Why is Josh Teis doing this? Maybe because so much of the energies and resources of the IFB movement are being focused on promoting KJV-only, on attacking good men who are not KJV-only, and on stirring up trouble and running off people over this issue. KJV-only missionaries are going to foreign fields that already have IFB churches that are not KJV-only, and stirring up discord and division among the brethren. I think we are hurting ourselves by telling the younger generation and converts on the mission field, "The only version of the Bible you are allowed to read is the one version that you cannot understand."
Let those who prefer the KJV go ahead and provide their scholarly evidences, but they don't seem to want to do that. Years ago I attended an all-day presentation on the defense of the KJV by Jewell Smith, and took careful notes on everything. He didn't present any evidence at all for KJV-only, and spent most of his time rambling on with half-accurate stories from Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the translators of non-KJV English versions of the early 16th Century. If we can't do any better than that, let's allow Josh Teis and everyone else their Christian liberty to use other versions if they wish.
