I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life here many years I will
cause a boy that driveth the plow shall know more of the scripture than thou
dost. The translation of the scripture corrupted by William Tyndale shall be
utterly expelled rejected and put away out of the hands of the people. All manner
of books of the Old and New Testament in English being of a crafty false and
untrue translation of Tyndale shall be clearly and utterly abolished.
Extinguished and forbidden to be kept or used in this realm. First he maintained
that faith alone justifies. Second he maintained that to believe in the
forgiveness of sins and to embrace the mercy offered in the gospel was enough
for salvation. Third he avowed that human traditions cannot bind the conscience
except where their neglect might occasion scandal.
Lord open the King of England's eyes!
you
your own appetite as over many do making it like a bell to sound as you please to
interpret but by the contrary frame all your affections to follow the rule they're
set down when you read the scripture read it with a sanctified and chaste ear
admire reverently such obscure places as you understand not blaming only your own
incapacity
hi this is pastor Jonathan Shelley from pure words Baptist Church and the point
of this documentary is to help people realize that we have the greatest
treasure on earth the Bible many people don't realize where the Bible came from
and the point of this documentary is to show through history and the doctrine of
preservation how we have a Bible from Moses all the way to the one I hold in
my hand today
after the ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven the gospel was spread throughout
all the world this caused the scriptures to be translated into many
different languages over the next few centuries in 382 AD Jerome of Striden
translated the Bible into Latin which became the official translation of the
Roman Catholic Church and by 500 AD the Bible had been translated into over 500
languages despite hundreds of translations being available the Roman
Catholic Church prohibited access to the Bible for common people this time
period is referred to as the Dark Ages where the scripture was restricted to
the Latin translation used by the Catholic Church furthermore from the
13th century to the 19th century Rome enacted a myriad of laws making it
illegal for common people to obtain the Word of God and read it in their own
language in AD 1215 hope innocent the third issued a law commanding that
anyone who translates the Bible would be seized for trial and penalties he
stated as by the old law the beast that touching the holy month was to be stoned
to death so simple and uneducated men were not to touch the Bible or venture
to preach its doctrines people would be persecuted if they quoted any scripture
I mean we have testimonies of children quoting scripture and their parents
getting into trouble for that so that was a real point of persecution because
the church wanted to hold on to its power and reading the Bible gave power
to the individual because they saw that this was what God is saying this might
be not what the church is saying so it was a real real hard time in 1229 ad the
Council of Toulouse made it illegal for laymen to possess or read the Bible for
themselves and the Council of Tarragona in AD 1234 ordered all vernacular
versions to be brought to the bishop to be burned in rebellion and contrast to
Rome's view of Scripture brave men like John Wycliffe challenged the status quo
of the Catholic Church by translating the Bible into the language of the
people Wycliffe was very concerned because and of course he only knew Latin
and was only working with Latin but he was concerned about he called goddess
law he felt that God's law was more important and more authoritative than
the church's power and authority so he felt that they were abusing indulgences
and abusing a lot of the power that they had and so that's why he wanted to
translate the Bible the Bible in its entirety wasn't translated to English
until Wycliffe's translation produced in the Middle English period in 1382 with
the help of his assistants John Pervy and others later revisions were produced
in 1388 and 1395 we had the Latin but people weren't speaking Latin anymore it
got to the point where the Vulgate is no longer Vulgate it's no longer common
it's no longer vulgar anymore because people aren't speaking Latin so of
course there's another need for a new Jerome quote-unquote where he's gonna
start translating the Bible into their tongue which would be English and this
is where you get men by the name of John Wycliffe who ended up translating a
Bible into English it's a decent a good translation very literal that he keeps a
lot of the word order he didn't have anything to follow as far as what
principles you use for translating the Bible so he had to make up his own now
this was not at the desire wishes of the Catholic Church and the Catholic Church
still is wanting to prevent people from hearing the Bible or having the Word of
God Wycliffe was born in a village in England around the 1320s he rejected
many of Rome's heresies including the doctrine that laymen shouldn't have
access to God's Word he said the following you say it is heresy to speak
of the Holy Scriptures in English you call me a heretic because I have
translated the Bible into the common tongue of the people do you know whom
you blaspheme did not the Holy Ghost give the Word of God at first in the
mother tongue of the nations to whom it was addressed why do you speak against
the Holy Ghost you say that the Church of God is in danger from this book how
can that be is it not from the Bible only that we learn that God has set up
such a society as a church on the earth is it not the Bible that gives all her
authority to the church is it not from the Bible that we learn who is that
builder and sovereign of the church what are the laws by which she is to be
governed and the rights and privileges of her members without the Bible what
charter has the church to show for all these it is you who place the church in
jeopardy by hiding the divine warrant the missive royal of her king for the
authority she wields and the faith she enjoins he really did break the ground
and he was persecuted for it he was he died natural death but then later they
dug up his bones and burned him and then scattered the ashes into the thin river
so he was a martyr and but after he was after his death John Wycliffe one of the
common man of access of the Bible which ended up spurring a movement to
mass-produced Bibles and more translation works eventually in 1453 the
Ottoman Empire comes in invades takes over the Byzantine Empire the city's
collapse marked the end of the Middle Ages and because of this collapse a lot
of people in this area fled into the Latin area they fled into the western
portion of Rome well when they're fleeing what do they take with them
their Greek translations of the Bible in 1516 desiderius Erasmus published a
Greek New Testament that was paralleled with the Latin text this was done to
highlight areas in which the Latin deviated and to show where it had been
corrupted desiderius Erasmus is one who then wants to also give the Bible to
the common people but he doesn't want to just use the Latin so desiderius
Erasmus says you know what the Bible was originally given to us in Greek then
it was translated into Latin but what if we go back to that Greek is it really
lining up with our Latin and so basically what he wanted to do is he
wanted to provide people with a Latin and a Greek comparison conservative
academics were beginning to realize that Greek was really the basis that's what
the Bible was written in was not written in Latin it was written in Greek so they
began to realize that if you want to go to the source you must you must do the
Greek you have a movement to go back and and basically take the Bible back to the
original Greek in Hebrew because the idea was that the Latin Bible was
corrupt that was the fear that the Catholic is the Catholic Bible then it
must be corrupted because they want to stay in power he was not going to use
the Latin of the Catholic Church he was actually going to use the Greek as the
underlying source for the Latin and so then when people would look at his Latin
they would say this is different than the Latin of the Catholic Church the
Roman Catholic Church had corrupted the Latin Bible and we don't know if we can
trust it let's go back to the original languages and see what the Bible says in
the original languages now here's a quote from Erasmus but one thing the
facts cry out and it can be clear as they say even to a blind man that often
through the translators clumsiness or inattention the Greek has been wrongly
rendered often the true and genuine reading has been corrupted by ignorant
scribes which we see happen every day or altered by scribes were half-taught and
half asleep so according to Erasmus he was saying hey the guys that gave us
this Latin Bible and the Catholic Church they're at best blind clumsy you know
half-taught half asleep I mean this guy did not have a high view of the
translation work of the Latin he printed right next to it a Greek and a Latin so
that people could read the Greek and be like whoa this is different anybody got
education and the in the why that was so authoritative is because everybody knew
that the Greek had multiple manuscripts spread across the world all saying the
same thing so if it's disagreeing with the Greek it's just not true he probably
used it it's estimated between five and twelve different manuscripts which is
just a few and that's always been a criticism of his but if he had picked up
another five or six chances are they'd have been the same text because the vast
majority of the Texans are being around are all of that text he inspired a giant
movement and of course one of the people that was mostly inspired by this was
Martin Luther in 1522 Martin Luther produced a German New Testament that
relied on the Greek published by Erasmus during the time that new translations
were made from the Erasmus Greek New Testament the Hebrew Old Testament was
standardized by Daniel Bomberg's printed edition in 1524 Bomberg's Hebrew text
served as the underlying Hebrew that was translated to English for the Old
Testament of the King James Bible and its predecessors you've got Daniel
Bomberg producing a printed copy of the Hebrew Old Testament so now you've got
Hebrew Old Testament Greek New Testament being printed on the printing press in
the 1500s and so now these start getting translated into everyday
languages as the Word of God continued its journey going all the way back to
the time of Moses it was eventually translated into the lingua franca of the
world William Tyndale was used by God to
translate the New Testament into modern English for the very first time in 1526
he laid the groundwork for the English Bibles that succeeded his work Tyndale
was a highly regarded scholar who was so fluent in eight languages it was said
that any one of them could have constituted his native tongue he's
frequently referred to as the architect of the English language Tyndale loved
what Luther was doing in Germany he said if I can do in England if I can do in
the English-speaking world what Luther did in Germany we're gonna change the
world and he did he ended up printing a New Testament edition of the scriptures
from the Greek and so this is our first edition of the New Testament 1526 we
know he translate the Bible into the New Testament excuse me in English for the
first time that got him in all sorts of hot water price was put on his head King
was looking for him bishops were looking for him bounty hunters were looking for
him how dare you challenge Church authority now of course you know who
didn't like this the Catholic Church now William Tyndale is a fugitive and an
outlaw because the Catholic Church was dominating in England at this time and
so it's not legal for the Word of God to just go free he tried to get permission
because you weren't allowed because of the Constitution of 1408 he wasn't
allowed to translate anything into English so he tried to go to the arch
bishop and ask him if he could get permission well he didn't get permission
so that's why he fled from England over to the to Europe and there he found some
places for hiding and he could start translating and so in 1525 he began
translating the Greek into English and so he was able to translate the New
Testament into modern English so William Tyndale produced the first modern
English translation of the Greek New Testament William Tyndale brave man who
fought against the Catholic Church didn't want the Catholic Church to
dominate the Bible and I wanted regular people to have it here's a quote from
him I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the laypeople in
any truth except the scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their
mother tongue William Tyndale said I can't teach anybody any truth until they
have the Bible in their language now how true is that today because the Bible his
Bible was forbidden in England anything that came into England and Tyndale New
Testament they would destroy it burn it and so forth so he began to smuggle
copies into England with bales of cotton and things like that William Tyndale was
printing a Bible into English against the authority of that time the Catholic
Church he was hunted down and he was literally killed for having given us a
He lived in obscurity then while he was in in Europe and was able to keep hidden
but he was betrayed by someone who knew him and they arrested him and charged
him and then he was burned at the stake in 1536 strangled first and then burned
at the stake and he was tied to the stake and burned at the stake and in his
dying breath he said Lord open the king of England's eyes
while he almost while he was praying that Henry was changing his mind about
being an English Bible for the people it's just almost seemed like God was
answering that prayer right at that time in 1535 Miles Coverdale continued
Tyndale's work and created the Coverdale Bible the very first modern English
translation to contain both the Old and New Testament making use of Luther's
German text and the Latin Vulgate as sources the 1537 Matthew's Bible was
published by John Rogers under the pseudonym Thomas Matthew it was the
first English Bible translated from the original Hebrew and Greek the 1539 Great
Bible became the first English translation authorized for public use
as it was distributed to every church it received its name due to its large size
in 1560 the Church of Geneva in Switzerland produced the Geneva Bible
the first to add numbered verses to each chapter making it easier to reference
specific passages 1568 you have the bishops Bible so you have this continual
work refining process of them going to the Greek trying to work on this process
instead of just one guy on the run by himself being hunted down you have other
people kind of picking up the torch but a lot of times it was still just one guy
or a handful of guys eight years later you know it as the bishops Bible that
was done in 1568 another explosion the Queen permitted the Archbishop of
Canterbury loved the Geneva Bible didn't have a problem with it read it at home
but the bishops Bible would be the Bible of the pulpit and that's what they
taught from it was a beautiful text wonderfully laid out it was a kind of a
prototype both in translation and in printing format for what we know today
is the famous King James Bible in 1604 the Anglicans and Puritans hotly
disagreed on which translation should be used in an effort to address errors and
establish unity the suggestion was made for a new translation so people are kind
of divided you got some people that want the bishops Bible you got other people
that want the Geneva Bible and it's kind of two factions so King James when he
comes to power is given the suggestion that maybe we should just put in the
work necessary to just make one definitive version of the Bible in
English that we could all agree on instead of having some people who got
the Geneva some people got the bishops let's put in the work to have one
definitive version after seven years of rigorous work by 54 top scholars the
King James Bible was completed in 1611 in the introduction written by the
translators they refer to King James desiring one more English translation
they underscore the importance of the King's aspiration by quoting him as
saying the following that out of the original sacred tongues together with
comparing of the labors both in our own and other foreign languages of many
worthy men who went before us there should be one more exact translation of
the holy scriptures into the English tongue
you
it was King James the first during the second year of his reign who called for
the Hampton Court Conference a meeting designed to address Puritan complaints
and resolve conflicts within the Church of England when King James came to the
throne there were hopes on the both sides of the Roman Catholics as well as
the Protestants because he was coming from Scotland which had a Catholic
background his his lineage had some Catholic background but he was in charge
of the Church of England which was Protestant so the Protestants thought
he's going to support them and the Catholics thought maybe he is support
them and he disappointed both the whole scripture is dictated by God's Spirit
thereby as by his lively word to instruct and rule the whole church at
the ascent of the throne of King James we have a controversy between Puritans
and Anglicans over which Bible to use we're gonna use the Geneva we're gonna
use the bishops upon his coronation or when he was announced to be the king a
group of about a thousand came together they called the Millennials and they
came together and they said we want to reform the church so that Hampton Court
Conference was gathered in order to reform the church it was at that
conference that Puritan John Reynolds suggested to the king that a new English
translation be commissioned he moved his majesty that there might be a new
translation of the Bible because those which were allowed in the reigns of
Henry the 8th and Edward the 6th were corrupt and not answerable to the truth
of the original
in July of 1604 King James of England wrote to Archbishop Richard Bancroft of
Canterbury that he had appointed certain learned men to the number of 54 for the
translating of the Bible these men were the best biblical scholars and linguists
of their day the translators were organized into six groups and met
respectively at Westminster Cambridge and Oxford and then after the death of
Queen Elizabeth in 1603 you see King James come down and what does he do he
hires basically 50 53 to 55 scholars then those guys are broken up into six
committees if you remember the committee names you have the Oxford one in Oxford
Cambridge one Cambridge two and then the two down in London and you had all of
that work being supervised so you had good check and balance so he appointed
these translators and Bancroft was a real scholar and so he insisted that
they had the very best scholars throughout all of England to do it so
they ended up getting 54 scholars they took Calvinists and Puritans they took
the Church of England many of their scholars and they said all of you guys
have to work together come together and agree on the text one of the translators
is famous for speaking 15 modern languages and six ancient languages I
mean this guy knows 21 languages that's one guy there's 54 guys Lancelot Andrews
an English bishop and scholar chaired the translating work for the King James
Bible born in 1555 by the Tower of London Andrews had an intimate knowledge
of both modern and ancient languages 21 in total from Hebrew Syriac and Greek to
Cal D Andrews was a linguistic savant who made use of his expertise to act as
a general editor during the making of the King James he also led the first
Westminster Company the group of translators tasked with Genesis to
second Kings now he became really the main source of the translating he was
given the commission to do the translating and oversee it and
everything so Andrews was a really a great scholar and Bancroft was too but
Andrews is considered the greatest of the scholars yeah
the King James translators were some of the most distinguished scholars of their
day for example William Bedwell was England's leading Arabist Thomas
Harrison was a heavyweight intellectual with daunting expertise in both Greek
and Hebrew he was known as the only translator in any of the translation
groups whose prodigious learning rivaled that of Lancelot Andrews Richard Brett
was an expert in languages such as Latin Greek Hebrew Aramaic Arabic and
Ethiopic Henry Seville was an astronomer who had translated early scientific and
mathematical manuscripts in addition Seville was known for his mastery of the
Greek language miles Smith was so familiar with ancient languages that
some believed Hebrew Aramaic Syriac and Arabic were as familiar to him as
English the translation companies included many acting and former Regis
professors at their respective colleges such as John Harding the Regis
professor of Hebrew at Oxford and William Thorne a former Regis professor
of Hebrew at Oxford John Perrin the Regis professor of Greek at Oxford and
John Harmer of former Regis professor of Greek at Oxford the translators of the
King James Bible were selected for their academic achievements rather than their
doctrinal agreement the King James translators they weren't uni-minded they
weren't one-minded they had lots of scholarship with lots of passion with
lots of ideas and at the same time I think what they knew was that what they
were going to produce would change the world 54 top scholars and they weren't
all from one denomination or one faction because he didn't want it to be slanted
doctrinally toward one group or another so he's got Church of England guys
Puritan guys people that are just more secular guys that just really loved the
language weren't really necessarily that religious author Gordon Campbell
said quote the learning embodied in the men of these six companies is daunting
it is sometimes assumed that people in the 21st century know more than the
benighted people of the 17th century but in many ways the opposite is true I mean
some of these guys had had read everything that had been ever written in
Greek that was available in England at that time they had read it they'd read
all of it they didn't just stop at the Iliad of the Odyssey and to think that a
committee of 54 could come up with such a fantastic translation is really sort
of unbelievable the translators were given 15 rules to abide by the first
rule to the translator stated quote the ordinary Bible to be read in the church
commonly called the bishops Bible to be followed and as little altered as the
truth of the original will permit they have the bishops Bible which is a
complete Bible a completed work and they said you can only alter this Bible as
long as the original allows it they're not starting from scratch folks they've
already got the bishops Bible and King James specifically told them in the
instructions don't just change it for no reason if the bishops Bibles right leave
it alone only change it if it actually needs to be changed the fifth rule
stated the division of the chapters to be altered either not at all or as
little as may be if necessity so required additionally the rules to the
translators called for no marginal notes at all to be affixed but only for the
explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words when necessary at the time the marginal
notes for the Geneva Bible had caused some controversy and some people in
England had even confused them for the inspired words of God King James wanted
to curtail this from being a recurring issue the eighth rule to the translators
stated every particular man of each company to take the same chapter or
chapters and having translated or amended them severally by himself where
he thinketh good all to meet together confer what they have done and agree for
their parts what shall stand in fact every part of the translation was
examined at least 14 times with some parts totaling 15 or 17 times depending
on the complexity of the scripture one of the tasks that they did is after they
would translate a portion of scripture they would have one guy sit there and
read it out loud in English the King James Bible and they'd have the other
guys reading in different languages so they would have the Spanish they'd have
the French they would have the German and they were making sure that it lined
up with even all the foreign language works that were done lining up with the
Greek lining up with all of the scriptures that it even sounded good to
the ear and so they're sitting here and doing this for years and years and years
and finally they produced the King James Bible they had the bishops before them
and they looked at the bishops and then they they translated it and that would
be the first form but you can bet that they were using the the Old Testament
Bamberg's Old Testament Hebrew and the Erasmus Greek New Testament the King
James translators utilized revised editions of the Erasmus Beza and
Stephanus Greek New Testaments along with the Daniel Bomberg Hebrew Old
Testament in the New Testament the King James Bible is translated 100% from the
Greek which Greek they were using printed editions of the Greek New
Testament that were published by Erasmus Stephanus and Beza they
primarily used Beza's edition and there are some very slight very minor very few
differences between Beza and Stephanus so sometimes they went with Beza
sometimes they went with Stephanus but again the difference between these two
is very minuscule and so the Greek underlying the King James Bible is not
any one of those printed editions but rather it's drawn from that whole family
of printed editions of the Textus Receptus so you have a guy in 1894 named
Scrivener who published a Greek text that basically takes Beza's text and
Stephanus's text and just basically marries them into one text based on what
the King James Bible translators use some people will wrongly say old back
translated from the King James it's not back translated into Greek it's just
basically a synthesis of Stephanus and Beza to basically give us exactly the
Greek that went into the King James New Testament but what we all see in common
is is that the Greek that Luther Tyndale the Geneva committee all of the foreign
language committees and then the King James committees they all shared the
same Greek so things are going to read very similar the KJV translators wrote
quote truly good Christian reader we never thought from the beginning that we
should need to make a new translation nor yet to make of a bad one a good one
but to make a good one better or out of many good ones one principal good one it
had started with Tyndale he had lots of limitations to work with to start with
when you're on the move because they'd like to kill you that makes sitting down
and they've been through a process and there was a purification process and the
King James Bible process really starts in 1526 with Tyndale they wanted one
more their words exact translation they wanted to finish the process you know
an illustration that I was thinking of is when you look at how copper is mined
from the earth and refined it's pulled from the earth and then it's refined at
a certain plant to get it 90% then they send it to another plant to get it to
99% and then they send it to another plant whose only job is to take it from
99 to 99.9 okay because that's a big step right there and so that's what the
King James Bible is the bishops Bible was already 99% and the King James Bible
translators are taking a good translation and making it a great
translation in 1611 after seven years of arduous work the King James Bible
project was finished and ready to be published the completed work featured a
title page that read quote the Holy Bible containing the Old Testament and
the new newly translated out of the original tongues and with the former
translations diligently compared and revised by his majesty's special
commandment appointed to be read in churches imprinted at London by Robert
Barker printer to the king's most excellent majesty led by dr. Thomas
Paris of Trinity College in Cambridge the 1762 edition of the King James Bible
standardized spelling based on Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English
language in 1769 dr. Benjamin Blaney of Oxford further refined the Paris KJV
essentially finishing what he started the 1769 edition also corrected printer
errors and modernized spelling in 1769 we finally had the Oxford Standard which
essentially established the spellings and a lot of these printing errors and
we have the Bible that we have today I mean if you have a King James Bible in
your lap today you basically have a 1769 copy that's what it's like it's
virtually the exact same okay so you say well how do we get the Bible we went
from Moses to Jeremiah to Jesus to the Apostles to the Apostle Paul to Jerome
to Wycliffe to Tyndale all the way up to the bishops Bible to the King James
Bible to the Blailey 1769 to the modern Bible I have in my hand right now as the
Word of God being preserved through all ages
it's very important for us to believe that the Bible is inspired by God and
was delivered by God but equally as important is for us to believe in the
doctrine of preservation that God has providentially preserved the inspired
words of God all the way from the time of Moses to the Bible we have today the
Bible itself is the final authority there's no greater authority that we
could appeal to outside of the Bible and say oh well I believe the Bible
because of science or I believe the Bible because of history because that
you know those things would then become the final authority the Bible itself is
the final authority and the Bible claims to be the inspired preserved Word of God
the Bible says all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for
doctrine for reproof for correction for instruction and righteousness but the
doctrine of inspiration is completely worthless without the doctrine of
preservation I believe every Christian every so-called Christian out there
would argue that the originals were inspired everybody virtually believes
that but it's very few that believe in the preservation of Scripture it's no
use to me to believe that the original manuscripts were inspired by God if
they cease to exist and I don't have I don't have them most doctoral statements
will start off with a statement generally stating they believe that the
originals are inspired by God God delivered and handed down his word to
man what good is that if we don't still have the words that God originally gave
us yeah there's nothing wrong with that statement as long as it doesn't end
right there and you have to go on and describe what God has done after that
because if God didn't do anything after that to keep his word in front of us
you're answering what good is it virtually none if it's inspired by God
then it has to be preserved by God in order for that inspiration to mean
anything to me today what would be the point of God giving us his word you know
over 1,500 years multiple writers different countries different continents
different languages and use men to inspire his word and then allow it to be
corrupted when it needed to be translated or when it needed to be
rewritten obviously documented the the physical originals do not exist anymore
so in order for us to continue to have the Bible those had to be copied and
when people say well as soon as they began to be copied or began to be
translated there was mistakes and we lost the original the Word of God then
it would just be a big waste of time for God to even give it to us to begin with
the Bible tells us that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word
that proceed out of the mouth of God and so we wouldn't be able to function as
Christians or have church practices or know what the Bible says about doctrine
if we didn't have it in our specific language so that's why I believe the
doctrine of preservation is important and it's a biblical concept more
important than your food is the Bible and God certainly preserved food but you
know what's more important is the Bible that he preserved for us today to
consume we need to consume food daily we need to consume the spiritual food the
spiritual manna on a regular basis and of course God wants to give us the
organic version he doesn't want to give us the GMO he doesn't want to give us
the corrupted version of the Word of God but he wants us to have the holy and the
pure words God has promised that his word would always be available to me he
didn't promise it would be everywhere he didn't promise it would be in every
language but he promised it would always be available and I know that's
controversial among some of the brethren they tried to get away from that but
some of the independent Baptist half of the independent Baptist would say you
know God never promised to preserve his word at you but we've got his doctrines
and his ideas but is there a line in the Bible that even twisted and turned
would ever say that God you know weren't pretty well you may not always have my
words but you always have my documents you may not always have my words but
you always have my comment where is there a verse you can even twist to that
would you say that only the concepts are preserved or you think that God actually
preserved the words well that's what it says here God promised to preserve his
words and and and I believe he has done it that he is not the comps concept the
Lord Jesus said heaven and earth shall pass away but my words will not pass
away if God promised to preserve his words so I believe we have a promise
from God that his word is always available to me the doctrine of
preservation was made apparent historically by the diffusion of God's
word throughout the ages but the concept is also apparent biblically scripture
makes it clear in multiple places that God promised to preserve his word so
look at where you are there in Isaiah chapter 59 verse 21 the Bible says as
for me this is my covenant with them saith the Lord my spirit that is upon
thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy
mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seed seed
saith the Lord from henceforth and forever so there's a promise given in
the book of Isaiah saying not only are your children gonna say my words not
only are your grandchildren gonna say my words but from every generation from
henceforth and forever we're all gonna have the book of Isaiah he said the word
that was inspired in the days of Isaiah the preaching that Isaiah did where he
spoke the words of God and said thus saith the Lord the Lord made a covenant
he made a promise he made an agreement he gave a guarantee that that word would
continue to exist from here on out and forever Isaiah the Bible says now go and
write it before them in a table and note it in a book that it may be for the time
to come forever and ever Isaiah saying hey the Bible is forever every time the
scripture mentions his word it mentions that using terms like forever or forever
and forever or a thousand generations or heaven and earth shall pass away but my
word shall not pass away well the Bible says forever oh Lord thy word is settled
in heaven so we know that God's Word has obviously always existed well you can
take a verse like in Proverbs where it says every word of God is pure he's a
shield unto them that put their trust in him add thou not unto his words lest he
reprove thee and thou be found a liar that's talking present tense and
including scriptures that are much older if we're not allowed to add to God's
Word then we must have it in order to even be able to add to it it would make
no sense if we didn't have it and he says don't add to this when you don't
even have access to it when we think about David saying in the Psalms the law
of the Lord is perfect he's speaking several hundred years after the law was
first given at Mount Sinai and so we have all of these verses in the present
tense talking about how God's Word is pure God's Word is clean the Bible says
the words the Lord are pure words as silver tried in the furnace of earth
purified seven times thou shalt keep them o Lord thou shalt preserve them
from this generation forever so the Bible specifically tells us that it is
God's job it is his task to preserve his word just as God preserves his word for
this generation and the next generation for every generation he's also gonna
preserve the poor that trust in him he's gonna preserve mankind and both are
gonna be reserved forever and so he gives us these great words to illustrate
that God's Word is never going to cease to exist and if you read the whole
chapter is the main emphasis is the Word of God against the Word of Man and God
promised to preserve his words forever why would I think that God only wanted
a small subset of human population have had the Word of God why would I not
think that it's just as important today for us as mankind to have the Bible when
there's so many more people so many more souls so much more opportunity for the
Word of God to be heard and to be preached and for faith to be exercised
you know God's not a respecter of persons and he didn't decide that those
of our fathers those of antiquity could have the Bible and we get scraps but
rather he decided you know what all generations it's God's providential hand
that preserves the Word of God and he puts it in the hearts of man to carry
out his work you think of salvation for example God is essentially doing the
bulk of the work because he's the one who's saving the soul but he uses human
instruments to carry out that work Matthew 5 says for verily I stand you
to heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall no wise pass from the law
till all be fulfilled Jesus went so far as to say that not even a jot or tittle
would pass until the entire earth had passed away one jot or one tittle shall
in no wise pass from the law until all be fulfilled and so heaven and earth are
still here then God's Word must still be preserved in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 8
the Bible teaches providential preservation by promising that quote the
Word of our God shall stand forever the Bible also contains more evidence for
this doctrine in the book of Psalms for example Psalm 33 11 says the counsel of
the Lord standeth forever the thoughts of his heart to all generations Psalm
119 verse 152 says concerning thy testimonies I have known of old but thou
has founded them forever Psalm 119 verse 160 thy word is true from the beginning
and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever Psalm 100 verse 5 says
for the Lord is good his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to
all generations a reasonable person can track how scribes and other workers
throughout the work of God's Providence kept his word intact I do not wash or
feel ashamed saying that I believe God has and was able to give truth to each
generation in some way while ease and access are better than it's ever been
there's always been God's preserved word it didn't just appear in 1611 or 1844
it's always been here I'm thankful for the accurate translation I'm thankful
that I have I have a Bible that I don't believe there's an error look at 1st
Peter chapter 1 verse 23 being born again not a corruptible seed but of
incorruptible by the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever saying that
the Word of God is alive it's it's somewhere you know how could we say that
the Bible is living if it doesn't even exist you know if it doesn't even exist
if it's nowhere we don't have it and it doesn't really make it very alive you
know it makes the Bible alive is the fact that's everywhere I mean think
about it the Word of God the King James Bible is the most printed book in human
history it's the most read book in human history I mean this thing is a lie folks
this thing is everywhere and you know how long it's gonna be alive forever the
Bible is saying that God's Word will stick around forever the grass wither
earth and the flower thereof falleth away but the word of the Lord and
the Word of God is not grass that sprung up in the Bible times sprung up
during the New Testament and then somewhere around the first second third
fourth fifth century somewhere the lawnmower came and chopped it up and and
now we need these scholars and experts and archaeologists to kind of put
Humpty Dumpty back together again because it's somehow been damaged folks
God's Word ain't broke so don't try to fix it we don't need to reconstruct the
original text because we never stopped having God's Word in the traditional
text just like the Lord Jesus Christ was crucified and he was dead for three days
but you know what God preserved his physical body because the Bible says his
flesh did not see corruption and if God can preserve the physical body of Jesus
Christ in the grave and revive it out of the grave then just in the same manner
God can preserve his word and we can see no corruption just like his body saw no
corruption I believe that the Word of God we have it today and we can look at
it and say you know what this has no corruption either
for 270 years the King James Bible stood on its own as the standard English
translation of Scripture it was once referred to simply as the authorized
version or the Holy Bible as it was unmatched in terms of usage and
popularity but a new philosophy emerged in the 1800s based on unused manuscripts
Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus that introduced a new method of
textual criticism the reason why the King James Bible started to be
challenged again after just hundreds of years of being the only mainstream
version the only reason it got challenged was a whole new philosophy
emerging in the 19th century a philosophy that said we've lost the
text and we have to reconstruct it we must do archaeology and and we have to
go back and find older manuscripts and and we need to do textual criticism all
over again and figure out what the Bible says because the traditional text is
corrupt what we need to do is reconstruct the what our best
understanding is of the Greek New Testament we're talking about
manuscript based textual criticism we're actually talking about trying to
reconstruct the original text based upon earlier manuscripts than any other work
of antiquity better manuscripts than any other work okay what we try to
reconstruct is the text from which the surviving witnesses descend and this
idea that we have to reconstruct the text is operating under the assumption
that we've lost the text whereas we don't believe it's lost we believe we've
always had the Bible we don't need to go dig it up somewhere do people who use a
critical text do they think that they have a perfect inerrant Bible or are
they gonna constantly work towards that no they don't believe they have a
perfect Bible they know it and they confess it publicly they said that every
Bible has mistakes that's what they say it's what they believe new versions of
the Bible are constantly being published in an effort to get closer to what it's
presumed as the original manuscript since critical text proponents believe
that older manuscripts are more reliable they're willing to constantly update the
text with any new discoveries one of these critical text proponents was a man
by the name of Konstantin von Tischendorf he went on a quest to find
such manuscripts that are older and he ended up finding a manuscript known as
Codex Sinaiticus this is arguably one of the most significant discoveries in
modern textual criticism and in fact many modern Bibles rely on the readings
of Codex Sinaiticus in 1844 Konstantin von Tischendorf initially discovered
portions of Codex Sinaiticus in a Catholic monastery at the foot of Mount
Sinai in visiting the library of the monastery in the month of May 1844 I
perceived in the middle of the Great Hall a large and white basket full of
old parchments and the librarian who was a man of information told me that two
heaps of papers like this molded by time had been already committed to the flames
what was my surprise to find amid this heap of papers a considerable number of
sheets of a copy of the Old Testament in Greek which seemed to me to be one of
the most ancient that I had ever seen the authorities of the convent allowed
me to possess myself of a third of these parchments or about 45 sheets all the
more readily as they were destined for the fire in a subsequent visit in 1859
Tischendorf found the entire Codex Sinaiticus which would later be used by
Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort to produce the critical text in 1881 Westcott
and Hort produced the Greek New Testament from which modern versions of
the Bible have been translated it's known as the critical text and it's
based on the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts since then the United Bible
Society along with Eberhard Nestle and Curt Alland have updated the work of
Westcott and Hort as archaeologists have unearthed more Egyptian manuscripts
today the Nestle Alland Greek New Testament is on its 28th edition with
future revisions on the horizon in their own words Brooke Westcott and Fenton
Hort said all distinctively Syrian readings must be at once rejected Fenton
Hort practically lambasted the received text when he referred to it as
villainous in his writings he also said quote think of the vile
textus receptus leaning entirely on late manuscripts it is a blessing there are
such early ones another editor of the modern critical text Curt Alland
considers Greek manuscripts which are purely or predominantly Byzantine to be
quote irrelevant for textual criticism these sentiments represent the new
philosophy of critical text advocates they believe Egyptian manuscripts
unearthed in the 19th century are more reliable than the traditional received
text of Scripture we've now got a better manuscript and so they produced new
versions of the Bible like the NASB the NIV etc it's anything but the King James
version we have found older copies of the original writings of Scripture since
the King James Version was done this more scholarship and so those blessed
scholars didn't have the resources that we have today and so they didn't make
all the adaptation critical text proponents believe older manuscripts are
in the vast majority of cases better however this ignores the many credible
reasons why older manuscripts may not necessarily be more reliable people have
to bring up the argument that well older manuscripts are always better
because they're just older the general reality is that the text that we can
obtain from the year 200 from the papyri has a better chance of being traceable
directly to the apostolic period then if all you had was the text of Byzantine
manuscripts from the year 1200 the earlier is better is a generally true
statement with exceptions that we know about exceptions that we can document
exceptions we go oh hey look at this and the reason that we know those other
exceptions is because we have earlier manuscripts to compare them scholarship
is agreed on on one thing and that is the versions of the Bible that were
written closer to the first century are by default more reliable and let me
explain why I don't believe that older is better in this particular argument
number one it was not being used it's important to consider that manuscripts
actually being used will wear out in contrast Vaticanus and Sinaiticus along
with other papyri fragments that have been discovered over the years were not
being used throughout history and passed down from generation to generation this
explains why archaeologists are still able to discover manuscripts that fall
under the Alexandrian tradition even today and why they tend to be older the
Greek text underlying the King James Bible has often been known as the
received text or textus receptus because it's that which we received it's been
passed down it's the traditional text that's been used by Christians throughout
history the modern versions are based on a completely different philosophy
where they've unearthed or discovered older texts that nobody was using so
these are texts that had been abandoned texts that have been discarded but they
dug these things up and said well these are older therefore they must be more
reliable for example that the received text these are manuscripts that were
actually used in read in actual churches and so people are you know
pastors are preaching from them congregants are using them Christians
you know are utilizing the Word of God so through wear and tear that would have
to copy it again and copy it again and copy it again I've got my King James
Bible that I use I read this one this is the one that's gonna get worn out you
know if you grab an NIV or an ESV that I've got here just as a tool to show
what's wrong with it it's in pretty good condition because
I'm not reading it and so these are actually Bibles that are being used
where actually whereas the older manuscripts they're preserved because no
one's using them if someone uses a Bible the Bible that you use on daily reading
is that gonna wear out quicker than perhaps a Bible you have on your shelf
absolutely that's why that's why the older Bibles because they were put on
the shelf number two reason why older is not better is the location the location
and some people would make a big deal about the fact that you know the King
James Bible is kind of coming from the Byzantine Empire which of course if we
think about it Christianity is really getting kick-started in Antioch it's
getting kick-started in that part of the world so it makes more sense that
manuscripts are going to be better in the areas where Christianity is being
formed and of course the letters themselves are written to the Ephesians
to the Galatians to the Corinthians so it makes more sense that that origin or
that source is gonna have a better text in total about 5,800 extant or existing
Greek manuscripts are available today and they're divided into several text
types or forms the two most significant are the Byzantine text type and the
Alexandrian text type the Byzantine text type originated in Antioch Syria where
the disciples of Christ were first called Christians in Acts chapter 11
verse 26 this family represents 99% of all known Greek manuscripts that largely
agree with each other meanwhile the Alexandrian text type originated in
Alexandria Egypt and represents a small minority of all existing manuscripts the
received text of Scripture or the textus receptus the underlying Greek for the
King James is based on Byzantine manuscripts conversely the Greek
underlying modern Bible translations such as the NIV or ESV is based on
newly discovered manuscripts from the Alexandrian tradition but even more
important than the location being just geographic instead of being in Egypt or
in the Vatican there in the parts where Christianity was at how about just the
immediate location one's in a trash can and the other one is in the hands of
Christians some critical text proponents will lie about the location of where
certain manuscripts have been discovered specifically codex inaticus
critical text proponent James White has often lied saying that it's not been
found near or in a trash can when it most certainly has been in fact I did
want to correct just oneness apprehension Sinaiticus was not found
in or near a trash can that is a common myth but it's untrue all you have to do
is read Constantine von Tischendorf's own first-hand account of his discovery
of the manuscript a monk brought it out of the closet the cell wrapped in red
cloth folks people inside and monasteries do not wrap garbage in red
cloths okay James White does accurately describe in constant in Tischendorf's
account of finding codex Sinaiticus that a steward handed him the
parchments in a red cloth but what James White fails to state is how those same
parchments were previously discovered by Constantine in a basket and if he had
not those parchments would have been destined for the flames I unload the
cover and discovered to my great surprise not only those very fragments
which 15 years before I had taken out of the basket but also other parts of
the Old Testament the New Testament complete and in addition the epistle of
Barnabas and a part of the pastor of Helmas not only did Constantine find
codex Sinaiticus at this time according to his account he also found other
documents such as the epistle of Barnabas I knew that I held in my hand
the most precious biblical treasure in existence a document whose age and
importance exceeded that of all the manuscripts which I had ever examined
during 20 years study of the subject I cannot now I confess recall all the
emotions which I felt in that exciting moment with such a diamond in my
possession though my lamp was dim and the night cold I sat down at once to
transcribe the epistle of Barnabas you know James White seems to leave that out
too doesn't he Tischendorf appeared to be most excited about the fraudulent
epistle of Barnabas which he discovered along with the Sinaiticus manuscript
he's just saying like I found the greatest document the greatest treasure
that you've ever discovered the epistle of Barnabas this guy doesn't even care
about the codex Sinaiticus he cares about this apocryphal book about this
trash document and he gets so excited and of course this is the man that
basically leads Westcott and Hort and all of the modern critical texts and all
the Bibles that you have today Sinaiticus which was previously discarded
has been largely used to produce the various editions of the critical text in
addition to Sinaiticus even newer discoveries of abandoned and unused
manuscripts have been found buried in the earth but the question is why were
they buried in the first place it's worth noting that there's an established
tradition amongst Jews where they discard certain manuscripts they bury
them even today Torah's are buried underground either due to deterioration
or a slew of scribal errors rabbi Mirov is the first to pick up a shovel one by
one members of the congregation young and old join him in digging the dirt to
fill the grave what did the Jews actually do you know what the Jews do
they think since the Bible is living they say it's a real person so it needs
to be buried so often what Jews will do is they'll take their manuscripts that
have problems errors and mistakes and they'll bury them this practice still
happens today yeah basically if there's one mistake even one letter is
partially rubbed out or whatever and the whole Torah is no good so if it's
out of place they got to go back and fix it to stop using it until it's been
fixed and the Torah that cannot be fixed has to be buried now think about this if
if the Jews have been doing the same things for centuries stands the reason
that they may have been doing this bearing practice back at the time of
Christ or even before Christ so if I find a bunch of manuscripts that have
been buried who's to say that they weren't all the bad versions of the
Bible they weren't all the bad Scrolls that they had made the mistakes had
worn out had problems and they had buried them and then when we unearthed
them they're all the trash versions they're all the versions that had the
mistake and all the problems that begin with so manuscripts that Christians
rejected in the and you know in the first century second century third
century are now being pulled out and we're being told that we have to accept
them if I find an older manuscript that's been buried in the earth that
sounds way worse to me than a new manuscript that was in the hands of
Christian if we believe that God preserved his word and that it's been
preserved throughout the generations then we would not go seek a Bible that's
been buried and and have to go rediscover the Bible because we don't
believe the Bible was ever lost you have to believe that God inspired and
preserved his word otherwise God just wasted his time and if you're going to
take the position that no these manuscripts that have been dug up or
that have been found and these are now the actual Word of God and we need to go
back and fix what we've had then you're believing that the Word of God was lost
and that is not compatible with God here's the third reason I don't believe
that older is necessarily better is the integrity of the document when we talk
about these older manuscripts they're not finding the complete Bible they're
not even finding complete books of the Bible if you go and you look at these
actual documents they will say oh here's here's part of the Bible and it'll be
like this big and it'll have like a few letters that you can barely read on
they're finding fractions and pieces and specifically when it comes to the
critical text there are major portions that are missing there are we're told
that as you look at these documents they're they're even scribbled on and
written on ten different authors they can tell that have made changes to it
and things like that so it's not like they just found a complete Bible from
the first century and they're now telling us well this is actually the
right one they are finding fragments and trying to use that to really attack
the Bible that we've had since the Lord Jesus Christ since the New Testament you
know you look at these documents they have holes in them they have scribbles
they're written over they're missing sections and they don't agree with one
another yet they have one they're older it's like we're gonna ignore the use
we're gonna ignore the location we're gonna ignore the integrity of the
document as it's older textual critics believe that older manuscripts are more
reliable therefore the application is uncertain would they change the New
Testament the Old Testament the Greek the Hebrew well in an effort to find out
we interviewed one of the translators for the Holman Christian Standard Bible
Dr. James Almond. Dr. Almond is a experienced student of Greek and Hebrew
and he had translated a portion of the Psalms he's a very nice man he's a
dedicated Christian and we asked him if he would be willing to update the Hebrew
if we found older discoveries or even specifically with the Dead Sea Scrolls
if you would be willing to update the Masoretic text and he made it very clear
that he would be willing to update the text if you were reading in Hebrews
chapter 1 you have the line let all the angels of God praise him and your your
Bible may have a cross-reference to Deuteronomy 32 you won't find it in your
Bible it's not in the Masoretic text but it is in the Qumran scroll of
Deuteronomy so we're able to restore some things that that the New Testament
treated as Old Testament quotations but we can't identify them so so we're able
to correct that. So if we found more ancient evidence would that be added in
in your opinion? Yeah. Dr. Almond's willingness to change the text
illustrates how critical text proponents do not believe we have preserved Bible
and in fact with new discoveries they would potentially change any verse in
the Bible. But based on your method if there were a discovery of ancient
documents that most scholars agreed what what makes this the earliest reading you
would be willing to change your position on any text within the New Testament
based on evidence that might be uncovered is that correct? Yes. Those who
believe in the modern versions a new archaeological discovery could
completely revolutionize their view of God's work to the point where they would
completely change their Bible.
There's no question that the critical text defers both philosophically and
substantively from the received text. They're based on different manuscripts
and consequently they disagree with each other thousands of times. In 1876 the
Dean of Chichester College, John Burgin, a native Greek speaker and in his time a
world-renowned expert on Greek Bible manuscripts, was able to examine both the
Vatican and the Sinaitic text to compare them both to the received text. These
were his findings. In the Gospels alone Vaticanus is found to omit at least
2877 words. To add 536, to substitute 935, to transpose 2098, to modify 1132, in
all 7578 changes. The corresponding figures for Sinaiticus were 3455 words
omitted, 839 added, 1114 substituted, 2299 transposed, 1265 modified, and in all
8,972 changes. Either somebody's taken a lot out or somebody's putting a lot in
and both of those processes are forbidden to us in Scripture. We're not
to subtract a word or to add a word. It's not like there's just, oh well here it
uses one word and here it's using another word and those words mean the
same thing. There are major issues between these two, these different Bibles
to the point where they both can't be right. Now here's the question, which one's
right? Because they can't both be the Bible folks. Since modern Bibles are
based on a completely different underlying text than that of the King
James and its predecessors, it necessarily follows that modern Bibles
say something different. If you compare a King James Bible to an NIV, you're gonna
notice that whole verses are removed from the Bible and I'm saying like
they're just completely gone. There's 16 whole verses just taken out of the Bible.
Like Matthew 17 verse 21, gone. Matthew 18 11, gone. Matthew 23 verse 14, gone. Mark
7 verse 16, gone. Mark 9 verse 44, gone. Mark 9 46, gone. Mark 11 26, gone.
Mark 15 28, gone. Luke 17 36, gone. Luke 23 17, gone. John 5 4, gone. Acts 8 37, gone.
Acts 15 34, gone. Acts 24 7, gone. Acts 28 29, gone. Romans 16 24, gone. And I'm not
saying like parts of it, I'm saying the whole thing just ripped out. The new
international version, otherwise known as the NIV, removes 16 entire verses
including familiar passages such as Mark chapter 9 verse 44 which says, where
their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. And in verse 46, where their
worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched. Who would want to say that hell
is not a place of eternal punishment? Maybe the people going to hell? Maybe
people that don't want to scare you about hell because then you might
actually believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and get saved? You know what the
Bible teaches that people should be afraid of God and afraid of hell and you
know what strikes terror in people's heart is hearing where the fire is never
going to be quenched. Not just gone. Here's some other verses that are just
completely gone. For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost. Why
would you want to take that verse out? Frankly speaking, if you get an NIV
today and you go to Mark chapter 16, you kind of get to verse 8. Usually they'll
put a buffer between verse 8 and verse 9 that'll say, oh some manuscripts don't
contain this latter portion of Mark. And they'll basically just put this dividing
line where they just separate from the two. The two most reliable early
manuscripts do not have Mark 16 9 through 20. So it's like you're reading
in the Bible and then just as you're just reading in the text it'll just
randomly just say that. Just have a big break and then just be like, oh hint hint
the most reliable man. What makes them reliable? Oh are we talking about
Sinaiticus which was found in a trash can? Is that the reliable Bible? The one
that was found that was destined for the fire? There's a verse in Mark chapter 16
that I quote all the time and frankly speaking I think it's one of the most
important verses. Look what it says in verse 15. And he said unto them, go ye
into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. You know that's the
only time the Bible says verbatim that we're supposed to go and preach to every
creature. Am I really supposed to think it's any coincidence that the devil
wanted to take that verse out of the Bible and want to destroy that verse? And
you know what there's a lot of people that say oh we're not supposed to go out
evangelize we make disciples. Let me tell you something more important than making
disciples is going out and preaching the gospel and to every creature. And you
know I know why the devil wants to take that verse out of the Bible because of
how powerful it is for us to go out and preach the gospel to every creature.
What's sad about the critical text position is how they put so much doubt
on the Word of God even to their own loved ones. And when we talked with Dr.
James Allman he expressed to us that even his own wife was incredulous the
fact that Mark 16 wasn't really the scripture. Mark 16 my wife even after all
the years she sat under my teaching said do you mean to tell me that part of the
Bible is not the Bible? Why would you trust someone to translate the New
Testament for you who rejects the story of the woman taken in adultery? Who
rejects the ending of Mark 16? Who believes in a gospel of Mark that ends
with them being scared and not telling anybody? It doesn't even make sense and
I've preached about how if you take out 9 through 20 the ending doesn't make
sense and it becomes a lie is what it becomes. And so that ending at verse 8 is
absurd but just keep in mind that even though they printed verses 9 through 20
they told you in the column that they don't believe in it. So not only are they
removing whole verses 16 times not only are they removing verses through
footnotes to combine to over 40 verses not only are they taking out whole
phrases where you're gonna get into hundreds then they take verses that are
still there and twist them to say something completely different.
Proverbs chapter 16 look at verse 10 a divine sentence is in the lips of the
king his mouth transgresseth not in judgment. Here's what it says in the New
King James divination is on the lips of the king. It's where in the Bible
divination is condemned as a satanic practice of witchcraft the modern
versions are adding Satanism into the Bible falsely accusing the king and
ultimately King of Kings the Lord Jesus Christ. Proverbs 18 verse 8 the words of
a tail bear are as wounds and they go down into the innermost parts of the
belly. The New King James the words of a tail bear are like tasty trifles. The New
American Standard Bible the NASB the words of a whisperer are like dainty
morsels. What is the NIV say the words of a gossip are like choice morsels. Who's
gonna sit here and argue that gossip is a good thing. Verse 24 the King James
says a man that hath friends must show himself friendly and there is a friend
that sticketh closer than a brother. NIV in this verse one who has unreliable
friends soon comes to ruin. Here's what the North American Standard Bible or the
NASB says a man of too many friends comes to ruin. The King James Bible
is telling you to be friendly to have lots of friends. The NASB is telling you
don't have a lot of friends. Look at 1st Corinthians chapter 9 verse 27 but I
keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest that by any means when I
have preached to others I myself should be a castaway. Listen what it says in the
NIV. No I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave. You know it doesn't
contain these weird strange readings is the Texas Receptus Bibles and what I
want to illustrate for you today is how would you read the Bible in the Tyndale
then you read the Bible in the bishops and then you read the Bible in the King
James you're going to notice it's the same same same and then you get to the
NIV different then you get the NLT different so it's like hey every Bible
has the same verse same verse same verse gone same verse same verse same verse
completely different why because the modern versions are not the same Bible
Mark chapter 10 look at verse 24 and the disciples were astonished at his words
but Jesus answer it again and say then of them children how hard is it for them
that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God listen to what it says
in the NIV children how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God wait a minute
the King James says for those that trust in riches this one's just saying it's
hard to get into heaven well it might be hard to get into heaven if you're
reading an NIV but it's not a greeting the King James the NASB children how
hard it is to enter the kingdom of God now just to illustrate for you how this
is so different let me read for you mark 10 verse 24 in the Tyndale New Testament
how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God
let me read in the bishops how hard is it for them that trust in riches to
enter into the kingdom of God so we see in the Tyndale for those that trust in
riches we see in the bishops for those who trust in riches we see in the King
James for those that trust in witches modern versions gone they just
completely remove that why because it's the same same same different showing
this isn't a translation work coming on top of the King James it's a completely
different source it's changing the Bible and it's making it more difficult now in
John chapter 7 we have a story about the Lord Jesus Christ and his integrity and
character is questioned by the modern versions but look what it says John
chapter 7 verse number 8 go you up under this feast I go not up yet under this
feast for my time is not yet full come so Jesus Christ is saying hey I'm not
gonna go up yet meaning I'm not going up with you right now but that doesn't mean
he's not gonna go up later listen to us as an IV you go to the festival I am NOT
going up to this festival then IV just says he's not going now wait a minute
two verses later even in an IV it's gonna say he went up what would that
make you if you say I'm not going to this party and then you went that would
make you a liar let me read for you the Tyndale go you up under this feast I
will not go up yet under this feast for my time is not yet full come bishops go
you up under this feast I will not go up yet under this feast for my time is not
yet full come so Tyndale it's yet Bishop it's yet King James it's yet modern
versions I'm not going so they just create a lie in the text why didn't they
have the word yet there because they're corrupting the text because they're
trying to make Jesus Christ a liar 1st John 5 7 completely removed in modern
versions for there are three that testify let me read for you 1st John 5 7
you can turn there if you want in the Tyndale says this for there are three
which bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these
three are one the bishops for there are three which bear record in heaven the
Father the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one modern versions
there are three that testify it's just gone folks it's not the same Bible it's
not the same book first Timothy chapter 3 verse 16 and without controversy great
is the mystery of godliness God was manifest in the flesh justified in the
spirit scene of angels preached unto Gentiles believed on the world received
up into glory here's what it says in the ESV he was manifest in the flesh
well who's he why did they take it out why does it not say God anymore what
does it say in the Tyndale God was showed in the flesh what does it say in
the bishops God was showed in the flesh what does it say in the King James God
was manifest in the flesh why are they taking that verse out why are they
changing God with he because they want to strip away the deity of Jesus Christ
first Corinthians chapter 1 verse 18 the King James Bible says for the
preaching of the crosses of them that perish foolishness but in us which are
saved it is the power of God new King James this is what it says but to us who
are being saved in IV but to us who are being saved in a SB but to us who are
being saved so in the modern versions it doesn't say you are saved it says you're
being saved you know what it says in the Tyndale but in the US which are saved
it is the power of God you want to know what it says in the bishops but in us
which are saved is the power of God how come it's saying the exact same thing
and then all of a sudden is completely different they want to strip away the
deity of Jesus Christ they want to strip away all the power all the wisdom they
want to make the Bible sound foolish not only that they also want to take away
the hate out of the Bible Revelation chapter 2 verse 15 so hast thou also
them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which thing I hate here's
what the ESV says so also you have some who hold the teachings of the
Nicolaitans oops they forgot something which thing I hate now let me read for
you in the Tyndale even so hast thou them that maintain the doctrine of the
Nicolaitans which thing I hate here's the bishops even so hast thou them that
maintain the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which thing I hate so we have the
Tyndale the bishops and the King James all saying the same thing and then we
have the modern versions just taking all phrases out again 1526 Tyndale right
here and if it wasn't for that text being formed a little different you
wouldn't have much trouble reading that and it matches the King James about 85
percent of the time which for a starter translation by one man who's fleeing
persecution was an incredible job one again the difference between a Tyndale
and a King James most of the variations are gonna be word order sentence
structure as opposed to taking phrases out that's correct it is based on the
same text it has the same words the versions that came before the King James
pretty much said the same thing as the King James whereas these modern versions
are saying something dramatically different I mean the difference between
the bishops Bible and the King James Bible is very small whereas the
difference between the King James Bible and the NIV is a giant leap those are
not even comparable it's apples to oranges NIV will remove whole phrases
from the Bible in Luke 4 for the Bible says that man should not live by bread
alone but by every word of God NIV gone it just takes out every word of God you
know why I know the NIV is not every word of God it removes the phrase every
word of God the modern versions of the Bible have clearly changed the text from
the King James Bible not in an effort to refine the text but rather they've
constantly updated to say something completely different therefore our
church is King James only because we believe that the King James Bible is the
inspired preserved words of God if someone rejects the King James Bible
they're not just rejecting the King James Bible but they're rejecting the
bishops they're rejecting the Tyndale they're rejecting all the preceding
English translations they're rejecting the Greek and they're rejecting the
Hebrew that gave us the King James Bible unfortunately some King James only
advocates will claim that the King James Bible is superior to the underlying
Greek or superior to the underlying Hebrew they're known as ruckmanites
these people do not believe that God providentially preserved the scripture
through translation but rather God had to re-inspire the translators which is
known as double inspiration the new philosophy behind the modern
translations of the Bible is not the only method to undermine the
preservation of Scripture another new philosophy exists within fundamentalism
that conflicts with preservation ruckmanism and if you were to modernize
you know I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me if you
were to change that to I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
which the modern Bibles do I'm gonna reject that because you've changed the
words of God ruckmanites would argue that the underlying text of the King
James must literally align with the English words word for word in order to
be perfect I make this statement oftentimes get labeled a ruckmanite I
would say this my King James Bible corrects your TR the King James Bible
did not come from that Greek text you're using if you're using one from the
Trinitarian Bible Society that Greek text came from the King James Bible boy
if that isn't ruckmanism your King James Bible is correct in the Greek text whoo
somebody here's gonna be the one of the most blasphemous things that
people will have a hard time swallowing the King James Bible guess what it is
superior to what it is superior to the Texas Receptus it's superior to the
Greek no and people say what are you talking about because if your TR is
different than the King James then you've got the wrong TR there is of
course not a single edition of the Texas Receptus or the Masoretic text
that meets this criteria it is impossible to translate a large body of
text without using synonyms for words or idioms that don't carry over to a
different language it logically follows that since no one has access to a Greek
or Hebrew text that literally translates to the King James without the use of
synonymous language according to ruckmanites God did not preserve his
word just as critical text advocates claim the autographic Greek and Hebrew
has been lost evidently ruckmanites have come to the same conclusion these
proponents go so far as to claim that changing speak if the speaks is a
corruption of the text and that using synonyms is somehow perverting
scripture yet their claims ultimately deny the doctrine of preservation when
it comes to a translation work some people would say that they believe the
King James goes beyond just simple preservation but rather God gave the
translators another layer of inspiration sometimes referred to as
you mentioned double inspiration no I don't believe in double inspiration
would you suggest that even the King James is better than the underlying
Greek and Hebrew or is it the same in your opinion on the same my opinion yes
when you have people just giving these bizarre statements if you change speaketh
to speaks you've corrupted God's Word I mean that's lunacy when people get this
idea that to have a Bible in a different language and it has to not only have the
exact same words in the exact same order well that's not possible cuz
sometimes you're not even gonna have a word that matches that word in a
different language so it's it's silly to take it to that extreme obviously when
you have a translation in a different language they need to say the same thing
but you can't have a word-for-word translation and sometimes even with the
King James itself but when it's compared to text receptors in some places you're
not going to have a word-for-word translation because it's not possible
you know there's certain words in Greek that are not translated word-for-word in
the King James because maybe there might not be a word for it or for example
maybe the King James uses a particular idiom in English that it's not
necessarily found in Greek but it communicates exactly what the Greek is
saying the ruckmanites will will hear someone to say that they'll think you're
attacking the Word of God but it's it's it says the same thing but sometimes
it's just not possible to do the word-for-word translation from one
language to another King James only ism is the position that makes sense but not
when you listen to these bozos who are saying the King James is superior to the
Greek in Hebrew you can't even change a spelling you can't even change a comma
or a parenthesis it's like that that it's so bizarre in light of the fact
that it's an English translation from the original Greek it's hard to believe
that anybody actually thinks that way we talk about changes to the text we're not
talking about word order or spelling or synonyms we're talking about is altering
the meaning or the doctrine of the text when God talked about preserving his
words that's what he meant and the modern version should be rejected
because they're changing the meaning they're changing the doctrine of the
text and they're not preserving God's words
the Bible says this now the serpent at Satan was more subtle than any beast of
the field was the Lord God had made and he said unto the woman I want you to
know is the very first time we see Satan in the Bible in fact the first
words that come out of his mouth in the entire Bible knows what he says he says
yea hath God said he shall not eat of every tree of the garden now God has
told them you're not allowed to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil and the first words that come out of Satan's mouth he is questioning the
obviously we are at war spiritually and the devil is called our adversary and so
if the devil can disarm his adversary he's gonna do it and we know what the
weapon is it's the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and we should
be able to look at the way that Satan attacks Christians the way that Satan
attacks believers the way that Satan tries to attack God and we should be
able to learn from it well if you do that then the first lesson in the
Garden of Eden is that Satan's gonna cast out upon the Word of God question
the Word of God and change the Word of God in order to lead people astray that's
exactly what he did with Eve and that's what we are seeing today there's a litany
of Bible options out there and they don't say the same things they say a lot
of different things and they can't all be right and you need to you know you
need to at least wake up to the fact that not everything that calls itself a
Bible is a Bible if you accept the modern Bible versions as God's Word then
there is no attack on the Word of God but of course the modern Bible versions
are the attack on the Word of God because when you compare them to the
King James Bible and to the Texas Receptus they're completely different
obviously they're teaching heresy they're teaching different things but
it's it's interesting to me that here you have you have Paul telling you hey
people are corrupting the Word of God you have the Garden of Eden you know you
have all throughout the Bible you have it's clear that Satan is attacking the
Word of God the modern Bible versions are certainly different than a King
James Bible which can easily be demonstrated when compared which show
the consequential changes they're making to doctrine Micah 5 to prophecy about
the Lord Jesus Christ it says in the last part of this verse whose goings
forth have been from of old from everlasting and of course we're talking
about the Lord Jesus Christ and he was not a creative being he's from
everlasting in the NIV it says whose origins are from of old from ancient
times so the NIV says he has an origin and he's just from an old time no no
he's not from an old time he's from everlasting why would they attack that
Jesus Christ is coming from everlasting because you know what they want to take
away the deity of Jesus Christ Matthew 7 verse 14 the King James Bible says
because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and
few there be that find it according the Bible it's a narrow way because there's
only one way is through the Lord Jesus Christ listen to the new King James
which some would suggest oh well the new King James that's coming from the same
family but it actually changes the King James Bible here this is what it says
because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life now wait
a minute there's a difference between they're only being one way and it being
difficult the new King James wants to suggest that salvation is difficult
whereas the King James says there's only one way heretics like John MacArthur
will take this verse and his commentary he has his own new King James Bible
commentary he'll say yeah salvation is difficult because it takes a life of
works and dedication and turning from sin why because he loves to teach works
based salvation and he loves to use the new King James to do it why would I want
to use a Bible that teaches work salvation how could you say that these
are the same they're saying completely different things they're twisting
scripture they're perverting salvation by faith they're perverting the God that
we believe in it is not the same Bible what we're seeing with a lot of these
modern versions is that they're removing things they're changing doctrines they're
saying something completely different they're misconstruing salvation is you
knock on the doors of people who use these modern versions who go to these
modern type churches they can't give you a clear answer about salvation are you
100% sure that if you died today you're saved I hope so I believe so what are
you placing your faith in well you know I keep God's Commandments you got to
walk with God got to have a relationship with him got to love the Lord all these
obscure ambiguous answers or sometimes you run into people who go to these
churches they use the modern versions and they're just complete they've been
there for 20 plus years and they still don't know if they're saved or not and so
you know that's the fruit of these modern versions you say why isn't that
these lame churches are just not preaching hard they're not being
authoritative they're not well look I wouldn't be either if I was just
guessing at it if I if I wasn't even sure if this was the Bible I'd be like
well you know I don't know let me give you a verse and kind of fill my sermon
with a bunch of stories and jokes and poems because I'm not even sure if this
is legit I've never seen a church that uses an NIV and is just super solid on
salvation when you compare American churches specifically do you notice a
difference between a church that's not using King James Bible versus churches
that use a King James Bible in America oh absolutely yes more liberal if Satan
is going to attack the Word of God one would think he would focus on Bible
translations with the most fruit the fruit of the preserved line of Scripture
especially the King James is apparent from sound preaching to changed lives
the King James Bible has powerful fruit what has God been blessing in our
lifetime what has God been blessing in recent history it's been the preaching
of the King James Bible you know throughout the 20th century if you look
at the great soul winning movements if you look at the great preaching that was
done it was all done out of a King James Bible when you look at the righteous
remnant that is preaching hard that is standing against the sodomites and the
feminists and all the weird stuff that's going on it's always somebody with a
King James the churches that are standing strong are the churches that
are preaching out of King James Bible I got saved from a King James Bible you
got saved from a King James Bible I got saved because a King James Bible
believer man led me to Christ and then all my support my ministry come from
King James Bible believers millions of people out there got saved from the
power of God's Word and directly it was through a King James Bible that they
encountered God's Word and so that's the fruit and we see the fruit of these
Bibles whereas show me the great soul winning movement coming from James White
I would make the argument that the greatest churches the soul winning
churches the ones who are preaching hard against sin that you know the churches
that I would bother attending or are all using the King James Bible you see how
do you know that God's Word is found in the King James well I don't know maybe
because it's been used by more preachers more soul winners more missionaries than
any other Bible in the history of mankind how about that isn't the tree
known by its fruit the devil has sown a lot of confusion around what is the
Bible and ultimately one must place their faith and what they believe is the
scripture would you rather choose a Bible that God has handed down to us
fits the doctrine of preservation has a clear lineage one that's been used by
many different Christians throughout generations one that has sound doctrine
or a Bible that is ever-changing found in obscure locations no clear lineage
always being updated sown a lot of confusion all kinds of liberalism and
heresy being taught from that Bible the choice is obvious the King James Bible
is the only Bible that fits the doctrine of preservation the King James Bible is
not predicated on corrupted manuscripts it's not based on a philosophy that says
God's Word was buried for centuries it's built on a manuscript tradition that was
actually used by Christians and passed down to the next generation it is the
culmination of a providentially guided refining process that produced the most
red Bible of all time and the most influential work of scholarship in the
history of the world it is the standard it is the perfect Word of God it is the
inspired Word of God it is simply put the preserved Bible this is the Bible
the King James Bible and the underlying Greek text that brought us the King James
Bible is the Bible that has been used since the first century we're talking
about the New Testament it's the one that's been used by what I was used by
early Christians and has been used every generation since then till till today I
believe the King James Bible is the pure Word of God it doesn't need to be changed
the original inspiration is not lost when it's translated unless it was
translated inaccurately but if you translate the exact same words of God
they're still just as inspired what you have now is the preserved inspiration of
God's Word the weeds of the field the ESV the NIV the Living Bible the message
the New Living Translation the Revised Standard Version these things are like
grass and they're just being eaten up by the lawnmower of time and they keep
changing and they keep dying and then they get resurrected and they get
gnarlier and gnarlier and they get worse and worse you know what Jesus said we
needed not only did we need the Word of God but that we needed every Word of God
you know what I'm holding in my hand right now in this King James Bible I've
got every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God and don't ever be shy
about being King James only don't ever be like well you know yeah yeah I mean
we're King James you know you know what the attitude should be of course for
King James of course with King James what don't you believe that God
preserved his word in every generation thou shalt preserve them from this
generation forever it's God's responsibility to preserve him and you
know what he takes that responsibility very serious and you know we have a
great Bible translation here from the original text from the Hebrew and the
Greek and the Aramaic and it's perfect it's it's we should be able to trust
this because God said that he would preserve it this is the Word of God it's
perfect it's preserved it's inspired and thank God we have it in our English
language what a blessing and we only use this because we believe that this is
without an error this is inerrant as a pastor I sit in that office and I look
across the table at people with real issues and real burdens and real
problems and they need real solutions and I can't just sit there and say well
here's what I think you should do here's what might work here's what God might
want you to do I mean I'm not really sure because I'm not even sure if this
is legit look you and I I can't raise my kids on maybe I need to raise my kids
on yes this is the Bible this is the word it's inerrant it's invaluable I can
trust the Bible and you look at the modern textual critics today like James
White they don't have a Bible they're gonna point you to they don't say use
this specific translation they simply say trust me as your guru and I'll tell
you what the Greek really says you know what that is the same as the Catholic
Church who wanted to take the Bible out of the hands of the people and say let
me tell you what the Latin says that's why this is such an important doctrine
we need to get people on a King James Bible and believe it that it is the
Bible before we can start getting anywhere in this country you want to
change America get everybody to get a King James Bible their hands again get
everybody to believe that this book is God's Word that this is the preserved
Bible because if you don't believe this is the preserved Bible you don't even
have a Bible you say why do you guys preach the Bible so much why do you have
so much Bible because we believe this thing because we believe that this will
actually bring salvation we believe that this will bring the abundant life that
God promised we believe that this will save your marriage it'll help your
children it'll help your finances it'll help your health it'll help you in every
relationship of life because it's true I mean don't you believe when Jesus said
heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away of course we
don't believe in a Bible that was dug up in an archaeological dig 1800 years
after Jesus 1900 years after Jesus that's not God's Word if you walk out of
here you're like I don't know I didn't get it it's because you're not paying
attention it's because you're not interested in the things of God and look
if there's one thing that we should be interested is the Word of God realize
the treasure that you have realize the power of that book and I hope you'll go
home and read it every day because you'll realize wow God has given me his
perfect word I've got 31,000 some odd verses 1189 chapters straight from the
mouth of God straight from the mouth of God unfiltered this is what God said
this is what God wants you to hear have you read it read it and anyone with any
kind of honesty and integrity in their heart would realize these are major
differences I can't just accept these alterations to the text I need to be
faithful to God's Word I need to change my mind and I need to get a preserved
Bible the King James Bible
you
what would you say if someone decided that Shakespeare's plays Charles Dickens
novels of the music of Beethoven could be rewritten and improved sadly the
tinkering and general horsing around with the sacred text will no doubt
continue as pious drudges try to get it right it will not dawn on them that it
has already been gotten right
you
thank you for watching our film on the preserved Bible the most important
question you could ever be asked is if you were to die today are you a hundred
percent sure that you go to heaven the Bible gives a clear answer that you can
know 100% sure the Bible tells us that we've all sinned and come short of the
glory of God the Bible also teaches there's a punishment for our sin in
Romans 6 23 the Bible says for the wages of sin is death that death is not just
physical but it's also spiritual and it means that when people die they could go
to one of two places heaven or hell the Bible tells us that we actually all
deserve to go to hell the Bible says that all liars shall have their part in
the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone everyone can admit that they
told at least one lie and in fact we've sinned in many different ways if we
look at all of the scripture therefore it's important to realize we need the
Savior and the Bible tells us that God loves us and wants us to be saved the
Bible tells us in Romans 5 8 but God commended his love toward us and that
while we were yet sinners Christ died for us God sacrificially sent his son
Jesus Christ to this earth to take the penalty and punishment that we deserve
the Bible tells us that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that he came down
from heaven was born of a virgin and became a man Jesus Christ was God
manifest in the flesh and while he lived on this earth he did many miracles
proving he was the Son of God however the Jews did not believe that Jesus
Christ was the Son of God and they ultimately delivered him to the Romans
to be crucified the Bible says when Jesus Christ was crucified he bare our
sins in his own body on the tree and the Bible makes it very clear that Jesus
Christ was the propitiation for our sins he paid for all sin past present and
future when Jesus Christ was dead they put his body in a tomb but his soul
descended down into hell but it was not left in hell neither did his body see
corruption the Bible tells us that his soul returned to his body and he rose
from the dead he walked out of the tomb and the Bible describes this as the
gospel the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ therefore the question
is what must I do to be saved well in Acts chapter 16 there's a man that asked
that question he asked Paul and Silas sirs what must I do to be saved and they
said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved the Bible makes
it clear the only thing necessary for salvation is to believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ now what that means is ultimately that you're putting all of
your trust that Jesus Christ's death burial and resurrection paid for all of
your sins many people today are unfortunately trusting and their good
works they're trusting the fact that they go to church that they've turned
over a new leaf that they live a good life but the Bible makes it abundantly
clear that you must take the trust that you have in yourself and your religion
and your church attendance and the change life that you have and put all of
your faith in what Jesus Christ already did for you that is what true salvation
is simply acknowledging Jesus is real for believing in faith plus your good
works will not result in salvation you must change your mind and put a hundred
percent faith in Christ the Bible tells us in John 3 16 for God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish but have everlasting life the moment one trust Christ they
become a child of God and they're given eternal life the Bible says but as many
as received him to them gave you power to become the sons of God even of them
that believe on his name salvation is a moment in time just like birth and once
you become someone's child you're forever their child once you become God's
son you're forever his son the moment someone trusts Christ and puts a hundred
percent of their faith in Jesus Christ death, burial, and resurrection they are
forever his son and no matter how good or bad a son they are they will never go
to hell because they've been saved from all of their sins whereas many people
still believe in the fact that they must be a good person go to church and follow
all of God's commandments to be saved they're ultimately not trusting and
Christ sacrificed they're trusting in themselves the Bible tells us in
Ephesians 2 8 9 for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of
yourselves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast if we're
trusting in ourselves we're not saved we must one time humbly accept Christ's
free gift and put all of our faith in Jesus Christ that is the moment of
salvation the Bible says for the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord if you see clearly how the Bible
tells us that salvation is a free gift that is just by faith in Jesus Christ
the Bible tells us how to believe in him in Romans 10 9 and 10 the Bible says
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe
in thine heart that God hath raised them from the dead thou shalt be saved if you
actually changed your mind today and you want to put a hundred percent faith
in Jesus Christ not in your good works not in your good efforts let me help you
word a simple prayer and tell Christ that you're trusting in him alone and
accept this free gift pray this prayer wherever you're at your heavenly father
I know that I'm a sinner and I deserve to go to hell but I believe that you
sent your son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for all my sins who is buried and
rose again please save me and give me eternal life I'm only trusting in Jesus
Christ not myself in Jesus name I pray amen if you meant that prayer in your
heart and you put a hundred percent of your faith in Jesus Christ the Bible
says you can know that you're saved if you got saved today or even if you've
already been saved you need to get plugged into a Bible believing church
which uses the King James Bible the preserved Bible and you need to read it
every single day