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Which Revision is Correct?

Discussion in 'Bible Versions & Translations' started by Dr. Bob, Apr 19, 2010.

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  1. Dr. Bob

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    Since another thread on the KJV hit 10 pages and closed, thought I'd start an easy one.

    KJVonly types say that the KJV is the only perfect, infallible, inspired Word of God for us today.

    Which one is now THE perfect one?

    Things that are different are not the same. As C4K and a host of others have pointed out, vast differences (150 MAJOR and 5500 minor changes) between the AV1611 first edition and the most common KJV used today - 1762 Cambridge or 1769 Oxford (I have both and THEY differ from each other)

    So IF they claim this new man-made doctrine as TRUTH, the answer should be easy to demonstrate.

    Which KJV revision (or first AV1611) is THE perfect one?

    Thanks.
     
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    Duh, the perfect one is the one I have...
     
  3. Winman

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    Do you know of an online site where someone can examine these 150 major and 5500 minor changes?
     
  4. Winman

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    Here is all I could find on those 150 Major changes you spoke of.

    http://bible.org/article/changes-kjv-1611an-illustration

    Amazing, nearly all of these "changes" are spelling changes. Many English words have undergone a change in spelling since 1611, but this does not mean they are a different word.

    For example, look at these changes shown in that article that is actually trying to prove the KJV is different today.

    apparell to apparel

    owne to own

    diddest to didst

    weepe to weep

    I'll let the reader judge for himself if these are "major" changes.
     
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    But if it's perfect and inerrant, why change the spelling? That means it was wrong before.
     
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    How do you feel about changing Saviour to Savior? And if you feel that is wrong in a MV what's the difference?
     
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    It has to be the 1611. *I* can still the old English, can't everyone else?? :eek: ;)
     
  8. Baptist4life

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    Really? You really wanna put a different spelling of a word as a MAJOR CHANGE? Dr. Bob, you're smarter than that (I hope).
     
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    Do you honestly think spelling changes are the same thing as 2 different meanings such as this:

    KJV-

    Colossians 2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

    NIV-

    Colossians 2:18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions.
     
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    "Not" is not in the Critical Text. The NKJV has a footnote about it, probably the rest of the MVs do as well.
     
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    So, just to sum up so far:

    If it's a change in the KJV, spelling or otherwise, it's minor. And the fact that there are multiples mean nothing. Difference does not equal error.

    If it's not the KJV, then any change whatsoever means it's been negated. The premise of difference=erroneous applies here.

    Got it. Carry on. :tongue3:
     
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    For clarity, you are quoting a letter that is part of an article. The article demonstrates the fallacy of what you quote.


    Dr. Wallace writes:
     
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    I'm aware of that. What's your point?
     
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    Simple answer to the opening question

    "The one that is used to lead someone to the Lord"
     
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    I knew that was an anti-KJV site, that's why I showed that article. The vast majority of these so-called changes were spelling changes counted over and over again. Changing the spelling of a word over time is not a change. Many English words were not standardized in 1611. As specific spellings were accepted for words, the spelling in the KJV was changed to fit the accepted and standardized spelling.

    Even to this day some words have more than one spelling, the English spell "colour" and here in the USA we spell "color", but everybody knows it is the exact same word with the exact same meaning.

    It shows those who want to discredit the KJV will go so far as to use dishonest and misleading arguments to fool the uninformed. Most folks don't bother to even check and just accept these big numbers anti-KJVs throw around, not knowing these thousands of changes are mostly spelling changes counted over and over again.

    Now there are some textual changes that were made in the KJV, when I get time I'll address that.
     
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    Pot calling kettle black alert issued.

    Of course, no one's listening...:laugh:
     
  17. Dr. Bob

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    Dr Tom Cassidy, long time member of the BB (and past president of the Dean Burgon Society, so a very pro-KJV guy) has verified these are very MAJOR changes. Not the minor spelling, grammar, thousands of small changed.

    I pointed one MAJOR issue out on another thread and the response was "only a minor change of a preposition".

    And God hath set some in the Church, first Apostles, secondarily Prophets, thirdly Teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpes in gouernmets, diuersities of tongues.

    And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues

    Yep. Minor change. Just change a list of 7 gifts of the Spirit to 8. No big deal.

    Which is correct? 7 or 8 (you can tell by the spelling the first was the AV1611 and second a later revision of the KJV)

    Even a SMALL preposition or comma can make a HUGE theological difference.

    BTW if you were taking a test in my theology class and said the Bible teaches "7" you would fail the question. The Bible (EVERY Greek MS) has 8. Translators made an error (so the 1611 cannot be "perfect") and corrected it some revisions later.​
     
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    In 1884, Dr. F. H. A. Scrivener, perhaps the greatest authority on the history of the "Authorized Version" (1611 KJV), aptly said concerning these changes the following

    "Most readers will be aware that numberless and not inconsiderable departures from the original or standard edition of the Authorized Translation as published in 1611, are to be found in the modern [KJV] Bibles."​

    Scrivener did a masterful collation of such CHANGES in the KJV occurring from the revisions of 1613, 1629, 1638, 1744, 1762, and 1769. Also, Dr. Benjamin Blayney, whose 1769 edition best represents the current KJV, said concerning his revision that "many errors that were found in former editions have been corrected, and the text reformed to such a standard of purity, as, it is presumed, is not to be met with in any other edition hitherto extant" [Scrivener, pg. 238, emphasis ours]. ​

    Most importantly, however, is a key reason for many of Blayney's 1769 "corrections" when he says, "Frequent recourse has been made to the Hebrew and Greek Originals" [Ibid.].​
     
  19. TomVols

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    It's actually a pro-Bible site. Seems to tick KJVOs off a lot because of it.

    I'd be curious to hear your explanation of the vast changes in the KJV, as Dr. Bob has pointed out, and why these don't fall under the "different=erroneous" label used for MVs.
     
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    Correction.Not anti-KJV; but anti-KJVO.

    Now that's a confession I din't think you'd make. I would be interested in seeing what you've got.
     
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