One slick maneuver in the King James Version debate...
Call “King James ‘Onlyists’” idolaters and the King James Bible an idol. That is, they are saying that those who hold the King James Bible as the only true English Bible have made it an idol. This is a strong piece of rhetoric that plays well with many people. For an example, notice a commenter on the Haifley-Ward video discussion “Do We Need a KJV Update? A Candid and Cordial Conversation.” He wrote concerning the KJV, “The problem is that the bronze serpent in the wilderness is being repurposed as an idol.”
That is nevertheless an insincere tactic for those opponents who continue to use the “I love the KJV” trope. I adjure those who sincerely believe this charge of idolatry to come up to the lick log and prove they believe what they say. Stop playing the “nice card” and call for demolishing the idol. That’s what Hezekiah did.
[Hezekiah] … brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan. (2 Kings 18:4)
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