He hated the God represented in the Geneva Bible. You know God's Word produced by exiles from the English monarchy.
You're buying the false political narrative. "King" James was plotting and plotting people try to hide their motives behind the best intentions. He was a liar, a murder and a thief. His desire to rule all men under His authority that he said was given to him "by God" came from Satan.
It amazed me that some of you will talk of how Tyndale and others gave their lives to authorities to bring the Scriptures to English and you turn right around and readily accept this despot kings actions at "face value".
No one who's seen my posts over the years will mistake me for a KJVO. But, as a Christian, I must stick to the TRUTH as I know it.
The makers of the GB fled from Britain under "Bloody Mary" before KJ was born. And KJ had little to do with making the version that bears his name, except give the Anglican clerix permission to make it. (It came to be called the "King James" version because of his toadie, Archbishop Richard Bancroft, who heaped praise on KJ
ad nauseam.)
Bancroft made the rules for the translators in accordance for what he believed were KJ's wishes. He took his rules to KJ, who approved them without hardly looking at them.
Bancroft died in 1610, but his name for the new BV stuck, & naturally, KJ didn't mind.
Religion-wise, KJ was a despot only against certain Catholics, & a few sects. After all, some Catholix, led by Guy Fawkes, had tried to kill KJ, so, naturally, he wanted to prevent another such attempt on his life.
BTW, KJ was an expert fox hunter when hunting to hounds. He gave strict orders to anyone who hunted with him to never show deference to him, but to allow him to use his own skill at taking a fox. And he was also an excellent golfer; he caused the Old Course at St. Andrews to be refurbished. And he once drove a golf ball for what was measured at 461 yards, with downhill roll. This was witnesses by several courtiers. What was amazing about that were several things: the golf balls of that time were hides stuffed with feathers, & KJ was not a large man. But , same as he did for fox-hunting, he ordered anyone playing golf with him to do his best, but he still managed to win over half the matches he played.
His main claim to fame is keeping Britain outta the awful Thirty Years' War, which ruined most of Europe as much as WW2 did. His main claim to infamy was his spending, which almost bankrupted Britain.
