Expert: Dr. Billy Kryger - 4/10/2008

Question
Dear Dr. Kryger,
     I'm trying to understand the difference between the "preserved word of God" and the "inspired word of God"
according to your statement:

"The KJV is not inspired, as were the original autographs, but that it is the preserved Word of God for English-speaking people (Psalm 12:6, 7).
Now, what exactly is missing in the King James Bible that makes it uninspired?

What is missing in the KJV that makes it inferior to the original autographs? If you had an original autograph right in front of you and you made a photocopy of it, would that photocopy be just as inspired as the original autograph, or would the words in that photocopy be just the "preserved Word of God"?                        Yours truly,
                                         George


Answer
George:
    Let me clarify my position on this issue as clearly as I can:
    Men, Divinely inspired, penned the Holy Bible. It is infallible and inerrant in communicating the truth God wants humanity to know. Every word in the originals was exactly what God had intended to share with humanity. It is the ultimate standard by which all human conduct and doctrines should be measured. Even though inspiration and strict inerrancy can only be claimed by the original manuscripts, we can rest assured that God, through His Divine preservation, has given us copies and translations that are inerrant and inspired in a derivative sense, in that they accurately reflect the originals. Therefore the translations and copies have the same authority as the originals.  I believe in English it is the KJV.  In other languages it is not the English KJV but those translations of that particular language that most accurately reflect the originals.