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To: C Kahn who wrote (355)	10/11/1999 2:32:00 AM
From: Berry Picker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4775

This "contradiction" in our modern bibles is well known. Read the verse one says "two and twenty years" 2Kings 8:26 Then in 2 Chron 22:2 it says " Forty and two years " it does not use "fortnight" or "Score" or any of those words. There is a group that tries to maintain that the KJV is "inspired" and without error. Anyone who studies " Textual Criticism " soon learns that there are variations between the different manuscripts. The KJV Bible was MOSTLY translated out of the " Textus Receptus " Which is Latin for " Received Text " They came up with that name because that was the one that the Christians believed escaped most of the unfaithful scribes ( copiers ) The Bible went through all kinds of periods of persecutions and dark ages where bibles were burned and you have it. Look at all the cults today that write the bible just a little different to suit their belief system. If you look at 1Tim 4:14 It says "..the laying on of the hands of the presbytery " Well the bible does not say that !!! It said "the laying on of the hands of the apostles" But the Presbyterians were such a powerful group when the KJV version came out that they wanted it changed. Does it make a big difference?? If you believe in Presbyterial government then indeed the apostles would be the Presbytery. However I do not see how that is being faithful to the original text. Also if you look in most KJV Bibles you will notice that some of the words are in Italics. Those words are all ADDED to make it easier to read in English. None of them appear in the manuscripts they used. They took care to italicized them so that people would not build false doctrines based on those added words. It has not worked. Look at the word 'unknown' in 1Cor 14:27 or the words 'of god' in 1 John 3:16. KJV was not all from the Textus Receptus either. Revelations was translated from Jeromes Latin Version Called the "Vulgate" which means in English " The Vulgar " For those who are Born of the Spirit of God they have the Spirit within witnessing the truth of the Word of God. These minor variances are of little concern and can be studied out if your energetic but it takes a lot of work. You can make it your lifes work if you like. Not really my cup of tea. Look at the variances between the many versions in English. Some of them matter. Many don't. We will not likely lose any of what we now have because we have preserved it. It is so much easier to store data. Not some poor half starved fellow making Bibles by hand sitting in a cold room lit with a candle. We have it on CD :-}