NEW BOOK ANSWERING JAMES WHITE'

NEW BOOK ANSWERING JAMES WHITE'S KING JAMES ONLY CONTROVERSY

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January 29, 1996 (Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - A new book by Dr. Kirk DiVietro, Why Not the King James Bible!, is a reply to James White's The King James Only Controversy. This book is available for $8.50 + $3.50 S/H from Bible for Today, 900 Park Ave., Collingswood, NJ 08108. (609) 854-4452.

In his book The King James Only Controversy, James R. White attempts to build the case against the King James superiority and for the modern texts. On page 129 he writes: "As long as we allow the defender of the AV to determine the grounds of the argument by assuming the KJV to be the standard of all others, we will get absolutely nowhere."

This summarizes his plan of attack. White attempts to remove the issues of preservation, doctrine, and conviction from the arsenal of the King James defenders.

In the introduction White claims that the Bible version controversy is a non-issue and that those who stand for the KJV are dangerous controversialists: "The King James Only controversy, by its very nature, brings disruption and contention right into the pews of the local Christian church. KJV Only advocates due to the nature of their beliefs, are often disruptive of the fellowship in churches feeling that their message of God's one true Bible needs to be heard by all" (White, p. iv).

This characterization of the issue and the participants is false and must be refuted. Division is caused by those who leave a once held position. Since the King James Bible was the Bible commonly used in most Bible-believing churches for most of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century, its defenders are not the ones who left a once held position. Yet White writes, "Responsibility must be laid at the door of the KJV Only camp for the destruction of many Christian churches" (p. iv).

Why? The second half of the 20th century has seen an explosion of new Bibles and editions of the Greek New Testament. Each one attempts to gain acceptance in accuracy and readability. Each one inspires its champions. Each one attempts to gain acceptance in Bible-believing Christian circles. When a pastor or a professor or a common Christian attempts to ward off the advertising and pressures to accept the new "wonder Bible" he is attacked as being ignorant, bound to tradition, and belligerent.

It is James White and his crowd who are divisive and dangerous, by seeking to draw God's people away from the authority of one preserved Bible to a concept Bible scattered among all of the texts and versions.