“Bible Answer Man” Hank Hanegraaff shot down a nonbeliever’s argument that the King James Version of the Bible has been used to control people and take away their rights.
Hanegraaff, an Eastern Orthodox radio talk-show host who leads the Christian Research Institute, heard in a clip posted on Facebook on Monday from a woman who explained that her nonbeliever roommate believes that the KJV was used as “propaganda” to suppress people and their rights.
Hanegraaff said that although the argument is often made in culture, “it bares [sic] no semblance to reality whatsoever.”
“There are lots of translations, and the translations have errors. But we today have what is called the science of textual criticism, by which we can compare one translation with another translation, and by doing that we can get back to the autograph,” he said.
“The embarrassment of riches as respect to translations helps us get back to the originals.”
The “Bible Answer Man” said that whichever version of the Bible one takes into account, the message from God is not that He is a “killjoy to gays and lesbians,” rather that He “sets parameters around human beings in…
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