Post by Brother Ben on Oct 20, 2004 22:43:13 GMT -5
I was reading an article on the Geneva Bible, which was a translation of the Textus Receptus prior to the KJV. The Geneva Bible was the Bible the Pilgrim brought to the New World. The article refered to the Geneva Bible as the "forgotten English Bible." But I wanted to make this observation, if the Geneva Bible was the text that God wanted to preserve for the English speaking people, God, in His sovereignty, would have put His blessing on it.
Sometimes people misunderstand my conviction in the area of the KJV and preservation. I believe God said He would preserve His word, pure. I believe the version of the word that is preserved in the English speaking language is the KJV. There are several Bibles contemporary to the KJV that were TR based, but God put His blessing on the KJV. The Tyndale is a good work, but God did not see fit for it to last into the latter centuries. Even though the Pilgrim Fathers brought the Geneva to the New World, it was the KJV that replaced it as the Bible of choice. For almost 400 years the KJV went without any close competition, but in these last days, modernist scholarship, marketing, and media have done a formitable job of surplanting the KJV.
The battle for the KJV is a battle of necessity. Matt. 4:4 says, "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." According to Jesus, we need EVERY word of God for spiritual vitality. With all the modern texts having in common the practice of omitting words, phrases, verses, and sometimes, whole passages, we need to rest in the promise, " Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." Matt. 24:35
I love to study textual evidences, it is very interesting, but I don't have to know even a single manuscript evidence to be convinced that God would keep HIS word and preserve it for me in 2004! "God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" Num. 23:19
Sometimes people misunderstand my conviction in the area of the KJV and preservation. I believe God said He would preserve His word, pure. I believe the version of the word that is preserved in the English speaking language is the KJV. There are several Bibles contemporary to the KJV that were TR based, but God put His blessing on the KJV. The Tyndale is a good work, but God did not see fit for it to last into the latter centuries. Even though the Pilgrim Fathers brought the Geneva to the New World, it was the KJV that replaced it as the Bible of choice. For almost 400 years the KJV went without any close competition, but in these last days, modernist scholarship, marketing, and media have done a formitable job of surplanting the KJV.
The battle for the KJV is a battle of necessity. Matt. 4:4 says, "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." According to Jesus, we need EVERY word of God for spiritual vitality. With all the modern texts having in common the practice of omitting words, phrases, verses, and sometimes, whole passages, we need to rest in the promise, " Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." Matt. 24:35
I love to study textual evidences, it is very interesting, but I don't have to know even a single manuscript evidence to be convinced that God would keep HIS word and preserve it for me in 2004! "God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" Num. 23:19
