Matthew
5:18, “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.”
I have a helpful booklet from the Sword Of The Lord in front of me
called: “CORRECTING The King James Bible???” by Pastor W. Bruce
Musselman Jr.. The following information is taken from his booklet,
pages 1-6. ...A young Christian believer while talking to a Baptist preacher expressed his doubts as to whether a certain verse should be in the Bible. This question in the young believer's mind is not an isolated occurrence since the authorized King James Bible is being attacked daily by Roman Catholics, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, Modernists, Evangelicals and Fundamentalists.
In fact, it is almost a daily occurrence in most Evangelical and Fundamental schools in America.
The average Christian is given a King James Bible and told it is the Word of God. From then on he hears a steady stream of criticism of it through the radio, Christian books, magazines, in church and in Christian schools.
Anyone professing to have an ounce of education and who claims to be Godly and dedicated now assumes the right to correct the Bible any time it doesn't measure up to his beliefs and standards.
The King James Bible is corrected by saying 'the Original says' when no one has the Original. It is also corrected by saying 'the Greek says' when there are a dozen conflicting Greek texts on the market. Others say 'this is an unfortunate translation' or 'a better reading' is' when they don't know enough about Greek or manuscript evidence to know what they are talking about.
Before a Christian starts to think or talk like a Jehovah Witness on visitation he ought to consider the following facts.
I. CORRECTING THE AUTHORIZED BIBLE TEACHES INFIDELITY
The preacher or teacher who professes to believe the Bible and then corrects it has just taught his students that the Bible has errors in it and cannot be trusted. If it cannot be trusted in one or two places, where can it be trusted? Where does the Christian go to find truth since no one has the originals and there are a dozen Greek texts on the market? A preacher or teacher should build faith in God's Word, not destroy it.
II. CORRECTING THE AUTHORIZED KING JAMES BIBLE CAUSES CONFUSION IN THE MINDS OF BELIEVERS
The preacher or teacher who corrects the authorized Bible causes the sincere Christian to wonder when he reads the Bible if he is reading the truth or not. The Christian may wonder what the truth really is and where he can find it. This will dampen his zeal of Bible study.
III. CORRECTING THE AUTHORIZED KING JAMES BIBLE REINSTATES THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BIBLE
Correctors of the King James Bible usually do this on the basis of the Greek texts of Westcott and Hort, Aland and Metzger or Nestles, which are taken from manuscripts officially approved by the Roman Catholic Church.
These Roman Catholic Greek texts come from revisions of the Koine (common Greek texts) into the classical Greek texts by the apostate Alexandrian school in the 3rd and 4th century. The apostate revisors of the Bible who mixed it with heathen philosophy were Hyschius Origen, Pamphilius and Eusebius.
When Pope Damasus, the first Pope to take the heathen title Supreme Pontiff, was installed in 380 he commissioned Jerome to revise the Old Latin with these corrupt Alexandrian Egyptian texts.
The revision by Jerome is called the Latin Vulgate and has been the official Roman Catholic Bible ever since Catholic translations are taken from this corrupt Bible in 1475 a corrupt classical Greek Alexandrian manuscript was found in the Popes' library. It was called CODEX (book) B VATICANUS.
In 1587 the Pope put out the Sixtine Edition which used the VATICANUS as its source in order to defeat the Bibles the Protestants and Baptists used which came from the Koine (common) Greek used by the Apostles. In the 19th century a Catholic movement in the Anglican Church resulted in an English Greek put out by two English Anglican Catholics who believed in Mary Worship, named Westcott and Hort. Their text was based primarily on the corrupt VATICANUS manuscript which has readings found in no other manuscript in the world.
The VATICANUS leaves out most of Genesis and all of the New Testament after Hebrews 9:14. It also has hundreds of changes affecting vital doctrines of the Christian Faith.
These doctrinal changes can be seen in modern versions such as the ASV, NASV, New World, R.S.V. and N.I.V. Some of the changes made in modern versions are found in Colossians 1:14 omitting the blood of Christ, Luke 2:33 attacking the Virgin birth, I Timothy 3:16 attacking the deity of Christ, John 1:18 attacking the belief in one God and I Peter 2:2 attacking salvation by Grace.
IV. ATTACKING THE AUTHORIZED KING JAMES BIBLE REPUDIATES THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION
Many of the Protestant leaders were great scholars and consciously rejected the corrupt Alexandrian texts for the Koine (common) Greek text. All the preachers of the Protestants and Baptists such as Luther, Zwingle, Calvin, Bunyon, Wesley, Spurgeon, Norris, Riley, Sunday, Vick, Bob Jones, Sr., used the Bible originating from the received Greek text which the KJV is based upon.
V. THE CORRECTORS OF THE AUTHORIZED KING JAMES BIBLE CAUSE DIVISION AMONG BELIEVERS
If a preacher preached the Deity of Christ one Sunday and denied it the next it would cause division among the people. Bible believing Christians will not tolerate people who correct the Bible or promote Catholic versions, which attack basic doctrines of the Scripture. People who put scholarship above the Bible will not tolerate Bible believers. The use of two different Bibles will divide Fundamentalists like nothing else will.
VI. CORRECTORS OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE TAKE THE SAME POSITION AS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST
The Catholic Priest sets himself up as an authority over the Bible and encourages the people to listen to him rather than the Book. The teacher or preacher who corrects the Bible sets himself up as the authority for people to listen to rather than the Bible just like a priest. No wonder Bible reading is done by so few.
VII. CORRECTORS OF THE AUTHORIZED BIBLE DEMONSTRATE THEY ARE APOSTATE
Apostasy is professing to believe something which they no longer believe. The Apostate pro- fesses to believe The Bible is (present tense) the Word of God without error, while in reality he believes the Bible was the Word of God in the Originals.
Today all the Apostate has is the words of the translators with errors in them. The Apostate, while professing he has the word of God, does not believe he has the genuine Words of God and severely criticizes anybody who does.
VIII. CORRECTORS OF THE AUTHORIZED KING JAMES BIBLE REJECT THE WISDOM OF GOD
The Protestant reformation, all the great revivals and all the men God has chosen to use greatly since 1516 preached the Bible which comes from the Textus Receptus. There are not enough conversions to keep the modern versions on the market after the advertising stops. The correctors of the God authorized Bible, in effect, say the Holy Spirit does not know what He is doing when He chooses to bless this book.
IX. CORRECTORS OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE REJECT THE VERBAL INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE
If the authorized Bible is scripture it is inspired of God. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God." (II Timothy 3:16) The doctrine that only the originals are inspired is heresy taught no where in the New Testament or in creeds of confessions of any denomination before the 20th century. Timothy had the scripture and he certainly didn't have the originals (II Timothy 3:15). "All scripture is given by inspiration of God." (II Timothy 3:16)
Verbal inspiration is one of the key doctrines of the Bible and is mentioned hundreds of times in the scripture. Jesus and the Apostles always appealed to scriptures they had in their hands, not to something they did not have. Christ never corrected the Bible.
X. CORRECTORS OF THE AUTHORIZED BIBLE ARE NEO-ORTHODOX IN PRACTICE
Neo-orthodox teachers like Barth and Brunner teach that the Word of God means the message of God rather than the Words of God.
Many teachers who correct the authorized Bible believe that we do not have the literal Words of God in the English, but simply a message from God and that they have a right to correct the Words God has given us.
In John 14:23 Jesus said, "If a man love me, he will keep my WORDS; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him and make our abode with him." How can a Christian keep God's Words if he doesn't have them?
XI. CORRECTORS OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE GENERALLY RECOMMEND DOCTRINALLY CORRUPT VERSIONS SUCH AS THE ASV 1901, NIV AND NASV TAKEN FROM PHOTOGRAPHS THE POPE GAVE THE WORLD IN 1889 OF HIS VATICAN BIBLE
The A.S.V. Of 1901 has a footnote in John, chapter 9, put there by its translators that the worship given to Jesus by the blind man is the worship given to the creature and not to the Creator.
The N.A.S.V. Is practically identical in teaching to the New Word Bible of the Jehovah Witnesses, and teaches that Jesus was a begotten God, John 1:18. This was the official teaching of the Arian heresy.
The A.S.V., R.S.V., N.A.S.V., N.I.V., based on texts recommended by Westcott and Hort generally leave out the name of Jesus over fifty times. It would take a book to list all of the doctrinal and blasphemous attacks on the person and work of Christ in these counterfeits.
XII. CORRECTORS OF THE AUTHORIZED BIBLE HAVE NO FINAL AUTHORITY
They appeal to the original no one has or can have. They believe, like Einstein's theory of relativity, that everything is relative and that there is no absolute truth on this earth which a man can get his hands on.
XIII. CORRECTORS OF THE AUTHORIZED BIBLE ARE MODERNISTIC IN THEIR APPROACH TO BIBLICAL AUTHORITY
The modernist believes that he himself is the final authority in faith and morals rather than God. To correct the Bible or recommend conflicting bibles puts the professor, school teacher, writer, preacher, or individual as the final authority on what the text says.
Satan introduced a conflicting authority to Eve so she would exalt herself as the final authority. God is the only final authority and when man usurps his place he is following a blasphemous and satanic system. The Bible is to sit in judgment on man and not man on the Bible. God never intended for each man to produce his own bible. That is why He gave us a Bible.
XIV. CORRECTORS OF THE AUTHORIZED BIBLE PUT CHRISTIAN SCHOLARSHIP ABOVE THE GOD AUTHORIZED BIBLE
Many colleges and Bible schools loudly profess to stand for the absolute authority of the scriptures. They say the Bible is the infallible inerrant Word of God. If they were asked to produce any Bible in the World which is the final authority they could not do it to save their life. While professing to believe the Bible many schools including Evangelical and Fundamental, have accepted Christian education as the final authority and believe it has the right to sit in judgment on any Bible; Hebrew, Greek or English.
XV. CORRECTORS OF THE AUTHORIZED BIBLE DENY IN REALITY THAT GOD HAS PRESERVED HIS WORDS FOR ALL TIME
The following verses teach that God would preserve His Words:
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." (I Peter 1:23)
"But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you."(I Peter 1:25)
"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)
"Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever." (Psalm 119:160)
"Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." (Matthew 24:35)
"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." (Matthew 5:16)
"As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever." (Isaiah 59:21)
XVI. CORRECTORS OF THE AUTHORIZED KING JAMES BIBLE DENY GOD HAS GIVEN HIS PEOPLE HIS WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE EXACTLY AS HE WANTED THEM GIVEN
The Lord Jesus Christ teaches otherwise: "Verity, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." (John 5:24)
"So then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God." (Romans 10:17)
"I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they kept thy word. Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou has given me are of thee. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me." (John 17:6-8) —Pastor W. Bruce Musselman Jr., “CORRECTING The King James Bible???,” pp. 1-6
