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I put the page number on the other thread, after you went to bed.
Check it out.

 

Yes, & it might as well have been written by Oscar meyer or Jimmy dean, as it's quite fulla baloney.

 

Only in the boox by Ray and Fuller, mentioned above, with Ruckman's coming in thru the doggie door in 1964. As newer BVs proliferated, so did the number of "KJVO" authors, and the amount of KJVO writings, spread by the power of modern media. (Remember who is "prince of the air".)

It's only in the last 30-or-so years we've seen church shingles or logos bearing the words "King James Bible Only" or similar, or heard preachers devoting whole sermons to KJVO.

There's no 'official' KJVO org that I know of, mainly, I believe, because KJVOs must constantly be inventing new excuses to attempt to justify their belief in a NON-SCRIPTURAL doctrine of worship, as those excuses get shot down as fast as they're made.

 

Well I think you've got a pretty solid pattern with Bob Jones Sr, Norris, and others, especially with the publication of The Fundamentals. Many modernist proponents advocated other translations, more modern ones at the time, and these guys all preached against them and their translations. I'm in the midst of a busy season and don't plan on taking time to work this out with research. So my observation is just that, an observation.

The KJVOnlyism probably didn't culminate into KJVO movement until after WW2 imho.

 

Found this article from 2012

http://dbts.edu/blog/beginning-of-kjv-only-movement/

 

What's your point?

 

Congrats. Now tell me what the untenable position is, cuz that's what I asked.

Seems to me, that you hold it.

 

The authors of The Fundamentals were not of the KJVO mentality. Many quoted from the KJV favorably as well as the REV and 1901 ASV.

When you use the term "modernist" as it was used back then it means theological liberal these days. There were conservative Bible believing men who used other versions primarily or in tandem with the KJV in the first 20 years of the 20th century for instance.

 

My point is that book contains more than one goof, but it's the "foundation stone" of the current KJVO myth, with many KJVOs still repeating that book's errors almost as if they're "gospel", without bothering to check out their VERACITY. Case in point is the "Psalm 12:6-7 thingie".

Virtually all KJVO literature that followed used material from that one book.

 

Thanks, but I was just pointing out that book as an earlier date than 1970.

 

I goofed. Indeed, Manuscript Evidence came out in 1970; it was Bible Babel that came out in 1964.

Hard to put an exact date in the beginning of the current KJVO MOVEMENT, but it was well under way by 1972. I'd never heard of Dr. Wilkinson's book before I was saved in 1979, but I DO remember from when I was a boy, hearing some people say we needed a new Bible in OUR English, and others saying such a Bible would be sacrilege.( I'm age 66.)

First sermon I ever heard pushing the KJVO myth was by the late Lester Roloff, on the radio, in the early 1980s. Dunno the date he first preached it, but, as he was killed in 1982, it was prolly from the mid-to-late 1970s.

Many such orgs for the KJVO myth have arisen with the advent of the internet, & many of them have since dried up.

I'd say it's safe to date the APPROXIMATE beginning of the current KJVO movement to 1970, after the publication of Which Bible? I believe that book drew attention to Ray's book, and maybe to Bible Babel. But it's clear that Dr. Fuller didn't want Dr. Wilkinson's CULT AFFILIATION to be well-known. (Dr. W. had died in 1968.)

 

And the 1881 RV never had much popularity outside Great Britain, and certainly not in the USA. But it caused Westcott & Hort to become the main whipping boys of the current KJVO myth.

Now, y'all might wonder why I keep calling the KJVO doctrine a myth, or even a doctrine. The reasons are:

1.) A doctrine is anything taught, and KJVO IS taught.

2.) A myth is any INVENTED, FICTITIOUS story, idea, concept, or false collective belief, and KJVO fits this definition exactly. Thus, I refer to the KJVO MYTH.