Featured Origin of the TERM King James Only

Baptist preacher there ended up dissolving RSV in lye instead.

December 1952:

"A crowd of about 2,000 persons looks on as Rev. M. D. Garrett (waving hat), drops a copy of the new standard revised edition of the Bible into a bubbling tub of lye in downtown Crestview, Northwest Florida town, Stooping over to place a bucket over the tub is Garrett's wife. Garrett, who says he is a Baptist minister, said the new translation 'is the working of Satan and Communists". Apparently no official action will be taken against Garrett, despite a city ordinance forbidding the destruction of any copy of the Bible within the city limits"

 

Verschuur is a quack, a self-appointed "bishop", & calls himself "Bibleprotector". I have dialogued with him, & he cannot defend the fact that the KJVO myth has no Scriptural support, not defend the goofs & booboos in the KJV that were pointed out to him by myself & others. I believe Logos has dialogued with him as well as I.

But I will say I've never seen him post the term "KJV only" anywhere.

And it appears he and Savige are quax together.

 

Glad you posted those linx! I hadn't read too much of his garbage except what he's posted on various discussion sites.

 

Thanks, first time ever heard of him!

 

First time hearing of him!

 

He usetabee on the "BVDB" site & on Facebook quite a bit.

 

Any good?

 

No. That quack useta argue that the Cambridge Edition was the only true KJV & the other editions had been altered by printers, "editors", etc. He claimed he was "Bibleprotector"(the handle he used) because he sought to protect people from other Bible versions besides the CE of the KJV.

However, he was at a loss to respond to me when I reminded him that the CE had all the same goofs found in other KJV editions, such as "Easter" in Acts 12:4. (I have a CE myself, so I know.)

Wanna find out more about him & his garbage? Just google "bibleprotector".

I'm not gonna post any more about that phony "bishop" in this thread lest I derail it.

 

I have read from non KJVO sites that many see the Cambridge 1873 edition as being ther "best" Kjv edition!

 

When the NKJV was published in the UK in 1982, it was titled the Revised Authorised Version :

 

Glenn Conjurske noted that he used the term King James only "simply as the commonly understood designation of a well defined theological position, the same as such terms as Calvinist, Baptist, and Fundamentalist" (Bible Version Controversy, p. 129).

Glenn Conjurske asserted: "We all know very well what 'King James Only' means. It refers to those who hold the King James Version to be without error" (p. 129).

Glenn Conjurske noted: "The fact is, D. A. Waite believes in the perfection of the King James translation. He believes the translation to be without error. This is the distinguishing tenet of the King James Only movement. It is this belief which has created the movement" (pp. 129-130).

Glenn Conjurske wrote: "But the King James Only men seem to be ashamed of their name, and therefore complain of its use, and quibble about its meaning. They complain that the name is confusing, while they labor to create as much confusion as they can concerning it" (p. 130).

 

Wilson (N.C.) Daily Times, Jan. 28, 1956, p. 12

Tabernacle Baptist Church "will use only the King James version of the Bible"

 

That is my own earliest recollection of the issue, KJV vs RSV. I encountered proponents—or opponents—on both sides in my early years.