That's what I'm asking you. You're the one claiming (if I am not mistaken) that the KJV is the perfect or best translation and all others are corrupt.
That is not the same thing as you insinuating that I know everything.
And no, the KJV is not perfect, but I rely on the KJV for the meat of His words to see the truth in His words as they align together with the rest of scriptures whereas the other modern bibles have not.
So if a believer gets stuck trying to correct a believer in the ESV, check with the KJV to see if that helps. Same goes for any other modern Bible if one gets stuck trying to correct any one, check with the KJV. Some modern bibles has the verse or verses same as the KJV and others do not. When dealing with a lot of changed messages and false teachings, I have found going to the KJV has address them all. So while some modern bibles can correct false teaching in some cases and other correct false teachings in other cases, I have found the KJV to have all that meat for correction.
That being the case, the fact that 1:27 is poetic must not be relevant.
As a matter of fact I think it is highly relevant. Are we created in the image of God? I say we are not as God's creation is not yet complete and His whole plan is to make man in His image. Genesis 1 is a prophesy of six thousand year 'days'. When Jesus returns to claim His kingdom at the end of the sixth day, then His Sabbatical reign will start and we can join Him in His rest for 1000 years.
Au contraire .. God's creation was complete for He called everything good each day and rested on the 7th day from His act in creation.
The fall of man tainted everything for why God's plan of redemption through Jesus Christ came into play. Jesus Christ has completed believers but we have yet to receive our redemption as it draweth nigh; that perfect state to live in unity with the Father & the Son in Heaven yet.
Colossians 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Philippians 3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Hebrews 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
There's a consequence for not running that race daily. For living in sin, there is not only the loss of rewards of crown, but becoming a castaway.
1 Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Jesus will finish His work in those unrepentant saints and former believers left behind to die as their spirits will be with the Lord in Heaven, awaiting their resurrection after the great tribulation to be vessels of wood & earth aka vessels unto dishonor in His House.
After the 1000 year reign of Christ, Satan will be released from the pit to stage a last rebellion for a small season before being defeated again. Then the White Throne Judgment comes and after all that is done, Jesus gives the
completed kingdom back to the Father. Matthew 13:33
