Your lack of knowledge regarding the original languages and refusal to accept factual differences between these different words (all because they ended up being translated the same or similar in the English KJV), is causing you to connect dots that aren't meant to be connected... and lead you down a trail of false conclusions.
The word "mighty" in Isaiah 9:6 is "gibbor" and is associated with being a warrior. The word "mighty" in Psalms 50:1 is "AL/EL" meaning "All".... and is translated as "God" throughout scripture.
For those interested in having a deeper understanding of the scriptures, here is the part of the verse that gets translated into the English KJV as "The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken":
אל אלהים יהוה דבר (read from right to left)
אל - Al/EL - Almost always translated as "God", but here translated as "mighty". The name/title means "All".
אלהים - Aleim/Elohim - Also translated as "God" (sometimes gods). The word means "Godkind" (as opposed to mankind).
יהוה - IAO - This is what many believe is the Most High's name. It means "Existing".
דבר - Dabar - This means "To speak".
I don't want to get into a debate on the tenses, so for this verse I will leave the word "dabar" how the KJV translated it - "hath spoken".
So if we translated the previously mentioned phrase from Psalms 50:1 using what the names/titles actually mean in the original language, it would read something like this:
"ALL Godkind Existing hath spoken"
Regardless of how you feel about the translation, the words translated as "mighty" in Isaiah 9:6 and Psalms 50:1 are two very different words. So you have still not been able to provide any scriptures where the Messiah is referred to as these names/titles:
A. THE MOST HIGH GOD
B. THE ALMIGHTY
C. Above ALL gods
D. יהוה
I consider that it is a cult-like mentality, in which the self-professed expert on the Greek and Hebrew is the cult-leader, when people say that the translations that we have been given are not reliable but that you have to go to the original Greek and Hebrew; and of course, the person saying this to you is the expert on Greek and Hebrew who can tell you the meaning of those Greek and Hebrew words so that you can know what the holy scriptures REALLY mean.
1) Its very ironic that you would relate 2 Tim 4:3 to me. I have not run into any teachers that specifically target the KJV as a bible NOT to use... but I have run into "teachers" that push the doctrine that the KJV is this infallible translation and will ignore many facts that prove otherwise... even about the language it was translated from. That verse you posted from Timothy seems to apply much more to KJV onlyists than to me.
The teachers that you have heaped to yourself are the ones who have translated Bibles that give you an alternate understanding of what the scripture plainly says in the kjv.
2) Noone denies The Most High's omnipotence. However, you are jumping to conclusions again to connect the power The Most High has... to the KJV. The Most High being capable of doing something is not evidence that He did it.
And, as I said, I do not base my understanding that He did do it on the fact that He is Omnipotent and sovereign but on the fact that He is love and the fact that He wants His creation to know what is His unadulterated message that will save their souls.
The educated scribes and Pharisees rejected Jesus while the common people heard Him gladly.
So, I believe that God would not limit or entrust the true understanding of His message to educated Greek and Hebrew scholars; who might be inclined to reject Him.
He gave His unadulterated message to the common people; today this is in the form of the King James Version.
3) Mat 7:13-14 says absolutely nothing about bible versions. You are pulling verses out of context that have nothing to do with the belief system that you learned from your fellow man. I am definitely not concerned about your point of view on the topic, and your track record has shown that your judgements are off on many things....
Your true colors show with your statement: "But if I am right, you will not be going to heaven if you reject my point of view."
How does that show my true colors? And what color does it paint me as, in your opinion?
It is simply a statement of fact that if I am right, and believing in the plenary inspiration and inerrancy of the kjv is a part of the narrow way that leads to life, then if I am right, and you also reject my opinion, it is the logical conclusion that you will go to hell for rejecting my opinion, since you would be rejecting the narrow path that leads to life.
I did not say that any scripture specifically states that believing in the inspiration and inerrancy of the kjv is an aspect of the narrow path that leads to life. That would be a logical impossibility even if God did want to say it in holy scripture. For the kjv is a translation and translations came after the Bible was originally given. So, the original revelation would not be able to speak of specific translations since those specific translations had not yet come into existence.
However, I, by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost today, can apply the scripture in question (Matthew 7:13-14) and say that believing in the inspiration and inerrancy of the kjv is an aspect of the narrow path that is spoken of in that passage.
Again, you can take it or leave it; but you leave it at peril to your own soul. For if I am indeed right, then your rejection of what I am saying will place you as being squarely
not on the narrow path that leads to life; therefore I would venture to say that your opinion places you on the broader path that leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13-14).
And it should also be clear that, in rejecting the kjv's rendering, you have itching ears because you are wanting to hear some other teaching on the matter; which you go to other translations to give you. And I contend that the people who translated them are in fact teachers who are telling you what your itching ears want to hear.
I pray that the Holy Ghost will reveal to you that there is a teaching that will lead you astray from the words of knowledge (Proverbs 19:27) and that you have been deceived by it.
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