KJV-only advocates are not condemned for believing what God actually says in Scripture.
One problem is with what
A) KJV-only advocates attempt to add to the Scriptures and with how
- they try to equate faith in opinions of men,
- faith in human KJV-only reasoning, and
- faith in assertions that are not true with faith in what the Scriptures state.
B) By believing assertions that are not true, KJV-only advocates
- deceive themselves concerning those untrue claims.
C) God who is the God of truth does not commend believing assertions that are not true.
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Concerning A) subpoint 1.
This is a false charge, at least on the charge against me. I have never tried that. I have always followed the likes of what Peter said in his first epistle, which says.
1 Pet 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible
, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
That statement actually says a lot. The take away here is that the enduring word of God is forever. Isn't that what is said in Psa 12 where we are told the words of the LORD are pure words. Pure is opposite of corruptible.
Now, in 1 Peter he speaks of two things, 1) He speaks of the word of God, and 2), he speaks of the word of the Lord. Read it here.
25 But
the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
The word of God is not speaking necessarily (though it could be) of the paper that the testimony of God is written on, but it is speaking of that outward testimony of God that comes to the ear. This is the initial agency of the new birth. The word of God
MUST be inside a man for this new birth to take place. When it occurs and the new birth actually takes place it is because the word of the Lord is in you and the word of the Lord is a person. It is Jesus Christ. Nothing in all of scripture is more sure than that.
The physical conception of a new born inside the womb is a picture and type of what takes place in the spiritual. This is the illustration that one needs to see here in these words given by God to Peter. This seed exists and comes from outside of the believer and when it is received a conception occurs and the Lord is now in the believer forever and forever.
Paul, the apostle understood this and tells us this here.
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27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles;
which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
The word of God is still the word of God whether one believes it or whether they do not and many religious men and women believes it is the word of God, BUT, unless it is in you, you are not born again. Ye must be born again.
Eph 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That
Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Jn 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
God is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and he is our Father when we receive Jesus Christ into our hearts, and not until then. He is the Word. He is the incorruptible word. Religious men can have a form of godliness and almost get it right but the rubber meets the road when this new birth takes place in a moment of time in one event of receiving him. The physical Jesus is in no one's heart and indwells no one's body, but his Spirit is in the body of believers and his physical presence still exists before and after anyone was born again. The physical words of God in writing are pure words, existing before and after the coming of Christ. They are incorruptible and they are spiritual when they are in the believer. Is not that what Jesus said in Jn 6? Read what he said immediately after he said men must eat his flesh and drink his blood to have life in them.
Jn 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
64 But there are some of you that believe not.....
It is the Spirit that gives life. The words must hit the ear and then the heart. It hit the ear of Judas among the disciples but Jesus did not say that one of the 12 do not believe but some of you do not believe. This is interesting. There was at least one more to make a plural. Who was it?
I will show you that the "word of the LORD" is referencing a person when I have time. It is the title for Jesus Christ.
Meanwhile, to your point. You might find a convincing argument that God has not preserved his very words and given them to us in an understandable format, but you can never have a convincing argument that the current attitude in modern Christendom, the acceptance of the efforts of men to maintain the integrity of his word in scores of different translations, optimizations, equivalences, and paraphrasing is something that is taught by and approved by God.
I might deal with another of your sub points later.