{"id":868,"date":"2011-05-28T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T15:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2011-05-28T11:26:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T15:26:26","slug":"king-james-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/king-james-i\/","title":{"rendered":"King James I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/King-James-I.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-870\" title=\"King James I\" src=\"http:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/King-James-I.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a>I recently completed reading a fun book &#8212;\u00a0 <em>Majestie: The King Behind the King James Bible by David Teems <\/em>(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010).\u00a0 It comes at a time (400-yr anniversary) when many are appropriately examining the time period and substance of the English translation of the King James Version of the Bible.\u00a0 From a biblical point of view, one would have to say that the assessment of the spirituality of King James is quite lacking and any judgment of his &#8220;born again&#8221; status left in confusion.\u00a0 The book does not really go into these features in much detail.\u00a0 I do not know much about Teems and his background although I browsed the web for information.\u00a0 But the book is a delightful read and puts the\u00a0spotlight on early 17th century England in a way that you will remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently completed reading a fun book &#8212;\u00a0 Majestie: The King Behind the King James Bible by David Teems (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2010).\u00a0 It comes at a time (400-yr anniversary) when many are appropriately examining the time period and substance of the English translation of the King James Version of the Bible.\u00a0 From a biblical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/our-hope.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}