Verbally Inspired Copies of Copies

   Those of us who have studied the King James's critics and correctors
for years know the end of their primrose path before they started,
because we knew their motives for correcting the Book. Stewart Custer,
many years ago--who started out attacking the King James Bible and
ridiculing those who believed in it-- wound up stating that he had the
verbally inspired Bible in his hands and read it every day, and it was
"plenary inspired." He was referring to one of the most corrupt Greek
texts ever printed on this earth: Nestle's Greek text of 1889, which
has had to make more than seven hundred changes in the last ten years.

   The next man to follow in the path of the men who followed men
instead of God, was Gary Hudson of Whitehouse, Florida, who tells us in
his paper (Fall 1989, Vol. 2, #3), "It was clear from many other
statements of his {Ruckman's} that he was using the King James Version
to correct THE VERY INSPIRED WORDS of its own Hebrew and Greek."

   And there it is, like a dead shrimp in the sunlight. These fellows
are now telling you that copies of Greek manuscripts that were printed
from copies of copies are "the very inspired words," after telling you
that inspiration stopped at the original autographs. But after all,
that is the end of all flesh. That is how these fellows had to wind up.
Before they got through, they had to accept some authority as final
authority. Rather than admit that their own opinions and preferences
were their gods, they slipped out under the wire and pretended that
copies of copies, which they said were not inspired, were after all
"inspired." Both Hymers and Hudson have adopted this position after
telling you that nothing is inspired except the original autographs.
They couldn't have come to any other conclusion without admitting the
truth. The truth is, they are their own gods, exactly like all the
Alexandrian Cultists that have preceded them for seventeen centuries.
The men-pleasing man-pleasers who follow a man instead of God all come
out at the same terminus; complete contradiction of everything they
said they believed.