Textual Criticism = "Yea hath God said..."

"We have given up the Pope, for he has blundered often and terribly; but we shall not set up instead of him a horde of little popelings fresh from college. Are these correctors of Scripture infallible? Are we now to believe that infallibility is with learned men? Now, Farmer Smith, when you have read your Bible, and have enjoyed its precious promises, you will have, to-morrow morning, to go down the street to ask the scholarly man at the parsonage whether this portion of the Scripture belongs to the inspired part of the Word, or whether it is of dubious authority. We shall gradually be so bedoubted and becriticized, that only a few of the most profound will know what is Bible, and what is not, and they will dictate to all the rest of us. I have no more faith in their mercy than in their accuracy: they will rob us of all that we hold most dear, and glory in the cruel deed. This same reign of terror we shall not endure, for we still believe that God revealeth himself rather to babes than to the wise and prudent, and we are fully assured that our own old English version of the Scriptures is sufficient for plain men for all purposes of life, salvation, and godliness. We do not despise learning, but we will never say of culture or criticism, "These be thy gods, O Israel!" - Charles Spurgeon

I am critical of some texts myself but not in the spirit that Satan used to cause Adam and Eve to question God's word when he said "yea hath God said". I am critical of and I reject texts such as those that had their origin in Alexandria and the likes.

I reject Alexandrian texts and choose those texts which came out of Antioch as these were the ones used by the true church at the time just after our Lord ascended into heaven. In this sense I am a textual critic, one who rejects manuscripts such as the Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus.

I stand in respectable company such as Charles Spurgeon and many others today but these are not as potent as proof as the power that the KJV has shown in my life. It has proven itself to me through much prayer and study to be truly God's word.