Problems With KJV-Onlyism: (2) The KJV Has Been Revised Many Times

Many KJV-Only advocates do not realize that the original 1611 edition has undergone many major revisions, with over 100,000 changes!

The original KJV underwent four major revisions:  1629, 1638, 1760, and 1769.  The KJV Bible that people read today is not the original 1611 edition, but the 1769 edition by Dr. Benjamin Blayney.

Blayney's revisions fall into five categories:

(1) The use of italics to identify words that are inserted into a passage to clarify, but are not found in the original text.  The 1611 did not do this consistently.  

(2) Textual changes.  For example, Mark 5:6 was changed to "he ran" instead of "he came."  Mark 11:8 was changed to "branches off the trees" instead of "branches of the trees."

(3) Spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.  For example, "sinnes" was changed to "sins."  "holy Ghost" was changed to "Holy Ghost."  

(4) Changes to the marginal notes and references.

(5) Corrections to printing errors.  For example, Matthew 4:25 was corrected to read "great" instead of "great great".  

In all, from the 1611 edition to the 1769 edition which is used today, over 100,000 revisions have been made to the King James Bible.

This begs the questions:  If you are KJV-Only, then why don’t you use the original KJV?  If the KJV is a perfect translation, or even the best translation, then why did it require over 100,000 changes?  If it was okay to make 100,000 changes to the original KJV, then why can't more changes be made to modernize the language and correct textual errors?

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