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Question #38
QUESTION: The New King James Version
is based on the Antiochian manuscripts. Is it an improvement over the
King James Bible?
ANSWER: No.
EXPLANATION: The New King James Version
is to the English Bible what the Alexandrian manuscripts are to Greek.
A corruption of a pure text by men who hold the deplorable
doctrine that the Bible cannot be perfect (regardless
of what they may say when they preach) and must be corrected by the
feeble intellect of man.
The New King James Version unlike most modem translations
is based on the correct Antiochian manuscripts instead of the corrupt
Alexandrian manuscripts. Unfortunately, the men doing the translation
work view the Bible as imperfect. They would vehemently deny this charge
in public because their jobs depend on it, but in fact they do not believe
that ANY Bible is perfect. Not even their own New King James
Version! Thus, to them, the Bible is lost ("settled"
in heaven) and the minds of scholars are the only hope of rescuing its
"thoughts" from oblivion.
Many of the men on the board of translator may indeed
be great preachers and pastors, but that by no means entitles them to
correct the Bible.
Sincerity cannot improve on perfection. Thus, instead
of making a good thing better" they have only managed, for all
of their trouble, to make a "perfect thing tainted".
It must he remembered, there is a great deal of prestige
in sitting on the board of translators of a "modern" version
of the Bible (Matthew 23:5-7).
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