Seventy-five Problems with Central Baptist Seminary's Book

Streeter, Lloyd. Seventy-five Problems with Central Baptist Seminary's Book The Bible Version Debate.
LaSalle, IL: First Baptist Church, 2001.

This book is based on typical erroneous human KJV-only reasoning. A number of the problems that Streeter assumes or claims concerning the book that he criticizes actually would indicate problems in his own imperfect KJV-only reasoning. Perhaps this author is guilty of "the generalization and dishonest characterization" (p. 41) of which he accused others.

Streeter claimed: "The King James Bible has never been revised. It is a ruse to say it has been revised" (p. 54). Streeter again claimed: "But it is a hoax to say that the KJV has been revised" (p. 54).

The two above claims are simply not true. The false claim would be to say that the 1611 edition of the KJV has not been revised. The author is somewhat uninformed and misinformed concerning the actual facts concerning editions of the KJV and the actual revisions in them.

 

Lloyd Streeter claimed: "The KJV has remained exactly the same for nearly 250 years, and VIRTUALLY the same for 350 years" (p. 55).

Evidently Streeter assumes and claims that his present post-1900 KJV edition is "exactly the same" as the 1769 KJV, when his assumption or claim is simply not true.

 

Lloyd Streeter claimed: "It appears that these same old canards are repeated--one professor copying another--without any original thinking" (p. 93).

Perhaps Streeter is guilty of what he accuses others. Streeter evidently blindly repeated claims made by D. A. Waite without checking them out for himself and without any original thinking. Streeter in effect repeated Waite's factually untrue claim that "there were only 421 phonetic changes (changes in any sound of any word), according to Waite" between the 1611 edition and today's KJV (p. 55).

 

Lloyd Streeter claimed: "All of this business about the KJV being the Word of God only to a 'DEGREE' and saying that it is not inspired 'IN THE SAME SENSE' as the original text is to downplay the inspiration of the Bible, the only Bible most people have" (p. 46).