The Answer Book

QUESTION #24: Who was Dean Burgon? ANSWER: He was an outstanding 19th century Bible scholar. EXPLANATION: John William Burgon (1813-1888) was a man of tremendous intellect and ranks among men such a Lancelot Andrews (1555-1626) and Robert Dick Wilson (1856-1930) in scholarship. He became the Dean of Chichester and has since been known as “Dean”…

QUESTION #23: Is it “heresy” to believe, that the King James Bible is perfect? ANSWER: No. EXPLANATION: It is amusing yet appalling that a King James Bible believer, who BELIEVES the Bible to be inerrant, is called a “heretic” by people who claim to believe that the Bible is inerrant. “Heresy”, according to Webster, is…

QUESTION #22: Aren’t King James Bible believers a cult? ANSWER: No. EXPLANATION: The charge that King James Bible believers are a cult is similar to the charge that they worship the Bible. It is a result of the same frustration and born of the same malice. Sadly, when facts do not prove them right, character…

QUESTION #21: Don’t King James Bible believer’s “worship” the Bible? Didn’t God destroy the originals because He didn’t want these people to venerate them? ANSWER: No and no. EXPLANATION: Many critics of the perfect Bible have become very frustrated in recent years. This is due to the fact that their entire argument against the Bible…

QUESTION #20: Aren’t all King James Bible believers “name callers?” ANSWER: No. EXPLANATION: In recent years, the issue of a perfect Bible has been expertly handled by Dr. Peter S. Ruckrnan. Dr. Ruckman is a highly educated teacher/preacher who accepts the Antiochian manuscript as authentic and views them with the Antiochian ideology that accepts the…

QUESTION #19: Are people who believe the King James Bible “church splitters?” ANSWER: No. The only church that a believer in the perfect Bible could possibly split would have to be one that didn’t believe that the Bible was perfect. EXPLANATION: Sometimes false accusations are based on misunderstandings. Sometimes they are based upon utter and…

QUESTION #18: Someone said, “The King James Bible is the word of God because I got saved through it!” Is that statement correct? ANSWER: No. EXPLANATION: The Bible is infallible and perfect without any influence by any sinner. By accepting Christ as our personal Saviour we impart nothing to Scripture, though God imparts eternal life…

QUESTION #17: If King James didn’t authorize the Bible for use in churches, who was it translated for? ANSWER: The common man. EXPLANATION: There is so much made of the perfection, or supposed imperfection, of the Bible that one element in the equation is often overlooked. That is, the reason for having a perfect Bible…

QUESTION #16: Did King James authorize his translation to be used in the churches in England? ANSWER: No. He authorized its translation, but not its usage. EXPLANATION: It is difficult for someone in the twentieth century, especially someone in America to fathom the conditions of nearly four hundred years ago. We Christians not only have…

QUESTION #15: Aren’t today’s scholars better equipped to translate the Bible than the King James translators were? ANSWER: No. EXPLANATION: The answer to the question is “No” for two reasons. First is that, the scholarship of the men who translated the King James Bible is literally unsurpassable by today’s scholars. Two books available best illustrate…