Originally posted by BrianT:
Homebound, it is good that you want to be practical. It is good that you have faith. And it is fine to be still studying and learning. But we don't understand *why* you have faith in KJV-onlyism instead of in something else. I know someone that "has faith" that Adam and Eve carried around a leather-bound, English KJV. I know someone else that "has faith" that after we die, the righteous will each be given their own planet to populate. I know someone else that (used to) "have faith" that Jesus was going to return in 1999. Why do people "have faith" in things that are not in scripture? Scripture not only doesn't tell us to have faith in those things, it doesn't even mention them! So why have faith in them? Scripture not only doesn't mention to have faith in KJV-onlyism, it doesn't even mention KJV-onlyism - so why have faith in it? The verses about preservation are wonderful verses, but the moment you interpret them to support KJV-onlyism, you imply those verses were lies before 1611. Those verses were *true* before 1611, before the KJV existed - thus they are not about the KJV, and any faith in KJV-onlyism is *additional* to scriptures.
God bless,
Brian