Hearing a preacher a day or so ago on the radio say, "I only use the sixteen eleven King James Bible. Everything after that has changed the word of God." , I have to make a comment on it.
First off, he isn't using the 1611 King James Bible. The Bible he, and all of the other '1611 King James only' preachers actually use is the 1769 version done by Dr. Benjamin Blaney of Oxford. It seems to me that 1769 came after 1611.
Now, this preacher, and all the other 'King James only' preachers are either:
1) Ignorant of this fact.
or
2) Plain out lying.
In either case, why would anyone want to listen to such a preacher? He is either incompetent or untrustworthy. In most cases, I would say incompetent.
There was a book that came out in the seventies called The Peter Principle. It's an interesting book, which I have read about three times, but can't find my copy at the moment. The book describes how that people in a complex hierarchy rise to their level of incompetence, and then cover for their incompetence by various methods, examples of which are detailed in the book.
One of the examples in the book was of a high school math teacher who was incompetent at teaching math, so she spent her class time telling the students of how important that math was.
This has a similarity to the preachers in that, the preachers who are incompetent teachers of what's in the Bible, spend their time talking about how the only Bible is that 'sixteen eleven King James Bible'. They continually repeat, over and over, this mantra, because, quite frankly, that's all they know about the Bible.
That this is illogical is evident. If the 1611 King James Bible is the only Bible, then everyone who died before 1611 went to hell because they didn't have the word of God. And all of the people in the world who can't read the English language will die and go to hell, because the 1611 King James Bible is an English translation.
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