Blogs Posts on "King James Only"

If the King James was good enough for Jesus, burn the rest by The Church of Jesus Christ on Nov 6, 2009I find this move by this ‘pastor’ as disgusting as you can get. There is an old, snooty church joke that goes something like this: Miss Smith approaches her pastor, incensed that he has replaced the King James Bible with the New Internat...

The Things I Missed as King James Version Onlyist: God’s Sovereignty by The Church of Jesus Christ on Sep 24, 2009For years, while I attended KJVO congregations, I heard ‘God will work, but who will let Him?’ Obviously, they paraphrased it from, Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who s...

Reprobation in the New Living Translation by The Church of Jesus Christ on Sep 22, 2009We will be discussing several passages today, to see if the NLT measures up in understanding (mine or Paul’s?) reprobation – in which someone is cast away from God. The word itself, absent doctrine and dogma, is an important word, and car...

Vetting the New Living Translation (NLT) by The Church of Jesus Christ on Sep 22, 2009As many of my readers know, I come from a King James Only background (KJVO). It took me several years to build up the courage to actually read another version, much less actually buy one. Now, I have many different translations – print and elec...

What Warps Us? by The Church of Jesus Christ on Jul 23, 2009Growing up is hard to do. We have interaction with everyone else before we can become aware of ourself.  We get doused with culture, religion, politics, and a whole host of life changing influences. Do those things mold us or warp us? (Difference?)...

The KJVO Belief that God is an English only speaker by The Church of Jesus Christ on Jul 9, 2009While reading this post, a commentator post a link to what we will examine below. One of the issues with KJV-Onlyism is that it is Anglo-centric, meaning that many of those who promote it would declare England/American as the lost tribe(s) of Israel.

The KJVO Belief that God is an English only speaker by The Church of Jesus Christ on Jul 9, 2009While reading this post, a commentator post a link to what we will examine below. One of the issues with KJV-Onlyism is that it is Anglo-centric, meaning that many of those who promote it would declare England/American as the lost tribe(s) of Israel.