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What about all the great Bible teachers who say that words are mistranslated in the KJV?
I've always heard Dr. McGee and other great Bible teachers talk about
all the words that are mistranslated in the KJV. Any comments?
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As to J. Vernon McGee, he was subject to
the same frailty that we are today, and also that C. I. Scofield was in his day. In
Scofield's day, to be "scholarly" in Bible teaching, they felt they had to
answer the "supposed fact" that the world was "millions" and
"billions" of years old. To do so, Bible teachers came up with the "Gap
Theory." That was a "supposed gap" between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. A
"gap" big enough to hold the "millions and billions" of years that the
scientists said were a "fact." The problem is that there was no need to answer
the world with their millions and billions of years, because they were wrong. I
Timothy 6:20,21 says, "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding
profane and vain babblings, and OPPOSITIONS OF SCIENCE FALSELY SO CALLED: Which some
professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen."
Dr. McGee was just a man, and he lived in the days when many preachers accepted what Westcott and Hort said as "fact." They c
ame up with a supposed theory of finding "more accurate" Scripture manuscripts. Their theory is just as false as evolution, but many old-time preachers fell for it, because it seemed "scholarly" in their day. I have no doubt but that Dr. McGee would see the whole thing much differently, if he were a young to middle-aged preacher living today.Rather than pick on the preachers of yesteryear; or, on the other hand, blindly follow them, let us humble ourselves before Almighty God, and pray for grace to humbly follow God's Word.
The devil will surely have some errors for us to be tempted to swallow in our day, too. What we must do is keep faithfully reading God's Word and believing it, no matter how foolish it may seem in the "scholar's" eyes.
