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1. Why We Hold to the
King James Bible
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2. Testimony of John Burgon
God’s people believed they had the
preserved scriptures
He spent 30 years tracing the
history of the Bible; collated
150 Greek manuscripts and
collected 86,000 quotations;
more than 4,000 of them
were from writers who died
before the year 400 AD.

3. The Reformation
Tyndale English New Testament: 1525

4. Five Periods in Church History
The Dark Ages: Persecution of the Bible

5. Conversion from Uncial to Cursive
9th and 10th Centuries
Uncial manuscripts
(majuscules) were written in
all capital letters with no
space between words and
little or no punctuation.
(The name uncial is from
the Latin word uncialis,
which means ‘inch-high.’)
Uncial text fragment

6. The School in Alexandria
Reconstruction of Alexandrian library
A school was established in about 150 AD in Alexandria, Egypt, by
Pantaenus. It mixed Christianity with pagan philosophy.

7. Heresies Multiplied
Gnosticism
Sabellianism
Cerinthianism
Ebioism
Adoptionism

8. Five Periods in Church History
2nd and 3rd Centuries:
Corruption of the Bible
Origen

9. The King James Bible Translators
Lancelot Andrewes
Mastered 15 languages
It was said that “such was his
skill in all languages, especially
in the Oriental, that, had he
been present at Babel, he
might have served as
Interpreter-General.”

10. Matthews Bible (1537)
Rogers was imprisoned for a year and then burned
at Smithfield in February, 1555.

11. William Tyndale
Tyndale sought permission from the Bishop of
London to print the Bible in English
Bishop
Cuthbert Tunstall

12. History of the Modern Versions
Canterbury Convocation

13. What about Evangelical Textual Critics?
Evangelicals have adopted
textual criticism ‘from the
mint of infidel
rationalism’.
Robert Dabney, 1871
Presbyterian leader
Robert Dabney

14. Editors of UBS Greek New Testament
Carlo Maria Martini
Jesuit Priest and Cardinal
Professor at the Pontifical Biblical
Institute in Rome, which, in
addition to Roman Catholic
heresies, promotes the theory of
evolution and the heretical
documentary views of biblical
inspiration.

15. History of the Modern Versions
A Time of Apostasy and Confusion
EVOLUTION
Thomas Huxley (1825-1893)
mocked biblical creation in
Zoological Evidences as
to Man’s Place in Nature
(1863)

16. Unitarians
Ezra Abbot (1819-1884)
Called the foremost textual
critic in America of that
day
He authored the footnotes
in the ASV which say that
Christ should not be
worshipped and which
question his deity.

17. “The King James Version has GRAVE DEFECTS. By the middle of
the nineteenth century, the development of Biblical studies and the
discovery of many manuscripts more ancient than those upon which
the King James Version was based, made it manifest that these
DEFECTS ARE SO MANY AND SO SERIOUS as to call for
revision of the English translation.” (Preface, RSV, 1951)

18. History of the Modern Versions
The principles of revision
“WE DO NOT CONTEMPLATE ANY
NEW TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE, or
any alteration of the language, except where,
in the judgment of the most competent
scholars, such change is necessary.”

19. History of the Modern Versions
Many of the revisers later criticized
their own work!
Trench, Moberly, and Wordsworth
were so disgusted with the revision
that each man had been “anxious
at different times to resign.”