02.08 - Preservation

H. Preservation

God has providentially worked to assure that His Word is keptaccurate through the centuries (Isaiah 40:8; Isaiah 55:11, 1 Peter 1:23-25; Psalms 12:6-7; Psalms 119:89; Psalms 119:152; Matthew 24:35; Luke 21:33; Matthew 5:18). Because the originals no longer exist, these verses are either not true or God has kept His wordand promise through copies of the original and in other lan-guages. Our church’s position is that God has preserved His eternal Word for English people today in the Authorized Version, alsoknown as the King James Version of 1611. We believe all other English versions deviate from the truth, leave out passages, change meanings of words, verses and texts and weaken themajor doctrines of the faith. For example: of the 5332 complete New Testament manu-scripts in the original Greek still in existence today, only ten of them leave out portions or all of Acts 8:37. The New Inernational Version (NIV) deletes this verse completely. According to Dr. Floyd Jones, Th. D., Ph. D., the NIV (New International Version) has 2, 922 fewer words in the New Testa-ment than the KJV and over 6, 300 less words than the KJV inthe whole Bible.“The 1611 KJV is from a superior text, translated by superiortranslators into a superior English,” said Bible historian Dr. Jewell Smith. There were fifty-four translators of the KJV 1611. Each was com-missioned by King James and knew how to fluently speak betweenthree and ten languages. They were not religionists but linguists. Thousands of martyrs have given their lives to protect andpromote the Textus Receptus (Received text from which we getthe KJV). It is hard to find anyone who ever died to protect theperverted texts. They are not worth dying for.