EXPLANATION: Many critics of the perfect Bible like to point out that the original King James had the Apocrypha in it as though that fact compromises its integrity. But several things must be examined to get the factual picture.
First, in the days in which our Bible was translated, the Apocrypha was accepted reading based on its historical value, though not accepted as Scripture by anyone outside of the Catholic church.
The King James translators therefore placed it between the Old and New Testaments for its historical benefit to its readers. They did not integrate it into the Old Testament text as do the corrupt Alexandrian manuscnpts.
That they rejected the Apocrypha as divine is very obvious by the seven reasons which they gave for not incorporating it into the text. They are as follows:
1. Not one of them is in the Hebrew language, which was alone used by the inspired historians and poets of the Old Testament.
2. Not one of the writers lays any claim to inspiration.
3. These books were never acknowledged as sacred Scriptures by the Jewish Church, and therefore were never sanctioned by our Lord.
4. They were not allowed a place among the sacred books, during the first four centuries of the Christian Church.
5. They contain fabulous statements, and statements which contradict not only the canonical Scriptures, but themselves; as when, in the two Books of Maccabees, Antiochus Epiphanes is made to die three different deaths in as many different places.
6. The Apocrypha inculcates doctrines at variance with the Bible, such as prayers for the dead and sinless perfection.
7. It teaches immoral practices, such as lying, suicide, assassination and magical incantation. (Dr. Sam Gipp.)
It's funny that resty, a mormon, has to defend the KJV because that's the "dialect" out of which J. Smith created the BOM.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall verily enter into great tribulation before the coming of the answer to your lips; which shall be as sweet as honey.
Why did these great translators who gave you the perfect translation; these mighty men of God; these Prophets of the Enlgish tounge, include the Apocrypha in their work? If they were really working under the direction of the Holy Spirit, wouldn't they have told King James to pound sand; that they are not going to include those books in their perfect Holy Spirit directed Bible; THE Bible?