While the church I grew up in was never an “extreme King James Only Church,” as soon as I entered the ministry in the mid 1990s, I was presented with books by authors such as Gail Riplinger, David Otis Fuller, and others. I heard from some preachers that a “Good Baptist”is a “King James Baptist.”…
The 1611 King James Bible was prefaced by two articles. One of them was “The Epistle Dedicatory” and the other was “The Translators to the Reader.” Sadly many KJV Bibles do not include either, and many who love and cherish the KJV have never read it. I am including “The Translators To The Reader” here,…
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….
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…