Was king james of the bible gay
A: ***Note: Years ago, the very first question I answered on this site was on the KJV only debate. Therefore, it seems fitting to once again deal with a ask on the KJV Bible to commemorate the th question answered. I thank the Lord for getting me to this gesture, and for His blessings on the site.
Somehow, in all my years of creature a Christian, I have never heard the charge that King James was a homosexual until the other day. A male (on Facebook&#;) was saying (in short) that since King James was a homosexual, and he commissioned a Bible that is still used today, homosexuality must be acceptable to God. I HAD to find out more about this!
So, was King James a homosexual? There are websites and articles which show evidence that he was, and also that he wasn&#;t. The number of websites/articles which show evidence that he was a homosexual far outnumber those which offer proof that he wasn&#;t. Of course, just because there are more saying that he was means nothing. What&#;s significant is if the evidence that they show is credible. And the answer, to me at least, i
Who was the King James that the King James Version of the Bible is named after?
Answer
The King James Versionof the Bible is also called the Authorized Version, because the translation was authorized by King James I of England. The preface of the KJV dedicates the perform “To the most High and Mighty Prince James, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.” Prior to ruling England, James was King James VI of Scotland. It was not until , upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I, that the kingdoms of Scotland and England were joined and James became King James I of England, the first of the Stuart line.
Mary Queen of Scots gave birth to her son James in in Scotland. In June the Protestant lords rebelled against their queen. They arrested and imprisoned Mary in Loch Leven Castle, where she was forced to abdicate the throne of Scotland. James was thus only a year old when he became James VI, King of Scotland, in In spite of his mother’s Catholic faith, James was brought up in the Protestant religion. He was educated by men who had empathy
What can we know of the private lives of early British sovereigns? Through the unusually large number of letters that live from King James VI of Scotland/James I of England (), we can know a great deal. Using original letters, primarily from the British Library and the National Library of Scotland, David Bergeron creatively argues that James' correspondence with certain men in his court constitutes a gospel of homoerotic desire. Bergeron grounds his provocative study on an examination of the tradition of letter writing during the Renaissance and draws a connection between gay desire and letter writing during that historical period.
King James, commissioner of the Bible translation that bears his name, corresponded with three principal male favorites—Esmé Stuart (Lennox), Robert Carr (Somerset), and George Villiers (Buckingham). Esmé Stuart, James' older French cousin, arrived in Scotland in and became an intimate adviser and friend to the adolescent king. Though Esmé was eventually forced into exile by Scottish nobles, his letters to James survive, as does James' haunti
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QUESTION: I have been told that King James was a homosexual. Is this true?
ANSWER: No.
EXPLANATION: King James I of England, who authorized the translation of the now known King James Bible, was considered by many to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, monarchs that England has ever seen.
Through his wisdom and determination he united the warring tribes of Scotland into a unified nation, and then joined England and Scotland to form the foundation for what is now known as the British Empire.
At a age when only the churches of England possessed the Bible in English, King James' desire was that the common people should have the Bible in their native tongue. Thus, in , King James called 54 of history's most learned men together to accomplish this fantastic task. At a day when the leaders of the world wished to keep their subjects in spiritual ignorance, King James offered his subjects the greatest gift that he could give them. Their own copy of the Word of God in English.
James, who was fluent in Latin, Gree