THE GREAT GOD and OUR SAVIOUR

In his book, "One Book Stands Alone", Bro. Doug Stauffer has given some excellent reasons for the superiority of the KJV for some of the verses it is most heavily attacked for.

Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

The MV lackeys think they have found a problem with the KJV, that it denies the deity of Jesus Christ. To the contrary, it affirms some vital doctrine.

First, the English construction accurately translates the Greek phenomenon called a hendiadys (making one from two) in these passages. But, more than that, these verses affirm that there is but ONE true God, and that Jesus Christ is the ONLY Saviour.

Note that the verses say, "THE great/only God and OUR Lord Jesus Christ. God is indeed THE only God. He is God of the saved and lost alike, the God of all. But Jesus is not the Saviour of all, He is only the Saviour of those who believe, He is OUR Saviour - He is not *their* Saviour. Though He OFFERS salvation to all,  He is not the Saviour of ALL, He is the Saviour of all who believe.

Thus, the KJV is right again. And the seemingly innocuous words like "the" are sometimes vital.

Oh, BTW, the modern perversions, trying to clarify and improve on the KJV, rend the passage, "OUR great God and Saviour", which implies there can be *other* great gods, OUR great God, and their great god.

Thus, the modern perversions are wrong again.

EVERY WORD of God is pure! The modern dishrags don't have the same "message" because they don't have the right words.