Scott, I am about as strict a KJBO as one can find. Every other English "Bible" is flawed. Every non-English translation is flawed. The KJB-PCE is the only edition of the KJB that is absolutely perfect and as such is the final and absolute standard for the Word of God today and until the end of time. The disagreement I have with your statement is that it appears to say that one cannot be saved unless the KJB is used. If this is not your intent, then you need to reword it. If it is your intent, then you damage your own argument. If the KJB is the only way for true salvation, then no one could have been saved prior to its existence. If the KJB is the only way for true salvation, then those who have come to Christ through some missionary's limited attempt to express the Gospel in a foreign language cannot be saved.
YES, the multitude of modern texts are full of errors. YES, they can be used by false teachers to pervert the truth. You are surely aware that false teachers can also use the KJB to distort true doctrine, such as teaching that the Scriptures show that a born-again believer can lose his salvation. That is perversion in its prime!
YES, we should speak the truth about the corrupted versions (which is all others but the KJB). The truth is that most of them CONTAIN AT LEAST SOME of God's Word. The truth is still truth, even when poorly expressed. If one can be saved by reading a tract, or hearing a preacher, or listening to the testimony of another, then there is hope for that one who has nothing but an NIV to read. The down side is that this kind of believer will not grow in the pure wisdom of the Word until he begins using the Pure Word.
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