I actually read through the whole essay and watched his video presentation where he physically handled the original and other majority text/reformation bibles. (As opposed to minority and probably fraudulent) Vatican texts where public debate was declined at the time of their “discovery” in a rubbish bin by a random accident by one of their minions)
He agrees from a technical perspective in his essay with word, comma and other significant changes made in 1769 (commonly known as the unauthorised KJV) He also agrees in his video about the Ruth error made where HE is changed to, SHE. From a historical point of view and purely academic there are probably few more knowledgeable than he on this subject however I must strongly disagree with his essay’s conclusion. (Not that he could care less about my view which is also that of John Doerr of Lamp on the Dark who dedicated 2 years of his life to this very subject) However I would be in the very tiny minority of people that have read the 1611 text from cover to cover and studied the original it as Gods word not being a 1769 KJV fanatic. I have also read all of the only books on this subject by Reginald Block that do all the leg work of recording these changes and how they affect meaning. (Even if you do not agree with change of meaning it is irrelevant to the fact that it was and therefore the 1769 is not the 1611 as it often claims to be)
The fact is the Word of God can only be interpreted correctly by believers filled with the Holy Spirit. Professor Campbell I am sure he knows of every verse that refers to the Holy Spirit’s role in comforting and teaching the believers in God’s church. The Bible can be studied academically but the role of the Holy Spirit is unequivocable, absolute and recorded from beginning to end of the bible.
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Click on the contents of the book above and go to the essay found after the book of Revelation)
So what am I going on about! What can someone as dumb as me possibly know? (I am sure Peter, most of relatively uneducated Apostles and countless believers over time might also agree with my statements) You cannot change the gender of the original words, sentences, titles, cases, commas without a significant change to the texts capability to be corrected interpreted using the internal witnesses. Let me ask this question. If the Hebrew scribes made errors when they copied the originals would their hierarchy or internal quality checking systems think this was acceptable or would they never consider changing a word? So why then do modern publishers think they can change the text, called the 1611 and then lie and called it Authorised?
So what did Gordon Campbel say? Please read it for yourself however he essentially claimed that the overall meaning of the original KJV was not changed, and we still have the quintessential bible translated in 1611. He disagreed with the change of words, sentences etc but he not vehemently oppose those as he might offend those who funded his study or other theologians (or other historians) he might have to work with. It is a thin line they walk. His grants might rely on external parties that would not be pleased if he made a huge song and dance about the corruption of the modern KJV and upmteen new translations that exist in the modern market making many millions each year for bible publishers. That is not me attacking him but just using reason to perhaps explain why people do not really care about the slow erosion and Gods word. They probably do not see it as Gods word to begin with but a historically significant book.
That brings me back to the point that it is God’s Holy Spirit who teaches us. By committing scripture to memory (storing it in our mind) the Spirit can bring that to remembrance and instruct us. He can also cross reference passages and lead us to read others that academics would be bamboozled by unless they themselves were filled with the Holy Spirit. The notion of academia being the source of wisdom is foolishness to God according to His word. This is clear when an uneducated fisherman used the word of God while filled with the spirit to preach on the day of Pentecost as well as numerous other places in Acts.
