[Why is 'Heretic' misspelled as 'Herectick' in that verse?]
A Christian might answer that, though God promised to preserve His Word, He did not promise to preserve the English language.
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Check this out. If I ever find you I am going to strap you to a chair and cut a hole in your stomach. Then I will rip your pants off. Then I will sever your penis from your body with a blunt knife. Then, after I am done smacking you with your bloody dick, I am going to make you chew it up and swallow it. Then I am going to reach into your stomach cavity, which I conveniently opened up already, and repeat the process... Again... And again... And again... Untill you either die from stomach blood loss (which is THE slowest way you can possibly die)Or I can no longer find pieces of your penis to feed you because you have chewed them apart 10 times over. Only then will you have paid for your stupidity. Sleep tight buddy.
Has to be the weirdest claim attributed to God I've heard so far.
Here's the thing; if God trulys wants us all to be saved, why muddle up his word through multiple languages? Logic does not apply.
Nor did He promise that translations into languages other than the original Hebrew and Greek would "preserve His Word", either (actually, in the 1611 edition it's spelled "heretike". "Heretick" probably came from the 1769 revision).
In fact, this post is surprisingly non-fundie, since it acknowledges that languages change over time. I'd rate it barely a 2.
As for the first commenter with the self-applicable posting name, it's obvious that he's just trying to make FSTDT look bad in order to prove some claims against it. It's pretty hard to hold the moral high ground when, in attempting to prove someone else's misdeeds, all you can do is frame them by committing those misdeeds yourself.
Now why didn't i think of that when i went to school.
"Sorry teach, but my way of spelling is really the way god spell words! I therefore demand a higher grade!"
I never claimed that the KJV is perfect. But, I believe that a direct translation is closer to the original than an indirect translation would be.
Also, the word, "heretick" would not have been mispelled in 1611. So, the fact that English speakers used to add a letter 'k' is not direct proof that the Bible has been corrupted.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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