The Holy Spirit is the Key to it All!
When we tell the truth that no translation is perfect, we are not railing against God's Word, we are testing the human translation of it to see if it is accurate. God said to test all things.
The only inspired word of God is in the original copies of the languages of Greek and Hebrew, everything translated from that has errors.
There was no punctuation, chapter breaks or paragraphs in the original as we have now, all that was added because of our language. The extra books of the Catholic Bible were placed in the KJV, the very first translation of that Bible included these books, that were later found to be unworthy of God's word, and were removed. That was the first revision of the KJV.
King James wasn't even a believer, and mandated rules about it's translation that were not valid. Those who don't speak English have other translations. The Holy Spirit can give us understanding in spite of the errors and human manipulation, that is the miracle.
The WORD is living in us, He can show us truth no matter what the errors are, but of course we have to have faith to believe that, and we have to trust Christ rather than a particular translation.
Those who must have a "book" to worship, rather than Christ of the Word, Who is the Word, are depending on an idol, rather than Christ. He is all sufficient, no matter what the translation. It is easier to place our trust in human tradition than in Christ Whom we cannot see.
Never trust a translation, trust only Christ Who can open the understanding no matter what the words on the page say.
An unrepentant hardened resistant to God unbeliever, will not be able to understand what he reads in the Bible no matter what translation he reads, because he does not have the Holy Spirit. He can read the KJV of the Bible until his face turns blue, but he will only twist and malign what he reads without understanding it, because of his unregenerate mind.
Folks, it is about the Holy Spirit, always in every version and in every language.
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