by Tracy Baker

Created on: April 21, 2009

To many Christians in this world the Bible is not only within the realm of being the absolute truth, but is without a doubt the true "Word of God". Because of this belief, these devout Bible followers live their entire lives by its every word knowing in their very hearts that doing so will lead them straight to the Gates of Heaven and the eternal life that the Bible promises. Often times however, those who believe the Bible to be one hundred percent accurate do so because they have been told that it is by others and not necessarily because they have done the research in order to prove to themselves that it is.

The first question that anyone should ask when deciding whether or not the Bible is absolute truth is how much has the Bible been handled by human hands since its creation over two thousand years ago? To anyone who is familiar with politics, or human behavior for that matter, the answer to this question should be obvious - human hands have handled the Bible way too much. Although there are many who live under the notion that the Bible had "God's protection" while human hands created it, the truth is that any protection that God may have provided for the Bible would have gone against the principal of "free will". And through free will those who created the Bible, and those who recreated the Bible, and those who recreated the Bible after that, and so on and so forth down history's time line had the ability to add or omit anything they chose. Considering that it has always been those in power who had control over the Bible and its contents, how far of a stretch is it really to assume that not everything in the Bible is accurate? In researching the history of the King James Bible it's no stretch at all.

What may surprise many Americans is that the Pilgrims, the first of our fore fathers, who came here from England rejected the King James Bible choosing to found our country on the Geneva Bible instead. Although the King James Bible and the Geneva Bible were ninety five percent the same, the scholars who created the King James Bible did so by compiling scripture from six other Bibles including the Rheims New Testament, an English translation that came from a Latin translation that had been proven to be corrupt and inaccurate. Because the King James had been influenced by, what the Pilgrim's considered to be, a corrupt religion they took the Geneva Bible to America with them instead. Interestingly enough, The King James Bible was the first book to ever be printed

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