Benjamin Wilkinson
In 1930, Wilkinson, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, wrote "Our Authorized Bible
Vindicated", a book of several hundred pages which attracted almost no attention in its day.
J.J. Ray
Wilkinson's book lay unused and unknown, until 1955 when J. J. Ray" published a little
volume, "God Wrote Only One Bible". Ray heavily plagiarized Wilkinson's book. Ray
acknowledges that there are some erroneous translations in the KJV which do demand
revision (pgs. 30-31, 102), a position today's KJV-Only mainstream would consider rank
heresy.
David Otis Fuller
The other chief disseminator of Wilkinson's misinformation was the late David Otis Fuller,
a Baptist pastor. In 1970 Fuller issued "Which Bible?", which was in its 5th edition by
1975 and contained 350 pages. Fuller's book took almost half the information directly
from Wilkinson's "Our Authorized Bible Vindicated", with some editing to both conceal
Wilkinson's cult affiliation, and to correct some of the worst of his errors. Even so,
Wilkinson's material is still plagued by blatant misstatements of the facts, distortions,
misrepresentations and half-truths.
Peter S. Ruckman
Self-described "Restorer" of the "Missing Link" of KJV "Final Authority".
Also in the third generation, without question the most arrogant and abusive of the
KJV-Only partisans is Peter S. Ruckman, whose torrent of errors flood virtually every
page of Ruckman's published work. He single-handedly has injected more misinformation
into the controversy than all other writers combined.
Edward F. Hills
Hills, who wrote "Believing Bible Study" (1967) and "The King James Version Defended"
(1956, 1973), did not advocate the inerrancy of the King James Version nor the Origenian
origin of the Septuagint, is neither a founding father nor a star of the first magnitude of the
KJV-Only movement, but may be viewed as a secondary tributary, whose works are
commonly cited wherever his words can be made to support a writer's point.
Gail Riplinger
She wrote "New Age Bible Versions". Riplinger claims God was the author and she was His
secretary. She alleges a "Satanic inspired conspiracy" on the part of "modern Bible versions"
which is sponsored by the "New Age Movement". Along with other boasts, these claims were
just "too much" for even some of her fellow KJV-Onlyites to swallow. Yet the book has
received the unqualified endorsement of KJV- Onlyites such as Chick, Ruckman, Jack Hyles,
Texe Marrs, J. R. Chambers, D. A. Waite, Walter Beebe & others.
Summary
From Wilkinson in the first generation, through Ray in the second, and Fuller and Ruckman
in the third, the entire KJV-Only movement has arisen, and every present-day KJV-Onlyite is,
in varying ways, a direct spiritual descendant of these ill-informed men and woman.
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