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KJVO vs MV…will there ever be a cease fire?

How does one go about to prove which side of the KJVO (King James Version Only) vs the MV (Multiple Versions) debate is correct? Is it my scholarship can whip your scholarship or even my scholars are smarter than your scholars? No, there are well qualified, well meaning men on both sides of the issue. Is it because the MV’ers have the oldest manuscripts (MSS) and them believing that the oldest MSS are the best MSS? It is a very valid and logical argument. But counteracting that argument on the other side of the coin the KJVO says that they have the majority of the MSS that have been preserved also a valid and logical argument. The MV’er comes back and says but you have added to the Word of God…where as the KJVO says you have taken from the Word of God. By the way I think it would be an interesting study in both lines of MSS to take the earliest copies and compare them with the latest copies (just in their family line) to see if that line has added to or taken away from the Bible.

I next turn to the issue of the Holy Spirit, of which both sides lay claim to leading their side while the other side is listening to some other spirit. Does the Holy Spirit teach each believer the truth of the Word of God? Without a question He does! Does it mean that believers can come to different conclusions on a matter while believing that the Holy Spirit is leading them? Of course! We do grow in grace don’t we? Does it mean that because one side does not believe this issue like the other side they are possessed by evil spirits? Of course not!

I lastly turn to the faith issue, of which both sides exercise their faith to come to their present conclusions. Is the MV side or the KJVO side of perfect faith? Neither side can lay claim to perfect faith. Are they both using their faith to come to the conclusion that they have reached in regards to the Bible issue? Absolutely they have! But does exercising my faith need to be at the expense of destroying my brother or sister in Christ’s faith? God forbid I would destroy someone else’s faith!

If I find myself on the TR side vs. someone else on the Nestle-Aland 28th side, can we like Christians discuss our differences without trying to destroy the other person’s faith? I would hope so. Are we not called to build each other up in the faith, even on this Bible issue in which we disagree? Of course we are but many will disagree from both sides of the issue with many of the statements I have made. But I implore you to see past the letter of this post and see the spirit in which this post is offered…may God bless each of us as we endeavor to serve Him!

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  1. AnonymousApril 2, 2009 at 4:03 AM

    So are we gonna fight over this or not? I'm ready!!!
    --C. Brown

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