God's inerrant Book - the King James Bible
God's inerrant Book - the King James Bible
I appreciate that you took the time to type all of this out. I have a couple of questions about your inerrant KJV: What did the people of the years previous to 1611 do for inerrant Scripture? How is it that you can make claims of inerrancy in that text, but not in the preceding texts? Or is that your claim? I'm sort of new to this 'KJV only' discussion and haven't actually heard answers to these yet.
Hi Jonah. This question comes up a lot and it is a good question. But I have never found anybody from the modern versionist side who asks this question who has ever really thought through their own position.
I do not believe there was a perfect and inerrant Bible before the King James Bible. There was a purification process going on. The printing press wasn't even invented till around 1450 and the Reformation has not yet taken place.
The previous bibles that were translated from the different Hebrew and Greek texts were the Reformation Bibles like Tyndale, Coverdale, the Great Bible, Matthew's Bible, the Bishops' Bible and the Geneva Bible. The 7th one was the KJB. The KJB translators used these 6 previous English bibles in their translation. They come right out and mention them by name. Plus they compared several foreign language bibles - all of the Reformation type.
But I do not believe that any of them were the inerrant words of God. They all have faults, either textually or in translation.
But when I say that I do not believe there was an inerrant Bible before the KJB the bible agnostics raise a big stink about this. What they are totally missing and usually never even stop to think about, is the FACT that not one of them really believes there was such a thing as an inerrant Bible either. Not before and they sure don't believe in one now.
All you have to do is ask them to show you a copy of this inerrant Bible they PROFESS to believe in (and lie about) from either before or after the KJB. Not one of them will do it.
Not Bob Enyart (that is why he continually dodges the question), nor James White, Dan Wallace, Rick Norris, James Price, Doug Kutilek, R.C. Sproul or John MacArthur. Not one of these men will EVER tell you what this inerrant Bible is many of them lie about believing in.
Now, if you know of a provable error, either textually, doctrinally or in meaning, then go ahead and let us know what your Number One All Time Big Hits "error" is and we can take a closer look at it to see if the error is in the Book or in your own understanding.
It is also highly significant that NOBODY seriously defends any version like the ever changing NKJV, NIV, NASB, ESV, NET, Holman etc. or any specific Hebrew and much less any specific Greek text as being the inerrant words of God.
God bless.