THE GREATEST BOOK

"For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven."

By the greatest book, we mean a book that has outsold more than two times as many copies as any four books combined. So, when we talk about the greatest book ever printed upon this earth, we're not talking about some work by Mao Tse Tung, or Karl Marx, or Einstein; or anything in the Harvard five-foot shelf of so-called classics. The greatest book ever printed on this earth by all odds, bar none, has been the King James 1611 Authorized Version Holy Bible!

This amazing book of 1611 has gone into over ONE BILLION copies. With about 60,000 books written about it's text; It has been translated into over 800 languages. This book has been printed at a rate of as much as 8 million copies per year.

So then this Holy Bible is by far the most outstanding book the world has ever seen. And in 1611 this amazing book was put out, that outsold and out-distributed more than 10 times as many copies as any two books combined.

As a matter of fact, the so-called modern translations, which have behind them the high-powered sales pitch, of the madison avenue promotional type of gimmick, (and FALSE advertising), have not yet been able to put out one-fourth as many bibles as this amazing book of sixteen eleven.

This Holy Book is far superior to the original manuscripts for a number of reasons. This Authoritative Bible is written in English and the universal language of the world IS ENGLISH, not Greek, therefore it's far superior to the original manuscripts, that are written in a language that is mostly a dead language today. And less that one-fiftieth of the people in the world speak it.

Another reason why God's Bible is far superior to the original manuscripts, is because the Author's Version constitutes a book, and the original manuscripts do not. You'll hear a lot of talk today about the original manuscripts and the original autographs, by men who don't realize the original autographs, or original manuscripts didn't make a book. They weren't collected into one book until YEARS after they were written.

The Holy Bible is far superior to the original manuscripts, because it is AVAILABLE and the so-called original autographs are NOT.

The surest proof that this Book of the LORD of Lords is far superior to any God-breathed originals, is the fact that this book has been responsible for the conversion of as much as TEN times as many people as the originals; And possible as many as TWO HUNDRED times as many. The church that kept God's word is in Revelation 3:8, the Philadelphia church period, which is the church of the Reformation; And this reformation church with the reformation text was responsible for the salvation of MILLIONS of souls throughout the earth.

So as can be seen by historical fact and documented evidence, the King James Bible is far superior to any so-called verbally inspired originals which nobody HAS and nobody has ever seen, and IF they had them, well... they probably couldn't understand them anyway.

We often fail to see, that understanding the word of God doesn't depend on scholarship, but on a humble mind and a believing heart.

This BOOK of Books has many critics in the world today, and foremost among these of course are the apostate fundamentalists, and apostate conservatives who profess to believe the so-called fundamentals.

These men put out various 'bibles' from time to time, and there may be certain things that may be said about these translators and these revisers, which are absolutely certain and can be proved in court. (We won't go into that here though. "...redeeming the time..." :)

The history of England, Germany, and the United States is the history of material blessing as long as the Author's Version text was honoured. And disaster has followed where it was abandoned.

Charity rejoices in truth, not falsehood. And some of these people that talk about 'love' so much, are guilty of the worst hate that they could possibly be guilty of, and some of you would condemn this kind of a talk about the King James Bible, and you have the most vicious HATE known to God or man, against the Bible itself. And you would justify your friends and your teachers before you would justify the word of God, because your 'love' doesn't rejoice in truth, it rejoices in a LIE.

Christ said of many of you, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do", and "When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." And again, "He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God."

These scoundrels that lie about the King James Bible will speak about the 400 variations between 1611 and 1613; and the changes in spelling and punctuation between 1762 and 1769, WITHOUT EVER TELLING YOU that these changes NEVER even once affected the English text or the Greek text.

They won't tell you that these changes were a GENUINE revision due to changes in spelling and punctuation style. They will not tell you that the new bibles were translated from manuscripts that differ between themselves 3000 times in the Gospels alone.

Now, this greatest of all books ever printed is the King James 1611 AUTHORIZED Version. As high as $50,000 has been paid for a copy of the Bible, and there isn't one communist book on the market worth $25. Who would pay more than $25 for a book written by Lenin or Marx or Trotsky or Engels? But people have paid as much as $50,000 for a copy of the 1611 A.V.

This amazing old book, in it's standard issue in the United States has a black cover, showing it's a book that deals with death. It has gold edges showing that it's a book dealing with deity, or red edges showing that it's a book dealing with blood. It has seven seals around the back, indicating that it is the seven-sealed book. (Revelation 5)

This amazing King James 1611 Authorized Version has had different portions of it translated into more than 1,578 languages; out-translating any other four publications combined.

Now, there are several things you ought to know about this book. We have the promise of preservation of this book in Psalm 12. We have the honesty of the men that preserved this book, who put in italics, words that they knew weren't in the manuscripts.

We have the time of its publication after Bloody Mary had BURNED almost 250 Bible-believing Christians at the stake in the fires of Smithsfield. The next generation coming up had smelled the smoke of burning in their nostrils when they were children, and some of them that sat down and did this work, of course, had mothers and fathers and friends and relatives who were BURNED AT THE STAKE! You couldn't fool them, like you fool these suckers in America.

When these fellows sat down to translate this Bible, these men that sat down, some of them had seen their parents and parents' friends burned to death. They KNEW who the religious whore (Rev.17) of Babylon was. Do YOU? But then, ignorance increases with communication and transportation. You wouldn't have fooled them.

We know, (among other reasons,) that the King James Bible is the word of God because it has no copyright.

We know that the Authorized Version is the word of God because of the pre-eminent place that it gives to JESUS CHRIST; and it is the only Bible that has the power by the Holy Ghost to say that Jesus is the LORD!

We know that the King James Version is the word of God because of the dishonesty of it's critics. They omit words for no reason. And they interpolate when they feel like getting rid of the following words: They take out the words God, Lord, Christ, Heaven, Hell, Evil, Good, Blood; by saying these words were interpolated.

The attitude toward the word of God differs among groups.

The Roman Catholic teaching is that it's one of three sources: (1)Tradition; (2)Authority of the Church; and (3)The Bible.

The Lutheran view is that we're to judge the Bible by the word of the Gospel and man bearing witness.

Calvin taught that the Bible is divine truth, but all fulfilled and completed in the past.

HOWEVER, the Bible-Believing Christian believes the Bible is the word of GOD, the absolute truth, completely and scientifically and historically correct; (and if the antichristian scientists don't like it, they ought to go take a flying jump at the moon! :)

In it's own writing, the Bible is called: The oracles of God, the word of Christ, the word of God, the word of the LORD, the word of life, the words of truth, and the word of faith.

(Remember that Jesus is the Lord! :)

The Bible as it stands where it stands, gives 9 revelations of God to man, the final being a book that is said to be a complete diet. It is likened to honey in Psalm 119:103; likened to apples in Proverbs 25:11; likened to bread in Luke 4:4; likened to meat in Hebrews 5; and milk in 1Peter 2.

In God's own estimation, the word of God is above the name of his son Jesus Christ. (Psalm 138:2). And Paul does not hesitate to use the word 'scripture' for 'God', in Galatians 3:8 and Romans 9:17.

The critics of the King James Bible like to pretend that 2nd Timothy 3:16 refers to the original manuscripts only, which of course it does NOT! The greatest Bible-perverting heresy taught by these apostates is that 2Timothy 3:16 is a reference to the originals, when 2Timothy 3:16 didn't say originals, it said SCRIPTURE. In the previous verse, 2Timothy 3:15, you're told that Timothy knew the scriptures since he was a child. Clearly showing you that the scriptures are certainly not the originals, never have been the originals, and never will be the originals.

The King James Authorized Version as it stands, cannot teach anything except the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, UNLESS you add to it, or subtract from it, or remove the text from the context. If you believe the Bible as it stands, you can't get caught up in any of the heresies infesting the world today.

No man who believes the Bible as it stands ever believed in Baptismal Regeneration, or ever got caught up worshipping idols or using images as an aid to worship.

There isn't a case in the history of the UNIVERSE where any man who believes that book as it is written, without adding to it, without subtracting from it, without removing the text from the context, that ever got involved in one movement that led to the apostasy of the church in 325 AD and that's leading to the apostasy (falling away from the faith) of the church NOW in the Laodicean period before the Second Advent of Jesus Christ. ("Surely I come quickly.")

You ought to put your trust in the AUTHOR and FINISHER of our faith: The LORD Jesus Christ. ("Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved!") If you don't have THE Bible, Get a copy. Read it, Believe it, Love it, Preach it, Teach it, Memorize it, Practice it, and if/when the time comes: By the grace of God, Die by it!

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. --Richard

(Richard Clark, P.O.Box 72292, Newport, Kentucky, USA, 41072-0292)

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