[ChaplainPaul]

Originally Posted by MPeak

Thank you all for your contributions. This has been a very difficult issue for me.

I can appreciate your struggle. Modern Christian theologians have made it a difficult issue, but it's really a matter of faith. I found, when I compared the King James Bible to the modern versions (this list, for example http://av1611.com/kjbp/charts/themagicmarker.html), that there is a significant amount of material left out of them. Because of that, I couldn't blindly accept both the KJB and the modern versions as the Word of God. Scholarship fundamentally changed the Scriptures.

I don't have all the answers, or probably even many of them, but I've settled for myself that the King James Bible is the faithful Word of God. That's something that each of us has to settle.

Originally Posted by MPeak

I am discovering that I do not know nearly as much as I thought I knew.

There's a lot of maturity in that statement. God gives us two pictures of infinity through the telescope and the microscope. Space is never ending and the farther we can see into it, the farther there is to see. All matter is made of matter, and however small it may be, it is made of still smaller matter. Yet God sees infinity from one end to the other. The more I learn about His Word and His creation, the more I become aware that I don't know nearly as much as I thought I knew, either. I think that's a good thing. That indicates a knowlege obtained which has not caused us to be "puffed up," but led us to magnify God in His wisdom and glory.

[bibleprotector]

Originally Posted by MPeak

faith in God's word has been shaken

There is an assumption out there that King James Only people believe that God inspired the Bible in 1611. Most King James Bible Only people do not believe that at all.

I have noticed that people who pretend to "expose" King James Bible Only by making a big noise are really (whether they mean to or not) destroying faith in the Word of God itself.

[peopleoftheway]

Originally Posted by bibleprotector

There is an assumption out there that King James Only people believe that God inspired the Bible in 1611. Most King James Bible Only people do not believe that at all.

I have noticed that people who pretend to "expose" King James Bible Only by making a big noise are really (whether they mean to or not) destroying faith in the Word of God itself.

Amen Brother!
They should quit trying to prove God wrong. Not scorn how wrong of us it is to believe that the KJB is the "whole counsel of God" in one book, error free and perfectly preserved. Imagine that! We trust in our God who has enough omnipotence to do all those things.
Shame on us right?
I don't think so.

2 Corinthians 5:7 For we walk by faith, not by sight

[Winman]

Yes, you need to realize that the scriptures are spirtual, not intellectual. You must first believe the scriptures before they effectually work in you as Tony said.

1 Thes 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

1 Cor 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

You will never understand the scriptures through intellect or scholarship without first approaching them through faith.

The scoffers and the doubters want us to prove that the King James is the Word of God, then they say they will believe. I sincerely doubt that would make any difference at all.

Luke 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

These folks had the scriptures in the original languages and still did not believe. This debate over language is just an excuse in my opinion. The real issue is faith. These doubters are no different than those who asked the Lord to perform signs. They want proof before they will believe. But God says you must believe first.

God has promised in many verses to preserve his word to all generations. We simply believe that God has kept his promise, and that preserved word is the King James Bible.

[ChaplainPaul]

Originally Posted by Winman

1 Cor 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

You will never understand the scriptures through intellect or scholarship without first approaching them through faith.

Amen, brother. This is the stumbling block for a lot of people who reject the supremacy of the King James Bible.