The Cambridge Declaration

We do believe that God has preserved His words... just that He didn't do so in the KJV.

What do you do with the fact that the KJV uses the Masoretic text for the OT, yet the apostles quoted from the Septuagint in the NT, and the verses they quoted are significantly different between the two testaments?

I believe God is purifying the source documents over time, through additional manuscript evidence.

That’s a huge myth. I don’t have time to explain tonight, but I’ll be glad to tomorrow when I have time.

If there’s errors, even one, it ain’t the word of God (even “scribal errors.”)

Since I am trained in accounting, I look at materiality, and I think we materially have the word of God..if there are minor scribal errors it is of no real consequence.

Additionally, the Bible has a coherent storyline. I can see the logic of God's mind and plan expressed in it. If there are minor scribal errors, it is pretty much meaningless.

UWC, I hope that i didn't give the impression that I felt any Bible today wasn't sufficient for salvation, edification, reproof and teaching. Yes, the errors are truly immaterial, i would go as far as to say that we almost have +95% of what the original autographs wrote.
I was only contesting infallibility and inerrancy. For let's face it, we don't even know 100% who wrote a lot of it, there are names ascribed to books derived from tradition. Not that I care in the least who wrote it, for like yourself I see the majesty & Wisdom behind it's entirety. But, again, what we have today for English Bibles, are they perfect, complete or infallible, not me!

Do you have anything to contend for? Do you have the word of God? It’s bizarre that Christians don’t believe God preserved His words as promised.

I think I agree with what you've said in regards to Bible translations.

I think the accuracy is higher than 95 percent though..I believe it's more like 99 percent. And, the small scribal errors, etcetera, are meaningless.

By the way, an Egyptian teenager asked me a lot of questions about issues involving scribal errors. He learned about them from Muslim apologists. He was being taunted by his Muslim schoolmates about them. I did heavy research and found that in some cases, the source documents (Hebrew in particular) had slight scribal errors, and there were no existing perfect manuscripts. I could not deny these slight errors, but they were meaningless. I explained the issues to him, and he understood..the roadblocks to his faith were no longer crippling, and eventually he accepted Christ.

However, when he explained the issues to his mother, it messed with her a bit because I think she was very tradition-laden and assumed the text was perfect. I don't think she looked at the issues, but simply didn't want to hear about it from him. I don't think he should have tried to explain it to her anyways, but try telling a teenager that

I think I agree with what you've said in regards to Bible translations.

I think the accuracy is higher than 95 percent though..I believe it's more like 99 percent. And, the small scribal errors, etcetera, are meaningless.

By the way, an Egyptian teenager asked me a lot of questions about issues involving scribal errors. He learned about them from Muslim apologists. He was being taunted by his Muslim schoolmates about them. I did heavy research and found that in some cases, the source documents (Hebrew in particular) had slight scribal errors, and there were no existing perfect manuscripts. I could not deny these slight errors, but they were meaningless. I explained the issues to him, and he understood..the roadblocks to his faith were no longer crippling, and eventually he accepted Christ.

However, when he explained the issues to his mother, it messed with her a bit because I think she was very tradition-laden and assumed the text was perfect. I don't think she looked at the issues, but simply didn't want to hear about it from him. I don't think he should have tried to explain it to her anyways, but try telling a teenager that

Where? Please tell me where God’s holy words can be found?

I have told you many times that there are many small translation errors in the KJV. Knowing Greek and Hebrew helps. That doesn't make me better than the KJV translators, it just means we have so many more manuscripts available, but also extra biblical sources. The NT has many hapax legomena which means words that only appear once in the NT. So there is nothing internal to compare these words. Archeology has revealed thousands of sources that the KJV translators did not know about. Plus, with over 6000 manuscripts now available, the accuracy of scribal errors can be taken into account.

I think the translators of the KJV did the best with what they had. But, they used Erasmus' translation, a Roman Catholic priest, and he had to translate the way those above him told him too. The Johannine comma and the longer ending of Mark come to mind as spurious, not in the original manuscripts. The later manuscripts have so many additions, and the study of manuscripts is so thorough, scholars can trace back to exactly where those additions occurred.

Then the weird thing about the Byzantine manuscripts not being found till the 4th century AD. There was no small pieces or copies in libraries or anywhere else these were found. IOW, the early church used the Alexandrian manuscripts, not the so called TR or the Byzantine family.

But we've been through this a million times, and you are too stubborn to hear the truth. I think you should read the KJV, if you can understand all the obsolete words and grammar that is not used. I much prefer any modern version. I'm reading the NET with 66,000 footnotes. So many excellent explanations about the Greek and Hebrew, that are informative. Plus loads of books and articles to pursue if you want to know more about that topic.

By the way, I learned Greek and Hebrew from my seminary professors, and 2nd year Greek from Bill Mounce who is one of the top Greek scholars in the world. His dad was, too, and he learned Koine Greek from the time he was a small child. I also have some very interesting Greek grammars and study books that I continue to learn from. Learning a language or just pulling things off the internet, I agree, is not the way to go!

I never knew there were such people as KJV onlyers! Are there many such people? I use KJV, NAB (my daughter's), ESV Study Bible which is my preference, plus online other versions. Surely using several and comparing together with commentaries is the best route?

I never knew there were such people as KJV onlyers! Are there many such people? I use KJV, NAB (my daughter's), ESV Study Bible which is my preference, plus online other versions. Surely using several and comparing together with commentaries is the best route?

I see you are from the Philippines (or the UK) that is the reason you have not ran into them. It is mostly an American phenomena, where some people believe KJV is THE Bible for english speaking people and all the new versions are wrong and some say even satanic.

To me that is extreme and weird. I know some balanced KJV-Only individuals, but there are also some more cultic ones that are way out there. Steven Anderson would be one example of what I would consider a ridicilous KJV-Only advocate, he believes you cannot be saved without hearing atleast one verse from the KJV (If you are an english speaker). That is insane to me because having a Bible available the way we do today is a fairly modern convenience.

I see you are from the Philippines (or the UK) that is the reason you have not ran into them. It is mostly an American phenomena, where some people believe KJV is THE Bible for english speaking people and all the new versions are wrong and some say even satanic.

To me that is extreme and weird. I know some balanced KJV-Only individuals, but there are also some more cultic ones that are way out there. Steven Anderson would be one example of what I would consider a ridicilous KJV-Only advocate, he believes you cannot be saved without hearing atleast one verse from the KJV (If you are an english speaker). That is insane to me because having a Bible available the way we do today is a fairly modern convenience.

Do you believe any of them to be the word of God? Only one can be or none.

Yes British retired in the Philippines. In my opinion the KJV has the most beautiful language and sometimes that just gives an extra feeling to God's message but as to the rest of the argument, yes a weird view.