Absolutely, the King James Bible exists as the only inerrant and infallible Word of God in English. Eminent scholars translated the KJB into English from the Greek Received Word of God which is also inerrant and infallible. The KJB Old Testament was derived from the Masoretic Text which was painstakingly copied by Jewish scribes for centuries. The history of the true Word of God can be traced from the Jewish scribes and the New Testament scribes through the Antioch Church to eastern Europe and Italy and finally to England where it was translated into the KJB in 1611. All other putative versions of the Bible were derived from corrupted manuscripts which came from Alexandria, Egypt. All of these corrupted manuscripts either distort the Bible or leave out much of it.
Most scholars from the Independent Baptist movement hold the KJB to be inerrant and infallible because they maintain that there can exist no contradictions or mistakes in it. They are right to hold that God cannot make mistakes or contradict Himself, but they are wrong to maintain that there exist no mistakes or contradictions in the Word of God. God allowed mistakes and contradictions in His Word precisely because it is inerrant and infallible. The Word of God is inerrant in its inexhaustible description of the being of man, and is infallible in its holy message to man. The purpose of the Word of God is to reconnect the consciousness of each individual person to the Infinite Consciousness of God. In other words, the purpose of the Word of God is to restore fallen man to a state of fellowship with God. God directly connects fallen man to a state of grace when they believe in Jesus, and God reconnects the rest of mankind to Himself through a recreation of the earth and mankind. To accomplish this purpose, the Bible must be absolutely inerrant and infallible.
The written Word of God is finite in that it accurately describes the finite consciousness of man in his fallen condition. The Word of God is also infinite in that it infallibly reconnects the consciousness of mankind to the inerrant Infinite Word of God, the Holy Spirit, the Son, and the Father. Anything that is finite must contain mistakes and contradictions. This is the nature of being finite. God allowed errors by man in order to supply man with an accurate and infallible description of his complete fallen nature.
Adam and Eve died spiritually when God cast them out of the garden of Eden. God cast them out on the same day that they sinned. They died on that day because they lost fellowship with God, but God also protected them from eating from the tree of life and living forever in a lost condition. God's description of the physical deaths of man was not a part of this punishment. God simply informed man about his physical death after a life of hard work. Had man remained in the garden and eaten of the tree of life instead of the forbidden tree, then his physical death would have been a perfectly natural and serene event in which his spirit would return to heaven to be with God instead of death being the fearful event it is today. Man fears physical death because he knows that he exists in a state of spiritual death. He fears physical and spiritual separation from God forever. In his exit from the garden, man became a separated, finite creature subject to sin in his spirit, soul, and body. For this reason, God allowed man to put mistakes and contradictions in His written Word in order to teach man who and what he really is, a fallen creature. The Bible is inerrant and infallible in its teachings. Genesis 3:19-24; Genesis 2:15-17; Psalm 116:15.
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