Jerry
L. Ogles, DD
Presiding Bishop, Anglican Orthodox
Communion Worldwide
Latimer Hall School of Divinity
Chancellor, Faith Theological Seminary
The
words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth,
purified seven times. 7 Thou shalt keep them, O
LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. (Psalm
12:6-7)
This
letter is to explain why the AOC uses the King James Version of the Bible
rather than “modern” Bible versions and demonstrate how far from God's Word
they have ventured. Bear in mind the attitudes and decadence of our modern
American society are partially attributable to the low view of Holy Scripture
represented in the NIV, ESV, NRSV, etc.
Either God has preserved His Word through all time, or He has not; but
according to Psalm 12:6-7, He has indeed preserved it. If we accept the
argument of modern so-called Higher Critics, God did not preserve His Word and
it has been up to them to restore it to us in a highly diluted version. It
poisons our youth, and confuses the elderly.
Most modern versions are based on what they term NuText, or the Westcott-Hort
Text. These two men were men who ridiculed the Gospels and searched endlessly
for ways and means of undermining it. When a fellow by the name of Tichendorf
discovered a fresh, unworn manuscript of the New Testament in the basement of
the Vatican - where it has reposed without use for fifteen centuries, he hailed
it as a spectacular find. It was called the Vaticanus
- a manuscript which, though in their possession for centuries, the Roman
Church refused to use in translating the New Testament. Tichendorf found
another manuscript in the dustbin of a monastery in the Sinai about to be
discarded (in the 19th century) which came to be known as the Sinaiticus. Both pieces of manuscript
evidence omit entire verses and passages of scripture. Strangely, where verses
are omitted, the manuscript leaves a blank where the verses should appear.
These two manuscripts, and fragments of others of spurious nature, comprise
approximately 5% of all manuscript evidence underlying the Westcott-Hort
translations such as the RSV, NIV, ESV, NRSV, Modern English, etc.
Conversely, the Received Text (Textus
Receptus) of the Great Reformation is based on 95% of available manuscript
evidence. It is important, too, to point out these 95% of manuscript evidences
agree in every particular point with each other while the Westcott-Hort does
not even agree among the 5% of those parts of evidence. The new versions are
developed, promoted and pushed by corporations with a copyright to insure good
profits. The KJV is not restricted by copyright in all countries except England
in which the copyright resides in the Crown who places no restrictions of the
Bible.
The new versions omit the name of Jesus in many places where the distinction is
important. The NIV and ESV attack in many points the divinity of Christ. It is
perhaps for this reason these new versions are based on the same manuscript
evidence as the New World Translation used by Jehovah Witnesses who do not
believe Jesus is Divine. Please examine the following verses:
We who believe are sons and daughters of God. We read this
in Romans -14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are
the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the
spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: (Romans
8:14-16)
And – 4
But when the
fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made
under the law, 5 To redeem them that were under
the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
6 And because ye are sons,
God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba,
Father. 7 Wherefore thou art no more a
servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. (Galatians
4:4-7)
The two passages cited above are only two of many in which
God calls us sons, but distinguishes our sonship from the Sonship of His only
Begotten Son.
Now, please observe John 3:16 in the King James Bible, or
any other Received Text (Reformation) Bible:
KJV or AV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. (John
3:16)
NOTE:
only Begotten in the Greek is Begotten is monogenhvß
or Monogenes - meaning only issue of the parent. Monos - only; genes meaning of
the very substance of the Father
This is important, for Jesus is not like us. He is the
actual issue of the Father having His nature, likeness, righteousness, and
divinity. We are not, even though we are accounted sons and daughters. But how
are we different from Christ if we are also sons of God? It is by virtue of our
ADOPTION as sons and daughters into the natural family of God through His one
True Son, Jesus Christ. At first reading, this may seem not an important
distinction but, in actuality, it is the MOST important distinction.
See what the other more “modern” translations actually say:
NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John
3:16)
HCSB
For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone
who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life (John
3:16)
ESV
For
God so loved the
world, that he gave his only Son,
that whoever believes in him should not perish
but have eternal life
(John
3:16)
New Living Translation
For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only
Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. (John
3:16)
NRSV
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so
that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
(John 3:16)
The above travesty of translators changing the meaning of
God's very word invokes the judgment of Revelations 22:18-19: 18 For I testify unto
every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall
add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in
this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of
this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of
the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Revelation
22:18-19)
There
are two reasons these errors are very profound:
1. The
fact that God calls us 'sons' in several parts of scripture, and then refers to
Jesus as His 'only son' leads to distrust of the Word. Was God lying when He
called Jesus His only Son, or when he calls us (and Adam) sons? So the veracity
of Scripture is debased by such intentional error in translation.
2.
It is important that we understand the important
distinction between us and Christ. He had no sin nature as we have. He is of
the same substance with the Father, and we are ADOPTED. This is a profound
point in Doctrine of the Reformation Church.
The above discrepancy is only one of many, many errors of
these new versions which attempt to lead our youth away from that solid
foundation and Rock, Jesus Christ.
You might check to see if these sample verses are in your
NEW bibles: Matthew 17:21, 23:14, Mark 9:44, Mark 9:46, and a host of others.
See if the validity of the most grace-filled passage in the New Testament (John
8:1-11) or the last verses of Mark 16:9-20 regarding the resurrection of
Christ is called into question by the so-called more reliable manuscripts
(meaning the spurious manuscripts of the NuText). The NuText would have the
Gospel of Mark end without a resurrection but rather in fear: "And they
went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were
amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid."
(Mark 16:8)
We have an excellent twelve lesson course called the
Manuscript Course we offer free of charge to any of your people who would like
to see how the wool is being pulled over many eyes by these false and spurious
versions that advance a One World agenda. If they can remove Christ as a Person
of the Godhead, then it will be quite easy to merge with Buddhist, Moslems,
Hindus, etc, under the coming One World Religion. The course is administered by
email through the Latimer Hall School of Divinity by Rev. Jack Arnold of
California – jack@latimerhall.org.
Please let me know if any would be interested in having
their eyes opened to these modern deceptions. If we cannot even agree as to
where we may discover the Word of God, how can we be united in spirit and in
truth?
