[DMcKay]

I hit the post button before I was finished because I had a contractor at the door. It sounds like you have been caught up in a church that is very much into legalism. This is especially true of Baptist churches that adhere to the whole KJV Only thing. Your observation is correct about the KJV. In fact, Erasmus who wrote the Greek text upon which the KJV is based only had 5 manuscripts, and the only one that wasn't Byzantine, he didn't use. None of the texts that he used was complete so he translated the Vulgate from Latin into Greek and used that.

The NASV and the NIV are usually rejected by those who are KJV only because they believe that they were created from Greek texts created by Catholics and had the taint of the Vatican. This is so stupid, the Catholics follow Erasmus' text and so do the KJVers and they don't seem to have a problem with that. If one takes the time to actually study the original texts one finds that there is less than 1 1/10 of a % of the variant readings that have anything to do with something other than spelling errors or copist errors. And no doctrine stands or falls on the basis of one verse.

Baptists like these give Baptists a bad name.