THE LAST ACT IN THE ALEXANDRIAN DRAMA (Part Two)
As we have seen the apostate Fundamentalists in this age
backslide to the proper position--belief in the AV of 1611 as the
final authority in all matters of faith and practice--we have
seen them abandon the RV of 1884 for the ASV of 1901, then
abandon the ASV of 1901 for the NASV of 1960, then abandon the
NASV of 1960 for the NIV of 1980, and then finally abandon the
Alexandrian revisions outwardly--which ALL professed to be
revisions of the AV of 1611--and then come out with a bastard
"King James Bible" that is no more a legitimate revision than the
ASV or RV or RSV.
This effort to appear to be A BELIEVER is quite typical of
hypocritical professions by all the hypocrites in any age of the
church. The trick is to foolthe genuine Bible-believing Christian
into thinking that because a profession is made of believing in
some "verbally inspired Scriptures" that got lost, that this
qualifies the scholarly hypocrite to be classified as a "BIBLE
BELIEVER." All of the men on the New "King James" Falwell-Nelson
edition of the "Bible" professed to believe the Cult Creed which
we print in the Bulletin. Every "jack man" of them believed that
God lost the inerrant, infallible words of truth and that no one
on earth has seen them since 400 A.D. or earlier. This is what
the incredible phonies call a "militant" stand for "historic
Fundamentalism." It means Mary had a little lamb and Lucy Lockett
lost her pocket. All cowards run from PROVABLE FACTS as fast as
they can run. Since there are no originals anywhere to prove
whether any "Fundamentalist believes the right thing or not,
"believing in the verbal, plenary inspired original authographs"
can be the standard position for any cowardly hypocrite to take
in this age. It is a safe position. Nobody can check the dirty
liar to see if he is telling the truth or not. All "qualified
Fundamentalist scholars" take this position. They always have.
They have always feared ridicule more than death and charges of
"heresy" more than God.
Now the New "King James" Bible, like every English
translation since 1884, had to compare itself with the original
AV of 1611, for this is the STANDARD that God set up whereby to
judge all translations. This explains why even those who do not
believe THAT still go by it and abide by it as a rule for
PUBLICATION. No edition of the English Bible since 1880 (RV, RSV,
NRSV, ASV, NASV, IV, NIV, NEB, etc.) could sell unless it first
compared itself with the absolute standard of truth set up by the
Holy Spirit. Falwell's "Hindson-Nelson" Bible is no different. It
cannot sell by comparing itself to an RV or RSV or NIV or ASV or
NEB or NASV or NRSV. It must compare itself with the Authorized
Version of 1611.
As in all other cases, the comparison proves to be fatal,
for not only is this "ecumenical rat's nest" a faithful
reproduction of scores of readings of unsaved Liberals in the
National Council of Churches--no don't get mad; read the
DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE GIVEN CHAPTER AND VERSE in the last article--
but it also contains scores of Westcott and Hort Alexandrian
readings as they are found in the ASV and NASV. A few of them
are:
Proverbs 1:4, "prudence" (To give prudence to the simple, To
the young man knowledge and discretion--NKJV).
Proverbs 1:5, "wise counsel" (A wise man will hear and
increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise
counsel,--NKJV).
Proverbs 1:6, "riddles" (To understand a proverb and an
enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles.--NKJV).
Proverbs 1:32, "complacency" (For the turning away of the
simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy
them;--NKJV).
Proverbs 2:1, "treasure" (My son, if you receive my words,
And treasure my commands within you,--NKJV).
Proverbs 2:7, "stores up" (He stores up sound wisdom for the
upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;--NKJV).
Proverbs 7:6, "lattice" (For at the window of my house I
looked through my lattice,--NKJV).
Proverbs 7:11, "rebellious" (She was loud and rebellious,
Her feet would not stay at home.--NKJV).
Proverbs 7:12, "open square" (At times she was outside, at
times in the open square, Lurking at every corner.--NKJV).
Proverbs 7:16, "colored" (I have spread my bed with
tapestry, Colored coverings of Egyptian linen.--NKJV).
Proverbs 8:17, "diligently" (I love those who love me, And
those who seek me diligently will find me.--NKJV).
Proverbs 12:4, "excellent" (An excellent wife is the crown
of her husband, But she who causes shame is like rottenness in
his bones.--NKJV).
Proverbs 14:12; 15:4; 19:24; 20:1; 20:2; 20:24; 21:27;
25:25; 26:11; 30:28 (see footnote); 30:31 and scores of other
places.
The New "King James" Bible then is not a King James Bible at
all nor is it related to any revision of any edition of any AV
put out in the last 300 years by anyone. It is a resurrected ASV-
RSV for dead orthodox Conservatives and apostate Fundamentalists
in colleges and universities who still hold to their ORIGINAL
POSITION: they can correct the Bible anytime they feel like it
because they are superior intellects who are in charge of
absolute authority. It is this maniacal obsession that makes men
like Massey, at Rodney Bell's school, insist that he can find out
the EXACT WORD that God gave Paul when Paul wrote his
manuscripts; and it is this same fantastic egotism that makes
patsies like Stewart Custer (Bob Jones University) tell us that
he reads the "verbally inspired original" New Testament daily
because he "holds it" in his hand. By the same token, phoney
bread-and-butter prophets like Ed Hindson and Ed Dobson (who make
a living with smooth, slick talk about medicine and marriage)
pretend they are Bible believers when neither man has ever read
THE WORD or THE WORDS of God since he went to college. Both men
profess that the words of God were lost and that they have never
been restored to anyone (see Falwell's October 1982 issue of the
Fundamentalist magazine).
Now who was the Nelson-Falwell "Bible" translated for? Since
it privately interprets 2 Thesslonians 2:7 to be the Holy Spirit,
in spite of the warning against this kind of thing in 2 Peter 2,
we may well suspect that the New "King James" Bible was a
handmade production for a large class of Christians who desire
CERTAIN OTHER SINS TO BE GLOSSED OVER AND COVERED UP.
These five sins are as follows, and the Bible believer--
certainly not anyone like Hindson, Dobson, Sumner, Custer, Bob
Jones, III, or Hutson--should carefully note the references and
mark them.
The New "King James" Bible (the New American, New King, New
Standard, New Authorized, New James, New Revised Rat's Nest) was
made to be sold to Fundamentalists who wanted to believe that:
1. It is all riught to corrupt the word of God as long as
you don't "peddle" it. Observe how NO EDITION OF ANY KING JAMES
BIBLE READS with Falwell-Nelson in 2 Corinthians 2:17, "For we
are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of
sincerity, but as from God, we speak int he sight of God in
Christ" (NKJV).
2. It is proper to hold the word of God in unrighteousness
as long as you aren't guilty of "suppressing" it. See the reading
in Romans 1:18, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress
the truth in unrighteousness" (NKJV), where it matches the RSV of
the NCCC.
3. It is proper to appear to be doing evil as long as you
don't actually DO evil. See the RSV reading of the NCCC in
Falwell-Nelson's "Bible" in 1 Thessalonians 5:22, "Abstain from
every form of evil" (NKJV), which is not in line with any line of
Authorized Versions published by anyone in England or America in
any century.
4. It is all right to change the truth of God into a LIE as
long as you don't "exchange" it for something. See in Romans
1:25, "Who exchanged the truth of god for the lie, and worshipped
and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed
for ever. Amen" (NKJV), the RSV reading of the NCCC in Falwell's
"Bible" which is no more an "edition" of the AV than Hansel and
Gretel.
5. It is all right to substitute financial gain for
godliness or to accept financial income as a proof of godliness
as long as you don't think that godliness is a MEANS of gain. See
in 1 Timothy 6:5, "Useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and
destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of
gain. From such withdraw yourself" (NKJV), the corrupt reading of
Falwell-Nelson which came from the Alexandrian text of 1901
(ASV).
Now, these verses were perverted because the New "King
James" Version was aimed at a select type of clientele; certainly
it was not aimed at anyone who READ the Bible and KNEW the Bible
or BELIEVED the Bible. It was aimed pointedly and directly at a
certain smooth, slick, type of cultured intelligentsia who had
thick POCKETBOOKS. To protect this bunch of apostate
"Fundamentalists," the Falwell-Nelson-Hindson Dobson "Bible"
altered 1 Timothy 6:10, "For the love of money is a root of all
kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in
their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many
sorrows" (NKJV), so that the love of money would NOT be the root
of all evil. The Falwell-Hindson-Dobson-Nelson Bible adopted here
the Alexandrian reading of the RSV of the National Council of
Communist churches. "BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER"; and
since "MONEY ANSWERETH ALL THINGS" (see any edition of the King
James Bible except the last Laodicean farce), the final test of
the authority for this new Rat's Nest was found in a verse that
dealt with INCOME. The Laodicean church was "increased with
goods" and knew not that it was POOR and wretched and miserable
and naked and (above all!) BLIND. Just as blind as a bat.
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