I don’t either to be honest I’m assuming it the idea tbat only the kjv is authentic but was wondering what the person meant by it who made the op
I responded to him in post #4. What is boils down to is that too many people are unable to distinguish between strong KJV advocates and the nut cases on the fringes.
Originally "KJV-only" meant that -- according to the nut cases -- the English translation itself was "inspired" (God-breathed = theopneustos). Peter Ruckman is a typical example, who even said that the English translation "corrects" the Greek text. But then he used a lot of foul language also, and gave KJV advocates a bad name.
However, what strong KJV advocates believe -- based strictly on the facts -- is this:.
1. Only the ORIGINAL autographs were divinely inspired (God-breathed).
2. There were only 24 books in the Hebrew Tanakh, now represented in the Protestant bibles by the 39 books (when split up).
3. The apocryphal books are NOT divinely inspired, hence not Scripture.
4. All the original autographs perished with usage.
5. However faithful copies of those autographs were made over and over again, and are now found in thousands of manuscripts from different ages and different regions.
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The traditional Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Received texts of the OT and NT fairly represent the MAJORITY of those manuscripts.
7. The Hebrew and Greek texts were put into printed form in the 16th century.
8. The King James translators had these printed texts in their hands and translated directly out of the original languages.
9. For over 400 years, the King James Bible dominated all English translations, and is the most faithful and reliable English translation because it is firmly based on the traditional texts. It has many other qualities which make it a translation par excellence.
10. In the late 19th century Westcott and Hort replaced the traditional texts with their "critical" Greek text which was based upon the TWO MOST CORRUPT Greek manuscripts.
11. All modern bible versions are based upon the critical text of Westcott and Hort, which is at variance with the Received Text in thousands of instances.
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Modern bible versions mispresent the true NT text, and also attack important Bible doctrines, therefore they must be rejected.
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