In his mind he was on the way home trying to answer a little boy's questions without destroying his respect for his pastor or the Word of God. All over the auditorium, Bibles could be heard closing. The Word, for which so many had died, would go unread by the people. As more and more Bible translations are published, fewer people preach the Word with confidence. One says it one way.
Modern translations rely upon a Greek text which rests largely on two Catholic manuscripts.
One of them is so pathetically marked up with corrections it finally ended up in the trash, where it was found. The other disagrees with the first, and is missing most of chapters 9 through 13 of Hebrews. However, the vast majority of old manuscripts agree beautifully with each other, are quoted extensively by early church leaders, and are obviously from the text accepted by the early church as correct. These manuscripts combine to form the text from which the King James Bible was translated. The importance of the King James lies mainly in the fact that it was translated from the true text, and therefore gives us the true and error-free Word of God.