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Old 04-02-2008, 04:39 AM
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I'd like to know what standard of Received Text you believe your Bible is based on
There is no final standard authority in the original languages that may be observed in one extant volume. What the 1611 translators did was gather from various sources, primarily TR editions (for the NT), but also in conference with other witness, e.g. the Vulgate. This means that the KJB text, which is a judicial gathering of the originals, and exactly correct throughout, is therefore better than any particular original manuscript or TR edition that can be produced or shown today.

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and clarification on "no final authority in original languages".
Since there are slight wording and spelling differences in the TR editions, not is perfectly flawless.

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Is the Bible you read based on a faulty text?
No, because the translators of 1611 discerned the correct text from various sources, and translated it into English.

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If not, what principles of textual criticism was used to arrive at this conclusion?
Textual criticism is a recent name for recent methodology. Such a name cannot be exactly applied with the same meanings to any (I suppose) pre-Enlightenment work in regard to editing, criticism or selection of correct readings. Also, true believers defer to divine providence and its manifestation through tradition which is received and kept by the universal priesthood of true Christian believers.

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It was disturbing as your wording makes the comparison of the TR to the W+H, with the TR just not disagreeing "more so".
The W&H methodology is bad. And the result is bad. The TR methodology is good, but this does not guarantee that any Greek edition today is either perfectly flawless, or exactly correct. Moreover, the TRs have been superseded by the English Bible for exactness, perfection, flawlessness and purity.

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Are you also claiming double inspiration?
No, the TR editions were not made by inspiration, and the final form of the Received Text, which is the KJB, was not made by inspiration from 1604-1611.

In summary, I am indicating that every correct reading is fully without addition or subtraction in the King James Bible. Moreover, every word in English is the exact translation of the original languages, fully to the sense and concepts thereof, and finally that every word in the King James Bible is so certain and sure, true and right, that so much as the distinction between “among” and “amongst” is entirely intended by God’s providential outworking, and study into these things would yield all the fullness of meaning and revelation, and that the Word of God in English is now alone the authority.