If a person doesn't speak English, do they have to learn English so they can read "God's word," the KJV?
To get His pure Word? Yes.
Alterations of the Bible have been done and are being done to control the people.
Black slaves used to receive an altered Bible from their masters to keep them in control (
Source).
Jehovah's Witness leaders give their own people an altered Bible (based on the same corrupted text you use - Vaticanus and Sinaiticus) to keep the people enslaved to their false theology.
China has recently embarked on a project to rewrite the Bible as part of an initiative to "sinicize" religion, aiming to align faith more closely with the Chinese Communist Party's ideals. This 10-year project involves altering religious texts, including the Bible, to reflect socialist characteristics and promote party loyalty over religious devotion. (
Source).
In the current Modern Bible Movement here in America (not counting the NWT):
A person can be saved by a Modern Bible and even learn certain truths.
Modern Bibles are a mixture of some true words of God and false words by men.
Spiritual darkness grabs hold of a person when a person starts to viscously attack the true Word of God (the KJB) and or those who trust it (Which I have seen before), and or when they create their own Modern Bible translation.
However, what folks do not realize is that the Reformers had received a pure Bible from the Waldenses.
The Waldenses and their text (Latin Italic) can be traced back to the 2nd century. 1 John 5:7 is in the Waldenses' Latin Italic Bible (
Source). So the reformation text of Erasmus, filtered by Stephanus, and Beza (Which the KJV translators drew from) would have used the Latin Italic. The so-called oldest and best manuscripts (Vaticanus and Sinaiticus) are 4th century. The Vaticanus and Sinaiticus are also filled with tons of corrections, as well (See my
post #2,655).
Westcott and Hort are the fathers of the Modern Bible Movement. They deceived folks into believing that their Revised Version was a King James Bible when in reality it wasn't one. Sure, they may have used some verses from it, but their version was not the version set forth in 1611 AD as it falsely states in the half-title page. For the New Testament: Their work was primarily based on the Vaticanus and the Sinaiticus and is evident in the fact that key verses from the KJV are not present in their Revised Version. They had a Unitarian on their Revised Version team and they even threatened to quit the committee if he was not involved. Westcott had admitted his commentary that a partícular passage in Scripture could bear the Arian meaning. Bruce Metzger did not even believe certain stories in the Bible actually happened. Heresy abounds in the Modern Bible Movement and Modern Bibles. I have already demonstrated several times in this thread the false doctrines found in Modern Bibles (See my posts starting in
post #1,777). The evidence is overwhelming for the King James Bible being the pure Word of God for today.
So Westcott and Hort were looking to control the minds of KJB believers by slipping in the wrong words via by wrong texts secretly (See the Revised Version half title page at Archive.org). They falsely claim in the RV that it is the version set forth in 1611 AD. It's a lie. The tactic has not stopped. Somebody along the way in the Modern Bible Movement tried to hide the fact that 1 John 5:7 was removed. They reworded and moved some words from 1 John 5:8 and placed them in the missing spot for 1 John 5:7. This is a deception. They obviously did not want new readers or folks to figure out there is a missing verse teaching the Trinity. They also tried to do it with the New King James Version, as well. You can learn how they did that in this video below.
This is why some Textual Critics have moved to favoring the classic Byzantine Majority Text. Granted, they should repent of Textual Criticism, to begin with, but once a person slices up God's Word like slicing meat at a butcher shop, one cannot help themselves to stop. They will get a rush off altering God's Word like the rush a drug addict gets from his drugs.
Side Note:
It has actually been documented many times throughout history in various books of others claiming that their translation was going to replace the King James Bible in the 1700s, 1800s, and 1900s. But their Bible translation actually lasted a few years and went out of print, and nobody even knows about them anymore (See this video
here).
