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Final Authority and Final Canonization

makahiya117

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Ok, fine, you do not agree with the Record Theory

or the Purified Text Theory.

What do you believe ?

Do you have scripture ?
 

Logos1560

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Be honest, do you have scripture ?

Yes, I have Scripture.

I have reprints of some of the original language text editions on which the KJV was based.

I have reprints or photocopies of the pre-1611 English Bibles of which the KJV was a revision.

I have over 100 editions of the KJV with many differences and variations in them.

The KJV is a translation and is the word of God in the same sense and way that the pre-1611 English Bibles of which the KJV was a revision such as 1560 Geneva Bible is and in the same way and sense that later English Bibles such as the 1842 revision of the KJV by Bible-believing Baptists and the NKJV are.

The word of God is not bound or limited to the textual criticism decisions or translating decisions of an exclusive group of Church of England scholars in 1611.
 

Mexdeaf

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I clearly stated my theory of final authority and final canonization.

I am not a KJV Only or an Original only.

I believe all scripture is given by inspiration of God.

Do you have scripture ?

You have clearly stated that your theories are as muddled as Gail Riplinger's are.

You approvingly quote Gail Riplinger but you're not a KJVO?
 

makahiya117

New Member
Yes, I have Scripture.

I have reprints of some of the original language text editions on which the KJV was based.

I have reprints or photocopies of the pre-1611 English Bibles of which the KJV was a revision.

I have over 100 editions of the KJV with many differences and variations in them.

The KJV is a translation and is the word of God in the same sense and way that the pre-1611 English Bibles of which the KJV was a revision such as 1560 Geneva Bible is and in the same way and sense that later English Bibles such as the 1842 revision of the KJV by Bible-believing Baptists and the NKJV are.

The word of God is not bound or limited to the textual criticism decisions or translating decisions of an exclusive group of Church of England scholars in 1611.



That's silly, scripture is written in books.

Wow, please post the list of the 100 editions.






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12strings

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The text of the AV 1611 KJV first edition remains the principal canon authority of Holy Scripture...

...While the entire line of scripture are records, the outstanding record of scripture and the scripture of final authority
is the published text and form of the AV 1611 KJV Holy Bible first edition.

What is the basis of this statement? If someone made your exact same argument about the wycliff or Geneva Bibles in 1610...what would be your answer?

What makes the KJV different?

#9. The words of the AV 1611 KJV Holy Bible were divinely transmitted, infallible, infinite and eternal.

What if Christ doesn't return for another 2,000, or 6,000 years, and The english language changes and evolves so much that no living person speaks what we now call english...will God need to produce ANOTHER "final" authoritative scripture?

Your theory assumes you KNOW that we are living in the last days...which Christians have assumed for 2,000 years.

KJV Holy Bibles are the most published, read and loved bibles of all time.

KJV Holy Bibles are the most published, read and loved books of all time.

Perhaps at this point in history that is true (I don't know the numbers & facts on the spanish-speaking world), but ONLY because lots of ungodly, greedy, imperialistic English Kings and Lords spread their power and influence around the world, especially the new world...and ONLY because they defeated the french & Spanish in some key battles for final control of North America.

If, However, Germany had arisen out of the reformation as a much bigger world power, Luther's translation would have been the most used, and in fact it is revered in Germany much the same way the KJV is in English circles.
 

John of Japan

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#1. You cannot honestly state you have scripture if you believe only the original manuscripts were given by inspiration of God. There are no original manuscripts.
Are you aware that the original manuscripts for the KJV are lost? There are no original manuscripts for the KJV. And the KJV we have now (which I love) has many differences from the original manuscripts or even the original printing. (I have a 1611 KJV reprint.) So this argument won't fly, factually.

I don't normally participate in these arguments about the KJV, but I just thought you'd like to have the facts of the matter.
 
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makahiya117

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What is the basis of this statement? If someone made your exact same argument about the wycliff or Geneva Bibles in 1610...what would be your answer?

What makes the KJV different?



What if Christ doesn't return for another 2,000, or 6,000 years, and The english language changes and evolves so much that no living person speaks what we now call english...will God need to produce ANOTHER "final" authoritative scripture?

Your theory assumes you KNOW that we are living in the last days...which Christians have assumed for 2,000 years.



Perhaps at this point in history that is true (I don't know the numbers & facts on the spanish-speaking world), but ONLY because lots of ungodly, greedy, imperialistic English Kings and Lords spread their power and influence around the world, especially the new world...and ONLY because they defeated the french & Spanish in some key battles for final control of North America.

If, However, Germany had arisen out of the reformation as a much bigger world power, Luther's translation would have been the most used, and in fact it is revered in Germany much the same way the KJV is in English circles.



Wow, you want me to read all that !

The topic is final authority and final canonization.

The question is do you have scripture ?

Pleases state your theory of final authority and final canonization.
 

makahiya117

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Are you aware that the original manuscripts for the KJV are lost? There are no original manuscripts for the KJV. And the KJV we have now (which I love) has many differences from the original manuscripts or even the original printing. (I have a 1611 KJV reprint.) So this argument won't fly, factually.

I don't normally participate in these arguments about the KJV, but I just thought you'd like to have the facts of the matter.


Good question !

The point of singularity is AV 1611 KJV Holy Bible first edition,
not the AV 1611 KJV autographs.

KJV Job 19:23 Oh that my words were now written!
oh that they were printed in a book!

KJV Psalms 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come:
in the volume of the book it is written of me.

KJV Hebrews 10:7 Then said I, Lo,
I come in the volume of the book it is written of me,
to do thy will, O God.
 

Logos1560

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The point of singularity is AV 1611 KJV Holy Bible first edition,
not the AV 1611 KJV autographs.

The first edition of the 1611 KJV had errors in it. Those errors could only be discovered and corrected by consulting some greater, independent authority such as the preserved Scriptures in the original languages.

Without the original text prepared by the KJV translators for the printers, how can it be determined with absolute certainty which renderings were the choice of the KJV translators and which may have been changed by the printers?

How is an edition with errors supposed to be the proper standard for later editions?
 

makahiya117

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The first edition of the 1611 KJV had errors in it. Those errors could only be discovered and corrected by consulting some greater, independent authority such as the preserved Scriptures in the original languages.

Without the original text prepared by the KJV translators for the printers, how can it be determined with absolute certainty which renderings were the choice of the KJV translators and which may have been changed by the printers?

How is an edition with errors supposed to be the proper standard for later editions?


When an individual says “ the original Greek ” , “ the original manuscript ”

“ the original text ” , " the original languages ", " the Greek ” , etc.,

that individual is speaking like a parrot or a deceiver.



There are over 24 reconstructed (Christian, Catholic, Cult) Greek N.T. texts

which do not match in content, volume or doctrine.

Additionally, no original N.T. autograph manuscripts exist today.


The KJV Only Christians are elementary.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God.

The Original Only Christians are simple.

There are no original manuscripts !





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Logos1560

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Were KJV translators "deceivers"?

When an individual says “ the original Greek ” , “ the original manuscript ”
“ the original text ” , " the original languages ", " the Greek ” , etc.,
that individual is speaking like a parrot or a deceiver.

According to a consistent application of your own words, are you claiming that the KJV translators were dishonest deceivers and untrustworthy since they referred to "the original Greek," "the Greek text," etc.?

According to its title page and its preface, the KJV professes to be translated from the original languages. According to its title page for the New Testament, the 1611 KJV's New Testament was "newly translated out of the original Greek." The first rule for the translating referred to “the truth of the original.“ The sixth rule and fifteen rule referred to “Hebrew” and to “Greek.“ Lancelot Andrewes, a KJV translator, wrote: "Look to the original, as, for the New Testament, the Greek text; for the Old, the Hebrew" (Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine, p. 59). In the preface to the 1611 KJV entitled "The Translators to the Reader," Miles Smith favorably quoted Jerome as writing “that as the credit of the old books (he meaneth the Old Testament) is to be tried by the Hebrew volumes, so of the New by the Greek tongue, he meaneth the original Greek. Then Smith presented the view of the KJV translators as follows: "If truth be to be tried by these tongues [Hebrew and Greek], then whence should a translation be made, but out of them? These tongues therefore, we should say the Scriptures, in those tongues, we set before us to translate, being the tongues in which God was pleased to speak to his church by his prophets and apostles." In this preface, Smith wrote: “If you ask what they had before them, truly it was the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, the Greek of the New.“

In the dedication to King James in the 1611, Thomas Bilson also acknowledged that the KJV was a translation made “out of the original sacred tongues.“ John Eadie noted that the account of the Hampton Court conference written by Patrick Galloway, the king’s Scottish chaplain, [“an account revised by the king himself”] stated “that a translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek” (English Bible, II, p. 179).
 

makahiya117

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Oh, ok, thanks for telling me.

The topic is final authority and final canonization.

The question is do you have scripture ?

Pleases state your theory of final authority and final canonization.
 

John of Japan

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When an individual says “ the original Greek ” , “ the original manuscript ”

“ the original text ” , " the original languages ", " the Greek ” , etc.,

that individual is speaking like a parrot or a deceiver.
That's a pretty nasty attack. I lead an effort to translate the TR into modern Japanese for the very first time, but since I'm using the Greek NT as my "final authority," you think I'm a deceiver.

So do you think I should be translating from the KJV? If so, where is your scriptural basis, your "final authority" for an English Bible as source text? English did not exist when the NT was written.
 

Yeshua1

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That's a pretty nasty attack. I lead an effort to translate the TR into modern Japanese for the very first time, but since I'm using the Greek NT as my "final authority," you think I'm a deceiver.

So do you think I should be translating from the KJV? If so, where is your scriptural basis, your "final authority" for an English Bible as source text? English did not exist when the NT was written.

God preserved his Word to us in the original language etxts that we use today to translate versions off from!

So originals were innerrant, original language texts are preserved to us as word of God, thus the versions off them, while not prerfect, error free, are infallible to accomplish their intended purpose!
We can freely discuss/disagree wether TR/MT/CT is best abd closest to originals, but any version off them done right would be infallible English word of God to us today!
 

makahiya117

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God preserved his Word to us in the original language etxts that we use today to translate versions off from!

So originals were innerrant, original language texts are preserved to us as word of God, thus the versions off them, while not prerfect, error free, are infallible to accomplish their intended purpose!
We can freely discuss/disagree wether TR/MT/CT is best abd closest to originals, but any version off them done right would be infallible English word of God to us today!

When an individual says “ the original Greek ” , “ the original manuscript ”
“ the original text ” , " the original languages " , " the Greek ” , etc.,
that individual is speaking like a parrot or a deceiver.

There are over 24 reconstructed (Christian Catholic Cult) N.T. Greek texts
which do not match in content, volume or doctrine.

How could any translation from any reconstructed text
" while not perfect " . . . " be infallible " ?

Your theory has a problem with facts and logic.

KJV Holy Bibles are the most published, read, translated

and love bibles of all time !




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makahiya117

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God preserved his Word to us in the original language etxts that we use today to translate versions off from!

So originals were innerrant, original language texts are preserved to us as word of God, thus the versions off them, while not prerfect, error free, are infallible to accomplish their intended purpose!
We can freely discuss/disagree wether TR/MT/CT is best abd closest to originals, but any version off them done right would be infallible English word of God to us today!


Your theory is indentical to John of Japan.

When an individual says “ the original Greek ” , “ the original manuscript ”

“ the original text ” , " the original languages " , " the Greek ” , etc.,

that individual is speaking like a parrot or a deceiver.


There are over 24 reconstructed (Christian Catholic Cult) N.T. Greek texts

which do not match in content, volume or doctrine.


How could any translation from any reconstructed text

" while not perfect " . . . " be infallible " ?

Your theory has a problem with facts and logic.




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Logos1560

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Your theory has a problem with facts and logic.

Are you describing your own unproven theory based partially on the writings of Ruckman and Riplinger?

There is no need for you to keep repeating the same comments that have been answered or countered.
 

Logos1560

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You ask silly questions.

It is evident that you will not answer proper and learned questions that would expose the serious problems with your unproven theories, that would apply your own claims consistently, or that would show that you in effect hold what is properly known as a KJV-only theory.

Even the most extreme KJV-only advocates such as Peter Ruckman and Gail Riplinger will claim to accept pre-1611 Bibles, but that does not suggest that they do not hold a KJV-only view.

You will not engage in serious, detailed discussion and will not deal with the sound evidence that counters your claims.
 
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