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THE KING JAMES VERSION DEFENDED,
by Edward F. Hills
The King James Version Defended, by Edward F. Hills, is the the best 20th Century Defense for the Textus Receptus (Received Text) and the King James Version of the Bible (better known as the Authorized Version). Available for the first time in electronic format, this book may be downloaded for personal use, with the kind permission of the Christian Research Press. Dr. Hills founded his arguments for the New Testament text squarely and solidly on the historic doctrines of the divine inspiration and providential preservation of Holy Scripture. The text is in four formats for your convenience, WordPerfect, Word 6.0, Word 7.0, and HTML. These are zipped files, and once downloaded they must be unzipped (most browsers will unzip for you).

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But first, from page 218 of the book we offer these abreviated six reasons why the King James Version should be retained:

1) "...the English of the King James Version is not the English of the early 17th century. To be exact, it is not a type of English that was ever spoken anywhere. It is biblical English, which...owes its merit, not to 17th-century English -- which was very different -- but to its faithful translation of the original."

2) "...the King James Version is enduring diction which will remain as long as the English language remains..."

3) "...the current attack on the King James Version and the promotion of modern-speech versions is discouraging the memorization of the Scriptures, especially by children..."

4) "...modern-speech Bibles are unhistorical and irreverent. The Bible is not a modern, human book...On the contrary, the Bible is an ancient, divine Book...Hence the language of the Bible should be venerable as well as intelligible, and the King James Versions fulfills these two requirements better than any other Bible in English."

5) "...modern speech Bibles are unscholarly. The language of the Bible has always savored of the things of heaven rather than the things of earth. It has always been biblical rather than contemporary and colloquial."

6) "...the King James Version is the historic Bible of English-speaking Protestants. Upon it God, working providentially, has placed the stamp of His approval through the usage of many generations of Bible-believing Christians. Hence, if we believe in God's providential preservation of the Scriptures, we will retain the King James Version, for in so doing we will be following the clear leading of the Almighty."

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