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KJV-onlyer en · NOUN

Etymology

From KJV + only + -er.

Meanings

1. (informal) Someone who asserts that the King James Version of the Bible is superior to all other English translations.
   • 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. 1997 August 16, Trevor Peterson, “Re: Contradictions in the Bible”, in christnet.theology (Usenet):
   • […] [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.] 2004 January 14, Mark Sornson, “Re: Another troubling statement from "God's" organization - Can anyone confirm or deny?”, in alt.religion.jehovahs-witn (Usenet):
   • (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); […] 1997 October 13, Daniel Arseneault, “Re: Is The KJV Inspired?”, in alt.religion.christian.anabaptist.brethren (Usenet):

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