Competing Bibles and the Fire that Renovates Sin-cursed Creation

            Imagine if you will the implications of a text of Scripture that is not what it claims to be, that is a prevaricating text confronted with the glory of heaven and not at all possessing the transcendent qualities it claims for itself. Not pure, certainly not immutable, and conspicuously not eternal, and not even sure of how long or short it is. What is to become of such a lying monstrosity in the eternal state with the removal of the curse? Only a few limited responses can address the abject failure of such a self-aggrandizing document:

1. It is burned up with the entirety of the created order and as such in the Scriptures destruction the curse of sin upon in is removed and thus the New Heaven and New Earth exist and heaven remains a holy place because the corrupted scripture is by God’s hand eradicated. Such a conclusion would imply a willing deception on the part of God the Holy Spirit to believe a lie in every way the Bible describes itself in terms of God’s holy words being eternal and immutable. The corrupted Scripture would then be no more, Christ, the Word being alone sufficient in heaven. This also implies that Scripture was in the plan of God a corrupt document that had suffered the ravages of the Fall, was only “good” until the eternal state, and suffered the fate of every other man authored book.
2. The corrupted scripture requires some kind of divine intervention to redeem the text from its corruption. God Himself would make every correction aligning the text with the autographa as always intended. This “redemption” would be no better that (1) above, except in quantity or degree, but not in quality or substance. Rather than eradicating the whole of the sin cursed document, only the verses and sections that make the text corrupt would be changed by divine choice. This leaves the glorified saint forever knowing again that the Scripture was not what it claimed to be and still the Holy Spirit claimed to guide the believer into all truth when all truth was not present. Additionally, the text would truly be double inspired, first by God in the 1^st century and 2^nd by God for the eternal state, the wildest of conjectures. This notion also robs the Church of possessing a standard from which to determine sound doctrine defeating the purpose of immediate inspiration.
3. The Scripture as we have it already exists as an end times document, and as such is “already” a component part of the “not yet” eternal state. That we “already” hold a slice of heaven in our hand that stands apart from the cursed world as God’s Word and is in no need of “redemption” in that Scripture’s self-attesting witness of its transcendent, heavenly qualities are true and manifestly received by the covenant keeper.

Currently there are two traditions of Bible’s vying for recognition as the better text – the TR/KJB and everything else. At least one of these traditions is going to be burned up at the eschaton being unsuited to exist in glory because of its corruption. The other, has by God’s singular care and providence kept pure throughout all ages and is therefore “already” a component part of the “not yet” eternal state. Ask someone who is an advocate of “everything else” if they believe their bible is pure, immutable, and uniquely suited for heaven. If they say no, then you will know that this is the text that is going to burn with the sin cursed world. Then ask the other folks if God has providentially preserved their Bible and kept it pure through all ages understood to be so because of the internal witness of the Holy Spirit by and through the Bible and then you will know you have found a Bible suited and ready for the eschaton.