October 22nd, 2009
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
13 Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
According to 1 John 4, we cannot both love and fear anything. However, the constant commands we receive from other verses suggesting that we should both love and fear God would then be considered contradictory.
Either we can both love and fear a being, which would make John’s verse false, or the verses instructing us to either love or fear God are false. Any way you slice it, someone was wrong. We cannot say that the King James Bible is perfect if it contains such obvious errors.