A hilarious presupposition!

You forgot the Latin Vulgate (LV) started during the reign of Imperial Rome and holding sway over professing Christianity for nearly a millenia and a half. The first English Bibles were translations of this translation.

However it seems that the same mistake is now being made wth the KJV as with the LV which led to the loss of the entire Scripture to the entire world through ignorance of 4th century Latin (which turned into Italian).

The KJV (as good as it was and has been) is well on its way to the museums of the world to sit along with the LV as monuments to the Preservation of God's Word.

Soon another will come on the scene, perhaps the Living Word!

HankD

 

ah yes, it had to be Sam Gipp again! woo hoo, what a scholar!

true to form, he again excels in prevarication: "God, apparently unintimidated by modem scholarship, did not feel obligated to supply His words in Egyptian, Chaldian, Syrian, Ethiopian, or any other of the languages in use on the earth at the time the Old Testament was written."

i believe any reader of Hebrew will find out immediately that significant chunks of Daniel n Ezra r written in Chaldean--precisely what Gipp denies.

again demonstrating KJBO ethics in trying to prove the unprovable n the unbiblical.

 

I'm unspeakable! And to think that the English are God's Chosen people. How arrogant!!

 

[sarcasm]blessed be our lord
and savior, Jack Chick [/sarcasm]

OTOH, that is about as robust a
doctrine as you will ever get
from a comic book

 

OK I took a look at the site and clicked on :
"Hasn't the King James Bible been revised?".

They (whoever "they" are) minimize the "changes" and answer the question thus:

They admit to spelling and textual changes and even give examples of substantive changes and then come to this amazing conclusion:

After dismissing all the "errors" as minor when compared to the New King James "revision" (I'm not sure how this forgives the "errors" in the KJB) summing it up they say :

Revise : 1. To look over something written in order to correct and improve.
The Merriam Webster Dictionary.

But of course the dictionary isn't inspired.

This entire piece is a subtle and oblique back-peddling admission that indeed there are/were errors in the First Edition of the 1611KJV of the Bible. They also make an admission that the Original archetype document of the KJ Bible has been lost!

So, they are in the same boat as the rest of us.
No original autographs just "reliable" copies.

Their own words...

Indeed.

Quotations are found at
http://www.chick.com/reading/books/158/158_07.asp

HankD

BTW what ever happened to "things which are different are not the same?".

 

HankD: //BTW what ever happened to
"things which are different are not
the same?".//

Tee hee! Ditched to enhance the double standard.

 

Our Lord nowhere said anything at all about English. Let's keep the inspired Word where it belongs, in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and in the Greek. God is no respecter of persons..He has preserved His Word in any language where it is accurately translated, whether it is English, German, French, Creole, or Pig Latin (just kidding on that one )

 

As usual, Minister of Misinformation, The Gipper, has done it again. First, all ISRAEL-not just the Jews-received most of the Old Testament. Moses was a LEVITE, not a Jew. The Levites didn't merge with Judah until after Solomon's death.

Next, many people who used different languges heard God's word IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGES at the first Pentecost as described in Acts. And many people in what's now Asia Minor, where Paul went, didn't speak Greek. Also, we don't know if many NT Scriptures were ORIGINALLY written in Greek or not.

And English is used only by perhaps 1/6 of the world's population. And for many whose primary language is not English, there are many nuances & subtleties that are not quickly learned by these people-not to mention the different dialects in use both among and within the nations. Not long ago, I lent a doctor from Korea, a new Christian, a KJV without thinking. He had a VERY hard time understanding the archaic language, and when he came acroff "suffer little children", he was horrified, & called me. I quickly rectified my mistake & lent him a NKJV instead, so the man could read a Bible with at least some understanding until his Korean-language Bible that he'd ordered, arrived.(He had been schooled in classroom English for 3 years, and said learning English was MUCH harder for him than learning medicine. But he understood it quite well enough to communicate with his patients with no problem, and to come to JESUS by HEARING the word of God preached in a local Baptist church.)

Then there's the silly KJVO doctrine that English reached the pinnacle of linguistic perfection in the 16th century. English has simply changed over the years, same as has every other old language in constant use for centuries. Over the years, English speakers have modified the language to fit the times.

It is notable that every English BV from the AV backwards was written in the best English of its day, and NOT in an earlier form. The English of the AV is much more modern that that of the Wycliffe Bible, for example.

And when Dr. Gipp has been asked for Scripture promising a perfect Bible, he has set forth a long-winded "explanation", because THERE IS NO SUCH SCRIPTURE! Like every Onlyist whose doctrine has been proven false, he plays "scared octopus" and emits a cloud of ink.

A little aside-The onlyists holler about the newer BVs being copyrighted and sold for profit. Well, I can assure that every Chick tract or pamphlet currently made is copyrighted, and, while people may stand on street corners passing them out for free, I assure you that someone somewhere has paid Mr. Chick's corp for them, and that Mr. Chick makes money on each & every tract, pamphlet, or comic book printed by his corp.(I'm NOT saying this is wrong; Mr. Chick must provide for his family same as us. And doubtlessly, MANY people have been led to the Lord because of being first steered towards Him by a Chick paper. All I want to do is remind you that printers simply don't work for free, whether printing the NIV, KJV, tracts, or Hustler.)

And while the Gipper gives GOOD advice upon READING one's Bibles, he is quite wrong in much of his narrative of history.

 

That blows the "one perfect language" theory right out of the water, doesn't it!

 

That blows the "one perfect language" theory right out of the water, doesn't it! </font>[/QUOTE]Yes, it DOES. And this is borne out by these Scriptures, straight from the 1769 KJV:


Acts 2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10 Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

And in that day, unlearned people such as today's KJVOs existed, as the KJV points out:

Acts 2:12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

More excuses, much as today's Onlyists make.