This is why I wrote the book, 51 Reasons Why the King James:
A Path from Doubt to Faith.
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
When I was in Bible college it was like being in a dark forest,
once I started taking classes.
There were all these different Bible versions
that surrounded me.
And as I came to a verse, I'd find that the Sinaiticus
and the Vaticanus and the Alexandrinus
and the Codex Beza Cantabrigiensis and the papyri
all disagreed about what the words could be.
I even sat there with guides, as to which one was older,
and whether I could rely upon it, based on some other kind of reasoning.
Then I looked at these people, whose Bibles
I thought were really good: the New American Standard,
and the American Standard, and the New Revised Standard.
And as I was looking at all these versions, I realized that
these really great scholars disagreed on these verses.
And I started to think that when I came to a verse,
maybe I should just decide... that I don't know what I believe
about that verse.
Then I'd set that verse aside.
The only thing is, that kept adding up.
There were more and more verses that it kept happening to.
I had so many important doctrines, where I really had important questions,
and those seemed to be the same places where
those guys could not come to an agreement.
So then my doctrines became more and more fuzzy.
The more I researched, the more fuzzy they got,
because I had nothing to set my faith on.
I had nowhere to go to say, "This is what God said."
Years ago my friend Ron said to me, "If God did something right
the first time, would He need to do it a second?"
That started me on an entire journey.
And the journey was from doubt to faith.
I started first finding out that God is a consistent God.
God made consistent promises.
And if He made a consistent promise, you should be able
to find what He had promised.
God says, "I preserved My words."
Well, there are two giant, major witnesses of what His words are.
There are two different camps.
And the one camp hates the other.
And the funny thing is, the one camp that
really hates the other, is ALL the other Bibles!
And I have them all.
I had everything I could think of.
And they all were fighting against one.
The same teachers, who said "All Bibles are 99% the same,"
were saying, "That Bible is the bad one;
Don't ever go to that one; Don't ever trust that one;"
which, of course, makes it even more intriguing,
unless you believe your professors.
For years I believed my professors.
After a while, it was this quagmire,
where I could not see where my doubt and my faith were.
"Where do I set anything down?
I don't know!"
I'd now left so many verses, so many holes in my faith,
that I had nowhere to set my faith.
And so I had to start with, "Okay, I have God's promise."
Once I realized that God had promised to keep His words,
and God is a promise-making
and promise-keeping God, my next question was,
"Where are they?
His words have to be somewhere."
So then I looked for an historical witness.
Ron said it: "If God did it right the first time,
does He need to do it a second?"
So I looked for an historical witness.
And then, of course, I ended coming back to
that old King James.
And so, when I went online, and I saw all the articles
against the King James, I used to test my prowess
at saying all the things I was taught, as fast as I could.
And I'd run right through those lists.
And then something happened.
I read a debate between Gail Riplinger and
a guy named James White.
And I liked James White.
And I read this debate between them.
And I was going, "Yeah, see?
There you go!
Uh, huh!"
Then G.A.
Riplinger (whoever that was), made a response.
And I went, "Ooh!
That's interesting."
And I looked at the evidence, and I looked at that statement,
and I went, "Oh, well, of course,
James is gonna say, 'I'll give you that one,
but let's go on to these other arguments.'"
And I went to James' response, and... he didn't!
He doubled down!
And I was talking to my wife Deborah, I was saying to the computer,
"Hey! What are you doing that for?
Riplinger's right!
You're wrong!
Let that one go; go on to the next argument."
But he didn't!
And that made me even more intrigued.
So then I had to start looking further.
And over the years, what I found out,
was that the historical witness was for a consistent Bible
and for a consistent faith.
The historical witness was that there is one Bible,
and it does come from God, and that one Bible
does bring faith, not doubt.
And when I came to that point, of realizing the King James Bible
was that Book in English, it changed my entire life.
I no longer had a doubt about where I was going, or about
what a verse said.
I didn't have a doubt about whether the translators were
clear or unclear.
I trusted God, who gave His words.
"The Lord gave the word: great was the company
of those that published it."
--Psalm 68:11
I wanted a published Bible.
God said through Solomon,
"I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever:
nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it:
and God doeth it, that men should fear before him."
--Ecclesiastes 3:14
That's a promise about God Himself, in Ecclesiastes.
I want to follow that line of thinking.
And from the moment I placed my faith in God
that His words were in right front of me, I have never looked back.
I've seen nothing but my faith increase
my soul-winning abilities increase, my concern for souls increase,
my concern for godliness increase.
And all these doctrines, that were so unsettled before,
have been settled for a long time, from the day I placed my faith
in God's words in English, the King James Bible.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.