I don’t think there has been a more divisive topic among King James Bible/TR supporters and advocates than the King James Bible and TR.

Since the late 1970’s when I was first introduced to the so-called King James Bible debate one maladjusted element seems entrenched among the traditional defenders of the Faith, and that is, they don’t like each other. Now it’s 2024 and really nothing has changed. For half a century defenders of the King James Bible and Textus Receptus have found every conceivable reason not to cooperate in the common defense of the faith once delivered unto the saints. Sometimes it’s strong personalities who want to keep charge of something that belongs to them when really everything they do has been borrowed from scholars of a bygone era. The Calvinists and independent Baptist’s fight on soteriological grounds. I had one “hair-on-fire” free-will pastor tell me there was no way I could be a King James Bible defender because I wasn’t of a particular independent Baptist tradition, while I’ve also been asked if I was a confessional, reformed Baptist. After saying no, I wasn’t, the brother never spoke to me again. Cheap shots abound in this debate as if we’re not all in the same fight. Some men have given much of their lives to defending the King James Bible the best way they know how, which is to say from their own broader theological foundations but can find no value in the defense offered by another brother from another perspective. I’m not writing this to find a remedy. I’ve concluded after 50 years of being in this fight, there is no remedy. The King James Bible and TR men will go to their graves shooting themselves in the foot for whatever reason they can divine. And the particularly sad thing about this entire fiasco is that these men, in concert together, would be the best resources to begin stemming the tide against the theological and ecclesiastical rot that permeates the modern church and academy.

I don’t think there has been a more divisive topic among King James Bible/TR supporters and advocates than the King James Bible and TR. The disparagement goes like this: “If you don’t say it my way or do it my way then your way is haphazard and is in need of refinement or perhaps should be scrapped all together.” None of us go about the defense in precisely the same way, but we all love the same standard sacred text of holy Scripture. I know this is falling upon deaf, even petrified ears among my beloved brothers. It’s as if anyone that can’t cross every “t” the same way and dot every “i” with the same flair should stop embarrassing those “erudite” and “better suited” defenders of God’s Word. May God have mercy on all our souls for hampering the cause of Christ in the defense and care of His Holy Word with such feckless assessment of fellow defenders of the Faith. Some act as if they stand alone as the bulwark against a tide of corrupt scholarship and don’t need anyone else’s support when in fact they are only a speed bump for the run away tractor trailer of the academy which has little knowledge they even exist as a movement.

Here at StandardSacredText we have made it one of our founding principles to be supporters of everyone who stands for the King James Bible and TR. Like all students of the word, we have out own theological groundings by which we practice the Faith, that would, differ from others in several regards I imagine, but when it comes to the King James Bible/TR issue, we all need to lock arms together, support one another, encourage one another, and present a united front against the rampant error that modern textual criticism has foisted upon the Church. We can either be Luther who basically said, “my way or the highway,” or, we can emulate Calvin the uniter, and the community of Calvin’s Geneva – a safe haven for the persecuted and place of theological growth that changed Europe, England and ultimately America.