The bottom of the NIV has footnotes showing text that OTHER manuscripts have.
In the small group that I lead on Tuesday nights, I'm ALWAYS trying to point out that our Bible is just not translated from ONE source, but that there are multiple lines of the ancient texts that were considered for ANY translation (or paraphrase).
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If you really have trouble teaching them the KJV, perhaps you need to take up truck driving instead.
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Asinine Alexandrian Errors
ALEXANDRIAN MANUSCRIPTS
Vaticanus (Vat, B) is the primary manuscript behind modern versions. Sinaiticus (Sin, Aleph) is the secondary Alexandrian (Egyptian, African) mss. used for MVs.
Both Vaticanus & Sinaiticus include the Apocrypha AS inspired canon. Sin goes further and adds the Epistle of Barnabas and Shepherd of Hermas to the NT. To make room, it omits the first part of John 8, the last part of Mark 16, and several other scattered verses.
Vat omits most of Genesis, ALL of Revelation, the pastoral epistles, and over 30 Psalms. It was left stuffed in the corner of the attic of the Vatican library for over 1,000 years - even the old Catholics didn't use it.
BLASPHEMY AND HERESY
Here are some of the most incredible corruptions:
Matt 27:49-50 (from Sin and Vat) Let us alone. Let us see whether Elijah will come to save him. Then another came with a spear and pierced his side and immediately there came out water and blood. Then Jesus cried with a loud voice and gave up the ghost.
There you have it - the ultimate blasphemy. Jesus did not die supernaturally as He Himself stated He would in John 10. Rather, according to these corrupt witnesses, Jesus was just another normal human who died the way every man dies (in this case He was killed by the soldier stabbing Him with his spear), in which case he couldn't save a drowned cat. That isn't the only serious error in the Alexandrian abominations, but it alone is enough to trash them as utterly corrupt. Here's a few more:
John 17:15 (Vat B) I do not pray that you should take them from the evil one.
Perhaps in the modern versions, he got his prayer answered! If the devil inspired a version, this is just the kind of change I'd expect him to make.
1 Cor 15:54-55 (Vat B) Death is swallowed up in CONTROVERSY. O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your CONTROVERSY.
Why shouldn't MV proponents be swallowed up in controversy? They have no absolute scripture, what else could they be swallowed up in? How can they have victory when they don't even have a sure scripture? The whole difference between us and them is that we have certain victory, and they have confusion and controversy. This is just the reading that should be in their versions. I'm surprised they leave it out of their English versions, it fits so well with what they believe to just leave it as it reads in the Alexandrian Greek.
Luke 1:26 (Sin Aleph) And the angel Gabriel was sent to a city of JUDEA, named Nazareth.
Luke 4:44 where they say that Judea is inside Galilee.
These are demonstrable ERRORS, not just a matter of interpretation.
Luke 23:45 where it says the sun was “eclipsed” during a full moon.
ENDLESS ERRORS
Here are some of the other clear errors of lesser importance, but obvious errors just the same:
1 Thess 2:7 (Vat and Sin) But we were BABIES among you.
They are babies. They have no meat of the word, all they might have is milk of some "message". They are just being honest about themselves here. We can't fault them for that, can we?
Luke 3:33 – Aleph engages in one of its many magic tricks and makes two names out of one, viz., instead of “Aminadab” Aleph has “Admin” and “Adam.”
Luke 3:22 – Aleph has “Balls” instead of “Boaz.”
Matt 1:7 and following that Asaph the psalmist was in the royal lineage instead of Asa the king.
John 1:4 where they omit “of men”. Or where they omit “of the will of man” in John 1:13.
John 1:14 where they say “full of grace truth”, thus omitting the connective “and”.
Luke 23: where they omit the word of Jesus, “Father forgive them”.
There are countless more, but these show what kind of corrupted abominations we're dealing with. How could any honest Christian use anything connected with such egregious errors to line their bird cages for fear their parakeet might repeat some of it?
Anyone with the brain waves of lime jello can see Satan's fingerprints all over the MVs and the Alexandrian mss. It is getting nigh unto impossible to believe the detractors of the KJV are truly saved. I believe it is possible to get saved from other versions and to be led astray. Coming from a Roman Catholic background, I understand how someone can be deceived and misled - but some of these guys are not simply misled or ignorant. They have been given the scripture and have chosen to reject it.
God & Country Center
http://www.baptistlink.com/godandcountry/index.html Acts 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call HERESY, so worship I the God of my fathers, BELIEVING all things which are WRITTEN in the law and in the prophets: