{{short description|American pastor and author (1903–1988)}} {{Primary sources|date=May 2011}} <!-- Unsourced image removed: right|thumb|David Otis Fuller -->
'''David Otis Fuller''' (November 20, 1903 – February 21, 1988) was an American Baptist pastor. He was a graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and Princeton Theological Seminary. He pastored Chelsea Baptist Church in Atlantic City, New Jersey and the Wealthy Street Baptist Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
==Biography== In April 1916 when he was 13 years old, Fuller became a Christian at a Chapman-Alexander (John Wilbur Chapman and Charles Alexander) revival meeting in North Carolina and was baptized in the First Baptist Church of New York City by Dr. I. M. Haldeman.<ref>{{Cite web|editor-last=Cloud |editor-first=David W. |year=2001 |title=Preachers on "The Bible Version Issue" CD: David Otis Fuller |work=Life Changing Sermons |publisher=Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service |url=http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/cd-rom/life-changing-mp3/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615055032/http://wayoflife.org/fbns/cd-rom/life-changing-mp3/index.html |archive-date=15 June 2006 |url-status=unfit }}</ref> The title of the sermon he heard that day was "What Wilt Thou Say When He Shall Punish Thee."
Fuller served as a United States Navy chaplain in World War II,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cloud |first=David W. |year=2001 |title=A Tribute to David Otis Fuller: Some Jewels from His Correspondence |publisher=Way of Life Literature’s Fundamental Baptist Information Service |url=http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/fuller.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060405194739/http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/fuller.htm |archive-date=5 April 2006 |url-status=unfit }}</ref> then for the next 45 years he was a pastor in a civilian capacity. He served as the editor of the General Association of Regular Baptists' "Baptist Bulletin" for 50 years.
He was the founder of Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids (at the time named ''Baptist Bible Institute''), serving as president from 1941 to 1944<ref>{{Cite web|title=Past Presidents |publisher=Cornerstone University |url=http://www.cornerstone.edu/about/history/past_presidents |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060620083308/http://www.cornerstone.edu/about/history/past_presidents |archive-date=20 June 2006 |url-status=unfit }}</ref> and was the founder and president of the "Which Bible?" Society.
Fuller helped establish the Children's Bible Hour in 1942, where he was chairman for 33 years. He also was on the board of the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) for 52 years.
Fuller dedicated much of his life to the defense of the Byzantine text-type as embodied in the Textus Receptus and, largely, the King James Version.
In February 1988, Fuller died at the Blodgett Memorial Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan.<ref>{{Cite news |title= David Otis Fuller, 84, Fundamentalist Pastor |quote=The Rev. David Otis Fuller, a fundamentalist preacher who helped establish a children's radio ministry and the Grand Rapids Baptist College and Seminary, has died at the age of 84 |date=24 February 1988 |agency=:Associated Press |newspaper=:The New York Times |page=section D, page 26|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/24/obituaries/david-otis-fuller-84-fundamentalist-pastor.html |access-date=7 June 2008 }}</ref>
==Published works== Fuller's three volumes on the subject of texts and versions contain the full or summarized works of many older authorities on the textual issue. The most notable influence being Benjamin G. Wilkinson. Others include John Burgon, Herman C. Hoskier, Philip Mauro, Joseph Philpot, Samuel Zwemer, and George Sayles Bishop, as well as the works of a number of contemporary writers, including Edward Hills, Terence Brown, and Wilbur Pickering.
The Baptist researcher Doug Kutilek in his article ''The Unlearned Men''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kutilek |first=Doug |title=The Unlearned Men |publisher=The King James Only Resource Center (Doug Kutilek) |url=http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_unlearned_men.htm KJVonly.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070618153927/http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_unlearned_men.htm |archive-date=18 June 2007 |url-status=unfit }}</ref> has traced some of what Fuller wrote in his book, ''Which Bible?'' to the discussion of the textual debate in ''Our Authorized Bible Vindicated''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wilkinson |first=Benjamin G. |year=1930 |title=Our Authorized Bible Vindicated |url=http://www.temcat.com/Wilkinson/AuthorizedBibleTOC.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061213025119/http://www.temcat.com/Wilkinson/AuthorizedBibleTOC.htm |archive-date=13 December 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> by Seventh-day Adventist scholar Benjamin G. Wilkinson.
===Books=== * ''Valiant for the Truth: a Treasury of Evangelical Writings.'' McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1961 (1st ed.). {{ISBN|0825426138}}, 9780825426131<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fuller |first=David Otis |year=1961 |title=Valiant for the Truth: a Treasury of Evangelical Writings |language=en |location=New York |publisher=McGraw-Hill |isbn=9780825426131 }}</ref> * ''Which Bible?'' Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids International Publications, 1970. 3rd ed. 1972. {{ISBN|0-944355-24-2}} * ''True or False? The Westcott-Hort Textual Theory Examined'' Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids International Publications, 1973. {{ISBN|0-944355-12-9}} * ''Counterfeit or Genuine?'' Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids International Publications, 1978. {{ISBN|0-8254-2615-4}}
==See also== {{Portal|Christianity}} * King-James-Only Movement *Bible version debate
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==External links== * [http://av1611.com/kjbp/articles/fuller-preserved.html Which Bible Is Preserved Of God?] Article by David Otis Fuller
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