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Why We Use the Authorized King James Version of 1611

In my personal library, I have a copy of a book entitled, Things That Are Different Are Not the Same, by Dr. Mickey P. Carter. This title has always caught my attention and continues to ring in my mind in the preparation for this new sermon series. Not all modern translations of the Bible are the same because of the many differences found among them. Therefore, they are not all equal. One purpose of this new series is to expose those differences among some of the more popular of English translations as compared to the Authorized Version of 1611. Known to all as the King James Bible.

Walk into any Christian bookstore and you will find a plethora of different “Bibles” for sale. These "copyrighted productions" bring a handsome source of profit to the publishing houses which have NOW become the self-appointed “landlords” of God’s Word!

We have the “Firefighters Bible”, the “Boy Scout Edition”, the “Nurses Bible” and the “Soldiers Bible”. Besides all these, there follows a parade of revised English translations which are made in an attempt to get younger people to read the Bible by “dumbing down” the quality of the language used. This “dumbing down” is the result of America’s educational system which no longer teaches its students how to properly and adequately read our own English language.

In this new series dealing with the translation debate, we take the position that the most superior and most accurate translation of the scriptures ever produced in English remains the beloved Authorized Version of 1611. This sermon series will provide an overview of terms and reasons why we make and take such a position. The sermon series will be followed by several hours of video presentations made at Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, Florida, presented by Dr. Dell Johnson—research theologian, Dr. Theodore Letis—textual historian, and Dr. J. Michael Bates. These videos are copyrighted in 1996--1998. The videos will greatly amplify my own lessons on this topic. We do not think these videos are still in print. (However, we did discover that the first two are actually available to view on YouTube.) The titles possibly may be available in a secondary (used) market place such as www.eBay.com or www.Amazon.com .

These titles in the VHS series are:

v The Bible…The Text Is the Issue

v The Bible Preserved…from Satan’s Attack

v The Leaven in Fundamentalism

I would highly recommend that you obtain a copy of a new DVD on this topic entitled, “A Lamp in the Dark—the Untold History of the Bible (The Persecuted Church and the Word of God)”. It is available from Southwest Radio Ministries. More information at: www.swrc.com

Furthermore, if you pick up any revised English translation produced since the British edition, the Revised Standard Version, you will find verses or whole passages of Scripture either questioned or totally removed with supposed “scholarly” explanations about why God didn’t say what He meant, or He didn’t mean what He said. For instance:

v The story of Jesus forgiving the woman caught in adultery (John 8:1-11) is either removed, placed in brackets, or assigned an academic footnote questioning its validity.

v Then you have the disputed ending of Mark’s Gospel, with many scholars contending that verses 9-20 were added to the chapter’s “true” ending by an over-zealous scribe. But, who made man the final judge of what God said or did not say?

v An excellent Trinitarian passage, I John 5:7, is removed, perhaps to suit the Unitarian translator who sat on the Revised Standard revision committee of Drs. Wescott and Hort in the 1880’s.

v Then you have the bold, but clear profession of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:37, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” In many modern English translations, it is either questioned, placed in brackets, or simply removed because it makes salvation to be too simple. This removal exposes the hidden fact that many of these changes to God’s Word came from a corrupt Roman Catholic line of texts based on the Greek manuscripts: Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, and Siniaticus. By the way, the Greek manuscript “Siniaticus” was discovered in a waste basket destined to be burnt to keep the monks in the monastery warm—even the monks knew of the supposed “academic” value of this corrupted copy of God’s Word!

I hope you will enjoy this series and may it inspire you to pick up the Authorized Version of 1611 and truly be transformed by the words of the true and living God!

Please note that the Authorized King James Version of 1611 looks like a Bible--with no deletions, no footnotes, no brackets or anything of that nature causing major distractions. The KJV is a Bible that you can fully trust and believe in, and it will not leave doubt in your mind like all others will. The KJV is the "Word of the living God" without question!

"Thy Word is very pure: therefore Thy servant loveth it."

Psalms 119:140.

Why We Use the Authorized

King James Version of 1611

All the following sermons can be obtained on CD's on request from:

TrinityReformedBaptist@cox.net

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Part	Title/Subject	Reference
J01	Opening Comments	Prov. 30:5-6
J02	Terms and Definitions—Inspiration—1	II Tim. 3:13-17
J03	Terms and Definitions—Inspiration—2	II Tim. 3:13-17
J04	Terms and Definitions—Manuscripts	Prov. 2:1-6
J05	Terms and Definitions—Translations	Dan. 6:5-9, 25-31
J06	Terms and Definitions—Review & Traditional versus Critical Text	II Peter 1:12-21
J07	Terms and Definitions—Infallibility & Inerrancy	Rev. 19:1-10
J08	Terms and Definitions--Verbal, Plenary Inspiration--1	Rev. 1:1-3
J09	Terms and Definitions--Verbal, Plenary Inspiration--2	Jer. 1:4-10
J10	Terms and Definitions--Divine Preservation--1	II Kings 22:1-13
J11	Terms and Definitions--Divine Preservation--2	Isaiah 25:1
J12	Terms and Definitions--Conclusion	Jeremiah 36

Please read:

Where The Bible Versions Began

This is very enlightening.