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Regarding chapter 18 v 11. Fortunately there are plenty of other places where we are told why Christ came, its not like that is the only reference in entire Bible about why Christ came, so it hardly matters, in fact it seems whoever wrote that verse in, did so to expand on the original, simply borrowing from Luke 19:10.
Why Is It Missing? The verse is missing from some of the Bibles because the passage does not actually appear in the best early Greek manuscripts which contain Matthew. It is important to remember that the New Testament was written in Greek. These original documents called “autographs” were copied and passed from one person to another. In the process of making copies, errors would occur sometimes. Sometimes words were misspelled, words were left out, and on rare occasions, some copyists would insert some words. Today there are more than 5,000 thousands ancient manuscripts of the New Testament in our possession. By using a process called Textual Criticism we have been able to determine very accurately how the original”autographs” should read. A better explanation of textual criticism and the accuracy of our Bible is available from an article at the following link, “How Accurate Is The Bible?” The conclusion of that article says that the Bible is 99.9% accurate. There is no other ancient book in existence with so many copies and with so little error. The Bible is really unique. The Bible is very accurate! http://www.neverthirsty.org/bible-qa/qa-archives/question/why-is-verse-11-missing-in-matthew-18/
You mean the corrupted sinaiticus and vaticanus manuscripts. These have been proven to be not reliable even in the early church. The early church rejected them as Scripture.
The Bible is not accurate if it's 99.9% accurate. It still contains error. I want a Bible that is totally trustworthy, every word.
That is why we need the Holy spirit in us that will guide us in all truths and everything that was said.
As you read through your Bible, the Holy Spirit points out the things you can believe and the things that are false?
Here's a good example of why we must have an inerrant bible. You can never come to truth if you doubt the written word. If you believe your bible is the perfect word of God then you have no problem with the verse below and you don't try to change it.
1 Timothy 2:12 KJV
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
In case anyone would like to see....No im not a scholarI wonder what the Greek says? The American Standard says "and they went to another village".... I've always heard it's about as close a word for word translation as can be found?
Any Greek scholars out there? Angela?
On my walk today I was talking to God and the subject of the king james only group popped up, now I have read it and while old english gives it a sense of uniqueness I asked God why the king james only group believe their bibles are the only true bible and others arent, then I remembered one of these people telling me it's because the kj is the closest to the original scriptures written I know the OT was in hebrew and I think the NT was in greek but even if the kj is the closest to the original script it still isn't the original is it?
Is there another reason for kj only people to believe their version is the only true word of God? I am just trying to understand the reason behind this
Yes there is another reason which is "because some man said so, and another man believed him and so and so on."On my walk today I was talking to God and the subject of the king james only group popped up, now I have read it and while old english gives it a sense of uniqueness I asked God why the king james only group believe their bibles are the only true bible and others arent, then I remembered one of these people telling me it's because the kj is the closest to the original scriptures written I know the OT was in hebrew and I think the NT was in greek but even if the kj is the closest to the original script it still isn't the original is it?
Is there another reason for kj only people to believe their version is the only true word of God? I am just trying to understand the reason behind this
The Bible is not accurate if it's 99.9% accurate. It still contains error. I want a Bible that is totally trustworthy, every word.
The KJV'ers say their body of texts is better than the Vaticanus and Sinaiaticus which were a late 19th century rediscovery.
Their argument is that God has preserved through the centuries the texts the KJV is based on, wherea the newer versions are based on texts that have been lost in a monastery etc., for centuries. It is an argument from Providence and a pretty strong one too.
Yes there is another reason which is "because some man said so, and another man believed him and so and so on."
or it could also be that the KJV was a translation made in the early 1600's, and while it is fine, some 500 years later more translations have been made in modern and different languages , and they are fine to use to. so, God's word has been preserved, but not in the 1611 version only.