Answering the Myths on the Bible Version Debate answers 30 of the most popular of these myths, including the following:
“King James Onlyism” was invented by a Seventh-day Adventist; there are no doctrinal differences between the modern versions and the KJV;
Fundamentalists did not defend the KJV before the 1970s; the KJV been updated in thousands of places;
King James I was a homosexual; the KJV translators said all versions are good; the King James Bible is too difficult to understand;
Erasmus was a Roman Catholic humanist; Erasmus’ Greek New Testament was hastily done and filled with errors;
Erasmus used a mere handful of Greek manuscripts; modern textual criticism is a legitimate science;
the difference between the Greek Received Text and the Westcott-Hort text is small and insignificant;
Westcott and Hort were theologically sound;
Erasmus promised to insert the Johannine Comma if a Greek manuscript was produced and challenged Edward Lee to find a manuscript that included this passage;
it is wrong to paint the entire field of modern textual criticism with the brush of skepticism, seeing that there are also Bible-believing men such as A.T. Robinson and B.B. Warfield in this arena;
it doesn't matter if the influential names in modern textual criticism are skeptics; the New King James Bible is merely an update of the King James;
the New American Standard Version is basically the same as the King James except for updated language;
the New International Version is a conservative evangelical translation that should be respected. 233 pages.
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