KJV defender and pastor Bryan Ross, who himself once held to the two-streams-of-Bibles argument, asserted: “Through the influences of Jasper James Ray, David Otis Fuller, and Peter S. Ruckman the ‘two Bible streams/lines’ paradigm of transmission cemented itself into the argumentation of the King James Only movement” (From This Generation For Ever, Vol. 3, p. 467).
Bryan Ross wrote: “The ‘two streams of Bibles’ model of transmission is guilty of presenting a false dichotomy that is not supposed by the textual facts. This is dangerous because if one bothers to check the facts, they run the risk of having their faith overthrown by information that does not fit the either/or option presented by the dichotomy” (pp. 414, 466).
Bryan Ross noted: “The substantive basis for the ‘two streams’ paradigm is built upon sinking sand rather than upon an evaluation of actual readings” (p. 467).
Bryan Ross observed: “The Peshitta contains readings in its extant copies that King James advocates would never tolerate in a Modern Version, yet their charts and diagrams depict the Peshitta as being fundamentally the same as the KJB. This is an untenable double standard in pro-King James argumentation that needs to be jettisoned or revised to accord with the textual and historical facts” (p. 398).
Bryan Ross wrote: “Hard core King James Onlyists are fond of asking folks to show them a text, translation, or version other than the King James Bible that is completely inerrant in every detail. It is important to realize that questions such as these presuppose the unscriptural standard of verbatim identicality of wording as the standard for preservation” (From This Generation, Vol. 3, p. 493). Bryan Ross maintained that “questions such as these undermine the doctrine of preservation” (Ibid.).
David Reid and Bryan Ross wrote: “Scripture does not quote itself with verbatim identicality. In light of such indisputable evidence, arguing for verbatim identicality as the required standard of preservation is actually arguing against preservation having occurred since preservation with verbatim identicality obviously did not happen” (Myth of Verbatim Identicality-- How God actually Preserved His Word, p. 52). David Reid and Bryan Ross asserted: “It has been abundantly demonstrated that scripture does not require preservation with verbatim identicality. Nor has preservation with verbatim identicality occurred in history” (p. 87).
Bryan Ross wrote: “The ‘two streams of Bibles’ model of transmission is guilty of presenting a false dichotomy that is not supposed by the textual facts. This is dangerous because if one bothers to check the facts, they run the risk of having their faith overthrown by information that does not fit the either/or option presented by the dichotomy” (pp. 414, 466).
Bryan Ross noted: “The substantive basis for the ‘two streams’ paradigm is built upon sinking sand rather than upon an evaluation of actual readings” (p. 467).
Bryan Ross observed: “The Peshitta contains readings in its extant copies that King James advocates would never tolerate in a Modern Version, yet their charts and diagrams depict the Peshitta as being fundamentally the same as the KJB. This is an untenable double standard in pro-King James argumentation that needs to be jettisoned or revised to accord with the textual and historical facts” (p. 398).
Bryan Ross wrote: “Hard core King James Onlyists are fond of asking folks to show them a text, translation, or version other than the King James Bible that is completely inerrant in every detail. It is important to realize that questions such as these presuppose the unscriptural standard of verbatim identicality of wording as the standard for preservation” (From This Generation, Vol. 3, p. 493). Bryan Ross maintained that “questions such as these undermine the doctrine of preservation” (Ibid.).
David Reid and Bryan Ross wrote: “Scripture does not quote itself with verbatim identicality. In light of such indisputable evidence, arguing for verbatim identicality as the required standard of preservation is actually arguing against preservation having occurred since preservation with verbatim identicality obviously did not happen” (Myth of Verbatim Identicality-- How God actually Preserved His Word, p. 52). David Reid and Bryan Ross asserted: “It has been abundantly demonstrated that scripture does not require preservation with verbatim identicality. Nor has preservation with verbatim identicality occurred in history” (p. 87).