Sure, you can believe that the original text was correct but the KJV is not. I guess what I meant by "The Bible" is "The Bible in English". As a practical mat

Sure, you can believe that the original text was correct but the KJV is not. I guess what I meant by "The Bible" is "The Bible in English". As a practical matter, few people know the Greek and Latin and Aramaic of the original texts, so to question the validity of the English Bible is to question the version they know and trust, that is accessible to them. If you question KJV, that opens up some other questions: if the KJV is wrong, which translation is right? Is any translation right? It seems like a hard question for which no answer is arbitrary and unclear and any wrong answer could have unknown bad consequences, and many of these people believe strongly that humans are very fallible when it comes to moral and religious discernment. One defense against making the wrong decision is to make no decision, and simply to abide by the traditions of your upbringing. Personally, I don't think Christianity is such a weak system of thought that it all comes crumbling down if you yank out the doctrine of inerrancy of scripture (such as it is available to them), but I can sympathize with those who don't want to try it and find out.