I have heard an argument
by people who want to be styled as text scholars
or text critics, that says
it's not the ancient Alexandrian intellectuals
who took away from God's words,
that it's Bible believers, like the King James Only people
who added to God's words.
What do you say to that? Let's put it to the test.
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
The Bible believers, the ones who believe
they are under a curse if they add to or take away from God's words,
are the very ones these text critics say added to and took away from God's words.
Take a look at Proverbs 30:5-6.
5 Every word of God is pure:
he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add thou not unto his words,
lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
The critics say the believers, who literally believe that God will find them a liar
if they add to His words, are the very ones who added to His words.
Look at Deuteronomy 4:2.
2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you,
neither shall ye diminish ought from it,
that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
For the text critics' these text scholars' theory to be correct,
The Bible believers, who actually believe
that a literal God spoke this to a literal Moses,
actually added to and diminished from God's words.
so that they can't tell which words are God's, to obey them?
Take a look at Revelation 22:19.
19 And if any man
shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part out of the book of life,
and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
Textual critics say Bible believers changed 'tree of life'
to 'the book of life.'
And in addition, text critics say
the Bible believers changed Revelation more than any other book of the Bible.
The very people who believe that they would be under a curse,
put themselves under a curse by changing the words of God?
Those who want to be known as text scholars or text critics
want me to believe that the ancient Alexandrians,
who did not believe God's words, who spiritualized God's words,
who rationalized God's words, who refused to take them literally-
the Allegorical Method comes from Alexandria -
to the point of saying they are lies intentionally put there by God,
as Origen said in De Principiis, Book 4, Sections 8-19,
those text critics who say that,
are saying the Alexandrians are the only ones who cared enough
to preserve God's words?
And their evidence is... what?
'Ye shall know them by their fruits.' - Matthew 7:16
The Bible believers have literally thousands of manuscripts
that agree with one another, around the world and through time.
The text critics love the city of Alexandria.
The city of Alexandria, the school of Alexandria
wasn't even able to produce two manuscripts that agree.
I don't know about you guys, but I side with the people
who are scared to death to add to or take away from God's words.
I side with the people who have the evidence of
thousands of manuscripts that actually agree
and believe those curses
and don't want to make God unhappy.
That's why I believe my King James Bible.
Nothing added. Nothing taken away. The pure words of God.
I hope you do, too.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.