Talk:King James Only

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Description of the KJV

... from 'the proverbial somewhere' - The King James Bible is the only good book ever produced by a committee.' 171.33.222.26 (talk) 18:53, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Rice and BJU

John Rice and Bob Jones University have both denounced "King James Only." They certainly don't belong on this list. PeterKa (talk) 07:43, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Mormons?

Really, I mean they do prefer the KJV but isn't it rather silly to call them KJV only? I thought the KJV not being perfect would have been one of the selling points of the Book Of Mormon. Not to mention the "only" part Really doesn't apply to a group that has three whole new books of scripture.

Copyright reasoning

Seeing as the KJV is the best-known English translation of the Bible whose copyright has expired, I wonder to what extent these KJV-only organizations are either operating under a conception that no one ought to own the Word of God or simply trying to save on royalties. I'd bet some adopted the KJV-only stance before the World English Bible, a 2000 revision of the 1901 ASV using contemporary English and dedicated to the public domain, started to become well known. Is there any evidence of this? --Damian Yerrick (talk) 01:46, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

At a tangent - as someone once said - who actually 'owns' the Gideon Bibles in hotel rooms - people deliberately leave the books, they are not designated as the property of the hotels etc. There is a request that you leave the bible for others to make use of - but no injunction against relocating it. 31.49.127.1 (talk) 09:11, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Septuagint

"like the KJV, was based on the Septuagint and the Erasmian Textus receptus" in the parallel movements section. The KJV Old Testament is a translation of the Masoretic text (4th generation Hebrew text) not the septuagint (a Greek translation of the first generation Hebrew text).