King James Onlyist’s Bible – All About People Who Love The King James Bible
People who love the King James Bible!!?? What the hell is this Crosby man doing now that I hear you ask? Who has heard of such a thing? Well, if you’re new to mainstream Christian and biblical stuff, it all sounds very strange, even surreal, but unfortunately, it’s true. In fact, there are people who love the King James Bible. How and why do they do that? Easy, they revere him as flawless, perfect, or, in his favorite word, ‘inerrant’. For these people there are no errors in the King James Bible and the issue of its ‘inerrancy’ has become, for them, a religion. Now, once something becomes the object of a religion, by default, it becomes the object of their worship. The other sad part, as a result, of this peculiar behavior is that it causes other mainstream Christians to twist their pants and ally themselves with certain modern translations; mainly the ESV (English Standard Version) and the NIV (New International Version), as a kind of rebellion.
All of these childish posturing is what I call the ‘gut emotionalism’ of the Christian mainstream and is a very common phenomenon within their circles and has been for generations. If you look at the history of all the major Christian denominations, you will find that someone, somewhere, had an idea of supposed biblical understanding or something new and before you could say Jack Robinson, their fellowships would split down the middle with half supporting the new doctrine and the other half supporting the old, and so it is with the issue of Holy Bible Versions. It is also a classic example of how schisms or divisions occur between them. It’s bad enough when there’s a big doctrinal dispute, but splitting over the issue of which version of the Holy Bible they use is, to me, stupid in the extreme. On the other hand, we must remember that most of them are deluded anyway, so I guess schisms and splits are to be expected (see my article “The Deceived Condition of Mainstream Christianity”).
So why is this issue of the Holy Bible Version so controversial? Well, it’s because numerous new versions of the Holy Bible have been published in recent decades, two of which I’ve already mentioned. These new versions are written in modern everyday English, moving away from the Shakespearean English of the King James Version, which was published in 1611. This version was authorized by King James I of England and VI of Scotland, and is therefore also known as the Authorized version. At this point, let me make it clear that it is, without a doubt, the premier Holy Bible in English and has no equal, no matter what fans of the modern translation may say. The reason it’s still the main version is simply because it has fewer bugs, or man-made contaminations, than modern versions. That said, the modern versions can be helpful when studying certain passages of Holy Scripture where Old English can be very difficult to decipher and understand. This means that although I use The KJV most of the time, I also refer to modern translations, as we should, if we are true seekers of The Truth in the written Word.
I will not pursue the KJV versus modern translations argument here because I wish to return to the issue of inerrancy with respect to the KJV.
Now, are these people correct in making this statement, because I can prove without much difficulty that there are errors in the pages of the King James Bible, but they are errors in the true sense? By that I mean, are errors caused by God? No, they are not; they are contaminations or errors of religious men, or additions of religious men, and men with one religious agenda or three. You see, what these KJV people just don’t seem to understand is the fact that man has been manipulating God’s Holy Word ever since it was written. It is not good to quote the Holy Scriptures like Matthew 24:35 and Psalm 12:6-7 because it proves that nothing but the sayings of the Lord will be preserved, not the written word:
Psalms 12:6-7 Words of the Lord are pure words: ace silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times. 7 You will keep them, O LORD, you will keep them to them of this generation forever.
These verses from Psalm 12 speak of the generations of Israel and how God’s people have been preserved from their enemies throughout all time. Verse 6 breaks the context of this topic by referring to the preservation of God’s Word, and returns to the preservation of the people in verse 7. The People Only KJV seems to think that verse 7 is an ancient promise to preserve only your favorite Bible. This can only be a presumptuous reasoning of men. That said, we have a problem, especially in verse 7, because according to Adam Clarke in his commentary, some manuscripts have “us” instead of “them”, so this verse could have a dual meaning, since the Israelites and the Jews have all been preserved through the generations of that generation and also the Sayings of the Lord, but not necessarily the written Word and certainly not just within the pages of the King James Version.
Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Matthew 24:35 Proves what I’m saying, notice, heaven and earth will pass away which, by default, should include all written words. The written Word cannot survive the disappearance of the earth and the sky. So how does the Lord preserve his sayings? Through more sayings – the spoken Word of men empowered by the Holy Spirit.
How do these KJV folks only explain how Christians from the first century to about 1500, when the first English Bibles were translated by Wycliffe and Tyndale, get to hear God’s Word? For a thousand years, from around 500 AD. C. until around 1500 AD. C., the Holy Word of God was hidden in Latin, so the English could not read it even if they wanted to. Where was the KJV then? It wasn’t, because it hadn’t been written down or printed, so how did these early Christians learn? From the Sayings of the Lord as mentioned in Psalm 12:6. It is about sayings, the verbalized word, not the written word and it is the sayings that are preserved. Here’s another thing, the Wycliffe and Tyndale Bibles differed from the King James Bible and yet they were still the written Holy Word of God. They came before the King James Bible, so they were also inerrant? No, of course not, but they were certainly good enough for a nation of people who had never seen God’s Holy Word in print in their own language before. They must have been like manna from heaven and not a KJV Bible in sight.
We also have to understand that Paul had no written word apart from the Holy Scriptures of the OT. Paul went with a new message, a new Holy Spiritual verbal message so that his listeners would not have a KJV Bible to refer to. The first written words of the New Testament were in Greek, there was a Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew, and some say there was an Aramaic version of the Gospel of Mark, but no one knows for sure. Either way, there was no KJV Bible, but there were true believers and vibrant areas of the Church.
What other evidence do we have? As it happens, many and all of the KJV:
Novels 10:17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Galatians 3:2 I only want to know this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
Galatians 3:5 He therefore who ministers the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, he does By the works of the law, or by hearing with faith?
This is what the Lord promised He would preserve: His sayings, His spoken Word, not His written Word. When we look at the entire history of God’s Church, we can clearly see that the spoken Word has been the primary instrument for spreading God’s Good News message, not the written Word. Having said that, I will not diminish the importance of the written Word in our latest technological age of the printing press and the KJV does not have a monopoly on this medium and it is not error free. For an example of these errors, see my series of articles on ogre gods, and in particular the articles on the trinity doctrine.
After all I’ve written, you might want to tell me something like this: “Okay, so what you’re saying is that not all Holy Bibles can be trusted as absolute Truth. Is that what you’re suggesting, Charles?” Crosby? Yes, I am and that’s why you have to scrutinize things to see if they’re like that, like the Bereans did in Paul’s time, like someone once told me: “The Lord feeds the birds, but he doesn’t feed them.” food in the nests!”
