Why the King James Bible as opposed to more modern
versions? God gave the Scriptures by inspiration.
2Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:
Inspiration gave the men who wrote the Bible understanding,
which is wisdom to write what God wanted written but to include their own
style, some of their own opinions, and even things that aren’t God’s specific
commands but kept in for us to learn from. This is not always word for word
dictation.
Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the
inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
2Peter 3:15 And account that the longsuffering of our
Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the
wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime
were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the
scriptures might have hope.
God’s hand of inspiration extends not just to the original
autographs but translations and copies and as Jesus clarifies God’s commands so
can a translation make clearer what He wanted.
Jeremiah 36:32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it
to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of
Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in
the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
From the previous passage you would realize that you do not
know nor is it important what the originals said because God wanted us to have
the final result.
Two important events in the history of human thought took
place around the time of the publication of the King James Bible. One began in the previous century and was called
the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation, an attempt to overthrow the authority
of the Bible, which was the foundation of Protestant and other Nonconforming
Christian’s worship. The other flowed from it in the next century and was
called The Enlightenment, a vain exaltation of man’s reason over God as an
ideal. It can be proven, and I have done so to my own satisfaction, that all
modern Bible translations flow from these movements. The King James Bible, also known as the Authorized Version, was the last major Bible translation done
before these two movements resulted in German theology and rationalism that led
to the modern apostasy of the exaltation of reason over revelation and a
general Bible illiteracy among Protestant Christians.
God preserved His word through the ages.
Psalm 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as
silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt
preserve them from this generation for ever.
Psalm 119:89 LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled
in heaven.
Most fundamentalists believe that God’s word was found only
in the original autographs, inerrant and infallible, something which they have
never seen and which we cannot examine.
The King James Bible
is the true Bible of God and our final authority in all matters of faith,
practice, and doctrine. It is there
for us to see, to examine, to question, and to study and like Christ was
physically touched by the Apostles we have God’s words to handle and He speaks
to us through them.
One other thing to note is that modern, scientific man is so
intent on breaking reality down into its component parts that he has a hard
time seeing the beauty of the forest for the trees and even the individual
twigs. Let us look at the verses in context and understand metaphors for what
they are without creating an entire edifice of meaninglessness that the Holy
Spirit never intended.
1 ¶ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God
gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to
pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 Who bare record of the word of God, and of
the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Who was and is Jesus Christ physically? Briefly, I
will try to explain.
God is composed of three parts, as man and woman are; a
body, a soul, and a spirit.
1Thessalonians
5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify
you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God has a soul, the seat of self-identity and will.
Psalm 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked
and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
This is God the Father, sometimes referred to just as God in
the New Testament. He is invisible to us. As John says in John 1:18 and in
1John 4:12 no one has seen God, presumably God the Father, at any time. Every act
of God’s will originates with Him.
God has a Spirit, how He moves throughout creation and acts
on it and in it.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and
darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.
Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the
Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you.
This Spirit is called the Holy Ghost, the Comforter.
1Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no
man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can
say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give
you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him;
for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you…26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
God has a body, His person, whom man can see, and has even
touched, as God in the flesh, called the Son of God.
Hebrews 1:1 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers
manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his
Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the
worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of
his glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Colossians 1: 13
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us
into the kingdom of his dear Son:14 In
whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:15 Who is the image of the invisible God…
Of course, an image is the likeness of someone, what he
looks like.
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years,
and begat a son in his own likeness,
after his image; and called his name
Seth:
Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth:
(Refer back to these verses when someone insists that the
image of God is man’s ability to discern between good and evil, which is
nonsense, as Adam was made in the image of God but did not taste of the fruit
of the knowledge of good and evil until he fell).
Jesus Christ is also the Word by which all things were
created. Read the first 18 verses of the Gospel According to John.
One stark difference between man and God is that God’s three
parts can act independently of each other and still be one God.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Mark 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the
commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost:
2Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
1John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in
heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
God reveals Himself to special select people under the Law
and to all believers under Grace.
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he
revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
(To deny this is to say that the so-called ‘Great
Commission’ of the end of Matthew does not apply to every believer but only the
Apostles).
What is an angel?
An angel is an appearance of someone or some group of
individuals who are somewhere else. It is that person or group’s presence.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and
the angel of his presence saved
them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and
carried them all the days of old.
Matthew 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these
little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold
the face of my Father which is in heaven.
Acts 12:13 And as Peter knocked at the door of the gate,
a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda. 14
And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness,
but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate. 15 And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she
constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.
16 But Peter continued knocking: and
when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.
For all intents and purposes it is that individual.
Judges 2:1 ¶ And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal
to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you
unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break
my covenant with you.
Judges 13:21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear
to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. 22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall
surely die, because we have seen God.
Galatians 4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh ye
despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ
Jesus.
At the end of this chapter angels are the appearance of
seven churches.
Verse 2 - John is called to relate all of the things he is
about to be told and to see, which he does. You may not understand it all yet
and perhaps he didn’t understand everything he saw. But, you are told about it
so that when you see it you will know. See Jesus’ talk with his disciples in
John 16:25. A prophecy can be given so that when it comes about you will
understand it, even if you don’t beforehand.
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