Originals - gone.Fallacy: unrealistic standard of evidence.
Copies - mixture of truth and error. Can't be verified which is which.
"Original language" = Gold standards. ROFL
Originals - gone.Fallacy: unrealistic standard of evidence.
Which is the pure extant as opposed to the corrupt extant?The copies of manuscripts in extant.
Then why do you trust the KJV?Which is the pure extant as opposed to the corrupt extant?
Why do think God chose to leave believers in a state of confusion over his word, not knowing which part is right and which part is wrong? Why not just give us his inerrant word?
Because it reflects the spirit of Christ. No errors, no contradictions, a consistent message through and through. Word and number patterns that could never happen by chance.Then why do you trust the KJV?
Gods word beliw claims preservation, where is this to be found today?Yes, agreed. The original bible, Hebrew and Greek, and translations that do the best job.
Back when? Pick a year since 1611 and there were scholars who could read the new testament in Greek and did so. There were self educated people who could do so. There have always been educated people who understood that KJV was an English translation and not the inspired writings of Paul. Most people know Paul did not write his letters in KJV English. Who are these imbeciles that you speak of who "back then" thought that Paul spoke and wrote in English? The only people "back then" who thought that Jesus spoke in KJV English were ignorant people. Extremely ignorant people.It's not like believers were sitting around reading their KJV's one day and said "hummmm this bible's got mistakes all in it". That's not the way it happened. Back then people revered their bible as the inerrant pure word of God and just assumed that their understanding wasn't quite where it should be to understand the apparent error.
People didn't start disbelieving their KJV until seminary trained preachers started telling them their bibles were corrupt.
So you have theories about the number of English words and letter patterns that makes you believe it was divinely inspired? So God loves English speaking people more than the Chinese? Can't the Chinese have a perfect translation too?Because it reflects the spirit of Christ. No errors, no contradictions, a consistent message through and through. Word and number patterns that could never happen by chance.
Many translations. Many languages.Gods word beliw claims preservation, where is this to be found today?
Psalm 12:6-7KJV
6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
The word and number patterns are just gravy on the top, sort of like God's signature. Inerrancy is the biggest factor.So you have theories about the number of English words and letter patterns that makes you believe it was divinely inspired? So God loves English speaking people more than the Chinese? Can't the Chinese have a perfect translation too?
People doubting the validity of the KJV is a recent thing.Back when? Pick a year since 1611 and there were scholars who could read the new testament in Greek and did so. There were self educated people who could do so. There have always been educated people who understood that KJV was an English translation and not the inspired writings of Paul. Most people know Paul did not write his letters in KJV English. Who are these imbeciles that you speak of who "back then" thought that Paul spoke and wrote in English? The only people "back then" who thought that Jesus spoke in KJV English were ignorant people. Extremely ignorant people.
Do you think the scripture Jesus read was corrupt?He thought it wasn't good for us to be of the same language so he did this https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 11:7-9&version=KJV When Job, Genesis ect. was written they wrote in proto-Sanaitic script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sinaitic_script but its pretty much not written or spoken anymore https://net.lib.byu.edu/imaging/negev/mainfs.html but here in verse 3:9 he says he will return us to a pure language and then the translations will all agree https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zephaniah 3&version=KJV
How would you know? Have you taken even one class from even one seminary? I have, and your ignorant slander doesn't hold water in that case.
It appears you are unfamiliar with the translation of the KJV, perhaps you need to acquaint yourself with the translators, and the process?
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Do you think the scripture Jesus read was corrupt?
No, it doesn’t, not in the sense you’re implying.Gods word beliw claims preservation.
Is there an agreement between UBS and the Vatican? Whether this be "later on" the two text was shared and was adopted by Bible Societies and so Yes there is an Actual Agreement.Furthermore, I have friend who has a copy of the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 27th edition. It is the same Greek text as the UBS (United Bible Society) 4th edition. These are the Greek texts that are followed by such modern versions as the ESV, NIV, NASB, Holman Standard AND the new Catholic versions like the St. Joseph New American Bible 1970 and the New Jerusalem bible 1985 AND the Jehovah Witness New World Translation.
If you have a copy of the Nestle-Aland 27th edition, open the book and read what they tell us in their own words on page 45 of the introduction. Here these critical Greek text editors tell us about how the Greek New Testament (GNT, now known as the UBS) and the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece grew together and shared the same basic text.In the last paragraph on page 45 we read these words:
"The text shared by these two editions was adopted internationally by Bible Societies, and FOLLOWING AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE VATICAN AND THE UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES IT HAS SERVED AS THE BASIS FOR NEW TRANSLATIONS AND FOR REVISIONS MADE UNDER THEIR SUPERVISION. THIS MARKS A SIGNIFICANT STEP WITH REGARD TO INTERCONFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS. It should naturally be understood that this text is a working text: it is not to be considered as definitive, but as a stimulus to further efforts toward defining and verifying the text of the New Testament."
There it is, in their own words. They openly admit that this text is the result of an agreement between the Vatican and the UBS and that the text itself is not "definitive" - it can change, as it already has and will do so in the future, and is not the infallible words of God but merely "a stimulus to further efforts".
The NIV, ESV dosent preserve the verses below in Gods word, they are preserved in the KJVMany translations. Many languages.
I fully understand my english KJV that is supported by the Greek Byzantine Textual Family, including the text the church received and used (Textus Receptus)Perhaps it is a masterpiece. It was good for it's time and it has it's place.
But it is wrong on many levels to purposely confine the word of God only to an archaic form of English.
It would have been a lazy church that left the bible untranslated into the most widely spoken language in the world today.
I don't know if it was the Septuagint or not, I don't think the bible says. But this is what I'm talking about.Your meaning the Septuagint?