Against the individual academic pretender’s ad hoc disparagement of the AV stands the irrefutable historic truth that the AV has been and continues to be the standard sacred English text for the contemporary covenant keeper. Not every covenant keeper of course because spiritual maturity and intellectual acumen is a perpetual variable in the Church.
So-called “defenders of the faith” act like social democrats, read Mark Ward and comrades, who feel some sense of duty to save the Church of theological ignorance and spiritual maladjustment by disparaging the Bible the saint desires to read. They just want to be left alone without some self-appointed “scholar” telling them what to read. Like Ren and Stimpy’s happy helmet, if you’re not happy enough according to the scholar’s happiness quotient, critics just turn up the happy dial until your life is miserably ruined by the modern textual critic’s notion of “happiness.”
But more than that, every criticism by a wannabe critic stands alone against the united testimony of over 400 years of theological and ecclesiological acknowledgement and use that the King James Bible is the standard sacred text for English speaking people. But still we read about some argument that has never been answered, “so there, take that all you King James Only people. See, I’m right and the entire churchly tradition has lived in gross theological error until I came along and solved the problem for the Church!”
This genre of pathetic argumentation seems to proliferate not from sound scholarship but from those who have an axe to grind because of the spirit King James Bible proponents possess about their Bibles. They love their Bible, they trust their Bible, they assert the authority of their Bible, all attributes foreign to modern version advocates. There is nothing to love about the new versions, everyone knows new versions are untrustworthy and have no authority. It bruises the ego too much to advocate for such feckless documents when confronted with those who cherish their Bible, and so the pretender must take the King James Bible advocate down a notch.
Facebook posts seem to be the favorite platform for throwing theological molotov cocktails – strongly assert some imagined rebuttal and then run for the hills. Standard Sacred text.com would like to offer our platform for all bomb throwers to minimize the geographic distribution of smoke and debris of weak and ineffective attacks upon the King Kames Bible and Textus Receptus. If you have the end all, terminal, eschatological conclusive rebuttal to the defense of a standard sacred text, we invite you to use this platform for the discussion either in writing or video.
You know what we do here. What ever perspective you take we will dissect it exegetically, theologically, philosophically, historically, and eschatologically to see if you are really the new Luther and the beginning of a neo-Reformation. Just think, John Doe and the neo-Reformation by nailing your 95 thesis on the StandardSacredText.com blog dismantling the 4-plus century long standard sacred text of the English-speaking people. What a name you could make for yourself!
For those who may not know, there is still a standing invitation to Dr. Mark Ward to come on which he has refused to do which may tell you something by analogy about how truly committed theological bomb throwers are to their discipline.
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