The rank-and-file believers, however, still frequently maintain – as they have been taught – that the King James translation, for one, is inerrant and its translators inspired. This more recent claim regarding only the originals being inspired essentially overrides the centuries-old, widely held notion that English translations such as the King James Bible are inerrant yet, there remain King James inerrantists.īecause such a position appears untenable, many Christian scholars and apologists today no longer adhere to the notion that translations themselves are inspired, claiming instead that only the “originals” are inspired, as noted. “The original authors were inspired, but we do not have their very originals… The original New Testament documents were transmitted by scribes, who were not inspired.”
In “Discovering and Classifying New Testament Manuscripts,” fundamentalist Christian writer James Arlandson discusses the orthodox Christian belief that the four canonical gospels were inerrant and divinely inspired: The fact that various versions of the Bible differ from each other is very significant and needs to be kept in mind, as does the realization of the flawed nature of the Textus Receptus, upon which the King James Bible is based. In 1550, the TR was eventually reissued by Parisian printer Robert Estienne, also known as Stephanus/Stefanus/Stephens, whose edition was the basis of the KJV, with a significant amount of the same problems intact. 1466-1536) was hurriedly put together and contained “thousands of typographical errors,” as well as scribal commentary that was not in the original Greek. The original Textus Receptus (TR) compiled by Dutch theologian Desiderius Erasmus (c. In reality, the King James Bible was created using preceding English translations and Greek texts dating to the 12th to 15th centuries – the “Textus Receptus” – as well as “some influence from the Latin Vulgate,” the edition by Catholic saint Jerome in the fourth century. To this day, certain Fundamentalist Protestant Christians continue to believe this claim about the King James Version (“KJV”), regardless of the fact that the texts upon which it was based differ in many places from the earliest Greek manuscripts, which were not available during its translation. How was the King James Bible created? Is the King James version of the Bible inspired and inerrant?įor the past several centuries since its creation in 1611, the King James Bible has been held up by devout Christians as an “inspired” and “inerrant” rendering into English, authorized by God himself.
Excerpted and adapted from Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ
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