You are a "sceptic" aligned with Satan

Vincent Chia said you either accept perfect preservation (defined as the TR/KJV position) or you are a "sceptic" aligned with Satan. [4]

This claim presents a false dichotomy that conflates two distinct theological questions: whether God preserves Scripture, and how that preservation operates.

Affirming God’s providential care over the biblical text doesn’t require accepting any single translation or manuscript tradition as uniquely preserved[1]. Inspiration and preservation are separate doctrines—God’s guarantee of the original writings doesn’t logically demand that He must preserve every subsequent copy in identical form[1]. Many faithful Christians throughout history have held that God preserved Scripture sufficiently for His purposes while acknowledging textual variation across manuscripts.

The rhetoric we’ve encountered reflects a broader ideological commitment. King James Only apologetics often frame the debate as fundamentally about modernism itself—equating textual criticism with humanistic rationalism that elevates human judgment over God’s authority[2]. This transforms a technical question about manuscript transmission into a spiritual loyalty test. But disagreeing about which manuscripts best represent the original text isn’t the same as rejecting God’s Word or embracing Satan’s agenda.

Ironically, even the KJV translators themselves rejected the very principle of perfect consistency that modern King James Only advocates demand—they deliberately chose different English words for the same original terms when clarity required it, explicitly refusing what they saw as mechanical rigidity[3]. This suggests that even those who produced the KJV would reject the absolutism now claimed in its name.

Faithful Christians can and do disagree about textual criticism, manuscript families, and translation philosophy without being skeptics or Satan’s agents. The person making this claim has created an artificial boundary that excludes genuine believers who reach different conclusions through honest study.

[1] William W. Combs, “The Preservation of Scripture,” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal Volume 5 (2000), 5:8.
[2] Jason A. Hentschel, “The King James Only Movement,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America, ed. Paul C. Gutjahr, Oxford Handbooks (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 233.
[3] Mark Ward, “Word Nerd: Language and the Bible,” Bible Study Magazine (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press; Faithlife, 2021), 14:1:64.
[4] https://biblewitness.com/resources/magazines/Vol05_Iss02.pdf