Regarding your question about "who checks it," there is a particular stream of thought about this that is interesting. Jesus said that the best way to tell if something was correct was by its application in human thought and experience, but He didn't say it that way. Jesus said "by their fruits ye shall know them" in Matthew 7:20. Our Lord was dealing with false teachers in this passage, but the spiritual application can still be made to the written word, concepts, imaginations, ideas, or essentially the products of human thought.
The best answer I can give you is that the most significant check of which Bible is the correct one is in its fruit. The KJV was born out of the crucible of the protestant reformation. Next to the Saviour's coming and the apostolic time that followed, this is one of the greatest spiritual awakenings in human history.
The KJV is product of the breaking of the bonds of Roman Catholic oppression where men and tradition ruled, and unleashing the glorious and powerful word of God as the final authority for men. Religious separatists left for America out of this movement and set the foundation for every freedom this great nation possesses.
The founding fathers quoted the Bible more than any other document, and that Bible was the KJV. In the 1800s a great spiritual revival swept across America and other parts of the world. It was so dramatic that even secular history books still refer to it as the "Great Awakening." The KJV was the Bible at the heart of this monumental spiritual movement.
But what can we say of today with all its "easy- o-read" versions? This period can be characterized as a time of the greatest spiritual apostasy in human history. So to answer your question "who checks it," the answer is the spiritual fruits check it.
In my opinion the jury is in on that one.
Will Hoyt
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