Meanings
plural KJV-onlyers · alternative KJV-onlier
- informalSomeone who asserts that the King James Version of the Bible is superior to all other English translations.
[…] [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)2 more 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.
1997 August 16, Trevor Peterson, “Re: Contradictions in the Bible”, in christnet.theology (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)
Origin
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