One of the major languages in Papua New Guinea is Melanesian Pidgin, and although there is a movement in portions of the country for people to learn English this is not always the case…especially in the Highlands area and wasn’t always that way in the early days of missionary work. When I was a teenager,…
There is no evidence that King James Onlyism as popularized by Peter Ruckman was a main view among the Baptists. I am trying to find a quote somewhere that would indicate they might have even been mild KJV Onlyists, but I cannot find it. I have looked in Baptist history books and other Baptist material….
The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith, usually referred to as the 1689 Confession was not King James Only. Here is Article One, Paragraph 8: The Old Testament in Hebrew (which was the native language of the people of God of old),14 and the New Testament in Greek (which at the time of the writing of…
It is a long forgotten fact that when the KJV was first produced it did not look like what we have today. Back a few years ago, I was blessed to have gotten a facsimile copy of the original KJV 1611 for my own study. For anyone who loves the Bible in general, or English…
A pastor from Florida recalled that I wrote an article about “Why I Am KJV Only” and he mentioned that on Facebook. I was surprised anyone read that and found it interesting that he would bring it up. Here is my reply: Yes, I did write an article like that based on a sermon I…
When Brother John R. Gilpin was editor, The Baptist Examiner was not KJVO either.. It was still Baptist, Calvinistic, Premillenial, and Biblical but it was not KJVO. Here’s a few quotes covering the decades when he was editor: July 6, 1940 (This was just reprinted in the Landmark Baptist – July/August 2024 edition) – The…
The Baptist Examiner was “Premillenial, Baptistic, Calvinistic, and Biblical” but it was NOT always a King James Only paper especially and not at all during its first decades. This was the reason I brought up The Baptist Examiner at all. This was the same reason I brought up John Gill, Charles Spurgeon, John Broadus, and…
I have been interested lately in a piece of Baptist history that is often assumed but rarely documented. That is the history of “King James Onlyism” (KJVO) among the Baptists. Perhaps it is not documented because it is largely missing. I have not found it in writings from men like John Gill, Charles Spurgeon, John…