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The King James Bible: The Seventh Purification?

A popular argument used by King James onlyists, especially by Ruckmanites and dual inspirationists, is that the King James Version of the Bible is in the seventh purification of Scripture. This argument goes like this: The King James Bible is the seventh English translation, and fits the "purified seven times" of Psalm 12:6-7. Some radical proponents of this position go as far as to say that English is the seventh main language of Bible translation. Additionally, some claim that, of the KJV editions, the 1900 Pure Cambridge Edition is the seventh purification of the KJV. When you take the most radical of views regarding this doctrine, you get the seventh language being English, the seventh translation being the KJV, and the seventh KJV being that of the PCE. However, this argument is a gross twisting of the Scriptures. I am a King James onlyist, so I write this as an admonition to brethren who use, and have used, this bad argument for our English Bible. There are a couple of ...
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The Apocrypha in the KJV?

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It is often asserted against King James onlyism that the KJV originally included the Apocrypha. And while this is true, it ignores several key points about what we actually believe, the history of the KJV, other Protestant translations, and what the translators themselves thought of the Apocrypha. Ironically, the inverse of this argument is used by Catholics who claim the King James Bible "removed" seven books of the Bible. The Bible Text is Perfect Firstly, King James onlyists believe the Bible text of the KJV to be perfect. We do not attach infallibility to anything else. The 1611 had its preface, table of contents, several charts, etc., yet we do not hold those to be infallible—it is no different in the case of the Deuterocanon. Even modern printings of various Bible translations are bound with dictionaries, maps, or even concordances in the back. Just because extra-biblical content is printed and contained within the same binding as the scriptural text does not mean that...
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A Defense of “Easter” in Acts 12:4

The King James Version of the Bible has been attacked from all sides. Yet, it stands. People have created list after list of supposed "mistranslations" in the KJV text. One such place is Acts 12:4 where the King James Bible reads "Easter." "And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people." (Ibid.) The Greek word underlying "Easter" is πάσχα ( pascha ), meaning "passover." Based on this information alone, it would seem the KJV is in error, right? One website does take this conclusion: "The Greek word translated as 'Easter' in this verse is the word for Passover; it cannot possibly have been misread as meaning 'Easter' by the translators. They intentionally mistranslated a word in this verse to legitimatize their false religion and to make it appear as if the Christian 'holy day' cal...
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The Mandela Effect and Bible Correction

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The Mandela effect, a phenomenon in which people recall something in a way it either: 1) didn't happen or 2) it never was. There are many such Mandela effects in Christianity. One of the most known is the term “the lion and the lamb.” Such a statement has never been in the Bible, yet it is a very common phrase within Christianity. The correct phrase is "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb" (Isaiah 11:6). A project called the "The KJV Restoration Project" claims that the KJV has been corrupted by so-called "supernatural changes." They state that they are using "the evidence posted on the Amos 8 website"¹ ( amos8.org ). Originally, in July of 2023, I published a now-privated YouTube video titled "The KJV - Part 6: The Bible and the Mandela Effect" in which I covered this very topic. The Amos 8 (who also started The KJV Restoration Project) website updated their website to say: "Proof that the Mandela effect on the Bible is re...
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Harem: A Modern False Friend

While reading through the Apocrypha recently, I was reading the Additions to Esther . In order to get the whole picture, I read through Esther as well using the New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE) which incorporates the additions into the text of Esther itself. I made frequent comparisons back to the trustworthy King James Bible, and what I found was interesting.   In Esther 2:3, in the King James and in the NRSVCE (it reads the same in other NRSV editions), it reads thus:   "And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them: " (KJV) "And let the king appoint commissioners in all the provinces of his kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins to the harem in the citadel of Susa und...
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Why Italicized? John 8:6, 1 John 2:23, and 1 John 3:16 Answered

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In the King James Bible, there are italics. They are used to show when the translators supplied words either because the English language requires them to make sense or because of something implied in the originals that isn't "explicitly" there. Originally, in the 1611 King James Bible, there were no italics. Instead, since the text was mostly in Gothic type, the supplied words were in Roman type. When, however, they switched from Gothic to Roman, they began using italics where the Roman type had been originally. I have a leaf from a 1630 King James Bible, and it uses the Roman type with italics, so some point from 1611 to 1630 is when this switch was first being made (but not completely as I found a 1639 KJV with Gothic type). Galatians 4:14 in the 1630 KJV; "even" is in italics   There are three times that the KJV uses italics for something other than supplied words. It was used to denote variances in the received texts in three spots: John 8:6, 1 John 2:23, a...
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