KJB: The Book That Changed the World

The film was honest & beautifully done ---if viewed merely in the temporal it would be a five star :-).However, after being captured personally by the philosophies & traditions that we, as Christians ----the called out ones---are warned of in Colossians 2:8 ---and seduced to receive a false christ & gospel, and to be caught up in the futility of dialoguing with the devil and reacting to his phony philosophical evolutionary dialectic based only on the rudiments of this fallen world, man's vain imagination, and the doctrines of demons ----and which is utterly unable to stand forensic & objective evaluation ----first as a 'liberal' and then as a 'conservative' --- I am painfully aware of the insufficiency of any medium or message claiming to teach 'Christian' history or ethics, apart from a clear proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed in God's Holy Word in 1 Corinthians 15.I stand now on & in the Word: finally a true convert: born again, regenerate & redeemed of God, & sealed with the Holy Spirit with that promise of eternal life & citizenship in the coming Kingdom of God. The Word plainly teaches that Christ's Kingdom is not yet of this world, being invisible & only within the hearts of regenerate men ----and those who hate that humbling truth & seek to take men captive for their own agendas, bellies & gain work tirelessly ---& overtime---- to wrest & redefine the Word in the vain attempt to excuse themselves & their own sins, while striving to keep people endlessly learning in an illusion of 'progress', while never coming to the truth that alone can save their souls & free them spiritually from the kingdom of death.Richard Dawkins is a perfect example of the ridiculous ends we men will go to avoid seeing the truth----when backed up against a wall due to the sheer irrationality at the faith presuppositional & fundamental level of their self-excusing ideologies ---'aliens' must have done it---- or perhaps, life was 'seeded' here on the 'backs of crystals' from outer space.... If that's not vain superstition embraced to avoid the true supernatural---I don't know what is! While the pathetic & labyrinthine & crassly hypocritical & cross-avoiding philosophizing of supposedly 'Christian' 'creationists' such as Hugh Ross & the Biologos people vainly embracing & promoting (warmed over pantheism with 'Christian' frosting ---neo-scholastic compromise---vomit & wallows willingly returned to without any logical or reasonable necessity for doing so) -----------while allegorizing the Bible beyond recognition----is even more reprehensible! Wandering stars & clouds that promise rain but never deliver, bringing to birth, but never delivering... Fornicating & abortive 'Christianity'. The Harlot is not the Bride, and by their fruit (wind & empty religious words void of reason & the Spirit of Truth) ye shall know them.Christ, and not man, will establish His Kingdom in the visible only after the Usurper is received of those not keeping the Word & holding to the simplicity of Christ during the tribulation when the Jews, the Harlot & all the world will receive a false 'Messiah' (having heard & rejected the true). This will not take place until after that Usurper tires of the Harlot's demands for a share of his glory & decimates those who will not deny the Lord & seal themselves to him by taking the mark to cleave to him exclusively, & turning against the Jews also with his demand to be worshipped in the place of God, then taking his even more ungodly solidarity & unity: coming with all the unrepentant nations against fleeing Israel to annihilate her. It is at that time that Christ will return in glory with His saints to judge the nations & establish His Kingdom.I now live as a pilgrim & ambassador in this world ----and realize the folly of focusing solely on this life, and any so-called 'Christian' endeavor that leaves out the Gospel of Jesus Christ in all of its glorious truth & distinction, that alone can overcome the Curse & death by the grace & mercy of God. This happens by the bowing of one individual knowing & choosing soul at a time to the truth of the Gospel in faith & repentance ---never collectively or univerally. The offer is universal, and the redemption is sufficient for all men------but the reception of it is not universal & not all men respond to conviction savingly. This is further complicated by the fact that men who deny the Word & conviction ---are blind to the spiritual realm as it really is, & the fact that we have an active enemy seeking to destroy the souls of men by drawing them into his rebellion against God & Truth by his lesser, corrupt alternatives. They are open & prone to listening to lying, deceiving, destructive spirits who come to them offering 'other ways' to God---even by denying Him and futilely claiming His divinity & authority for themselves as Satan did.Christendom & social justice & evolution & dominionism ----all of those idols have blessedly fallen under forensic & objective examination alongside the plain narrative of God's Word so clearly revealed & preserved of God in the incredible King James Bible based on the preserved & living texts. There are so many undeniable, objectively & forensically observable infallible proofs preserved within its pages that make sense of everything we observe & experience in this life, & true Christianity is the only faith that does not demand blind leaps in order to embrace it. The Christian faith, as once delivered to the saints in the completed & closed canon of the Word of God, is not blind ---but sighted & substantiated in the visible created world.This film was more honest & objective than most --- yet leaned into that materialist trap of interpreting things politically and psychologically (based upon philosophical materialism & pagan assumptions) which we all fall into without the Word & Spirit ---and even with them, if not grown to maturity through diligent study of the plain Word & persevering in the simplicity of Christ. All men yet wrapped in corruptible flesh in this life are corruptible & fallible. Sighted, knowing faith in Jesus Christ is the victory that overcomes the world as we resist sin, the flesh, the world and the devil armed with the Word & spiritual armor of God---and that faith comes through appeal to conscience & reason ----not by external imposition or compulsion through raw force, subversion or selective & hypocritical censorship in the name of 'tolerance' which is necessary only for the protection every truth claim that can not stand on its own merit in the light of comparison.Rome & the State churches' reinsertion, & support, of the Alexandrian texts to confuse the word & to insert doubt so as to turn the people back into bondage & dependency upon their false human authority & the bondage of their gnostic & nicolaitan systems was so cleverly done ---just like the Gunpowder Plot (covered honestly in this film for once, though without the full impact of understanding the spiritual undertows): stealthily & illegitimately ----in rebellion against the limitations of Truth.I am grateful for this film which fills in some of the gaps of how God provided a powerful means for His people to be prepared, protected & enabled to persevere the coming onslaught of the Harlot's regathering strength after her apparently mortal wound was nursed & convalesced like some nightmare of an undying Athaliah---by the powerful preservation of His Word in a pure translation.It is amazing in honest history to see God's true providence & superintendence at work as He sovereignly superintends in His foreknowledge, yet never violates the free will of man. Defying man's systematic classification of Himself & His works according to any agenda or purpose of man! True history reveals the universal depravity & short-comings of all mankind ---as well as our universal common heredity confirmed by genetics & making the terms 'race' & 'racism' obsolete & foolish as there is only one race: the human race, and two sexes as instituted & ordained by God & testified to in reality. His Word is living & active: convicting of sin, showing the way of redemption in Christ, regenerating with spiritual life, giving us warning & pointing out human sin in & among all men by means of the measuring Law no man can keep, while any honest perusal of the creation reveals through simple observation & logic the existence of a transcendant Creator.Were it not for the restraining & enlightening grace of God that brings life, coming to us through His Holy Spirit and Word--------even as it acts through imperfect men such as Noah, Abraham, David ---and James VI and I ---we would destroy ourselves in short order in our choice to embrace sin, destruction & the false light & lawlessness of the antichrist usurping spirit who seeks to kill and to destroy.It was fascinating in this film (which stands up to a factual examination from source documents) to learn more of how the King James Bible came about in the visible & how God made it possible for His Word to be preserved, with James uniquely prepared & positioned to insure the evening out of the unbiblical extremes, and the vicious & cruel human & political agendas that sought to take captive the Word & keep it from the people as Rome's ungodly merger with the world had done for centuries. As Cardinal Hosier put it in 1524: "Were it not that the Baptist have been grievously tormented & cut off with the knife during the past twelve hundred years, they would swarm in greater number than all the Reformers."'Baptist' in this usage means those who held to the Word of God as their sole authority for practice & polity, living under the headship of Christ, within the bounds of the doctrine of Christ, in local autonomous churches where accountability was possible & as the Word commanded, in unity & fellowship with other churches so far as they held to that same doctrine & practice. They submitted to earthly authorities willingly & were generally model citizens ---but bowed spiritually to no priest-king or god-man and were mercilessly cut off by Augustine of HIppo's Roman generals in North Africa, by Augustine of Canterbury's politically & diplomatically 'converted' Saxons at Bangor, & by Dominic Guzman's soldiers under Innocent III at Beziers. Yet they clung to the Word, and when one church would wane through persecution, apathy and/or apostasy ----from the living seed of the Word, watered with the blood of martyrs: another church would spring up somewhere else, sheltering in some distant valley: another buzzing bee or upstart shepherd boy ---to challenge the false Giant 'Church' and world system.So much for Christendom's claims of a great & glorious, unified 'heritage' and the philosophical Western Judeo-Christian political progressive wonder of spiritual progress that never was... evolving to some claimed perfection by the strength of man's arm ---which the humble & simple recognize as hypocrisy merely by looking around with open eyes & common sense! Things have progressed exactly as prophesied in Daniel, & the other Prophets. We don't date-set ---but we have the Word & the signs for our encouragement, the blessing promised in the opening verses of Revelation & in Matthew 24---- as we persevere & history approaches its culmination & resolution. Meanwhile: our Anno Domini history, honestly reviewed, parallels the checkered history of the Jews (and perhaps surpassing it!), and it is clearly revealed that it is solely the grace of God that sustains & preserves, or suffers with patience, anything human. The glory is His.The world has never seen such a collection of scholars working together in the manner of the King James committee. In His Providence God brought these amazingly gifted men together, renowned for their incredible scholarship even by the world, under the keen eye of King James who was savvy to the corruptibility & political aspirations of men grasping for power & illegitimate control over the souls of others (even if presumptuous on his own part regarding the so-called 'divine right of kings' :-).This powerful, majestic, true- to- the- best -texts translation (not a paraphrase or an allegory) was done at a time when the Jesuits were just beginning to take the Counter-Reformation & the open conflicts of religion underground to act subversively in the realm of the spiritual (of ideas ---with the goal of infiltrating & turning every human institution back to the corrupted & nicolaitan, gnostic & humanist Roman Babylonian 'authority' & 'unity'). It was accomplished during a brief window of opportunity before the Oxford Movement & neo-scholasticism had fostered sufficient corruption to spawn the lying Trojan Horse of 'higher criticism' & pseudo-scholarship ----the bastion of unbelieving hubristic men with no faith in, or fear of, God who began lying unholy hands on the Word of God & every center of power once again ----worshipping power & their own vanity before God -----and hating the powerful light of the King James that enlightened the souls & understanding of the people, and revealed the hypocrisy of every pretender to sinless perfection or 'divine right' of authority.It was accomplished before God permitted the ancient pagan evolutionary lie of Epicurus & Democritus ---and the Eastern anti-truth, antichrist philosophies-----to come back in, the way prepared through eighteenth & nineteenth century intrigue, corruption & false spiritualism that raised up generations who refused to be bound by, or tested by, objective truth & the Word of God as it was so powerfully & majestically preserved in the King James Bible against such incredible odds! All of it unfolding just as prophesied in Romans 1 & Psalm 12 & Psalm 2 in so many other passages!It is tragic when men harden themselves so against the testimony of truth without them in the Creation, as well as within them, in their God-given conscience that is the remnant of the image of God providentially preserved of Christ in fallen mankind (John 1, Romans 2)-----having suppressed the truth in unrighteousness to excuse their ungodly desires for so long that God in His wisdom & foreknowledge turns them over to their lusts: fools professing wisdom, the blind seeking to lead the blind, the deceived & deceiving.All in all, I recommend this film but would also recommend that men examine the work of Dean Burgon and the Baptist collections of out-of-print testimonies & histories written before the great falling away, dumbing down, and ecumenical harlot had made such headway & taken so many institutions & denominations from within that Roman-style censorship & fascistic/communistic/gnostic human 'authority' & draconian systems are once again fashionable & considered without the cries of alarm they once would have brought from a biblically literate & regenerate people, united in the sighted & substantiated doctrine of Christ and the Spirit of Truth and life, rather than merely united blindly in lust & the doctrines of demons serving the spirit of anti-truth and death. We don't even recognize the selective censorship of political correctness for what it really is! Let alone the soft, schmoozy, seductive & smooth talk of 'social justice' & fascist communitarianism that begins all warm and mystical and fuzzy----sounding vaguely 'Christian' & 'feeling' oh-so-good ----but which tempts men into using evil means to achieve supposedly godly ends----and leads the unwary into a deadly embrace of tyranny: the way that seemeth right to a man, but the end of which is death.Fundamentalist Baptist Information Service has an impressive digital collection of out of print books & commentaries, diaries & so forth at a reasonable price that cover this period of history & the amazing scholarship & godliness of this historically unique group of men that God brought together against all odds to accomplish the preserving of His Word; while other sources would include the Dean Burgon and Trinitarian Bible Societies. (There are obvious & logical reasons why the coming world Harlot religion & Antichrist would desire & need to suppress & deny the utterly unique mark of the trinitarian godhead, as well as to obfuscate the prophecies, & the thousands of forensically & observably supported & testable infallible proofs that support & reveal the Word of God ---Old and New Testaments---to be exactly what it claims, and which clearly & unmistakeably identify Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the only resurrected Lord, as the true Christ and Messiah and Salvation of the world ----by mythologizing & allegorizing it with reinterpretive license rather than honest translation.)Don't you think you should investigate this most important claim honestly & directly for yourself rather than trusting the 'experts' who profit (temporarily at least) from your ignorance? I'm sure thankful that I did. 1Cr 15:55 O death, where [is] thy sting? O grave, where [is] thy victory? -----This film could be a piece of that examination---but there is so much more for those who seek truth honestly & diligently!

This exceeded my expectations in how well it was done. It's quite an exciting movie for something that many consider to be just a "book". I believe the Bible is far more than a book. For those concerned this does not promote the KJB as the "only" acceptable Bible, but it does cast the KJB in highly favorable light.I think the rest of my review is somewhat subjective to my beliefs, and point of view, so pardon me if it seems directed toward Christians a little, but these are my feelings. This also may be a little bit of a spoiler so just so you know. I don't know if a documentary can really be spoiled, but it does have a plot to it.Because of the entertainment factor in making a movie like this, it doesn't go very deep into the techincal stuff that Bible scholars are interested in. Not that I was exepecting that, but that was my sort of thing, so don't expect that.I kind of cringed a little at how much emphasis was put on man's accomplishment when really the accomplishment was God's. But I would have to agree that this event was important in the history not only of Christianity, but in the English language, and perhaps as the plot shows, the promotion of a common cause that people with different beliefs contributed to. I don't think it's promoting ecumenism, it's just that's how King James orchestrated it, that they would all cooperate.The way King James went about it I found slightly offensive to my faith, but not enough for me to bash the whole movie. It's a good topic, and although I might have made it a little less dramatic, it did have some drama in it that makes it an exciting movie. There are many twists and turns, and interplays between the various characters that are complex, and present some thought provoking moral, and doctrinal dilemnas. I could take sides on many of the religious characters and King James himself at different points, one exception being the Anglican Bishops. This is all narrated by the way, but the narration does not get in the way of the unfolding drama, so my memory of it is like watching it unfold like a movie.Permit me to enthusiatically add that I hope this movie encourages those who are not familiar with the KJB to read the KJB or any decent Bible for that matter, but you might find the KJB more compelling to read in light of this movie, and appreciate the language used, and see it's historical context rather than some boring prose.

This dvd is so good. KJV is a very important translation, probably the best.

There are points here regarding King James and the history of England at the time however I feel the DVD is mis-titled.It focuses hugely on KIng James. I would have loved to have known more about why it is considered such a fantastic translation. What where the less accurate/powerful translations like in comparison? Only one example is givenMoreover the narrator's description of the Gunpowder Plot is exremely unbalanced. Fawkes is presented as a mercenary with a strongly Doncaster/Yorkshire accent. But it may be hewas a passionate man of faith as well as of arms. And that he was Spanish:'Guido'. I found Channel 4s recent programme Gunpowder Treason and Plot to be far more nuanced on this topic. This KJB dvd fails to detail how Catholics were being penalised,persecuted and driven to contemplate such actions to attain their freedom. I believe I recall at one point in the channel 4 documentary it recounts how King James promises to meet them to sympathetically address their concerns but does not turn up and they are slaughtered instead.I am not a historian so this anomoly makes me question what else in this documentary is unbalanced.

This is a well crafted historical document, weaving together the intricacies of the political and religious context that gave birth to the King James's Bible. And like John Rhys-Davies says we all have a copy somewhere under our own roofs.'KJB - The Book That Changed The World' provides a majestic journey through the corridors and rooms once traversed by the very characters that shaped the culture and society, both in Scotland and England, of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The cinematography is spell-bounding, meticulously woven together in editing to highlight the finely detailed script, presented by John Rhys-Davies. The storytelling pulls together, seamlessly, the dramatic moments of reconstruction, with academic insight from contemporary scholars. For those fascinated by costumes from late Elizabethan, Jacobean and Stuart Periods, this will be a feast. A highly commended feature length documentary and reconstructions by producer and director, Norman Stone.It is great to see a film present a well-balance account of the spiritual developments of England and Scotland through the events that led to the Authorised English translation of the Holy Bible.

If, like most households in the UK you either possess a copy of the Bible, or have access to one, then take it down, dust it off and cherish the history and struggles that brought it to you.This DVD charts the germination of the commission to produce a once-and-for-all translation of the scriptures into English by James 1st. It portrays the king in a favourable light, despite the many enemies his outspokeness made. His lonely childhood and strong minded tutor, bringing to the throne a man who managed to weld the rival protestant factions into a team who would bring into light something truly wonderful, the word of God in English - and what English!John Rhys Davies presents the whole drama-documentary with conviction and enthusiasm.Negative point: In spite of his massive earlier input into the text, William Tyndale gets no mention.Apart from that, a wonderful resource in this hope-starved world, that mircales can and do happen.Watch the DVD, then read the book.

This was a gift for my father who thought it was great. Being a KJ Bible version fanatic he was eager to watch it and find out more. He loved it and said he would recommend it to any who want to know more about the origins of the KJ bible

The Producer/Director, Norman Stone, has done a superb job on this film which tells the lively story of how the King James Bible was translated into English under the rule of James 1. The Bible is a 'living' God-breathed book which feeds our souls and our spirits. The King James version is regarded as the best translation ever of the Bible and it gives us thousands of phrases which are common parlance in our English language. It is book like no other! The film does justice to the masterpiece.