King James Bible Articles
MORE THOUGHTS AND POINTS ON THE KING JAMES ONLY ISSUE
Take a look at how modern "scholarship" treats the Holy
Scripture in the so called "Living Bible":
Here is the updated version of Elijah's run-in with the
prophets of Baal:
"Perhaps he is talking to someone or else is out sitting
on the TOILET." (Living Bible I Kings 18:24)
Or consider Jesus's words of Zechariah 13:8...
"And if someone asks them, what are the scars on your
chest and your back, you will say, I got into a BRAWL at
the home of a friend." TLB
I know that the anti-KJV-only folks will argue that the
Living Bible is only a paraphrase, not a translation. I only
showed these verses to demonstrate that the same careless and
almost vulgar treatment of Scripture translation is the fruit
of our modern "scholars". If Zechariah 13:8, which is a
prophetic scripture verse, is twisted in the Living Bible
to suggest that Jesus got into a "brawl"... well, I'd much
rather use the Living Bible for starting my wood-burning
stove. It certainly is not God's Word.
The problem that the anti-KJV-only crowd has is an
AUTHORITY problem. It was said of Jesus in Mat. 7:29, "For
he taught them as one having AUTHORITY, and not as the scribes."
The problem is that our modern generation refuses to
have any ONE AUTHORITY over them. We are our OWN gods. We
will not have anyone rule over us. This modernistic tendancy
leads us to desire all sorts of 'bibles' that use less
condemning words and soft phrases that are not designed to
convict or condemn. If we have about one hundred modern
versions from which to choose, we can "pick and choose" the
individual verses that WE want to believe, rather than to
rely upon ONE particular authority.
Did you ever notice that there are no NIV-Only folks;
no RSV-only people; no NASB-only Christians?? Doesn't that
tell you something? The anti-KJV-only folks will allow
anything BUT ONE AUTHORITY...
If they were to have ONE authority over them, it would
not allow them to live their worldly and compromising
lifestyle. It would require them to either get right with
God, or remain forever backslidden or lost.
Comprehending the KJV-Only position neccessitates an
understanding of how Satan has relentlessly attacked the
Holy Bible. To eliminate, diminish, or question the
Scriptures is to jeopardise man's central communication
link with his God.
This is precisely how the human race fell in the Garden
of Eden. Having received her Creator's clear instructions,
Eve chose to entertain the "serpentine suggestion". A key
insight into the way Satan attacks your King James Bible
can be gained from his very first words to man:
"Yea, hath God said...?" (Gen. 3:1)
Because of Eve's disasterous questioning of God's Words,
the entire human race was plunged into judgment. There is
nothing new under the sun. The modern bible translators have
simply fallen into the same old satanic trap as Eve... They
have asked, "Did God really say that?" or "Yea, hath God
said...?"...
The translators would have us to trust in the "doctrine
of the Nicholaitanes"-- that Romanistic doctrine that presents
the Roman priests as the sole dispensers of God's Word to the
people. This doctrine teaches that the common man cannot
possibly understand the Scriptures apart from the parish
priest's guidance and interpretation. It sets the priests
up as the "biblical scholars"; and leaves the common man
with no authority other than his Roman priest or Pontif.
This same Romish doctrine is now pervading our "Evangelical"
translation efforts. The modern translators use such words as
"the majority of biblical scholars agree that verse so-and-so
is not in the original manuscripts" or "the two most reliable
greek texts do not contain verse XX."... They would have us
to believe that since these modern Romish scholars SAY that
"verse so-and-so is not in the originals", we are to trust
them completely. They are asking us to do the very same thing
that the Roman Catholic priest requires of his parish church
members. We are being asked to "trust in the scholars" rather
than to trust completely in our particular bible version.
Can you see that? These modern translators are asking us
to go back to the dark ages-- it's as simple as that. We cannot
trust in our King James Bible-- it has errors, they say. We must
turn to the scholars and ask them to help us understand the
Scriptures. It is placing HUMAN WISDOM above God's Word.
They are afraid that if we begin to read and study the Bible
for ourself, we might just find out that they are full of prunes!
The modern bible publishers make money off the NIV, NASB
and others. The publishers hold the copyright to those
versions. They cannot make money off of an uncopyrighted
King James Bible. The love of money is the root of all evil.
If we were to simply trust in our KJV Bibles, we would be
putting a lot of folks out of business...
The Bible publishers would go bankrupt. The modern
scholars would have no market for their words of wisdom.
We would have no need for anyone to tell us which verses in
our Bibles are real and which ones are false. Why? Because
we would have the inerrant, infallible Word of God. We would
have no need of our Romish "textual critics" to tell us what
to believe, for we would have the Holy Spirit to teach us
from the pure Word of God.
The issue of the King James Only position is a fight
between those who hold to Scriptural positions of Biblical
authority (the Bible alone) verses those who hold to the
Romanist doctrine of Biblical AND ecclesiatical authority.
The Roman Catholic historical position has been that the
authority for the Church is the Bible AS INTERPRETED BY
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTS... Thus, the Catholics
believe in two authorities: the Bible and the Church
(corporately speaking).
Our authority should be the BIBLE ALONE. The battle
for the King James Bible is an AUTHORITY battle. Should
our authority include some scholar whom we have never met?
Or should it be the Bible alone?
Some observations:
1. God's messages to His children are always
simple, clear and unmistakable.
The modern translators have created an atmosphere of
uncertainty concerning what God's Word REALLY says. They
constantly say that it is "not certain" that verse so-and-so
was in the original autographs. This creates doubt in the
hearts of men as to whether the Bible can be trusted completely.
2. Spiritual freedom is ensured by believing God's message.
We are reminded of the value of simple faith in God's
Word by the words of our Saviour in Mat. 18:3, "Except ye be
converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven." The entire Christian life
is experienced through a childlike faith as we believe a
message we do not understand, love a person we have never
met, and long for a home that we have never visited. With
God's reminder that "He that doubteth is damned".
But the modern translators and anti-KJV-only scholars
would have us not trust God with our childlike faith, but
rather trust in THEIR man-made and human-conceived notions
of what God really meant. They are asking us to disobey
the clear commands of Christ.
3. Any man or movement which encourages doubt in
God's Word is satanically motivated.
Paul warned us in II Cor. 11:3, "But I fear, lest
by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtility, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ."
Paul also said, "God is not the author of confusion".
Jesus warned in Revelation of the doctrine of the
Nicolaitanes. The word Nicolaitanes comes from "nikao"--
to conquor; and "laos"-- the people. Literally it means
"to conquor the people"... and that is exactly what our
modern textual critics are doing, when they set themselves
up as the only true authorities for biblical interpretation.
I am convinced that the modern Bible movement is being
directly headed by none other than Satan himself. I don't
say that those who have been fooled by Satan are not saved--
Eve trusted Christ... but I am saying that they are allowing
themselves to be influenced and directed by Satan.
"But the anointing which ye have received of him
abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you."
