Featured In search of J. J. Ray

1909 SBC Annual lists W.P. Pearce messenger from Charleston, Mo.

 

While Ray was likely not SDA, he came across Dr. Wilkinson's book, saw it had no USA copyright, and so decided to copy heavily from it in his own work. He didn't acknowledge Dr. W whatsoever in his book. Maybe it was legal, but was it HONEST, as a Christian should be?

 

Here's Carl J. E. Nelson advertising in Winrod's Defender. Odd...must have had a later falling out?:

The Defender magazine

 

You may find it interesting that Peter Ruckman went after J.J. Ray in his book "The Last Grenade" published in 1990 (see page 179). Ruckman quotes Ray as having written something along the lines of the pure Word of God being only in the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, and actually has Ray stating at one point that "the King James Bible in English is NOT the pure word of God." However, Mr. Ruckman does not even quote a source. Very unscholarly of "Dr" Ruckman to allege that with no source, but with Ruckman's reputation, it should be no surprise.

 

No escaping the fact that Ray, in his book, God Wrote Only One Bible, legally plagiarized from 7TH DAY ADVENTIST Dr, Ben Wilkinson's 1930 book, Our Authorized Bible Vindicated, unashamedly, without acknowledging Dr. W whatsoever. legal or not, this was still DISHONEST, & GOD does not work that way!

And Dr. D. O. Fuller, who published Which Bible? in 1970, copied from both Dr. W and Ray. While he acknowledged Dr. W, he was careful not to mention Dr. W's CULT AFFILIATION in his work.

So we see the current KJVO myth had both a cultic and dishonest man-made origin.

But I appreciate the work of all the posters in this thread to reveal something about the mysterious J. J. Ray, as he apparently was a "one-hit-wonder", with whatever other boox he mighta written being mostly unknown.