Testing of the Spirits in the Selection of Foreign
Language Bible Texts
The greatest challenge in adding foreign language text support to the King James
Pure Bible Search application hasn't been adding accent mark support to the
dictionary and input methods, it hasn't been trying to translate or find someone to
translate the menus and dialog boxes, it hasn't been even been dealing with
Unicode characters and weird punctuation marks; no, the greatest challenge has
been to trying to find Foreign Language Bible Translations that are true and
faithful to the Infallible, Inerrant English King James Bible text.
The first and foremost requirement for selecting foreign texts is that they remain
true to the message and doctrine of the King James in every way possible. And if
by some miracle it also happens to still exhibit some form of the “King James
Code” to verify its divine inspiration, then all the better.
To discern whether or not a given translation is faithful and true to the text of the
King James, we must “Test the Spirits” to determine if it is from God or not:
(1 John 4:2-3) "Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: {3} And every
spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God:
and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should
come; and even now already is it in the world."
This chapter outlines the “Testing of the Spirits” used to discern the source text of
various Bible Translations to determine possible candidates for use in the
Internationalization of the King James Pure Bible Search program. And we will
also explore the challenges and textual differences that can (and will) make it
difficult for the “King James Code” to manifest in any of these translations.
The primary “Test of the Spirits” involves analyzing key passages and comparing
them against the text of the King James Bible – passages that are commonly
corrupted in the other English Translations of the corrupt Bibles. Only texts that
pass this test, and that are complete and can be verified with multiple witnesses,
will be considered for inclusion in the King James Pure Bible Search software.
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