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Five honest questions about the King James Bible
Is it too hard to read? Are all translations the same? Did King James change it? What about missing verses? Can we trust a Bible copied through history?
What do “perfect” and “preserved” mean here?
God’s Word is true and can be trusted. Preserved means He has kept it through time. The King James Bible gives that Word to English readers.
The studies lay out the reasons for that conclusion and the records behind historical claims. Where a manuscript question is disputed, the disagreement is shown plainly.
Examine the preservation case →Is this website free?
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Choose a Bible reader →Do God’s promises name the King James Bible?
The Bible promises that God’s Word will endure; it does not name an English translation or the year 1611. The case for the KJB also considers the received texts, the work of translation and the history of its use. Follow that argument rather than treating one verse as its entire proof.
Follow the evidence →Why are the heavenly-witness words missing from early Greek copies?
We do not have a record of each copying choice. One view is that a note in Latin later became part of the verse. Some defenders suggest that an early Greek copy was lost. That is possible, but it has not been proved. The early Greek copies we have lack the longer wording. Latin records show that these words were known long before Erasmus.
Follow the evidence →Did Erasmus promise to add the verse if anyone found one Greek copy?
The scholar Henk Jan de Jonge checked the records and found no support for this well-known promise story. We can study what Erasmus printed and the Greek evidence he received. But we should not tell the promise story as a proven fact.
Follow the evidence →Did hundreds of African bishops each own a Bible with 1 John 5:7?
A shared statement of faith from AD 484 uses the heavenly-witness words. It shows that Latin-speaking Christians used them in public. It is not a list of what was in each bishop’s Bible. We cannot count those bishops as hundreds of Bible copies that someone checked.
Follow the evidence →Could a note beside a verse later become part of it?
Yes, that is one possible way a text could change as it was copied. It does not explain every longer passage. For each case, we must compare the old copies, their dates, their languages and their words. A possible explanation still needs evidence.
Follow the evidence →Can number patterns prove which Bible is right?
First choose the exact Bible edition and clear counting rules. Then count both matches and misses. Try the same rules on other texts. If someone else gets the same result, that confirms the count. It does not, by itself, prove that God caused the pattern. Chance or the choice of counting rules may still explain it.
Follow the evidence →Does one fake manuscript mean all old Bible copies are fake?
No. A manuscript is a handwritten copy. The tests on Archaic Mark showed that this one copy was a fake. A claim about any other copy needs its own evidence.
Follow the evidence →Are all King James Bible editions exactly the same?
No. Printers and editors made changes over time. We need to name the exact editions and compare their words. Trusting the KJB translation does not mean that every printer made no mistakes. The claim that all changes were only spelling is too broad.
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