THE LAST ACT IN THE ALEXANDRIAN DRAMA (Part Three)


     From our previous articles we have shown (beyond any shadow
of a doubt) that the so-called New "King James" Version is as far
from being a legitimate "revision" of the AV as one would find
short of the RSV of the National Council of Churches. We listed
over a dozen readings in one book alone that came right out of
the RSV and NRSV of the National Council, the outfit that has
been sending money to Communist guerillas in Africa for nearly
three decades. The RSV came from the Alexandrian North African
text of Origen-Hort-Nestle-Eusebius-Constantine and company
(exactly as the ASV of 1901 did), and we have documented these
truths scores of times in dozens of publications. We saw further
that the phony "New KJV" had reinstated a dozen ASV readings from
1901 under the pretense of "continuing" in the "tradition" of the
AV translators. While professing this, these false professors of
belief in the Bible did away with every verse in the New
Testament that dealt with their own sins: Romans 1:18 ("For the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, wbho suppress the truth in
unrighteousness."--NKJV), 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 forever. Amen."--NKJV), 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), 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), 1 Timothy 6:20 ("O
Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the
profane and vain babblings and contradictions of what is falsely
called knowledge--"--NKJV), and 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 in the sight of God in Christ."--NKJV).
Their alibi was that since they believed that somewhere God wrote
something that was lost eighteen centuries ago and that since the
AV translators did not profess to be "inspired," a 1982 Rat's
Nest was just as authoritative as the AV of 1611.

     To insure the maximum amount of unbelief in absolute
authority--this is the purpose of all accredited higher education
(secular or sacred)--several photostatic copies of the 1611
edition were put out. The perverted thinking of the sick minds
behind this was that when these poor, stupid, Bible-believing
suckers notice that the AV of 1611 doesn't match word for word
the AV they have believed and used, the Bible believers will lose
faith in the one they have believed and accept the NKJV AS AN
EQUAL.

     This was the plan and purpose of the "godly" men who put out
this latest piece of Athenian trash.

     They, like many sick people, wish to spread their own
disease.

     The idea is that since "we are not Bible believers but
profess to be, you can deny the word of God and still pass off
for one too, like US."

     The ancient chestnut about the need for "updating" the AV of
1611 was hauled out of the fire. This standard lie used by all
apostates was done in the face of the fact that the AV had been
"updated" in 1876 by Smith, in 1885 by Dillard, in 1894 by Lewis,
in 1897 by Weekes, in 1895 by Fenton, in 1903 by Weymouth, in
1913 by Moffatt, in 1919 by Cunningham, in 1923 by Goodspeed, in
1925 by Overbury, in 1933 by Torrey, in 1881 by Williams, in 1842
by Bernard, in 1864 by Anderson and in 1904 by Worrell.

     Taking advantage of the fact that most Christians in the
body of Christ knew nothing about these SIXTEEN attempts at
updating it in less than ninety years, the translators of the New
"King James" Version went back 300 years and pulled alongside the
1611 to measure themselves, forgetting that that is exactly what
the translators of the RV in 1884 had done; exactly what the
translators of the ASV in 1901 had done; exactly what the
translators of the RSV in 1946 had done; exactly what the
translators of the NASV in 1950 had done; and exactly what the
NIV translators in 1980 had done.

     When it came to motives, method, aims and purpose, the NKJV
translators followed in the exact footsteps of the worst Liberals
and most apostate Conservatives in the nation.

     These incredible con-men actually stated that after 371
years the "AV has been carefully UPDATED SO THAT IT WILL ONCE
AGAIN speak God's eternal truths with clearity."

     You are to believe that it hasn't for 371 years.

     You are to believe that the muddled mess (according to them)
that Whitefield, Wesley, Sunday, Moody, Finney, Cartwright,
Patton, William Booth, Jonathan Edwards, Sheldon Jackson, J.
Frank Norris, Gypsy Smith, Mel Trotter, and Bob Jones, Sr., made
of things was done with a Book that didn't "SPEAK GOD'S ETERNAL
TRUTHS WITH CLARITY."

     What kind of inferior dumbbells would presume to speak such
nonsense? Well, a list gives: Arthur Farstad and Walter Bodine of
Dallas Theological Seminary; Ed Hindson and Elmer Towns of
Liberty Baptist College in Lynchburg; Merdith Kline and Boyce
Blackwelder, E. M. Blaiklock and James Price (Tennessee Temple
Schools in Chattanooga); W. H. McDowell and Truman Dollar (Kansas
City Baptist Temple: Bible Baptist Fellowship); Jerry Falwell
(who wouldn't know a Piel in Hebrew from a Hiphil); A. V.
Henderson (Temple Baptist Church, Detroit: Baptist Bible
Fellowship); Herschel Hobbs, Curtis Hutson (Editor of the "Sword
of the Lord"); Clyde Narramore (amateur psychologist); and Harold
Ockenga (the Neo-Evangelical president of Gordon-Conwell
Theological Seminary).

     These are the men who allowed their names to be used in an
advertising brochure called "WHY THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION"
after a statement that they were updating a Book that had not
spoken with clarity for 371 years!

     Why do you suppose these backslidden egotists did not dare
say that it was a new "AUTHORIZED VERSION" they were putting out?
That is the nomenclature we use throughout our writings. What
happened to the Book's AUTHORITY?

     Simple. The backslidden wretches who perverted 2 Corinthians
2:17, 1 Timothy 6:5,10,20 and Romans 1:18,25 were authorized to
do nothing and the Holy Spirit would no more authorize what they
did than what the Lockman Foundation did when it put out the
NASV.

     There is no mention of the "MAN OF SIN" in the preface of
this new version. How is this? In the Dedicatory of the AV (any
edition that has the Dedicatory) it identifies the pope as "THE
MAN OF SIN."

     And these dead orthodox apostates are "continuing in that
tradition" are they?

     You wouldn't woof us would you, buster?

     Who was it that authorized this version? Was it a KING (see
Ecc. 8:4)? Of course not; it was a publishing company that makes
its living by selling books. Observe that "IN THE EARLUY 1970s
THOMAS NELSON PUBLISHERS...BEGAN TO SENSE A GROWING NEED FOR THE
KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE TO BE REVISED ONCE AGAIN" (p. 8).
After what? Why, after Thomas Nelson had published the ASV of
1901 by the five-point, baby-sprinkling, pro-Catholic Philip
Schaff and after the RSV of 1952--put out by Dean Luther Weigle
and the greatest ministerial Communists in the United States!

     THE PUBLISHERS "FELT THE NEED" DID THEY?

     You wouldn't give us the shaft would you, sonny boy?

     Do you think that some of us are as stupid as the men
connected WITH ANYTHING "THOMAS NELSON" PUT OUT FROM 1901 to 1982
that wasn't a real Authorized Version?

     This wretched committee of 1982 said they wanted to PRESERVE
"THE CONTENT of the AV of 1611" (p. 9). Did they do it? We just
listed the content of the ASV in a score of places showing that
Thomas Nelson Publishers simply tried to reinstate what they had
lost in sales on two other versions. Is anyone fool enough to
think that Acts 4:27 and 1 Thessalonians 5:22 in the New "King
James" Version is the "CONTENT OF THE 1611 AV"?

     Sure: the suckers who listen to faculty members of Christian
schools without checking the text. Sure: the dingbats who make a
living off of correcting the AV. Sure: the monument builders who
want a TOOL instead of an Authority. Will we "buy the act"? Not
on your tin-type. Down here we call this Madison Avenue gaffed
act "THE NEW AMERICAN, NEW KING, NEW STANDARD, NEW JAMES, NEW
AUTHORIZED, NEW REVISED RAT'S NEST." Wrong motive, wrong aim,
wrong method, wrong text and wrong "bedfellows."

     At the Pensacola Bible Institute we will continue to use the
Book that God delivered into our hands by His grace in 1949. That
Book, translated under a King (Ecc. 8:4) whose country is the
standard for the time found on the WATCHES on the wrists of the
new revision committees (and the location on this earth of their
cities!), has been kept inerrant by the Grace of God and
preserved through the years in spite of the maniacal egotism of
Laodicean apostates who think that they can compete with it. We
thank God for the old Authorized Version (any edition before
1982) which God has kept for us in spite of "godly and reverent
Christian" scholars who believe in "plenary, verbally inspired
Scriptures" which no one has ever read or seen.

     Thank God for the old BOOK! Thank God for its "THEEs" and
"THOUs" and "YEs." Thank God for its "I TROW NOT" and "WE WIST
NOT" and "WAS WONT TO BE MADE." Thank God He still shows things
to any Bible believer from that Book with a clarity and lucidity
that blinds the minds of poor, miserable, Bible-rejecting idiots
who fancy that because they believe in "fundamentals" they have
the sense God gave to a stuffed YAK. God said, "LET THERE BE
LIGHT!!" He spoke and we have it, and thank God we have it
without the assistance of poor, deluded sinners like the blanks
on the "NEW KJV" committee.

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