What would be the best way to defeat your enemy?

A good defense may help but it does not win wars.

It is a good offense that wins wars.

A basketball game is not won by a good defense but by the offense scoring baskets.

Cults groups are filled with people who do not know their Bible.

 

If a man speaks or writes a truth, isn't he speaking or writing God's truth?

Isn't all truth from God? Isn't God's word truth?

Isn't genuine written truth from any source God's word? Isn't any genuine spoken truth also God's word?

 

o keep on laughing ... the Scripture tells us that the Pentateuch was written by Moses, the Psalms by David, the Epistles by Paul, and the Apocalypse by John. Moses said those words. David, too, and so did Paul and John.

so, are Moses, David, Paul, n John God?

duh.

betcha Garvey's got problems also with the Humanity of Christ. whether he's a secret Alexandrian, a closet disciple of Egyptian Bishop Cyril, hmm, we'll never know.

if it can be accepted that Christ is both 100% divine and 100% human, why is it KJBOists have such a hard time understanding the dual nature of the Bible?

 

The truth is that Anton LaVey was a deceiver. The truth is that he stated lies to get there. While all of that is true it is not God's word.

 

That makes no sense whatsoever.

I never once mentioned the number of books in the canon. That's a separate topic. I mention the canon because, since its formation, there has never been a time in history where only one translation of scripture existed. Version-onlyism is neither supported by scripture, nor by church history.

That's a false statement. You dont' decry multiplicity of versions, you decry any use of a version other than the KJV.

 

gb93433, I hope you won't be offended but I respectfully wish to disagree.

What you have written (that "Anon LaVey was a deceiver" and "he stated lies") is truth, and as truth it belongs to God. It must also be God's word because logically when A=B, and B=C, then A=C. All truth is God's truth, therefore any genuine truth you express is God's truth; God's word is truth, therefore the truth you communicate is legitimately part of God's 'collective' word.

Where else can truth originate? Nowhere! Truth is not Satan's word. Truth is not angels' word. Truth is not man's word. Whatever truth mankind 'discovers' (E=mc2, for example) was God's truth already. The truth that is preached, and the truth you share is all God's word, but NOT in the same sense as inspired scripture.

Furthermore, the precise scriptural useage of the term "God's word" is simply for proclaimations of truth (spiritual and gospel truth). The phrase "God's word" in the New Testament never specifically or exclusively refers to His revelation in its written form. Let's not forget that "God's word" is not some sacrosanct term. And the point I was trying to make, for those that wish to receive it: truth belongs to God wherever we find it (even if its found in some pages of the NWT).

 

No, I think he means what he wrote. He didn't say anything about useage; he actually decries the very existence of other versions.

 

Why is it OK to have multiple English versions before the KJV but not OK after the KJV?

 

A common KJVO response might be that the previous English translations were approaching perfection and that the KJV was the culmination of the process.

Of course coming close to perfection is a tricky business. How far off the mark would a translation have to be? And what edition of the multiple KJVs would be the standard?

Is coming close to a 10% difference in wording acceptable? The two Wycliffe translations would not qualify on that basis.

Is the New Testament only being considered?

So many variables.

I'm certainly not a KJVO -- just speculating on what they might come up with.

 

I see where you are coming from but I think that we should not forget that God's word is dynamic in that it is a living breathing message.

Heb. 4:12, "For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart."

I see God's word as far more encompassing than just truth. Much like the comparison of a body that is dead and a body with life. They are both bodies but one is dead and the other alive. Truth can be just facts but God's word is far more reaching than just a compilation of facts and truths.

 

I got all those (non)answers before. Although I was hoping that the guy that made the statement would answer, I guess there is nothing new under the sun.:type: