Featured Origin of the TERM King James Only

Certainly the malignancy associated with the term today did not arise until after the modern versions (say 1950) started becoming acceptable as the pew bible. And as in the world, malignancy spawns malignancy.

 

Found this for origin!
The Origin and Danger of KJV- Only-ism ; Kent Hovind et al Refuted

 

Think that link sent to you explained the background very well, and do see this as a reaction against modern versions coming to "take over" for the Kjv....

 

Off topic, but I was baptized by my TTU wrestling coach (also an ordained Pastor) at Highland Park Baptist. Thanks for sharing, John!

 

Hey, I wrestled in High School and then in an intramural tourney at BJU, but when I transferred to TTU in 1972 they did not yet have wrestling there. Glad to know that you were able to wrestle there.

 

You are correct that the problem Roberson was addressing was students in the dorms. However, I don't remember hearing any such discussion, and no professor ever discussed the issue as far as I remember. I didn't become aware of and interested in the issue until just before my first furlough in 1986.

TTU in those days had a college and seminary, but also a 3 year Bible school mostly for older students. I was led to understand that in the 1970's there was a Bible School prof who was KJVO, but I can't source that. On the other hand, in the Greek classes the UBS text was used both in the college and seminary. I still have mine, UBS 2 I think. So the school itself was far from being KJVO.

These facts are reasons I say that there was no KJVO movement per se until 1970, when those books came out by Ruckman and Fuller. There were KJVO individuals and even books, but no movement.

 

was and is the KJVO a reaction against any modern translations supplanting their beloved Kjv?

 

It's more complex than that.

 

Agreed, and yet the real bitter viewpoints seem to be starting right when the Rsv came out, and then fanned when nas and Niv came out!

 

I has at TTU from the fall of 1972 until August, 1977. I graduated from the college in 1975. The Bible School did have a good number of older, married students. There was also a good number of typical-college age students. Some of them perhaps did not have a good enough academic record to attend college. Some of them may not even have had a high school diploma. I know of one preacher who attended who had dropped out of high school and so far as I know he did not have a GED. Some of them may have just wanted to study only the Bible. I had some friends who attended the Bible school, including a former pastor of my home church. The Bible School had a three year diploma and also a four year one.

I think it was during the years 1972 to 1975 that I was told that a Bible School professor had been dismissed or fired for teaching KJV-only views or Ruckman's views.

 

I am aware that David Cloud was at Temple some of the same years that I was although I do not recall meeting him. Perhaps some of my friends in the Bible School may have had some classes with him.

Bruce Lackey was a frequent speaker in the chapel services, and I do not recall him ever claiming that the KJV was perfect. My friends, who had him for a teacher in the Bible School, have not suggested that he taught that the KJV was perfect or that he taught KJV-only views.

 

I was there from '72, having transferred from BJU. I graduated in Aug. of '76, then took a semester of seminary. I didn't know those things about the Bible school--that there was a 4 year diploma, that you didn't have to graduate from high school to go there, etc. Seems like one ought to have at least a GED!

I do remember a country hick who came to our dorm who could barely read. Very sincere, but he couldn't cut it. I guess the basic requirement, then, was being literate.

Sounds right to me.

 

The fundamentalist opposition against the RSV was not about the Greek texts, but about the liberal renderings, such as "young woman" instead of "virgin."

The NASB was not opposed by fundamentalists in general. I bought a first edition of the NT from the BJU bookstore. Those who opposed the NASB did not do so until Ruckman attacked it. Opposition to the NIV was originally on the basis of its translation method, not its source texts.