You wrote "word" (singular) but the Psalm has "them" (plural) twice. Possibly you erred, and intended to communicate plural ('words'). And O yes, God has preserved all His words! The spoken ones and the unspoken (dreams, visions, etc.), too. But they're not all written in a book for humans to read on Earth, are they? I can't wait to hear what God and Adam talked about in the Garden before the Fall.
There is really no reason at all to think that this verse is referring to preserving written words. In fact, looking at the content of this Psalm you will find ONLY referrences to speech (the word "speak" twice, "speaketh", "lips" three times, and "tongue" twice). Absolutely no references to ink, scrolls, or similar terms related to inscription.
The Hebrew term 'imrah (Strong's #565) your assumed antecedent to "them" is found twice in the preceding verse (12:6). It's lexicon definitions are: utterance, speech, or word; it is translated in the KJV as "speech" 7 times. It seems the more frequent Hebrew term associated with written "words" is dabar (Strong's #1697) [see Exodus 34:1 & 27;
Deut. 10:2, 27:3; Jeremiah 30:2, 36:2 etc.]
Dr. Bob, did I lie? I see you are a naturalistic defender of modern versions. Are you blind? Do you ignore the history? King Jehoiahkim cut off the Scriptures in the OT. Gnostics and heretics attacked the Word of God by cutting off the Scriptures in 2nd – 4rd Century. So is today. Modern versions cut off the names of Jesus Christ in NT 200 times. Jesus’ name was cut off in the prayer in State government. The Bible was cut off in public schools. The 10 Commandments were cut off in other State government. If so, are you a follower of King Jehoiahkim?
I feel honoured having my own personal stalker who follows me from thread to thread, saying the exact same thing! In nearly five years of posting here I have never had a stalker before :)
Check out the facts - the NKJV is from the same text body as the KJV - it is simply a fact. For those who disagree - show us an instance where the NKJV followed the Alexandrian texts.
But when someone is told and proven that they are in error (saying the NKJV is NOT from the same Greek as the AV1611) and they will not believe the truth but perpetuate error over and over and over . . it is de facto lying.
And attacking a good translation of the Word of God.
You put up with stalking, but I will not tolerate willful lying.
Askjo, perhaps this is a question that should be addressed. However, I do not feel obligated to answer this question at the present time since my original statement was merely an example of how the theory Nicholas25 submitted can work both ways. Alternatively, the same theory could be applied this way: The reason so many Byzantine-type manuscripts have been recovered in total is "... because no one wanted to use them because they were wrong/corrupt" (quote from the OP). This is just for illustration purposes, so I'm not saying that I actually believe it to be true. I hope you understand the context of my original statement now.
Quote from some WMD (weapons of Mass Destricution) experts:
" Trust but Verify "
Verifying sources, especially Bible sorces is required by each of us from the Bible:
Acts 17:10-11 (NIV1984 Edition):
As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went to the Jewish synagogue.
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Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every dayto see if what Paul said was true.