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Anthony Pritchard said:

My point in the thread has been simple. Scripture speaks of God preserving His words, not merely the thoughts behind them.

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Your point is basically the same point as that of many KJV-only advocates. You have not demonstrated a difference in your understanding of preservation and the understanding of some KJV-only authors concerning preservation.

KJV-only author Ken Matto maintained that “God had promised to preserve His words and not the concepts or teachings” (Modern Version Incursion, p. 183).

R. B. Ouellette asserted: “What is the practical difference between a ‘divinely inspired Word of God’ and a “divinely preserved Word of God’? None. If God both inspired and preserved His Word, then we can have the confidence that the preserved Word is equal to the inspired Word for all practical purposes today--they are one in the same” (More Sure Word, p. 156).

Concerning “preservation and inspiration,” D. A. Waite wrote: “There is no problem with asserting these things on an equal footing” (Critical Answer to Michael, p. 29). D. A. Waite admitted in one place in his book: “There are two senses in which I use ‘preservation. The capital ‘P’ sense of Preservation as at the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek level’” (Fundamentalist Deception on Bible Preservation, p. 75). Waite added: “The small ‘p’ sense of preservation is what I say about the King James Bible. It preserved all of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Words of the Bible by means of an accurate English translation of those Words” (p. 75). Waite claimed: “In our King James Bible we have God’s Words kept intact in English because of its accurate translation into English of the verbal plenary preserved Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Words that underlie it” (p. 130).

KJV-only advocate Dennis Corle asked: “If we begin with something inspired, and we preserve it, how do we lose inspiration in the process of preservation” and “if we preserve what is inspired, how can we possibly lose inspiration in the process of preservation?” (God’s Inspired Book, pp. 11, 20). Dennis Corle asserted: “So if I have a preserved copy of the Bible, I also have an inspired copy of the Bible, because it is impossible to start with something inspired and to preserve it, without it continuing to be inspired” (p. 14).

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