Are the Earliest Manuscripts the Best?

Yes GOd has preserved his word due to the prolific copying and translating by countless people over the thousands of years. The King James is not the perfect preserved word.

I agree. Not saying that the KJV is a worse english translation, in fact I acknowledge that in some instances it is superior. However no translation is perfect. When it comes to the OT I would prefer to read something translated from the septuagint but not many options as far as that goes.

The thing is, you can read any version of the Bible and still completely misunderstand what is truly being said.
I would advise new Christians to stay away from the more perverted translations, but if you already know about the nature of God, what is sin and things like that then it doesn't matter as much. When I am studying important concepts or doctrine and the wording is very important, I personally check with the greek/hebrew as well as read multiple translations and sometimes multiple commentaries.

My parents always watch Mike, are you him?

What is the knockdown thing that Mike says that you think will convince fence sitters? I see a lot of FUD (e.g he's really going to apply "God will not allow his Holy One to see decay" to the BIBLE @ 1:21:45. Seriously?!), and not a lot of solid reasoning from the MSS tradition. Point out to me what you think is one of the big points.

The argument is ultimately not about whether or not God is capable of preserving his word, if only for the very simple fact that the exact argument people like Mike use in their attack on modern scholarship works exactly in reverse about whether the early church had an uncorrupted version of God's word.

I probably should have chosen a better title. I don't want to debate the issue, I really just want people who are on the fence over the inerrant word issue to listen to some of what Mike has to say.

So you are pushing to recruit people to your cult, I thought that was against the rules.

So what makes believing in an inerrant bible a cult?

I agree. Not saying that the KJV is a worse english translation, in fact I acknowledge that in some instances it is superior. However no translation is perfect. When it comes to the OT I would prefer to read something translated from the septuagint but not many options as far as that goes.

There's nothing knockdown in it that I know of. It's just a view of translations from a person that actually believes that God is capable of preserving his word and that he did it.

If you've made up in your mind that God is incapable of preserving his word or chose not to preserve his word for all languages,

Because your cult bases its entire beleif on a couple of cherry picked verses and a revision of English Bible translations is needed to be manipulated to fit these verses. Fact is dozens of languages can also fit in to the refined 7 times.

Your cult would also like to see all other translations and Bibles prior to 1611 and after destroyed. That is the cult, use only our official material and everything else is from Satan.

God never planned to have an inerrant Bible, this leads to many more problems, the Muslims have the Koran, which is an original, but of course how do they know its an original, how do they know that this "original" has not been tampered with?

With the prolific copying and distribution of Gods Word and the Bible accross the thousands of years We can see that the word has been preserved, it is the message that counts. IF God wanted an Original Bible, then we would have it, and further it would have been created in the first century and we would all know about it, not 1500 years later in archaic English.

God has preserved His Word using multiple mss. If all the eggs were put in one basket (eg Textus Receptus) it would be easy pickins for the higher critics. The colloboration of multiple manuscripts only strengthens the case for inspiration and apparently is the means God used for preservation.

The KJV is not in all languages, indeed it is limited to English. Most of 'all languages' have Scriptures translated from the most modern Greek texts which lay great weight on the earlier manuscripts and papyri. It is significant that when new discoveries are made they tend to support the earlier manuscripts.

The KJV is good, and godly, and has been mightily used. The standard Russian translation of the Scriptures is not as accurate but has also been mightily used. And so we could go on. God is able to use imperfect instruments in carrying out His purposes. He chose not to preserve for us an original.

Personally I find the RV/ASV the most accurate translation for study purposes. They translate the languages more literally.