A native of Wichita, Kansas, Doug Kutilek became a believer in Jesus Christ in February 1970 during his first semester at Wichita State University through the reading of the Gospel of Matthew. A year and a half later he sensed a Divine call into the Gospel ministry and transferred to Baptist Bible College, Springfield, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1974 (Th.G., B. A.). From the very first semester there, he became greatly interested in the subject of Bibliology (how the Bible came from God to us), an interest that was intensified by his encountering students who had adopted a rigid “King James Only” perspective.

Finding by his own preliminary research that many of the claims for KJVOism were without any factual basis, and indeed were often contradicted by the facts, he began a lifelong journey of researching and writing to refute these errors and present the truth in their place. This naturally required the study of Greek and Hebrew. Greek studies were begun while in Bible college, and continued during five semesters at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, where he began Hebrew studies, as well as studying Aramaic and Ugaritic. He next spent five years at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, focusing on language studies, including extensive additional Hebrew, Aramaic and Ugaritic, and adding Syriac, Akkadian, Arabic, Phoenician, as well as French and German. He was awarded an M. A. and completed all the requirements for a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible except the dissertation in 1981. Subsequent studies led to a Th.M. in Bible exposition from Central Baptist Seminary, Plymouth, Minnesota (1998), as well as acquiring competence in Romanian, Spanish, Latin and Italian.

Doug has been writing on the subject of Bible texts and translations since the early 1980s, with many of his writings first appearing in The Biblical Evangelist edited by the late Robert L. Sumner, and later in other print publications. With the advent of the internet in the late 1990s, he began his own “cyber-magazine” entitled ‘As I See It,’ which was published monthly for seventeen and a half years, and on an occasional basis since then.

Besides teaching a church Bible class for almost 50 years, he has served as a volunteer youth pastor, deacon, Christian high school teacher, director of a local jail ministry, youth camp director, professor of Bible and Bible languages in several colleges and seminaries both in the States and on the mission field. Since 1991, he has been a commuting missionary, making some 80 trips to Europe (chiefly Romania and Ukraine) and Central America (Guatemala and Costa Rica).

Doug has been married to his wife Naomi for almost 50 years. They have 4 raised children and 17 grandchildren.