Is your Bible Inerrant?

Yeah, after the KJV hit the street, it was one big happy party. All the Baptist and Puritan prisoners were released from prison and apologized to, and all persecution stopped. That's why nine years later, in 1620, the Puritans and early Baptists fled to America - to escape all the love.

 

Yes, the killing stopped. But not the persecution. The persecution of Baptist continued all the way up to and through the American Revolution. I can cite some specific examples once I have access to a few of my books if you would like?

That kind of ruins your historical revisionism doesn't it? The persecution lasted until the American Revolution then, only a relative few years after (1835 for starts), Americans and liberated Englishmen became interested in replacing the Monarch's version of the Bible.

 

John Bunyan was imprisoned for 12 years (circa 1660) by the Church of England though he had 5 children one of which was blind.

One of the charges brought against him was that he prayed without using the Church of England Book of Common Prayer.

http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.John.Bunyan/Sermons.Allegories/Relation.Imprisonment/index.html

HankD

 

Extract from the arrest warrant for John Bunyan (author of Pilgrim's Progress for those who don't know).

HankD

 

Sorry to chime in on this so late, but I didn't not see this post.

If all the "'protestant' Bibles had the Apocrypha put either between the testaments or as an addenda," then it seems to me that by acknowledging this, you have refuted KJV-Onlyism for us.

Thanks.

 

Concerning AUTHORIZATION: I forget who brought it up that a church 'authorized' the King James Bible. This is false. The AV 1611 was not given the description of "authorized" but by the people who believed it. It was not an original claim by the King James Bible's translators or any political church. As for the Apocrypha comment by Baptist. I pointed out its placement b/c it was not considered inspired in those bibles. To be honest though, whatever floats your boat about disbelieving the Bible is your business. If you dont want to believe it youll find a reason not to.

 

Likewise, I pointed out that your statement does not support the complete and total rejection of all other English translations of God's Holy Word. As with all the other KJVO's on this list, you have failed to provide an argument for this belief. To dismiss KJVO wholly and completely as Unscriptural is not "disbelieving the Bible."
As stated before: God didn't need King James.

 

God does not "need" anybody;God did not "need" David to kill Goliath,He could have did it himself;God USES men to get His purpose done.Period

 

Yeah, after the KJV hit the street, it was one big happy party. All the Baptist and Puritan prisoners were released from prison and apologized to, and all persecution stopped. That's why nine years later, in 1620, the Puritans and early Baptists fled to America - to escape all the love.
</font>[/QUOTE]And guess which version of the Bible they took with them? Here's a hint -- it wasn't the KJV....

 

My point is NOT to discredit the KJV (my PRIMARY Bible of choice) but to defend it from those who would make it something it isn't.

To do that one needs to point out that the KJV of the Bible originated in a Church at a time that if you entered into one of their local churches in 1611 would look and sound no dfferent than the parent Church, the Church of Rome complete with persecution of those who would not bow the knee to her (Anglo-Catholic).

Here again is the arrest warrant for John Bunyan with words emboldened for emphasis :

In other words every one here (presuming all to be Baptists) had we been born in England at the time shortly after the publication of then "Authorized Version" would be sharing the cell (or worst) with John Bunyan for our beliefs "in other manner than according to the liturgy or practise of the Church of England".

While we aren't British subjects anymore these men and women are part of our Baptist heritage of persecution for the truth's sake.

Personally I don't believe that God had any more to do with this English translation of the KJV Scriptures than He did with the Wycliff or Geneva Bibles.

But/and if He did what does that make the Church of England from whose lips flowed "inspired" Scripture?

Perhaps many here need to rethink their church "affiliation"?

HankD

[ October 03, 2003, 10:27 AM: Message edited by: HankD ]

 

God does not "need" anybody;God did not "need" David to kill Goliath,He could have did it himself;God USES men to get His purpose done.Period </font>[/QUOTE]Agreed, which is why God used Tyndale, Wiclif, Luther et al to preserve His Holy Word.

 

God does not "need" anybody;God did not "need" David to kill Goliath,He could have did it himself;God USES men to get His purpose done.Period </font>[/QUOTE]Agreed, which is why God used Tyndale, Wiclif, Luther et al to preserve His Holy Word. </font>[/QUOTE]u can include also the NT Textual Studies INstitute in Muenster, the British Museum, Westcott-Hort, unbound.biola.edu, n TBS.

 

My bibles are not inerrant in themselves, but the Lord of my bibles is inerrant, and that is what matters to me. If I could concentrate on what points are inerrant, I wouldn't have a free moment left in a day to trouble about what is left.

Cheers,

Jim