"Pilgrimettes"
From
THE PILGRIM
by
BOB
L. ROSS
ANOTHER DECEPTION IN OUR TIME IS THE IDEA THAT "ONLY ONE TRANSLATION" OF THE BIBLE IS THE "INSPIRED WORD OF GOD", NAMELY THE KING JAMES VERSION OF 1611.
THERE IS SUPPOSED TO BE SOME SORT OF "SATANIC CONSPIRACY" ON THE PART OF ALL OTHER TRANSLATIONS TO UNDERMINE THE "ONLY INSPIRED TRANSLATION." THIS IS PURE "HOKEY" (CORNY ...PHONY ...CONTRIVED).
NO TRANSLATION IS AN "INSPIRED" TRANSLATION AND, NO TRANSLATION IS A "PERFECT" TRANSLATION! IF YOU DISAGREE, YOU ARE WELCOME TO "PROVE" ME WRONG IF EITHER IS TRUE, SURELY GOD HAS REVEALED THIS TO MANKIND LIKE HIS OTHER ABSOLUTE TRUTHS! [scripture please ______ (or somewhere else) where God has revealed the ONE particular TRANSLATION that is either "INSPIRED" OR "PERFECT"].
WE PUBLISH ANOTHER ARTICLE WHICH DETAILS THE "INSTRUCTIONS" WHICH KING JAMES OF ENGLAND GAVE TO THE TRANSLATORS OF THE KING JAMES VERSION, AND IT CLEARLY REVEALS THAT A LOT OF THE "INSPIRATION" BEHIND SOME OF THE WORDS USED WAS FROM THE KING HIMSELF!
FOR INSTANCE, WHY DIDN'T THEY TRANSLATE THE GREEK WORDS FOR "BAPTIZE" AND "CHURCH" PROPERLY?
KING JAMES WAS THE "HEAD" OF THE "CHURCH OF ENGLAND", WHICH IS THE EPISCOPALIAN OR ANGLICAN CHURCH. IN REALITY, IT IS THE "ENGLISH EQUIVALENT" OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. IN THE 16TH CENTURY, THE POPE WOULD NOT PERMIT HENRY VIII TO DIVORCE HIS WIFE, CATHARINE OF ARAGON. HENRY HAD PARLIAMENT TO SEPARATE ENGLAND FROM PAPAL CONTROL, BUT THERE WAS LITTLE CHANGE IN ROMAN DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE BY THE STATE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HENRY'S WIFE WAS ROMAN CATHOLIC AND KING JAMES HIMSELF SIDED AGAINST THE PURITAN EFFORTS TO PURIFY THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF ITS "PAPAL SUPERSTITIONS".
AT THE TIME OF THE TRANSLATION, THE ROMAN CHURCH AS WELL AS THE ANGLICAN CHURCH WERE BEING THREATENED BY THE VARIOUS SEPARATISTS AND REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE TIME. TWO OF THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINES OF THESE CHURCHES WERE UNDER SIEGE ...
(1) THE BAPTISM OF INFANTS
(2) CHURCH GOVERNMENT BY HIERARCHY
"ANABAPTISM" (THE RE-BAPTISM OF THOSE WHO HAD BEEN BAPTIZED AS CHILDREN) WAS RAMPANT, ADVOCATED BY THOSE WHO BELIEVED IN THE BAPTISM OF BELIEVERS ONLY AND THE PRACTICE OF IMMERSION.
"CONGREGATIONALISM" WAS A THREAT TO THE EPISCOPAL FORM OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT. THE "CHURCH OF ENGLAND" HAD PRIESTS, BISHOPS, AN ARCHBISHOP AND THE "HEAD" HIMSELF ...KING JAMES.
THESE SEPARATISTS, INDEPENDENTS, NON-CONFORMISTS, ETC. WERE THORNS IN THE FLESH TO THE HIERARCHY, SO THEY WERE THE OBJECTS OF PERSECUTION. MANY FLED TO EUROPE, SOME TO AMERICA.
[REFER TO THE ARTICLE -- PETER RUCKMAN'S "OLD GIRL FRIEND" -- HOW KING JAMES AND THE HARLOT STATE CHURCH OF ENGLAND PERSECUTED AND BURNED THE BAPTISTS & OTHERS.][See the LIST ]
UNFORTUNATELY, THE KING JAMES VERSION REFLECTS THE PREJUDICE OF JAMES AND THE ENGLISH RELIGIOUS HIERARCHY ..."OLD ECCLESIASTICAL WORDS TO BE KEPT". THEIR REFUSAL TO TRANSLATE "BAPTIZE" & "CHURCH" CORRECTLY AND LITERALLY IN THEIR TRUE ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS ONLY SERVED TO PERPETUATE THE IGNORANCE OF ROME AND ITS ERRORS. BY "ANGLICIZING", OR "TRANSLITERATING" THE GREEK WORD "BAPTIZO", ITS REAL MEANING ("IMMERSION") WAS VEILED. BY NOT TRANSLATING "EKKLESIA" AS "ASSEMBLY" OR "CONGREGATION", THE OLD WORD "CHURCH" CONTINUED TO BEAR THE SAME CONCEPT AS HAD BEEN PROMOTED BY THE HIERARCHY.
WHO KNOWS HOW MUCH GOOD FOR THE CAUSE OF TRUTH WOULD HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED HAD THE KING JAMES VERSION PROPERLY RENDERED "BAPTIZE" AS IMMERSION AND "EKKLESIA" AS CONGREGATION. PROBABLY THE MOST DAMNABLE PRACTICE EVER SPAWNED IN THE NAME OF CHRISTIANITY IS THE PRACTICE OF BAPTIZING INFANTS AND BY THIS ACT SUPPOSEDLY MAKING THEM NEW CREATIONS IN CHRIST. "INFANT BAPTISM--REGENERATION" IS THE VERY PILLAR OF ROMANISM FOR IT IS BY THIS MEANS THAT THEY SECURE 99% OF THEIR "CONVERTS!" THE PROPER TRANSLATION OF THE GREEK TO THE ENGLISH WOULD NO DOUBT HAVE GREATLY CONTRIBUTED TO CAUSE OF TRUTH IN OPPOSITION TO THIS HERESY.
AND, OF COURSE, IF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH GOVERNMENT IS TRUE, WHAT NEED IS THERE FOR OVERLORDS LIKE THE HIERARCHY OF ROME OR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND? THEY ARE AT ONCE OVERTHROWN IF THE CONGREGATION IS ITS OWN GOVERNING BODY!
FOR THE ABOVE REASONS, AS WELL AS OTHERS, I THINK NOT OF THE KJV AS A "DIVINELY INSPIRED TRANSLATION", BUT SIMPLY AS A TRANSLATION MADE BY MEN, RULED OVER BY KING JAMES, WHO WERE BENT ON PRESERVING THEIR OWN "ECCLESIASTICAL TRADITIONS", PROPERLY TRANSLATING ONLY SO FAR AS THE TRANSLATION WAS NOT A THREAT TO THEIR UNSCRIPTURAL VIEWS.
THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD CAME IN THE ORIGINAL HEBREW AND GREEK WRITINGS (2 PETER 1:21). A "TRANSLATION" INTO ENGLISH OR ANY OTHER LANGUAGE IS THE "INSPIRED" WORD OF GOD TO THE EXTENT IT PROPERLY TRANSLATES THE LANGUAGES IN WHICH THE SCRIPTURES WERE FIRST WRITTEN. I HAVE NEVER YET READ A COMMENTARY OR RESPECTABLE BOOK WHICH DID NOT AT ONE PLACE OR ANOTHER CLARIFY OR CORRECT WHAT WAS REGARDED BY THE WRITERS AS A MISLEADING OR ERRONEOUS TRANSLATION. ONE OF THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF BOOKS AND THE STUDY OF THEM IS TO DETERMINE THE TRUE MEANING OF THE HEBREW AND GREEK WRITINGS, AS WE DO NOT ALWAYS HAVE IT COMPLETE IN ANY SINGLE TRANSLATION.
IF THIS SUPPOSEDLY "DESTROYS" THE FAITH OF SOME IN "THE INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE", THEN ALL I CAN SAY IS ...IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS! YOU NEED TO GET A PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE DOCTRINE OF INSPIRATION AND REALIZE THAT IT DOES NOT MEAN ANY TRANSLATION IS "INSPIRED", BUT RATHER THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD CAME IN THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS. I PERSONALLY HAVE FOUND CAUSE FOR DISAPPOINTMENT WITH ALL TRANSLATIONS AT CERTAIN POINTS.
written by Bob L. Ross
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by Bob L. Ross
THE BIBLE "RESTORED ?"
A reader sent us an item on the wwweb entitled "Refuge King James Bible Church." This item tells of a church in Arlington, Texas which believes the KJV is the "restored" Bible. It says, "We believe God prophesied that he would restore the Bible in universal language of the end times", and that this "restoration comes by Resurrection."
Evidently, they believe that since there are "no original manuscripts", the Bible "died" and then was "resurrected" with the KJV. This is similar to the Campbellite ["Church of Christ"] theory about the "restoration of the church" it supposedly died-out, then was "restored" by the Campbellite movement of the early 1800's.
I have noticed that the "restoration" theory has often been a popular "explanation" for cultic ideas. One comes up with a wierd idea, alleges it was once believed but lost-out to "apostacy", making a "restoration" necessary. I have also noticed that such "restorers" develop a cultic following which spends its time and effort "proving" itself to be the "one-and-only" as to having "the truth." It's an old game only the "format" changes from time-to-time.
"THE TRANSLATORS WERE UNINSPIRED MEN, AND CONSEQUENTLY LIABLE TO MISTAKES; THE TRANSLATION IS 'INSPIRED', SO FAR AS IT EXACTLY GIVES THE ORIGINAL. . . SO FAR, NO MORE"
| JOHN GIRARDEAU |
"VARIETY OF TRANSLATIONS IS PROFITABLE FOR FINDING OUT OF THE SENSE OF THE SCRIPTURES."
| the TRANSLATORS of the KING JAMES VERSION to the READERS |