"The
infallible English of
the King
James Bible
corrects the errors and
omissions of the Greek
Textus Receptus.
"
"So, hands up…
who wants
to run in
bare
feet when you
can wear
Reebocks?"
WHAT'S ‘THE
GREEK' SAY?
Ever heard
this phrase when
doing Bible study? Sure, we all have. The question is "Which Greek
text?"
HOW MANY GREEK
TEXTS ARE THERE?
Over 30 at
last count and
still rising.
WHICH ONE IS
THE BEST?
Only one - the
Textus Receptus
(TR). It is a compilation of the manuscripts that came out of Antioch
where men
were first known as Christians (Acts 11:26). The other texts are based
on
manuscripts that came out of Alexandria and in the Bible, God hates
things that
come from Egypt. See Isaiah 31:1
WHICH BIBLE IS
BASED ON THE TR?
There's
only one - the
King James Bible. All the other versions are based on the corrupted
Egyptian manuscripts.
WHAT? ALL OF
THEM?
Yes and that
includes the
NIV, New King James, Good News, New American Standard, Jerusalem,
Living Bible,
Catholic Bible, the Message plus the other 200 or so versions that have
ever
been produced.
HAVEN'T THEY
BEEN BASED ON THE BEST AND OLDEST
MANUSCRIPTS?
No that's a
lie that
everyone's fallen for. It is proven that these manuscripts were written
a
couple of hundred years after the authentic manuscripts from Antioch.
BUT, DOES THE
TR HAVE ANY ERRORS IN IT?
Yes. According
to the
magnificent Dean Burgon (the Prince of Translators), "The TR will
probably
be found to need correction in between 500 and 1000 places throughout
the whole
NT, the great majority of errors being of a minor sort ...".
("True or
False?"
by Otis Fuller p305)
SO WHY DO THE
BIBLE CORRECTORS SAY THE TR IS ERROR
FREE?
Pride,
ignorance, and fear.
If they saw the deception and believed the truth, it would cost them
position,
salary and reputation.
IF THE TR HAS
ERRORS, THEN THE KING JAMES BIBLE
MUST HAVE ALSO?
Absolutely
not. This is
where the divine providence of God has intervened. The TR was only one
source
that the King James Bible translators used.
WHAT WERE THE
OTHERS?
They used the
TR plus the
Bishop's Bible plus their unprecedented mastery of Greek and Hebrew
plus their
superior translation techniques to produce the error-free King James
English Bible.
HOW CAN YOU
SAY THAT?
Quite simple -
no-one has
ever found an error. Many
think they have, but the King James Bible corrects
them every time.
WHERE DID THE
TR COME FROM?
The Textus Receptus
(TR) was the Greek text first used by Robert Stephanus of Paris, when
he
produced the Stephen's Bible in 1550. It wasn't named the TR till the
1624
Elzevir Bible was produced whose preface had the words "Therefore
thou
has the text (textum) now received (receptum) by all,
in which we
give nothing altered or corrupt."
WHAT WAS THE
BISHOPS BIBLE?
Another Bible
was produced
after Stephen's Bible and this was the 1568 Bishop's Bible. King James,
from
advice received, instructed his translators to use this one as the
basis for
the King James Bible of 1611. Why? Bishop's was an advance on the
Stephen's
TR-based Bible correcting many of the errors and omissions contained
therein.
SO THE KING
JAMES BIBLE IS SUPERIOR TO THE TR?
Absolutely.
Isn't it wonderful
to know that God in his infinite wisdom saw to all this when he
produced the
infallible King James Bible - inspired and totally without error. "The
words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of
earth,
purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt
preserve them
from this generation for ever." (Psalm12:6-7). The King James
translators
didn't mistranslate anything - God saw to it that they got it right.
That's why
it's said that "The English of the King James Bible corrects the Greek
every time." God then used this Bible for over 250 years of
unprecedented
world-wide evangelism!
TWO PLACES
WHERE THE KING JAMES BIBLE IS SUPERIOR TO THE TR.
The Bible
correctors say
that "thought" of Matthew
6:25 should be the TR's "anxious
thought". If this were the case then "anxious thought" should
also be substituted into Matthew 6:27,
thereby allowing you to think that
you could add height to your stature by "thought." Furthermore the TR
Bible correctors want to substitute 'disobedience' for 'unbelief' in Hebrews 4:11. Now there are many forms of
disobedience and in this case it was unbelief. `Disobedience' is too
general a
term. Everyone knows that the Jews couldn't enter in because of
unbelief (Hebrews 3:19;4:6).
ARE MODERN
BIBLE CORRECTORS IN THE SAME CLASS AS THE 1611 KING JAMES BIBLE
TRANSLATORS?
Why don't you
judge for
yourself? Consider Dr Lancelot Andrews who would be head and shoulders
above
the pack today. He had mastered fifteen languages. It's said that if
anyone
could have sorted out the confusion at the tower of Babel, it would
have been
this man.
Check out Dr
William
Bedwell - who was so proficient in Arabic learning that he wrote a
Persian
dictionary and an Arabic lexicon which are still preserved in the
Bodleian
Library at Oxford today.
How good was
Dr Miles
Smith? He was an expert in Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic and Hebrew. It is
said that
he was as familiar with them as his native tongue.
John Bois was
no dummy
either. At the age of five he could read the whole Bible in Hebrew. At
age six,
he could write Hebrew in clear and elegant style.
In addition,
there were another forty-four men of similar intellectual
and academic standing. Although not a King James Bible translator,
Professor
Robert Wilson mastered 45 ancient languages and dialects necessary to
study the
manuscripts of the Bible. His conclusion from over 45 years of arduous
study?
Simply stated - the Old Testament as we have it today in the Authorized
King
James Bible is perfect and without error.
"A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING"
One of the
King James Bible translators, Dr Richard Kilbye, visited a
church one Sunday only to hear a young preacher criticize several words
in the
recently published King James Bible. He gave three reasons why one word
in
particular should have been translated another way. After the service
around
the evening meal, Dr Kilbye gently explained to the young preacher that
the King
James Bible translators had carefully considered "the three reasons"
but were aware of thirteen more weighty reasons for the word which the
young
Bible corrector had criticized.
You don't need
many brains to correct the King James Bible. Just enroll
in some Greek course, get your First Year Greek Primer and Lexicon and
you're
an Official Bible Corrector! However, at the judgment seat of Christ
and the
great white throne, there'll be much weeping and screaming.
Harley Hitchcock
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