The King James Version by C.H. Spurgeon

 This is copied from the bulletin from Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Road in Portsmouth NH 03801. (603) 436-7736. The bulletin is dated November 17, 2024.

The King James Version
by C. H. Spurgeon

        The approved method of the present carnival of unbelief is not to reject the Bible altogether but to raise doubts as to portions of it, and questions as to the uniform inspiration of it as a whole.

        If the Book be no infallible, where shall we find infallibility? We have given up the Pope, for he has blundered often and terribly; but we shall not set up instead of him a horde of popelings fresh from college. Are these correctors of scriptures infallible? Is it certain that our Bible are not right, but that the critics must be so? Now, Farmer Smith, when you have read your Bible, and have enjoyed its precious promises, tomorrow morning you will have to go down the street to ask the scholarly man at the parsonage whether this portion of the scripture belong to the inspired part of the Word or whether it is of dubious authority. We shall gradually be so doubted and be criticized that only a few of the most profound will know what is the Bible and what is not, and they will dictate to the rest of us.
    
        I have no more faith in their memory than in their accuracy... and we are full assured that our old English version of the Scriptures is sufficient for plain men for all purposes of life, salvation, and goodness. We do not despise learning, but we will never say of culture or criticism, "These be thy gods, O Israel."

        Strange there should be men so vile as to use the pen-knife of Jehoiakim to cut out passages of the Word, because they are unpalatable. O ye who dislike certain portions of Holy Writ, rest assured that your taste is corrupt, and that God will not stay your little opinion.

        The tendency to alter the Word of God is human.

        The desire to alter the Word of God is dangerous.

        The act of altering the Word of God is sinful.

        The longing to alter the Word of God is weakness.

        The ambition to alter the Word of God is Pharisaic.

        The craving to alter the Word of God is accursed.


TomLeeM

2024 / 12 / 26











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