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Originally Posted by BrianT
MC1171611, you mention verses like “Matt. 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” and “1Pet. 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” What do you think these verses meant in 1600? Aren’t some of you saying that the word did in fact pass away, and did not abide forever, but was “scattered” and needed to be gathered/resurrected/purified? You see, I believe those verses are true, were true prior to 1611, and are true today with the same meaning they were true before 1611.
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No, I believe that they are God's words, and He can do whatever the flip He wants to with them, and it's no ones' places to argue with what He can and can't do. If He wanted to preserve His words in goose feathers and use Mountain Gorillas to translate them, the that's HIS business. It is apparent, however, that He used some "godly" men to translate those words, after He used hundreds and thousands of men through history to keep those words safe. God could keep those promises through the ages of history just like He keeps them today, and it comes to the point where either someone has to accept His promises and realize that the King James Bible IS, without doubt or dissimulation, the culmination and final result of those promises, or rely on their own fallible, human opinions to decide what God "intended" us to "glean" from the "message" of Scripture. That fact stands, whether or not it is accepted by the majority of Christians.
The majority is never right, anyway.