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Old 12-14-2008, 10:59 PM
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I can tell you of many things which are written Scripture which is different to what the KJV has. This is called "Sufficiency". The Word of God in some manuscript or the Bishops' Version etc. is the Scripture. Of course, they might exhibit signs of the scattering (i.e. that no individual extant Greek or Hebrew copy is perfect), nevertheless, they are Scripture. And even if Jesus used the LXX, is the LXX not Scripture? (Especially when God uses it specifically, or when a passage of it is being written down by Luke in inspiration?)

So, just as Jesus used the LXX as well as Hebrew, does that mean that multiple English versions should be yet alright to use today? Consider: the LXX was the standard translation of the OT in Greek, the common tongue. This signifies that having an English translation today of the entire Bible in the common tongue must be good. Especially since the KJB is perfect, unlike the LXX, which God was still able to use. And if the KJB is perfect, why would God want His people to stay away from it? While He is able to use other English translations today, these are really going against Him and His perfection.

This is because God is able to raise up a final standard and perfection DESPITE the existence of error, corruption and sin. A strong God can do that. A weak God would only be stuck with sufficient forms of the Scripture, and never be able to have at this time a final standard which is perfect.

The King James Bible is supersuccessionary to other forms of Scripture, while modern versions pretend to be improving upon the KJB. If God is really behind having more modern versions, and varying readings and translations all the more, He would be the author of confusion, and the author of additions and subtractions. But as the changeless God, He has outworked providentially to manifest the perfect Bible, so that eventually it would be the one for all. He did this in the furnace of earth, and God is not weaker than the furnace!

As for those other forms of Scripture, they are not as Scripture anymore, in the sense that they are not current, that is, because they have been laid behind in the supersuccession. Currency is not dictated by man, devils or sin. Currency is under the control of the providence of God and through the sanctuary of the Word, the Church. The Scripture is not in a state of flux, but having come to appear in its fixed form, is now final. The God of the past (who originally gave the Word perfectly) is also the God of the present (who has raised up the very pure presentation of His Word perfectly) and so for the future. The future is not getting another Bible. They are getting this one: "King James Bible". The present may yet have sufficiency in currency, but that is temporal: "I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Rev. 3:16b).

P.S. Jesus never calls Scripture or uses it and gives errors, or says that errors in manuscripts are Scripture, etc. It is clear that the quotations of Scripture within Scripture are perfect, and that in those places those words were perfect in the sources they were using. Also the Holy Ghost was there, so He would be able to ensure this.

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