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KJV ONLY Claim #1: Colossians

1:14 and The Blood of Jesus


Removed
By Christian Anarchist

So one claim I usually hear from King


James Onlyists is that the modern
versions remove Colossians 1:14. Not the
entire verse though. Instead, they remove
the part about the blood of Jesus. Let us
take a look first at the verses from the
popular bible translations. The source
used for the verses in the picture are from
biblehub.com so you are free to check
there if you wish to double check. Here is
the scriptures:

So we have the redemption


THROUGH HIS BLOOD part taken out.
Now the common claim by some is that
this is part of a conspiracy from the
secular one world religion to remove any
mention of Christs redeeming blood.
Theyll typically say, Without the blood
of Christ, there is no atonement on the
Cross. I find this to be ridiculous since
they are obviously only focusing on one
verse here compared to others. Some of
the earliest manuscripts we have of this
verse, first off, does not have this
manuscript. We are dealing with the topic
of textual variants at this point. What did
the manuscripts say and how can we
determine which textual variant works?
Let us bring in James May from
www.kjvonly.org. James May is an average
theologian layman that has a B.A. in Bible
and Greek and an M.A. in Theology from
Bob Jones University. In his article on this
topic, he states the following: When

scholars examine a particular variant in


the NT, they seek to understand how
alternative readings may have arisen,
and they examine the manuscript support
for the various readings. One
observation that scholars have made is
that parallel passages tend to become
more alike when they are copied many
times by people familiar with both
passages. There are a number of
examples of this phenomenon in the
Gospels. Ephesians and Colossians
contain several parallel passages,
including Ephesians 1:7 and Colossians
1:14. It is easy to imagine that a copyist
familiar with Ephesians 1:7 may have
inserted through his blood in Colossians
1:14 either by accident, or on purpose
thinking that he was correcting someone
elses omission. Copyists were regularly
confronted with errors in the documents
from which they made their copies..
KJV Only advocates regularly argue that

the text of the KJV is the correct text


because it is supported by the majority of
manuscripts and that such support
indicates the God-guided usage of the
church. If majority readings truly
represent Gods leading, then God is
leading his church to reject the phrase
through his blood in Colossians 1:14.
The phrase is not only absent from the
Alexandrian manuscripts, including Aleph
and B, but is also not found in the
majority of Byzantine manuscripts (1).
So interesting set of information that
we have here from James concerning the
passage. In fact, the NET Bible notes
gives us some more inside information on

the topic (2):

So not only do we have it not in the


earlier manuscripts, but there seems to
be claims about Ephesians 1:7 that
Colossians 1:14 borrows from this verse.
However, if this is true and that modern
bible translations wish to remove the
atonement and redemption of Christ
through his blood, then we wont find this
phrase in Ephesians 1:7 in the modern
translations that are quite popular right?

Well would you like at that now. The


idea of redemption through the blood of
Jesus Christ is not removed from this
passage. So why would that be if this
conspiracy to remove the blood of Christ
from the bible is set in stone in the
modern translations? Simple answer is
this: There is no conspiracy from the
accused translations. This is just another
straw that the KJV Onlyists try to grab at
for a desperate attempt to prove their
point from an uneducated position.

Sources and Citations


1) May, James Richard. "Another
Bloodless Bible?" Another Bloodless Bible.
1998. Web. 28 May 2016.
2) NET Bible Online. Colossians 1:14.
Web. 28 May 2016. (Under Notes Section)

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