Kenyon Bowers

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 ...

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...

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...

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...