Why the King James Bible?
The Psalmist says: “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever” (Ps. 119:160). In Jeremiah 23:36, the Bible says, “For ye have perverted the words of the living God.” So, God’s word will last forever, but there will be people who pervert it. This is the case that we have in the Christian world today. Someone is taking living words from the living God and perverting it.
This all has to deal with the subject of final authority. This the most crucial thing going on in the world today. Why? Because the issue of final authority determines—absolute truth.
Today, people are being taught that all truth is relative. Albert Einstien’s theory of relativity digests down to this destructive premise. It subtly teaches that everyone can have their own truth. Of course, this lends to chaos as everyone becomes their own authority and god. A Christian however, places himself in subjection to the Bible. However, Jeremiah said somebody took those words and perverted them. Therefore, it is crucial for the Christian to find the right words of God so he can live by them, and reject the perversions.
The King James Bible is the word of God for several reasons.
These reasons should be looked at and analyzed very carefully. No true lover of God would want to follow a perversion or become his own authority for that matter. The King James Bible is the word of God because:
It’s the only bible that doesn’t have a copyright.
If you have a King James Bible in your hand, you have a Book with no copyright on it. You may see a copyright on the notes, references, maps, index, etc., but not on the word of God itself. Anybody can get a plain King James Bible and there’s no copyright in it. When King James endorsed it, he placed the Crown Copyright on it, but you don’t have to ask the Crown today for the right to print it. The Crown copyright is different from present-day copyright. King James didn’t copyright it to make money off of it. he wanted the world to have it freely. The Crown copyright showed that King James endorsed it, and in Ecclesiastes 8:4 it says, “Where the word of a king is, there is power.” It was copyrighted under a king showing a king endorsed it. This is much different than the copyright of today, which involves making money.
It is the only Bible which is “Authorized.”
The term “Authorized” is applied to the King James Bible alone. It is the only Bible which the Holy Spirit has blessed.
It is named after a Jewish King
James is a Jewish name. The Lord’s brother was James. The sons of Zebedee were James and John. It is the only bible named after a Jewish King.
It was translated under a God-Ordained King (Ecc. 8:4).
AND, the king under whom the Bible was translated has a Jewish name–James.
God promised to preserve His word.
He said, “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever” (Psalm 12:6-7). No one can hide God’s true words from man. If a man wants to find it, there is certainly someplace that he can. Christ said, “If a man love me, he will keep my words” (John 14:23). How do you keep His words if you don’t have them? Christ said, “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you” (John 15:7). How do you get a prayer promise if you don’t keep His words? Christ said, “He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God” (John 8:47). How do you hear them, if you don’t have them? The Bible says to the preacher, “Preach the word” (2 Tim. 4:2). How can a preacher preach something he doesn’t have? If God can preserve us unto the day of salvation, then He can certainly preserve what He wrote.
It gives preeminance to the Lord Jesus Christ.
All other Bibles attack the deity of Jesus Christ. Some bibles are quite obvious in their attack on the Lordship of Jesus Christ, while others are more subtle. For example, the New King James Bible attacks the deity of Christ in Acts 4:27. It says that Jesus Christ was not God’s “child;” He was just God’s “servant.” Other versions have come up with more blatant and dangerous changes to the scriptures. The frontal assault is launched against such doctrines as The Virgin Birth (Isa. 7:14; Luke 1:34; 2:33), The Blood Atonement (Col. 1:14; Acts 20:28; Eph. 1:7; Rev. 1:5), The Resurrection (Acts 1:3; Luke 24), His Deity (Acts 10:28; John 9:35; 1 Tim. 3:16), the Second Coming (Rev. 11:15; Titus 2:13). These are just a few examples of the many changes that show the devil’s handiwork in perverting the word of God. Other “bibles” consistently attack the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no way they can have any merit. The King James Bible, on the other hand, never attacks the Lord Jesus Christ (John 5:39). It does the exact opposite–it EXALTS the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because the vast majority of all manuscripts validate the King James Bible.
The Textus Receptus (received text) comes from Antioch, Syria, where the disciples were first called Christians. At times it is called The Majority Text. This is because there are a vast number of fragments collected from many locations that are all in agreement. There is a huge amount of these manuscripts (all in agreement) because the early church would copy the writings and distribute them to other believers, who would, in turn, copy them and distribute them. Since the early church did not have the monetary resources of Rome, they were not copied onto sheets of vellum, but onto inferior paper, so they didn’t last the test of time. The other manuscripts (LXX) come from Alexandria, Egypt, where Rome had great influence. The LXX comes from only two corrupt manuscripts, known as “Vaticanus” and “Sinaiticus.” These manuscripts are full of alterations to meet the demands of Rome. They have been determined to be older, but again, they are only a few. Rome having influence in Alexandria, Egypt at that time, these are the adopted manuscripts of the Catholic church. All new versions are direct translations from these corrupt Catholic manuscripts. The King James Bible is the only one translated from the Textus Receptus (The Majority Text) which came from Antioch where Christianity began.
The honesty of the Translators.
The translator’s use of italics in the Bible shows the honesty of the translators. They italicized words they put into the text that does not appear in the original language. Perverted Bible translations do not do this. The translators had the integrity to let us know what was added and what was original. God says in Revelation 22:18-19, “If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Proverbs 30:5-6 says, “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found Because It Exalts the Lord Jesus Christ. The translators honored God.
It is a perfect translation.
The words “translate” and “translated” only occur three[1] times in the Bible (2 Sam. 3:10; Col. 1:13; Heb. 11:5). Each time, God is the Translator. Each time, something is going from one situation to a much better situation. Since God inspired “holy men of God” (II Pet. 1:21) to write down His words in the first place, He is certainly capable of guiding the translators to keep the words which Jesus told us to keep (Jn. 14:23). It is also apparent by the character of God, that the translation became better than originally penned.
It’s fruit is good.
The Lord Jesus said that every good tree will bring forth good fruit, and we can know them BY their fruits (Mt. 7:17-20). God had the bible translated to bring forth good fruit. The perversions produce EVIL fruit. They produce infidels who profess to know God, but in fact, they do not. They spit out spiritual babies one right after the other who completely blind to basic Bible doctrine. However, the King James Bible is validated by the Holy Spirit who bears witness to the truth.
All perverted Bibles compare themselves to the King James Bible.
They don’t compare themselves with each other. They all compare themselves to the King James Bible. This proves there is something special about the King James Bible. Why does everyone oppose the King James Bible and not the others? Satan has no desire to divide his own kingdom (Mt. 12:26). His desire is to discredit the word of GOD, not himself; so he attacks only one Book, God’s Book, the KJV. Those who join the Devil in opposition to the King James Bible have no Final Authority. They become their own authority. I know they look like Christians. They act, smell, talk, and dress like Christians, but they depend on their own judgment too much, thus becoming their own authority.
It is the most banned book of the world
More countries ban the king James bible than any other book. Other Bibles are not banned, but the King James Bible is an offense to people who have never even read it.
It is the best selling book of all time
In fact, if you took the next 5 top best selling books of all time and added them together, the King James bible tops them in sales. Quite a feat considering it is the most banned book in the world.
Let’s not accept the idea that the Authorized King James is outdated and needs to be replaced with a new translation. Satan knows that newborn babes in Christ will not have the real milk that they need in order to grow because they’ll have a watered-down version of the truth. He figures that if he can’t kill the babes, he’ll do the next best thing-stunt their growth. At the same time, the world will point to “Christianity” and say, “They don’t even use the same Bible.” He is the author of confusion.
[1] The number 3 is God’s number of perfection.
