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This is from the article you are posting:

“the King James Bible is the ONLY Bible that God is blessing for the English Speaking people”

God has most certainly used the KJV and blessed it. He also blessed numerous other translations in numerous other languages.

The use of the word “ONLY” places the author and you squarely against God who is reserving to Himself a called out people from every language. And this includes modern English.

I had the privilege of leading someone to Christ not long ago by walking through the Gospel with him, primarily from the book of Romans, as contained in the NKJV Bible. This person left immorality and drugs. He is proclaiming Christ in lots of places. He has won his brother. He is sharing his testimony with his other family members who are all lost. Many are in false Christian churches. Many are irreligious or even atheistic. But God called him out of darkness into the light of Christ.

I bought him a Bible which he studies diligently and in which he is growing in understanding. I bought him a NKJV Bible for the reasons I’ve shared.

I myself grew up learning the KJV. I know it well. I’ve memorized large sections of scriptures in it. Whole books in fact. My father was a great man of God and evangelized everywhere he went. And he leaned pretty heavily to the KJV only camp. I did too for a while until I studied out the issue more thoroughly. He softened on this in his later years as he saw God working.

Yes, we know that Wescott and Hort did something divisive in the church. And God was not pleased. But the KJV only crowd can also be divisive when it commits sacrilege with the Bible. And God is not pleased with it either.

The current generation of unchurched people do not need to be given an extra obstacle to obscure the message of God with archaic and outdated words, spelling, pronunciations, etc. This is EXACTLY the problem the early English translators faced by the Vulgate-ONLY crowd who you are modeling. The KJV is an excellent translation and Christians who know how to read it with understanding can benefit greatly by it.

But Christians are called to spread the Gospel to more than just their immediate family. Yes, your children are important. By all means, if you prefer the KJV for them to memorize, that’s awesome. But make sure they learn the meaning and can explain it.

The very reason the Bible was translated into English is so that common, non-religious folks could understand it in their everyday language.

Men like William Tyndale died to bring you the version you hold dear. The KJV relies heavily on his translation. He died for his passion to serve God in this regard.

And he would strive with men such as yourself today to be sure that ghetto kids and unchurched folks who speak English around the world could read the Bible in a language they understand.

I’m not saying you would kill him the way the Catholics did for translating the Bible into English, but it was their religious fervor and zeal for preserving the Latin Bible, which is what they thought was sufficient, that they murdered him.

And while you may not be willing to murder those who want to spread God’s word in English in an updated form, you certainly are willing to be bold, brazen, hardened in unrepentance, and divisive among those who love the word of God by asserting the LIE that God ONLY blesses the KJV of His word in English.

The Spirit of God indwelling believers who I have personally seen come to Christ is credible and compelling evidence that your assertion is patently false. Does Satan cast out Satan?

And pardon my harshness for such a stern rebuke, but YOU are opposing the work of Christ by doing so. And God will hold YOU personally accountable for a grievous sin against His body which is fully contemplated in the book of 1 Corinthians if you care to explore the matter further.

1 Corinthians 11:18, 29
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

The Lord’s body here refers to both His physical body which is symbolized in the bread AND His spiritual body which is the church. Those who are divisive of the body of Christ (i.e. the church) are in danger of severe judgment.

1 Corinthians 11:30-32
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

1 Corinthians 10:4-5, 16-17
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness...
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.