Meaning of KJV-onlyer | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who asserts that the King James Version of the Bible is superior to all other English translations.

informal

Examples

“The meaning that can be derived from the word itself is "without error." In other words, the Bible was given without error of any sort. Now, excepting KJV-onlyers, most inerrantists would limit inerrancy to the original writings, none of which currently exist.”

“(Seeing as how Erasmus was a Roman Catholic who set the Vulgate at a level where modern KJV-onlyers set it, he might have believed the Vulgate was perfect, so such texts absent from his Greek manuscripts probably were present in the original, in his thinking); […]”

“[…] [As a side note, at least the first two in your list have people whose full-time job it is to hate them. I can't recall too many slams against the NASB, but I imagine that KJV-onlyers hate it.]”

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