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Question #18
QUESTION: Someone said, "The King
James Bible is the word of God because I got saved through it!"
Is that statement correct?
ANSWER: No.
EXPLANATION: The Bible is infallible
and perfect without any influence by any sinner. By
accepting Christ as our personal Saviour we impart nothing to Scripture,
though God imparts eternal life to us.
Many have been led to Christ by someone using other versions.
I once spoke with a man who vehemently claimed that the Good News
For Modern Man was the infallible Word of God because someone had
led him to Christ using it. Wrong! His getting saved
through a Good News For Modern Man did not correct so much
as one of the many gross inaccuracies in that version.
I have a friend who believes the Bible (KJV) to be the
infallible, perfect Word of God. Yet he himself was led to Christ by
someone using a Living Bible. Did the Living Bible
become the infallible Word of God the moment he believed? Of course
not. It never was perfect and never will be. But if it did
become perfect because he got saved through it, would it not have
lost its perfection when he chose to use the King James?
So we see that the Bible, King James of course, is the
infallible, perfect Word and words of God regardless of what someone
used to lead you or me to Christ. In fact, it would still be the perfect
infallible Word and words of God, even if we hadn't gotten saved at
all.
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