EARNESTLY CONTENDING FOR THE
FAITH:
THE KING JAMES BIBLE:
YEA, HATH GOD SAID?
THE BATTLE
FOR THE BIBLE
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS
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Do you know what the first question in the Bible
was? Do you know what the first sin in the Bible
was?
Genesis 2:16-17:
16 And the LORD God commanded the man,
saying, Of every tree of the garden thou
mayest freely eat: 17 But of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it: for in the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
Genesis 3:1-3:
Now the serpent was more subtil than any
beast of the field which the LORD God had
made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath
God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of
the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the
serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the
trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of
the tree which is in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of
it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
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The first question in the Bible was: “Yea, hath God
said...?” The first sin recorded in the Bible was
that of Satan when he caused Eve to question the
authority and the truth of the very words of God.
Does that sound like the modernist textual critic
and Bible correcting scholar? The first error of
mankind was recorded in the Bible when Eve misquoted
the very words of God by adding to them and changing
them. The first thing Satan taught mankind was to
lie. The next thing Satan taught mankind was to
sacrifice the very words of God on the altar of
Satanic knowledge. Thus, knowledge was exalted
above the very words of God. The death kneel of
mankind was to glorify Satanic knowledge above God
Who is the beginning of knowledge. Knowledge was
made a god. Satan’s appeal was to the opening of the
eyes and “knowing”; in other words having knowledge
and becoming a god among gods. The combination of a
multiplicity of gods and the exalting of man’s
knowledge is the foundation of the ancient heresy
of Gnosticism that had its beginnings in the Garden
of Eden. Gnosticism and its other mutilations are
the spiritual cyanide that has poisoned the textual
basis, the translation process, and the translations
of the modern perversions of the Bible. Satan found
his first candidate textual critic and Bible
correcting scholar in the Garden of Eden when he
manipulated Adam and Eve into denying the very words
of God.
God must feel much like David did in
Psalm 56:5
when he said: “Every day they wrest my words: all
their thoughts are against me for evil”. God has
given us a clear indication of the destiny of those
who wrest His words, the Scriptures, when he said in
speaking of Paul in 2 Peter 3:16:
2 Peter 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of
these things; in which are some things hard to
be understood, which they that are unlearned and
unstable wrest, as they do also the other
scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Now, we will read some Scriptures that relate to the
Word and the words of God.
Deuteronomy 4:2:
Ye shall not add unto the word which I
command you, neither shall ye diminish ought
from it, that ye may keep the commandments
of the LORD your God which I command you.
Deuteronomy 8:3:
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to
hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou
knewest not, neither did thy fathers know;
that he might make thee know that man doth
not live by bread only, but by every word
that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD
doth man live.
Psalm 12:6-7: 6
The words of the LORD are pure words: as
silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified
seven times. 7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD,
thou shalt preserve them from this
generation for ever.
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Psalm 119 emphasizes and exalts the words of God.
In its 176 verses we see the words: word = 38 times,
words = 4 times, commandment = 1 time, commandments
= 21 times, statutes 22 times, and laws = 26 times.
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Psalm 119:9, 11, 89, 105, 140, 161:
9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse
his way? by taking heed thereto
according to thy word. 11 Thy word have
I hid in mine heart, that I might not
sin against thee. 89 For ever, O LORD,
thy word is settled in heaven. 105 Thy
word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light
unto my path. 140 Thy word is very
pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.
161 Princes have persecuted me without a
cause: but my heart standeth in awe of
thy word.
Psalm 138:2:
I will worship toward thy holy temple,
and praise thy name for thy
lovingkindness and for thy truth: for
thou hast magnified thy word above all
thy name.
Proverbs 30:5-6
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a
shield unto them that put their trust in
him. 6 Add thou not unto his words,
lest he reprove thee, and thou be found
a liar.
Matthew 5:18:
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven
and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till
all be fulfilled.
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The tittle and the jot are the smallest characters
in the Hebrew alphabet.
Hebrews 4:12:
For the word of God is quick, and powerful,
and sharper than any twoedged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of
soul and spirit, and of the joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart.
Revelation 6:9
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I
saw under the altar the souls of them that
were slain for the word of God, and for the
testimony which they held:
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There have been millions that have been slain for
the word of God down through the ages. They are
gathered here around the altar of God.
John 1:1:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God.
Revelation 19:13:
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in
blood: and his name is called The Word of
God.
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Here in John 1:1 is where the modern Arian heresy of
the Jehovah Witnesses is prominently recorded. The
New World Translation of the Jehovah Witnesses
translates the last clause of this verse as “and the
word was a god”. Note the underlined words in bold
face, italicized type. Notice the shift to lower
case for the words “Word” and “God”. Also, notice
the shift in the English article from “the” to “a”.
The English article “the” is applied to a single,
specific person, place or thing whereas the English
article “a” is applied to one of a series or group
of persons, places, or things. This subtle and
simple twist of the WORDS and capitalization (the
jots and tittles, if you will) has destroyed the
Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ and opened the way
for a plurality of gods. What wickedness. This is
also an attack on the Trinity or the tri-unity of
the Godhead. What say we about this? Is the
Trinity a Scriptural fact? Is the Lord Jesus Christ
God?
We are going to stop here briefly to discuss one of
the most amazing statements in Scripture. The unity
of God in separate persons is first attested to in
Genesis 1:26-27 where we see:
Genesis 1:26-27
26 And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in
the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them.
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Notice the three amazing phrases: “let us”; “our
image”; and “our likeness”. Notice also in Genesis
1:1-2:
Genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth. 2 And the earth was without form,
and void; and darkness was upon the face of
the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters.
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So, at the very least we see God and the Spirit of
God in Genesis 1. From the use of the plural
pronouns us (still amazing to me!) and ours followed
by the singular noun phrase God created we see both
God the Holy Spirit and God the Father united in the
singular noun phrase God created. Add to these the
Scriptures in Ephesians 3:9 which reads:
Ephesians 3:9
And to make all men see what is the
fellowship of the mystery, which from the
beginning of the world hath been hid in God,
who created all things by Jesus Christ:
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and in Colossians 1:13-17 which reads:
Colossians 1:13-17
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the
kingdom of his dear Son: 14 In whom we have
redemption through his blood, even the
forgiveness of sins: 15 Who is the image of
the invisible God, the firstborn of every
creature: 16 For by him were all things
created, that are in heaven, and that are in
earth, visible and invisible, whether they
be thrones, or dominions, or principalities,
or powers: all things were created by him,
and for him: 17 And he is before all things,
and by him all things consist.
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Thus we see the Trinity present at the creation of
the earth and all that is in it and on it.
Revelation 22:18-19 says:
Revelation 22:18-19:
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth
the words of the prophecy of this book, If
any man shall add unto these things, God
shall add unto him the plagues that are
written in this book: 19 And if any man
shall take away from the words of the book
of this prophecy, God shall take away his
part out of the book of life, and out of the
holy city, and from the things which are
written in this book.
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How quickly would you change and distort the words
of God? How quickly would you question the accuracy
of the Word of God. You better be careful!
Let it be understood from the outset that if you
make a stand for the King James Bible, you will be
attacked; you will be mocked for hanging on to that
old, archaic, Elizabethan English; you will be
scorned for being less than scholarly; and you will
be accused of creating division. Frequently you
will be quoted Romans 16:17, out of context, of
course. They will tell you it is hateful and
ungodly to create division. The Bible correctors’
major problem is that he has not rid himself of the
rest of verse 17 and verse 18; at least, not yet,
anyhow. Wait for the “One-World Bible”. Romans
16:17-18 says:
Romans 16:17-18
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them
which cause divisions and offences contrary
to the doctrine which ye have learned; and
avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve
not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own
belly; and by good words and fair speeches
deceive the hearts of the simple.
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They conveniently omit the phrase “contrary to the
doctrine which ye have learned”. Need I remind
anyone reading these introductory notes that the
“Doctrine of the Scriptures” is considered to be a
cardinal doctrine for any Christian. If a struggle
for the Scriptures causes divisions and offenses,
these divisions and offenses are not caused contrary
to doctrine. In fact, if we do not diligently study
and teach the doctrine of the Scriptures, we are
guilty of allowing the wolves to come in and attack
the simple. The simple are the innocent and
unsuspecting. In other words, they are ignorant
because they lack facts. They are not stupid. They
are just uneducated because you their shepherd or
their teacher has failed to warn them that the
wolves are coming. It is not the Mormon Doctrines
and Covenants, the Roman Catholic or Lutheran
Catechism, any confession or articles of faith, the
Anglican Thirty-Nine Articles, your church
constitution, the traditions of men, your deacon,
your pastor, your favorite scholar, your favorite
textual critic, or your teacher that is the final
authority in matters relating to doctrine. For you,
the English speaking Christian, the final authority
for all matters relating to rule, faith, and
practice is the 1611 King James Bible. It is your
sacred duty pastor, preacher, evangelist, teacher,
father, and mother to sound the trumpet to warn
those that would be deceived by the wolves. You are
their watchman that God has set (Ezekiel 33:1-9).
Be prepared to defend the King James Bible. Study
to show yourselves approved. Be not as the watchmen
of Isaiah 56:9-11 where we read:
Isaiah 56:9-11
9 All ye beasts of the field, come to
devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest. 10
His watchmen are blind: they are all
ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they
cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to
slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which
can never have enough, and they are
shepherds that cannot understand: they all
look to their own way, every one for his
gain, from his quarter.
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There has been enough mud slung in the battle for
the King James Bible, the Textus Receptus, and the
Hebrew Masoretic text to build an adobe Sears Tower
and an Empire State Building. The battle for the
text of the Word of God began immediately after the
Living Word ascended to the right hand of the
Father. From pages 80 and 81 of Jack Moorman’s
“Forever Settled” we quote:
“It may be safely said that the greatest
spiritual battle that was ever fought on
this planet was fought between the powers of
Darkness and Light during the first two
centuries after our Lord ascended back to
Heaven. With the LIVING WORD returned to
glory, Satan turned all of his fury upon the
WRITTEN WORD.
Scrivener says, "The worst corruptions to
which the NT his ever been subjected
originated within a hundred years after it
was composed." |
The battle for the Bible began with the heretics
Tatian, Clement of Alexander, Augustine of Hippo,
Origen, Jerome, and Eusebius. It has continued down
through the ages up to and through the modern
textual critics and scholars of today. You can
identify the modernist textual critic and scholar
by noting that his focus and immediate appeal is to
the scholarship of man rather than an appeal to the
logic of faith in God. His immediate appeal is to
the Greek or the Hebrew. To him, it is not an issue
of Godship, but an issue of scholarship. The Bible
correcting textual critic and scholar is his own
authority. From the early 1800s until today there
has been a long list of a mixture of German,
English, and American rationalists, Gnostics,
apostates, and heretics who have either perverted or
outright denied the Word of God. These included
such men as Carl Lachmann, Frederick Constantine
Tischendorf, Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John
Anthony Hort, William Robertson Smith, Connop
Thirlwall, George Vance Smith, Philip Schaff, Ezra
Abbot, Joseph Henry Thayer, Kurt Aland, Carlo Maria
Martini, Eugene Nida, Bruce M. Metzger, etc.
Tragically, the majority of fundamentalist
Bible-believers have fallen for the deception of
scholarolatry by rejecting the King James Bible.
The proliferation of modern English language
versions since 1881 has been both the perpetrator
and indicator of an almost universal apostasy in the
churches of English speaking peoples. Everyday we
hear horror stories of the filthy effluent spewing
forth from the mouths of Baptist and Protestant
apostates who deny the Virgin birth, who deny the
blood of Christ, who deny the doctrine of a literal
hell, who deny the Bible’s condemnation of
homosexuality, who deny that Christ is the only way,
who deny a literal Genesis creation, who deny the
bodily resurrection of Christ, who pander to the
Roman harlot, etc. In doing what they do, they deny
the very Word of God. “Likewise also these filthy
dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and
speak evil of dignities.” (Jude 8). There has never
been an apostasy that did not start with the denial
and the distortion or twisting of the Word of God.
Its first instance was: “Yea, hath God said”. The
purpose of this course is to give you the resources
and conviction to defend the King James Bible from
the onslaught of modernist apostate Bible
correctors.
In response to the clamor within today’s professing
Christianity for a modern Bible version in their own
polluted worldly language we quote the following
statement from pages 242-243 of “The King James
Version Defended” by Edward F. Hills:
“In regard to Bible versions many
contemporary Christians are behaving like
spoiled and rebellious children. They want a
Bible version that pleases them no matter
whether it pleases God or not. "We want a
Bible version in our own idiom," they
clamor. "We want a Bible that talks to us in
the same way in which we talk to our friends
over the telephone. We want an informal God,
no better educated than ourselves, with a
limited vocabulary and a taste for modern
slang." And having thus registered their
preference, they go their several ways. Some
of them unite with the modernists in using
the R.S.V. or the N.E.B. Others deem the
N.A.S.V. or the N.I.V. more "evangelical".
Still others opt for the T.E.V. or the
Living Bible.
But God is bigger than you are, dear
friend, and the Bible version which you must
use is not a matter for you to decide
according to your whims and prejudices. It
has already been decided for you by the
workings of God's special providence. If you
ignore this providence and choose to adopt
one of the modern versions, you will be
taking the first step in the logic of
unbelief. For the arguments which you must
use to justify your choice are the same
arguments which unbelievers use to justify
theirs, the same method. If you adopt one of
these modern versions, you must adopt the
naturalistic New Testament textual criticism
upon which it rests. This naturalistic
textual criticism requires us to study the
New Testament text in the same way in which
we study the texts of secular books which
have not been preserved by God's special
providence. In other words, naturalistic
textual criticism regards the special,
providential preservation of the Scriptures
as of no importance for the study of the New
Testament text. But if we concede this, then
it follows that the infallible inspiration
of the Scriptures is likewise unimportant.
For why is it important that God should
infallibly inspire the Scriptures, if it is
not important that He should preserve them
by His special providence?
Where, oh where, dear brother or sister,
did you ever get the idea that it is up to
you to decide which Bible version you will
receive as God's holy Word. As long as you
harbor this false notion, you are little
better than an unbeliever. As long as you
cherish this erroneous opinion, you are
entirely on your own. For you the Bible has
no real authority, only that which your
rebellious reason deigns to give it. For you
there is no comfort no assurance of faith.
Cast off, therefore, this carnal mind that
leads to death! Put on the spiritual mind
that leads to life and peace! Receive by
faith the True Text of God's holy Word,
which has been preserved down through the
ages by His special providence and now is
found in the Masoretic Hebrew text, the
Greek Textus Receptus, and the King James
Version and other faithful translations!” |
One of the most important questions you will ever
ask is: “Has God preserved His Word?” In fact, has
God preserved His very Words? God said in Psalm
12:6-7:
Psalm 12:6-7
6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as
silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified
seven times. 7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD,
thou shalt preserve them from this
generation for ever.
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The battle for the Bible rests not in man’s
scholarship but in man’s faith in God. If you have
any reservations about God’s ability to preserve His
words, then you are doubting God. If you are
doubting God then you are lacking in faith. Edward
F. Hills had this to say about faith and God:
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He that cometh to God must believe that He
is, and that He is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek Him (Heb. 11 :6b). If I
truly believe in God, then God is more real
to me than anything else I know, more real
even than my faith in Him. For if anything
else is more real to me than God Himself,
then I am not believing but doubting. (From
“The King James Version Defended, page 61;
Edward F. Hills) |
How real is God to you? Is God real enough to
preserve His word? Do you believe that God is
perfect? Do you believe that God’s Word is perfect?
I believe that God is perfect in His promises. I
believe that he has preserved a perfect Bible for
us.
Bible preservation is inseparably linked to Bible
inspiration. It would be nonsense for God to
inspire a Bible that He could not, or would not,
preserve. To say that you believe in the
inspiration of the originals is a lazy, lily-livered
answer to the question of: “Do you believe that you
have the inspired, preserved Word of God in your
hands?”. Defending the inspiration of the originals
is an impossible task since you cannot defend that
which you do not have. You cannot defend the
originals because we do not have them. In fact, we
do not have the original of the 1611 Authorized
Version of the King James Bible. We definitely do
not have the original of Jeremiah since Jehoiakim
burnt them. Jehoiakim burnt at least the first 35
chapters of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 36:1-2
says:
Jeremiah 36:1-2
And it came to pass in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,
that this word came unto Jeremiah from the
LORD, saying, 2 Take thee a roll of a book,
and write therein all the words that I have
spoken unto thee against Israel, and against
Judah, and against all the nations, from the
day I spake unto thee, from the days of
Josiah, even unto this day.
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We also know that Jeremiah wrote a second “original”
from Jeremiah 36:27-28 where it reads:
Jeremiah 36:27-28
27 Then the word of the LORD came to
Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the
roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at
the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 28 Take thee
again another roll, and write in it all the
former words that were in the first roll,
which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath
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We also know that a third “original” had to be
written because Jeremiah cast the second “original”
in the river Euphrates as we see in Jeremiah 51:63:
“63 And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of
reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to
it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates”: So
much for the originals!
The King James Bible is the Bible that God provided
for the English speaking peoples of the world. The
King James Bible is inerrant. The King James Bible
is infallible. The King James Bible is without
error in its recording. The King James Bible is
without error in its teaching. In short, the King
James Bible is perfect. Did you hear that. The
King James Bible is perfect. Now that statement
will make some people real nervous – even some King
James advocates. If you do not have a perfect
Bible, you better go looking for one.
D. A. Waite said this about the King James Bible on
page xi of his book “Defending The King James
Bible”:
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“It has been the purpose of this study to
answer both of the above questions by
pointing to the King James Bible , proving
its superiority in four areas: (1) its
superior texts; (2) its superior
translators; (3) its superior techniques;
and (4) its superior theology. In all four
of these areas the King James Bible has no
equals” |
In the above quote the superior texts referred to
are the Hebrew Masoretic text for the Old Testament
and the Greek Received Text (Textus Receptus) for
the New Testament. There never was before, and has
not since been, a more linguistically qualified
group of English speaking men to make up a
translation committee. Many of these men were more
at home in their foreign language(s) of specialty
than they were in their native English. Two
outstanding books that discuss the translators in
great detail are “The Men Behind The King James
Version” by Gustavus Paine and “The Translators
Revived” by Alexander McClure. The superior
techniques referred to above deals with the methods
of translation. The two basic methods are Formal
Equivalence (the King James technique) and Dynamic
Equivalence (the technique used by most modern
versions other than three versions and that would
include the “New King James Version”, “New American
Standard Version”, and “American Standard Version”.
The NKJV uses a combination of both). An excellent
70 page booklet called “Dynamic Equivalency: Death
Knell of Pure Scripture” was written by David W.
Cloud discussing dynamic equivalency. The superior
theology mentioned above refers to the doctrinal
corruptions that have been introduced into the
modern texts because of some translator’s sin,
unbelief, warped theology, or outright heresy.
The typical Bible corrector has favorite phrases, or
buzz words, he likes to use when correcting your
Bible: phrases like “The oldest and best manuscripts
say...”. Yea, hath God said? “In the Hebrew this
actually means...”. “In the Greek this actually
means...”. “Many manuscripts do not contain this
verse”. Yea, hath God said? “ These verses do not
appear in the most trustworthy manuscripts”. Yea,
hath God said? “This would be better
translated...”. Yea, hath God said? “The King James
translators...”. “Better....”. “This should
probably read...”. “Perhaps the correct reading
should be...”. Yea, hath God said? “Another
reading translates it...”. “Many manuscripts
omit...”. Yea, hath God said? “Reliable texts
insert...”. “Some texts read...”. “Some texts omit
this phrase”. Yea, hath God said? “The better
reading is...”. Folks, these are all quotes. To
all of this we say hogwash! What drivel! Just look
in the footnotes of the typical King James study
Bible; even those out of “conservative” (with tongue
in cheek) institutions. The “KJV Ryrie Study Bible”
is consumed with the cancer of Bible correcting. I
have not had time to complete the count for the
whole of the “KJV Ryrie Study Bible”, but Charles C.
Ryrie believes you have at least 88 errors in your
King James Bible between Genesis 1:1 and Judges
6:22. Amazing! Then why did he sign his name to
something that has so many errors in it? Money –
filthy lucre! He also wanted to graciously show you
some of his “Christian” scholarship. Sad and so
wicked. There is no sure word of prophecy in all
that; only doubt. What an abomination before God!
The ultimate effect, and dare we say goal, of all
this “well meaning” Satanic “scholarship” is to cast
doubt on the truth, accuracy, authority, inerrancy,
and infallibility of God’s preserved word for the
English speaking peoples. That preserved word is
the 1611 King James Bible. The ultimate goal is to
have any Bible just so it is not the King James
Bible. When these wicked Bible correcting scholars
refer to “the oldest and best manuscripts”, they are
almost always referring to only five out of over
5,255 manuscripts. Huh?? That’s right!! That is
less than 1% of the available manuscript evidence.
Generally, when a Bible corrector uses any of the
correcting statements from the previous paragraph,
they are using these five corrupt manuscripts to
correct the King James Bible. These five
manuscripts are:(1) Aleph (a) = Sinaiticus (2) A=
Alexandrinus (3) B= Vaticanus (4) C= Ephraemi
Rescriptus (5) D– Bezae Cantabrigiensis. Jack
Moorman in quoting Herman Hoskier states:
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“These five are the primary reason why we
have so many modern versions today "based on
older and better manuscripts than the
Authorized Version." Herman Hoskier in
"Codex B and its Allies" said, "There are
over 3000 real differences between Aleph and
B in the Gospels alone!" This is the kind of
"foundation" that one has in the new
versions.”(“Forever Settled”, pages 112 and
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In fact, in the vast majority of cases, when they
refer to the “oldest and best” manuscripts they are
referring to their two corrupt idols Vaticanus and
Sinaiticus. When we consider the pure weight of the
evidence presented in the above paragraph, we would
have to conclude that the modernist, unbelieving
scholars are nothing more than idolaters who worship
Vaticanus and Sinaiticus to the exclusion of all the
facts and evidence. The true objective of these
“scholars” is to find and use any reading that
conflicts with the Greek and Hebrew Received Text or
the King James Bible. The objective is not
accuracy, but to overthrow the King James Bible! Of
the five manuscripts listed above, when discussing
Biblical text preservation on pages 11-13 of his
book “The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels”,
Dean John Burgon had this to say:
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“I am utterly disinclined to believe – so
grossly improbable does it seem – that at
the end of 1800 years 995 copies out of
every thousand, suppose, will prove
untrustworthy; and that the one, two, three,
four, or five which remain, whose contents
were till yesterday as good as unknown, will
be found to have retained the secret of what
the Holy Spirit originally inspired. I am
utterly unable to believe, in short, that
God’s promise has so entirely failed, that
at the end of 1800 years much of the text of
the Gospel had in point of fact to be picked
by a German critic out of a waste-paper
basket in the convent of St. Catherine; and
that the entire text had to be remodelled
after the pattern set by a couple of copies
which had remained in neglect during fifteen
centuries, and had probably owed their
survival to that neglect; whilst hundreds of
others had been thumbed to pieces, and had
bequeathed their witness to copies made from
them.”
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To that we would have to say a resounding amen!
Concerning the corrupt Vaticanus and Sinaiticus
manuscripts Jack Moorman makes the following
observation:
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“Dean John Burgon, who spent many years
examining both MSS said, "It is in fact
easier to find two consecutive verses in
which these two MSS differ, than two
consecutive verses in which they entirely
agree. ` “Dean John Burgon in commenting on
three of these manuscripts assures us: “We
venture to assure you, without a particle of
hesitation, that Aleph, B and D are three of
the most scandalously corrupt copies extant.
They have become the depositories of the
largest amount of fabricated readings,
ancient blunders, and intentional
perversions of truth, which are discoverable
in any known copies of the word of
God.””(“Forever Settled”, pages 115 and 119) |
The objective of Satan is to have the pure Word of
God sacrificed on his altar in the temple of
intellectual idolatry that has as its chief four
cornerstones: (1) the Roman Catholic controlled
Bible societies, (2) the Roman Catholic Vaticanus
and Sinaiticus texts, (3) the Roman Catholic
Westcott and Hort textual theory, and (4) the
unbelief of modern scholarship. Ever since Romanism
lost the battle to deny the common man the
Scriptures, they have through the subterfuge of
textual criticism, scholarolatry, and Jesuit
intrigue sought to overthrow the Christian belief in
the truth, accuracy, authority, inerrancy, and
infallibility of God’s preserved word in the
reliable, God honored translations into foreign
languages as well as English. The King James Bible
has been the object of an especially vile, wicked,
and virulent Satanic attack on all fronts from the
unbelieving textual critic and scholar as well the
apostate professing Christian. The battle for the
English Bible had as part of its beginning the
struggles of William Tyndale against Romanism.
Quoting from page 212 of Jack Moorman’s book
“Forever Settled”(talking about Tyndale):
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It was then, in disputing with a learned man
who put the Pope's laws above God's laws,
that he made his famous vow, "If God spare
my life, ere many years, I will cause a boy
that driveth a plough shall know more of the
Scripture than thou doest." From that moment
until he was burnt at the stake, his life
was one of continual sacrifice and
persecution.
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If you would like to read more information
concerning the bloody trail of human suffering,
carnage, and persecution that was strewn with the
bodies of Bible believing Christians by the Roman
Catholic Church, read the book “Rome And The Bible”
by David W. Cloud. That this carnage had the
official sanction of the Roman Catholic Church is
proved by this quote from page 42 of “Rome And The
Bible”:
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It was during the reign of Innocent III
(1198-1216) that the Inquisition formally
began. Though it is obvious from the
previous facts that Bible-believers had been
persecuted by the Roman Catholic church for
centuries before this, Innocent III
systematized the Inquisition more thoroughly
than his predecessors. This pope declared
that heretics should forfeit their lives.
He also forbade the people to read the Bible
in their own language. In the year 1215
Innocent III issued a statement which
commanded “that they should be seized for
trial and penalties, WHO ENGAGE IN THE
TRANSLATION OF THE SACRED VOLUMES, or who
hold secret conventicles, or who assume the
office of preaching without the authority of
their superiors; against whom process shall
be commenced, without any permission of
appeal” (J. P. Callender, Illustrations of
Popery, 1838, p. 387). Innocent “declared
that as by the old law, the beast touching
the holy mount was to be stoned to death, so
simple and uneducated men were not to touch
the Bible or venture to preach its
doctrines” (Schaff, History of the Christian
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Innocent (??? huh?). Innocent’s idea of penalties
was to kill the victim and their entire family.
Then take every thing they owned. They had to make
money somehow since they would not allow themselves
to sell perversions of the Bible to the “simple and
uneducated” common man. Since this simple and
uneducated common man can no longer be denied his
Bible an attempt is made to make him doubt his Bible
or to make him believe that he cannot understand the
Bible without the textual critic and scholar (the
new priests; some even Jesuit priests). These new
priests have deceived most preachers and teachers in
Christian pulpits and classrooms.
Many of our
fundamental Baptist preachers and teachers have sit
at the feet of unbelieving and/or apostate textual
critics, textual scholars, Bible college professors,
teachers, and preachers who wickedly and freely
correct the King James Bible. Therefore, our
teachers and preachers have caught the vexing vile
various version virus. This virus leads to
spiritual death. We would insist that no preacher
or teacher EVER use the Hebrew or the Greek to
correct the King James. If you do, those
sitting under you would be justified in boisterously
denouncing you as the walk out in protest. Before
you decide to correct the King James Bible just sit
down and do not even open your mouth. In other
words, just SHUT UP! Consider this. That little
Greek or Hebrew nugget that you put in your mouth to
correct the King James Bible with stinks worse than
a hunk of skunk sprayed limburger cheese when it
comes out of the sewer of your mouth. It comes to
your mouth from the septic tank of your mind.
It is an abuse of
the Word of God and pastoral and teaching authority
to correct the Bible from the pulpit or lectern.
Before you consider correcting the Bible, consider
this. God said through David in
Psalm
138:2: “I will worship toward thy holy temple, and
praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy
truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all
thy name”. Notice that God
MAGNIFIED HIS WORD
even above all His name. Each time we teach or
preach the Word of God we should consider Psalm
138:2. God’s Word is holy. God’s Word is to be
uplifted, magnified, praised, and reverenced. It is
not to be corrected.
We also need to be very careful even when we use the
Greek or Hebrew to support the King James Bible.
Frequent use of the Hebrew and the Greek to support
the King James Bible might lead someone to the
impression that somehow or other the English is not
quite good enough. It could lead people to suspect
or believe that you lack confidence in your King
James Bible. Most of the time, an appeal to the
Greek or the Hebrew (even when used in the positive
sense of supporting the King James Bible) is an
appeal to intellectual pride. We are not saying do
not ever used the Greek to support the King James
Bible. We are saying you must be very careful when
you do it. The safest aproach would be to totally
refrain from using the Greek or the Hebrew while
teaching or preaching before a congregation or in a
class. Remember they do not speak Greek. That is
why God provided Godly translators for the 1611 King
James Bible. For most of us, it is hard enough to
teach and preach in English. Many times we do not
understand the power and force of the English before
we start propounding and expounding upon the power
and force of the Greek. “For the word of God is
quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul
and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
heart”(Hebrews 4:12). How is that for a powerful
and forceful statement in “the English”? What are
the intents of the Bible corrector, textual critic,
textual scholar, and publishing houses??
Never try to use the English to correct the Greek
Textus Receptus, Hebrew Masoretic Text, or any
faithful translations of the Bible into other
languages. By faithful translations, we mean
foreign language translations that are based upon
the Greek Textus Receptus and the Hebrew Masoretic
Text. Also, never make the statement that the
Authorized King James Version of 1611 is new
revelation as some have. If you state that the 1611
is new revelation, you would have to believe that
God denied the full revelation of His truth to His
Church for well over 1,500 years.
To say that some word or phrase could have been
translated differently is not to state that it
should have been translated differently. To say
that something could have been translated
differently is not to say that something is in
error. To state that the King James Bible is in
error is to state that God is wrong and has been
wrong for almost 400 years. It is inconceivable
that God would have allowed the English speaking
peoples to have a Bible for one day that was wrong,
much less almost 400 years. God gave us the most
complete and the most beautiful work of prose ever
published in the English language when He gave us
the King James Bible. In short, God gave us a
perfect book with the perfect plan of the ages whose
express purpose is to present a perfect Saviour.
Many complain about the archaic language and words
that are in the King James Bible. I can do no
better than quoting Edward F. Hills from page 218 of
“The King James Version Defended”:
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“In the first place, the English of the King
James Version is not the English of the
early 17th century. To be exact, it is not a
type of English that was ever spoken
anywhere. It is biblical English, which was
not used on ordinary occasions even by the
translators who produced the King James
Version. As H. Wheeler Robinson (1940)
pointed out, one need only compare the
preface written by the translators with the
text of their translation to feel the
difference in style. And the observations
of W. A. Irwin (1952) are to the same
purport. The King James Version, he reminds
us, owes its merit, not to 17th-century
English—which was very different—but to its
faithful translation of the original. Its
style is that of the Hebrew and of the New
Testament Greek. Even in their use of thee
and thou the translators were not following
17th-century English usage but biblical
usage, for at the time these translators
were doing their work these singular forms
had already been replaced by the plural you
in polite conversation.” |
Archaic language and phrases are not the issue.
Surely, the textual critics and scholars are not so
naive as to believe that someone who is to lazy to
look up some old, “archaic” English word in an
English dictionary will take the time and effort to
break out his Hebrew or Greek lexicon to shed more
“light and understanding” on a word or passage in
their “archaic” 1611 Authorized Version. Neither
would that same lazy individual take time to look up
that more complex, multi-syllabled word that they
find in their most recent version of the “New
International Version”. The King James Bible is
written on a lower grade level than any of the
modern translations (see “The Comparative
Readability of the Authorized Version by D. A.
Waite, Jr.). The translation of 1611 took the
English language to its highest level. It was
through the very words of God that the English
language magnified itself to produce the most
beautiful and rhythmic piece of prose that has ever
been written. Sir Frederick Kenyon (textual
scholar) stated that: “It is a simple truth that as
literature the English Authorized Version is
superior to the original Greek”. The Bible is a
holy book and its language does not belong in the
gutter of modern English slang, lingo, and
colloquial expressions. When God speaks through His
Word it should immediately sound different from some
modern magazine, newspaper, or periodical. God set
the example for what our language should be in 1
Corinthians 2:13: “Which things also we speak, not
in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things
with spiritual”.
It was God the Son who said in John 16:13-15 that
He, God the Holy Spirit, would guide us into all
truth. Now, that was a promise that was given to
the believer and not to some unbelieving scholar or
unbelieving textual critic whose constant question
is: “Yea, hath God Said?” God did not promise to
send some scornful, pompous, unbelieving heathen
Greek or Hebrew scholars and/or philosophers to lead
us into all truth. Neither did he promise to send
some elitist, intellectually proud, Bible
correcting, apostate preachers or teachers to lead
Christians into all truth. Jack Moorman said this
on page 251 of his book “Forever Settled”:
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“Something other than an acquaintanceship,
more or less, with a crushing mass of
intricate details in the Hebrew and the
Greek is necessary to be a successful
translator of God's Holy Word. God's Holy
Spirit must assist”. When we rely on man’s
knowledge we are leaning on our own
understanding.
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The product of man’s knowledge is Gnosticism which
is nothing more than a belief in a multiplicity of
gods. Gnosticism has as its root word the Greek
word “gnosis” which is where we get our English word
“knowledge” from. Gnosticism has as its bedfellows
the heresies of Docetism, Adoptionism, Sabellianism,
and Arianism. Gnosticism had many gods including
three separate representations of “deity” in the
forms of the Logos, Christ, and Jesus (yes Jesus
separated from Christ). Docetism denied the human
nature of Christ. Adoptionism teaches that Jesus
was born a mere man and only became the Son of God
when he was “Adopted” by God through the indwelling
of the Logos and the descent of the Holy Spirit
(hence men may become gods by the same process).
Sabellianism teaches that God merely manifested
himself in three separate ways: the Father, the Son,
the Holy Spirit (thus denying the Trinity, or the
tri-unity of the Godhead). Arianism is the teaching
that the Lord Jesus Christ was created by God (This
makes Christ a god among many gods – a twist on
Gnosticism – rather than God the Son. This is the
heresy of the Jehovah Witnesses.). Gnosticism
exalts man’s knowledge above the authority of a
single, unified Triune Godhead. Gnosticism is
another way of saying: “We will have no one God over
us” because that would constitute one final,
absolute authority over us.
Most of the early correctors of the Bible and
textual critics were Gnostics such as Tatian,
Clement of Alexander, and Origen. The NIV Inclusive
Language Bible is the product of a modern day
Gnosticism that had its roots in the ancient heresy
that God was both father and mother – a teaching
that influenced Clement of Alexander. The heresy of
Universalism is a twist on the early heresy of
Gnosticism because Universalism effectively sees a
multiplicity of gods since it sees universal
salvation for all of mankind – hence any god will
do. Unitarians are Universalists. Mormons are
effectively Universalists also. Mormons are the
Gnostics of Gnostics. Mormons have so refined the
ancient heresy of Gnosticism that it is now
disguised as an angel of light (2 Corinthians
11:14). The effect of Gnosticism is to exalt man’s
knowledge above the final authority of an absolute
God and an absolute final authority of an unchanging
Word of God. It is scholarolatry. With an
unchanging Word of God there would be no need to
provide filthy lucre for the apostate, unbelieving
textual critic; filthy lucre for the Greek scholar;
filthy lucre for the copyright owner; filthy lucre
for the apostate fundamentalist Bible correctors at
Bob Jones University, any Southern Baptist Seminary,
Moody Bible Institute, Central Baptist Theological
Seminary, Tennessee Temple, Detroit Baptist
Seminary, etc. Hence money becomes the final
authority rather than the Word of God.
The fundamental problem with the unbelieving scholar
is that they lack the foundation, or the beginning
of knowledge, that is required by God. Proverbs 1:7
tells us: “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and
instruction”. Proverbs 9:10 tells us: “The fear of
the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the
knowledge of the holy is understanding”. Might I
add, that true wisdom is knowledge enlightened by
the Holy Ghost who grants spiritual understanding
and discernment. The natural man, and therefore,
the natural scholar lacks the spiritual discernment,
the spiritual understanding, and the spiritual
motivation to handle the Word of God without
deceit. Concerning wisdom and spiritual
discernment, the Word of God clearly states in 1
Corinthians 2:13-14:
1 Corinthians 2:13-14
13Which things also we speak, not in the
words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. 14But the natural man
receiveth not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness unto him:
neither can he know them, because they are
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The unbelieving scholar has had their understanding
darkened by the ignorance that is in their hearts.
God said in Ephesians 4:18: “18 Having the
understanding darkened, being alienated from the
life of God through the ignorance that is in them,
because of the blindness of their heart”. The crux
of the problem for the unbelieving scholar lies in
what God has said in Isaiah 55:7-11:
Isaiah 55:7-11
7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the
unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him
return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy
upon him; and to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon. 8 For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens
are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways, and my thoughts than
your thoughts. 10 For as the rain cometh
down, and the snow from heaven, and
returneth not thither, but watereth the
earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud,
that it may give seed to the sower, and
bread to the eater: 11 So shall my word be
that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall
not return unto me void, but it shall
accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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The wicked, or apostate, scholar has forsaken the
way of the Lord. The unbelieving scholar is
unrighteous in his thoughts. The unbelieving
scholar has not trusted in the Lord. Therefore,
that scholar’s path is not directed toward the
thoughts and ways of the Lord. Proverbs 3:5-6
says: ‘5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and
lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
paths”.
Another issue that bears heavy on what translation
God would put His stamp of approval on, is the issue
of holiness. Holiness stems from belief. Unbelief
is an opposite of holiness. It was God who said in
2 Peter 1:19-21:
2 Peter 1:19-21
19 We have also a more sure word of
prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take
heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark
place, until the day dawn, and the day star
arise in your hearts: 20 Knowing this first,
that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy
came not in old time by the will of man: but
holy men of God spake as they were moved by
the Holy Ghost.
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Notice that it was holy men of God that spake. Holy
men of God are saved men. It would be preposterous
to assume that God would give His Word by holy men
and then would not provide for holy, saved men to
translate it. God said in Titus 1:15: “15 Unto the
pure all things are pure: but unto them that are
defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even
their mind and conscience is defiled”. Notice that
God said that nothing is pure to the defiled and
unbelieving. That nothing would include the very
words of God. God also said here that the mind and
conscience of the unbelieving is defiled. The
process of translation is reasoned through in the
mind and conscience. The mind provides the cold
hard facts. The conscience provides the reasoning
to interpret facts. Translation is interpreting
from one language to another language. If the
conscience is defiled, how then can that which comes
from it be pure. Even if we assume a neutral mind
that would handle the text in a neutral manner, we
still have the Word of God that describes that mind
as defiled because of unbelief. What then? There
can be no neutrality in the matter of Bible texts
for the unbelieving textual critic, scholar, or
translator. Even
the most neutral mind of the unregenerate natural
man is at enmity with God.
The question(s) then would be can you trust an
unbelieving critic or scholar to give you a
translation from the mind of God?; what about a
unitarian that does not believe in the deity of the
Lord Jesus Christ?; what about the universalist who
believes all will be saved?; what about the one who
does not believe in a literal hell, the literal
bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, the
literal creation of Genesis?; what about the one who
believes the Old Testament books are but a
collection of Hebrew myth and fiction?; what about
the one who says the Scriptures are of little use to
those who interpret them literally?; what about the
one who believes that Darwin’s theory of evolution
is unanswerable?; what about the one who does not
believe in the Virgin Birth?; what about the one who
would equate the worship of Christ with the worship
of Mary?; what about the one who believes Christ was
a created being?; what about the practicing
homosexuals (I for one do not make a distinction
between the practicing and the dormant homosexual.
A person who has been genuinely regenerated by the
Spirit of God is no longer a homosexual. They are a
delivered Christian. Homosexuals are not born.
They are made.)? We could go on and on with the
list of heresies, but the point has already been
made. Such is the ilk of many, if not most, modern
textual critics, scholars, and translators whether
they be individual translators or members of
translation committees.
So, what can we say about textual criticism and
scholarship? Most modern textual criticism
proceeds from unbelief and apostasy. When speaking
of lower and higher textual criticism, let me state
that no Bible believing Christian should ever be an
advocate of higher or lower criticism except as a
means to defend the Received Text(s) and the King
James Bible. Modern Bible criticism does not
proceed from faith in God, but rather proceeds from
faith in man’s “scholarship” which is a foundation
built on quicksand. Unfortunately, many King James
defenders are viciously and condescendingly
presented as being intellectual dunces who are
uneducated, ignorant, and incapable of understanding
the textual issue when in fact the opposite is
true. Many men and women who defend the King James
Bible have suffered the brunt of mockery and
derision at the altar of sacrifice of modern
“scholarship” (falsely called science), philosophy,
and textual criticism. It is strange – and a
distortion of facts – that an anti King James critic
would accuse King James people of creating strife
and splitting churches because we stand for the King
James Bible. When confronted with this
intellectual dishonesty the King James Bible
believer should ask the question: “Who was there
first; the King James Bible believer or the
unbelieving, apostate, Bible correcting modernists
and neo-evangelicals?” The answer to this question
should be obvious to the Christian and to these
blind guides.
I would encourage any Christian who walks into a
church that is not using the King James Bible to
turn around and walk out immediately. Do not stay
and stir up strife. When confronted with the
temptation to create strife within a congregation
on Bible version doctrine your response should be
Ephesians 5:11: “ And have no fellowship with the
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove
them”. Your act of reproof should extend only to
your getting up and walking out. Also, remember the
admonishment of Revelation 18:4: “And I heard
another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,
my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and
that ye receive not of her plagues”. The duty of
any King James Bible believing man or women is that
they be prepared to respond to attacks on the King
James Bible. As a Christian, it is your obligation
to be totally informed about Bible version
doctrine. God said in Hosea 4:6: “ My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast
rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that
thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast
forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy
children”. You should not seek confrontation, but
neither should you run from adversity. God said in
Proverbs 24:10: “10 If thou faint in the day of
adversity, thy strength is small”. If you make a
stand for the King James Bible, you will not have to
seek confrontation or adversity because Satan, the
adversary, will make sure you are vexed with plenty
of both.
If you are a Christian who strongly advocates any
version but the King James Bible, I would encourage
you not to create strife in a congregation that will
only use the King James Bible. For in doing so you
are sowing discord among the brethren which is one
of the seven things the Lord hates (Proverbs 6:16).
If you are a Christian who strongly advocates any
version but the King James Bible, you cannot
possibly reject the King James Bible for the same
reasons that a King James advocate rejects your
version of the Bible. For you it is an issue of
scholarship. For the King James advocate it is
first an issue of faith. All issues concerning
Bible translations should proceed first from faith.
Then, and only then should scholarship be used to
defend the Bible.
After carefully examining all the facts and evidence
(and not simply limited to that which is in this
short introduction), we would have to conclude that
the thought processes of these unbelieving modernist
scholars and textual critics is purely
evolutionary. Do not miss the connection between
that statement and Darwinianism. The theory of
evolution and the modernist Bible textual theories
were conceived in the hotbeds of the German
rationalism and philosophy that had polluted and
perverted the thought processes of the modernist
textual scholars and critics of the 1800s. Notice
that I did not use the word Christian in relation to
these scholars. The theories of evolution and
modern textual criticism are nothing more than
Satanic religious systems. Even the most simple
minded, unregenerate, honest man would reject both
theories if they were objectively presented to him.
Evolution is a lie. Modern textual criticism is a
lie. Modern textual criticism is not science, but
religion. We would do well to consider Paul’s
admonishment to Timothy in 1 Timothy 6:20: “O
Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust,
avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions
of science falsely so called”. That which had been
committed to Timothy were the very words of God.
Consider also the words of Paul to the Colossians in
Colossians 2:8: “Beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit, after the
tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world,
and not after Christ”. Modern textual criticism is
man’s philosophy whose septic effluent is nothing
other than profane and vain babblings and deceit.
Satan is the father of these lies and liars (John
8:44). Modern textual criticism is of the things of
hidden dishonesty; it walks in craftiness; it
handles the Word of God deceitfully; it is a false
angel of light; it is the product of false prophets
and teachers; it is feigned words that makes
merchandise of those who would buy the modern
perversions that are turned out of the money mills
of publishing houses. Modern textual criticism is
not after Christ. In short, it is a
DAMNABLE HERESY!
We close with:
2 Corinthians 4:1-4
Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as
we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But
have renounced the hidden things of
dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor
handling the word of God deceitfully; but by
manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man’s conscience in the
sight of God. 3 But if our gospel be hid,
it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom
the god of this world hath blinded the minds
of them which believe not, lest the light of
the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the
image of God, should shine unto them.
2 Peter 2:1-3
But there were false prophets also among the
people, even as there shall be false
teachers among you, who privily shall bring
in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord
that bought them, and bring upon themselves
swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow
their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the
way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And
through covetousness shall they with feigned
words make merchandise of you: whose
judgment now of a long time lingereth not,
and their damnation slumbereth not.
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