About Thy Word is True
Since 2006, this site has defended the King James Bible, answering the questions raised against it from the Scriptures themselves.
In 2001, I took a course at the University of West Florida called “Studies in the New Testament.” I expected to study the Scriptures. Instead, the course spent a semester questioning them, setting one alleged discrepancy after another before the students as reasons to doubt that the New Testament could be trusted.
About thirty “contradictions” came up that semester. Some were harder than others, but not one was a contradiction in the King James Bible as written, and none needed anything beyond the Scriptures themselves to understand. The method was as old as the garden: “Yea, hath God said?” (Genesis 3:1).
I've often wondered how many students came into that class believing the words of God and left without that faith. This site began as the resource I wish I'd had then: those questions, and their answers. It has grown into a defense of the King James Bible itself: the manuscripts behind its text, why it translates as it does, and answers to the passages that seem to disagree.
— Adam Engesath
What We Believe
- The Scriptures are the words of God, true in every word: “Thy word is true from the beginning” (Psalm 119:160).
- God has preserved His words, and the King James Bible is that word in English.
- The King James New Testament rests on the Received Text, the Greek the churches copied and read through the centuries, and the evidence supports its readings where modern Bibles depart from them.
- Where passages seem to disagree, the answer is found in the text, not in correcting it.
How the Answers Are Written
- Fairly. Each difficulty is stated in its strongest form, with the passages quoted in full, before it's answered.
- From the text. Answers come from the King James Bible as printed, letting Scripture explain Scripture.
- With sources. Where an answer leans on history, language, or manuscripts, it names its sources, and the manuscript evidence lists only citations checked against a published source.
- Open to correction. If something here is wrong, write and say so.