“I beg your pardon, the King James Version of the Holy Scriptures is OUR Bible, we published it, and I have heard many a Baptist declare the KJV to be the only “True Word of God”.”
The KJV deliberately mistranslated several words in the Bible on King James requirement, based on “No Bishop, No King”. It was a high church blatant rejection of what scripture says for what medieval society wanted.
While there are small baptist churches who claim the KJV is the only acceptable translation, the large majority - the vast majority - do not. In my 40 years, including 25 moving about because I was in the military, I’ve only encountered ONE small independent baptist church that was KJV only. If you went to a Baptist Bible study, odds are no one will be using the KJV.
The KJV borrowed much of its language for the NT from Tyndale, but Tyndale was an honest translator, unlike the KJV crowd. Adjust Tyndale’s translation in 1526 to modern spelling & punctuation, and it reads like a modern translation. The KJV rejected the simplicity of the original language to support a high church theology.
Are Anglican churches accepting practicing homosexuals as church leaders? Many are. Do they ordain women? Do they have priests, although the New Testament had no office of priest?
No Christian in the New Testament is called a priest, except in the sense of a universal priesthood offering sacrifices of thanksgiving, praise, and good deeds to God. If you call yourself priest in any other sense, then you are rejecting what the word of God reveals to follow the traditions of man. Anyone who calls himself a priest in contrast to the lay people has rejected the divine revelation on how the church is to be ordered, as revealed by the Apostles.
If you claim authority from the Apostles while rejecting what they taught, why would anyone take you seriously?
I cannot help but think you are referring to modern Baptists, and not Independent Fundamental Baptist churches and their fellowship of churches. I don't think the Fundamentalists, unlike the SBC, ever supported abortion.