But wait, if you look in a dictionary to
help you understand what a word means,
aren't you letting that dictionary be the
FINAL AUTHORITY?
Here is a cut from the DOUBLE STANDARDS
document concerning FINAL AUTHORITY:
200 - Authorized Version, Final Authority
---201 - The logo "Authorized Version" on a KJV means that it has been authorized by God Almighty; such a non-textual inscription on any non-KJV is an abomination.
---202 - The KJV1769 is the only "Authorized Version" that was authorized by God. Abominations like the KJV1611 edition authorized by King James are not really AV. Abominsations like the KJV1873 authorized by the head of the Church of England are not not really AV.
---203 - It is alright to make your KJV1769 your Final Authority, but NOT any one MV or any group of MVs.
---204 - if you cannot understand the KJV; your pastor, the supreme authority on the language, is allowed to decipher it for you
---205 - It is the RESPONSIBILITY of the local church pastor to decipher any archaic or difficult words in the KJV; however, even a Hebrew/Greek scholar is an abomination before God.
---206 - "I don't care what the Latin Vulgate says, and I don't need to know what it says." -- apathy (I don't care) and ignorance (I don't know)
---207 - Any change in a MV (however slight) is large; any change in a KJB (however large) is slight.
---208 - In KJVs: things that are different are the same; in MVs: things that are different are not the same
---209 - The KJV is the "final authority", but that authority does not teach or say to believe in KJV-onlyism!
---210 - Exalt the scholarship of those who promote the KJVO myth (even if SDAs & Anglicans); minimize good, godly scholars that work with MVs even if Baptists).
--- 211 - KJV-onlyists accuse non-KJV-onlyists of having no objective standard with which to critically evaluate modern versions (and hence we are supposed to believe that all of them are equally faithful); however, they reserve the right to evaluate any modern version against their subjective and arbitrary standard, the KJV.
--- 212 - if a Catholic site points out issues in the KJV, then non-KJV-onlyists are associated with Rome - but if a Catholic site points out issues in the NIV, no problem.