“Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” – 2 Peter 1:20-21
ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN BY inspiration of God. The King James Bible is the uncorrupted revelation of the Almighty, its every last word divinely dictated and put down by holy men – men made holy, mind you, the only way men can be made holy, through the blood of Jesus Christ – and preserved unto every generation as Jehovah promised (Psalm 12:6-7). This marvelous book of life and light did not come into being through man’s imagination and devices, as have all other religious texts. Neither did it originate with God, then pass through the hands of men, as many Bible-doubters will profess. For whether sinful men invented the Bible, or received revelation from heaven only to interpret it according to their personal preferences, prejudices, and opinions, any book so formed would not have a rightful claim to be “the word of God”, else the term loose all meaning, and it certainly could not boast of being divinely inspired, much less preserved.
Thanks be to God, the King James Bible does not merely contain divine thoughts filtered through the polluted prism of iniquitous, and limited, human knowledge; it is the very words of God themselves – pure, perfect, preserved. Infidels may scorn this crucial doctrine of plenary verbal inspiration as “mechanical dictation”, but it is true nonetheless, and without it the scriptures would be exactly what unbelievers of all stripes allege them to be – a collection of myths and fables which are useful only as insight into the ancient world. The prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, and neither did its interpretation. Only the Holy Ghost authored the holy writ, though mortal, sinful men were necessarily used to put the words onto paper. Only the mouth of God breathed the wonderful words of life which point sinners to their only hope for eternal life.
Though I have alluded to this important principle in these pages, God never promised to preserve his thoughts, or his ideas, or his message, or his general frame of reasoning, but his very WORDS themselves, because it is the WORDS which are spirit and life (John 6:63). Hebrews 4:12 informs us that “the word of God is quick, and powerful.” Ideas and messages can be expressed in many different ways, but God’s words can be expressed in only one way, that being the revelation he gave to man. To deny this, whether out of outright unbelief, or sophistries as the insidious “thought-inspiration” fiction which the sons of Belial at Biblica and other purveyors of the modern Bible perversions promote, is to call God a liar, deny every word in his book, and reduce his divine revelation to mere mythology.
But, as with all other issues of doctrine, this boils down to an issue of final authority. Who is your final authority, dear reader? Is it the God of the King James Bible? Is it infidels and “historians” who sneer the holy writ is full of myths and fables? Is it so-called “scholars” who claim their “scholarship” is necessary to best reconstruct the Bible from the fragments of faulty manuscripts available? I will take time now to remind you that while all men have lied (Romans 3:4), God has never lied, and does not lie, and will not lie, because he simply cannot lie (Titus 1:2, Hebrews 6:18, Numbers 23:19). Indeed, it is no more possible that God could lie, than he could cease to exist. Consider now these declarations from the mouth of God that his word is inspired and preserved.
Mark 12:36: “For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The LORD said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies my footstool.”
2 Samuel 23:2: “The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.”
Matthew 22:43-44: “He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies my footstool?”
Acts 1:16: “Men and brethren, this scripture must needs be fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.”
Acts 28:25: “And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,”
Hebrews 3:7: “Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,” (citing Psalm 95:7-11)
Hebrews 4:7: “Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.”
1 Peter 1:11: “Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.”
Matthew 4:4: “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
Matthew 5:18: “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”
Luke 16:17: “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.”
Isaiah 40:8: “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever.”
Psalm 12:6-7: “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.”
Matthew 24:35: “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
The testimony of the Lord discloses that every word in his book is inspired by him and will be preserved even after heaven and earth pass away. It affirms that no prophet or apostle merely took a pen and began scribbling down his personal religions convictions, but, under divine inspiration from Almighty God, wrote down, word for word, the holy scriptures as they were dictated to him. It declares that which is scripture to be divinely inspired and divinely preserved. Faced with these facts, you are left to decide who you will believe. You may choose to listen to God and believe the King James Bible, or you may choose to listen to men as they manipulate their farcical, mutable pseudo-sciences of textual criticism and textual reconstruction in producing multitudes of nonsensical “Bibles” which contradict both the King James Bible and themselves a thousand times over. But should you decide to place your confidence in the feeble abilities of sinful men, rather than the marvelous providence of the Father of lights, you cannot negate the plain truth that “holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”