Bible version debate never, at least on record, as promised by James I, royally proclaimed as the Bible of the Church of England. Some Christian fundamentalists believe that the King James Version is the only version of the Bible English speakers should use due to the conclusion that corruptions are present in the other translations. Some who follow this belief have formed a King James Only movement. Similarly some non-English speakers prefer translations based upon Textus Receptus, or "Received Text", instead of the Alexandrian text edited by Wescott and Hort in 1881. Proponents of this belief system point to verses such as Ps.
Purified Translation of the Bible Purified Translation of the Bible The New Testament of "The Holy Bible: A Purified Translation" was published in 2000. A year earlier, 40,000 copies of the Gospel of John from this translation had been mailed to Southern Baptist pastors. It was translated by Stephen Mills Reynolds, and published by the Lorine L. Reynolds Foundation as a memorial to his wife. Reynolds (a graduate of Miami University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton University, and Columbia University) previously served on the translation committee of the New International Version The Preface explains that in contrast to many modern English Bible translations it has “been