The Error of KJV-Onlyism

I apologize for responding so late once I came back on here suddenly my health dropped again and it seems it has made it where I spend most of my time in bed again in particular my stomach has been super sensative and eating is very hard my body has been through a lot but you know in a way it has been a blessing.

I believe I am going through a season of transition to explain and describe everything would take more time than I have the energy for but lets say my body is scary thin my stomach is always hurting having severe pain from just water I am constantly throwing up I am constantly weak and low on energy but in this time I have spent it speaking with God

I was reminded of a dream I had long ago where I was in a white pure place and I saw death himself I knew I was to follow him and we went into an elevator with two other men.

We reached a pure black place and death went to his desk the two men changed to my left I saw one so think and malnuruished on the right of me a man was suffering his agony and suffering cvoming like black smoke and I saw demons feeding off of his misery

I looked at death and ask when can I go to heaven? he responded saying you can't you have to stay here forever.

I remember thinking to myself that's odd I thought for sure I was on the right path I turned to death and said I think this is a test he looked up from his desk intruiged snd asked what kind of test do you think this is? I responded a test of my heart of my love and faith and with a fiery zeal I slapped my hand on his desk and yelled I choose to trust in Jesus Christ

I suddenly was on a very high pillar and there was a pool of living water at the bottom I heard a voice sing it's time to take a leap of fatih I jumped went into the pool and came up naked for some reason and I saw there other empty pools of living water as well and the dream ended.

I have been wondering if the two men were actually a representation of me

Well I guess we can be confident that if people would stick with the KJV we would never have aberrant and heretical groups starting.

Wait…

Let’s understand something here, I believe Isaiah 20 is true in what it states. It is the rendering in the King James Bible.
But a prophet being naked is not the same thing as being a prostitute.
God telling Hosea to marry a practicing prostitute would be a violation of God's goodness and ways.
Yet, this is the belief pushed by Modern scholars, many Christians, and select Bible translations.
The King James Bible does not express to us about God telling Hosea to marry a prostitute.

Side Note:

As for Isaiah's nakedness: We do not know if he was allowed to cover his private parts or not. The chapter makes more of a big deal of the exposing of his buttox.

There is always going to be divisions within the body of Christ on doctrinal issues. Failure to rightly divide the word of truth leads to many errors.

To begin with, it is important to realize this command could be understood two different ways.
First, and more likely, this command could be one of anticipation. In other words, God may have
instructed Hosea to marry a woman who would later become unfaithful to him. The other possibility
is that the command was for Hosea to marry someone already known as a prostitute.

^^ That's what gotquestions has to say on the matter. Further:

The prophet Hosea was commanded to marry an unfaithful wife,
and this set up a model of Israel’s broken relationship with God.

But in your mind it is not possible God would command such an evil thing.

Did you ever address the fact that God had Isaiah naked for a few years?

Surely you see that as evil also?

God had Joseph sold into slavery and imprisoned. Was that an example of His goodness? God had Paul in peril and prison? Was that an example of His ways? God sent His own Son to suffer and die? Goodness? Way?
God often had his servants endure things in such a way as to reflect truths about and to His people. He still does. I suggest you know less of God's character and ways than you imagine.

In addition, Wescott rejected the infallibility of the scripture.
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you are confusing yourself about the timing of Gomers harlotry.

Its on you. First you say she isnt then she is. Whoredom and playing the harlot are pretty much the same thing. Prostitution.

Going after idols is prostuting oneself because people say they prefer money or Mammon or whatever instead of God. They worship for the money, not with love in their hearts.

Why cant you see it. OT times were dfferent from NT. God was making a point about Israel. Of course God doesnt want believers to do that, because of what Hosea learned through his marriage to Gomer. People still do it anyway, but its a warning.

Scripture is not saying Hosea ever fornicated with Gomer. Gomer was the unfaithful one, Hosea was not. Gomer didnt have to agree to anything, she just married Hosea, like so many unbelievers still do, deceiving him and not intending to stay faithful.

There is nothing wrong with rejecting a specific word (which is what Westcott did here) while embracing the underlying principle. He says plainly (if you understand how to parse the punctuation), "at present, I find the presumption in favour of the absolute truth of Holy Scripture overwhelming." That is quite different to "rejecting the infallibility of Scripture". Of course, treating other people's words with care takes effort and it's so much easier to throw a strawman argument, especially when it is sensational.

Because it would contradict His Word.

Well I guess we can be confident that if people would stick with the KJV we would never have aberrant and heretical groups starting.

Wait…

Throughout Scripture, we see warnings of how we are not to add or subtract from His Word.

Deuteronomy 4:2
"Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you."

Before the Modern Bible movement took hold here in America in the 1960s (which was coincidentally the same time they took KJV Bible teaching out of public schools), primarily liberal groups were known to use the Modern Bibles. This is documented well by David Cloud's articles and PDFs at WayofLife.org. Modern Textual Criticism came at a time when other new biblical cults were forming.

Just because Textual Criticism is disguised by the cloak of respected Modern scholarship and respected schools, it just gets a pass that it's not a problem and is actually good. But one is not examining these practices in light of Scripture.

I am not new to the Bible. I am deeply aware of these situations in His Word.
Suffering evil for God's cause is good according to God. A person is not condoning evil by suffering evil while one remains to be good despite the evil being done to them. Also, the sacrifice was foretold and was to save mankind. Also, God the Father is not bound by the murder laws otherwise He could not take anyone's life. We see in Scripture of God commanding the Israelites to even take life. But a person desiring to take life on their own would be murder. But God commanding Hosea to marry a practicing prostitute (as taught by Modern scholars) is not only a violation of His own words (1 Cor. 6:13-17; Deut. 23:17-18), it would mean there would be no actual standard to His morality or goodness. In addition, not all sins are the same; Certain sins are abominations to God, and harlotry and sodomy are two of them. Why do you think God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah?

Idolatry is spiritual whoredom and it is not the same as the actual sin of harlotry or prostitution (Although it is a spiritual type of idolatry). If one commits the sin of fornication, they sin against their own body. This is not the case with idolatry.

1 Corinthians 6:18
"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body."

This one verse should be enough to put your whole argument out to pasture.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

Further, you have not responded to my post 1218, wherein I posted the following:

Hosea 1:2 KJV The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord.

"whoredoms", Strong's Dictionary:
2183 (Hebrew form), zanuwn, zawnoon, from 2181; adultery fig. idolatry:--whoredom.

Further still, you have not addressed my later post where I questioned you treatment of idolatry as less serious a sin than adultery. The question stands until addressed.

God treats idolatry as the more serious sin... by far. The Northern ten tribes weren't scattered to the nations because of physical adultery.

Deuteronomy 23:17-18 says that the sins of harlotry and sodomy are abominations in His sight. Seeing we see that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by a miracle from Heaven, shows the depth of the seriousness of these sins. They are both sexual sins.

If you need to begin by giving your credentials

I'm assuming that your scholarship is insufficient in and of itself to give credence to your ideas. I'm also assuming you believe I've been twiddling my thumbs while you have been diligent.

That said, what you said is true, but not relevant to my point. I was not dealing with the suffering or hardships people endured. I was speaking to the character of God who requires it, and whether it is consistent with His ways. I believe it is. You don't.

I do think it's a reasonable position to believe as you do, but not for the reasons mentioned here. Many people who I respect hold or held the same position.