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THE COMMON MAN’S DEFENSE OF KJV ONLYISM – Chapter 4 – Which Book Has Produced the Most Fruit?
“It (i.e. the KJV) is rightly regarded as the most influential book in the history of English civilization.”
-Compton’s Encyclopedia
“The best fruits of Christianity have sprung from the seeds our translation has scattered.”1
- Alexander McClure
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THE COMMON MAN’S DEFENSE OF KJV ONLYISM – Chapter 3 – Did God Fall Asleep?
KJV critics have trouble believing that God would care to maintain His Word. Again, this reminds us of the early Deists who did not believe that God cared to actively maintain the natural creation. Is the Bible important enough? Is it precious enough? Holy enough? Obviously, there is much reason to believe that if God would preserve anything, He would preserve His Word!
In regard to Deism, Gerald R. Cragg writes:
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THE COMMON MAN’S DEFENSE OF KJV ONLYISM – Chapter 1 – MODERN SCRIBES SOUND LIKE THE OLD SCRIBES
“…they made a translation so magnificent that to this day the common human Britisher or citizen of the United States of North America accepts and worships it as a single book by a single author, the book being the Book of Books and the author being God.”1
-George Bernard Shaw
“Whosoever attempts to shake the confidence of the common people in the common version, puts their faith in imminent peril of shipwreck.”2
-Alexander McClure, The Translators Revived (1858)
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THE COMMON MAN’S DEFENSE OF KJV ONLYISM
INTRODUCTION
The objections of the many scholars, pastors and Christian leaders who oppose KJV Onlyism often have more in common with “political doublespeak” than rational argumentation. Therefore, the goal of this first book is to simply expose these objections for what they are. To understand the real difference between KJV Onlyism and the view of those who oppose it, we do not need knowledge of the original languages or classes in textual criticism. We simply need to compare the KJV with what these scholars call their written Word of God. Any Christian who may be intimidated or confused by this latest assault on the KJV, will at once be relieved when the smokescreen is cleared away, and these scholars are called to present and defend their preserved “bible.”
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THE COMMON MAN’S DEFENSE OF KJV ONLYISM – Chapter 2- MODERN SCRIBES SOUND LIKE DEISTS
CH. 2 – MODERN SCRIBES SOUND LIKE DEISTS
Nature is only a partial revelation. Nevertheless, it is able to reveal a great deal about God. From looking at the material universe, we can know that there is a Creator. We can know that this Creator appears to be omnipotent, with a love for beauty and order. This partial revelation of nature leads us onward, in search of another, more direct source of communication from our Creator. We find this direct revelation of God in the Christian bible. This bible professes to be the “Word of God.” To back up its claim, it presents us with supernatural, internal unity and miraculously fulfilled prophecy. Furthermore, it demonstrates its Divine power by convicting sinners, transforming lives and impacting the world. Nature is a steppingstone to finding this direct revelation of God in the bible:
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EXCERPTS FROM AUTHORIZED OR REVISED? (By Philip Mauro, 1924)
“The present inquiry is in regard to the many differences, some of them quite serious, between the ‘Authorized,’ or King James Version, first published in 1611, and the ‘Revised’ Version of 1881. The total number of the departures of the latter from the former is over thirty-six thousand. This raises some serious questions. Why was such an enormous number of changes made? On what authority?…Those who favor the modern Version will point to the fact that, during the three hundred years that have elapsed since the A.V. was translated, much material has been discovered whereby additional light is thrown upon the Text. How comes it then that the King James Version has not only maintained its place of supremacy, but of late years has forged further and further ahead of its rival? This surely is a matter worthy of our thoughtful consideration…Briefly then, to sum up the matter thus far, we observe: 1. That the most important and deplorable of the departures of the New Greek Text from the Received Text have been made with the support of less than one percent of all the available witnesses; or in other words, the readings discarded by the Revisers have the support of over 99 percent of the surviving Greek Texts (besides Versions and Fathers) 2. That the two Mss. which had the controlling influence in most of these departures are so corrupt upon their face as to justify the conclusion that they owe their survival solely to their bad reputation. With these facts before us, and in view also of the leading part the English speaking peoples were to play in shaping the destinies of mankind during the eventful centuries following the appearance of the Version of 1611, we are justified in believing that it was through a providential ordering that the preparation of that Version was not in anywise affected by higher critical theories in general, or specifically by the two ancient Codices we have been discussing. For when we consider what the A.V. was to be to the world, the incomparable influence it was to exert in shaping the course of events, and in accomplishing those eternal purposes of God for which Christ died and rose again and the Holy Spirit came down from heaven-when we consider that this Version was to be, more than all others combined, ‘the Sword of the Spirit,’ and that all this was fully known to God beforehand, we are fully warranted in the belief that it was not through chance, but by providential control of the circumstances, that the translators had access to just those Mss. which were available at that time, and to none others. ‘What shall we then say to these things? Shall we accept the R.V. (either the English or American) as a substitute for the A.V.? That question, we take it, has been settled by the almost unanimous rejection of the modern Versions…We say that the question whether or not the R.V. should supplant the A.V. has been settled by the people themselves who, for whatever reason or reasons, and whether influenced or not by the Spirit of God, have, and with increasing emphasis, rejected the New Version. Thus, while the report of the British Bible Society for the year 19 II showed that about four percent (one out of 25) of the Bibles and Testaments issued by that Society in that year were of the R.V., the full report issued in 1920, shows that less than two percent (one out of 50) were of the R.V. The number of users of the R.V. therefore is not only small proportionately, but is dwindling. ..As an appropriate conclusion we quote an editorial that appeared in a daily newspaper (The Boston Herald, Aug. 1, 1923), in which some striking facts concerning ‘the Bible’ are put together (and let it be remembered that it is the A.V. which is here regarded as ‘the Bible’). ‘The Real Best Seller’ (Boston Herald, Aug. 1, 1923): ‘Every day 80,000 copies. Every year 30,000,000 copies. And the presses day and night straining their bolts to supply the demand. ‘A new book? No, a very old one. Indeed, the first book ever put on the press. It has never been off since. An oriental book with a vast Occidental circulation. An ancient book, but fitting modern needs, if the demand or it is any criterion. A book so cheap that a copy may be had for a few cents, yet for a single copy $50,000 was paid a few years ago, and many other copies have sold for large sums. ‘A book of universal circulation. Translated into 700 languages and dialects. Put into raised type for the blind. Placed in all the guest rooms of the hotels, aboard all the ships of the navy, in all the barracks of the army. A newspaper recently stated that the captain of one of the vessels of the shipping board having died that it was found when his funeral service was held that no copy of the book was on board. Next day a hundred copies were on the way to the port where the ship would dock. ‘The world’s best seller. Outstripping all the novels with their occasional records of 100,000, even 200,000, occasionally more, in a single year. Everybody knows what the book is-THE BIBLE OF COURSE.’”
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