It must be emphatically stressed, however, that this does not mean that the doctrines contained in those verses have been jeopardized. In fact, it has been repeatedly affirmed that no doctrine of Scripture has been affected by these textual differences. If that is true, then the 'King James only' advocates might be crying wolf where none exists, rather than occupying themselves with the more important aspects of advancing the gospel. Third, the King James Bible has undergone three revisions since its inception in 1611, incorporating more than 100,000 changes. Fifth, the KJV includes one very definite error in translation, which even KJV advocates would admit.
Some people revere it today because it is difficult to understand.
Such a use of that text, however, is a gross distortion of the Scriptures. We do God a great disservice when we make the gospel more difficult to understand than He intended it. Yet, Martin Luther's fine translation of the Bible into German predated the KJV by almost 100 years. Our faith does not rest in a singular tradition, nor is it provincial. Vibrant, biblical Christianity must never unite itself with provincialism.