
Alex Senior: No, no. There were other ways to get UK statistics but it was difficult.
Alex Jr.: But if you write to a British publisher (Christian or secular) and ask, “Can you give me some statistics?” you get a reply, “Who are you?” Americans are a little more open about this.
Alex Senior: I've never published anything in the UK. Since 2017, the American Bible Society Stopped Revealing statistics on preferred Bible versionsThey won't tell you, and I'll explain why.
Alex Jr.: I think this is kind of revealing. You can frame the question cleverly, but if you ask it neutrally – if you ask somebody, “What is your favorite Bible to read?” do not What they want to hear, especially in America, is the King James. There are many variations of the King James, but that's not what they want to hear. What they want to hear is what can be commercialized.
Alex sr: Here we have survey responses from 1993, 2011, and then 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Let's take 1993 as an example. I made two sets for the US and one for the UK. In 1993, this was the answer among serious students. preferable Bible version.
This is what you and I should be concerned with. We don't have the time or resources to focus on everyone. If there is one mission we should take seriously in a declining culture, it is encouragement. Severe Bible Reading Severe student. We cannot stop the tide of cultural decline, can What we need to do is help (those who are interested) retain the knowledge until common sense returns to the culture.
Alex Jr.: Right. A lot of the people who knock on the door of the digital version of the UK column say, “I'm here because I'm scared for myself and my grandchildren.” One of the things that some of our audience members say is, “Can you point me to a good Bible or a good resource on which to base my cultural thinking?” So you're really talking about this wreckage.
Alex Sr.: Right, so in 1993, 59% of people (surveyed in this category) preferred the King James Version, (and) 5% preferred the New King James Version, so in quotes, that's 64% “King James Version tradition.”
Alex Jr.: The King James Bible Family.
Alex sr: Because sometimes people use both (the original King James Bible and the New King James Bible), and sometimes they use both and they get confused in their own mind as to which (what should we call the preferred version) is, and sometimes they just get confused.
Alex Jr.: The New King James Version is basically Youhas been changed to youof.
Alex Sr.: For example, the Indiana University and Purdue University studies didn't have any differentiation initially. When the AV got to 55%, I contacted them and said, new I asked, “King James?” and they said, “Oh, yes, it's there.”
Alex Jr.: So you were put together with “King James.”
Alex Senior: But what's interesting is that at that point the NIV was at 8% and the ESV (English Standard Version) didn't exist, so I'd say the top four books (top three because it was the ESV (which didn't exist yet)) made up 72% of serious Bible readers in America, and in the UK it was 71%, so it was very close.
2011 is the year of the NIV (major new edition)…
Alex Jr.: …and the 400th anniversary of King James’ accession…
Alex Sr.: … (It was) 51% KJV, 11% New King James Version, (a total) 62% KJV tradition, 12% NIV, 4% ESV, (so) a total of 78% (the top four).
Alex Jr.: So, for those of you who are new to this subject, The globalist or revisionist Bibles chosen by the Western world and English-speaking churches have had little influence (on the tastes of serious Bible readers).?
Alex sr: Yes! I can give you the numbers for 2020. In the US, AV has dropped to 35%, but the New King James is at 16%, so we are still at 51% King James tradition. The NIV is at 9%!
Alex Jr.: So unloadFlat.
Alex Sr.: It's falling. I never have That’s a very high percentage among serious Bible students: ESV at 17%, combined (the four major sources) at 77%.
Alex Jr.: The ESV was originally Revised edition (1881), and the whole point of that (ESV) is that it is a more linguistically and theologically conservative way of modernizing the Bible (than what the NIV represents).
Alex Sr.: Excluding NIV, 68%…Nearly 70% of serious Bible reading still follows the King James Bible tradition.
Alex Jr.: I know not all of our listeners would go that far, but the NIV New Age Bible Versionsand it points to its use and promotion by megachurches, with figures behind it such as: Peter Druckerwas a management guru. The collective's slogan was “Creating Community” — the idea being that if everyone could read the same sleepy Bible, everyone would be more easily led.
