Dear Pastor Jackson,
I am filled with cheerfulness, comfort, and joy by the faith of professor Nils Dahl (PhD*, Yale University) when he said, "The text! The text! We have the text!" (The King James Version, Gregory L. Jackson PhD, p, 189 footnote.)
* GJ - Dahl earned his doctorate in Europe, studying under famous New Testament scholars, including Bultmann. Dahl did not agree with them and focused on the content of the Bible, Old and New Testaments. He was considered the greatest Biblical exegete by Harvard Dean Krister Stendahl.
The text we have is the TEXTUS RECEPTUS not Vaticanus (Westcott-Hort/Nestle Aland Text). Vaticanus was soundly rejected for the Reformation, not just by a man (Erasmus) but by God the Holy Ghost Himself. He alone guides His church into all truth: the TEXTUS RECEPTUS and translations of the TEXTUS RECEPTUS: Luther's 1545 Bible, and the King James Bible. This is why the King James Bible is the only dominant Bible among Christians today (50% King James to 30% NIV).** The King James Bible is the only translation that never changes. This makes sense because God's word never changes. So here is God's unchangeable, eternal word: the King James Bible and it's unchangeable eternal foundation: the TEXTUS RECEPTUS.
** GJ - The KJV/NKJV combined may be more like 60%. Scholars are divided. I question the 30% figure for the NIV, easily the worst of the bad paraphrases. The Evil Four - NIV, RSV, NRSV, ESV - include three paraphrased licensed by the National Council of (Marxist) Churches.
Tom Fisher
