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What Is King James ‘Onlyism’?

The phrase “King James Onlyism” describes the heartfelt conviction of multitudes of Bible-believing Christians. Those who believe that God has preserved his words in English where anyone on the face of the earth can find them and read them maintain that the King James Version—the Authorized Version—is where they are preserved. But this phrase also serves as a scornful epithet. Those who believe that God has not preserved his words in English where anyone on the face of the earth can find them and read them maintain that somewhere spread among two hundred different modern English translations is where they might be found, but that one must know Greek and Hebrew or have the help of scholars to know where they are and what they say.

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February 1, 2011

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The phrase “King James Onlyism” describes the heartfelt conviction of multitudes of Bible-believing Christians. Those who believe that God has preserved his words in English where anyone on the face of the earth can find them and read them maintain that the King James Version—the Authorized Version—is where they are preserved. But this phrase also serves as a scornful epithet. Those who believe that God has not preserved his words in English where anyone on the face of the earth can find them and read them maintain that somewhere spread among two hundred different modern English translations is where they might be found, but that one must know Greek and Hebrew or have the help of scholars to know where they are and what they say.

King James Onlyism

There are two ways in which advocates of modern Bible versions use the term “King James Onlyism” as a term of derision: guilt by association and appealing to the King James translators. The first way is by associating the origin of or belief in the “King James Only” position with persons that some Christians consider to be unscholarly, out of the mainstream, or unorthodox. The second way is by saying that since the King James translators were not “King James Only,” then it obviously is not a position that a Christian should take.

It is a little late to use the guilt by association argument, given that the Authorized Version was the only version read for three centuries. And no Bible-believing Christian who knows anything about English Bible history teaches that the King James translators were “King James Only.” What, then, is the origin of “King James Onlyism”? Was it invented by some over-zealous modern defender of the Authorized Version? Hardly, for the origin goes back, not to the beginning of the “King James Only” movement in the twentieth century, but four hundred years earlier to King James (1566- 1625) himself.

To begin with, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth (reigned 1558-1603) there was a “Draft for an Act of Parliament for a New Version of the Bible” that begins: “An act for the reducinge of diversities of Bibles now extant in the Englishe tongue to one setled vulgar translated from the original.” Queen Elizabeth died in 1603 and King James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England. It was soon after, at the Hampton Court Conference in January of 1604, that the idea for the Authorized Version was born. On the second day of the conference, the Puritan, Dr. John Rainolds (1549-1607), proposed that a new translation of the Bible be undertaken. According to the “official” account by William Barlow (d. 1613), the dean of Chester, who was at the conference: “After that he [Rainolds] moved his majesty that there might be a new translation of the Bible, because those which were allowed in the reign of king Henry the Eight and Edward the Sixt were corrupt and not answerable to the truth of the original.” The king then “wished that some special paines should be taken in that behalf for one uniform translation, (professing that he could never yet see a Bible well translated in English, but the worst of all his majesty thought the Geneva to be,) and this to be done by the best learned in both the universities; after them to be reviewed by the bishops, and the chief learned of the church; from them to be presented to the privy councel; and lastly, to be ratified by his royal authority. And so this whole church to be bound unto it, and none other.”

Tobie Matthew (1546-1628), the bishop of Durham, wrote a letter while he was in attendance at the Hampton Court Conference to the archbishop of York in which he says that the Puritans insisted on “one only translation of the Bible to be authentical, and read in the church.” In a letter written by the king’s Scottish chaplain, Patrick Galloway (1551-1626), who was also at the Hampton Court Conference, to the presbytery of Edinburgh, written less than a month after the conference, there appears “A note of such things as shall be reformed.” Paragraph two, under the heading “OF DOCTRINE,” reads: “That a translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek; and this to be set out and printed without any marginal notes, and only to be used in all churches of England in time of divine service.”

In one of the four anonymous accounts of the Hampton Court Conference, supposedly favoring the Puritans, there is mention of the incident when Dr. Rainolds suggested the idea of a new translation to the king: “Secondly, amongst those things which concern purity of doctrine, he wished that the translation might be reformed, and one to stand as warranted for all. . . . Then the King freely gave assent that there should be one translation of the Bible consonant to the original Greek and Hebrew and set forth without note, for that some of them enforce a sense further than the text will bear.” In “A Note of Such Things as Shall be Reformed in the Church,” written soon after the Hampton Court Conference (and thought to be written by the bishop of London, Richard Bancroft [1544-1610]), fifteen items are listed. Number ten concerns the proposed new Bible: “One uniform translation of the Bible to be made, and only to be used in all the churches of England.”

Then, in a list of principal matters to be considered, which was also drawn up soon after the conference, the fourth reads: “That care be taken, that one uniform translation of the Bible be printed, and read in the church: and that without any notes.” After the Authorized Version was published in 1611, there were some things written by the translators that relate to the origin of “King James Onlyism.” In the “Epistle Dedicatorie” to the Authorized Version, the translators recounted the king’s actions at the Hampton Court Conference:

There are infinite arguments of this right Christian and Religious affection in Your MAIESTIE; but none is more forcible to declare it to others, then the vehement and perpetuated desire of the accomplishing and publishing of this Worke, which now with all humilitie we present unto Your MAIESTIE. For when Your Highnesse had once out of deepe judgment apprehended, how convenient it was, That, out of the Originall sacred tongues, together with comparing of the labours, both in our owne and other forreigne Languages, of many worthy men who went before us, there should be one more exact Translation of the holy Scriptures into the English tongue.

In the translators’ preface (“The Translators to the Reader”) they also stated:

Truly (good Christian Reader) we never thought from the beginning, that we should need to make a new Translation, nor yet to make of a bad one a good one, (for then the imputation of Sixtus had bin true in some sort, that our people had bene fed with gall of Dragons in stead of wine, with whey in stead of milke:) but to make a good one better, or out of many good ones, one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against, that hath bene our endeavour, that our marke.

After the publication of the Authorized Version, we can see references to it in the visitation articles issued by the bishops and others in the Church of England exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction during the early Stuart Church. These references specify that it is the Authorized Version that is to be placed in the churches. The earliest such reference appears to be that found in the visitation articles of John King (1559-1621), who was bishop of London from 1611 to 1621. King refers in his 1612 visitation articles to “a large bible of the last edition.” Similar language can be found in many other sets of visitation articles, including the 1614 articles of Henry Cotton (d. 1615), bishop of Salisbury (“a bible of the largest volume, and last translation”), the 1619 articles of John Overall (1559-1619), bishop of Norwich (“the whole bible of the largest volume, and of the last translation”), the 1622 articles of William Laud (1573-1645), bishop of St. David’s (“the whole bible of the largest volume and latest edition”), and the 1622 articles of the aforementioned translator of the Authorized Version, Miles Smith, bishop of Gloucester (“the whole bible in English, of the largest volume and new translation lately set forth by his maiesties authoritie”). We continue to see the same thing after the death of King James in 1625; for example, the 1628 articles of John Howson (1557-1632), bishop of Oxford (“a bible of the largest volume and latest edition”), the 1635 articles of Matthew Wren (1585-1667), bishop of Hereford (“the whole bible in the largest volume of the last translation”), and the 1637 and 1640 articles of Robert Skinner (1590-1670), bishop of Bristol (“the bible of the new translation, lately set forth by the kings authority”).

The evidence is overwhelming that the origin of “King James Onlyism” is therefore not some over-zealous modern defender of the Authorized Version, it is King James himself.

This article is an abridged version of essay ten in the collection of fifteen essays on the Authorized Version by Laurence M. Vance entitled King James, His Bible, and Its Translators. This book is available directly from Vance Publications. For more information go to www.vancepublications.com

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The Lord Gave Us A Full House At The Bookstore Last Night With An Open Door To Proclaim The Good News Of New Life In Jesus Christ

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December 3, 2022

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We had a full house at the Bookstore last night and handed out packets of King James Bible gospel tracts along with the free cookies and hot chocolate!

Our Bookstore is located in a large development in NE Saint Augustine called Palencia, and has a very active community of people that includes a ton of kids. Last night was the annual Christmas tree and Menorah lighting, and it was packed with people who came for the food trucks, the face painting, the arts and crafts, and, oh yeah, the gospel of Jesus Christ. How was that last thing made available? Because you pray for and support our Bookstore ministry, and because of that, we are able to stand in the gap and tell them about new life in Jesus Christ.

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” 1 Peter 3:15 (KJB)

Please enjoy the short little at the bottom of this article, it perfectly captures in 38 seconds what our Bookstore was like for 2 full hours last night. We gave away cups and cups of delicious hot chocolate, trays and trays of fresh-baked cookies and donuts, free Christmas stockings to the first 30 kids, and packets and packets of gospel tracts. Please pray that the Lord will bless our witness last night, and that precious Jew and Gentile souls will get saved as a result of our witness at the Bookstore.

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NTEB PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: The Stunning And Sudden Increase Of Overt Antisemitism Begins To Shake The Internet, How Far Will It Go?

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December 2, 2022

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Kanye West shocked the world yesterday when he trashed the Jews and praised Hitler, but he is far from the only major player doing that right now

Yesterday, we told you how Kanye West, a lost man who pretends to be a Christian, sat with a Bible, wearing a nylon face covering, and spoke with Alex Jones about the wickedness of the Jews and the virtues of Adolf Hitler. West finished the day by posting a Nazi swastika-Star of David hybrid to his Twitter account. We have captured that imaged, colorized it, and it is the one you see in the center of the main graphic for this article. It was just last week that Emmanuel Macron spoke at the 2022 APEC meeting in Thailand under a swastika-themed logo, and it was just 24 hours ago that the United Nations confirmed their hatred for the nation of Israel with their Nakba Day resolution. If you believe the prophets, you know what’s happening, if you don’t then you’re clueless and unable to discern these times. We can help you with that.

“Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.” Zephaniah 3:8 (KJB)

On this episode of the NTEB Prophecy News Podcast, we’re going to do something unpopular, something that will invariably generate angry emails to my inbox, but it needs to be said and it must be done. Today we are going to stand with the Jews, which we’ve always done, we’re going to defend the right of the nation of Israel to exist, which we’ve always done, and we’re going to expose the key players leading this dramatic rise of antisemitism. Kayne West, a demon-possessed lost man on his way to Hell, made $400 million dollars selling his ‘Jesus Is King’ album to gullible Christians who lapped it up like a dog eating its own vomit. Not only is he not a Christian, he is a minister of Satan, and we will show you that today on the Podcast. Nothing can be done to avert the coming time of Jacob’s trouble for the Jews, the prophets tell me that and I believe them. But I also know that Genesis 12:3 is still in effect, and I desire to receive that blessing. To his credit, Elon Musk suspended Kanye’s Twitter account after he posted that swastika, but Elon is not one of the good guys, and you will see that today as well.

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Our Bibles Behind Bars Program Just Got A Request For 500 King James Bibles To Be Delivered To The Saint Johns County Jail Here In Saint Augustine

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December 1, 2022

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Because of your support, we are sending 500 King James Bibles to the Saint Johns County Jail here in Saint Augustine next week, praise the Lord!

Moments ago I finished a call with Corrections Chaplain Deon Johnson at the St. Johns County Jail here in Saint Augustine. I was connected to him through Sheriff Rob Hardwick who is the St. Johns County Sheriff. Chaplain Johnson explained that their facility holds just under 500 inmates, and they can get requests for up to 20 Bibles in a single day from the inmates. When I told him we could send him one Bible for every inmate, his voice took on a tone of heartfelt gratitude mixed with just a touch of happy disbelief. They are not used to receiving Bibles in such large numbers, and this is why the Bibles Behind Bars program is such a unique ministry.

“Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.” Matthew 24:36 (KJB)

Because of your ongoing support of this ministry, we are getting to the place where I can approve 500 Bibles on the spot, knowing that the support is there to pay for the Bibles and for the shipping. Do you know what a blessing that is for me that we are building a solid base from which to operate? Well, let me tell you, it is a major blessing. In my mind’s eye, and in my daily prayers, I can see the day when we have our own warehouse, stocked to the roof with our NTEB branded King James Bibles, and sending them out anywhere and everywhere they are requested. In 4 years, we have said ‘yes’ to every request no matter how small or how large. Think about that.

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For nearly 13 years, Now The End Begins has been known as one of the finest places online to get trustworthy end times news, and solid King James Bible teaching. But now when you mention NTEB to people, the reply invariably will be “oh, that’s the place where they’ll give you a free Bible”. Yeah, I think I like that reputation just as much, or maybe even a little bit more.

I have settled it with the Lord regarding this ministry in general and our free Bible program in particular, I am ‘all in’. I am devoting myself to this work 7 days a week, 10-12 hours per day, and am giving all the resources at my disposal to further the work. My time, my talents, whatever money I had, I have given it all and am trusting the Lord to sustain me. I have no retirement plan, no investments, no money squirreled away for a rainy day, nothing. Why? Because Jesus Christ is worth it all, every bit of it, and more. I’d like to ask you to pray for this ministry, and our Free Bible Program in particular. Pray that the Lord not only keeps it going, but keeps it growing. And if He has prospered you, I am asking you to give and give generously to this end times work. I believe the Lord will be calling us Home soon, but either way, I want to build something that will make it through the fire of the Judgment Seat of Christ. I am inviting you to come help us do just that. TO THE FIGHT!!!