KJV Q&A

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About the KJV and its Underlying Texts

Contents

PREFACE: REVISIONISM ANCIENT AND MODERN.............. 4

CHAPTERS

I PREAMBLE ............................................................................ 6

II QUESTIONS ABOUT THE KING JAMES VERSION ......... 8

III QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INSPIRATION AND

PRESERVATION OF SCRIPTURE ...................................... 20

IV QUESTIONS ABOUT FOREIGN LANGUAGE BIBLES

AND THE MODERN VERSIONS ....................................... 39

V QUESTIONS ABOUT DIFFICULT VERSES...................... 44

APPENDIX: UNDERSTANDING KJV ENGLISH ..................... 50

God had spoken: His Word standeth sure, forever settled, inerrant,

infallible, perfect. Who dare doubt or question it but the father of lies and

enemy of truth. His master stroke “Yea, hath God said?” stumbled our

first parents and plunged the race into sorrow and curse.

That was revisionism of the spoken word at the dawn of history.

In time God gave the Written Word: holy men of God wrote as they

were moved by the Holy Ghost. That Word was denied to God’s people

by unfaithful custodians, until God sent the Reformation and the Bible of

the Reformation—the King James Version (KJV)—to lift the darkness of

a thousand years.

Lovers and defenders of the KJV affirm with Dean Burgon of

Oxford that

The Bible is none other than the voice of Him that sitteth upon the throne.

Every book of it, every chapter of it, every verse of it, every syllable of it,

every letter of it, is direct utterance of the Most High. The Bible is none

other than the Word of God, not some part of it more, some part of it less,

but all alike the utterance of Him that sitteth upon the throne, faultless,

unerring, supreme.

Through three centuries, the KJV reigned supreme, the unchallenged

and unrivalled Word of God. But the enemy of truth, with diabolical

cunning and subtlety, schemed its overthrow through a “Committee of

Revision” headed by Westcott and Hort, masterminds of subversion and

champions of corrupted and doctored texts.

Their “Revised Version” of 1881, a masterpiece of intrigue, and

“secret weapon” of the Counter-Reformation, breached the dike of Holy

Scripture, and a hundred corrupt “Modern English Versions” poured

through the floodgate of Revisionism. In the century following, corrupt

versions had all but replaced the King James Bible.

Thank God, it was all but: He has yet a valiant remnant who stand

against the tide of corrupt English Versions, like the faithful seven

thousand in Israel (1 Kgs 19:18), their knees have not bowed before the

Baal of Modern Revisionism.

This Twenty-first Century “Battle of the Versions” intensifies as the

father of lies uses every wily stratagem to overthrow the citadel of

Biblical fundamentalism, hurling false accusations against the beloved

translation and the underlying texts.

But we affirm our unshakable faith in the KJV as the very Word of

God—the best, most faithful, most accurate, most beautiful translation of

the Bible in the English language that is based on God’s infallible,

inerrant, inspired and preserved texts.

May all who love the Word of God affirm with the Scripture, that

“the law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the

LORD is sure, making wise the simple” (Ps 19:7), and that “All scripture

is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof,

for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may

be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim 3:16, 17).

Let God be true but every man a liar. God’s Word is truth. Only the

KJV and its underlying texts preserve that truth perfectly.