Rewind: KJV Onlyism

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The Case Against King James Onlyism

So as we've been addressing the issues with the King James Bible, we have to address the issue of King James Onlyism. This is the idea that the only Bible that we should use today, and the only Bible that God intended us to use, is the King James Version of the Bible.

The idea here is that any newer translation is of the devil. That is how it's usually worded. Most often they want to attack the NIV, New International Version, because it is a freer translation than the literal translation of something like the King James.

Why the KJV Translators Expected Ongoing Translation

But they are against any of the newer translations, and came out very much against them. Are translations newer than the King James, or other than the King James, wrong? Well, if you were to look at the preface of the first edition of the 1611 King James Version, you will see that the translators argued that there was a reason to give a newer, updated translation of the Bible, as opposed to the ones that already existed, like the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible, and Tyndale's Bible, was because of the fact that the language had changed.

Remember, the English language was not even standardized before the King James Bible. That's really what makes it such a significant work. It standardized the English language. But those translators expected that the language would continue to change, and that the translation would also need to continue to change.

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