Would You Give a Child a Bible That Says This?

“...Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!”

— Mark 10:24, Holman Christian Standard Bible, et al.

And leaves out:

• “...for them that trust in riches...” (Mark 10:24).
• “...Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted” (Luke 4:18).
• “ Jesus Christ is come in the flesh...” (1 John 4:3).
• “...for the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives but to save them...” (Luke 9:56).
• “...If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest, and he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” (Acts 8:37).

And removes the following words many times:

heaven, hell, devil, God, holy, Lord, Jesus, Christ, pure, man, him, repent, blood, Jehovah, new testament, damnation, devils, Sodomites, fornication, sins, fasting, and master

Or changes our Lord to a gender-neutral god:

he, one on his descendants, man, and God to “the Coming One,” “the Christ,” or “the One” (who is “the One” — Buddha, Allah, Satan?)

Nearly fifteen years ago my research began on the new Bible versions underlying texts. Problems with memorization and differences in doctrines causing confusion, prompted this study.

This research proved invaluable during my tenure as a member of the Board of Trustees for Lifeway, an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention, from 1999 to 2003.

Westcott and Hort Wrote the

Greek Text Underlying the New Versions

Hort said, “Think of that vile Textus Receptus [King James Version].”¹ Hort also referred to evangelical Christians as “dangerous,” “perverted,” “unsound,” and “confused.” He was rabidly “evangelistic” about his “necromancy,” as the Bible calls it. Westcott's son writes of his father's lifelong “faith in what for lack of a better name, one must call Spiritualism....” Westcott determined that his public involvement in the Ghostly Guild “led to no good.”² Is your Bible linked to the occult? Two members of the Ghost Club became Bishops [Benson and Westcott] and one a Professor of Divinity [Hort].³ Westcott and Hort were not only “Fathers” in the Anglican Church but, according to numerous historians and New Age researchers, appear to be among the “Fathers” of the modern channelling movement. Hort also said, “I am inclined to think that no such state as 'Eden' (I mean the popular notion) ever existed, and that Adam's fall in no degree differed from the fall of each of his descendants, asd Coleridge justly argues.”⁴ Do you believe as Westcott, when he wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury on Old Testament criticism. “No one now, I suppose, holds that the first three chapters of Genesis, for example, give a literal history. I could never understand how any one reading them with open eyes could think they did.”⁵

Are you reading the NIV version, whose avowed lesbian stylist, Virginia Mollenkott, wrote books like Sensuous Spirituality, which echoes the New Age movement's hopes to replace the “he” of Christianity with the neuter “One” of Hinduism?

Does the version you are using refer to “the morning star” in Isaiah 14:12? The ultimate blasphemy occurs when the “morning star” takes Lucifer's place in Isaiah 14:12. Jesus Christ is the “morning star” and is identified as such in Revelation 2:28, 22:16, and 2 Peter 1:19.

The late E. W. Colwell, past president of the University of Chicago and the premier North American New Testament Greek scholar, confesses his “change of heart” concerning the reliability of readings in the new versions: “...scholars now believe that most errors were made deliberately ... for theological or dogmatic reasons.”⁶

Zane Hodges, professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Dallas Theological Seminary, refers to new versions as “...monstrously unscientific, if not dangerously obscurantist.”⁷

1. Arthur Hort, Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, Vol. 1 (London: McMillan and Co. Ltd., 1896, p. 214.
2. Arthur Westcott, The Life and Letters of Brook Foss Westcott, Vol. 1 (London: McMillan and Co. Ltd., 1903), p. 119.
3. James Webb, The Occult Underground (LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co, 1975), p. 155.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. E.W. Colwell, What Is the Best New Testament? (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1952), pp. 49, 53.
7. Wilbur Pickering, The Identity of the New Testament Text (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1977; 2nd ed., 1980), p. 16-18.

Sources

• Kenneth Barker, The NIV: The Making of a Contemporary Translation
• Alex Jack, The New Age Dictionary
• Lola Davis, Toward a World Religion for a New Age
• Josh McDowell, Understanding the Cults
• Philip W. Comfort, Early Manuscripts and Modern Translations of the New Testament
• Louis Talbot, What's Wrong with Unity School of Christianity
• Gail Riplinger, New Age Bible Versions, A.V. Publications, P.O. Box 280, Ararat, VA 24053, 1-800-435-4535

Anti-Semitism / Root Race Theory / New Age

New version architect Gerhard Kittel and Hitler worked together to promote the Root Race Theory to the last generation. Neither the King James Bible, nor any Greek manuscript contains the word “race.” Kittel was tried and convicted of war crimes.

The term “the presence” is the third most used term to identify the god of the New Age after “the One” and “the Christ.”

If the world ends, the sinner has nothing to stand on; if the age ends, another age just begins (reincarnation) and there is no judgment.

New versions often change “hell” to “hades,” “grave,” or “death” (some rock music calls hades a place to party forever) Matt. 11:23; 16:18; Acts 2:27, et al.

Are Edwin Palmer's Calvinistic Beliefs Influencing New Versions?

Edwin Palmer was the “coordinator of all work on the NIV” and “selected all of the personnel....” He wrote “to disprove the idea that man still has the ability to ask God's help for salvation.” He says that the view “that Christ loved the whole world equally and gave himself up for the world” is wrong.¹

1 Thessalonians 1:4 KJV: “...knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.”

NKJV & HCSB: “...knowing your election, brothers loved by God.”

NASB: “...knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you...”

NIV: “For we know, brothers loved by God, that He has chosen you...”

Luke 2:14 KJV: “...peace, good will toward men.”

HCSB: “...peace on earth to people He favors!”

NASB: “...peace among men with whom He is pleased.”

NIV: “...peace to men in whom his favor rests.”

1. Edwin Palmer, The Five Points of Calvinism (Spring Lake, Michigan: The Men's Society of the Christian Reformed Church, 1954), p. 18.

No Doctrine Changed?

A Better Rendering

New versions replace “doctrine” with “teaching” in at least 30 places.

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears...” (2 Tim. 4:3).

The New King James Version omits the word “Lord” 66 times, “God” 51 times, “heaven” 50 times, “repent” 44 times, “blood” 23 times, and “hell” 22 times. It omits “Jehovah,” “new testament,” “damnation,” and “devils ” entirely. It ignores the KJV Greek Textus Receptus over 1,200 times, and replaces the KJV Hebrew (ben Chayyim) with the corrupt Stuttgard edition (ben Asher) Old Testament.

Omissions

The Magnified Word

There has been a remarkable recent discovery which made front page news in the London Times. The oldest remains of any New Testament manuscript were discovered. Using a high-magnification device and the epifluorescent confocal laser scanning technique, the small fragment was dated A.D. 66. Close examination shows that it contains the King James Bible's reading from Matthew 26:22, “hekastos auton” — “every one of them.”

It proves wrong the reading in the NIV, NASB, and all the new versions, which are based on the critical Greek text which reads “heis hekastos,” “each one” or “one after the other.” Dr. Carsten Thiede, author of Eyewitness to Jesus, remarked, “It is self-evident that this original reading, preferable on the grounds of internal criteria and now corroborated by the oldest papyrus of St. Matthew's Gospel, must replace the text in the two most widely used versions of the Greek New Testament, that of the United Bible Societies (at the present in its fourth edition) and the so-called Nestle-Aland, the Novum Testamentum Graece (now in its twenty-seventh revised edition). At the Munster Institute, which looks after this text, a rearguard action is being mounted, not surprisingly in view of its vested interest in the controversy. One of its staff members, Klaus Wachtel, recently published an article that refuses to acknowledge the change.... In any case, it is a form of intellectual resistance which cannot last; the facts are now beyond dispute.”(pp. 61-62)

The King James Bible and its underlying Greek Textus Receptus have had the correct reading all along. History repeats itself. When the other New Testament papyri were discovered, the Nestle-Aland twenty-sixth edition was forced to go back to the KJV readings approximately 500 times. New versions have not yet caught up.

The more we magnify the Lord and move closer to him, the more lovely and true he proves to be with us. As we move closer to this gem, the Word of God, and it is magnified (Ps. 138:2), studied (2 Tim. 3:16), meditated upon (Ps. 119:148), and glorified (2 Thess. 3:1), we are at once humbled and awestruck by the purity of its many facets.¹

1. Gail Riplinger, The Language of the King James Bible (Ararat, Virginia: AV Publications, 1998), preface.

Demotes Jesus Christ

Works Salvation

The Holman Christian Standard, Today's New International Version, and other new versions, omit these words many times: Lord, God, heaven, repent, blood, hell, devil, Jesus, he, damnation, man, and master. They add: “the Coming One” and “the One” (New Age).

Gender-Neutral and New Age

This list is not all-encompassing. There are far too many references to list in this publication. The Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution opposing “the use of so-called gender-inclusive language” in Bible translation (SBC Bulletin 74 [June 17-19, 1977]:5). Also found in The Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy Muting the Masculinity of God's Words by Vern S. Poythress and Wayne A. Grudem, published by Broadman Holman, 2000, p. 22.

Underlying Texts

This Is What the Greek and Hebrew Say?

All new versions have abandoned the traditional Old Testament Hebrew, ben Chayyim Masoretic Text, and follow Rudolf Kittel's (Gerhardt Kittel's father) Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (both Kittels were anti-Semitic). New versions follow Gerhardt Kittel's Greek Lexicon, which defined words based on Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and other pagan sources.

Luke 11:2-4 — “The Lord's Prayer”

John 3:16

“Only begotten” is the Greek word monogenes, which precisely means “only begotten,” not just “only” as some translators render it. God has many “sons” (John 1:12, Job 1:6), but Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son.

James 4:4

DOUBLE STANDARD!

Do you realize the new versions use harder words than the King James Bible? The King James Bible reads at the fifth grade level. Here are just a few examples of some of the easier words the King James Bible uses in comparison with the new versions. Be aware that new editions of any new versions vary.

J. Henry Thayer, author of The New Thayer's Greek Lexicon, was a Unitarian who denied the deity of Christ. Thayer was also the dominant member of the American Standard Version committee.

Louis Stallings and Luan Stallings

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Taken from the Tract “Would You Give a Child a Bible That Says This?” Copyright © 2008 Louis Stallings and Luan Stallings. Used By Kind Permission.