Many Christians today don't use Bible versions that have archaic w ords such as ' thou', ' th ee', ' thine', 'th y', 'ye' . I've heard preachers ridicule such language as if us ing such language is so out of fashion that no church (or person) should be caught dead using it . B efore going on, I sho uld make clear that I'm not trying to argue that we should go back to the King James Version (KJV) as it was in AD1611 or AD1769 . For a number of reasons the Church probably cannot do that. However, many were brought up on the KJV and its rhythms are still alive for them. In my case, after deserting it for translation after translation I've now come to view it with much more respect. T he p opulist bandwagon of getting rid of the KJV altogether has only led to a succession of translations which makes for reasonable uniformity and a stable text for memorisation almost impossible. L et's consider a few well-known ...
we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen --Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles