Featured Origin of the TERM King James Only

So the Nasb was well regarded despite using "inferior" greek texts, while the Niv was viewed as defective due to being a dynamic translation?

 

Fundamentalists did not even talk about the texts until the 1970s. Talk about translation methodology probably didn't occur until the 1980s. Fundamentalists just felt that the NIV was a bad translation, comparing it to the original languages. I have pamphlets from the early 1970s critiquing the New English Bible for that. Bob Sumner didn't even write his pamphlet on Bible Translations until 1979. John R. Rice critiqued translations that way in his book Dr. Rice, Here Is my Question,1962.

 

Problems are that those passages speak to the Originals, not the Kjv, and I know of none holding to Nas and esv that say not a complete and accurate bible!

 

Just seems to be a lot of misguided efforts, as they should have focused instead on getting bible translated out period, not worrying if Kjv or Nas or something else!

 

His viewpoints illustrate though why impossible to have a decent book produced by those into KJVO, as the basic premise totally shoddy!

 

I have Bruce Lackey's 54 page small book Can You Trust Your Bible? I did not notice him claiming that the KJV is perfect in that book.

Just before the quotations from pages 48 and 51 that David Cloud cited, Bruce Lackey wrote: "The author firmly believes that a Christian may confidently say, when he refers to an accurate translation of Scripture, 'This is the Word of God'" (p. 48).

Bruce Lackey wrote: "Let us not condemn something simply because it is a paraphrase; in so doing, we would have to condemn certain portions of the New Testament" (p. 40).

Before the quotation from page 51, Bruce Lackey wrote: "These words are not written to condemn modern translations, as such. Since we can believe a New Testament quotation of an Old Testament verse when it does not use exactly the same words, we could believe John 1:2 in the New International Version and the King James Version. Though slightly different words are used, the meaning is the same, The problem arises when modern versions omit words, phrases, verses, and whole paragraphs. At that point, the believer must choose between one passage or the other as the Word of God. When an error is found, it is not necessary to put a blanket condemnation on the version, since many verses probably are correctly translated; however, when we see obvious errors, we certainly cannot recommend the version as a whole." (p. 50).