Most people never question which Bible they’re reading — and some movements are counting on that.
There is a reason certain controlling religious groups insist their members use only the King James Version. When the text you’re reading sits at a 12th-grade difficulty level — packed with archaic pronouns and poetic phrasing that don’t even exist in the original Hebrew and Greek — you become dependent on someone else to tell you what it means. That is not liberty. That is spiritual gatekeeping, and it has no place in the life of a Christian Patriot who values truth and the freedom to think for themselves.
Rick Rene has spent more than 20 years studying Scripture across multiple translations. In this post he breaks down the full readability spectrum of every major Bible — from the KJV at grade 12 all the way down to the NIrV at grade 3 — and explains exactly what word-for-word versus thought-for-thought translation actually means for your understanding of God’s Word. He also takes on the popular claim that the NIV intentionally corrupted Scripture, and puts it to rest with a direct side-by-side comparison.
This is the kind of honest, independent teaching FaithNFreedom was built to amplify — truth that equips you to read, study, and think for yourself without needing a gatekeeper.
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