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"11. The KJV-only doctrine requires that we have some sort of faith in the KJV translators. KJV-only advocates constantly complain that if we don't have one sure Bible, the KJV, then we have to trust what scholars say about the text and its translation. But they are placing their faith solely in the KJV translators. A genuinely Protestant approach to the Bible requires that we not trust any one translator or translation team. Lay Christians can compare different translations to help get at the truth about any passage – or at least to become aware of possible disputes over the meaning of the passage."

Reminds me of another infallibility doctrine.............

Did Christ, the Apostles and the Old Testament prophets speak and write in Shakespearean (i.e., King James dialect) English? Rather, was it perhaps Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, or perhaps even a little Latin and other tongues of the Middle East of thousands of years ago? If one is going to insist on scriptural purity, then one must learn to read the original languages (even through no original texts exist, nearly contemporaneous copies of many scriptures in the same languages continue to exist). The KJV-only assertion is more an indication of ignorance and intellectual distortion than any theological sound doctrine