If every Christian believed his Bible

“We would be a long way down the road if every Christian believed his Bible was indeed the word of God in English and all others merely contained large portions of the Bible. Saying the ESV is God’s word in English is historically, theologically, and logically more consistent than saying the ESV, NIV, NASB, KJV, CSB, and the Message are all equally the Bible.

“Mainstream KJV-Only Christians or Confessional Bibliology Christians...appear to believe too much about their Bible. I have been defending the King James Version since I was a kid travelling with my dad to churches and watching him make the case and to this day it still baffles me that some Christians cannot let a simple Mid-Michigan farmer believe the Bible he reads is the word of God down to the very word. Apparently, this belief is such a heinous theological crime that said farmer must endure the slings and arrows of fellow Christians in college, grad-school, post-graduate school, and up into his Ph.D. Then finally he gets it from his newly ensconced pastor with a thirty-hour master’s degree under his belt. It must be some egregious sin to leverage that kind of time, money, and effort to see such a belief defeated.”

Peter Van Kleeck Jr.