Subject: Why did the KJV include these verses? |
Bible Note: Greetings Ken! Thanks for the response my friend! As you may have already deduced, the purpose of my questions was to determine your understanding of how the Bible was actually transmitted. God didn't write a Book. He inspired many different writers over a period of thousands of years to write many books. Now, let there be no doubt that I believe in God's word. It is inerrant. It is the only rule of faith and practice. However, the inerrant, inspired Word of God only applies to the original autographs, not the copies made of them, and certainly not the translations made of them. So, the point of the questions was quite simple. There is nothing unique about the KJV as compared with the NIV, or the NASB, ect.... Every translation must first look at the available manuscripts and then determine which Hebrew and Greek text the translator will translate. Not every manuscript agrees with every other manuscript. The TR was put together in the same manner as the UBS, or the Nestle Aland, or the Westcot and Hort text. The only difference is that the TR only had a handful of manuscripts to use whereas these others had many thousands of manuscripts to use. The TR was not handed down whole through time, someone had to make textual decisions about it. The KJV translators were not any more inspired than the NIV translators, or myself. :-) I haven't seen any translation that I agree with 100 percent. In the KJV, 2 Tim. 2:15 is a good example of a bad translation. The word 'study' simply does not appear anywhere in the verse. In the NIV, there are also examples of bad translations. I do agree that we need to study God's Word my friend, but the work of the translators is only God's Word to the extent that they were faithful to what God's Word actually said. :-) If, at anytime, you would like to discuss this further, I would be more than happy to do so. Until then, I hope that we will get to interact on other issues my friend! My God richly bless you! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |