THE NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION

by Peter S. Ruckman

Reprinted from the Bible Believers'Bulletin, September, 1988 issue

The latest Athenian gimmick for those who want "TO TELL, OR TO HEAR SOME 
NEW THING" (Acts 17:21) is the NIV, an Alexandrian publication that lines up 
with the JESUIT RHEIMS, Dark Age, Catholic Bible of 1582. Naturally the 
Roman Catholic Soviets have approved of it and will "go along" with its 
printing, provided it includes the seven spurious Alexandrian books known as THE 
APOCRYPHA.

The reason for the success of this apostate trash is clear. It used 
the catch word "INTERNATIONAL," which is the Communist nomenclature these days 
for "all getting together." NATIONALISM is out. Hence the word "American" (ASV, 
NASV) can't quite "cut the mustard," (as they said back in the fifties). 
"INTERNATIONAL" has an aura of Popes, Politburo, CFR, United Nations, and the 
"brotherhood of man" about it that sells good these days. Although the NIV is 
still short of about 300,000,000 sales to match the AV (closer to 500,000,000), 
it has in recent years been able to keep up with contemporary AV sales. To match 
the AV, the NIV will have to distribute 809,000,000 copies, which it certainly 
will not do, even with the backing of fifty thousand scholars, a thousand 
universities, good press, publicity stunts, and the Roman Curia.

Why does the child of God reject this corrupt translation? Well, there 
are a number of excellent reasons, and three of them are absolutely final. To 
begin with, the translation makes a liar out of God in three places. I CALLED 
THIS TO THE ATTENTION OF THE HEAD OF THE TRANSLATING COMMITTEE IN A DEBATE IN 
FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, IN THE WINTER OF 1987. He had no answer, no rebuttal, 
and refused to even discuss the verses.

They are Mark 1:2, Matthew 5:22,and Luke 23:42.

In the first instance, Isaiah did NOT give the quotation, as the NIV 
falsely claims: IT IS FROM MALACHI. In the second instance, Christ was NEVER in 
danger of being judged by any council for being "ANGRY" at a brother. He was 
often angry (Mark 3:5, Matt. 21:12, Matt. 23:1-39), and to imply that this 
was a sin, as the NIV does, is to blaspheme the character of Jesus Christ. 
In the third instance, the Deity of Christ has been knocked out of a passage 
at a time when Christ is suffering for 
the sins of mankind. This DOCETICISM was a heresy taught in the second 
century, to the effect that "the Christ"left "Jesus" at the Crucifixion after 
"coming on Him" at His baptism, that is, He was DIVESTED OF DEITY WHEN HE DIED.

THIS BLASPHEMOUS HERESY WAS CONDEMNED BY A DOZEN CHURCH COUNCILS 
BEFORE THE DARK AGES TOOK PLACE.

But there are even stronger reasons than these for rejecting the NIV 
as a "reliable translation." Notice what the publication actually is, according 
to its own preface (Zondervan, 1973, N.T., pp. vii, viii, ix).

"It is a completely NEW translation made by many scholars 
working directly from THE GREEK." Wrong. There is nothing "new" about one chapter 
in the NIV. The readings are found throughout by the hundreds in the RSV, 
NRSV, ASV, and NASV; "THE GREEK" means nothing. If he meant "THE GREEK 
LANGUAGE," he did not say so, and he obviously was trying to con you, for on 
the next two pages he says "THE GREEK,"and "TO THE GREEK," and then finally, 
"DETAILS OF THE GREEK TEXT." That is what he meant the first time. Being 
crafty, slick, smooth, treacherous, and deceitful, he said "the Greek" twice 
without telling you what he meant.

HE MEANT NOTHING.

There is no "sich a thang" as "THE GREEK TEXT."

HE KNEW IT WHEN HE LIED.

"THE GREEK TEXT" is a hallucination of a man on pot. There 
are more than twenty Greek texts in print, including Hort, Nestle, Aland, 
Metzger, Alford, Soulter, Erasmus, Elzevir, Colinaeus, Beza, Stephanus, 
Tischendorf, Scholtz, Weiss, Von Soden, Lachmann, and Tregelles.

"THE GREEK TEXT" is a fantasy. NO SUCH THING EXISTS.

The "Committee on Bible Translation" that wrote the preface lied 
like a dog and knew they lied like a dog when they lied. You pay the price. If 
you want to pay the salary of a professional liar, go on and pay him. 
The term "THE GREEK TEXT" is a standard lie taught by every school in the United 
States and has been taught for more than ninety years. It is designed to fool 
the uninitiated into thinking that the scholar is working from THE ONE AND ONLY 
GREEK TEXT THAT IS CORRECT TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHERS: hence "THE" 
Greek text.

GO STICK YOUR FOOT IN YOUR LEFT EAR.

The truth is: "Where existing TEXTS {Ah, yes! Tell 'em now, baby!} 
differ, the translators made their choice of readings IN ACCORD WITH SOUND 
PRINCIPLES OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM."

They didn't do anything of the kind. They made their choices by giving 
the Roman Catholic manuscript ("B" Vaticanus) the precedence and went by 
the cock-eyed nonsense rule that the "shorter reading" is to be preferred 
above the "longer reading," WHICH SYSTEM HAS BEEN PROVED ON COMPUTERS TO BE A 
JOKE.

"They are all committed to the FULL AUTHORITY and complete 
trustworthiness of THE SCRIPTURES, which they believe to be GOD'S WORD IN WRITTEN 
FORM."

Note: God's word is NOT the scriptures; the scriptures are God's 
word in WRITTEN FORM. Note: they have never read "THE SCRIPTURES" by their own 
profession for, "like all translations of the Bible, made as they are by 
IMPERFECT MEN, this one undoubtedly falls short...."

THE ORIGINALS WERE WRITTEN BY IMPERFECT MEN.

What the Alexandrian Cult is telling you is that there was once, 
somewhere, some pieces of paper called "THE GREEK TEXT," which IF they had 
survived and all gotten into one book at one time WOULD HAVE BEEN "THE 
SCRIPTURES," but since they DIDN'T SURVIVE and were never in one book at 
the same time, we will believe that IF THEY HAD BEEN, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN 
GOD'S WORD IN WRITTEN FORM.

Professional liars have always had a time with plain English.

Now, as to the text of the NIV and its "Greek text," it is nothing but 
a reprint of 1890 (Nestle's), translated as the RSV and the NRSV translated it. 
No Bible-believing child of God would waste five minutes studying anything in 
it for any other purpose than to warn other Christians about its inherent and 
innate and inbred corruption. We cite from the edition of 1973.

Christ is not the "FIRSTBORN" of Mary, in line with the Roman Catholic 
teaching of Mary's perpetual virginity: the word has been removed from Matthew 
1:25.

Pretending that "WEEDS" look like WHEAT (Matt. 13), as the RSV did 
more than thirty years ago (!), the alibi is given that the word is clearer. 
But then when "GENERATION OF VIPERS" shows up (Matt. 12:34), it becomes an 
archaic "brood of vipers." Typical.

Jonah was not swallowed by a WHALE, but by a FISH (Matt. 12:40), 
although EVERY GREEK TEXT, INCLUDING ALL TWENTY-TWO THAT HAVE IT, SAY "ketos," 
not "ichthys" (the Greek word for "fish"). What was "THE" Greek text the 
NIV used for this quaint reading? No Greek text. THERE IS NO GREEK TEXT THAT 
SAYS "FISH" IN MATTHEW 12:40.

There is a footnote on page 120 that says "THE MOST RELIABLE EARLY MS. 
OMIT MARK 16:9-20." THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING OF THE KIND. The two most 
corrupt early manuscripts omit it, but Dean Burgon's thesis on this passage 
(PRINTED MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS AGO) settled that matter for any scholar with 
a brain in his head. The evidence for the reading is so overprepondering that 
it is a joke to even talk about its omission. VATICANUS and SINAITICUS omit 
it. They also differ among themselves three thousand places in the gospels 
alone.

Joseph is called Christ's FATHER by the Holy Spirit, if the Holy Spirit 
wrote Luke 2:33. (This would not be a case of Mary SAYING IT in order to cover 
up for His birth, Luke 2:48). Luke 2:33 is the HISTORICAL NARRATIVE of the text 
as given by Luke himself. Nonetheless, the NIV calls Joseph Christ's father; HE 
WASN'T.

The word of God has been taken clean out of Christ's mouth in Luke 4:4 
at the most crucial point: where He is answering Satan with the word of God. 
This is an ancient corruption found in the ASV of 1901, the NASV of 1959, the 
RSV of 1952, and the NRSV of 1970.

Christ's omnipresence has been deleted from John 3:13 in accordance 
with other ancient and archaic corruptions such as the JESUIT RHEIMS 
(1582), the RV (1884), the ASV (1901), etc. To say that the NIV is a 
"COMPLETELY NEW TRANSLATION" is just too funny for words. It is as old as 
Genesis 3:1.

With the complex the Alexandrian Cult has about the WRITTEN WORDS OF GOD, 
you should not be surprised to find John 8:47 altered to protect those who do not 
hear "GOD'S WORDS" (and I don't mean "what God says": see text).

Naturally, "THE GREEK TEXT" has been ignored in Acts 1:3, for it has the 
dreaded connotation of "INFALLIBLE PROOFS" for the Resurrection, so the RV, 
ASV, etc., reading has been retained in this "COMPLETELY NEW TRANSLATION."

The Deity of Christ has naturally been removed from Acts 4:27,30 
by converting Christ to a "servant" like David (note the context of the passage, 
v. 25), and this completely "new" reading will be found in the English 
translations of 1884, 1901, 1905, 1909, 1914, 1922, 1930, 1935, 1946, 1952, etc.

In keeping with the Roman Catholic ecumenical plan and the NAACP, 
the word "BLOOD" has been removed from Acts 17:26 so the verse will teach 
integration. Look at the context: the context is a message AGAINST INTEGRATION 
(vs. 26,27).

In keeping with the corrupt Alexandrian productions of 1884, 1901, 
1930, 1939, 1946, 1952, 1959, etc., this "new" translation protects all of its 
fellow corrupters, who devoted their lives to corrupting the word of God (2 
Cor. 2:17) and translates "peddle" for "CORRUPT" so as to absolve themselves of 
the guilt. Note how all "new" translations (RV, NRSV, ASV, NASV, NEB, 
TEV, NWT, NAT, NJB, etc.) did this BEFORE the NIV was printed. They also 
followed the same suit when they hit Romans 1:18,25. The Mafia protects its 
own.


Unfortunately, none of you are "ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED" (Eph. 1:6) in 
the NIV. It followed the preceding Alexandrian corruptions at this point 
and removed the teaching.

In keeping with twenty corruptions that preceded it, this 
"completely NEW translation" from "THE GREEK TEXT" throws out the Greek text 
for Colossians 1:14 and equates remission of sins with REDEMPTION, which 
is false. This was done in 1884 by the RV and in 1901 by the ASV.

Since none of the translators of the NIV were called of God to do 
anything but attack the Bible, they shied at the word "MINISTRY" in 
Colossians 4:17. ARCHIPPUS HAS NO MINISTRY: only a "work."

Revelation 22:14 follows the corrupt Catholic versions of the Dark 
Ages, as in the ASV of 1901 and the RSV of 1959. The reading is about as 
"completely new" as Dukakis's "platform."

Christ is NOT the IMAGE OF GOD in Hebrews 1:3, the love of money is NOT 
the root of all evil in 1 Timothy 6:10, you do NOT have to abstain from all 
"APPEARANCE" of evil in 1 Thessalonians 5, you can accept GAIN as a substitute 
for "GODLINESS" in 1 Timothy 6:5, and God was NOT "MANIFEST IN THE FLESH" in 1 
Timothy 3:16, following the ASV, RV, RSV, NASV, NRSV, etc.

No one can study the word of God in 2 Timothy 2:15, for it is not 
mentioned in connection with STUDY, your flesh is not really "VILE" (Phil. 3:21) 
but just "lowly," you can know Christ and then be "alienated from Him" (Gal. 
5:4), and "THE GREEK TEXT" of Hebrews 9:28 has been mistranslated completely. 
THERE ISN'T ONE "GREEK TEXT" OUT OF TWENTY-FOUR THAT HAS THE NIV READING.

And (we must stop somewhere!) Christ never does get the KINGDOMS of 
this world to reign over (Rev. 11:15); He just gets "THE KINGDOM OF THIS 
WORLD." THE READING IS FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OLD. It came from the Catholic, 
Jesuit Rheims Bible of 1582. "Completely new translation," is it? 
New to whom? A chump?

Now, there are at least fifty more reasons why no sensible Christian 
would be fooled with the New International Version or ever mistake it 
for a reliable translation, let alone a "Bible." But this is enough to give you 
an idea of the grossly inferior character of the work. It is popular 
because it is corrupt. These days, garbage is popular. If you don't 
believe it, watch your TV set for a few hours.

The NIV along with its twin bastard productions, the NASV and the NRSV,
are the work of the Alexandrian Cult--that fifteen-century-old "Scholars' Union" 
that has devoted its life to the corruption and perversion of the words of the 
living God. Their granddaddy (Gen. 3:1) has never changed once in 5,998 years. 
He is the "same yesterday, today, and forever."

Under the guise of "dynamic equivalence" and "formal correspondence" 
and "communicating to receptors," he has produced the NINETY-FIFTH corrupt 
English translation since 1611; one more in a series of NINETY-FIVE God-
dishonouring, money-making, soul-destroying, Christ-insulting pieces of 
trash that no real Bible believer would fall for one hour.

We recommend you use the NIV for a funny book in off-hours to brush up on 
bad scholarship, sloppy translating, twisting of the truth, and heretical 
nonsense. It is almost as good as the RSV and the ASV in this respect. Nuts 
to the NIV and nuts to its translators. Nuts to its publishers and promoters, 
and nuts to its readers and buyers.

Nuts! Nuts with a capital "N".

We have the Word of God, the word of God, and the words of God. We 
would never mistake them (or it or Him) for the New International Version.
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