Nobody Said It Did

You've heard it too — "Well, the King James Bible didn't come down from heaven on a string."

Nobody said it did.

What we believe is this: the God who wrote it, kept it. That's just believing what the Bible says about itself. "The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." (Psalm 12:6-7)

The ones mocking you have no problem believing God inspired Scripture to begin with. You'll believe He wrote it, but you won't believe He kept it — in one book, in English?

Underneath the courtesy, it's a swap — faith in God's ability traded in for faith in man's opinion.

They'll ask where God promised to preserve His words in the King James Bible specifically. But preservation without a final product isn't preservation — it's just a process that never arrives. It had to land somewhere. It did.

The scholarly mind isn't just skeptical of the King James — it's insulted by it. Because a perfect Book means the Book corrects you. You don't correct it. Calling it scholarship doesn't change what it is. When you position yourself above the text, that's arrogance — just dressed up nicely.

I believe God can do both. I believe He did.

The King James Bible isn't perfect because translators were perfect. Sinful men, right manuscripts, one sovereign God — and He got exactly what He intended. The manuscripts, the men, the moment — all of it superintended. That's not blind faith. That's the testimony of a God who doesn't start what He can't finish.