If the KJV has "thousands of errors", then all modern Bible versions based on Wescott and Hort's Greek New Testament translation have tens of thousand of errors, because of being based on corrupt Greek texts that leave out much of The New Testament that the KJV does not.
The
King James Bible of 1611 C.E. is based on Greek manuscripts no earlier than the 12th century C.E., and the Christian Greek Scriptures of the
King James Bible is based on Paris printer and editor Robert Estienne or "Stephanus" "Received Text" of 1550 C.E. (who introduced a system of chapters and verses into his Greek-Latin text of 1551 C.E., introducing them in both the Hebrew and Greek scriptures in his French Bible of 1553 C.E.), that of itself was based mainly on the Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus master Greek "New Testament", with his first edition being printed in Basel, Switzerland in 1516, one year before the Protestant Reformation started in Germany. The Hebrew Scriptures (commonly but inaccurately called "the Old Testament") of the
King James Bible is based on about 90 percent of William Tyndale's Bible translation.(William Tyndale 1492-1536 C.E.)
The
King James Bible, beside its archaic English with it's "thees" and "thous", has numerous errors, and spurious additions, such as at Acts 7:59, whereby the words "upon God" were added in order to give support for the "Holy Trinity", to make people think that Jesus is God, but which they are
not found in the oldest Greek manuscripts.
And at 1 Timothy 3:16, it does
not read: "God was manifest in the flesh" as the
King James Bible says, but that "Indeed, the sacred secret (whereby Jesus is the central figure of the "mysteries of the Kingdom", Matt 13:11) of this godly devotion is admittedly great: ‘He (or Jesus) was made manifest in flesh, was declared righteous in spirit", for the Greek word there was
not theos meaning "God", but rather the Greek word
hos that means "who", so that it accurately reads: "Who (or he) was made manifest in the flesh", whereby Jesus was the subject under consideration, who is the "mediator between God and men........who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all".(1 Tim 2:5, 6;
New World Translation; Note: the
King James Bible reads "ransom", not "corresponding ransom", in which Paul used the Greek word
antilytron, not just
lytron that Jesus used at Matthew 20:28, meaning "ransom")
And at Acts 3:13, 26, the
King James Bible reads "Son", but which the Greek word there is
not huios, meaning "son", but rather the Greek word pais, that literally means "boy", but in certain application means "servant", and of which the
King James Bible properly renders it as "servant" at Matthew 12:18 (which is a direct quotation from Isaiah 42:1), but not at Acts 3:13, 26, trying to make readers not see Jesus as a "servant" if they believe that he part of the "Holy Trinity", coequal, pushing support for the "Godhead".
And the
King James Bible wrongly renders three Greek words as "Godhead" (a word that did not exist until about the 12th century C.E.), being
theios at Acts 17:29, that means "godlike" or "divine",
theiotes at Romans 1:20, that means "divinity", and
theotetos at Colossians 2:9, that also means "divinity" or "deity".
The etymology of "Godhead" is: "c. 1200, "divine nature, deity, divinity," from god + Middle English -hede (see -head). Along with maidenhead, the sole survival of this form of the suffix. Old English had godhad "divine nature." Parallel form godhood is from early 13c., now chiefly restricted to "state or condition of being a god."(website etymonline dot com)
And the
King James Bible has the spurious addition at 1 John 5:7, 8, adding the words: "in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth." It accurately reads: "For there are three witness bearers: the spirit and the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement."(
New World Translation)
I could go on, but this is sufficient for now, to show some of the inaccuracies and spurious additions of the
King James Bible, though revered by many for hundreds of years.
