Featured The Primacy of the King James Bible.

"The Roman Catholic minority objected to the King James Bible and so they developed their own school system.

"With the exception of the Catholics, the United States was clearly King James only."

"The only religious group of any size or importance in England that didn't use the King James Bible was Roman Catholicism.

"All non-Catholics could have been referred to as "King James only people."

Alan's note: What Happened?...

The Primacy of the King James Bible.

From: The Westcott and Hort Only Controversy

"God was doing a great work in England in the early 1600s.

"The preaching of the gospel of Christ out of the Matthew's Bible and the Geneva Bible was leading to multitudes of conversions.

"Evangelicals and Puritans were becoming a stronger and stronger force in the Church of England and in English culture.

"Yet many were concerned that the final translation work into the English language had not been done. King James was persuaded to authorize a new translation.

"The King James Bible was printed in 1611.

"At first there were questions and concerns about this new Bible translation.

"This was as it should be.

"No one should accept a Bible translation lightly.

"By 1640 however, the King James Bible was clearly the Bible of the English people.

"The Geneva and Matthew's Bible, once greatly used of God, went out of print.

"There was simply no demand for them anymore.

"The Church of England, with its official evangelical doctrinal statement, used the King James Bible exclusively.

"It was the Bible of the Puritans, both inside and outside the Church of England. In fact the Puritans began to use the distinctive Biblical English of the King James Bible in their day-to-day speech.

"The King James Bible was the Bible of the Presbyterians, the Congregationalists, and the Quakers.

"It was clearly the Bible of the Baptists.

"By 1640 it was the Bible of the Pilgrims (some had used the Geneva Bible earlier).

"The King James Bible was the Bible of evangelicals in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

"It became the Bible of the English colonies across the Atlantic Ocean.

"The only religious group of any size or importance in England that didn't use the King James Bible was Roman Catholicism.

"All non-Catholics could have been referred to as "King James only people."

"When the Methodist Revival stirred England in the 1700s, it did so with the preaching of the King James Bible.

"John Wesley, one of the founders of the Methodists, made his own translation of the New Testament. However, it found little acceptance, even among Methodists.

"Only the King James Bible was in common use.

"When English colonies flourished in Australia and New Zealand, the King James Bible was the common Bible of the settlers.

"When President George Washington took the first presidential oath of office in the new United States of America, he did so with his hand on a King James Bible.

"Every American president since, with the exception of Franklin Pierce, has done the same.

"Over one hundred fifty English translations were produced between 1611 and 1880.

"However, they found no audience except in a few cults.

"Most went out of print quickly. The English speaking, Christian world was truly "King James only".

"Baptist preachers produced a Baptist translation of the Bible.

"They replaced the word baptism with the word Immersion. They replaced the word church with the word assembly.

"However, they found no audience, not even among Baptists. Their translation was soon out of print. The Baptists were truly "King James only".

"As hard as it may be for the liberals and secularists to admit, the American public schools were built around the King James Bible.

"The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, (not exactly a religious right publication), describes the early public schools this way, "Public schools had a distinctly Protestant flavor, with teachers leading prayers and scripture reading from the King James Bible in their lessons".

"The Roman Catholic minority objected to the King James Bible and so they developed their own school system.

"With the exception of the Catholics, the United States was clearly King James only.

"Russell Kirk (a Roman Catholic historian) describes the influence of the King James Bible on the United States,

"The book that was to exert a stronger influence than any other in the Americas was not published until 1611, a few years after the first Virginian settlement: the 'King James' translation of the Bible, the Authorized Version, was prepared by English scholars for King James I.

"Read from American pulpits and in the great majority of American households during colonial times, the Authorized Version shaped the style, informed the intellect, affected the laws, and decreed the morals of the North American Colonies."

"Truly the early United States was King James only.

"According to Winston Churchill, ninety million copies of the King James Bible had been printed by the mid-twentieth century.

"The King James Bible was the Bible of the great modern missions movement of the 1100's and 1800's. The missionaries from England and the United States were saved, called to the mission field, and trained under the preaching of the King James Bible.

"They traveled around the world, introducing the gospel of grace to millions.

"Many of these missionaries knew little or no Greek and Hebrew. They translated the Bible into 160 languages from the King James Bible.

"Truly the modern missions movement was a King James only movement."

 

Learn what?

"the way of the heathen"?
Jeremiah 10:2b.

Where the 'scholars' of the King James Version just two infidels, with an ulterior motive for sabotaging God's Word, that multitudes of God's people believe they had a hidden reason for accomplishing, that was diametrically in opposition to God and the Cause of Christ?

Were they Anti-Christ, as to their faith and practice?

If so, I don't think we should be locking arm-in-arm with the KJV scholars and dancing down Primrose Street with them, ether.

 

Then, what exactly are you doing?

So, the RCC is to be exulted because they were "looking at the Greek and Hebrew".

Is this an April fool's joke?

You said "deceitful" twice in one sentence and that the KJB translators didn't translate the English Bible.

Try to say something if you're going to make such a gratuitous assertion.

 

I can do a LOT better job of disparaging the KJV than this.

All I need is a little c&p from Westcott and Hort's inner circle of most valued confidantes.

"Now that the 'Revised Version' of the gospels has been published by Westcott and Hort, and the most glaring mistranslations in the old version, the King James, are corrected, one will better understand the words. The text of the English Protestant Bible is in disagreement as usual with the Alexandrian text. That which for nearly 1,500 years was opposed on Christianism of a book of which every word was written under direct supervision of the Holy Ghost; of which not one syllable or comma could be changed without Sacrilege, but now is being retranslated, revised and corrected and clipped of whole verses, and in some cases almost entire chapters. And as soon as the new edition is out, its doctors Westcott and Hort will have us accept it as new revelation of the 19th century. And the King James translators have made such a jumble of it, that no one but an occultist can restore the Bible to its orginal form."
(H. P. Blavatsky, on the Bible, Isis Unveiled.)

Wherever we find spiritualism, occultism and satanism, we find the infallibililty of the King James Bible decried, and the RV exalted:

"I am proud to have been one of the pioneer workers in the Spiritualistic field, and have suffered much for the cause of Spiritualism, in upholding its purity and promulgating its truth. I am writing this in defense of the glorious truth I love so well...The King James Bible is admittedly one of the most incorrect versions..." (Franklin Alonzo Thomas, Philosophy and Phenomena of Spiritalism, 1922)

Another example is H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891); she was an early leader of the occult Theosophy movement. She founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. Blavatsky was a Satanist, who claimed to be a medium. What do these Satanically-inspired writers think about the King James Bible and the new versions??? Blavatsky's words on the subject are frighteningly close to those of many modern, conservative scholars. She called Westcott, "a learned scholar" (i.e. Isis Unveiled), and quotes him often. Statements from Blavatsky could be multiplied, such as, "...the Revised Version does not repeat the mistakes of the Authorized Version..." For example, she writes:

"In the King James's version, as it stands translated, it has no resemblance to the original." (Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled).

"Add to this the fact that out of the forty-seven translators of King James' Bible 'only three understood Hebrew' ...and one may easily understand what reliance can be placed on the English version of the bible...Now the Revised Version of the gospels has been published and most glaring mistranslations of the old versions are corrected, one will understand better the words in St. John [chapter 5:6-7]..." (Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 1888)"

etc., etc., etc.

From: Westcott and Hort: Authors of the 'new' (verboten word) Bibles | Pauline Biblicist ~PBSF~ Society Fellowship

It is almost like the Modern Bibles were intended to bridge the gap between Apostate Christianity, The New Age Movement, and the Occult.

There is certainly far more overwhelming evidence of that prospect than that Westcott and Hort were attempting an HONEST work of God.

 

Did you stop railing against the KJV?

Here is some inspiration for you, from folks that were in that business a long time ago:

"Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky connections to Westcott & Hort:

"H. P. Blavatsky also attended the "Ghostly Guild" meetings with Westcott and Hort, along with Charles Darwin. In her books Isis Unveiled Vol. 1 and 2, and The Secret Doctrine Vol. 1 and 2, Blavatsky says, "we have the Bible in true in Codex Sinaiticus (א) and Codex Vaticanus (B)"

"and goes on to say "Westcott and Hort were true scholars that corrected the errors in previous versions." Blavatsky also said that Westcott was the father of "channeling."

"Some of the followers of Blavatsky also claimed to be under the control of spirits through automatic writing, etc. In 1891, Annie Besant (1847-1933) succeeded Blavatsky as head of the Theosophical Society.

"From 1889, until Blavatsky's death in 1891, Besant was a co-editor of the Theosophical Society's "Lucifer Magazine." Besant, and her associates, hated the King James Bible:

"The English translation (Authorized Version--KJV) is wretchedly imperfect. Errors abound in it, and some of them are of a most laughable description. On this account, great calls have been made for the new translation..." (Charles Bradlaugh, Annie Wood Besant, Charles Watts, The Freethinker's Text-book, 1876)

Later Theososphical writings continue to attack the King James Bible:

"...the English translation called the Authorized Version...while it is dear to English people...yet lacks entirely the proper spirit of the mystical Hebrew original; and the very fact that Englishmen love their King James's version so much distracts their attention away from the original Mystical sense of the Hebrew scriptures. Go then to the original tongue..." (Lucifer Magazine, January to December 1930)

"Another influential occult writer is Manly Palmer Hall. Notice the following short biography of this Satanic writer:

"Manly Palmer Hall [1901-1990] was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolocal Philosophy, which is widely regarded as his magnum opus, and which he published at the age of 25 (or 27, 1928)...In 1973 (47 years after writing The Secret Teaching of All Ages), Hall was recognized as a 33-degree Mason, at a ceremony held at PRS on December 8th..." (www.manlyphall.org)

"Manly P. Hall often wrote against the King James Bible. He sometimes slandered it with historical lies, but his main goal (like the earlier necromancers) was to oppose the popular view of its infallibility!:

"The King James version is especially rich in errors..." (Manly P. Hall, Reincarnation: The cycle of Necessity, 1956)

"We know that the Authorized Version by no means satisfies the requirements of advanced Biblical scholarship..." (Manly P. Hall, Horizon, Issue 9. Vol. 1, 1949)

"...we have to undo much that is a cherished error. The problem of revising the Bible shows how difficult is to do this. For the last hundred years, we have been trying to get out an edition of the Bible that is reasonably correct; but nobody wants it. What's wanted is the good old King James version, every jot and tittle of it, because most people are convinced that God dictated the Bible to King James in English." (Manly P. Hall, Horizon, Philosophical Research Society, 1944)

"The occult plan is plainly confessed above.

"What book did Hall (who boasted of having the keys to channeling the power of Lucifer) call one of the great books of the world?

"It was one of the principal manuscripts issued by all modern versions, and many modern scholars to supposedly "correct" the King James Bible!:

"The Codex Sinaiticus is a manuscript of the 4th Century...This manuscript is one of the great books of the world, and although it was discovered long after the publication of the now universally accepted King James version of the Bible, it is sufficiently important to justify considerable revision of our popular conception of the Scriptural writings." (Manly P. Hall, Horizon the Magazine of useful and Intelligent Living, 1946)

from: Westcott and Hort: Authors of the 'new' (*********) Bibles | Pauline Biblicist ~PBSF~ Society Fellowship

So is Blavatsky. Blavatsky died in 1891.

Where are they, now?

"The Deity of Christ:

“He never speaks of Himself directly as God, but the aim of His revelation was to lead men to see God in Him.” (Westcott, The Gospel According to St. John, p. 297).

“(John) does not expressly affirm the identification of the Word with Jesus Christ.” (Westcott, Ibid., p. 16).

“(Rev. 3:15) might no doubt bear the Arian meaning, the first thing created.” (Hort, Revelation, p.36).

"Perhaps this is why their Greek text makes Jesus a created god (John 1:18) and their American translation had a footnote concerning John 9:38, "And he said, Lord, I believe and he worshipped him," which said, "The Greek word denotes an act of reverence, whether paid to a creature, as here, or to the Creator" (thus calling Christ a creature).

"Salvation:

"The thought (of John 10:29) is here traced back to its most absolute form as resting on the essential power of God in His relation of Universal Fatherhood." (Westcott, St. John, p. 159).

"I confess I have no repugnance to the primitive doctrine of a ransom paid to Satan. I can see no other possible form in which the doctrine of a ransom is at all tenable; anything is better than the doctrine of a ransom to the father." (Hort, The First Epistle of St. Peter 1:1-2:17, p. 77).

"Perhaps this is why their Greek text adds to salvation in 1st Peter 2:2.

"And why their English version teaches universal salvation in Titus 2:11,
"For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men" (ASV).

Hell:

“(Hell is) not the place of punishment of the guilty, (it is) the common abode of departed spirits.” (Westcott, Historic Faith, pp.77-78)

“We have no sure knowledge of future punishment, and the word eternal has a far higher meaning.” (Hort, Life and Letters, Vol. I, p.149)

"Perhaps this is why their Greek text does not have Mark 9:44, and their English translation replaces “everlasting fire” [Matthew 18:8] with “eternal fire” and changes the meaning of eternal as cited by Hort in the above quote."

from: Westcott & Hort: Translator's Beliefs

 

So the reason for the primacy of the KJB, in English and other languages world-wide for over 400 years is because, "it supported the agenda of the English government"(?) and King James banned the “Breeches Bible”(?), in Late Medieval England?

Well, I'll be...