James White on textual criticism

 James R. White of The King James Only Controversy says that you do not need to be a Christian to “handle the textual criticism of the Bible”. Textual criticism in essence is the process of determining what the word of God is and where it is. Why would we expect the world to know the answer to either of those questions? God gave His word to His people in both the Old Testament and New Testament. True believers (the church) never lost the word of God to begin with. 

We do not need the world to do the man made science of “textual criticism” to tell us what belongs in the Bible and what does not. 

John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 

1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

1 Corinthians 2:

[12] Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
[13] Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
[14] But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
[15] But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
[16] For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

The world cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God. We cannot trust their “textual criticism”, especially since most of the textual critics do not have a Christian world view and do not believe the Bible is inspired.