Absolutely God allowed His word to go through a process of purification and growth. Remember, the word perfect generally means complete. The original autographs were never put together into one whole volume. God allowed His word to be preserved and translated also, and especially when His word was translated into English, that is where we see the purification process really taking off through the several different English Bibles, Great, Coverdale, Bishop's, Geneva, and so forth. Those very English Bibles which I just mentioned were all blessed By God and God did use them. For they also were pure Bibles. When God allowed His word to go through this purification process in the English tongue, even the English language was being perfected also, at the same time. Absoutely perfection and completion came in 1611, in the blessed King James Holy Bible.
Even Jesus Himself went through a process of Growth. God the Father allowed Even His only begotten Son Jesus to go through a process of growth to where He was made perfect through the things which He had suffered (Hebrews 5:8-9)
Absoutely [sic] perfection and completion came in 1611, in the blessed King James Holy Bible.? Why has it been revised over several iterations? The first two major revisions of the King James Bible came courtesy of Cambridge University, first in 1629 and then again in 1638. Cambridge scholars also made changes to the original text by incorporating a more literal interpretation of certain words. Two of the leading universities in England—Cambridge (again) and Oxford—began work on updated standard editions. Francis Sawyer Parris oversaw the Cambridge edition, and Benjamin Blayney oversaw the Oxford edition. The Cambridge edition was finished first, in 1760, but the Oxford version, which was finished nine years later, superseded it.
The original 1611 version used small “roman” type to identify such words. Because of printer’s errors and other factors, however, not all of those words were properly identified. The 1769 Oxford edition is much more heavily italicized than the original.
The second category of revisions involves very minor changes to the text itself. For example, in the 1611 version,
Matthew 13:6 contains the phrase “had not root.” In the 1769 version, the phrase is changed to “had no root.”
The third category involves spelling (“sinnes” is changed to “sins”), capitalization (“holy Ghost” is changed to “Holy Ghost”), and punctuation.
In the century and a half since the original version was written, the rules of writing had changed. Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation had become more standardized. Blayney attempted to introduce this standardization into the Bible text.
Again, the King James Version is nothing more than a single translation of the ancient documents into English. King James declared it to be the Authorized Version because it was authorized by
-> him <-, not by God. He declared his version to be
the Bible, the official Bible of the English-speaking world, and some people are still buying into his non-Biblical edict. At least the Pilgrims had enough sense to leave his dictate, bringing their 1599 Jerusalem Bibles with them. They fled because they wanted to obey God, not a secular king with a political agenda.
Bravo to them and to those of us who seek to obey God, not some secular King.
