Happy Anniversary, KJV! by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

Author:Dr. Peter S. Ruckman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: BB Bookstore
Published: 2012-03-20T07:00:00+00:00

Never the

“Original

Autographs”

In this 400th anniversary year of the King James Bible, I thought you might like to hear what some famous men throughout its history have had to say about it. The thing to keep in mind about each of these statements is that in none of them is the person talking about the “original autographs” or the “original manuscripts.” Every one of them is talking about the English Bible he held in his hands and read on a regular basis: the King James Authorized Version of 1611.

Here is the “Father of our country,” George Washington: “It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.” Unfortunately for the apostate Fundamentalists and Conservatives, George subscribed to “King James Onlyism”; it was the only Bible he ever read.

John Adams, the second President of the United States, said: “The Bible (and he was referring to the Bible that he personally “examined,” and it sure wasn’t any “original autographs”) is the best Book in the world.”

Do you know what the Congress of the United States did in 1782? They passed a resolution for the printing “of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools” and recommended “this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States.” I’ll give you one guess as to which Bible it was; you don’t get two.

When Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States, he required two books to be taught in the public schools of Washington, D.C. One was Isaac Watts’ hymnal, and the other one was the King James Bible.

Here is the President on the twenty dollar bill, Andrew Jackson: “That Book, sir, is the Rock upon which our republic rests.”

My, how different these gentlemen were from the one you’ve got in the White House right now!

When I was a boy, Warren G. Harding was the President. He said of the Bible: “No book of any kind ever written has ever so affected the whole life of a people.”

President Woodrow Wilson called the Bible the “word of life.” He said, “I beg you will read it and find out for yourselves—read not little snatches here and there, but long passages that will really be the road to the heart of it.” He also said, “The Bible is the revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God, and spiritual nature and needs of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation.”

Here is President Teddy Roosevelt: “No man, educated or uneducated, can afford to be ignorant of the Bible,” and “A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a College education.” He wasn’t talking about a thorough knowledge of Hebrew or Greek; he was talking about a thorough knowledge of the King James 1611 Authorized Version.

Are you a Yankee? Here is your General who became the eighteenth President of the United States: Ulysses S. Grant. He called the Bible “the sheet anchor of your liberties” and “man’s best guide.

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