HIGHER-FIRE digest 382 (WoF)

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S. Hall wrote

> >I reply:
> >
> >I'm sorry, but I simply do not agree.  You said that God showed you that,
> >and that is fine.  He didn't show me!
> >
> >I have always believed (and still do) that the King James translation is
> >just that, a translation.  Nothing more.  It was translated by fallible men
> >of sometimes dubious origin and much of its scholarship was based upon
> >earlier translations, notably Coverdale, 1535; Thomas Matthew, 1537; the
> >Great Bible, 1539; the Geneva Bible, 1560; and the Bishops Bible, 1568.
> >These all immediately preceded and fed into the translation we now refer to
> >as the King James Version.  It was translated by Trinitarians without the
> >Holy Ghost who had never heard of Jesus name baptism, etc....

WHat about the other translations?  All of them were made by Trinitarians?

I look at it much  differently.  God said the WORD saves us.  And if that is so,
then there is not going to be any LOST word or any BETTER manuscripts missing for a 
period of time during which people must be saved as much as
anyone else.  The KJV is translated from the Textus Receptus - RECEIVED TEXT.
And it is so called because it was most widely common throughout the world.
THAT would be the true text since God wants people to be saved with His word.

No other translation besides the KJV has been an integral part in revivals
around the world.

The Codex Vaticanus, and Codex Sinaticus (the two "better manuscripts"
or "oldest manuscripts" you see referred to in footnotes
of modern versions, are so spurious in origin they should be cast aside.
They come from the "strain" of textual translation called the 
"Alexandrian" strain.  This was where men like Adamantius Origen, who believed
the devil will be saved, and that souls pre-existed birth, taught.  These
men were the then contemporary "liberals" of the day.

'If it ain't from the Textus Receptus watch out!'

I enjoy the NIV and the AMPLIFIED, but I am careful to notice what they
have CHANGED at the same time.


-- 
In Christ,
Mike Blume
mfblume@ns.sympatico.ca
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/mfblume/mblume.htm