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Word differences: 1611 vs. newer KJVs

Taufgesinnter

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Wow, I was a KJVO once too! I was of the TRO variety for about a decade, thanks to getting only one side of the issue from the Trinitarian Bible Society and Jack Chick, which led me to dump my NIV in favor of the NKJV, KJV, MKJV, and Green's and Berry's interlinears.

My TRO position just couldn't hold up while reading both sides in James White's book. Reality was later further reinforced reading Bruce Metzger and other authors.
 

timothy 1769

New Member
Chet,

I answer, especially where long replies are needed, either where I think I can be of the most help to others or where I more urgently need some information to aid me and my family. Other threads, which I think are likely going nowhere, get less priority, especially in situations where it appears to be me versus the multitudes. Every post takes several minutes, some take a half hour or more. As a result, some replies will be days in coming. I think there is some value in my time spent posting on this board, so for now I will continue to do so.

As far the unchristlike behavior goes, we're all guilty, of course. But In this case I feel Pastor Larry unfairly assumed the reasons for my silence and made public and false accusations as a result.

"You keep refusing to answer my question about the differences between them." ... "Please do not keep ignoring this question."

First of all, these accusations are contradictory. But in any event I haven't ignored his question, nor refused to answer it.
 

Ransom

Active Member
timothy 1769 said:

You're the one making the claim, brother, so you should be the one to back it up.

There are no extant editions of the 1611 Authorized Version with those words in the text. No copy of the AV1611 exists with that phrase.

That is a brute fact beyond dispute.

Therefore, by KJV-only logic, the doctrine of preservation is a sham since those words, amongst others, were not preserved in the AV and had to be restored (i.e. added to the Word of God).
 

Ransom

Active Member
timothy 1769 said:

These are variations among the various printings of the KJV?

Did I say they were, or are you just being, er, a little "creative" with what I said here?
 

Dr. Bob

Administrator
Administrator
REMINDER TO ALL:

This is NOT a "chat room" where one expects immediate answers . . or ANY answer for that matter. Folks can make off-the-wall statements and you CAN'T "make" them do anything (like revise, edit, admit, change)!

Attack the issues, not the individuals. Sarcasm is allowed, since some of the statements made are so laughable that they lend themselves to poking fun at.

But the idea of a DEBATE forum is to prove your side of an argument as well as demonstrate the error of the opposite position.
 

Archangel7

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Originally posted by timothy 1769:

How do you *know* that the 1611 translation "was, and is, pure" when we don't have the original KJV translator's notes or proofs to determine this?

How do you know Jesus never sinned? Faith.
I know Jesus never sinned because the Bible tells us so (Heb. 4:15, any version). However, the Bible says *absolutely nothing* about God preserving His word in one and only one 17th century English translation.

Your response about the difference between the 1611 and 1769 KJV's raises other questions. Were the English speaking people without a "pure, preserved, perfect word of God" between 1611 and 1769? Did they use a "corrupt" Bible all those years until Blayney came along? On what basis and by what authority could Blayney introduce changes to "correct" the text of the KJV which had been used by God's people for over a hundred years?

Changes of substance not related to printing errors? No basis whatsoever.
What about changes of substance based on we-know-not-what? That's my point -- the *words* of the KJV were changed long after the KJV translators had died, and we have no idea why or on what basis. So without consulting the original language texts from which the KJV was translated, we have no way of knowing which version/edition of the KJV is correct.
 

Askjo

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Originally posted by Taufgesinnter:
My TRO position just couldn't hold up while reading both sides in James White's book. Reality was later further reinforced reading Bruce Metzger and other authors. [/QB]
I read James White's book. I realize that he is wrong. One man from Europe confronted him by asking him some questions. James is incapable to answer these questions because the fact shows that James is not a scholar. I have this information from this man confronting James White.
 

Pastor Larry

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Originally posted by Archangel7:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Askjo:

I read James White's book. I realize that he is wrong.
What specifically is he wrong about? </font>[/QUOTE]And what are these questions he supposedly couldn't answer?
 
Originally posted by Askjo:
One man from Europe confronted him by asking him some questions. James is incapable to answer these questions because the fact shows that James is not a scholar. I have this information from this man confronting James White.
interesting, tell us more about dis man fr Europe, willya?

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LarryN

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Originally posted by Forever settled in heaven:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Askjo:
One man from Europe confronted him by asking him some questions. James is incapable to answer these questions because the fact shows that James is not a scholar. I have this information from this man confronting James White.
interesting, tell us more about dis man fr Europe, willya?

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</font>[/QUOTE]F.S.I.H.: I doubt you'll get a specific, concrete answer to this question; it's these sort of vague, nebulous slanders that KJVOism thrives on.

Kind of like Gail Riplinger's complete trashing of B.F. Westcott's character in her book "New Age Bible Versions". After several chapters of heresay & conjecture regarding Westcott, she eventually makes a concession to her readers (buried DEEP within her footnoted material) that is something akin to "Oh, by the way, I may have confused some of the actions attributed to B.F. Westcott with those of a W.W. Westcott" (a completely different man contemporary to B.F. Westcott)!!
 

Ransom

Active Member
Askjo said:

One man from Europe confronted him by asking him some questions. James is incapable to answer these questions because the fact shows that James is not a scholar.

So we're supposed to believe White is discredited because he didn't answer questions you don't list from a man you don't name?

I heard a guy say some stuff about the KJV once, so I don't use one.
 

michelle

New Member
Peace and love to you in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour,

Have any of you ever heard of printing errors? Do you understand that printing methods in those days have greatly improved? Did it ever occur to you that those things might possibly have been errors due to printing? And that God, in his providence saw that those things were eventually fixed? This is quite a different thing to compare to those things that are being done purposely in the modern versions today.

love in Jesus Christ our Lord,
michelle
 

michelle

New Member
Peace and love to you in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour!

Larry,

You quoted:

Kind of like Gail Riplinger's complete trashing of B.F. Westcott's character in her book "New Age Bible Versions". After several chapters of heresay & conjecture regarding Westcott, she eventually makes a concession to her readers (buried DEEP within her footnoted material) that is something akin to "Oh, by the way, I may have confused some of the actions attributed to B.F. Westcott with those of a W.W. Westcott" (a completely different man contemporary to B.F. Westcott)!!

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I am not sure which footnote you are speaking of, but I have Gail Riplingers book, which is very well documented. Is the footnote you are referring to on the bottom of pg. 676 and top of pg.677 footnote #128 in chapter 30?

May the Lord richly bless you all.

love in Jesus Christ our Lord,
michelle
 

robycop3

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Michelle:Have any of you ever heard of printing errors? Do you understand that printing methods in those days have greatly improved? Did it ever occur to you that those things might possibly have been errors due to printing? And that God, in his providence saw that those things were eventually fixed? This is quite a different thing to compare to those things that are being done purposely in the modern versions today.

And God, in His providence, sees to it that WE have His word in OUR language, same as He did the English of the 17th century, in the language of THEIR day.
 

michelle

New Member
Peace and love to you all in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour!

Pastor Larry,

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Pastor Larry quoted:

Both of these men are demonstrable liars and therefore poor sources. But be that as it may, notice how he admits 421 changes. That is a lot of changes for "perfect."
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Please provide proof that David Cloud from Way of Life ministries is a liar. That accusation is a serious one and unfounded.

love in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour,
michelle
 

Ed Edwards

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Michelle: " ... but I have Gail Riplingers book,
which is very well documented."

I respectfully disagree.
There are a lot of footnotes.
This is NOT the same as "well documented".

The one note I can very as being true is this:
NEW AGE BIBLE VERSIONS (AV Pubs, 1993, 1994), page
unnumbered, the copyright page.

"Note to the reader: 1) ...
2) the NIV and NASB do not have identical wording
because each is copywritten.
Space permits only one example, often that
of the NASB, but the heresy occurs in other versions
as well, worded in a slightly different way."

Admission that she disses the New King James Version (nKJV)
by citing errors in the NASB. This is poor scholarship.

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