Critical Text hard truth

[From an email exchange...]

Warfield has two marks against him. One is the evolution thing, but he seemed to have come off that later in life. The other is he established the Critical Text and the presuppositions behind it at Princeton Theological Seminary. This is his worst legacy. Those types forever after want to make it a silly argument between 'King James Onlyism' vs. serious adult scholarship. It's really an argument between faith in the supernatural preservation of Scripture vs. naturalism, empiricism, rationalism. People who hold to the latter regarding the Bible get stunted. Spiritually stunted. The Bible becomes something that needs them (scholars) more than they need it. It becomes a document no different from any other ancient document like Plutarch or Plato. They now look down on the text and determine what the text should be, what should be included, what should be excluded, rather than looking up to the Bible as being above them with real authority. 

Once you concede error in the Bible it establishes a priesthood of scholars as being above the Holy Spirit. It establishes their necessary human authority.

James White and canon scholar Michael J. Kruger gave a talk. They said the books of the Bible (the canon) were set by the Holy Spirit, not man or the Catholic Church. They gave all the good reasons for the necessity of believing this. THEN they continued to talk of the actual WORDS of the Bible and hemmed and hawed their stance that the actual WORDS of the Bible  COULD be determined by man. Because otherwise they'd have to come away from their Critical Text stance, and that is a bridge too far for them. So they have come 50% of the way to the faith position, but refuse to go 100% of the way. It was very telling...

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One sentence often got me banned on pro Critical Text forums: 

There's a difference between editing a similar stream of manuscripts vs. reconstructing a manuscript based on diverse streams and sources. 

This sentence is in response to the challenge that the manuscripts underlying the KJV had to be edited.

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There's also another important distinction in this general subject of the Bible that I never saw and wish I had: there's a difference between teachers and leaders of Christians vs. everyday believers regarding how they are effected by the Critical Text product.

A person who innocently engages a Critical Text Bible is not necessarily being stunted by the presuppositions that accompany such a product. They are getting an imperfect Bible, yes, but they are taking it in purely, or, like a child, to use the biblical metaphor.

It's the scholars, pastors, and knowing so-called lay people who are getting stunted spiritually. Not only that they are influencing those not privvy to the Satanic downgrade and narcissistic demands of fallen nature that are producing the imperfect Bibles. The Critical Text Bibles get more and more radically changed in time. The original NIV comes out with queer and gender theory changes to the text. Let that stand as enough of an example. 

In time Critical Text Bibles reflect the Satanic influence that powers them. 

The Bible itself makes the distinction between leaders and teachers of Christians vs. everyday believers. I.e. God comes down harder on heresy and false teaching or incompetent leadership and teaching than He does on believers who are not assuming positions of influence over others.

So I wish I'd seen this distinction whenever a Critical Text devil conflated innocent readers of their downgraded product with themselves. 

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This historical adoption of the Critical Text paradigm over the faithful Holy Spirit inspired paradigm destroyed the power of the faith and the power of biblical doctrine in both the institutions teaching the faith and individuals who adopt the Satanic approach. 

I used the word stunted intentionally. The churches, the institutions, the people in them are spiritually stunted. The power of the faith is lost. The ability of the faith - the Word - to speak individuals into awakened real beings is lost. 

Go Satanic at the fount, the very word of God, and you can be doctrinally sound on everything else and still be no different than a worldly unbeliever.

Though I don't question anybody's state with God regarding salvation. I do say though that you can be a Christian while being absolutely worthless in Christ's army.