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Every investigation starts with a question.
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Explore the evidence, test the explanations, and reach your own conclusion. Open your own case—let’s start here.
◆ Read the source. Hear both sides. Test every claim.
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YOUR NEXT QUESTIONTHE HEAVENLY
WITNESSES1 John 5:7–8
WITNESSES1 John 5:7–8
What does “The Perfect Bible” mean?
Our name states our belief: God’s Word is true and can be trusted. By preserved, we mean that God has kept his Word through time. We receive the King James Bible as that Word in English.
Our studies explain this belief and show where the evidence is clear or still debated. Read the common questions →
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Why the King James Bible Is the Preserved Word of God
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Get the free PDF → Read the common questions →Our method
Do not take our word for it.
Check the evidence.
- 1Read the source.Look at the record for yourself.
- 2Hear the strongest challenge.Check the evidence against a claim too.
- 3Compare the facts.Separate what the source says from what we think it means.
- 4Reach an honest answer.Let each claim be only as strong as its proof.
Evidence key
The evidence points this way.
More proof is still needed.
Let’s start here
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GUIDED STUDY
Why Are These Bibles Different?
Compare the words. Did the translators make different choices, or use different source texts?
Start Your Investigation →GUIDED STUDYHow Far Back Can We Trace the Words?
Look at an old handwritten copy. Learn what its age can—and cannot—tell us.
Start Your Investigation →GUIDED STUDYWhat Happened to the Heavenly Witnesses?
Follow 1 John 5:7–8 through the evidence and form your own conclusion.
Start Your Investigation →Featured investigation
What happened to
the Heavenly Witnesses?
5:7–8
Not a King James invention
Latin-speaking Christians said these words came from John more than a thousand years before the KJV.
An early Latin history
The evidence points more strongly to words added in Latin than to words John first wrote in Greek.
What did Cyprian mean?
Did this early Christian writer quote a longer Bible verse? Or did he use the shorter verse to teach about Father, Son and Holy Spirit? Both views remain possible.
The limit: the early Greek copies we still have support the shorter wording. The case file shows what the evidence can—and cannot—prove.
Examine the complete case →Research commitments
Questions are welcome.
Legends are not.
Source firstImportant claims link to old records or published research.
Both sidesEach case gives the strongest reasons for and against its claim.
Plain languageWe explain harder words as we use them.
Your own answerCheck the sources and decide whether the conclusion is fair.