It makes a difference in that we
have to have a Bible that we can trust.
When people think that the KJB has errors thereby justifying their use
of modern versions, they need to ask themselves if there are any errors in
their bible of choice (NIV, NASB, ESV, etc.).
Do they just believe their bible has fewer
errors? Is there any version of the
Bible in English that we can trust today?
If the answer is no, then they need to give me a good reason to suspend
my belief in God’s doctrine of preservation.
If there are any errors in their
modern version of choice, why are they using that it? Especially, those who teach and preach from
God’s word and yet take away confidence in his word by telling people that they
cannot have God’s word without error. To
say that God did not preserve his word so that we could have it without error
in 2013 is nonsense.
I would not feel right if I didn’t
believe that the living God who is alive and well, and who cares about humanity
could not preserve his word perfectly so that all men could be saved and come
unto the knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:4).
The first thing that Satan did in scripture was to say, “Yea hath God
said?”
Genesis
3:1
Now the serpent was more
subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord
God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall
not eat of every tree of the garden?
So if I can’t trust God’s word, i.e.,
if I can’t trust the scripture, what can I trust? When the Lord was tempted by Satan, he came
back with, “It is written.”
Matthew
4:4
But he answered and said,
It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
He didn’t wonder if there were
mistakes and errors in scripture. Were
the people in the first century and the Lord the only ones who could have God’s
word perfectly preserved for them? Does
God care any less about you and me who live in America in 2013? We have to have a bible we can trust; one in
which God has preserved his truth.
Psalm 12:6
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver
tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Psalm
119:140
Thy word is very pure:
therefore thy servant loveth it.
Proverbs
30:5
Every word of God is pure:
he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
PURE, a. [L. purus.]
3. Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as
pure religion. James 1. (http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/search/word,pure)
It has been proven time and time
again that the KJB can be trusted. An
excellent body of research on the superiority and trustworthiness of the KJB is
Grace School of the Bible’s course on Manuscript Evidence. You can study that for years.
How sad is it that preachers and
teachers can’t give people confidence in God’s word, but rather they take
confidence away from it when they say that the KJB has errors. It is not glorifying to God when they say that. They penalize the KJB and its English for
being smarter than them. It is purer
English than what we use today. That was
the genius of God in having the KJB translated when it was so that we can have
the fullness of the meaning of so many words.
If someone believes the words that
have been changed in the new versions are superior, they just need to be
students of God’s word and they will see that the original words and phrases
used in the KJB are correct. God intends
for his word to be studied. It doesn’t
take that much effort to study out a word.
2 Timothy
2:15
Study to shew thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word
of truth.
[By the way, the KJB is the only
version that tells us to “study”.]
2 Timothy 2:15 (NASB)
Be diligent to present yourself
approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately
handling the word of truth.
2 Timothy
2:15 (NIV)
Do your best
to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be
ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
2 Timothy
2:15 (ESV)
Do your best
to present yourself to God as one approved,[a] a worker
who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
The King James English is a higher
class of English than today’s English.
The new versions and their proponents desire to dumb down the word of
God. The KJB was around long before the
new versions, and it was used by God for centuries to bless the saints and the
world with the gospel of God’s grace.
Why reinvent the wheel? There is
something special about this preserved word in the KJB. We appreciate God’s word when we study it.
Psalm
119:159
Consider how I love thy
precepts:
The number one thing teachers and
preachers of the word of God should be doing is magnifying the Book.
Psalm
138:2
I will worship toward thy
holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou
hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Be bold in defending God’s preserved
word for us today. But if you don’t
believe any version is without error and preserved by Almighty God and that you
can trust it, you are implying there are errors; and not just printing errors
but errors in doctrine.
God intentionally did not make it
easy to understand his word. He wants
students who will study to show themselves approved. The KJB translators did not dumb it down. The
translators of the new versions did; and they also take away from the
doctrine. They take away from his glory.
Psalm 62:4
They only consult to cast
him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their
mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
They take away from the glory of the
Lord Jesus Christ and they take away from his deity and his Lordship by
omissions and word changes. They omit
the “faith of Jesus Christ.”
Romans
3:22
Even the righteousness of
God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe: for there is no difference:
Galatians
2:16
Knowing that a man is not
justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ,
even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith
of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall
no flesh be justified.
Galatians
3:22
But the scripture hath
concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might
be given to them that believe.
They change it to allude to mean your faith in Jesus Christ is what saves.
Acts 3:26
Unto you first God,
having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away
every one of you from his iniquities.
The new versions say “his servant.” They take away from the Lord’s glory. A Son is greater than a servant. Why use a bible that does that?
Acts 9:5
And he trembling and
astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said
unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must
do.
The NASB takes away Paul’s
confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 9:6
And he trembling and
astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto
him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
Acts 9:6
(NASB)
but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what
you must do.”
A Jew had to believe and confess
with their mouth the Lord Jesus.
Colossians
1:14
In whom we have redemption
through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
The NASB, for example, removes the
blood.
Colossians
1:14 (NASB)
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Why take away from his blood? Isn’t it the power of his blood for
redemption?
Additionally, the new versions take
away the mystery of Christ. They dumb
down, water down doctrine. Satan loves
to take away Christ’s glory, in particular the glory of the mystery of Christ, the
Pauline grace message which is how his glory is displayed today. They take away the dispensation of the grace
of God.
Ephesians
3:2
If ye have heard of the dispensation
of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
Ephesians 3:2 (NASB)
if indeed you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace
which was given to me for you;
Ephesians
3:2 (NIV)
Surely you have heard about the administration of God’s
grace that was given to me for you,
Ephesians
3:2 (ESV)
assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's
grace that was given to me for you,
Why not use a Bible that exalts the
Lord fully? This is the real issue. The only English version that exalts the Lord
Jesus Christ and does not cast him down from his Excellency, is the King James
Bible.
Revelation
22:19
And if any man shall take
away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part
out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which
are written in this book.
Hopefully this
helps...Maranatha!
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