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Joe, Perhaps I should have said most? If not, what translation should we use? Are you a KJV only? I agree that some are terrible. But there are many that are good.

One of the biggest lies in modern day Christianity, is that the Bible is only inspired in the original papers written on. But since the originals do not exist,and noone has seen them we are left with additional doctrinal standards, ie confessions, of which man has made himself the final authority.

IF you admit that the Bible is only inspired in the original Hebrew/Greek, then this makes God a respector of persons, since people that have been dead for thousands of years were the only ones privy to this info.

When the Bible is only inspired in the original tongue, then we common lay people, have to go to those who know, or better yet, claim to know the original tongue, and they become the final authority.

SO to answer your inane question, I worship a God who providentially has kept His Holy Word alive and understandable to to plowman as well as the scholar. And all "faithful" translations are inspired.
First, no I am not KJV only.

Second, Where is your proof that ANY translation is inspired? Sorry, but your word is not enough. By definition, NO translation of Scripture is inspired!!!

Third, you state, “And all "faithful" translations are inspired.” Faithful to “what?”

Fourth, God NEVER abandoned His Word. He left us copies (so we wouldn’t worship the originals, like you are attempting to worship your multiple “good” translations).

Your problem is with your definition of “inspired.” Inspiration refers directly to "only" the autographa. The inspired Scriptures are God's pure, perfect, complete, inerrant and therefore the authoritative word. Biblical inspiration suppressed the fallible element in the writers, but not in its translators today!!!! You should study the

THE CHICAGO STATEMENT ON BIBLICAL INERRANCY.

The Doctrine of Inspiration. And a whole host of others here: Sola Scriptura.

The Authority & Inspiration of the Scriptures

2 Timothy 3:15-16, theopneustos.

Reformed and Always Reforming,