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GUEST
ARTICLE
[Note:
You may find the following article to be of interest. Please,
please don’t overlook the fact that this is satire—it
is not a genuine writing of a KJV-Only proponent. But
accept it for what it is worth. RH]
“Not
One Jote or One Title…”
A
Plea for “Original KJV” Spelling!
By
Sir John Bookman
(A
devout “KJV-Only Bible Believer”)
Just days ago, I realized
we have not gone
far enough in insisting that the Bible be preserved unchanged "in
the form God intended for us to have." Of course,
I speak of the infallible, inerrant, verbally-inspired and unalterably preserved English
Bible, the Authorized Version (AV 1611), "the only Bible
God uses — and
Satan hates!"
Sure,
there are lots of zealous defenders who have shielded the
KJV from the corruptions of such heinous "translations" as
the NIV,
the NASB, and that most sinister NKJV,
and have kept us from returning to the now completely unnecessary, "original" Hebrew and Greek.
But while they kept their watch on one front, the Enemy has
come in unawares by another route and sown seeds of corruption
that have, I fear, already yielded a corrupt harvest.
What
am I getting at? Simply this — we
have insisted on the verbal
inspiration of the English,
that is, that the very English words were divinely
chosen and given to the Learned
Men [KJV Translators]. But simply insisting
on the perfecting of the English words and preserving
the words is not enough.
A careful consideration of the true intent
and meaning of the words of Matthew
5:18 is necessary —
"Till heuven and earth passe, one iote or one title, shall in no wise passe from the law, till all be fulfilled." [I have made no mistake in my spelling, as I shall shortly explain.]
Notice
how Jesus insisted on the verbal inspiration, not just
of the words, but also of the very letters of the words
of Scripture. And since this verse is a specific promise
of the preservation of
Scripture in our infallible English Bible, we must insist on following, not just the original KJV words but also their
very spelling. What
other meaning can we draw out of the words "one iote
or one title?" Every
letter — the
very spelling — is
certainly inspired, and to alter the spelling of a single
word, to alter even a single letter in a single word, is
to deny and reject the inspiration of
the AV 1611. If God had wanted us to spell the words in the AV 1611 differently in
today's revised KJV, He would have given them to us in
that form originally!
Modern spelling
is as hideous and hateful a thing as modern translations.
It's New Age corruption, pure and simple. No one was ever authorized to
corrupt, to "modernize" the infallible
original spelling. There are eight
spelling corruptions in
John 3:16 alone!!
I'm
sure some "liberal" apostate will say, "What difference does spelling make?" Argue it out
with Jesus brother! Didn't
He say that inspiration of the words included the very
spelling, every iote, not just the words? Will you reject
the teaching of Matthew 5:18 of letter/spelling
inspiration of our preserved
AV 1611? To stop at "word
inspiration" and not insist on spelling
inspiration is to be second cousin to mere "thought
inspiration." It is creeping apostasy,
through and through. Next someone will deny the inspiration of
the chapter-and-verse
numberings in the AV 1611. Where
will it stop?
And
I think we must recognize that Jesus' infallible English
word was "title" and
not the now-corrupted "tittle." A tittle is part of the ornamentation of a Hebrew letter
[at least that's
what I've heard at Fellowship meetings, so I have assurance
that it's right]. But a "title" is something else.
I have complete confidence that this promise of Jesus was
a specific reference to the preservation
of the chapter and page headings, the titles
found in the original AV 1611. Sadly,
those infallible titles, attached by the Learned
Men under divine inspiration at the top of each
page and at the beginning of each chapter have been removed
from our modern editions. Without them, we cannot claim
that we have a perfectly
preserved Bible, and
by allowing them to be removed, we have called God a liar,
and denied that He is able to preserve the inspired English
Bible He has given us.
It
is not secret that none of
the commonly used English Bibles published in our day have
the original AV 1611 spelling, or punctuation (that, too, is part
of our directly inspired, infallible English Bible) or
titles of which Jesus spoke, so in reality, these Bibles,
even though they say "King James Version" or "Authorized
Version" are really not Bibles
at all. Only the recent Thomas
Nelson Publishers reprint of the original
1611 AV is a real Bible;
all the other KJV's are
sinister corruptions.
And
there is growing upon me the deep conviction, as deep as
anything I've written in this article, that no English-speaking
person can be saved if he was not saved by an original,
unaltered AV 1611, with original spelling, original punctuation,
and original chapter
and page titles. This simply means that anyone who thought
he was "saved" by reading a Revised "KJV" [Oxford,
Cambridge, old Scofield, etc.], or by hearing a
sermon from such a "Bible," or by reading a Gospel
tract that quoted the words in a revised spelling form,
even if it was labelled "KJV," is not
really saved, has never been saved, and never will
be saved until he gets a true, fully-preserved
AV 1611.
That
means that virtually all those who thought they
were saved — preachers,
deacons and all — will
have to go back and get
truly saved through a real
AV 1611, then get rebaptized. Verbal
inspiration of the English requires inspiration of
the very spelling as well. Anything
less is rank modernism.
I
will confess to one further worry — original
type-style. The real
AV 1611 was printed in what printers call "black
letter," a very ornate type-style
much like Gothic script,
which is still used many times for the banner at the top
of newspapers. This original type-style
was subtly replaced with Roman
type sometime in the 18th century. Note that name — Roman. I
fear that once again, the Jesuits have
conspired to corrupt the pure
word in English. They have taken away the original
Gothic [and as
everyone knows, the Gothic Bible used the Textus Receptus
for its foundation which proves with certainty that the
Gothic was the correct script for a real Bible],
and have substituted the corrupt
Roman script.
In
a real sense, even the KJV has thus become a "Roman" Bible,
since its modern editions use Roman script and not the
original black letter. As further proof that Roman type
is a corruption, notice that all these apostate Bibles — the ERV, ASV, NASB, NIV, NKJV, and the
rest, have always been printed in Roman type. That's proof enough to me that any Bible in Roman type is no "Bible" at
all, and that only a
Bible with the original
script, the black letter given to us in the
form we should have it by the Learned Men, is a
true Bible.
Perhaps
even those "saved" by the true original spelling
KJV are not saved at all, and must locate a black-letter
edition. The Roman script Thomas
Nelson reprint may not be enough [it's just like those Bible corrupters at Thomas Nelson to pass off a "Roman
script KJV" as though it were a real Bible!].
Fortunately
for me, my brother has a facsimile in the original
black-letter of the AV 1611, and I'm secure
since I've studied out of it several times.
It
is a desperate situation! The
shortage of black-letter, original-spelling AV 1611
Bibles is severe! There is truly a famine of
the truly preserved word of God in the land. And all
our efforts at preaching, teaching, Bible study, and
soul winning are completely futile until we return
to the real,
unaltered, perfectly preserved bonafied AV 1611! Perhaps
the best thing to do for the present is to send off
and buy one of those pages from an "original
KJV," and
if you can get a page that has a salvation verse, or
part of the "Romans road," perhaps there will be enough of the
Gospel in the true
preserved English to rescue your soul.
As
a service to you readers, so that you can be saved through
a real AV 1611,
I quote John 3:16 below — unfortunately,
I have no capacity to reproduce the original black-letter
script, so even believing the un-revised
spelling may not be
enough, but we can hope for the best —
"For God so loued ye world, that he gaue his only begotten Sonne: that whosoeur beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life."
THIS ARTICLE IS SATIRE — A KJV-ONLY VIEW
written
by Doug
Kutilek former co-editor of Baptist
Biblical Heritage published
in THE PILGRIM Magazine
(Issue
#19, Vol 6, No. 1, Summer 1995)
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