THE BIBLE VERSION
QUESTION-ANSWER DATABASE (members
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Contents
Introductory and General Questions
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What
is “King James Only”? Don’t King James Only people believe that God’s Word is only
in English and that God’s
people should not study Greek and Hebrew?
How
important is the Bible version issue? Is it worth division and trouble?
Can
the common Christian understand the Bible version issue?
Shouldn’t
the Bible be translated into simple language that everyone can understand?
Was
“King James Onlyism” invented by a Seventh-day
Adventist?
Is
it true that there are no significant doctrinal differences between the modern
versions and the
KJV?
Does
the Bible explicitly teach that God would preserve the Scripture?
Does
Psalm 12:7 refer to the preservation of Scripture?
Does
the Bible teach how God would preserve the Scripture?
Where
was the preserved Word of God before 1611?
Are
the modern versions of the devil?
Aren’t
the modern versions accomplishing God’s work around the world? Can people be saved
through them?
Are
the modern versions associated with the apostasy of these days?
Don’t
all of the scholars support the modern versions?
What
about the Bible in other languages? Is the preserved word of God only available
in
English?
Should
foreign language translations be based on the King James Bible?
Is
it wrong to use other versions even for Bible study?
What
about the “oldest and best manuscripts” that I read about in the margin of the
modern
versions?
Did
fundamentalists defend the King James Bible before David Otis Fuller in the
1970s?
How
does the defense of the KJV differ from Rome’s position toward the Latin
Vulgate?
I
have read that the KJV defenders make a lot of mistakes; is that true?
Can
a person be saved through the modern versions?
What
has the modern bible version issue done to Bible memorization?
What
are some of the books that you recommend on the Bible version issue?
Are
there any Bible colleges today that stand for the King James Bible?
Questions Pertaining to the King James Version
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Was
the King James Bible authorized?
Didn’t
the original KJV include the apocrypha?
Was
the King James Bible ever copyrighted?
Hasn’t
the KJV been updated in thousands of places?
Was
King James I a homosexual?
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Were
the King James translators universally godly and without doctrinal blame?
Since
the KJV translators were so flawed, how do they differ from the authors of modern
textual criticism that you
reject?
Was
the scholarship of the KJV translators inferior?
Isn’t
it a detriment that the translators retained ecclesiastical terminology from
the Bishops
Bible? (e.g., “baptize”
instead of “immerse” or “church” instead of “congregation”)
Isn’t
It Wrong to Translate “Love” as “Charity”?
What
about Peter Ruckman?
What
about the term “God forbid”?
Since
the KJV had a large number of marginal notes, why do you condemn this in the modern
versions?
Why
does the King James Bible use the word “Easter” in Acts 12:4?
Didn’t
the KJV translators say all versions are good?
Is
the King James Bible inspired?
Could
the KJV ever be revised again? Or could there ever be a better English
translation of the
Textus Receptus
then what we have in the KJB?
Isn’t
the King James Bible too difficult to understand?
Shouldn’t
we remove the old language such as Thee, Thou, and Thine?
Is
it wrong for a preacher to correct the King James Bible?
Questions Pertaining to the Greek Received Text
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Wasn’t
the term “Textus Receptus”
merely an advertising blurb?
What
about the differences between the various editions of the Received Text and
which
edition should we prefer?
Wasn’t
Erasmus a Roman Catholic humanist?
Wasn’t
Erasmus’ Greek New Testament hastily done and filled with errors?
Didn’t
Erasmus use a mere handful of manuscripts?
Didn’t
Erasmus and the Reformation editors of the Greek Received Text use textual
criticism?
Why
aren’t there ancient Greek uncial manuscripts of the Traditional type?
Is
it true that most of the manuscript evidence supports the Traditional Text of
the
Reformation?
Questions Pertaining to Modern Textual Criticism
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What
is modern textual criticism?
Why
we reject modern textual criticism?
Isn’t
the actual difference between the Greek Received Text and the Westcott-Hort text small
and insignificant?
Isn’t
the Critical Greek text based on older manuscripts?
Why
do we reject the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus
manuscripts?
Was
the Sinaiticus manuscript actually found in a waste
paper container?
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Who
are Westcott and Hort, and what did they believe?
Isn’t
it true that modern versions are no longer based on Westcott and Hort?
Should
1 John 5:7 be in the Bible since it has minority support among the Greek
manuscripts?
What
about the last twelve verses of the Gospel of Mark?
Should
the Dead Sea Scrolls be used to modify the Masoretic
Hebrew Old Testament?
Was
the Koine Greek of the New Testament
colloquial?
Don’t
the Papyri prove that the Alexandrian text is the best?
Isn’t
it wrong to paint the entire field of modern textual criticism with the brush
of skepticism,
seeing that there are also
Bible-believing men such as Samuel Tregelles, A.T.
Robinson, and
B.B. Warfield in this arena?
Does
it matter if the influential names in modern textual criticism are skeptics?
What
about the Septuagint?
Who
was Origen?
Is
there an issue today with the Old Testament Hebrew text as there is with the
New Testament
Greek?
What
about the Greek “Majority Text”
Questions Pertaining to the Modern English Versions ...................................... 368
What
about the New King James Bible?
Isn’t
the New American Standard Version basically the same as the King James except for
updated language?
What
about the New International Version?
Is
It True that the NIV Is Owned by a Publisher of Pornography?
What
about the Today’s English Version?
What
about the Living Bible?
What
about the Today’s English Version?
What
about The Message?
What
about the Holman Christian Standard Bible?
This book is one
of two companion volumes for Faith vs. the Modern Bible Versions: A Course
on
Bible Texts and Versions and a 10-Fold Defense of the King James Bible.
The other
companion
volume is The Modern Bible Version Hall of Shame. It is suggested that
the student
first
read Faith vs. the Modern Bible Versions, which gives a background for
understanding the
Bible
version issue, before studying the companion volumes.