Are God's words pure or aren't they? Did He preserve them or didn't He? Those are the main questions that 1) lead someone to believe the perfection of the King James Bible, or 2) cause a person to lose his faith in God's words and leaves him with a pile of conflicting "authorities" to the point where he must, with the help of his own fallible opinion, decide for himself what is truth.
That's where we come in: we believe that God is powerful enough to do what He said, so He did indeed preserve His words through the centuries. The evidences of God's hand on the KJB are irrefutable: the entire missionary push of the 1800s was by King James Bible believers (of many denominations), both Great Awakenings were brought about by King James only preachers, and the settlement of the US and the western spread of the Gospel was almost solely based on the KJB.
The new "versions" of the Bible do nothing but create confusion among Christians and obscure the truth of God's words; He does not author confusion. The main problem among Laodecian Christians is the lack of authority: they do not want to SUBMIT to anything but their own opinions of what God said, and the myriad perversions foisted upon weak Christians by greedy publishing houses simply gives them that opportunity.
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