Hello. I know many of you are fond of modern versions because they remove achaic words such as 'thee" "thine" and "thou". That is not all that is left out of modern versions. The NIV has something like 16 thousand fewer words than the King James Bible. The things left out of the modern versions will be built on later in this thread. To start with I want to focus on the common sense argument of accurate copies of the Word of God being handed down through generations God-fearing believers, and the Bible's own words promising preservation of the Word of God down to the tiniest punctuation mark.
There are websites devoted to trashing the King James Bible and the men who brought the translation of the Word of God to the English speaking world. The arguments they make agaisnt the correct and completely reliably accurate translation of the Word of God into English all boil down to the same argument used by Satan to cast doubt on God's Word in the garden of Eden: Yea, hath God said, ....? God said what He said and He made sure His servants wrote it down and He made sure it was preserved as His testimony to the whole world of His wrath agaisnt sin and in favor of salvation and redemption of His beloved creation and all of His beloved creatures who will be saved from sin's destruction. We have God's Word; yes He said it and He wants us to know He said it and He wants us to know that He said exactly what He said, and He made sure it was preserved wtihout error for the English Speaking world. It was no harder for God to do this than for Him to form man from the dust of the ground and breathe into his nostrils the breath of life. It was hard for a lot of people who gave their blood as martyrs to place the English translation of the Bible in the hands of commoners, but they did it with joy, enduring the suffering for the joy set before them as our Saviour endured His suffering for the joy that was set before Him.
Now the basic common sense argument is this: When something extremely important to you happens, and you know it is extremely valuable to others that they know about it...and I mean extreme to the point that you will give your life for the message like the apostles gave their lives for the gosple....are you not going to make sure that message is recorded and protected from being changed? Are you not going to place that message in the hands of the most trusted people to protect for posterity? Of course you are; you do your part, and God does His part which He promised to do...to preserve His Word against all doubts of devilish questions such as "Yea, hath God said"
Some of you reading this are probably wonderful godly believers who pray and read your Bible every day like myself and so many others I know personally. You may disagree with this thread, as do many godly men who have been used in great ways to bring many to know the Lord and be saved. Some of those great men of God are Charles Stanley and Greg Laurie (not sure how his name is spelled, just like his preaching except for when he uses modern versions too much). The Late J. Vernon McGee was another of those. The men who led the Bible college I attended were godly men who disagreed with me on this topic. All of these men were solid in doctrine and their ministries proven in the wonderful fruit of multitudes of lost people coming to know the Savior through their ministries.
Some of you reading this are worldly, proud, filling your time and minds with worldly music and entertainments not seeing the need to keep unholiness out of your eyes, ears, and imaginations. You are the ones who will fight most vehemently against this thread.
Godly people like the great ministers I mentioned will discuss the topic civilly and listen to reason which supports the OP.
There are websites devoted to trashing the King James Bible and the men who brought the translation of the Word of God to the English speaking world. The arguments they make agaisnt the correct and completely reliably accurate translation of the Word of God into English all boil down to the same argument used by Satan to cast doubt on God's Word in the garden of Eden: Yea, hath God said, ....? God said what He said and He made sure His servants wrote it down and He made sure it was preserved as His testimony to the whole world of His wrath agaisnt sin and in favor of salvation and redemption of His beloved creation and all of His beloved creatures who will be saved from sin's destruction. We have God's Word; yes He said it and He wants us to know He said it and He wants us to know that He said exactly what He said, and He made sure it was preserved wtihout error for the English Speaking world. It was no harder for God to do this than for Him to form man from the dust of the ground and breathe into his nostrils the breath of life. It was hard for a lot of people who gave their blood as martyrs to place the English translation of the Bible in the hands of commoners, but they did it with joy, enduring the suffering for the joy set before them as our Saviour endured His suffering for the joy that was set before Him.
Now the basic common sense argument is this: When something extremely important to you happens, and you know it is extremely valuable to others that they know about it...and I mean extreme to the point that you will give your life for the message like the apostles gave their lives for the gosple....are you not going to make sure that message is recorded and protected from being changed? Are you not going to place that message in the hands of the most trusted people to protect for posterity? Of course you are; you do your part, and God does His part which He promised to do...to preserve His Word against all doubts of devilish questions such as "Yea, hath God said"
Some of you reading this are probably wonderful godly believers who pray and read your Bible every day like myself and so many others I know personally. You may disagree with this thread, as do many godly men who have been used in great ways to bring many to know the Lord and be saved. Some of those great men of God are Charles Stanley and Greg Laurie (not sure how his name is spelled, just like his preaching except for when he uses modern versions too much). The Late J. Vernon McGee was another of those. The men who led the Bible college I attended were godly men who disagreed with me on this topic. All of these men were solid in doctrine and their ministries proven in the wonderful fruit of multitudes of lost people coming to know the Savior through their ministries.
Some of you reading this are worldly, proud, filling your time and minds with worldly music and entertainments not seeing the need to keep unholiness out of your eyes, ears, and imaginations. You are the ones who will fight most vehemently against this thread.
Godly people like the great ministers I mentioned will discuss the topic civilly and listen to reason which supports the OP.