Featured IFB & the KJVO myth...

I honestly think it came about because of the mindset you listed above "rejecting man-made" doctrines and practices. I think they see the NIV, ESV and even the NKJV as man-made products changing God's word. They see the ECM (NA/UBS) as man-made, therefore rejecting all translation based on it. They however fail to see the TR was made with many of the textual principles and the NA/UBS. It just involved a much smaller scope of manuscript evidence. But they accept the TR because they don't see or hear about man's hands being involved. They accept the KJV because they are so far divorced from its inception and don't see man's hands involved.

They want a bible they can claim like the Muslims do with Qur'an. The KJV basically fell from heaven in their minds. Though they will not say that. They will say it was purified by the Holy Spirit.

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One of our more local issues is that a Ruckmanite is the President of a local Christian School. Many of the kids coming out of it believe the KJV is the only way.

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When living in Massachusetts right after I was married we went to an Independent Baptist Church that was KJVO (but rejected the excesses of Ruckman).

The pastor was from a Plymouth Brethren background and brought the doctrine with him.

 

Yes apparently there was a small branch of the Brethren who did not like John Nelson Darby treatment of the KJV and separated as KJVO.

 

In many ways, KJVO is just as dangerous as Roman Catholicism; blind trust in authority and no questions asked. Everything fits in a neat little box and any criticism is to be treated as a satanic attack.

 

In the community (smaller than a hamlet) my grandmother lived in there was a local IFB Church. I don't agree with them on everything, but my mother attends and they helped with the burial of my grandmother and help to maintain the graveyard.

While not officially a KJVO church, they do believe that the KJV is the word of God while the other Bible version are lesser. This includes the pastor who does not have a theological degree but was an administrator at a school.

So, if anyone talked to someone at this church, they would get KJVO vibes.

 

How, in your opinion, is KJVO dangerous? If one believes that the Bible they hold in their hands is the inspired, preserved Word of God, and submit to it as their final authority, how is that dangerous?

 

Bob, I am focusing on the ONLY part and the fanaticism some KJVO advocates display. When they say that only the KJV is the word of God they put themselves into a radical minority that views those who prefer the NASB, NIV, and ESV to be enemies of the gospel. Of course, there are KJVO'ers that are less fanatical but the movement does have its cultish overtones.

 

@Pastor_Bob , I do not have a problem with someone who says they prefer the KJV. My issue is when they say that only the KJV is the word of God. I have run into a few of these people and it is almost as if they are brain washed.

 

There are, without question, those who I would classify as "rabid" KJVO. I, and men like me, distance ourselves from these types, although we tend to all get lumped into the same category. Rabid KJVOs would believe that no one can be saved apart from hearing the gospel from a KJV Bible. Rabid KJVOs would teach that a missionary must teach their people to read the English in order to be saved or that their Bible must be translated from the KJV as opposed to the original languages. I am not in this group. I believe that God preserved His Word for us who speak English, but the English does not supersede the Greek