You've written quite a few books on this topic in your answer book, a book for Christians.
You have said that the supposition that there must be a perfect translation in every language
is erroneous and inconsistent with God's proven practice.
Why do you believe, Sam, that the King James Version of the Bible is the only perfect translation
today?
And what's more, that if these guys were going to do a translation into Swedish or Ethiopian
or some other language, that they're not to use any of the Greek text, but they're to
use the 1611 English text to translate those other versions.
Why?
Well, the first reason, of course, picking the Bible above all books that are called
holy books, I accept the Bible academically because of fulfilled prophecy.
Now, when I give the Bible that inspiration from God, then I take its statements on itself
as far as inspiration and preservation.
Now, at that point, it's got to become an argument of faith, not academics.
In other words, you're going to find places where the King James Bible doesn't agree with
even the text, its receptors or something like that.
So I believe the King James Bible is the preserved Word of God.
I don't call it the inspired Word of God, I call it the preserved Word of God.
But English is without a doubt the language of the world, it is the language of missions
in this world today.
The reason I say that there doesn't have to be a perfect Bible in every other language
is because the reason that's inconsistent with what God did is when he inspired the
Old Testament, he inspired it predominantly in one language.
I know there's some Chaldean, but predominantly it was in Hebrew.
When he put it in Hebrew, he did not feel obligated to inspire an Egyptian.
He did not feel obligated to inspire a copy of it in every other language of the world
at that time.
When he brought out the New Testament, when he inspired that, he inspired it in Greek.
He did not feel obligated to have even a Hebrew copy for his own Jewish people.
So if a guy's in Russia and he wants to really get to the truth of the Word of God, would
he have to learn English?
Yes.