One of the questions asked of our
Church is, “What Bible do you use?” We answer unapologetically, "The King
James Bible."
But, why do we use the King James
Bible? Because the KJB is the most accurate translation in English. It is from
the preserved Hebrew and Greek texts.
The Bible
is comprised of sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments and was given by
inspiration of God. Therefore, it is inerrant and infallible.
We believe in both the verbal and plenary inspiration. In
addition, God has preserved His word as He promised, and that
He has preserved it in the traditional texts or in the set of manuscripts known
as the Textus Receptus.
The King James Bible is an accurate, faithful, and reliable
translation of these manuscripts and that the English reader, therefore, can
study it with utmost confidence and rely upon it.
We can confidently say the King
James Bible is the inspired Word of God, not because God “breathed” again in
1611, but because the King James Bible was translated from the preserved texts.
Central Baptist
Church is a Church that uses
the King James Bible by conviction. We cannot see any reason to
use another translation in worship or personal study.
What we mean by...
Verbal Inspiration - That
process by which “God breathed” or wrote the books of the Bible by holy men of
God, as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, in such a definite way that their
writings were supernaturally and verbally inspired and free from error, as no
other writings have ever been or ever will be inspired. (2 Timothy 3:16, II
Peter1:19-21)
Plenary Inspiration - The
entire Bible is inspired.
Preservation - God will,
and has, preserved His Word in pure form, including the most minute details
(the jots and titles, the words), and that this would include the whole
Scriptures, Old and New Testaments. The biblical doctrine of preservation is
verbal, plenary preservation, which is the only reasonable view in light of the
Biblical doctrine of the verbal, plenary, inspiration of the Writings.
Inerrancy - The Bible is
without error, that the Bible is correct in every statement it makes. The Bible
reports and identifies errors accurately, of course, but it does not perpetrate
them.
Infallibility - The Bible
is effective in everything it does. When the Bible is used, it always works. It
never fails us. The Bible is incapable of error.