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# The King James Only Controversy - Can You Trust Modern Translations?

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    Biblical Preservation Does Not Require a Re-Inspired English Translation
  

*by R***T on Reviewed in Canada on 7 February 2021*

Author James White presents us with an extensive interaction with King James Onlyism, the movement that insists that you must use the King James Version of the Bible exclusively if you want to have God’s complete word in English.  The starting point in the thinking of King James Only advocates is in making the following equation: the King James Bible alone equals the Word of God alone.  And with that equation in mind, they speak in the strongest language against modern translations such as the NIV and NASB, charging them with being the products of an “Alexandrian Cult” that have deliberately made “deletions” and “changes” to God’s Word for the sinister reason of undermining Biblical teachings on the virgin birth and the deity of Christ.  Some of them in fact have a particular conception of divine providence of the Scriptures that views the KJV as essentially being re-inspired by God as He did the original autographs, and thus being inerrant in and of itself.  And so if someone in, say, Russia wants to read the Word of God in its purest form, they would do well to learn English and pick up a King James Bible!  Although it is true that the King James Version has been very influential over the past four centuries, Dr. White points out that this is not a good argument for exclusive divine blessing.  He shows that if we look back in history, we’ll see that the very same argument currently being used against modern translations was used against Erasmus, whose Greek New Testament would form the basis for the KJV.  The strenuous resistance he encountered was from those who argued that the Latin Vulgate had been used by God for a millennium, and so should not be tampered with or replaced.  And looking back even further in church history to when Jerome produced the Vulgate itself, we find that he encountered the same stiff resistance because his “novelty” changed what people had come to love in the wording of the Septuagint, which clearly had to have been God’s one and only version!  That history repeats itself in demonstrating emotional resistance to change says more about human nature than about the method of divine textual preservation.  The first edition of this book came out in 1995.  But Dr. White felt it necessary to produce an expanded and updated second edition in 2009 in response to the appearance of popular-level attacks on the reliability of the Bible, mounted especially by Dr. Bart Ehrman, a bona fide textual critic of solid credentials.  And in the face of these new and seemingly persuasive challenges, the King James Only line of reasoning proves to be no longer just naïve and misinformed, but dangerous.  It provides no intellectual defense whatsoever because Ehrman insists on the very same mode of divine textual preservation that the KJV Only camp does, only he adds a big “if:” if God miraculously inspired the New Testament, he would also have in the same way miraculously preserved the text against any and all corruption and error.  But since, the skeptic such as Ehrman argues, there are many thousands of errors manifest in the available manuscripts, therefore the originals are also likely not inspired.  And if the originals are likely not inspired, then they are just the products of men.  Since they are just the products of men, we have no word from God and have no reason to believe that there even is a God.  And following his own logic, Ehrman went from being an evangelical Christian to becoming an agnostic and perhaps even an atheist.  The KJV Only camp is committed to the same narrow version of Biblical preservation as Ehrman required.  With Ehrman, they insist that we must have absolute certainty about each and every word, but this necessitates the invention of another round of divine Biblical inspiration to avoid having to deal with the reality of manuscript differences and the potential of going down Ehrman’s road of skepticism.  And invention is just what this is, because it is nowhere taught in Scripture.  But then how can the Bible in our hands be preserved from errors and corruption if God does not supernaturally inspire a particular English translation?  In answer to this, Dr. White simply asks the question, why should we believe textual variation precludes preservation of an inspired text?  He argues that it is in fact the very presence and multiplication of variants (yes, errors) themselves over the course of history that gives us confidence that we can reconstruct the originals with a very high degree of confidence.  This is because of two things.  First, the rapid dissemination of the New Testament writings all around the Mediterranean world ensured that no unscrupulous person or authority could gather up all the manuscripts and change them all.  Second, a study of New Testament manuscript transmission reveals what has been called the “tenacity of the text,” meaning that readings might be added to the text but have never been lost, so what we have today is the originals plus a small amount, but not the originals minus portions that can never be recovered.  The job of textual criticism is therefore to burn off the impurities, as it were, and leave us with the gold.  And so Dr. White shows us that assurance that “what we have now is what they wrote then” comes not from requiring constant divine intervention at every stage of manuscript copying to prevent errors, resulting in what would essentially be a photocopy of the originals.  Ehrman requires this, doesn’t see it in the manuscript tradition and so loses his faith.  KJV Onlyist also require this, but manufacture it by a blind leap of faith and so are immune to what the evidence actually shows.  No, preservation is found in the manuscript tradition itself: “It is a surface-level magic trick… to come up with a photocopied text.  It is a far more real miracle for God to take the work of multiple authors… to multiple audiences, during a time of Imperial persecution, working through the very mechanisms of history… and in that process create the single most attested text of all antiquity where less than one percent of the text requires us to engage in serious examination of the sources to determine the original reading.” (p. 307)  The King James Only camp holds to a false, unbiblical method of divine, Biblical preservation, and this commitment is dangerous because it does not stand up to close scrutiny.  If their particular version of preservation is regarded as the only method of preservation, the only barrier to a logical slide into atheism, like what happened to Bart Ehrman, is blind faith.  And Christians are not called to blind faith, but to a faith that is testable and holds up in the face of the empirical facts of history.  James White’s book should be read by Christians who want to know not only about the KJV Only controversy and why it is needlessly divisive, but also how it is reasonable to be assured that we do indeed have available to us now what the original Biblical authors wrote so many years ago.

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    Five Stars for covering the Subject so well
  

*by G***F on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 July 2020*

I much preferred James White's "Scripture Alone." I bought this (King James) after reading that one. HOWEVERI still give it 5 Stars though. It may not have interested me as much as the 'Scripture Alone' book which is an excellent read and resource, but he still coverS the subject as thoroughly.  There are some interesting facts written at the start of the book before he gets into the 'King James Controversy.' Thereafter, it is interesting but only if the subject matter interests you personally. For me, it didn't.Having said that, the book is still worthy of 5 Stars because of the excellent academic work put into it. We have to judge a book by the work of the author, not on whether we like the subject matter.  I cannot buy a chocolate ice-cream then complain, "I am not keen on chocolate."If the subject interests you - it is an excellent resource. If it doesn't interest you, I would give another of James White's books a read. I may not agree with everything he says in his videos, or writes in his books - but he is more qualified to come to his conclusions than I am.

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    Quality materials
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in Germany on 14 February 2020*

The book is quite heavy considering the size. It feels like it's made of quality materials. Excellent information and explanations too.

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