justbyfaith
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the problems with KJV-only. Whenever it is in error,
The kjv is never in error.
Your misinterpretation points to one of the problems with KJV-only. Whenever it is in error, and I believe it errs if it refers to justification (a once-for-all sacrifice that makes us legally perfect) as "sanctification". A sound systematic theology must account for ALL statements in Scripture--even those which appear, at first glance, to be contradictory. We can have full confidence that any "contradictions" will yield to further study.
But for you, further study is done in a translation that is biased against the requirement for holiness in scripture. If you understand that the kjv is just as inspired, if not more so, than your watered-down translations, then you would be able to see that the kjv brings out very nicely this requirement of holiness, more than the others. To discount this requirement, you would have to discount the validity of the kjv entirely. However, to do so would be to denounce 2 Timothy 3:16.
2Ti 3:16, All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
It is improper to form a theology and impose it on the Bible.
Amen sister. However, I believe that this is what many people do who read the watered-down translations. In all actuality, the translators of them have imposed their theology on their translations.
When I read my kjv Bible, I do not impose my theology on what I read...I take at face value what it is saying to me at any given moment.
I fear that the creation of the watered-down translations has only served to bring division to the body of Christ; if those who read the watered-down translations are even in the body of Christ (I'll give them the benefit of the doubt).
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