[Manny Rodriguez]

Very good article Bro. Kinney.

People need to understand that prior to the inventing of the printing press in the 1400s, having all 66 books of the Bible in one volume was not common. Most people before the printing press era had copies of the Word of God in scattered form. They might have the book of Psalms in one volume. Some of the Pauline epistles in another volume. The book of Revelation in one volume. The books of Moses in another volume. So on and so forth.

And so the perfect Word of God existed before 1611 in these different scattered copies. But for the modern version crowd to demand for the location of a perfect Bible consisting of all 66 books in one volume (such as what we have in the KJB) before 1611 is ignorant considering such was not the norm before the invention of the printing press. Before the printing press, it would take up to a year to be able to hand copy the entire 66 books of the Bible into one form. At that rate, it is hard to provide such volumes for mass distribution. So people had to settle for portions of the Bible in many different volumes.

God's perfect words have been around ever since the day He breathed them to His apostles and prophets and always will be. They existed in the many scattered copies that existed all over Asia Minor and eventually throughout Europe. That we have them all together in one volume today (the KJB) does not mean that God was obligated to provide His perfect words all in one volume in every generation (from the day they were given).

In other words, God didn't promise every generation to have all His preserved words in one volume from generation to generation. He simply promised that His WORDS would be preserved from generation to generation. And he fulfilled that promise through the tireless copying of those same words as well as the accurate translation of those words throughout history. The invention of the printing press simply enabled us to gather ALL of those preserved infallible words into one volume and that's what we have in the KJB. Blessed be His name for it!