QUESTION:  Don't the best manuscripts support the new versions?
   
ANSWER:  No.  The best manuscripts support the Bible, the Authorized 
Version.
   
EXPLANATION:  The new versions are only supported by about five of the 
over 5,000 manuscripts of Bible text.  Critics of the Bible claim that 
these manuscripts are better than those used by the translators of the 
Authorized Version.  This is not so.
   
The two most prominent of these, Vaticanus, which is sole property of 
the Roman Catholic Church, and Sinaiticus, are both known to be 
overwhelmed with errors.  It is said that Sinaiticus has been 
corrected and altered by as many as ten different writers.  In 
Vaticanus is found the evidence of very sloppy workmanship.  Time and 
again words and whole phrases are repeated twice in succession or 
completely omitted, while the entire manuscript has had the text 
mutilated by some person or persons who ran over every letter with a 
pen making exact identification of many of the characters impossible.
   
Both manuscripts contain uninspired, anti-scriptural books which are 
not found in the Bible.
   
The only place where these error laden, unreliable manuscripts excel 
is in the quality of the materials used on them.  They have good 
bindings and fine animal skin pages.  Their physical appearance, 
contrary to their worthless texts, are really rather attractive.  But 
then we have all heard the saying, "You can't judge a book by its 
cover." The covers are beautiful but their texts are reprehensible.
   
And yet in spite of these well-known corruptions, they are the basis 
for many new versions such as the New American Standard Version and 
the New International Version rendering these versions critically 
flawed and unreliable.
   
The manuscripts represented by the King James Bible have texts of the 
highest quality.  So we see that the best manuscripts are those used 
by the King James translators.

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