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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The King James Bible is rip-off of the Old Testament as someone decided to add content in order to create a new religion.
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Actually the early Christians ignored the Old Testament until they began to realize that being part of a new religion caused them problems with the Romans, such as being drafted into armies and special taxes, etc. So they began to present themselves as having forked from Judaism, which made them seem to be an old religion, at least to the Romans, who didn't know much about either at that time. To make this believable they began to adopt the Old Testament. As I recall from my reading most early Christians weren't even aware of the Old Testament before they did this. This all took place in the first 100 or so years of Christianity.
Barry