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... which is especially ridiculous when you consider that the KJV is nothing more than a translation. Surely if one wishes to read the real "word of God" one should read the original languages, because no translation can convey more than a "sense" of what the original says.
That then raises the question "what is the original"? Eg, we have several hundred surviving early manuscripts of the New Testament. Every one of them is different. Which is the "real" New Testament?
One specific example: the famous story from John's gospel, of the crowd about to stone to death the woman accused of adultary, where Jesus says "let he who is without sin cast the first stone". That entire story is a late addition to the text; it appears in no manuscript of John before the 5th century AD. The likely explanation is that some 5th century monk, engaged in copying John's gospel, heard the story somewhere and thought "that would make a nice addition - let's add it" and stuck in into the story at a suitable point. It "caught on" and is now regarded as a "legitimate" part of the NT. More than that - it's now one of the most famous of all "Bible stories" even though it's been known for centuries to be a "fake".
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