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Maybe because so many years of memory work and emotionally laden study was with KJV, I'm not overly troubled by NIV which I use now.

God breathed, to me = inspiration.

Actually, God breathed seems stronger, more intense, to me.

Most of the time, I think these folk get all fussed up about too little.

I believe God has protected plenty in most any decent translation to enable any fair-minded reader seeking Him to find Him and make it to Heaven.

I believe the Scripture HE THAT SEEKS ME, SHALL FIND ME is a very powerful Scripture and truth.

I believe that Scriptural truth has operated quite apart from the text of The Bible numerous times in the past and shall in the future. SAMUEL MORRIS of early in the 1900's is a glaringly bright example. I believe he had enough anointing in his short life and ministry that he could have paraphrased a paraphrase and STILL brought much Resurrection life to his listeners.

Indeed, he'd just walk (unknown by visible etc. evidence) into the back or side of an auditorium crammed full of those waiting to hear this black son of a chief of a tribe that tended to lose chronic wars with a neighboring tribe.

And the second he crossed the threshhold, hundreds would run screaming and crying to the front confessing and repenting of their sins.

The Gospel Principles are fairly few and fairly simple. A child can lead them.

Scholars can pontificate. But I don't know that MOST OF THE TIME, it has a lot to do with building The Kingdom.

As a great pastor of mine once said--at some point, you have to get the hay down out of the loft and at the level the cows can eat it.

"I believe that Scriptural truth has operated quite apart from the text of The Bible numerous times in the past and shall in the future."

This is a lie and no lie is of the truth. Doublespeak in America's schools and churchs is at an all time high; yet the word of God is forever settled in heaven. Though the educated lying theologians of Satan continually try to change the Word of God into a lie, they will fail. God did indeed commit His Word unto His saints only; we hear and know the Lord's voice and we will not follow another. Just because many in Christiandom do not believe the Word of God and seek to undermine it using their education to lead people astray from the truth, it does not mean the saints will be led astray.
"For what is some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged." Ro.3:3-4.
If the intent of the theological scholars undermines the truth of the Word of God, the theolgians are liars.