by Luke Wayne | Nov 18, 2022 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
King James Onlyism fundamentally depends on a strategy of 1) falsely loading any differences between translations with exaggerated importance and 2) assuming the worst possible motives on the part of any translators besides those behind the KJV. This is clearly...
by Luke Wayne | Oct 8, 2021 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
King James Onlyists almost always find ways to read major theological significance into minor translational differences. One example of this is Isaiah 10:27, where the KJV translates a Hebrew word as “anointing” that most modern translations render as...
by Luke Wayne | Sep 24, 2021 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
King James Onlyists insist that modern translations introduce errors into the text that would make the Bible untrue. A common example they use is Mark 1:2-3, where the gospel combines two Old Testament quotes (one from Malachi and the other from Isaiah.) The KJV...
by Luke Wayne | Aug 5, 2021 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
When addressing King James Onlyism, there are several important and substantive issues to discuss. Yet, in some corners of the movement, those issues get set aside in favor of frankly silly arguments based on word plays or number games that allegedly show...
by Luke Wayne | Oct 22, 2019 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
In discussions with King James Onlyists, the most heat often centers around verses that the KJVO advocate perceives to impact a central doctrine like the deity of Christ. This is completely understandable, as Christians are rightly protective of teachings at the...
by Luke Wayne | Jul 21, 2019 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
King James Onlyists have a habit of making much out of what are actually rather minor differences between the KJV and other Bible translations. In most cases, the two turn out to actually be saying the very same thing, just in different words. Many other times, the...
by Luke Wayne | Mar 29, 2019 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
Did the Septuagint Exist Before the New Testament? King James Onlyists distrust translations like the NASB or ESV because, when compared to the KJV, they contain some textual differences. They are based on manuscripts that read slightly different than those used by...
by Luke Wayne | Dec 31, 2018 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
In some recent public comments, Steven Anderson (a Phoenix-area “pastor” who is an iconic example of the cultic side of King James Onlyism) took some jabs at Christian apologist Dr. James White and, inadvertently in the process, at the King James...
by Luke Wayne | Oct 31, 2018 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
King James Onlyists often make a big deal of any instance where the KJV contains a clause that is not present in a modern translation. Any place where a verse in the King James is longer than the same verse in another translation, the King James Onlyist will accuse...
by Luke Wayne | Oct 31, 2018 | Minor Groups & Issues, King James Onlyism
Among the differences between the King James Version and most modern translations of the Bible, one of the most significant is in 1 John 5:7. The KJV (and other older English translations) contain a longer reading called the “Comma Johanneum” which is not...
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