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Showing posts with label Christian urban myth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christian urban myth. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 06, 2026

Early reception of the King James Bible

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The claims of the slow acceptance of the KJV have been exaggerated, and some scholars are now debunking this myth. Kenneth Fincham pointed o...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Pilgrims hated KJV, No!

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Follow up hit parody : Pilgrims hated KJV, oh! For urban myths tell us so. Little yarns to them belong— Tell them loud and tell them loud. Y...

John Alden and the King James Bible

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For some background for this post, please see Bibles at the Pilgrim Hall Museum at Plymouth . Some ubiquitous KJV critics think they have fo...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Straining at a gnat and not swallowing a camel

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In a post in 2023 , I took notice of Dan Wallace’s claim that “strain at” in Matthew 23:24 is a translation error. I addressed the usage and...
Tuesday, July 02, 2024

Arthur Farstad on Geneva and NKJV Bibles

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Arthur Leonard Farstad (1935-1998) was executive of the New King James Version, and co-editor (with Zane Hodges) of a Greek Majority Text N...
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Baptists, the Bible, and Boyce

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Back in March, on a Facebook public group called “KJV Onlyism Discussion Unbiased,” someone reposted a rant by Anglican Apologist and KJVO ...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Bible translation and copyright

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I have read and heard King James Bible proponents argue that translators must intentionally reword portions of their new translations in ord...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

John Milton was not “Geneva Bible Only”

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About two years ago I made an effort to root out some World Wide Web claims that folks like John Bunyan and John Milton only used the Geneva...
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Tuesday, April 02, 2024

John Clarke’s Bible

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In the Baptist History Preservation group on Facebook, Jonathan Burris asserted that early Baptist churches in America used the Geneva Bibl...
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Sunday, March 31, 2024

To Be a Pilgrim

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“ To Be a Pilgrim ” (also called “He Who Would Valiant Be” and “Who Would True Valour see”) is a hymn derived from the pen of the famed John...
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Correcting the Internet: 1881, not 1894

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From time to time, I run across factual errors in the realm of theology or church history on the World Wide Web. If I think it is egregious ...
Tuesday, May 02, 2023

The King James Bible: published when?

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Q . When was the King James Bible published? A . The King James Bible, though not yet called by that name, was published in 1611. [i] “ T...