ARE THESE MEN RELIABLE?

Dear Pastors and Brethren:

Do you know the two men that have greatly influenced innumerable numbers of seminary professors and students including pastors and teachers of Holy Scriptures, the Bible for more than a hundred years? Thus, influenced too, millions of people all over the world who has read and studied from the Bibles that are based on the false, heretical, apostate New Testament Greek Text that these two men have written!

To many pastors now a days, these two men are unknown. Yet, their influence is felt and experienced in almost every area of the life of multitudes of people. Why? Because most of the New Versions of Bibles available in the market today, were based on the heretical Greek text written by these two men and these includes the number one selling bible NIV, used by major denominations for the past 30 years or so and most of the new bible versions.

Common sense would tell me, as an authentic, genuine and true born again Christian and a Bible believer, that if there is a revision to be made on God’s Precious Pure Word, the Holy Bible, then the men involved in such an endeavor OUGHT and MUST BE A BIBLE BELIEVER, SAVED BY GRACE AND REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Now, these two men where the principal exponent of the New Greek text started in 1881.
These men were: Brooke Foss Westcott (1825-1903) and Fenton John Anthony Hort (1828-1892). They set out to upstage, revised, replace the Received or Textus Receptus Greek New Testament, then and now the basis of the Greek New testament of the AV 1611 King James Bible.

My suggestion to those in the pastoral and teaching ministry, examine the lives of these two men by reading and learning much about them. Then, you can intelligently conclude and decide for yourself whether you can, with all of your heart and with conviction, endorsed their Greek text and their theory of textual criticism of the New Testament which is the basis of most of the New versions of the Bible available in the market today.

This writer does not and cannot believe that a serious bible student, authentically and genuinely saved by the Blood of the Lamb, a Bible Believer, led by the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of Truth, can remain blinded to this very important, yes, controversial issue of New Bible Versions.

Hebrews 4:12-13 (King James Version)
12For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Only God’s Precious Pure Word will do this kind of work. That it is “quick meaning alive and powerful is and can only be true to a Bible that is unadulterated, uncorrupted, and untainted.

When the men and even the women involved in Bible translations are suspect as to whether they are authentic, genuine and true Bible believers, and the basis of their work of Bible translation is the very works of these two above mentioned men, then the “product” (New Bible versions) of such people are suspect and therefore questionable, to say the least.

Quote “8 "They’re Taught No Disrespect for the Textus Receptus"? To teach that the Westcott and Hort Greek text is to be respected and is true is by this very fact to teach "disrespect for the Textus Receptus." There can be no middle ground in the battle between these two Greek New Testament texts. Either the Textus Receptus is correct, or the Westcott and Hort kind of text is correct. These two texts, according to Dr. Frederick Scrivener’s Annotated Greek New Testament (published in both hardback and leather by the Dean Burgon Society, Box 354, Collingswood, New Jersey 08108), differ one from the other in 5,604 places (by my actual count). Dr. Jack Moorman counted 2,886 Greek words that the Westcott and Hort kind of Greek text has completely eliminated from the Textus Receptus text that underlies the King James Bible. Dr. Moorman, in a book of 100 pages, has also enumerated 356 doctrinal passages where the Westcott and Hort Greek text differs from the Textus Receptus text. In each of these 356 passages, the Westcott and Hort text is in doctrinal error and the Textus Receptus text represents doctrinal orthodoxy. Do you really care about these facts? Your faculty cannot logically continue teaching the Westcott and Hort text without at the same time "disrespecting" the Textus Receptus. If one is true, the other is false. If the other is false, the other is true. You cannot respect and disrespect something at the same time. Your Westcott and Hort text throws out Mark 16:9-20 as spurious, for example, yet the King James Bible and its Textus Receptus honors and believes this passage to be genuine.” End of quote.
(An open public letter to Dr. Bob Jones III President Bob Jones University of Pastor D. A. Waite, Th. D.; Ph. D., The Bible for Today Press)

Therefore, it is this writer’s prayer that the recipients of this email, especially those in the pastoral and teaching ministry in many evangelical churches, will read and study the attached, not only for their information but more so to produce in their hearts a conviction and a love for God’s Precious Pure Word, the Holy Scriptures in its purity.

Either way, one will make a choice as to which Bible one will use for one’s reading, studying, meditation and reflection.

I end this blog with a quote:

"If, therefore, any do complain that I have sometimes hit my opponents rather hard, I take leave to point out that ‘to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the sun’ : ‘a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embracing’: a time for speaking smoothly, and a time for speaking sharply. And that when the words of Inspiration are seriously imperilled, as now they are, it is scarcely possible for one who is determined effectively to preserve the Deposit in its integrity, to hit either too straight or too hard." [Dean John William Burgon, The Revision Revised, pp. vii-viii]

Evangelist Emmanuel P. Salvador