Is it just my imagination, or are many folks here hostile to people who read the KJV?

I agree with one point - there is a strong bias expressed in some of the posts in this forum and there is a deplorable attitude to others expressed by some here as well.

 

I think this sums it up and it something perhaps you, Sal, Askjo, Matthew and others don't get. It's not primarily about you preferring the KJV or believing the KJV is the best translation. It is about your attitude towards other Christians who believe there are other options. Your side treats us all too often as if we don't believe the Bible, or believe the Bible has errors in it, or isn't inspired or some such. You attack us because we talk about truth and belief that truth is worth defending.

I think a lot here agree with me when I say that I don't care what version you use. Live by it. I do care when you attack the Word of God or other believers who love the Word as much as you do. That's more significant. I do believe it is an offense to God.

 

First off..I don't have a "side"! Second there are ATTACKS from BOTH sides! But one side seems to call it a "defense".

 

That's because it is a defense.

Defending Bibles from people who say they are not the word of God.
No one has ever said the KJV is not the word of God..

But many, many KJVO come here trying to "teach" others that MVs are not the word of God.

 

Bingo...........

 

Why do some have to be so oversensitive? Goodness, this is a debate forum and if someone disagrees with your position they are going to let you know. Yes, the insults could be less, but when you are dealing with people who like to debate that's going to happen.

 

Amen, Pastor Larry! Preach it!

 

No, one side doesn't seem to call it a defense - BOTH sides do.

The KJVOs among us talk about defending the word of God (the KJVs) while non-KJVOs talk about defending the word of God in its various translations. KJVOs defend a non-scriptural, man-made teaching about a particular translation of God's word while non-KJVOs defend God's word against the false attacks made on it by KJVOs.

 

Amen, Bro. Tiny Tim! Preach it!

 

I have never had to snip a post where a poster called the KJV a 'perversion,' a 'corruption,' or a 'false Bible.' It doesn't happen.

I have repeatedly had to snip posters who refer to other versions that way.

 

Amen, Sister Ann! Preach it!

There's a huge difference in attacking a particular Bible translation and/or those who use that translation and attacking a false teaching about a particular Bible translation. The animosity here is toward a false, man-made teaching about the KJVs - not toward the KJVs and those who use them.

KJVOs, especially the extremist KJVOs who post here and at other web sites, take every opportunity they can to bash modern translations and those who use them. On the other hand, non-KJVOs defend the word of God in its various translations against attacks by the KJVOs. I'm about as anti-KJVO as it gets, but one of the KJVs is among the Bible translations I use most frequently. You bet I'm anti-KJVO! But I'm not anti-KJV at all! If I was against people who use the KJVs, I'd have to be against myself, too.

 

Amen, Bro. Roger! Preach it!

The true attacks against the word of God are made by KJVOs. I've never seen anyone who is anti-KJVO attack the word of God in any translation (with the exception of a few "translations" created so cults like the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons and the Seventh-Day Adventists can have "scripture" that agrees with their errant teachings).

 

You all don't seem to be able to disagree with someone's view on the Bible without making personal attacks on the person or his/her intelligence. My goodness! Can you not see that? That's all I'm saying. This forum is not very "Christian" in it's behavior.

 

There are indeed some posters who regularly personally attack anyone who does not agree with their KJVO position by casting doubt on their faith in the word of God.

 

C4K.........continue in your blindness! Sad! Yes, there ARE KJVO people who do that, JUST AS THERE ARE non-KJVO people who do the same! Yet you refuse to admit it.

 

I do find it quite odd that the most prolific starters of KJVO-related threads are not the KJVOs.

 

NOW I see it!!!! Thanks.. Thank you for providing yet another attack on a poster by a KJVO!

You just called C4K blind... Hmmm..

What do you mean by that? HMmmmm...

It seems that the ones in the Bible that were blind were unsaved...
This is a typical attack from a KJVO poster.

 

Tim, with all due respect, the unsaved in the bible were spiritually blind. B4L is not saying that C4K is spiritually blind, but blind to the discrimination that he sees on the BB against KJVO or KJVP.

He did not attack C4K's salvation or his spirituality.

 

Gotcha Amy.. Thanks.. Sorry B4L...

See how easy it is to be misunderstood.