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Question #6 -
QUESTION:
Don't the best manuscripts support the new versions?
ANSWER:
No. The best manuscripts support the Bible, the Authorized
Version.
EXPLANATION:
The new versions are only supported by about five of the
over 5,000 manuscripts of Bible text. Critics of the Bible claim
that these manuscripts are better than those used by the
translators of the Authorized Version. This is not so.
The two most prominent of these, Vaticanus, which is
sole property of the Roman Catholic Church, and Sinaiticus are
both known to be overwhelmed with errors. It is said that
Sinaiticus has been corrected and altered by as many as ten
different writers. In Vaticanus is found the evidence of very
sloppy workmanship. Time and again words and whole phrases are
repeated twice in succession or completely omitted. While the
entire manuscript has had the text mutilated by some person or
persons who ran over every letter with a pen making exact
identification of many of the characters impossible.
Both manuscripts contain uninspired, anti-scriptural
books which are not found in the Bible.
The only place where these error laden, unreliable
manuscripts excel is in the quality of the materials used on them.
They have good bindings and fine animal skin pages. Their physical
appearance, contrary to their worthless texts, are really rather
attractive. But then we have all heard the saying, "You can't
tell a book by it's cover". The covers are beautiful but
their texts are reprehensible.
And yet in spite of these well known corruptions,
they are the basis for many new versions such as the New American
Standard Version and the New International Version rendering these
versions critically flawed and unreliable.
The manuscripts represented by the King James Bible
have texts of the highest quality. So we see that the best
manuscripts are those used by the King James translators.
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