Disagreeing about the KJV... the RIGHT way! 

The weakness our our current language doesn't stop the need for speaking the Gospel in that language.

KJV. If it was good enough for the apostle Paul, it’s good enough for me 😂

Since God gave the KJV to Moses on Sinai, I think we should use it... and not red-lettered; That's a later heresy.

our friend is conflating False-Friends with "hard words". A false friend is a word that isn't a hard word, but a word that we use ALL THE TIME, but because because the meaning of that word changed over time, a modern reader is most likely going to misunderstand the text, even though, their understanding makes perfectly good sense in the sentence.

This whole thing about the English language degrading is just pure nonsense. There have always been people who spoke language poorly with lots of slang and bad grammar. There is also always people who speak whatever language intelligently and eloquently. The NIV and ESV are not some crappy slang. They are very well done.

This was a great discussion! Good work gentlemen.

John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. I lean very closely with Josh and his conviction on the Word of God, but also his peaceful, brotherly love for those who differ. Let's keep preaching the Gospel & may God give the increase. I appreciate Pastor Keith, "my go to" Calvinist. I am not a Calvinist, but appreciate his approach, which is very close with Josh's with a peaceful, brotherly approach. Good discussion!

Wait…is that Hans Fiene singing your theme, or whoever does Hans’ singing for him? (Sorry if this has come up already; we’re first-time listeners.)

I think he doesn't actually know what a false friend is, or why they are so problematic.

Good conversation. Bottom line: I want to know what God said = what was originally written.

It strikes me as odd that a significant part of his argument is that if we don't all just agree with the KJV, other people might get scared and walk away or never come to Christ in the first place. Sure, Greek is hard and textual criticism is confusing. But fear of how people will respond seems line a poor justification to ignore it.

I’am pro Byzantium text type bible. I preach out of NKJV, KJV, and once in awhile the ESV. D.A. Waite come out with a KJV called the The Defined King James Bible that has all those archaic words in a different font with a number at the top and it’s numbered definition at the bottom of the text. Also side note almost all of the KJV translators were Calvinist. I also like Doug Wilson’s idea for a new translation. Love this video. I pray we all have an unquenchable thirst for Gods word..And this video proved that yes 2 men who are Christians can have a great polite discussion about scripture and translations. Appreciate it and God bless you both.

I loved the episode, this is a topic important to me. But I felt like the guest flipped between knowledgeable and ignorant as it suited his needs. There was a lot of presupposing the kjv was the standard as well. Lastly, I didn't like his analogy at the end about the skyscraper. He said he trusted the engineer knew how to build the building and wouldn't question it but if you take that further he should only be in skyscrapers built by that specific engineer and assume all other buildings are flawed if designed by someone else just because they trained under someone else or at a later date. 🤷🏼‍♂️

There may be friendly people who use only the KJV, still waiting for a friendly ruckmanite

Mr. Foskey, I am really curious as to your opinion on this. I am a Reformed Baptist but for sake of conversation just say 'baptist' as a general term. As I survey my library I quickly realized that .ost of the theologians that have most impacted my doctrinal convictions are Presbyterian. Now I in no way intend to baptize babies, but I was curious if this is something you've ran into yourself as a fellow reformed baptist? I mean I think any reformed baptist I know of or listen to are all alive today (Foskey, Beaucham, White, Durbin) but everything else would seem to be Presbyterian! I don't think it's an issue, but have you encountered anything like that and if so why remain Baptist and not just pull a Jared Longshore? Without removing Hebrews 8! (James White joke)

Great conversation. I enjoyed listening.

You should have a conversation with Nick Sayers about Revelation 16:5. He literally wrote a book on it and enjoys having these kinds of talks.

Interesting conversation. I wish more KJVOs were this reasonable. I have a lot of thoughts, but one thing that occurred to me was how the KJV leaves Anathema maranatha untranslated in 1 Corinthians 16:22

i did listened to the whole inteview and I enjoyed it! I happen to read and study the KJV. It is precious to me and I'm satisfied with how it has brought me to salvation.

Can the FormTX be supplied for every modern version? If not, why are we even having a discussion on Bible versions? If you can not tell me what the Bible Publishers listed as the "new authorship" on FormTX for which they sought copyright for, why are we even discussing translational choices?

I recently saw a thread online where someone posted scripture from the ESV, which used the same language as the KJV, but because they included "ESV" in the address, people started calling them the spawn of Satan. I feel the same way about it that I feel about people who are anti-Calvanist. They're quick to condemn these things but when asked about their stance, I find the responses to be "It's Satanic," or "It's unbiblical," both of which are insanely insufficient answers lol. Edit: Today's guest has Redeemed Zoomer facial expressions. You should bring them on together, it'd be a treat 😂

1:36:54 including the work through the manuscript tradition? The critical text? other translations?

There is a verse in the KJV that in a 18th or 19 century edition had 3 or 4 words mixed and changed that wasn't fixed and is still used today. I saw it on a reel. And it was nice seeing the reel after I bought an Oxford 400th Anniversary 1611 Edition.

They will never convince me of KJV onlyism until they use the actual 1611 text, then we can start actually talking arguments

I had alot of issues with the missing verses especially in acts 8 and 1 john 5:7. But doing research i realized nkjv and mev kept the missing verses. There are other versions that are fine but i do believe the kjv is the best and most acurate. Great conversation wish kjv only was more like this guy!

Looking for a place in the Bible where it says we need to have someone explain what the words mean. Rome and the Masorites made the same arguments as the KJO crowd.

Interview Nick Sayers.

Dr. White is correct. The issue when it comes to what is inspired is what did the original author actually write.

There's a difference between slang-driven, ever-changing English (nobody says "swell" or "rad" any more) and conventional modern English like you would read in the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times.

Why some have problems with Reasoned eclecticism. I John 5:7 is found in a majority of the Latin, but not the Greek so out it goes. Good will towards men Doxology in Matthew Without cause God manifest in the flesh Are a majority in the Greek but not in the Latin, so out they go The PA and Mark 16:9-20 are a majority in both the Greek and Latin so out they go. Even the “not yet” found in the two of the earliest(P66.P75) in John 7:8 some throw out. If as an orthodox Christian you don't see a problem, what would you see as a problem?

Talked to a guy in a comment section the other day that said "when we get full salvation". "Being" supports his view. Interesting..

I’m simply not smart enough to read the KJV, my reading comprehension is already low. Many years ago I tried and got so tired of reading half the paragraphs twice, settled on the NKJV. Honestly to only reason I settled on the NKJV was because all my concordance’s and dictionaries were based on the KJV. I’m not sure I own a KJV, well I do own a 1611 edition. It is very difficult for me, I was just curious how different it was so I bought one.

Did you rip Ephesians 5:3 out of your Bible?

When I began reading through the Bible in a year, I chose a different translation each year, having realized that there are many ways of translating a word, because there is rarely an exact word to word equivalent from language to language. (I learned that from having done a translation of a German poem into English.) in my earlier years I had learned that YAHWEH was God’s name, not LORD. For that reason, I had liked the Jerusalem Bible for devotional use. The KJV had been a favorite until I inadvertently came into a KJVO church. Because the pastor treated the KJV as the only true revealed Word, I began shutting out his messages about such passages like, “the word of God is pure”, knowing that he was saying, “the KJV words are pure”, etc. It took me about a year after leaving that church that I was able to begin again read the KJV.

The King James Bible is an excellent translation for those who are fluent in King James English and skilled in the ability to translate into modern English for those who are not fluent in King James English. I happen to be one of those guys and use the King James almost exclusively in my teaching and preaching although sometimes get lazy and let my ESV do the work!😂 I came out of the IFB crowd that was hard-core KJV only and have heard KJVO preechers where it was painfully obvious that they were not fluent in King James English and pretty much biblically illiterate on top of everything else! There are many places in the KJV that employ “Dynamic Equivalence” and it is a good thing when they do! The NASB is a far more literal translation than the KJV. Our friend seems quite intelligent and I do hope he continues and pursues further education. I am currently pursuing a Master of Theological Studies at Louisiana Baptist Theological Seminary. LBU is very affordable and flexible so he could even take classes while on the road if he is still traveling about.

I was raised in a KJV only Baptist church. KJV only ism Is literally one of the dumbest beliefs possible. and the people cannot be reasoned with.

I am KJV Only. If I go to a KJVO church I know that I will get biblically sound teaching without the nonsense of some other churches. That’s not to say that other churches are bad or that there is no merit in other translations, merely to say that I don’t have to wonder about KJVO. If I’m traveling, I can walk into any of those churches and be reasonably assured that there will not be some weird “Open and affirming “nonsense Or “female pastors “or any of the other modern heresies.

Great podcast! I just had a conversation about the KJV usage of the Hebrew word Rahab. I use the KJV too, but to not translate that word makes no sense.

"If I'm going to give Higher Criticism, I'm going to give it to Beza, because he knew Greek more than I do". And so do literally ALL Modern Higher Critical Scholars today. If Higher Criticism is wrong, than it's wrong, no matter WHO employs it!

This was fascinating! I hope that you can always get this high of quality of guests!

"If your trusting in the right thing then there's nothing necessarily wrong with that." Let me traslate for you, "If they have a KJV then there is no need to look at anything else."

The standard is not the King James. Just because a KJVO advocate says that it is the standard does not make it the standard. That is the issue. If it were not for KJVO advocates this would not be the issue that it is. This is part of the circular reasoning that KJVO'ers engage in where they assume the KJV to argue the KJV.

If you are kjv only good for you. I think overall it is a good translation, against contemporary English translations you have to look at it next to the Douhay-Reims (which is actually a few years older). But what is nails on chalkboard are those who believe being the "authorized version" is that it came down from heaven or something. It was the only translation authorized by the king of England to be used in the Church of England. And the 7 times silver argument borders on insanity. For that to be true, you have to believe that all of Christianity got scripture wrong for 1,500ish years and the Christian churches got the Bible wrong for 1,200 years until the spirit revealed the true Bible to the king of a country that didn't even exist at the time of Christ in a language that didn't exist at the time of Christ. You have to weigh any translation against the Vulgate and the septuagent. You will find variations in wording. Does it fundamentally charge the message, not really but they're are differences in the context of some passages.

If people can't be polite to both James White and Leighton Flowers at the same time, they certainly can't be polite about Bible translations.

Literally means to sit idle

I love the KJV and read it very much. The argument about the necessity of the words being translated faithfully used to be my argument when I was KJVO. The first thing I always go to when addressing this is the phrase “God forbid” in the NT. That isn’t what the Greek says, in that place that is a total dynamic equivalence and I don’t have an issue with that and there are many other such places in the KJV where they go with a dynamic yet faithful translation while more modern bibles go with the more word for word. Let’s be fair brothers and sisters

I’m so confused by Josh saying he doesn’t consider himself a Protestant, he’s not catholic and he’s a Christian so he would be a Protestant. Does he know the history of the church?

Wait, the short ending of Mark ends with the empty tomb and the angels proclaiming to the women that Jesus was risen. Where would anyone get that there is no resurrection in the short ending of Mark?

It doesn't matter on which side of the conversation you are on the issue, I think it's foolish to have a church with members using different translation especially if you are doing verse memorisation or a Bible study and people are asked to read from the Bible.

Thinketh I, that if one wilt defend KJV Only whilst grumbling about the degradation of the King's English, verily he must speaketh the King's English.

Buc-ee's!

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I don’t have a preference for a particular translation ( passion book is not a translation) But Is he saying that the most learned biblical scholars where the ones who wrote the original KJV Bible this is a very bold view Surely with all the technology and the archeological discoveries our modern day Bible scholars are on par or maybe have more insight?????

I know he claims to not be a KJVO'er but all of his arguments still basically come down to "KJV Only = Word of God Only" which is the only logical outcome of a KJVO argumentation. Press hard enough and talk long enough they have to end up there because what you can't do as a KJVO'er is admit that ANY translation could have possible translated something better.

You gain perspective by remembering that Scripture has been translated into over 1500 languages, and counting. In the scheme of things, how big a deal is the KJO debate?

As great as a conversatiom as this was.. This guy was too passive I mean he says the Holy Spirit should do the work because he doesn't care (which is wrong) and he doesn't need to say anything (also wrong) because the Holy Spirit should speak to people. We should be grieved for the lost. We should be having the greatest desire to teach people how to be saved. We are to be the hands and feet of God. Christ works through us to do His work. That's how God always worked. He always works through His people. This is an urgent thing. People are dying and going to hell everyday and we must be grieved over that and we must do the workd of Christ by teaching and pointing them back to Jesus for salvation. Come on people. My fellow millennial here needs to not be so nonchalant about this.

Of all the extremely weak arguments I was expecting to hear, degradation of language was not one of them. Let's not forget that even those who spoke Middle English did not abide by the rules that it was often written to uphold, like strict use of Latin tense and sentence structure. Middle English was, at least in communication, a much weaker language than our own. All cultures and languages use slang, including Middle English, and the lack of slang usage in the KJV is not a reasonable argument, as it is also not used modern English translations like the NIV and ESV. Furthermore, slang is not an accurate indication of linguistic degradation as most slang comes and goes in a matter of years, lasting less than a generation, and much of that slang is humorous and sometimes phenetic, just like "hawk tua". It is a joke and will be forgotten in a year. Middle English, Latin, early Cantonese, and all other languages are subject to the same thing, we just don't know them because they died out, just like the term "ratchet" died out from our culture a few years ago. At any rate, regardless of whether someone thinks language is degrading, we need to spread the Gospel, and we need to spread it in the language people will actually understand.

you brought up a priori for kjvo users but you didn't apply it to your position. For example, the CT position uses its own a priori bc it prioritizes sinaiticus and vaticanus, with 3000 difference between them. If it the argument is evidence, then the byzantine text is best. You failed to acknowledge your own a priori. You should read Harry Sturz, who was neither tr or ct. I recommend acknowledging each position has a priori, bc your phrasing seemed to suggest that your position had none. Perhaps just a slip of the tongue. I used to be ct until I realized the ct had a funky a priori, whilst the byzantine priority position has a very good one. Then i became a tr guy for many reasons. However i just wanted to encourage You to fairly describe your own position accurately by acknowledging Your own a priori. However, in most everything else, i believe you were very fair.

I only read the KJV. My church only uses the KJV. When a question comes up in Bible study the wonderful internet has a plethora of translations and access to original language. Same thing for the family at home. So much is about Man's traditions and what people are comfortable with. There has been no other time since the foundation of the world that we have had this amount of access to help understand the Word. Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Have a Blessed day 🙏

KJV only here, though i dont limit God's ability to speak through other versions to those who do not know better. I just can't personally accept the changes in other versions, cutting down on the deity of Christ, taking out the blood, missing verses, wording things more calvinistic (oh yeah im a provisionist subscriber lol) not to mention the beauty of the language of the KJV. No other even sounds right coming out of my mouth. The KJV had the most in depth, thorough, by the best scholars translation and is purely that, without any beliefs tainting the way something was translated. Pure Scripture. ❤

The only thing of note is that every KJV only person I’ve seen discussing this on RU-vid all sound somewhat conceited in their discussion, even when they admit their limited knowledge or their great depth of knowledge. Just an observation. I read many versions when studying the word, my preference is ESV just because for me it’s easier to read. But I am good with any until you get to weird versions like the passion or message bible.

Keith did an excellent job with his answer concerning Romans 6. When pressed this does an excellent job of highlighting the inconsistency of the KJVO advocate.

Even if Mark was written first, and even if Mark did not contain an account of the resurrection, that is not an argument for King James Onlyism because we have 3 other gospels that do contain it and we have an entire New Testament that speaks about it and explains how we should believe in light of the resurrection.

The question I always like to ask which speaks to whether someone is intellectually honest or if they are just lost in their King James Onlyism is, "If you were to know absolutely that Mark did not write the longer ending would you be ok with not including it in your edition of the KJV?" I have never met a KJVO advocate that would be honest enough to say that they would be ok without including it because for them their standard is not what God inspired which is the original autograph. No, their standard is a 17th century translation.

1John 5:7 is not canon, the longer ending of Mark, and the reading of John 7:53-8:11, are canon.

Not a Protestant? 🤔

KJVOnlyism is not a reason to hate someone. It’s funny!- but it’s not a reason to hate.

King James Onlyists have done more to turn me away from the KJV than anyone that is not a KJVO'er.

Yeah, I am sorry but he just said in reference to the longer ending of Mark, "when you remove it." That is classic cultic King James Onlyism. One can package it to sound nice but that is still the same line of thinking.

Ask for a pompous person, and I will show you a KJV onlyist

The shorter ending of Mark does not bother me at all because I believe it is actually what Mark wrote.

Since the KJV was personally handed down by the Archangel Gabriel to His Majesty Pope Benjamin Wilkinson in 1930, I think I should start using it... even if I am not a native English speaker.

Keith did an excellent job of pushing back because the guest clearly holds the cultic KJVO viewpoint although he did not behave like they typical cultic KJVO'er. He clearly did not want to answer the question about whether the KJV could be improved upon or changed based on a translation error. This means that he wants to hold to the cultic view without being "known" for holding it. The King James Bible Alone = The Word Of God Alone is the cultic viewpoint and that seems to be what he is arguing for. I can answer the question because I am not a cultic KJVO'er. Yes, the trasnlation can be improved upon and yes the KJV has some translation errors and some are not even the fault of the KJV translators. There are no perfect translations. The original was perfect and any translation that is as accurate as possible to the original can be said to be the Word of God in that language.

I am pretty sure the message of Romans 14 is the same no matter what mainstream Bible you read, including KJV. The message of Romans 14 pretty much makes this issue a non issue.

Every serious Bible scholar knows that “th” is a letter in the Hebrew alphabet.

Problem 1 with the KJVOnly view: Their view of preservation is manifestly not how God preserved the Bible. Even in the TR tradition, every type of textual variation common to the CT is found, save the discussion of Mark's ending and the woman caught in adultery. Problem 2:False Friends, which he mischaracterized as "hard words." Nope. The problem is precisely they're *not* hard. So no one looks them up. Problem3: They do to the KJV exactly what the KJV translators say in the 1611 Preface *not* to do. They claim no special inspiration. They accept the need for future revision. They accept the need for marginal notes and alternate readings. Everything the KJVOnlyists hate about the NKJV is what the KJV translators themselves said was necessary for a good translation. And so KJVOnlyists turn a good translation into a bad one, by giving it status it never was meant to have. Also, Problem 4. Despite his claim, English, as a written language at least, is not "dumber" now than in 1611. See any of the modern style guides on that subject. Slang is not linguistic standard. By definition.

Comparing Steven Anderson with James White is a wild take

KJV-onlyism is as ridiculous as ESV-onlyism and thankfully there are no ESV-onlyist. KJV is a great version of the Bible but there are a number of known issues. KJV-onlyists are so wedded to the KJV that they refuse to change a single word even if they generally agree that it's a better word.