http://www.britroyals.com/kings.asp?id=james1 http://www.psalm118.org/story_of_king_james.htm http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/james/jamesbio.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I Frankie Sabia
Proven Statement
There is much which suggests that King James wasn’t the ungodly man that modern critics criticize him to be. In other terms he appears to be unjustly accused. Not many accusations were pointed at King James the 1st until after his death. Suspicion arose that he was homosexual and a man not of God. It appears that they claimed this chiefly because he wanted to change the Bible and write it his own way. King James was very popular during his reign but this does not mean he didn’t have opposers, …show more content…
He was notably educated in poetry by George Buchanan. He was influenced politically with the idea that the king is beholden to the people for his power. Later he rejected those theories in favor of a belief in kingship by divine right. At an early age he learned to read and write in several languages. He was smart and one of the first to deeply understand how books could be a form of media and used he that to spread his ideas when he published his own books.
This leads to the spiritual side of King James' influence and spread of ideas. He wanted to impress his people and show evidence of his kingship. His most notable literary works were written from his own interpretation of religion and God. This in turn led to him rewriting and making his own translation of the Bible. It was a view of the Bible showing his encouragement and participation of religion that he used to spread throughout england.
When King James was only one year old he became the King of Scotland. He was raised as member of the protestant church of Scotland and brought up to be a Protestant king who respected God and who accepted the limits of being a king under God. In his own rule of Scotland he was always trying to maintain peace and he avoided war up until the time his mother's execution. He had signed the Treaty of