"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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