Thank you for your reply.
I am Not saying KJV can Not misinform/ mislead, but that clergy use it to misinform/mislead.
Regarding an accurate translation: What was the reply from the Ethiopian official at Acts 8:30,31 ?
Isn't being part of God's earthly organization also part of James 1:27 ?________
Isn't worship connected to religion ?________
He said he couldn't understand without help. That help came from one of the holy spirit annointed disciples. Having that holy spirit help from God allowed Phillip to fully understand the scriptures from Isaiah. It's actually impossible to understand any of the scriptures without God using holy spirit to help one understand, as Satan has put a veil over the scriptures to prevent most people from understanding. Holy spirit is the only way to pierce that veil
James 1:27 The form of worship that is clean and undefiled from the standpoint of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation, and to keep oneself without spot from the world.
This scripture refers to holy spirit annointed or holy spirit helped persons. The scriptures, rather the Christian Greek scriptures, are all written by and addressed only to those who are holy spirit annointed. They are the 144,000 spoken of in Revelation to John. They are to teach the great flock or great crowd that no one was able to number. Having that holy spirit help allows one to discern what God's will for us actually is, and we are therefore able to keep ourselves without spot (sin) from the world (which refers to the people and the societies of the world, not the Earth itself).
As far as worship being connected to religion, I would have to say no. Religion is essentially the belief system and teaching of things that differ from what the scriptures teach. The letter to the holy spirit annointed Christian Congregation in Galatia says, in chapter five, verses 19-21, that sects (of the one true faith) are works of the flesh. In Revelation to John, the angel is showing John that all those false religions claiming to be sects/denominations of the one true faith are "Babylon the Great", and are all going to be destroyed, along with all their participants, in the final battle, the Great Day of God the Almighty, known as the Battle of Armageddon (which is a metaphor for a huge battle involving all governments of the world). So, no, religion is not tied to worship of God, they only pretend so. Religion reared it's head at the hand of Satan, in the garden in Eden. Satan told Eve things about God that were not true (the meaning of religion), and she made Adam the first proselyte. That act of Satan caused sin, lies, sickness, aging, and death to enter the world. Adam, being the first perfect man, caused all of his progeny to inherit that which God pronounced upon him. It took Jesus' death, since he was the second perfect man, to pay for that ransom. Jesus death gave us the chance to eventually overcome the sin, aging, sickness and death that Satan caused to enter the world.
I could never understand the scriptures for decades, until I began doing God's will. He caused me to understand what I was reading. He put me in touch with some of the remnant of the 144,000 annointed who understood the scriptures. With that help, I have learned things that no religion could or would ever teach. Religions all teach things differering from what the scriptures teach, and all religions teach things different from all other religions. Quite a mess. After all, it says in Rev. 12: 9 So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is
misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.
Satan uses religion and false translations of the scriptures as two of his most effective tools in that misleading. Media, peer pressure, greed, and other things are on that list, but religion and the mistranslated scriptures do most of the work for him.
