But what exactly is your objection to KJVO? I've referred back to your earlier post (
http://www.baptistboard.com/showpost.php?p=1762656&postcount=780) and all you seem to say is that the college is KJVO and that there are churches that are KJVO. That's not in dispute. I agree with you. I can name many colleges that are KJVO. I can name many churches that are KJVO. I go to a church that is KJVO.
The questions is, what's the problem with KJVO? Why do you have an objection to it? Unless you contend that a majority of KJVO people think that KJVO is a salvation issue (which I agree is heresy, but I believe that is a very small fringe group), let's just leave that group out. Other than them, what's your objection?
I think part of the issues is in the definitions. KJVO/KJVP. I feel I must state that I am not against the KJV.
I have no problem with KJVO when it is more along the lines of KJVP. The issues I have with "O" are most likely the same issues you may have:
- The KJV is the only true Bible/Word of God.
- Emphasis on the "1611" only.
- Fantasies concerning the KJVO such as if saved under another version, you're not saved; that the KJVO is 7 times purified (as if God needs His Word to be purified by men involved in translating); all other versions are "per" versions, mathematical "proofs" from verse numbers, chapters & c that prove it is the only true Word of God, &c.
- When the version itself is preached about.
- Condemnation of others who don't use the version (which would include the foreign tongues.)
- Self-righteous attitudes about the KJV due to one using it only.
- Adherence to the fallacies of G. A. Riplinger.
- The teaching that the KJV is inspired.
- Messages becoming thematic, i.e. typically coming back to "the 1611!" in messages.
All of the above are done out of ignorance and are not an eternal issue,
until one preaches these things, then it becomes an eternal issue to which I believe none will be too happy to find this is not Biblical preaching. God is not going to require us to answer for what version we preached from,
but if we preached His Word faithfully, and the above is
not preaching the Word, yet the KJVO of this cloth do in fact believe that such is preaching the Word.
I believe the above (among other things alongside this type of KJVOism) are recently developed ideologies and
doctrines that are centered upon hate for others, pride about oneself and a stance
which isn't a Biblical stance, centered upon the flesh because this has nothing to do with spirituality, salvation, ones standing with God, things of this sort whatsoever.
One other issue among these is the unwillingness to bring scholarly, labored and prayerful exposition of truth from the Word of God. Instead such is typically replaced by a stomp and snort ad lib "text and a tantrum" "message."
I believe the above attitudes to be shameful and an embarrasment to the truth and to the true preaching of the Word of God.
On a personal note the KJV was the only Bible I ever preached from for years until recently. I was never KJVO nor KJVP it was simply the Bible that I happened to preach from and was the text always used/never preached about in the church I was saved in. After sadly witnessing this type of banter from
MANY churches I am glad to no longer be affiliated with such types. How do some of these now react to me? With hatred and slander and condemnation all due to a "version." Not all, but there are
some.