Hi Folks,
I believe that even King James Bible defenders sometimes lack the big picture of the battle of the Bible, or at least do not express it fully. How the pure Reformation Bible defeated the corrupted RCC Vulgate. How this was built upon solid labors (Erasmus, Stephanus, Beza, Tyndale, Geneva, King James Bible) - precept upon precept, line upon line. How the modern ultra-corrupt alexandrian text is far worse than the Vulgate, the modern versions are today the counter-Reformation text. They are far, far more corrupt and inconsistent and error-laden than the Vulgate.
The goal of the cornfusenik is to obscure the big picture. The King James Bible is the apex of the Reformation Bible, brought to full purity and majesty and perfection. The opponents are in a stupified unbelief where they would prefer to constantly remake the Bible in their own image, to them the concept of the Bible being tangible and real and having full authority is discomfiting.
All of the cornfusenik clap-trap about the King James Bible this and that is meant to avoid knowing and understanding the big picture.
They use many tricks to hide the issues. Their versions are not faithful to their own texts and beliefs (e.g. they sort of include the ending of Mark, the resurrection accounts of the Lord Jesus, even though their theories call the section the tampering of man and Mark really ended with the woman afraid). They are numb to the contradiction of having sections in their "Bibles" that are supposed to be the tampering of man.
And they are not involved in solid and true apologetics and exegesis, so they don't really see the errors in their versions. (True apologetics with the skeptics brings this to the fore.)
And they live by the modern version motto.
"Use the modern versions, you won't know what you are missing".
Thus to hide the poverty and inconsistency of their position, they lemming-repeat any claptrap from their false priesthood of pseudo-scholars.
Thus there are a number of spiritual principalities involved.
For the Bible believer it is such a peace and grace to know that God's word is pure and perfect. In our hands. And readable by every single ploughman.
Shalom,
Steven Avery
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