From the book, King James Only, by Dr. Robert A. Joyner, D.B.S., Th.D, Ph.D, comes this interesting comment:
"ANTI-BAPTIST KJV
It is well known that King James hated Baptists. He said he wanted to 'harrow out of England' all Baptists. The King James Version Was rejected by Baptists when it first came out. When the Baptists first came to America, they brought the Geneva Bible, not the KJV. In fact, some of the first Baptists to arrive here had been run out of England by King James.
King James, in 1612, imprisoned a Baptist preacher named Thomas Helwys for a tract he had written opposing the state church (Church of England).
John Bunyan, a Baptist and author of PILGRIMS PROGRESS, spent many years in the Bedford prison because of persecution from the Church of England (which King James and the KJV translators were part of).
In the early days of this country, when the Anglican Church (Church of England) was the state church in Virginia, they persecuted, imprisoned and beat many Baptists. Thomas Jefferson, the second
governor of the state, made religious persecution illegal. But when they had the power, the Church of England and King James hated and persecuted Baptists. Yet today, many Baptists; want to idolize this
Baptist-hating king.
The KJV translators, when they presented their new translation to the King, said he was as "the sun shining in its strength. (Dedicatory To The Most High and Mighty Prince, James. Page I of the 1611 KJV) Of course, this expression in the Bible refers to the Lord Jesus Christ. Many people today, like the KJV translators, would exalt King James to a place he could never deserve."
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