King James Onlyism?

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I was a SB for years, in my younger days. Often heard that. Never heard it said seriously, as far as I could tell.

But you never know…
 
I have. During my second posting to Japan in the Air Force (I was a Russian linguist), I acquired a Russian “smuggler’s Bible” (pocket-size, very flexible plastic cover). During my leave-time at the end of that tour, my visit home coincided with a visit by my childhood pastor. I showed him the Bible, and he asked in all seriousness, “Is it a King James?”

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In the words of the Baptist pastor of a very small church in my home county - “I want the bible just like Jesus had it - the King James version.”
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Was he just saying that for effect, or did he really believe it was the literal truth? And if so, was he an ordained Baptist minister? Had he been through seminary? What did they teach them there about history?
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It was dead-serious.

He would often send bibles to Mexico and South America as a ministry and they were always KJV. 🤭

As far as his credentials or ordination, I don’t know. He was an older guy that grew up in rural Appalachia when a lot of the stereotypes about a lack of shoes and running water were still true in a lot of places. If I had to guess, he was likely “self-anointed” and then “ordained” by a handful of local ministers of similar view.

They’re almost totally gone now, but when I was a kid there were plenty of Baptist pastors that didn’t attend seminary or affiliate with a conference. He was almost certainly one of them.
 
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A good translation maybe by some standards but not so of the 7 books which are missing you can’t translate what isn’t there. They aren’t catholic so don’t have 100% sound doctrine. They are Christians they are individuals seeking God they have hope because of catholicsm which gave them their partial bible of bible stories and an intact canon for the New Testament. They don’t see it this way and so are sometimes arguing.
 
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Defending sound doctrine rather than arguing is ok protestants argue catholic’s defend that’s the way it should be regarding our teachings and this is the historical reason for the split in Christianity. Can’t speak for everyone but good catholic’s defend when the fullness of divine truth is protested against. If catholic’s go out arguing rather than defending then that isn’t the Catholic way but there will always be extreme types true.
 
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Complete KJVs may be found, as originally translated, containing all 7 books. Several of which are used in the readings/lessons in Mass. They were originally placed between the Old and New Testaments.

I got one such. Helps me as a Lector.
 
Those who promote King James Onlyism are doing God’s work. It is obvious to me that God only spoke in King James’ English. The bible was originally written in King James’ English and then translated into other languages, like Greek. It’s why English is the language everyone in the world pretty much needs to learn in school if they want to get by these days. However, there is a serious lack of thees, thous, and thys going on in modern English, and I find that appalling. God’s language needs to be restored to its former glory for the children. In fact, I think we should go even further back to Old English (Anglo-Saxon). That way we can replace amen with soothly.

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I heard that but also heard they are placed either in the apocryphal section or removed entirely and that the original KJV version had the 7 books in the main section as per the catholic bible didn’t know there were KJV with them in main section today, if so both thumbs up to those versions of it (1 thumb up if in apocryphal and thumbs down when removed)
 
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If there are any KJVs to be found containing them ( and there are), they are still where they originally were: between the Testaments.

Point was that the translations (Deuterocanicals) exist, and don’t require translating to the KJV flavor.
 
I see thanks for further explaining so for today’s KJV 1 thumb out of 2 then for yours and thumbs down for the rest not a slant on the translation though are you Anglican btw I think high Anglican’s are the KJV readers closest to catholicsm probably because they were the first to split from catholicsm
 
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In your photograph, King James bears a striking resemblance to a certain well-known film star. Might they possibly be related?

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OK.

High Anglican/Anglo-Catholic is even closer.

Yes. I’m a flavor of Anglicanism.
 
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thanks I got quite a lot of flack when trying to speak to a non denom KJV because after some progress in trying to explain what we have in common someone brought up infant baptism which is something most main line churches believe in. Never got flack from Anglican’s I even work at an Anglican Church as a cleaner. I’m happy being (Roman) Catholic because I believe in it, but see grace in peaceful Christians elsewhere.
 
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Anglicans = infant baptism.

Though it is dangerous to generalize about the tribe as a whole. Never met any who didn’t baptize infants, even so,
 
I’ll trust Batman until I learn better. He might be of the Continuum.

Dark Wing, now…

I hear Morbius is coming along.
 
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