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 IS THE KING JAMES BIBLE INSPIRED OR
PRESERVED?
By David
J. Stewart
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed,
but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." 1 Peter 1:23
The precious King James Bible is BOTH
inspired and preserved. There are some teachers today who say that the King James Bible is not preserved.
There are others who say that the King James Bible is not inspired. And some teachers deny both preservation and
inspiration. Without a doubt this is a delicate and sensitive issue in churches today, because the Bible is the
greatest number one threat to Satan. Yet, if we're wrong on the Bible as born-again Christians, then we're wrong
on everything else. There is a raging battle today over the King James Bible.
You don’t have to read very far in
contemporary, fundamentalist, Baptist literature to come across scoffers who attack the “King James only”
position and degrade those of us who would dare call the King James Bible “inspired.” Well, bless God, it's
inspired Word for Word!
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Dr. Jerry Falwell announced that he had hired Dr.
Harold Rawlings to “refute the ‘King James Only’ cultic movement that is damaging so many good churches
today.”
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Dr. Robert Sumner warns about the “veritable fountain
of misinformation and deceptive double talk on the subject of ‘King James Onlyism.’”
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Dr. J. B. Williams refers to those who advocate the
King James Only as “misinformers” and as “a cancerous sore.”
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Dr. Robert Joyner calls King James Bible loyalists,
“heretics.”
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Dr. James R. White warns about King James Bible
proponents “undercutting the very foundations of the faith itself.”
And now in 2009 an influential pastor of one
of America's largest Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches is calling us “careless Bible students” and
“ignorant” for saying that the King James Bible is inspired. How tragic!
I just don't get it. Why would any Christian
leader shake his congregation's faith in the Word of God? If the Bible that we hold in our hands is not
inspired, then let's just throw it into the garbage and go buy the latest New York Times Bestseller to
read instead. Thank God for Dr. Jack Hyles who upheld the King James Bible as inerrant and
perfect...
"I must have every Word if I speak His
message. If I didn't think I had a perfect Bible I'd close this one, walk out that door, I'd never walk in the
pulpit again."—
Dr. Jack Hyles
The King James Bible translators were a
collection of some of the world's best scholars. They approached this translation with the mindset that they
were translating the very Words of God, not just some book. The King James Bible has been called "the
monument of English prose" as well as "the only great work of art ever created by a committee."
Howbeit, the question is raised, is the King James Bible inspired? I say, yes, absolutely, and it is self
evident.
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