After 33 years as a believing Christian, I am convinced that there is no English Bible that is inerrant. I use the AV 1611 but it is chock full of errors, no matter what Peter Ruckman says (he says you can correct the Greek with the inerrant AV). Many are punctuation errors. The original manuscripts contained no punctuation and all the punctuation found in any Bible is dding by man.
The most glaring and dangerous punctuation error in the AV and most all other Bibles is in Luke 23:43 which, as written, gives the false impression that, upon our death, we immediately will be translated to heaven to be with Christ. Of course, this defies everything the Bible says about death and resurrection. If it is true, as it stands in the AV, Christ would have to perform about 50,000 individual resurrections per day. The problem is that the comma should be AFTER the word(s) "To day" instead of before. When changed, it comes out as a common Jewish idiom. We still use it today when we say, "I'm telling you today, you'd better....." or, "I'm telling you right now, you should....."
A very common error in the AV and, even in modern bibles, is to mix up the words "sons" and "children", mainly because the legal meanings of these words, as used in NT times, weren't known until archeologists later on discovered documents explaining them. There are many cases in the AV where the Greek word meaning son or sons is translated child or children, and visa versa. This is a big deal when you consider that they had totally different meanings back then than they have today. Then, the term "son" was a legal term. A natural born "child" was essentially a slave and could be sold into slavery. A child could only become a "son" through a legal adoption procedure. Adoption made a son an automatic heir and, as I understand it, this was irrevocable once made. The terms "son" and "heir" back then were essentially interchangeable. Also, a man could select someone from out of the family to adopt and be a son (and heir). This person would have a much higher status than a non-adopted natural born child. In the AV NT, the term "adoption" is used 5 times as a part of our blessings. NT adoption is a fascinating subject. It would behoove us to double check any occurrence of the words son, sons, child, or children that we find, with a good lexicon.
