All Scriptures quoted on this site are KJV, because it was translated from the Textus Receptus,
and the new translations are derived from the corrupt Westcott & Hort texts.
and the new translations are derived from the corrupt Westcott & Hort texts.
My bosom friend, Terri, and I enjoyed many evenings together in God's Word. I had learned about the corrupt translations of the Bible and returned to the King James Version. Terri was still reading from the New King James Version. Our Bibles said two different things.
Where my KJV said of the perilous times in the last days, men will be, "...despisers of those that are good," Terri's NKJV said, "despisers of good". KJV distinctly relates that men will despise people who are good. NKJV says men will be despisers of good--a concept. There is a difference, and I had especial reason at the time to take note of it.
And here is yet another discrepancy in the same passage:
Where my KJV said of the perilous times in the last days, men will be, "...despisers of those that are good," Terri's NKJV said, "despisers of good". KJV distinctly relates that men will despise people who are good. NKJV says men will be despisers of good--a concept. There is a difference, and I had especial reason at the time to take note of it.
And here is yet another discrepancy in the same passage:
KJV: lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
NIV, NASB, RSV, ASV, NKJV: lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
NIV, NASB, RSV, ASV, NKJV: lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
A person meditating on the words of the new translations may ponder, "Do I love God? Of course I love God!" They won't weigh their love of God against their love of pleasures. Or they may perceive from the corrupt translations that loving God and loving pleasures are mutually exclusive--a Hellenistic view. The reader of the KJV will rightly ask, "Do I love pleasures more than I love God?"
I was in the Bible aisle in a Christian bookstore, and a clerk was aiding a woman who was shopping for a new Bible. The patron said to the clerk, "I like the NIV. It's so easy to understand." The clerk agreed with her, saying it was her favorite as well. The patron then said, "You know, my mother and I were reading the Bible together one day. She was using her King James and I was using the NIV. We were comparing the two, checking different verses. And you know, they didn't even say the same thing!"
Okay, I couldn't help myself. I turned and said, "You know, you're right. They don't say the same thing."
The woman looked at me and stammered, "Well...well...I mean even the message. Not just the words, but the overall meaning wasn't even the same."
I said softly, "I know," then turned back to the shelves.
The King James Version and the new translations don't have the same message. They don't say the same thing. If they don't say the same thing or have the same message, then the question beggars to be answered, "Which is God's Word?" A new translation and the KJV cannot both be right if they're not in agreement--and they are not.
There are men who have studied, researched, and tallied the omissions and changes in the new translations. The numbers and import of those changes are staggering. It's not a scholarly point to make, but I will nevertheless say that since none of the new translations say what the King James Version says, and the Authorized Version and new versions can't both be right, I'm infinitely more comfortable with an English version which was translated from Textus Receptus in the 1600s than I could ever try to be with one translated by men and women in the 20th century, some of whom not only lack credentials but are known to be heretics.
While the scholarly evidence of the corruption of the new Bible translations is abundant and convincing, there's one more point I'd like to make before I offer you links to just a few of those works. I believe the enemy is effectively using the plethora of new translations as a tool of confusion to divide God's children even as they attempt to come together and study His Word. Is he not, after all, the author of confusion? We, God's children, cannot even share with each other from His Word, because none of it is recognizable to us when two, three, or even an entire congregation of people are reading, studying, memorizing, and quoting from different translations. The verse or passage which holds dear meaning to you will sound foreign to the user of a different version.
The new translations divide not only by causing debates over their validity, but perhaps more importantly by confusing us all as we seek to share with each other from God's Word.
I was in the Bible aisle in a Christian bookstore, and a clerk was aiding a woman who was shopping for a new Bible. The patron said to the clerk, "I like the NIV. It's so easy to understand." The clerk agreed with her, saying it was her favorite as well. The patron then said, "You know, my mother and I were reading the Bible together one day. She was using her King James and I was using the NIV. We were comparing the two, checking different verses. And you know, they didn't even say the same thing!"
Okay, I couldn't help myself. I turned and said, "You know, you're right. They don't say the same thing."
The woman looked at me and stammered, "Well...well...I mean even the message. Not just the words, but the overall meaning wasn't even the same."
I said softly, "I know," then turned back to the shelves.
The King James Version and the new translations don't have the same message. They don't say the same thing. If they don't say the same thing or have the same message, then the question beggars to be answered, "Which is God's Word?" A new translation and the KJV cannot both be right if they're not in agreement--and they are not.
There are men who have studied, researched, and tallied the omissions and changes in the new translations. The numbers and import of those changes are staggering. It's not a scholarly point to make, but I will nevertheless say that since none of the new translations say what the King James Version says, and the Authorized Version and new versions can't both be right, I'm infinitely more comfortable with an English version which was translated from Textus Receptus in the 1600s than I could ever try to be with one translated by men and women in the 20th century, some of whom not only lack credentials but are known to be heretics.
While the scholarly evidence of the corruption of the new Bible translations is abundant and convincing, there's one more point I'd like to make before I offer you links to just a few of those works. I believe the enemy is effectively using the plethora of new translations as a tool of confusion to divide God's children even as they attempt to come together and study His Word. Is he not, after all, the author of confusion? We, God's children, cannot even share with each other from His Word, because none of it is recognizable to us when two, three, or even an entire congregation of people are reading, studying, memorizing, and quoting from different translations. The verse or passage which holds dear meaning to you will sound foreign to the user of a different version.
The new translations divide not only by causing debates over their validity, but perhaps more importantly by confusing us all as we seek to share with each other from God's Word.
Score one for the devil.
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