This episode analyzes the claim by KJV only advocates that God providentially chose to preserve His word through the Textus Receptus. The Textus Receptus is based on the majority approach: God providentially preserved His Word by ensuring that the majority of manuscripts conveyed the divine autographa. An easy way to test this claim is evaluating all the manuscripts from each century to determine the majority text of each century. If God is providentially preserving His Word, the majority of manuscripts of every century would always convey the same text. Yet the majority text upon which the Textus Receptus is based only became the majority text around the 9th century. Additionally, manuscripts prior to the 4th century never cite from the Byzantine text type, the type commonly appearing in the majority text of the Textus Receptus. They instead cite from Alexandrian or Western text types. Finally, Gordon Fee has noted that citations of the Bible from church Fathers favor the modern critical text over the Textus Receptus. The preservation of the divine autographa THROUGH the majority approach is consequently invalid.
