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Question #61 -
QUESTION:
What if there really ARE mistakes in the King James Bible?
ANSWER:
Then it's up to YOU to find the Book that God was talking about in
Psalm 12:6,7 and Jesus was talking about in Matthew 24:35.
EXPLANATION: I
learned a great lesson in the late 1960's. I watched on television
as riotous hippies burned down the Bank of America offices. Other
rioters razed entire neighborhoods to the chant of "Burn,
Baby, Burn." The hippies' claim was that they had to burn
this country to the ground in order to build a new one. And THAT
is what I learned: ANY hippie can burn down a
building, but I've NEVER seen even one
building that a hippie built.
The cruel truth is that when you become a rebel
against authority, such as the hippies were, you become an EXPERT
in the art of destruction (II Peter 2:9-15). A life committed to
destroying is difficult to reverse. Thus, hippies know how to destroy
buildings which were built by others. But they
cannot build anything in a productive
manner that improves on what they destroyed.
This rebellious hatred for AUTHORITY is also
manifested in the rabid attacks on the Holy Bible by
self-proclaimed scholars. They can wax eloquent in their
destructive criticism of God's perfect Book. Then after reducing
it to ashes in the hearts and minds of students and church
members, are unable to replace it with anything
that even compares with the divine writings they have so viciously
attacked.
If you have been convinced by some spiritual
hippie that the King James Bible has mistakes in it, then I
suggest you ask them to REPLACE it with a Bible
that is perfect.
They may point to the New International
Version, or New American Standard Version, or New King James
Version as a "better translation." But no one will DARE
to claim that any of these are the Bible referred to in Psalm
12:6,7 or Matthew 24:35.
If you press the issue they will most likely
run you through the brambles and briers of the claim that God's
Word is found only in "the Greek." But the fact
is that their very limited knowledge of the original languages
leaves them unable to read, study or preach from either Hebrew or
Greek. Even if they COULD translate either the Textus Receptus or
the local Egyptian text of Alexandria literally, they would be
forced to admit that there are readings in both that they cannot
accept as infallible.
The FACT is, that, like their
hippie counterparts of the late 1960's they find themselves
standing on a pile of smoldering ruins, without any ability
whatsoever to rebuild even an outhouse, let alone render a perfect
Bible.
No, if you have been convinced by someone that
the King James Bible has errors IN SPITE of the
facts, then you have accepted that thesis for only one reason;
your love for and loyalty to the Bible's antagonist. The critic is
your father, brother, pastor, youth director, college professor,
or just someone you love too much to confront or withstand on the
Bible issue.
So, if you have been convinced by someone that
the Authorized Version has mistakes in it, you should toss your
King James Bible into the wastebasket on top of
your NIV, NASV, NKJV and both of the Greek texts. Then go to that
person, fall on your knees, kiss their ring and say, "Lord,
what wilt thou have me to do?"
But remember one thing: Your God is a REBELLIOUS
HIPPIE!
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