No. 74 OFFICIAL NEWS ORGAN OF THE DEAN BURGON SOCIETY
October 30, 2005
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"The Words of the Lord are pure Words: as silver tried in a furnace
of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them
from this generation for ever." (Psalm 12:6-7)
A Successful DBS Meeting In Toronto
The 27th Annual Meeting of the DBS was held at Toronto Baptist
Church in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 20 & 21, 2005.
The members of the churches supporting the DBS meeting worked long
hours to insure a successful meeting. The Dean Burgon Society would
like to convey a sincere thank you to all of you for all that you
did for us.
DBS Message Book
The annual messages are compiled into a message book by Bible For
Today every year. Be certain to order your copy of the bound
messages this year as well as messages from previous years. You will
not be disappointed and they will be worth every penny you pay. It
should be ready near the end of October.
Our DBS 2005
A fund has been established to obtain and publish the testimony
of the late founding member of the DBS, Dr. James Hollowood, who
went to his reward July 28, 2004. Many individuals are looking
forward to the completion of this project, which is certain to
encourage many of us.
The DBS Executive Committee (E.C.) recommended that work on the
book, The Answers to 100 Questions Concerning the Preservation of
the Words of God, continue this year with the hopes that it will be
able to be published by the next annual meeting. The editors will be
Dr. D. A. Waite and Dr. Thomas Strouse.
The E.C. recommended the continued exploration of preparing a
curriculum concerning textual issues to teach home schooled
elementary and secondary students.
DBS Next Year
The next annual meeting of the of the DBS will be hosted by
Pastor Monte at Calvary Baptist Church, Robbinsdale, MN. The dates
are July 19th and 20th, 2006. Mark your calendar, now.
Get A New Book
The publication of Dr. Jack Moorman's book, Early Manuscripts,
Church Fathers and the Authorized Version, by BFT was announced. The
book contains powerful evidence that the Lord has preserved His
Words from the earliest of apostolic times. You may order your copy
from Bible For Today with credit card by phone at 856-854-4452.
Order it as BFT #3230 for a GIFT of $20 + $5.00 S&H. Other materials
available from the DBS and BFT are listed at the end of this
publication.
Help Is Needed!
The E.C. expressed their desire to have the DBSN published at
least three times a year. The limiting factor is costs. The only way
this will be possible is for churches to support the DBSN as a
missionary activity and/or individual contributions. In addition,
new equipment to support the publishing and mailing of the DBSN is
required. Your help is needed.
Please mail your checks to:
The Dean Burgon Society
Box 354
Collingswood, New Jersey 08108, U.S.A.
Meeting Tapes
In case you could not be at the annual conference, you can order
audio tapes (9 audio cassettes @ $25 + $4 S&H) or video tapes (2
videos or 3 DVD's, 6 hours each, @ $25 + $5.00 S&H)
By Dr. D. A. Waite President of the Dean Burgon Society
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2. Early Manuscripts, Church Fathers, and the Authorized Version
by Dr. Jack Moorman, DBS Executive Committee, hardback 456 pp. #3230
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3. Fundamentalist Deception on Bible Preservation by Dr. D. A.
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BJU book exposed... by Dan Waite DBS Treasurer
Longing For Acceptance: The Relativism Trap
"Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my
pasture! saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel
against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock,
and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will
visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. And I will
gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have
driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they
shall be fruitful and increase. And I will set up shepherds over
them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be
dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. Behold, the
days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous
Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute
judgment and justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall
be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUS- NESS. Therefore, behold, the days
come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth,
which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the
house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries
whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land"
(Jeremiah 23:1-8).
Worldly Standard
Frequently things often do not occur according to one's
expectations, primarily because those expectations are set too high
and too often, they are set on the wrong standard. Myriads of
individuals, longing to meet expectations, spend days, weeks, months
and even years striving for something unattainable. Many sincerely
believe that doing something notable leads one to a higher spiritual
plateau. These types of individuals choose to follow the deception
of a false standard—the standard of worldliness and "Christian"
humanism. Some would dare say history is a record of ill-maintained
expectations. A published historian has declared, "The only thing we
learn from History is that we do not learn from history" (La More).
Things, whether buildings, thoughts, or even convictions, will
ultimately deteriorate over enough time without meticulous
maintenance. Knowledge of history is not the panacea to future
success, but knowledge and acceptance of His Story is the genuine
path to true success (Joshua 1:8)!
God's Two Standards
God has given two standards: The Living Word and The Written
Word. One must exalt The Word Incarnate and The Word Inscripturated.
Scripture teaches that man will stand in Christ's righteousness or
remain in Adam's fallen state. However, some will insist on
embracing the thought and theories of yesterday as a standard. The
theological mood of yesterday was tolerance, acceptance, respect for
the thoughts and the ideas of man, and the disregard for the Heart
and Mind of God! Faith in the Book and the Blood is the only remedy
needed. It is because the LORD Incarnate lives that believers can
have faith—for without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews
11:6). One can have faith in the Living Word because of the
preserved Written Word. In this present age, the Written Word has
revealed the Living Word. Today's Church must exalt the Written Word
rather than deny its existence. With God's Holy Book as the
Standard, why then should one long to go back to the problems of
yesterday that have carried us to the dilemmas of today?
Standards Lost
One certainly remembers that during the forty-one year reign of
King Asa-- the great-grandson of Solomon—King Asa's kingdom
coincided with seven unique regimes in the ten Tribes of the North
(Jeroboam, Nadab, Baasha, Elah, Zimri, Omri, and Ahab). Scripture
reports, "And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD,
as did David his father" (I Kings 15:11). Asa demonstrated a
tremendous amount of faith when the enemy overwhelmingly encompassed
him. One might recall that King Asa requested Zechariah and Obadiah
teach the people during part of his reign. Asa was convinced that
the WORD OF THE LORD was the answer! Upon the death of Asa, his son,
Jehoshaphat ascended the Southern Throne. A newly developed league
between Jehoshaphat, King of Judah, and the husband of Jezebel, Ahab
King of Israel, brought the commanders of this fragmented country
into a joint military campaign in Ramothgilead.
Consulting the Lord
Before this engagement, Jehoshaphat asked Ahab for the opinion of
a Prophet of the LORD. Among many words that Micaiah, the LORD's
Prophet, said were ". . . I did see all Israel scattered upon the
mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd . . ." (2 Chronicles
18:16). What happened to this Nation? Why were they scattered? They
had no shepherd! Had no one retained the responsibility of keeping,
watching, and guarding? Had they stopped resting in GOD's Word and
started wresting it?
Israel's Condition
Is it not apparent that Israel's condition has not changed much
since the days of Jehoshaphat and Ahab? Unfortunately, others, who
grasp and accept the essential concepts of the Gospel, find
themselves in a scattered herd as well. Why is this? They have no
shepherd with a sword to keep, watch, and protect. Denial of the
preserved text appears to be the mood of the day. The powerful
"Book" touched the heart of wicked King Ahab. Recall these words,
"And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his
clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in
sackcloth, and went softly. And the word of the LORD came to Elijah
the Tishbite, saying, Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before
me? Because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil
in his days: but in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his
house" (I Kings 21:27-29). If Ahab responded to the Word of God, why
do the modern day thinkers refuse to do so?
Shepherds Responsible
Indeed many today have shepherds who criticize the Word of God
and twist the Scripture to authenticate nebulous thoughts. The
Hebrew word behind the English word "shepherd" first appears in the
fourth chapter of the first book of the Bible, "And she again bares
his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a
tiller of the ground" (Genesis 4:2). This son of Adam, later
murdered by Cain kept the sheep. The Hebrew word behind the English
word for "sword" first appears in the third chapter of the Book of
Beginnings, "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of
the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every
way, to keep the way of the tree of life" (Genesis 3:24). Note the
Sacred Text states one Sword and three or more Cherubim. God's
Inspired Sword ought to be feared and reverenced for its power and
might in these last days. The Shepherd and the Sword must function
together in these days of apostasy to keep the sheep; and often they
do not! The symptoms of modernism now plague the circles once
occupied by sound defenders of the Scripture. Failure to treat such
blight will result in premature defection from the Sword. The modern
church needs a shepherd who uses the Preserved Sword to teach,
protect, keep, and guard the sheep. Nations do not send troops into
battle without the proper weapons. Moreover, solders do not use
weapons they do not trust. Today's shepherds must trust and have
confidence in their Sword.
Defeat Relativism
All too often, the pastor does not use the Scripture to teach,
protect, guard, and keep the sheep, but will peddle some form of
psychology. Does not Scripture declare: "For the Word of God is
quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword" (Hebrews
4:12). Why is it then that the pastor given the responsibility of
upholding the effective power of the Words of God ignores and denies
its credibility--either directly or indirectly? One reason might be
that during his formative years he witnessed the Words of God
belittled and still sees it being torn to ribbons by men who he
holds in high regard even up to this present hour. Gibson states,
"Instead of trembling at the Words of God the modern day textual
critic is trite with the Words of God" (Gibson). Let the pastor be
encouraged to study the Bible and preach the truth. Reflect upon the
following verse, "And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of
the spirit, which is the Word of God" (Ephesians 6:17). The pastor's
duty is explanation of the Bible text and not to create
applications. In this day of relativism, one must be encouraged with
the genuine Preserved Bible. One must pray for pastors that they
will study, defend, and proclaim the entire council of God. The
Preserved Written and Living Word of God ought to be ultimate
authority in pulpit and pew! Shatter the chains of relativism!
By Petra Schroeder
[The following article is part of The Teen Series: Essays of
Interest by Christian Teenagers. It was originally published and
copyrighted by Revival Literature, Inc. in 2002 and used by
permission
http://www. revivallit.org, PO Box 6068, Asheville, NC 28816,
800-252-8896.]
Inspiration Defined
"The term inspiration identifies that work of the Holy Spirit
wherein He, in certain divinely chosen and personally yielded
individuals, superintended the reception and communication of the
Word of God such that the product is verbally and plenarily both
inerrant and authoritative" (Nichols).
Inspiration is a very important aspect of believing in the
authority of the Bible. The Bible is not just inspired, but verbally
and plenarily inspired as well. 1. Verbal – the words 2. Plenary –
extending to all parts equally 3. Inspiration – divinely breathed
out. Verbal, plenary inspiration could then be defined by saying
that the Words of the Bible, extending to all parts equally, are
divinely breathed out. "The theory of verbal inspiration affirms
that each human author was but the mouthpiece of God and that in
every word, therefore, God speaks." (Engelder, 7) Plenary
inspiration "is that the Bible as a whole is the Word of God, so
that in every part of Scripture there is both infallible truth and
divine authority." (Manly, 59) If there is inspiration at all, it
must penetrate Words as well as thought.
Biblical Doctrine
As with any doctrine, it is just man's ideas unless there is
support from Scripture. The Bible has much to say on the issue of
inspiration. II Timothy 3:15-17 is one of the strongest passages
used to teach the doctrine of inspiration. "And that from a child
thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee
wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly
furnished unto all good works." From this we see a few of the
Biblical teachings on the nature of inspiration. In verse 16 we see
that the Bible is from God. This verse literally says the Scriptures
are God-breathed. This is a concept of the Bible being a product of
God though written by men. This is the doctrine of divine
inspiration (Cloud, Fundamental) Also, verse 16 states that the
Bible is from God in its entirety. All of the Scripture is said to
have come from God. The word translated Scripture is the Greek
graphe, meaning writing or book. This is the doctrine referred to as
plenary inspiration Verse 15 refers to the Holy Scriptures and tells
us that the Bible is from God in its smallest detail. The word for
Scripture here is the Greek word gramma, referring to a letter. This
teaches that even the smallest details of the Bible are from God.
This is the doctrine called verbal inspiration. (Cloud)
Many References
There are also many places in the Bible that give indirect
references to the inspiration of Scripture. These small strings of
reference, when combined together, make a thick rope for the proof
of inspiration. "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will
of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost." (2 Peter 1:21) "The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his
word was in my tongue." (2 Samuel 23:2) "But the LORD said unto me,
Say not, I am a child; for thou shalt go to all that I shall send
thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak….Then the LORD
put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me,
Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth." (Jeremiah 1:7,9) "As he
spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the
world began:" (Luke 1:70)
History of Inspiration
The history of the doctrine of inspiration goes back to the
beginning of the church age. In the second century, Irenaeus wrote:
"We have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than
from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they
did at one time proclaim in public, and at a later period by the
will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the ground
and pillar of our faith….The Scriptures are perfect, inasmuch as
they were uttered by the Word of God and His Spirit. (Migne) Thus
the doctrine of inspiration has stood the test of time unlike other
theories that have come up in more modern times. This church
doctrine looks upon the Bible as the total authority on everything
that is included in it. "This attitude of entire trust in every word
of the Scriptures has been characteristic of the people of God form
the very foundation of the church." (Cloud) "The church doctrine of
inspiration was the Bible doctrine before it was the church
doctrine, and it is the church doctrine only because it is the Bible
doctrine." (Cloud)
Verbal Inspiration
There are two different arguments that help to show why we
believe in the doctrine of verbal inspiration. One is the linguistic
argument and the other is the Biblical argument. The linguistic
argument is that thoughts depend entirely on the very words used to
express them. If a word is changed, the entire thought can change.
If God really wants to communicate His will to us, wouldn't the very
Words He chose be important? As the naturalist who is constrained by
a microscopic study of single leaf explains, "He who mad the forest
made the leaf," we can take the liberty to say, "He who made the
Bible made its verses also. (Fuller) And even go a step further to
assert, "He who made the verses made the very Words!" The Biblical
argument states that the smallest part if the Hebrew alphabet will
not be destroyed or left out of the Scriptures. "For verily I say
unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in
no wise pass form the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matthew 5:18)
The Bible is the foundation for our Christian faith and as David
wrote in Psalm 11:3, "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the
righteous do?"
The Foundation
Christians, through faith, need to accept Biblical inspiration.
Apart from Scripture, man can never know the mind of God and never
will know the mind of God. There are things that must be accepted on
the basis of faith because we can never expect to completely
understand all that God has said or done. There are many people who
try to use rationalism to correct or change the Bible. Rationalism
denies the absolute inerrancy of Scripture and when the Christian
listens to this voice he disgraces himself. (Engelder) The carnal
mind assumes the right to criticize and correct Scripture, but we
are commanded in Scripture to bring "into captivity every thought to
the obedience of Christ." (2 Corinthians 10:5) Rationalism is not to
be our authority when dealing with things in the Bible.
Men that deny that absolute truth of Scriptures set reason above
the Bible. They admit this themselves. A Unitarian once said: "No
Scripture can be accepted as true because it is in the Bible. All
its teachings must be subjected to the authority of reason and
conscience." (Engelder, 42)
We can not trust our finite reasoning in divine matters, and must
submit to the infinite reasoning of our Lord Jesus Christ. Why must
people think that they can reason above the Bible? 2 Corinthians 5:7
states: "For we walk by faith and not by sight." Verbal, plenary
inspiration in the final analysis must be accepted by faith.
Inspiration Attacks
Throughout Christianity today, there are many attacks on the
doctrines of verbal, plenary inspiration. One of the main attacks
existing today is the one of dynamic equivalency translations.
Dynamic equivalency is also known as idiomatic translation, common
language translation and thought translation. Dynamic equivalency is
simply an endeavor to convey only the thoughts of God while not
translating the actual words. The words are not thought to be
important. Kenneth Taylor described his paraphrasing this way: "We
take the original thoughts and convert it into the language of
today...We can be much more accurate than verbal translation"
(Cloud, Myths, 289). Scripture states that the words, and not just
the thoughts, are important. "Man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matthew
4:4).
Bible Preservation
Another major attack on inspiration today is the attack on
preservation. If the Bible is not preserved, it is meaningless to
debate that the Bible was inspired in its original manuscripts, but
that such a Bible does not exist today. The same Bible that claims
to be inspired also claims to be preserved. Our faith on this matter
has to come from the fact that God does not and cannot lie. In
Isaiah 40:8 the Bible says, "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
but the word of our God shall stand for ever." If we do not have a
preserved Bible how can we know if we have an inspired Bible?
Jesus teaches that man must have the very words of God, and He
promises that His words will not pass away. "Heaven and earth shall
pass, but my words shall not pass away" (Matthew 24:35). Also, in
Matthew 5:18 He says the very jots and tittles of God's Word will
not pass away! That is definitely verbal preservation. If we do not
have the inspired, preserved words of God, how do we know if we an
authoritative Bible? God is a just God, and He is just in judging us
from His word as He says He will do. Jesus says in John 12:48,
"...the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the
last day."
Absolute Authority
It is our responsibility as Christians to be ready to defend our
Bible. We should "earnestly contend for the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3). Accepting the doctrine of
verbal, plenary inspiration means that we also must accept the fact
that we have an authoritative Bible that should guide our every
step. I believe that the King James Bible is an accurate translation
of the preserved and inspired Words of God and thus I am ready to
defend it and to live by it. By faith I believe the psalmist wrote:
"The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in the
furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O
LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever"
(Psalms 12:6-7).
Critique of Fundamentalist Deception on Bible Preservation
by H. D. Williams, M.D., V.P. DBS, MR DBS, Assistant Editor DBSN
A recent book, God's Word In Our Hands The Bible Preserved For Us
(GWIH), was critiqued by Dr. D. A. Waite, President of the DBS. Dr.
Waite's book, Fundamentalist Deception on Bible Preservation,
repeatedly points out the deceptions duplicated by essentially every
contributor to the Bob Jones University supported book and their
friends representing eleven schools. Dr. Waite's book may be
obtained from Bible For Today and asking for BFT # 3234. In
addition, Dr. Jeffery Khoo, academic dean at the Far Eastern Bible
College in Singapore, has pointed out many errors in the book, GWIH,
in an article in the Burning Bush.
Dr. Waite's Comments
The following is my summary of some of the deceptions that Dr.
Waite pointed out. They are:
(1) They proclaim God preserved His message, thoughts, ideas,
concepts, truth, or revelation but not precise or specific words.
(2) They subtly use phrases such as "the word of God" or "written
word" but do not delineate their meaning for the phrase. Invariably,
the phrases do not refer to the preserved, inerrant, plenary,
inspired words of God.
(3) They link those who believed God preserved His God-breathed
words in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek with those who promote
translations as God-breathed and inspired. (4) They proclaim
defenders of the preserved words of God "misrepresent and misquote"
Westcott and Hort.
(5) They proclaim defenders of the preserved words of God charge
users of other versions as "heretics."
(6) They teach no doctrine of Scripture has been "really corrupted"
by the modern versions.
(7) They promote "harmony and unity" around new versions as more
important than "needless division over translations."
(8) They promote the preservation of God's words in all the MSS,
which means we still do not have God's words "in our hands." (9)
They press us to believe that "God has not chosen to preserve every
Word."
(10) We have God's words in our hands in the "multiple languages of
men."
(11) They quote and apply the King James Bible translators' opinions
in the 1600's as if they apply to the modern translations using the
Westcott/Hort type of text of the 1880's and following years.
(12) They list famous teachers and pastors who used the modern
versions based on the Westcott/Hort type text as knowledgeable users
of the versions without any evidence to support their awareness of
the corruption of the underlying text.
(13) They promote older unused corrupted, and defaced manuscripts as
being reliable.
(14) They falsely advertise that the readings in the Vaticanus and
Sinaiticus manuscripts were not available to the KJB translators.
(15) They state that "differences" between translations are "minor."
(16) They imply "all" manuscripts were used to construct the
preserved word of God, which is impossible, when their "favorite"
and proto manuscripts are the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.
(17) They imply that all of those who believe in "one manuscript
tradition" such as the Traditional Texts use their position as "a
test of orthodoxy."
(18) They imply the exegesis of those who believe in the
preservation of God's words "misunderstood and/or misapplied" many
of the passages in Scripture used to support preservation.
(19) They link the Ruckman camp's use of Psa 12:6-7 as a "prophetic
statement on the production of the English Bible" with others
opposed to this statement.
(20) They promote Psa 12:6-7 as a mistranslation in the KJB.
(21) They link the statements of individuals who promote the KJB as
inspired and who were once members of the DBS as the DBS position.
(22) They claim "1 Pe. 1:23-25 does not directly address the
preservation of God's word."
(23) They pedantically use Latin phrases to support their ‘academic'
position.
(24) They use the statement,"It takes patience to work through these
things," as dynamite to destroy the literal ordinary method of
interpreting Mat. 5:18.
(25) They imply the Received Text has a small manuscript basis.
(26) They imply there are manuscript families and that there are few
differences between the "families."
(27) They connote the Textus Receptus began with Erasmus.
(28) They conclude the "penmen" of Scripture were inspired.
(29) They denigrate Erasmus and the true history surrounding this
man by innuendo. (30) They state that "[those who maintain the
traditional text often invent or dream their facts, and then draw
their inferences."
(31) They imply the verses in Scripture removed or minimized in the
critical text such as Mark 16:9-20 is correct.
(32) They state the Nestle-Aland text "differs from the text of
Westcott-Hort in numerous and quite significant points."
(33) They believe the Hebrew text existed as a "consonantal text."
(34) They lump all differences in the manuscripts together, implying
that those differences or corruptions also occur in the Textus
Receptus manuscripts and are of the same nature or quality.
(35) They buy into the recension of the Received Text, claiming
"there is no extant Greek manuscript dated prior to the 4th
century...belonging to the Majority Text family then the Byzantine
text is always secondary to the earliest manuscripts" such as the
Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.
Dr. Khoo's Comments
There are many other good and excellent points that Dr. Waite
points out in his book and it should be read by all of those
interested in this debate over the words of God. Dr. Khoo's critique
in the Burning Bush also highlights the deficiencies in GWIH. He
states, "In this critique, I will show that Bob Jones III's glowing
endorsement of this book is entirely misleading:
(1) The book is not a clean-edged Sword which is God's Word itself.
(2) It creates more confusion and schism on the subject of biblical
preservation because it misrepresents the Pro-KJB and Preserved Text
position, and promotes the modernistic and ecumenical modern
versions that are based on the corrupt Critical Text.
(3) The data are not at all soul-thrilling because they are based on
man's subjective and fallible interpretation of so-called
"evidence."
(4) It does not edify the faith of believers in God and His Word
because of its deistic view that not every jot and tittle of
Scripture is preserved, that some words are already lost and remain
lost, and also its agnostic thinking that though God's inspired Word
is preserved somewhere out there, no one can be sure of precisely
where.
My Conclusion
My conclusion from reviewing these comments is that certain men
need to be aware of John 12:47-48. If God's words are not preserved
to the jot and tittle, which words will judge you in the last day?
Man's words? Jesus said, "And if any man hear my words, and believe
not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save
the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath
one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall
judge him in the last day." [John 12:47-48]
The Heredity of the New Versions By Clinton L. Branine
Heritage Baptist University
When one surveys the heredity of the New Versions, he is shocked
with his findings. Most folks believe that the New Versions are just
an update of the Old King James Bible. This is not the case. The New
Versions and the King James Bible come from two different manuscript
backgrounds. The King James Bible comes from the Traditional Text
and the New Versions come from the Alexandrian Text. How did these
two different texts come to be?
An Altered Text
There is ample evidence that the Alexandrian Text is an altered
text. Irenaeus a disciple of Polycarp said of Marcion: "he (Marcion)
mutilates the Gospel which is according to Luke, removing all that
is written respecting the generation of the Lord, and setting aside
a great deal of the teaching of the Lord, in which the Lord is
recorded as most clearly confessing that the Maker of this universe
is His Father… In like manner, too, he dismembered the Epistles of
Paul, removing all that is said by the apostle respectfully that God
who made the world, to the effect that He is the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and also those passages from the prophetical writings
which the apostle quotes, "in order to teach us that they announced
beforehand the coming of the Lord." Alexander Roberts, D.D. and
James Donald, L.L.D. eds., The Ante- Nicene Fathers. Vol.1 The
Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, p.352. We have a
number of early church Fathers verifying this truth. Note the
following: Eusebius quotes Dionysius, bishop of Corinth (170 A.D.)
and Gaius a second-century Father.
Why Altered Texts?
The heretics noted above were Gnostics. The Alexandrian Text
reveals Gnostic deprivation. Can we prove this? John Burgon says:
"The five old uncials (Aleph, A, B, C, D) falsify the Lord's Prayer
as given by St. Luke in no less than forty- five words. But so
little do they agree among themselves, that they throw themselves
into six different combinations in their departure from The
Traditional Text; and yet they are never able to agree among
themselves as to one single various reading: while they only once
are more than two of them observed to stand together, and their
grand point of union is less than an omission of the article. Such
is their eccentric tendency, that in respect of thirty-two out of
the whole forty-five words they bear in turn solitary evidence." The
Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Vindicated and Established,
p.84.
Various Warnings
Dr. Waite writes; "The Egyptian scribes and editors of "B"
(Vatican) and "Alpha" (Sinai) were some of the most vicious
correctors of God's Words; yet they form the very bedrock of the new
versions and perversions of our day. "B" and "Alpha" contradict each
other, as Herman Hoskier has so accurately pointed out in his two
volume work entitled CODEX B AND ITS ALLIES, in over 3,000 places in
the four Gospels alone! So, they are not good witnesses, they are
false witnesses indeed." Four Reasons For Defrauding The King James
Bible, Messages from the 15th Annual Meeting, The Dean Burgon
Society, pp. 35-36.
We have quoted John Burgon and D. A. Waite and note the evidence
that the minority Text was the work of unbelieving Gnostic
translators and the result of their errors.
Origin of Heresy
Let us look at those who followed the first heretics. It is
evident they came from a great center of learning. This center was
Alexandria, Egypt. It was here that a major catechetical school was
founded. It was at Alexandria that Philo a great Jewish philosopher
joined together Greek philosophy and Old Testament teaching. Later,
Christians followed Philo leading to the heresy of Gnosticism.
Gnosticism attacked the doctrine of Christology. They emptied Christ
of His Deity. Alexandria is where Gnosticism roots and produced men
such as: Basiledes (125 A.D.) and Valentinus (120-160 A.D.) Clement
(150-217 A.D.) and Origen (185-254 A.D.)
The school at Alexandria was the source of philosophical and
allegorical interpretation of God's word. Almost all of our
premillennial pretribulational scholars denounce this position and
call it error. Dr. J. Dwight Pentecost said: "…the allegorical
method was not born out of the study of the scriptures, but rather
out of a desire to present the truths of the word, but to prevent
them. It was not the child of orthodoxy, but of heterodoxy." Things
to Come, pp. 23-24.
Inconsistencies
When it comes to the Bible Text, we see fundamentalists reversing
their view of Alexandria. Stewart Custer writes; "The Alexandrian
Text is older and better attested than the others." The Truth about
The King James Version Controversy, p.9. Edward Gleany writes: "This
text-type traditional is generally judged to be inferior to the
other two-text types because all manuscripts in this family are
manuscripts and lectionaries and the great majority of them are a
thousand years or more removed from the autograph." The Bible
Version Debate, p.43.
We see a marked inconsistency with fundamentalists, when they see
Alexandria wrong in the Eschatological area and right in the Bible
Text area. Doctrinally they come from the same fountain-head.
Certainly we have a poor foundation with Philo and his hybrid
view on the Bible and philosophy, and Clement and his Alexandrian
Christian Philosophy, and Origen who studied and accepted from the
pagan Ammonites Saccas, 960-Platonium. "This renowned Father was not
content to abide by the text which he had received but freely
indulged in the boldest sort of conjectural emendation." D.O.
Fuller, Which Bible? pp. 95-96.
Clement's Followers
Later in history men following Clement and Origen have brought
forth Alexandrian New Versions in an attempt to support the
Traditional Text (King James Bible). Beginning with German Higher
Criticism scholars put aside the Traditional Text for Alexandrian.
Most of the men behind this movement were sin-believers. They
claimed Christianity and support for the Bible, but thy created a
climate for liberalism, neo-orthodoxy and new evangelism in the
place of Biblical fundamentalism. Note the following men: Brian
Walton, John Fell, John Mill, Richard Bentley, Johann Bengel, Kaut,
Schleiermacher, Hegel, Wellhausen, Semler, Eichkorn, Pualus, DeWette,
and Jean Astruc.
The attitude of these men toward the Word of God was
naturalistic. The naturalistic view of the Bible puts it on the same
level as all other literature. We believe the Bible is above all
other literature. The above men claim to support the Bible but in
reality they undercut it and deny its validity.
Need For Separation
The Reformers chose the Traditional Text and it held sway for 400
years but little by little since Westcott and Hort conservatives
have followed the Alexandrian Text. This has brought about a
compromise between error and truth. This is certainly revealed by
the position as the key editors of the Nestle/Aland, UBS text. Kurt
Aland, Matthew Black, Carlo Martini, Bruce Metzger and Allen Wikgren.
None of these men are believers.
We need to observe the doctrine of separation (2 Cor. 6:14-18)
and move away from the Alexandrian Bibles and use the Traditional
Text.
[This issue of the DBSN concludes Dr. Strouse's work, Scholarly
Myths, presented in sections over four editions of the DBS News
because of space limitations. Footnotes are at the end of each
section. He discusses a total of 5 myths. This is a continuation of
last month's article by Dr. Strouse.]
MYTH NUMBER 4: The Masoretic Scribes Invented Vowel Points
for the Inspired Consonantal Hebrew Text
Rejecting the aforementioned Biblical promises for perfect Words
preservation, critical scholarship argues that the original Hebrew
text was only in consonant form, that the vowels were not
inspired,32 and the pronunciations were passed on by oral tradition
until the Masoretic scribes invented a vowel pointing system. For
instance, van der Merwe affirms,
Originally BH (Biblical Hebrew) text consisted of consonants only.
In order to prevent the eventual complete loss of the correct
pronunciations, a group of Jewish scholars began to devise a system
of signs (from about 600 CE) to record and standardize the received
pronunciation (inasmuch as it was known).
33 Ewert posits the same argument for the Masoretic invention of
vowels stating "But they made one very important innovation. They
developed a system by which the vowels of the Hebrew words could be
indicated in writing."
34 Words Need Vowels
Consonants without vowels are not words. One cannot distinguish
between some nouns and verbs, conjugations or stems without vowel
pointing. The other ancient languages of the Samaritans, Syrians,
Chaldeans, and Arabs had consonants and vowels. The Hebrew vowels
must be ab origine for several reasons.
Linguistically, the very nature of words requires both consonants
and vowels since God and man spoke and wrote words from the
beginning. Words need to be precise to convey accuracy and this
precision comes only with the vowels. Gill cites several arguments
for the divine origin of the vowels. 1) The perfection of language
requires vowels. 2) The nature and genius of the Hebrew language
require points. 3) The vowel points are necessary and useful to
easier learning, reading, and pronouncing of the Hebrew language. 4)
The vowel points and accents are useful and necessary. 5) It will be
difficult to assert and maintain the clarity of the Scriptures if
the vowel points and accents are removed. 6) One would be unable to
support the infallibility of the Scripture. 7) The inspiration of
Scripture is affected by the points and accents.
35 No Recorded Proof
Historically, the main fallacy with positing the invention of the
Hebrew vowel points with the Masoretes is the lack of recorded
testimony.
36 Furthermore, this historical assumption makes the Masoretes
the final authority with regard to the Words of Scripture. Moncrief
gives a list of five Hebrew words, as select examples, whose
meanings vary depending on the vowel pointing.
37 The final meaning of a Word of Scripture cannot be dependent
on man in light of the promises for the authoritative inspired and
preserved Words of Scripture. The preacher of Scripture must declare
"thus saith the Lord," not "thus saith the Masoretes."
Scripturally, Christ recognized the preserved Words of the Hebrew
OT (Mt. 4:4) and affirmed the inspiration and preservation of the
consonants (jot) and vowel points (keraia) in Mt. 5:18. The Gospel
writers consistently followed a pattern for the vowel pointings of
the proper Hebrew nouns to which they alluded. For example, they
recognized the inspired dagesh forte (a small dot to indicate
doubling) in words like Immanuel (Mt. 1:23; cf. Isa. 7:14),
Anna/Hannah (Lk. 2:36; cf. 1Sam. 1:2), Abaddon (Rev. 9:11; Ps. 1:6),
Armageddon (Rev. 16:16; cf. Zech. 12:11), and Sabbaton (Mt. 12:5;
Ex. 20:11). Paul knew the pointing of the inspired Hebrew word
behind the inspired Greek arrabon ("earnest") in Eph. 1:14 because
he doubled the "r" ( rho) in his inspired transliterated spelling of
the Hebrew word (`errabon) from Gen. 38:17. The authority of the
inspired NT text demands that the vowel pointings were part of the
inspired OT text.
The Bible Critics
Bible critics assume that man invented the pointing and that
consequently the proper pronunciation for the divine name of the
tetragrammaton JHWH (hwhy) is unknown. This view alleges that the
Jews refused to pronounce the name of the Lord because of a faulty
interpretation of Lev. 24:16, which states, "And he that blasphemeth
the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death..."
38 After many centuries of not pronouncing the divine name the
Jews claimed the proper pronunciation was lost. The Masoretes
interjected the so-called Qere perpetuum reading into the text and
produced the impossible name Jehovah.
39 Based on extra-biblical authorities, critics assume the best
rendering for the tetragrammaton should be Yahweh.
40 The Popular Position
The popular position that the Masoretes invented the vowel pointing
of the OT Hebrew text denies the Bible claims of perfect Words
preservation. Furthermore, this view posits the inspired source and
final authority for the Words of Scripture upon man and not God.
Since the Masoretes merely passed on the divine vowel points with
the consonants, the falsely assumed Masoretic-invention position
must be rejected along with the fallacious tradition that the divine
name of the tetragrammaton must be pronounced Yahweh. According to
the Masoretic Hebrew text behind the KJV the proper pronunciation
for the OT name of the LORD is Jehovah.
Footnotes for this section
31 A careful examination of the Greek NT demonstrates that Peter
did not quote Joel 2:28-32 from the LXX
32 "Yet another argument is advanced by bringing forward the
testimony of Elias Levita, who lived in Germany about 1520, and who
roundly states that the post-Talmudic Massoretes of Tiberias
invented the points, and goes on to attempt to prove it. And why is
this testimony considered important? Because Levita says so!" John
Owen, Biblical Theology: The Nature, Origin, Development, and Study
of Theological Truth, in Six Books (Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria Publ.,
1996 reprint), p. 522.
33 Van der Merwe, p. 17.
34 Ewert, p. 90.
35 Gill, pp. 67-70.
36 On the other hand, Gill gives an abundance of historical evidence
that the points were known at least back to 454 BC, and consequently
could not have been invented by the Masoretes. Gill, pp. 38-66.
37 John Moncrieff, An Essay on the Antiquity and Utility of the
Hebrew Vowel-Points (Glasgow: John Reid & Co., 1833), pp. 34-35..
38 The LXX incorrectly renders this caveat as "he that names the
Lord shall be put to death." Both the OT saints and sinners named
the name of Jehovah without fear of punishment (Moses [Ex. 3:13-14.
4:1]; Pharaoh [Ex 8:8]; Rahab and Canaanites [Josh. 2:10]).
39 Some argue that the holem and waw must be treated as the holem
waw vowel and thus the waw loses its consonant status giving an
impossible Jehoah construction. There are numerous examples,
however, of the holem vowel with the waw consonant construction
(e.g., Isa 47:11; Ezk. 7:26; Lam 3:25; Pss. 37:9, 88:16; Neh. 6:6;
Est. 3:8). Could it be possible that Satan has inspired and promoted
through his Bible critics a different name for Jehovah?
40 Gustave F. Oehler, Theology of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids:
Zondervan Publi. House, n.d.), pp. 92-93.
Myth Number 5: Christians should thank textual critics for
restoring the original texts of Scripture that God chose not to
preserve.
Waltke confidently states "to restore the original text of ancient
documents, such as the OT Scriptures, is the task of textual
criticism."
41 Bible critic Edward Glenny affirms the following role for
seminaries such as his: "Our purpose at Central is "to reconstruct
from all the witnesses available to us the text essentially
preserved in all, but perfectly preserved in none" [footnote 3, Rene
Pache, The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture (Chicago: Moody
Press, 1969), 197]. It is evident from the historical evidence that
God has providentially preserved His Word for the present
generation. However, we do not believe that God has preserved His
Word perfectly and miraculously in any one manuscript or group of
manuscripts, or in all the manuscripts. Therefore, in our study of
the text we work with all the manuscripts to compile a text closer
to the original than any one manuscript or group of manuscripts.
42 Textual Criticism
These writers obviously think that the role of Textual Criticism
is to restore or reconstruct a Bible text that God apparently chose
not to preserve. This view begs the question as to how the critic
will know that the text is restored or reconstructed since the Lord
apparently left no exemplar for comparison! The anti-supernatural
German rationalistic movement (17th-19th centuries) known as
Biblical Criticism spawned several literary-critical fields, one of
which was Textual Criticism. The picking and choosing of Bible texts
is not Textual Criticism. Textual Criticism is a sophisticated
system based on elaborate and evolutionary schemes following human
logic to determine the possible origin of variants.
43 The so-called science of Textual Criticism is only needed when
one believes that God has not accomplished His promise to preserve
the inspired original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Words of the
autographa.
44 Preservation Promised
The Lord Jesus Christ has promised the full preservation of the
divinely inspired Words of the OT and NT Scriptures (Ps. 12:6-7; Mt.
4:4, 5:18, 24:35). He has given the responsibility of preserving His
Words to His only ecclesiological institution–the local,
immersionist assembly (Mt. 28:19-20; I Tim. 3:15). God has given His
chosen people (Jews) and His chosen institution (the local
immersionist assembly) the responsibility and empowerment to
preserve His OT and NT Words, respectively. The Bible nowhere gives
credence to the role of the professional "textual critic,"
especially outside of the immersionist assembly, to restore what He
has determined not to preserve. In spite of Biblical evidence, some
want to praise textual critics for their role in giving Christians
the approximate Words of God. Mark Norton states, "Christians are
thus in debt to the textual critics who have worked, and are
working, to provide a dependable biblical text."
45 Mark Minnick adds: "For many centuries now God has ensured
there have been qualified textual critics to analyze available
manuscripts. In other words, textual criticism is not a new
discipline–it is and old one–employed by anyone who has ever
compared two or more manuscripts in an effort to reproduce an
accurate copy of God's Word. If our present translations do indeed
reproduce the original readings, it is because textual critics did
their work well".
46 History of Churches
The inspired history of NT immersionist churches recorded in the
NT repudiates this claim for the value of text critics. For
instance, the church at Ephesus not only received but also copied
perfectly the Book of the Apocalypse from John. The church at Smyrna
made a copy and passed it on to the church at Pergamos, and so on,
until there were six perfect copies and one original, and all this
accomplished by faithful church members (cf. Rev. 22:7,18-19). This
inspired scenario was repeated thousands of times through history so
that now we have immersionist churches which receive the preserved
inspired OT and NT texts and accurate translations of God's Words
through the instrumentality of fallible yet faithful church members.
Since the text of Scripture was never lost, the Lord never used
textual critics to restore His text. Faithful church members have
never had to use the premise or tools (i.e., rules, canons, axioms,
etc.) of Textual Criticism since neither are Biblically valid.
47 The Lord has always used, whether history can corroborate this
or not, faithful church members as He promised (Mt. 28:19-20), not
to restore, but to preserve His Received Words (Jn. 17:8).
Conclusion
As Paul warned Timothy (I Tim. 1:4) even so Bible-related myths
are a concern today for all Bible believers. Christians have the
responsibility and the means whereby to dispel these myths. Those
Bible critics and their followers who have rejected the Masoretic
Hebrew text behind the King James Version have postulated several
myths and fallacious corollaries, and at the same time given no
assurance of final Words or absolute authority. The Bible refutes
these myths. The Bible teaches that the original language of the
Garden of Eden was Hebrew.
Therefore, Hebrew did not evolve from the Canaanite language.
Christ used the Hebrew text and His NT Words to evangelize Jews and
Greeks. The early Christians used the Hebrew and the Apostles'
tradition to evangelize Jews and Gentiles. Since the vowel points
were part of the original Words God preserved, the Masoretes did not
need to invent a pointing system. Since the Masoretes passed on the
preserved Words, the name Jehovah for the tetragrammaton stands.
Bible critics have only questioned the Words and the authority of
Scripture, and even the authorship of the Psalms, and have given no
valuable contribution. When the preserved Hebrew text represented by
the Masoretic text is received by faith, then the scholarly myths
are dispelled. Is it not time for Bible-believing, fundamental
Baptist church members to stop giving "heed to fables" and honor
Jehovah God, the Lord Jesus Christ, with faith in His inspired and
preserved Words of promise?
Footnotes for This Section
41Waltke, p. 211.
42 Michael A Grisanti, editor, The Bible Version Debate: The
Perspective of Central Baptist Theological Seminary (Minneapolis,
MN: Central Baptist Theological Seminary, 1997), p. 131
43 Archer lists even canons for OT Textual Criticism. Gleason
Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction, pp. 63-66. The
Alands give twelve basic rules for NT Textual Criticism. Kurt Aland
and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Wm.
B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., 1987), pp. 275-277.
44 One does well to consider the negative influence of the textual
critics. For example, the Masoretic Hebrew text incorporates the
titles of the Psalms in the text. However, textual critics reject
the Masoretic text and consequently do not know the background of
the titled Psalms. For instance, the "contribution" the textual
critics Rogerson and McKay give the Bible-believing Christian is
that the Psalm titles "are almost certainly not the work of the
authors of the psalms." J. W. Rogerson and J. W. McKay, The
Cambridge Commentary on the New English Bible, Psalms 1-50
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), p. 3.
45 Mark Norton, "Manuscripts of the Old Testament," The Origin of
the Bible, ed. Phillip Comfort (Cambridge: Tyndale House Publ.,
1992), p. 177
46 James B. Williams, editor, From the Mind of God to the Mind of
Man (Greenville, SC: Ambassador-Emerald International, 1999), p. 72.
47 As Paul taught his understudy Timothy, her never gave him tools
for Textual Criticism. He did war Timothy, nevertheless, stating:
"If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words,
even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which
is according to godliness; He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting
about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife,
railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt
minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness:
from such withdraw thyself. (1 Tim. 6:3-5)
Three Reasons To Trust
The King James Bible by Paul Robelen, Student Heritage Baptist
University
Do I have a Bible that I can trust? Ultimately this is this what
the Bible version debate is all about. There must be a Bible
available that can accurately be called the Word of God, and be the
proper recipient of man's confidence. No modern version would have a
person to trust it without reservation, and all modern versions are
entirely unworthy of such trust. For three reasons, though, the King
James Bible demonstrates that it is entirely trustworthy as a
spiritual guide.
First Reason
The first reason is the promise of God. "For verily I say unto
you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no
wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." (Matt. 5:18) "Heaven
and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away." (Mark
13:31) In these, and many other passages, God promised that His word
would endure perfectly. The basic premise for new versions is that
He did not preserve it.
Not only did God promise to preserve His Words, He expects men to
live by it. "Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by
taking heed thereto according to thy word." (Psalm 119:9) "So then
faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (Rom.
10:17) "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that
ye may grow thereby" (I Pet. 2:2). God, therefore, must have
preserved His Words in order for men to live by it.
Second Reason
The second reason to trust the King James Bible is the provision
of authority. For the Bible to be the "sole authority for faith and
practice," it must indeed be authoritative. God's commands to study
the Bible, and live by it are not only addressed to a few highly
qualified scholars, but to whole groups of believers. If believers
are to study the Bible for themselves, it must be in a language that
they understand. It is necessary, then, to have an authoritative
Bible in the common language. No such Bible but the King James
exists.
For a Bible to be truly authoritative, it must be trustworthy. To
believe that God has given men His Words today, in an understandable
way, it is necessary to hold that the King James Bible is free from
all actual errors. If there were any hidden errors in the Bible that
only detailed scholarship could detect, then the Bible would no
longer be authoritative to the common man, which is what God
intended.
Third Reason
The final reason to trust the King James Bible implicitly is that
there is no acceptable alternative. In reality, the choice comes
down to trusting God to reveal Himself clearly through His Words, or
trusting human scholars to determine what the Bible should say.
Human scholarship is proven to be fallible time after time, and
scholars contradict each other on a regular basis. No honest person
could even trust himself to sort through all of the evidences
without ever making a mistake.
For God to preserve His Words, without accurately preserving the
language in which it is written is meaningless, yet virtually every
grammar manual and lexicon for Biblical Greek available today comes
from people who tamper with God's Words themselves. Roberson,
Thayer, Machen, Dana, Mantey, Bauer, Arndt, Gingrich, and Danker can
never authoritatively say "It is written" like an accurately
preserved Bible in English. If the King James Bible does not say in
English what God would have His Words say in English, there is no
way for the common believer to have a Bible that he can trust.
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