QUESTION: The New King James Version is based on the Antiochian 
          manuscripts. Is it an improvement over the King James Bible?

ANSWER: No.

EXPLANATION: The New King James Version is to the English Bible what 
the Alexandrian manuscripts are to GreekÄa corruption of a pure text 
by men who hold the deplorable doctrine that the Bible cannot be 
perfect (regardless of what they may say when they preach) and must be 
corrected by the feeble intellect of man.

The New King James Version, unlike most modern translations, is based 
on the correct Antiochian manuscripts instead of the corrupt 
Alexandrian manuscripts. Unfortunately, the men doing the translation 
work view the Bible as imperfect. They would vehemently deny this 
charge in public because their jobs depend on it, but in FACT they do 
not believe that ANY Bible is perfect. Not even their own New King 
James Version! Thus, to them, the Bible is lost ("settled" in heaven) 
and the minds of scholars are the only hope of rescuing its "thoughts" 
from oblivion.

Many of the men on the board of translators may indeed be great 
preachers and pastors, but that by no means entitles them to correct 
the Bible.

Sincerity cannot improve on perfection. Thus, instead of "making a 
good thing better" they have only managed, for all of their trouble, 
to make a "perfect thing tainted".

It must be remembered, there is a great deal of prestige in sitting on 
the board of translators of a "modern" version of the Bible (Matthew 
23:5-7).

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