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NEW AGE BIBLE VERSIONS
"NEW AGE BIBLE VERSIONS" - by G. A. Riplinger
"An exhaustive Documentation Exposing the Message, Men and Manuscripts Moving Mankind to the antichrist's One World Religion"
"The New Case Against The NIV, NASB, NKJV, NRSV, NAB, REB, RSV, CEV, TEV, GNV, LIVING, PHILLIPS, NEW JERUSALEM, & NEW CENTURY"
This book is almost 700 pages of excruciatingly meticulous documentary evidence, comparing verse after verse of the new Bible versions omissions, and in many cases catastrophic changes, as compared to the KJV (which is based on the Greek Textus Receptus). These new Bible versions sprang from a 19th century corrupt and Greek text written by two individuals named Westcott and Hort, and as a result have had to go through revision after revision, toward the KJV as a result of being exposed by the later papyri discovery. Some of those doing the editing of were spiritualists and new age cultists.
The book opens with a piece written by Dr. Frank Logsdon, who wrote the preface to the New American Standard Bible. In regard to "NEW AGE VERSIONS" he wrote:
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"I must under God renounce every attachment to the New American Standard,
... I'm afraid I'm in trouble with the Lord ... We laid the groundwork; I wrote the format; I helped interview some of the translators; I sat with the translator; I wrote the preface ...
I'm in trouble; I can't refute these arguments; its wrong, it's terribly wrong; it's frighteningly wrong; and what am I going to do about it? ... I can no longer ignore these criticisms I am hearing and I can't refute them ...
When questions began to reach me at first I was quite offended. However, in attempting to answer, I began to sense that something was not right about the NASV. Upon investigation, I wrote my very dear friend, Mr. Lockman, explaining that I was forced to renounce all attachment to the NASV ... The product is grievous to my heart and helps to complicate matters in these already troublous times .. The deletions are absolutely frightening ... there are so many ... Are we so naive that we do not suspect Satanic deception in all of this? ...
I don't want anything to do with it ...
[T]he finest leaders that we have today .. haven't gone into it [the new version's use of a corrupted Greek text], just as I hadn't gone into it ... That's how easily one can be deceived ... I'm going to talk to him [Dr. George Sweeting, then president of Moody Bible Institute] about these things ...
[Y]ou can say the Authorized Version [KJV] is absolutely correct. How correct? 100% correct! ...
If you must stand against everyone else, stand."
Dr. Frank Logsdon
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While Dr. Logsdon may have allowed his pendulum to swing a little to far the other way, in suggesting the KJV is 100% correct, I don't recall Riplinger making the same claim.
Interestingly, the KJV is the only version that is in the public domain, and thus is the only one from which royalties are not made on the sales thereof. By contrast, for example, Rupert Murdoch owns the NIV. From "New Age Versions": "Contrary to advertising claims, the new versions are more difficult to read than the KJV, according to research using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Indicators."
Like most books that explore controversial subject matter you might find detractors who feel their ox got gored, and in this case most are typical of those who are confronted with an unpleasant truth. They do what they can to shoot the messenger, and distort the truth, by manipulating snippets out of context. In this case, according to the author, they are also legally actionable for libel. G.A. Riplinger's Response to James White's Criticism If you come across a detractor, ask them if they've read the book. READ THIS BOOK AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELF. I am fully confident that after doing so you will set aside all of your other Bible versions and stick with the good ole KJV.
Following is a quote from "New Age Bible Versions" regarding the minority Greek text from which the "new age" Bible versions are generated:
"Changes in both the Nestle's text and the critical apparatus have been made over the years. The NASB is based loosely on Nestle's 23rd edition (1959), but the NASB Greek Interlinear is marketed with Nestle's 21st edition (1951). In the recent Nestle's twenty-sixth edition (1979) the chameleon becomes a cobra with a whopping 712 changes in the Greek text. These drastic changes were a response to the cry of scholars who saw the mounting evidence of the papyri discoveries stacking up on the side of the KJV. Consequently, nearly 500 of these changes were 'white flags', retreating back to the pre-Westcott and Hort Textus Receptus readings. Now every third page reflects some sort of back-to-the King James Version reading. This about-face leaves Greek-o-philes footless, often armed only with their 1951 NASB-Nestle's Interlinear."
Following is a link to Way of Life Literature regarding this very important subject.
BIBLE DOCTRINES AFFECTED BY MODERN VERSIONS - by Paul L. Freeman
Try Yahoo searches (or just click on the ones that follow) like:
What about the United Bible Society corrupt Hebrew interlinear that Hitler's boy Gerhard Kittel (Occultist/Nazi War Criminal) had a hand in?
What did Hitler select for bed time reading? Madame Blavatski
"Helena Petrovna Blavatsky integrated Hinduism and Buddhism with Western occultism to form Theosophy and founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. Her 3-volume tome, The Secret Doctrine, which was found on the night stand of Adolph Hitler, laid the foundation for the New Age Movement."
Who might she have been buddies with besides Satan?
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