As I pointed out, this is fallaciously begging the question--you are assuming that the verses should be there in the first place, and so concluding that the KJV is correct and the NIV (and other versions) has removed them. Given that the vast majority of manuscript evidence has been found after the KJV came out, it is most likely the case that the newer versions are correct and the KJV has verses added to it.
Anyone can post anything they want on the Internet, including supposed missing verses from the NIV and other versions newer than the KJV, but the problem is that most of them have no relevant education for making the claim that the newer versions have removed verses. And even though this can be searched and reasoned through quite easily without relevant education, many are unwilling to do so, to their shame.
It's a good thing that men with experience are not at the mercy of the edumacated ones, Lol! Ok, it sounds like you want to hear my Testimony about this. I'm not asking you to believe it, just recalling what happened to me and the Lord was involved (and I can prove it!) so that testimony is the basis for my belief that the NIV version is not the best version to study from.
Testimony:
This was back in the day sort've as opposed to not recently. I was living in Colorado and had a previous co-worker as a friend, Richard and he was also a Brother in Christ. He was married with little kids. I was married with little kids so that situation kept us both close to home, lol. We liked to study the Bible together and so forth, but I had a KJV and he had a NIV Bible so an over the phone bible study didn't go so well. My friend fixed that by gifting me a big new NIV Bible. So that we could have the bible studies over the phone more consistently. It was better. We both had the same Bible.
A couple months later a different friend/previous co-worker, Dave, and also a Brother in Christ knocks on my door to visit. He comes in and I maake coffee and we sit down and my big black NIV Bible is sitting on the table and he says hey, new Bible huh? And he starts to thumb through it and I told him that Richard got this for me as a gift. So Dave starts telling me that this is prolly a bad version for that because this version (NIV) has a lot of missing verses. So I said show me, and we spent a good 45 minutes to an hour looking up missing verses and comparing to my KJV that I have. He knew these missing verses off the top of his head and he showed me and he was right...
But, whatever. I already have that Bible and had even got some markings and highlighters in it and stuff, so onward with what you have, lol. Fast forward a few months andI come to this forum and there was a thread about which version of the Bible is best for studying? And everyone was chiming in with their opinions, this version, that version. And someone said something about they like the NIV....I had just recently learned about the missing verses so I posted hey the NIV has missing verses and I saw them. And, IIRC it was Eugene and he asked me, Edward can you give me a few examples? So I figured sure this should be easy.
My memory is no good and I couldn't remember what chapter and verse was missing. So I calle dup Dave (at work!) and asked him what are those scriptures again that are missing from the NIV. So he gave me a list of about a half dozen I guess and I thanked him and we hung up.
Being a long time poster to this site I was well aware that one needs all his ducks in a row before he posts. So I didn't just post back with the scriptures that Dave gave to me, I looked them all up...and every single one of them was there in my NIV Bible!
I was feeling like the proverbial pinball machine (Tilt) because I know that me and Dave looked up a bunch of missing scriptures!
I didn't know what to do. I had no examples for Eugene. What could I say if they were in fact in there?! I really bit it off this time, but at least I hadn't posted before re-verifying! But I felt the Twilight zone atmosphere because I did have that study with Dave and I knew it. Those verses were NOT on there when me and Dave looked them up. So something is going on here...
So I started to pray and ask God what is going on here? But before I get five words out, my eyes flicked up and I looked at my black NIV Bible on the table and my eyes saw the gold lettering as plain as day...NKJV
That Bible did not start out as a NKJV. It was a NIV Bible. Richard picked out the exact same Bible for me as he has and there was no mistake. We had even Bible studied with them and highlighted some stuff...Hey waitaminute, and so I looked and all of my underlinings and highlighting were still in this new NKJV Bible.
So there is three that can attest to this bible was a NIV before and now, it IS an NKJV! That, my Brothers and Sisters, can only be God.
I can attest to it.
Richard can attest to it.
Dave can attest to it.
That's three. In the mouth of two or three witnesses the truth shall be established.
I do not ask anyone to believe me, so let's not argue if you don't believe it. I merely share what happened to me in my home. And I'm not going to put down or disparage the NIV Bible either. If you like it, read it! But I do think that I can safely say that...to me, this was a seriously good endorsement of the NKJV Bible by none other than Jesus Himself! WHy else would He change it? I still use that NKJV Bible to this day.
