John 6:63, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
Let me give you a personal illustration of the importance of inspiration in Bible preservation.
But let's say for the sake of my illustration that I had allowed filthy rats, disgusting cockroaches, a dirty flee-infested dog to roam in the kitchen, a cat to lay on the food serving cart, and I never washed my hands. And then when I failed the city's Food Safety Inspection, I became defensive about it. What if I tried to convince the safety inspector that everything was okay because no food is perfect. I mean, did you know that the U.S. government actually allows a certain amount of rodent poop, insect parts, mold, cigarette butts and maggots in our food? YUK! But what if I used this disgusting fact to justify having a kitchen infested with cockroaches and rats while preparing someone's food? Let me ask you the $64,000 question dear reader—what good would it have been for me to have a Food Manager's License, if I failed to use my safety knowledge to carefully prepare food for others? My license would have been totally worthless!
2nd Timothy 3:16-17, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”
Let me give you a personal illustration of the importance of inspiration in Bible preservation.
Back in the 1990's I had a Food Manager's License in Chicago. I served the Lord on Chicago's Westside as the assistant pastor at a Rescue Mission for 8 years, feeding the poor and needy in Jesus; name. I preached on Sunday's. I attended a class for 3-days to get my food license. In class, I learned about food safety. For example: Chicken must be heated to an internal temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit to be safe. Beef to 155 and fish to 145. Before handling food, hands should always be washed with soap and warm water for at least 15 seconds. Seafood should never be served in free food shelters, to avoid possible sickness or even death from allergic reactions. These are safety guidelines.
Now, what good would my Food Manager's License have been, if I had allowed rats to infest the kitchen? How about permitting thousands of disgusting cockroaches? What if I had never washed my hands and prepared the food with dirty contaminated hands? That would have been very bad, nasty and against the law. Thankfully, I was always careful with food, and still today I am very meticulous about food safety.
Now let's apply this illustration to the Bible publishing industry today. By the way, did you know that according to the American Bible Society that there are now approximately 900 English Bible versions in part or whole? It is sadly true! What good would it have been for God to give His perfectly inspired, innerant, infallible, flawless Words to mankind if those words later became inferior, flawed, imperfect, questionable and unreliable? The need for God to inspire the original Words would have been worthless!!! Please think about this dear reader. Without absolute perfect preservation of the Lord's VERY PURE Word, there would have been no logic or need for inspiration. Psalms 119:140, “Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.”
Yet, today's nasty cooks in the Bible publishing kitchen are telling us that rodent poop, maggots, mold and insect heads are normal in the spiritual food of God's Word. The New International Version (NIV) is full of the Devil's rodent poop! The English Standard Version (ESV) that Bob Jones University uses, sells and promotes is infested with insect heads, rat droppings, cigarette butts and mold! BEWARE of all modern English Bible revisions!!!
The King James Bible Is Inspired
There is a raging debate in churches and Bible colleges today over the topic of Bible inspiration. Tragically, 99% of those corrupt groups and institutions teach that we DO NOT have an inspired Holy Bible today. They all errantly teach that only the original autographs of the Bible were inspired by God. They teach that inspiration only applies to the initial giving of God's Words to mortal man thousands of years ago, and that all subsequent copies and translations since cannot possibly be inspired also. They vehemently deny that the King James Bible is inspired and they insist that it is full of errors. I humbly disagree with all my heart, mind and soul. I firmly believe that the King James Bible is inspired and without error!!!
Carefully notice that Jesus said the actual 'WORDS' are spirit and life (inspired), and not just the original process of God speaking His Words through holy men of old (i.e., sinful men made holy by Jehovah God). John 6:63, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” It is God's Words that are inspired. Those Words do not cease to be inspired just because they are copied or translated into a different language, just so long as the new translation is correct.
Unfortunately, all of today's modern English Bible revisions were translated from the corrupt 1881 Greek text of Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort (part 4B of a Bible study series by Pastor Max D. Younce. Dr. Younce exposes these imposters). The King James Bible was translated from an entirely different text; namely, the Textus Receptus. You cannot trust any of the modern Bible revisions. Even the versions whose publishers claim that they came from the Textus Receptus (like the shameful English Standard Version) still contain all of the SAME perversions as all other extent Westcott and Hort revisions. In short, they are LIARS!
The foolish pastor of a very large church in 2008 distributed a booklet to thousands of people at an annual preachers conference, calling those who believe in the inspiration of the King James Bible “rats in the woodpile,” “hillbillies,” “ignorant clergy” and “barbarians.” The bad pastor said those who say the King James is inspired have “shot themselves in the foot,” and are “espousing Catholic or Charismatic theology.” I guess I'm a big rat then, because I DO believe that the King James Bible is 100% inspired, inerrant, infallible and preserved by God. I must be an ignorant barbaric hillbilly.
Dear reader, there would have been absolutely no reason for God to give His perfect inspired Words to humanity, if those Words have been corrupted over the millenniums. And as I mentioned earlier, it would have been totally worthless for me to obtain a Food Manager's License if I was subsequently careless while preparing food to serve the public.
(a great MP3 defense of the Christian faith by my friend Pastor David Baker)
Dear reader, there would have been absolutely no reason for God to give His perfect inspired Words to humanity, if those Words have been corrupted over the millenniums. And as I mentioned earlier, it would have been totally worthless for me to obtain a Food Manager's License if I was subsequently careless while preparing food to serve the public.
The purpose of securing a food license was so that I would make sure to provide healthy, safe and properly handled food to the public. Likewise, the purpose of God preserving His Words is to maintain their purity over endless time. Without absolute accurate preservation, inspiration would have been utterly meaningless. God promised in Bible prophecy to preserve His very pure Words forever. Matthew 24:35, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” If all modern Bible revisions are corrupt and non-inspired, then we do not have God's Words and they have expired. I humbly believe that God has kept His solemn promise to preserve His inspired Words, in the much beloved King James Bible.
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