Then what was it that God preserved?ONLY the originals were inspired by the Holy spirit, and they alone were fully inerrant!
Exactly. The promises of the English bible are inspired promises, the history of the English bible is inspired history, and the prophecy of the English bible is inspired prophecy.Copies of them that came to us today in the Critical/majority/TR texts and Hebrew text used to translate into english versions are extremely close to originals, NO mistakes that violate any doctrinal position, so they can in truth be regarded as the word of God to us today!
Exactly. Inspired (derivatively). Inerrant (derivatively). Infallible (derivatively).and ANY English version off them can be regarded and seen as being authoritative and infallible!
And just how do we know these are errors and not as originally given? What do we compare the reading to so that we can come to such a unequivocal determination?It is well known and accepted by even most conservatives that there are SOME minor mistakes in greek/hebrew text used, mainly in numbers and additions by scribes that were added in over time!
Have I ever said otherwise?and IF one held that the KJV is the word of God to us for today, so would be the ESV/NASB/NIV etc!