Paidagogos: Faith, my friend. Did you forget Hill's "logic of faith"? Now, tell me how you came to Christ. Was it by scholarship and intellectual persuasion? Only C.S. Lewis thought that he arrived at Christianity by rational process and he learned later that he was wrong. If we accept the Bible conceptually as the Word of God by faith, is it anymore difficult to accept a version or translation?
I came to Christ by hearing and reading His word, as my parents and various preachers spoke it, and by reading it for myself. Those people, and the Bible, planted the seed, but GOD MADE IT GROW as I earnestly sought Him.
And as I said before, there's a difference in faith and BLIND faith.
I will tell you, as I have already told you, how I came to accept the KJV. (The problem is that some of you guys are so amazed and enamored of your own thoughts that you can’t read and comprehend anyone else’s.) I came to Christ through the KJV and a strong, fundamentalist Baptist tradition that used it. My theology is grounded in it.
OK...but what made you think that's all there is?
I accepted its veracity and authority by faith when I accepted Christ as my Lord and Saviour (I like the Elizabethan spelling). If I leave it and accept all other variants on equal footing, then my theology becomes pluralistic and tentative.
Actually, it would be EXPANDED, as a child's diet is expanded as he/she goes from pablum to solid food.
If the KJV should be in error, then my theology is in error. I have placed my faith in the KJV as an accurate and authoritative rendering of God’s Word.
So have I...only I'm NOT limited to only the KJV, and neither is GOD. I follow HIS lead, and not any man's.
From it, I take my theology with confidence. I know what I believe and why I believe it. Furthermore, I have brought myself under its authority and teaching. I try to live consistently with this concept and all of its implications. Have you come to grips with the same?
Yes.
I know GOD CAN DO ANYTHING, and that He is NOT stopped by any man-made doctrines about how certain people think He SHOULD do things. And, remember, He has different callings for different believers. His work for YOU may include use of the KJV, while His work for ME includes using various versions for various "jobs".
If the KJV WERE "the" final authority, it woulda been made much earlier than 1611, as God has said He'd preserve His word "unto all generations" & there were quite a few generations between Revelation and 1611. Instead, we see God has used MANY versions as part of His final authority in English. This is a fact that no KJVO can truthfully deny. The "provisional Bible" thingy is codwallop, totally lacking in Scriptural proof, as is the rest of the KJVO myth.
And the KJVO myth is a later addition to the IFB statement of faith of many IFB churches. Please feel free to study the history of IFB and see if it began with the KJVO myth as part of its beliefs.