QUESTION: What is the difference between a "Textus Receptus Man" and
a "King James Man"?
ANSWER: A "TR Man" gets his manuscripts from Antioch and his
philosophy from Egypt.
EXPLANATION: Under Question 8 concerning Alexandria and Antioch it
was pointed out that we derive two things from each of these
locations. We derive manuscripts and an ideology through which we
judge those manuscripts.
From Alexandria we receive corrupted manuscripts, tainted by the
critical hand of Origen. We also receive an ideology that believes
the Bible to be Divine, but not perfect, not without error.
From Antioch we receive the pure line of manuscripts culminating in
what is known as the "Received Text" or Textus Receptus. We also
receive the ideology that the Bible is not only Divine, but perfect,
without error.
1. Most Bible critics do not believe that the Bible is perfect (The
Alexandrian Ideology). They usually also accept the Alexandrian
manuscripts as superior to those of Antioch.
2. A King James Bible believer accepts the Antiochian manuscripts or
Textus Receptus as superior to the Alexandrian. They also accept the
Antiochian Ideology in that they accept the Bible as infallible and do
not believe it contains any errors or mistranslations and that it
cannot be improved.
3. A Textus Receptus man also accepts the Antiochian manuscripts or
Textus Receptus as superior to the Alexandrian. But a Textus Receptus
man accepts the Antiochian manuscripts yet he views them with the
Alexandrian Ideology.
He does not accept any translation as perfect and without error. He
generally feels that the King James is the best translation but can be
improved. He usually stumbles at Acts 12:4 and states that it is a
mistranslation.
This contradiction is NOT the result of a bad or dishonest heart so
much as it is the result of a bad education. Most Textus Receptus men
have been taught by others who have been deceived into accepting,
unconsciously, the Alexandrian Ideology.
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