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Your KJV remarks and Ian Paisley reference led me to Google my way around and I discovered a very nice KJV defense page by David Cloud. Being pretty fundamentalist in outlook, I always liked his writings but this is some of his material that I hadn't found before. Some of your writings here at FR makes me think you might appreciate it very much. Cloud gives a very nice overview of the issues and the personalities and the historical context. Many references to KJV defenders and the fight against modern textual criticism and the corrupted texts are in here. A nice compendium of sources of materials for the classic defense (as compared to Ruckman/Riplinger style KJV defense) are found here. References to the modern translators and their denial of infallibility, inspiration and preservation of the Word are documented. There are even the lesser known references to Spurgeon's position on modernism which has been previously mentioned in other Spurgeon threads.

The writing is in four long web pages but is well worth a read for anyone interested in the textual issues.

EXAMINING "THE KING JAMES ONLY CONTROVERSY" by David Cloud

If there is adequate interest, we might want to start a thread. If Protestants and Baptists are Bible-believing Christians, then it would seem the choice of translations is a vital discussion.

Ian Paisly is a King James Only guy and a solid Calvinist is he not? Yep.

Here is his website if anyone is interested

http://www.ianpaisley.org/toc.asp?loc=rome

Also, here is a very good website dealing with manuscript evidence

http://www.biblebelievers.net/BibleVersions/kjcforv1.htm