Category: Modern Versions

1. Modern bible Preachers

   Posted on 12:00pm Monday 22nd Aug 2022

   What follows is chiefly for brethren who share my conviction that the KJV is perfect. I fear that some of these brethren are inclined to speak ill of all preachers who use an English bible other than the KJV.

   I feel I must address such an attitude.

   A brother who speaks ill of all preachers who use modern bibles, commits the greater sin of spiritual pride. He is absolutely right to speak with praise of the KJV and with scorn and contempt for the modern version but he needs to be careful about letting such scorn attach to every preacher who uses it.

   If such an one is reading this, let me ask you brother, have you never heard one of them who you believe is a better Christian than you are? What did you do with Paul's admonition to esteem others more highly than ourselves?

   I could name a number of preachers who could preach me off the platform every day of the week, and disgrace me by their comparative love for the LORD and tireless service, who nevertheless use/d a corrupt bible.

   Look at it this way. Is it better to believe a corrupt bible and obey it, than to use the KJV and disobey it? If you preach or read the KJV and do not obey it, what makes you think you are better than a man who reads the wretched Good News bible, for example, but at least obeys it wherever it happens to stumble upon the truth?

   The disgraceful Stephen Anderson, for example, is strictly KJV. Head knowledge is worthless without love and obedience. I would profit far more from a half decent preaher who at least obeys his yampy bible than a man like Anderson:

   Now do not misunderstand me. I am not approving any modern English bible. The perfect position is read the KJV and believe and obey it. But will you not admit to some short-comings in your life and will you not admit that a man using a modern bible may be more godly than you in that area? If you will not, it may be time to get on your knees and confess your pride to the Lord and repent of it.

   God forgive me if I do not do so. Let us not bring discredit upon our KJV stand by such a proud attitude.

2. Beware the New King James Version.

   Posted on 5:50pm Sunday 7th Jan 2018

   In the word of God, Titus 3:10 reads,

   "A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject..."

   The NKJV in this place reads,

   "Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition..."

   Compare this NKJV rendering with John 7:43 in the NKJV.

   "So there was a division among the people because of him."

   The Lord Jesus was a divisive man and still is though this is too difficult for modern milk-sops to understand. If you believe the NKJV at Titus 3:10, you will have to reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

   "For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law."

   "And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall seaprate them one from another, as a shaepherd divideth his sheep from the goats..."

   Go figure!