Kenyon Bowers

The Mandela effect, a phenomenon in which people recall something in a way it either: 1) didn't happen or 2) it never was. There are many such Mandela effects in Christianity. One of the most known is the term “the lion and the lamb.” Such a statement has never been in the Bible, yet it is a very common phrase within Christianity. The correct phrase is "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb" (Isaiah 11:6). A project called the "The KJV Restoration Project" claims that the KJV has been corrupted by so-called "supernatural changes." They state that they are using "the evidence posted on the Amos 8 website"¹ ( amos8.org ). Originally, in July of 2023, I published a now-privated YouTube video titled "The KJV - Part 6: The Bible and the Mandela Effect" in which I covered this very topic. The Amos 8 (who also started The KJV Restoration Project) website updated their website to say: "Proof that the Mandela effect on the Bible is re...

While reading through the Apocrypha recently, I was reading the Additions to Esther . In order to get the whole picture, I read through Esther as well using the New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) which incorporates the additions into the text of Esther itself. I made frequent comparisons back to the trustworthy King James Bible, and what I found was interesting.   In Esther 2:3, in the King James and in the NRSVCE (it reads the same in other NRSV editions), it reads thus:   "And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them: " (KJV) "And let the king appoint commissioners in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in the citadel of Susa und...

In the King James Bible, there are italics. They are used to show when the translators supplied words either because the English language requires them to make sense or because of something implied in the originals that isn't "explicitly" there. Originally, in the 1611 King James Bible, there were no italics. Instead, since the text was mostly in Gothic type, the supplied words were in Roman type. When, however, they switched from Gothic to Roman, they began using italics where the Roman type had been originally. I have a leaf from a 1630 King James Bible, and it uses the Roman type with italics, so some point from 1611 to 1630 is when this switch was first being made (but not completely as I found a 1639 KJV with Gothic type). Galatians 4:14 in the 1630 KJV; "even" is in italics   There are three times that the KJV uses italics for something other than supplied words. It was used to denote variances in the received texts in three spots: John 8:6, 1 John 2:23, a...

Recently, YouTuber and author Mark Ward published a video titled False Friends Finale . If you're not aware, Mark Ward's "false friends" list is a list of words that you think you know which have a different meaning in the King James Bible. An example would be the word communication which means "ones manner of living" rather than having a verbal or written correspondence with someone. In his video, Mark Ward calls the word "his" a false friend. Yes, you read that correctly —"his," as in "His favorite dessert is cake." He states:   "False friend 145, 'his'...The Oxford English Dictionary reveals that the simple word 'its' ('i-t-s,' without an apostrophe) as a possessive pronoun did not enter English until some time after the King James was translated. It's kind of complicated because a related form did come in, but phrases like 'the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind' were not poss...