This entry is yet another entry dedicated to debunking KJVO conspiracy theories. It brings me no pleasure to do these posts but I am constantly accosted by people who don’t know the original languages of the scriptures yet claim that people like me are heretics for reading anything other than the KJV. Today’s topic presented … Read more
Think you have a handle on your KJV vocabulary? Find out with this 20 point, multiple choice quiz.
I’ve previously discussed the difficulty in reading the KJV and the issue of outdated languages, however, I was recently having a discussion about such archaic words and I thought it would be nice to have a list of such words, where they occurred in scripture, and what they meant in modern English. I was lucky … Read more
What is being preserved in Psalm 12? One of the under-pinnings of the KJVO movement is the reliance on Psalm 12 to point to the fact that God promised to “preserve His word.” In the past I never really spent much time examining this passage since it had never been a point of NIV controversy. … Read more
In the never-ending battle keep the KJVO movement in check there is an immediate need to address a claim that I was just recently made aware of. A friend of mine who (for reasons unknown) follows Steven Anderson and his KJV heresy, recently tried to slander the NIV by stating that the translators purposefully removed … Read more
I have heard many times from KJVO advocates that the KJV is much easier to read than the other English translations and that readability tests have already proven it. The only problem with this statement is that it’s not true. At best it’s ignorance passed off as reality. At worst it’s just a flat out lie. … Read more