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Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

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This study was written to expose the most subtle, crafty piece of deception perpetrated against the Body of Christ
since the publication of the New American Standard Version. If the reader will open the Authorized Version (any
edition printed at any time by anyone) and carefully check each of the references given in this booklet, he will
discover the startling, grisly truth that the so-called “New” King James Version is simply the readings of the Revised
Standard Version of the Liberal National Council of Churches smuggled into the text of the Authorized Version of
the Holy Bible. Dr. Ruckman exposes the desperate tactics of the apostate Conservatives and Evangelicals who got
together to pawn off this fake King James Version on an unsuspecting Christian public.
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About The New King James Version
Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

B.A., B.D., M.A., Th.M., Ph.D.

President and Founder of Pensacola Bible Institute

 Copyright © 1983 by Peter S. Ruckman

All rights reserved (PRINT) ISBN 1-58026-200-7

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE

The Scripture quotations found herein are from the text of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible. Any
deviations therefrom are not intentional.
 Table of Contents
1. Why No Honest Christian Ever Recommends the New "King James" Version
2. The Last Act in The Alexandrian Drama, part I
3. The Last Act in The Alexandrian Drama, part II
4. The Last Act in The Alexandrian Drama, part III
5. The New “King James” ASV of Thomas Nelson
6. The Bottom Line on the So-Called New “KJV”
7. A Critique of the New “King James” Bible
8. The Creed of the Alexandrian Cult
1. Why No Honest Christian Ever Recommends the New "King
James" Version
The following tractus is written to expose the most subtle and crafty piece of deception carried out by the
Alexandrian Cult since the publication of the New American Standard Version (1960).

If the reader will open his Authorized Version--any edition printed at any time by anyone--and check it with the
references given in this file he will discover a startling and grisly truth: the so-called "New KJV" is the RSV of the
National Council of Churches reinstated with readings from the New ASV (and old ASV of 1901) by mixing both of
them in with the readings of the Authorized Version. The reader will observe further that the only real "demand" for
this new version was the desire of a book publishing company to sell Bible versions, after two of their "versions"
refused to sell: the ASV of 1901 and the RSV of 1952.

The sinners who "got together" to pawn off this fake KJV represent every shade of apostate Conservatism and
Evangelicalism in America, including Neo-Evangelical supporters of Billy Graham (Harold Ockenga), Charismatic
healers (Thomas Zimmerman), Southern Baptists (Adrian Rogers), dead orthodox apostates (Harold Lindsell), five-
point Calvinistic baby sprinklers (Arthur Steltzer), and Baptist Bible "Fellowshippers" (A.V. Henderson). The New
Testament Committee actually had the support of Boyce Blackwelder, who taught that the FIRE of Matthew 3:11
was the Holy Spirit and that every Christian in this age could lose his salvation and go to hell (see documented
evidence) [in Problem Texts, 1980] taken directly from Blackwelder's work).

We may thank God that three men in America had better sense than to associate themselves with this ecumenical
magpie's nest; those three men were Lester Roloff, Bob Gray and Jack Hyles. Bob Jones, Jr., and Bob Jones, III, had
already aligned themselves with a crew even more corrupt than this crew, they wouldn't count. In 1982 Bob Jones,
III, split a local church in Los Angeles right down the middle by telling the young people from that church that they
had to take sides against their own pastor on the issue of Textual Criticism and adopt the views of Stewart Custer--
one of their own faculty members--who has about as much integrity and spiritual insight as you could put in the left
eye of a blind mosquito. Bob Jones, Jr. and III, insisted that the members of this local Baptist church take the BJU
view of Westcott and Hort against the Bible-believing view of their own pastor.

Although the faculty members at Tennessee Temple and Falwell's school in Lynchburg have not yet gone this far
overboard in their efforts to control the local churches, they are "on the way" with this New "King James" Bible. In
1982 Ed Hindson and Ed Dobson, two of the greatest Bible-rejecting "Fundamentalists" in the USA, were invited
into a dozen Christian colleges and seminaries to lecture on the superiority of Thomas Nelson's latest publication to
the AV of 1611.

To reinforce this Satanic propaganda, a number of "original" 1611 versions were reproduced with the motive in
mind being that when the Christian young people in America saw that the AV they had been using (the one their
fathers and grandfathers and great- grandfathers had been using: Moody, Finney, Sunday, Sam Jones, William
Booth, John Wesley, Peter Cartwright, Earnest Reveal, Gypsy Smith, Dr. DeHaan, Charles Spurgeon, Jonathan
Edwards, Mel Trotter, etc.) did not exactly match the original AV edition they would be seduced into accepting a
combination RSV-KJV-ASV that didn't match it either! Bob Jones University (again taking the lead in the
Laodicean apostasy) sent out a colored pamphlet on the AV showing only ONE PAGE OF THE ORIGINAL
edition; on that one page was the Apocrypha heading. This was designed to make the Christians think that the AV
had included the Apocrypha as part of the Scriptures.

Now, in this file, we expose the desperate tactics of these professional liars whose lifelong ministries are dedicated
to usurping the authority of the Holy Spirit and whose lifelong labors are aimed at creating the maximum amount of
UNBELIEF in absolute authority.

No one at Bob Jones' school or at Dayton Hobb's school or at Rodney Bell's school or at Jack Hyles' school or at
Jerry Falwell's school told their readers that the APOCRYPHA was included as PART OF THE INSPIRED OLD
TESTAMENT--INSERTED BETWEEN THE CANONICAL BOOKS AS CANONICAL--in the Greek manuscript
(the Alexandrian texts from Sinaiticus and Vaticanus) recommended by Bob Jones, Wheaton, Tennessee Temple,
Pensacola Christian College, Moody, Fuller, Piedmont, Biola, Pacific Coast and Dallas, while the AV translators
had enough sense to know that none of them belonged there. This is why the AV translators stuck them BETWEEN
the Testaments--as the "Scofield notes"--so that no one would think they were "INSPIRED."

By duplicity, by calculated subtlety, and with intention to deceive, the modern apostate Fundamentalists simply
refused to translate the MANUSCRIPTS WHICH THEY RECOMMENDED AND USED (and promoted) as
superior to the AV manuscripts. By refusing to translate ALL of Sinaticus and Vaticanus, the apostate Conservatives
and Fundamentalists in America led the body of Christ (for 80 years!!) to believe that the AV contained the
Apocrypha while the ASV and NASV and NIV didn't. The Greek manuscripts for the ASV, NASV and NIV do
contain the Apocrypha, and not between the Testaments; they are contained IN the Old Testament.

We hope the reader will check all references given in this tractus. He is told to "prove all things" and "hold fast to
the form of SOUND WORDS." He is commanded to let "NO MAN" deceive him, and he is told further to "BE NOT
DECEIVED" and not to deceive "HIMSELF" (Matt. 24:4, 1 Cor. 6:9, Gal. 6:7).

No honest man (in this age) has any business believing ANYTHING taught, said or written to ANY Christian leader
in America before checking that man out with the living words of the living God. No honest man (in this age) has
any business accepting the PROFESSION of any "godly, dedicated, spirit-filled, militant, evangelical, soul-winning
Fundamentalist" if that profession doesn't line up with the living words of the living God. The time has long passed
(1901) in America where any Bible believer is safe in following any scholar, no matter WHAT that scholar
professes, where that scholar is engaged in turning a believer's faith in the Holy Bible to himself so that he and his
friends will be the believer's final authority.

HUMANISM is the curse of this century, and nowhere is it more manifest than in these relativistic, subjective
humanists who profess to believe in "the plenary, verbal inspiration of the original autographs." They are the most
humanistic relativists on this earth outside of pure atheistic evolutionists. This will be apparent in what follows. At
the end of this booklet we have printed a creed which has appeared in print for nearly three years in the Bible
Believers' Bulletin. You will find that it matches the PROFESSION of every scholar who was connected with the
New "King James" Version--which more aptly should be called the Falwell-Nelson version or the Hindson-Dobson
version. The Alexandrian Creed is the standard confession of every member of the Alexandrian Cult from Origen
(250) to Farstad (1983). Not one member of the Cult can honestly deny a line of it, and no matter how subtly he tries
to get around his adherence to it, the Creed is a true statement of what a real Cult member believes.

No honest man could recommend the New "King James" Version (1982) to anyone.

The only people who could recommend it would be faculty members of Christian schools, "militant
Fundamentalists," Evangelicals, Conservatives and Greek and Hebrew scholars.

Honesty is out of the question.

We shall proceed to show WHY.

2. The Last Act in The Alexandrian Drama, part I
Having followed detailed articles on the Alexandrian Cult in the Bulletin for a period of nearly three years, Bible
believers were not surprised to see Dobson, Hindson, Towns, Hutson, Falwell and other apostate Fundamentalists
finally presenting a "New" Authorized Version to replace the hated and envied one that Americans had been using,
preaching, teaching and BELIEVING for more than 200 years. Farstad, of Dallas Theological Seminary, was the
main spokesman in getting the New "Ecumenical Rat's Nest" published; and Falwell, of course, did the promotion.
The main organ of promotion now is a magazine called "THE FUNDAMENTALIST JOURNEY," and the two
major spokesmen chosen to destroy the faith of American young people in the AV 1611 and to reinstate it with the
JFV (Jerry Falwell Version) are Ed Dobson and Ed Hindson. Neither man professes to have read the Bible or the
Scriptures as both men define the terms in their own writings. To both men, "the Bible" is not infallible or inerrant in
ANY version, and the term "Scripture" is not a reference to any Bible anyone in America has read.

These two smooth, slick, soft gentlemen have now been sent out as "associational missionaries" with "itineraries"
designed to sell the "New King James Bible" (Falwell-Nelson version) to Christian young people. They will put out
their propaganda at the High Street Baptist Church in Springfield (David Cavin), at the Baptist Temple (W. E.
Dowell), at Baptist Bible College (Springfield), at the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth (Johnny Ramsey), at
Arlington Baptist College, and at the Conservative Baptist Seminary at Denver, Colorado.

Their mission is to create a popular demand for the Falwell- Nelson version so that the sales will be based on "THE
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE" (see Falwell's magazine, p. 30). The idea is to make Christians believe that it was "THE
PEOPLE" who demanded the Falwell-Nelson 1982 version. The term "THE PEOPLE" is, of course, borrowed from
Castro, Mao Tse-tung and good old Abraham Lincoln. The expression was commented on at length in 19872 in the
Bible Believer's Commentary on Acts in Acts 21:28, which see.

Of course there was no mandate from "the people" at all for a "New King James Version." The mandate came from
the hard- pressed apostate scholars at fundamental schools whose student bodies were in an uproar over the exposure
of the hypocrisy of those faculty members by "Ruckmanites." No, "the people" requested nothing. The Bible
believers needed nothing. The scholars needed a breath of fresh air and release from pressure.

It is time now for the real Bible believer--certainly no one like Dobson, Hindson or Farstad--to take a close look, a
very close look, at what these modern apostate Fundamentalists have passed off as a legal "edition" or standard
"revision" of the AV of 1611. The ploy, of course, for the "patsies" was that since the AV had been updated several
times since 1611 that the Falwell-Nelson version (NKJV) could do it too and you would HAVE TO ACCEPT IT AS
A LEGITIMATE REVISION BECAUSE YOU ACCEPTED THE OTHERS.

Now that is the gimmick that Hindson, Falwell, Hutson, Henderson, Dobson and Farstad worked on, and that is how
it will be presented to the STUDENT BODIES of Springfield, Arlington, Fort Worth and Denver. The idea is
simple. The gimmick will relieve the faculty members of any pressure to stick by the TEXT that all of their students
(and the student's mothers and father and grandmothers and grandfathers) read and believed; instead, they can be
weaned from this text and introduced to a bastard translation that moves them once again back to the ASV of 1901
(Alexandrian text) and the RSV of 1952 (Alexandrian text) while "using the Textus Receptus" (Syrian text).

Read Genesis 3:1.

The Falwell-Nelson edition (or the Hindson-Dobson edition) then needs to be examined closely before anyone is
stupid enough to take the word of these gentlemen about it. So here we begin a series of articles on the Falwell-
Nelson edition. The point in these articles will be to list the exact documented evidence which could be produced in
a court of law to show that readings of unsaved Liberals in the National Council of Churches have been taken from
the RSV of 1952 and put into the Falwell-Nelson version and that readings of apostate Conservatives, following the
Alexandrian Greek text of Africa, have been taken from the NASV (a revision of the ASV of 1901) and put into the
Nelson- Falwell (or Hindson-Dobson) version; this whole Satanic and deceitful operation was carried on under the
guileless title of the New "KING JAMES" Version. THERE IS NOT ONE EDITION OF ANY KING JAMES
BIBLE PUT OUT BY ANYONE BEFORE 1982 THAT CONTAINS THE RSV AND ASV READINGS WE ARE
GOING TO LIST.
First of all we will turn to the liberal readings of the RSV published by Dean Weigle and the National Council of
Christian Churches, which Jerry Falwell, Curtis Hutson, Ed Dobson and Ed Hindson are now promoting with the
approval and welcome of Arlington, Springfield, Denver and Fort Worth.

Job 1:1. (There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one
who feared God and shunned evil.--NKJV) The word "blameless" is found in no edition of the AV: it is from the
RSV of the NCCC.

Job 3:7. (Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it!--NKJV) The word "barren" is found in no
edition of the AV: it is from the RSV of the NCCC.

Job 3:8. (May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.--NKJV) The word
"Leviathan" is not found in any edition of the AV: it is from the RSV of the NCCC.

Job 3:26. (I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have o rest, for trouble comes."--N KJV) The present tense is not found
in any edition of the AV: it is from the RSV of the NCCC, as in the expression "trouble comes."

Job 4:4. (Your words have upheld him who was stumbling,-- NKJV) The word "stumbling" is not found in any
edition of the AV: it is from the RSV of the NCCC--the Council that supported Communist black killers in Africa
(Rhodesia and Ghana).

Job 4:17. (Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker?--NKJV) The word
"can" is not found in any edition of the AV: it is from the RSV of the NCCC, which supports Norman Vincent Peale,
Earl Stanley Jones, Bishop Sockman, Bishop Oxnam and George Buttrick.

Job 13:8. (Will you show partiality for Him? Will you contend for God?--N KJV) The word "partiality" is not found
in any edition of the AV: it is from the RSV of the NCCC. The Nelson- Falwell version (or Hindson-Dobson
version) has refused to translate "prosopoleptes" (Acts 10:34) and similar words (1 Pet. 1:17, Rom. 2:11, Eph. 6:9)
any differently than the real words for "partiality" (ADIAKRITOS, PROSKLISOS), which the AV translated
correctly in James 3:17 and 1 Timothy 5:21 in ALL OF ITS EDITIONS.

Job 13:12 (Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defense are defenses of clay.--NKJV) has been borrowed
from the RSV and bears no resemblance to ANY edition of the AV put out ANY time by ANYONE.

Job 13:27,28 (You put my feet in the stocks, And watch closely all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
"Man decays like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.--NKJV) has been pilfered from the RSV of the
NCCC and bears no resemblance to any edition of any AV put out in any century by anyone.

Job 24:24 (They are exalted for a little while, Then they are gone. They are brought low; They are taken out of the
way like all others; They dry out like the heads of grain.--NKJV) is halfway to the RSV and does not match the AV.

Job 26:6 (Sheol is naked before Him, And Destruction has no covering.--NKJV) reads with the RSV of the NCCC
and against all editions of the AV by anyone in any country in any century.

Job 26:13 (By His Spirit He adorned the heavens; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.--NKJV) denies that God
made Satan. The verse matches the RSV of the NCCC (Communists and all!) and goes against all editions of the
AV.

Job 30:29. (I am a brother of jackals, And a companion of ostriches.--NKJV) Since every man on the Nelson-
Falwell edition (or Dobson-Hindson edition) was an INFIDEL when it came to matters of ABSOLUTE
AUTHORITY, they all got rid of the "dragons" in Job 30:29 and converted them into JACKALS to match the RSV
of the NCCC.

Job 32:15-16. ("They are dismayed and answer no more; Words escape them. And I have waited, because they did
not speak, Because they stood still and answered no more.--NKJV) To rid themselves of the author of the Book--see
lengthy documented material on the Hebrew texts which we printed in 1980 in the Bible Believer's Commentary of
Job (Job 32:14-16)--the "New" KJV has put the entire passage in quotation marks (like the RSV of the NCCC).
There are no quotation marks in ANY Hebrew manuscript.

Job 35:3. (For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'--
NKJV) The reading is from the RSV of the NCCC and matches no reading of any edition of any AV printed in any
century.

Job 38:19. ("Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And darkness, where is its place,--NKJV) The reading has
been altered to cover up the advanced revelation concerning LIGHT which Elihu had (see Bible Believer's
Commentary on Job [1980] on the passage).

Job 38:20. (That you may take it to its territory, That you may know the paths to its home?--NKJV) The words
chosen are those of the RSV text of the National Council of Christian Churches who are engaged in worldwide
ecumenicism.

Job 41:25. (When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; Because of his crashings they are beside themselves.--
NKJV) The reading is the Communist reading of the RSV found in no editions of any AV published anywhere by
anyone.

Footnote on Leviathan: Job 41:1, "A LARGE SEA CREATURE, EXACT IDENTITY UNKNOWN."

This agnostic confession was printed after the translators had examined the four verses in every edition of the AV
ever printed that read exactly like each other since 1611.

Job 41:1 with Psalm 74:14 with Isaiah 27:1 with Revelation 12:9.

With that advanced revelation of 1611--AND ALL SUBSEQUENT EDITIONS--in front of their faces, these poor,
ignorant, deluded Greek and Hebrew "scholars" professed AGNOSTICISM at the verse and laid down a fiat in the
form of a dogmatic decree which stated that no one knew EXACTLY what the reference was to. THERE ARE NOT
THREE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AT OUR CHURCH WHO DO NOT KNOW THE IDENTITY OF THE
"SEA CREATURE" since Martin Luther identified him before 1570.

This is the "scholarship" that professed to represent "THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE" at Lynchburg, Virginia,
Dallas and Fort Worth and now--on "evangelistic tour"--Denver, Arlington and Springfield.

"BE NOT DECEIVED, GOD IS NOT MOCKED."

"LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS."

"LET NO MAN DECEIVE HIMSELF."

The New "King James Version" is an "ecumenical rat's nest." In our next article we will take up a list of the ASV
reading (and NASV readings) which were smuggled into the text while retaining the title "KING JAMES" to sell the
text. If the Holy Spirit will bless and honor such a publication, then He has gone against the attributes of God's
essential NATURE. It is true that the Holy Spirit can USE any version, and these apostate Fundamentalists will take
anything they can use to make a fast buck; but they will have to promote sales to fake a "blessing." They are
humanistic opportunists of the first order. Not one of them believes anything but the CREED which you will find
printed at the bottom of this file.

They are HUMANISTIC RELATIVISTS for an apostate church (Laodicea), and their recommendations, criticisms,
scholarship and advice may be rejected by any Bible believer without batting an eye (2 Cor. 2:17).
3. The Last Act in The Alexandrian Drama, part II
As we have seen the apostate Fundamentalists in this age backslide to the proper position--belief in the AV of 1611
as the final authority in all matters of faith and practice--we have seen them abandon the RV of 1884 for the ASV of
1901, then abandon the ASV of 1901 for the NASV of 1960, then abandon the NASV of 1960 for the NIV of 1980,
and then finally abandon the Alexandrian revisions outwardly--which ALL professed to be revisions of the AV of
1611-and then come out with a bastard "King James Bible" that is no more a legitimate revision than the ASV or RV
or RSV.

This effort to appear to be A BELIEVER is quite typical of hypocritical professions by all the hypocrites in any age
of the church. The trick is to fool the genuine Bible-believing Christian into thinking that because a profession is
made of believing in some "verbally inspired Scriptures" that got lost, that this qualifies the scholarly hypocrite to be
classified as a "BIBLE BELIEVER." All of the men on the New "King James" Falwell-Nelson edition of the "Bible"
professed to believe the Cult Creed which we print in the Bulletin. Every "jack man" of them believed that God lost
the inerrant, infallible words of truth and that no one on earth has seen them since 400 A.D. or earlier. This is what
the incredible phonies call a "militant" stand for "historic Fundamentalism." It means Mary had a little lamb and
Lucy Lockett lost her pocket. All cowards run from PROVABLE FACTS as fast as they can run. Since there are no
originals anywhere to prove whether any "Fundamentalist believes the right thing or not, "believing in the verbal,
plenary inspired original autographs" can be the standard position for any cowardly hypocrite to take in this age. It is
a safe position. Nobody can check the dirty liar to see if he is telling the truth or not. All "qualified Fundamentalist
scholars" take this position. They always have. They have always feared ridicule more than death and charges of
"heresy" more than God.

Now the New "King James" Bible, like every English translation since 1884, had to compare itself with the original
AV of 1611, for this is the STANDARD that God set up whereby to judge all translations. This explains why even
those who do not believe THAT still go by it and abide by it as a rule for PUBLICATION. No edition of the English
Bible since 1880 (RV, RSV, NRSV, ASV, NASV, IV, NIV, NEB, etc.) could sell unless it first compared itself with
the absolute standard of truth set up by the Holy Spirit. Falwell's "Hindson-Nelson" Bible is no different. It cannot
sell by comparing itself to an RV or RSV or NIV or ASV or NEB or NASV or NRSV. It must compare itself with
the Authorized Version of 1611.

As in all other cases, the comparison proves to be fatal, for not only is this "ecumenical rat's nest" a faithful
reproduction of scores of readings of unsaved Liberals in the National Council of Churches--no don't get mad; read
the DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE GIVEN CHAPTER AND VERSE in the last article-- but it also contains scores
of Westcott and Hort Alexandrian readings as they are found in the ASV and NASV. A few of them are:

Proverbs 1:4, "prudence" (To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion--NKJV).

Proverbs 1:5, "wise counsel" (A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain
wise counsel,--NKJV).

Proverbs 1:6, "riddles" (To understand a proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles.--NKJV).

Proverbs 1:32, "complacency" (For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools
will destroy them;--N KJV).

Proverbs 2:1, "treasure" (My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you,--NKJV).

Proverbs 2:7, "stores up" (He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;--
NKJV).

Proverbs 7:6, "lattice" (For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,--NKJV).

Proverbs 7:11, "rebellious" (She was loud and rebellious, Her feet would not stay at home.--NKJV).

Proverbs 7:12, "open square" (At times she was outside, at times in the open square, Lurking at every corner.--
NKJV).

Proverbs 7:16, "colored" (I have spread my bed with tapestry, Colored coverings of Egyptian linen.--NKJV).

Proverbs 8:17, "diligently" (I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.--NKJV).

Proverbs 12:4, "excellent" (An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, But she who causes shame is like
rottenness in his bones.--NKJV).

Proverbs 14:12; 15:4; 19:24; 20:1; 20:2; 20:24; 21:27; 25:25; 26:11; 30:28 (see footnote); 30:31 and scores of other
places.

The New "King James" Bible then is not a King James Bible at all nor is it related to any revision of any edition of
any AV put out in the last 300 years by anyone. It is a resurrected ASV- RSV for dead orthodox Conservatives and
apostate Fundamentalists in colleges and universities who still hold to their ORIGINAL POSITION: they can
correct the Bible anytime they feel like it because they are superior intellects who are in charge of absolute authority.
It is this maniacal obsession that makes men like Massey, at Rodney Bell's school, insist that he can find out the
EXACT WORD that God gave Paul when Paul wrote his manuscripts; and it is this same fantastic egotism that
makes patsies like Stewart Custer (Bob Jones University) tell us that he reads the "verbally inspired original" New
Testament daily because he "holds it" in his hand. By the same token, phoney bread-and-butter prophets like Ed
Hindson and Ed Dobson (who make a living with smooth, slick talk about medicine and marriage) pretend they are
Bible believers when neither man has ever read THE WORD or THE WORDS of God since he went to college.
Both men profess that the words of God were lost and that they have never been restored to anyone (see Falwell's
October 1982 issue of the Fundamentalist magazine).

Now who was the Nelson-Falwell "Bible" translated for? Since it privately interprets 2 Thessalonians 2:7 to be the
Holy Spirit, in spite of the warning against this kind of thing in 2 Peter 2, we may well suspect that the New "King
James" Bible was a handmade production for a large class of Christians who desire CERTAIN OTHER SINS TO
BE GLOSSED OVER AND COVERED UP.

These five sins are as follows, and the Bible believer--certainly not anyone like Hindson, Dobson, Sumner, Custer,
Bob Jones, III, or Hutson--should carefully note the references and mark them.

The New "King James" Bible (the New American, New King, New Standard, New Authorized, New James, New
Revised Rat's Nest) was made to be sold to Fundamentalists who wanted to believe that:

1. It is all right to corrupt the word of God as long as you don't "peddle" it. Observe how NO EDITION OF ANY
KING JAMES BIBLE READS with Falwell-Nelson in 2 Corinthians 2:17, "For we are not, as so many, peddling
the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ" (NKJV).

2. It is proper to hold the word of God in unrighteousness as long as you aren't guilty of "suppressing" it. See the
reading in Romans 1:18, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness
of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness" (NKJV), where it matches the RSV of the NCCC.

3. It is proper to appear to be doing evil as long as you don't actually DO evil. See the RSV reading of the NCCC in
Falwell-Nelson's "Bible" in 1 Thessalonians 5:22, "Abstain from every form of evil" (NKJV), which is not in line
with any line of Authorized Versions published by anyone in England or America in any century.

4. It is all right to change the truth of God into a LIE as long as you don't "exchange" it for something. See in
Romans 1:25, "Who exchanged the truth of god for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen" (NKJV), the RSV reading of the NCCC in Falwell's "Bible" which is no
more an "edition" of the AV than Hansel and Gretel.

5. It is all right to substitute financial gain for godliness or to accept financial income as a proof of godliness as long
as you don't think that godliness is a MEANS of gain. See in 1 Timothy 6:5, "Useless wranglings of men of corrupt
minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself"
(NKJV), the corrupt reading of Falwell-Nelson which came from the Alexandrian text of 1901 (ASV).
Now, these verses were perverted because the New "King James" Version was aimed at a select type of clientele;
certainly it was not aimed at anyone who READ the Bible and KNEW the Bible or BELIEVED the Bible. It was
aimed pointedly and directly at a certain smooth, slick, type of cultured intelligentsia who had thick POCKET
BOOKS. To protect this bunch of apostate "Fundamentalists," the Falwell-Nelson-Hindson Dobson "Bible" altered 1
Timothy 6:10, "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in
their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows" (NKJV), so that the love of money would
NOT be the root of all evil. The Falwell-Hindson-Dobson-Nelson Bible adopted here the Alexandrian reading of the
RSV of the National Council of Communist churches. "BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER"; and since
"MONEY ANSWERETH ALL THINGS" (see any edition of the King James Bible except the last Laodicean farce),
the final test of the authority for this new Rat's Nest was found in a verse that dealt with INCOME. The Laodicean
church was "increased with goods" and knew not that it was POOR and wretched and miserable and naked and
(above all!) BLIND. Just as blind as a bat.
4. The Last Act in The Alexandrian Drama, part III
From our previous articles we have shown (beyond any shadow of a doubt) that the so-called New "King James"
Version is as far from being a legitimate "revision" of the AV as one would find short of the RSV of the National
Council of Churches. We listed over a dozen readings in one book alone that came right out of the RSV and NRSV
of the National Council, the outfit that has been sending money to Communist guerillas in Africa for nearly three
decades. The RSV came from the Alexandrian North African text of Origen-Hort-Nestle-Eusebius-Constantine and
company (exactly as the ASV of 1901 did), and we have documented these truths scores of times in dozens of
publications. We saw further that the phony "New KJV" had reinstated a dozen ASV readings from 1901 under the
pretense of "continuing" in the "tradition" of the AV translators. While professing this, these false professors of
belief in the Bible did away with every verse in the New Testament that dealt with their own sins: Romans 1:18
("For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress
the truth in unrighteousness."--NKJV), Romans 1:25 ("who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped
and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen."--NKJV), 1 Timothy 6:5 ("useless
wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From
such withdraw yourself."--NKJV), 1 Timothy 6:10, ("For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which
some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."--NKJV),
1 Timothy 6:20 ("O Timothy! Guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and vain babblings and
contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge--"--NKJV), and 2 Corinthians 2:17 ("For we are not, as so many,
peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ."--NKJV).
Their alibi was that since they believed that somewhere God wrote something that was lost eighteen centuries ago
and that since the AV translators did not profess to be "inspired," a 1982 Rat's Nest was just as authoritative as the
AV of 1611.

To insure the maximum amount of unbelief in absolute authority--this is the purpose of all accredited higher
education (secular or sacred)--several photostatic copies of the 1611 edition were put out. The perverted thinking of
the sick minds behind this was that when these poor, stupid, Bible-believing suckers notice that the AV of 1611
doesn't match word for word the AV they have believed and used, the Bible believers will lose faith in the one they
have believed and accept the NKJV AS AN EQUAL.

This was the plan and purpose of the "godly" men who put out this latest piece of Athenian trash.

They, like many sick people, wish to spread their own disease.

The idea is that since "we are not Bible believers but profess to be, you can deny the word of God and still pass off
for one too, like US."

The ancient chestnut about the need for "updating" the AV of 1611 was hauled out of the fire. This standard lie used
by all apostates was done in the face of the fact that the AV had been "updated" in 1876 by Smith, in 1885 by
Dillard, in 1894 by Lewis, in 1897 by Weekes, in 1895 by Fenton, in 1903 by Weymouth, in 1913 by Moffatt, in
1919 by Cunningham, in 1923 by Goodspeed, in 1925 by Overbury, in 1933 by Torrey, in 1881 by Williams, in
1842 by Bernard, in 1864 by Anderson and in 1904 by Worrell.

Taking advantage of the fact that most Christians in the body of Christ knew nothing about these SIXTEEN attempts
at updating it in less than ninety years, the translators of the New "King James" Version went back 300 years and
pulled alongside the 1611 to measure themselves, forgetting that that is exactly what the translators of the RV in
1884 had done; exactly what the translators of the ASV in 1901 had done; exactly what the translators of the RSV in
1946 had done; exactly what the translators of the NASV in 1950 had done; and exactly what the NIV translators in
1980 had done.

When it came to motives, method, aims and purpose, the NKJV translators followed in the exact footsteps of the
worst Liberals and most apostate Conservatives in the nation.

These incredible con-men actually stated that after 371 years the "AV has been carefully UPDATED SO THAT IT
WILL ONCE AGAIN speak God's eternal truths with clarity."
You are to believe that it hasn't for 371 years.

You are to believe that the muddled mess (according to them) that Whitefield, Wesley, Sunday, Moody, Finney,
Cartwright, Patton, William Booth, Jonathan Edwards, Sheldon Jackson, J. Frank Norris, Gypsy Smith, Mel Trotter,
and Bob Jones, Sr., made of things was done with a Book that didn't "SPEAK GOD'S ETERNAL TRUTHS WITH
CLARITY."

What kind of inferior dumbbells would presume to speak such nonsense? Well, a list gives: Arthur Farstad and
Walter Bodine of Dallas Theological Seminary; Ed Hindson and Elmer Towns of Liberty Baptist College in
Lynchburg; Merdith Kline and Boyce Blackwelder, E. M. Blaiklock and James Price (Tennessee Temple Schools in
Chattanooga); W. H. McDowell and Truman Dollar (Kansas City Baptist Temple: Bible Baptist Fellowship); Jerry
Falwell (who wouldn't know a Piel in Hebrew from a Hiphil); A. V. Henderson (Temple Baptist Church, Detroit:
Baptist Bible Fellowship); Herschel Hobbs, Curtis Hutson (Editor of the "Sword of the Lord"); Clyde Narramore
(amateur psychologist); and Harold Ockenga (the Neo-Evangelical president of Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary).

These are the men who allowed their names to be used in an advertising brochure called "WHY THE NEW KING
JAMES VERSION" after a statement that they were updating a Book that had not spoken with clarity for 371 years!

Why do you suppose these backslidden egotists did not dare say that it was a new "AUTHORIZED VERSION" they
were putting out? That is the nomenclature we use throughout our writings. What happened to the Book's
AUTHORITY?

Simple. The backslidden wretches who perverted 2 Corinthians 2:17, 1 Timothy 6:5,10,20 and Romans 1:18,25
were authorized to do nothing and the Holy Spirit would no more authorize what they did than what the Lockman
Foundation did when it put out the NASV.

There is no mention of the "MAN OF SIN" in the preface of this new version. How is this? In the Dedicatory of the
AV (any edition that has the Dedicatory) it identifies the pope as "THE MAN OF SIN."

And these dead orthodox apostates are "continuing in that tradition" are they?

You wouldn't woof us would you, buster?

Who was it that authorized this version? Was it a KING (see Ecc. 8:4)? Of course not; it was a publishing company
that makes its living by selling books. Observe that "IN THE EARLY 1970s THOMAS NELSON
PUBLISHERS...BEGAN TO SENSE A GROWING NEED FOR THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE
TO BE REVISED ONCE AGAIN" (p. 8). After what? Why, after Thomas Nelson had published the ASV of 1901
by the five-point, baby-sprinkling, pro-Catholic Philip Schaff and after the RSV of 1952--put out by Dean Luther
Weigle and the greatest ministerial Communists in the United States!

THE PUBLISHERS "FELT THE NEED" DID THEY?

You wouldn't give us the shaft would you, sonny boy?

Do you think that some of us are as stupid as the men connected WITH ANYTHING "THOMAS NELSON" PUT
OUT FROM 1901 to 1982 that wasn't a real Authorized Version?

This wretched committee of 1982 said they wanted to PRESERVE "THE CONTENT of the AV of 1611" (p. 9). Did
they do it? We just listed the content of the ASV in a score of places showing that Thomas Nelson Publishers simply
tried to reinstate what they had lost in sales on two other versions. Is anyone fool enough to think that Acts 4:27 and
1 Thessalonians 5:22 in the New "King James" Version is the "CONTENT OF THE 1611 AV"?

Sure: the suckers who listen to faculty members of Christian schools without checking the text. Sure: the dingbats
who make a living off of correcting the AV. Sure: the monument builders who want a TOOL instead of an
Authority. Will we "buy the act"? Not on your tin-type. Down here we call this Madison Avenue gaffed act "THE
NEW AMERICAN, NEW KING, NEW STANDARD, NEW JAMES, NEW AUTHORIZED, NEW REVISED
RAT'S NEST." Wrong motive, wrong aim, wrong method, wrong text and wrong "bedfellows."
At the Pensacola Bible Institute we will continue to use the Book that God delivered into our hands by His grace in
1949. That Book, translated under a King (Ecc. 8:4) whose country is the standard for the time found on the
WATCHES on the wrists of the new revision committees (and the location on this earth of their cities!), has been
kept inerrant by the Grace of God and preserved through the years in spite of the maniacal egotism of Laodicean
apostates who think that they can compete with it. We thank God for the old Authorized Version (any edition before
1982) which God has kept for us in spite of "godly and reverent Christian" scholars who believe in "plenary,
verbally inspired Scriptures" which no one has ever read or seen.

Thank God for the old BOOK! Thank God for its "THEEs" and "THOUs" and "YEs." Thank God for its "I TROW
NOT" and "WE WIST NOT" and "WAS WONT TO BE MADE." Thank God He still shows things to any Bible
believer from that Book with a clarity and lucidity that blinds the minds of poor, miserable, Bible-rejecting idiots
who fancy that because they believe in "fundamentals" they have the sense God gave to a stuffed YAK. God said,
"LET THERE BE LIGHT!!" He spoke and we have it, and thank God we have it without the assistance of poor,
deluded sinners like the blanks on the "NEW KJV" committee.
5. The New “King James” ASV of Thomas Nelson
As we have seen, the so-called "New KJV" is not a real edition of the Authorized Version in any sense of the word.
The lame alibi that it is since it was translated from the Textus Receptus will not work at all, as scores of RSV
readings (the NCCC) and ASV readings (Philip Schaff, 1901) were thrust back into its text and the Authorized
readings which had been perfectly constant through EVERY EDITION for over 300 years were thrown out. We
have also observed that the apostates connected with this revision were careful to trim it in the proper places so that
it would suit the Laodicean temperament of monument builders. Not only were the RSV attacks on the Deity of
Christ inserted into Acts 4:27 and Philippians 2:7 (this verse was changed again in later editions of the NKJV)--
while professing to "polish with sensitivity" and "enhance its originally intended beauty" (Farstad's gas bag line)--
but the Athenian ant-eaters (see Bible Believer's Commentary on Acts, 1972; Acts 17) were absolved of their
"superstition" and made out to be fairly respectable; this was done by removing the word "SUPERSTITIOUS" (Acts
17:22), which has been in every edition of the AV since 1611. Naturally, this was done while professing that the AV
was being "sensitively revised" so that the "thought flow" would "hold closely to the traditional STRUCTURE"
(note the hot air gas bag of the professional con-man as he belches out his "pitch" to the sucker).

After admitting that the root source for the 1982 "revision" was the desire of a book publishing company to reinstate
portions of two of its defunct publications (the RSV of 1952 and the ASV of 1901), the body of Christ is now to
believe that there was a real grass roots "demand" for this piece of God-dishonoring trash. The grass roots, however,
turn out to be "100 church leaders" (p. 8) who represent less than one fiftieth of the born- again, soul-winning
pastors in the United States alone. This select group of elite "church leaders" all signed the standard, phoney-
baloney Alexandrian Creed which states that "the Scriptures ARE THE UNIQUELY INSPIRED WORD OF GOD."
From this we must take for granted that not one scholar out of the 100 could translate or interpret the VERB TENSE
of his own language, English, for the horrible truth is that not one man on the 1982 committee ever believed a day in
his life that "the Scriptures ARE the uniquely inspired word of God." They simply lied to make you think they were
Bible believers. Every man on the list (of over 100) believes that the Scriptures WERE the word of God when they
were originally written. The lying verb "ARE" and "IS" is always inserted into their professions to make you think
they believe that they (or you) HAVE a real Bible. You will notice that after this lying profession a careful postscript
is added to cover up the lying sin of the apostate: i.e., "free from error IN THE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHS."

Observe that in the Scriptures (any version of any edition published by anyone in any language) the term
"SCRIPTURES" is never a reference to "original autographs" (see Matt. 21:42; 22:29, Mark 12:10, Luke 4:21, John
2:22; 5:39; 20:9, Acts 8:32; 8:35; 18:24, Romans 9:17; 15:4, 1 Tim. 5:18, 2 Tim. 3:15, 16, 2 Pet. 3:16).

The 100 "church leaders" then are guilty of stupidity and hypocrisy in the same stroke by their own profession.

1. They do not and cannot use the word "SCRIPTURES" as the term is defined and used in the Old and New
Testament, in any edition of any version.

2. They have invented a term which occurs nowhere in either Testament, in any translation, in any language, in any
revision, put out by anyone.

3. This was done to cover up their own unbelief in the WORDS of God which they do not believe EXIST in a Book.
They lied about "ARE" because they really believe nothing of the kind. They believe "the Scriptures WERE the
word of God."

EVERY MEMBER OF THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT FROM ORIGEN TO ED HINDSON BELIEVED THAT
AND EIGHTEEN CENTURIES HAS NOT CHANGED ONE MAN IN THE CULT A HAIRS BREADTH FROM
THAT LYING AND HYPOCRITICAL PROFESSION WHICH ALL CULT LEADERS WILL PROFESS UNTIL
THE SECOND ADVENT OF JESUS CHRIST.

Now, those who look "well to their going" and take heed not to "believe every word" (Prov. 14:15) are not fooled by
the gaffed act of these professional con artists. You actually have to have considerable education to be as stupid as
most of these "church leaders" are. For example, any honest man--without any education--would have been leary of
the whole Falwell-Nelson- Hindson-Dobson (1982) operation if he had simply noticed the WORDS that the outfit
used to get across their phoney revision.

"Because millions love and use the King James Version IT MUST SPEAK CLEARLY, so that ALL who read may
understand" (p. 7).

Now what Bible believer would buy that pitch? "ALL WHO READ"? Why any fool on this earth knows that the
"natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God" no matter how "clearly" they speak. Who didn't know that
but an unsaved man to whom it applied? Are they telling us that unsaved people don't USE the King James Version
(see above)? Are they telling us that millions who LOVE it are worried about it not speaking clearly? Imagine the
hypocrisy of "godly scholars" who would write a thing like that after admitting that the demand for their revision
came from a book publishing company that couldn't sell enough of two versions it had published!!

"But there is still need for a STANDARD Bible...one that speaks CLEARLY."

What did God say about that in Proverbs 8:9? Who would be dumb enough to believe poor sinners like Ed Hindson,
Ed Dobson, Jerry Falwell and Farstad after God HIMSELF had already spoken about such matters?

What real Bible believer doesn't know that if ANY text of ANY version was "revised" into "updated language" it
couldn't be understood by a reprobate even while he professed to love it? Look at John 8:43.

Look at what the Holy Spirit said about "understanding" someone's speech in the Bible (John 8:43). The Pharisees
there were hearing words in a language they understood perfectly and it was not TEN YEARS "OUT OF DATE."
They still couldn't get it. "UPDATING" had no effect on what they heard no matter who said it or when it was said.
Imagine someone actually believing apostates like Hindson, Dobson and Farstad about "updating" after being told
by the Holy Spirit that understanding the Scriptures was dependent upon JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF (Luke 24:45)
opening a man's understanding.

But these Laodicean egotists go much further than this!

In describing their work, the modern apostates tell us that the "updating" they did was "a long and thoughtful
process" (p. 11) (not a PRAYERFUL PROCESS) and that it required "the same kind of patience and CARE...as was
used by the translators of 1611" (p. 11).

Was it? Did it?

How then did they omit a reference to the "MAN OF SIN" in their preface?

How did they thoughtfully and with "patience" and "care" decide to attack the Deity of Christ in Acts 4:27 to bring
the 1611 edition into line with the National Council of Christian Churches in America in 1952?

How did they "thoughtfully" (with patience and care) decide to cover up their own sins in Romans 1:18, 25, 1
Timothy 6:10, 20 and 2 Corinthians 2:17 in order to maintain "high standards of ACCURACY, READABILITY and
BEAUTY" (p. 9).

Is there anyone reading this page who would trust a man who would even say "READABILITY"? If a man is
"sharing" (p. 8) "thought flows" (p. 8), would any real soul-winning, Bible- believing young man take him to be
anything but a smooth, slick, opportunist? What man who reads his Bible has not been warned about "GOOD
WORDS AND FAIR SPEECHES" (Rom. 16:18), unless it is the apostates themselves who also altered THAT verse
(Rom. 16:18) to cover up their sins?

FACE IT: an honest man could not recommend such a version no matter WHO was recommending it. A
"Fundamentalist" could recommend it on an "Evangelical church leader," but an honest MAN is out of the question.
No man who knew his Bible would fail to see the Satanic devices (2 Cor. 2:11) which are designed for one purpose
alone: INCOME BY DECEPTION.
6. The Bottom Line on the So-Called New “KJV”
As we have seen from the previous articles, the New "King James" Version is not a King James Version at all, nor is
it connected with or related to any editions of the Authorized Version put out in the last 300 years by anyone. It
contains scores of RSV and ASV readings, attacks the Deity of Christ (Acts 4), covers up for the sins of the
Alexandrian Cult (Rom. 1:18, 25; 16:18, 1 Tim. 6:20), confuses the plain truth (2 Tim. 2:15), justifies Athenian
Greek philosophers (Acts 17:22),encourages disobedience to the Scriptures (1 Thess. 5:22), denies the root of all
evil in this present world system (1 Tim. 6:10), and tones down the harsh words of 1611 so they will be acceptable
to 1983 kiddy teachers and day school principals (see Phil. 3:8, 21).

In addition to this, we have noted the smooth, slick, pious, twentieth century news media line given out by Farstad
(Dallas Theological Seminary) to pawn off this fake "Bible." The brochures and ads are replete with such artificial
and leavened expressions as "thought flow," "readability," "share," "rhythmic flow," "growing need," "polish with
sensitivity," "highest standards of scholarship," "thorough research," "thoughtful process," "debatable value
judgments," and similar news media baloney that comes from the state universities and state colleges.

After confessing that the "need" for this 1982 version came from a book selling company that had lost some money
printing ASVs (and RSVs), the "Scholarly Team" (p. 30) signed the standard Alexandrian Cult Creed which we
print in the Bulletin. "God wrote something but lost it."

As we have pointed out, this lying profession is based upon hoping that the reader of the Creed will fail to discern
the VERB TENSE of the English. The words attested to by Henderson, Hutson, Hindson, Falwell, Dobson, Towns,
Kline, Hobbs, Ockenga and crew are that "THE SCRIPTURES IN THEIR ENTIRELY ARE THE UNIQUELY
INSPIRED WORD OF GOD...." Notice that every liar who signed that believed nothing of the kind. He believed
that the ORIGINAL SCRIPTURES WERE THE WORDS OF GOD, but the word "Word" has been substituted to
cover up the sin of unbelief. "Word" is the Neo-Orthodox word for the Bible since no Neo-Orthodox adherent
believes that anyone can obtain God's WORDS.

As all modern apostate educators, these theological phonies count upon the IGNORANCE of the body of Christ in
order to pass off the counterfeit. The most subtle way to do it (so that any objector can be accused of being too
negative or too critical!) is to simply LIE ABOUT THE VERB TENSE OF YOUR OWN LANGUAGE.

Every man on the committee did it. We knew they would. We would expect it of them. As a matter of fact, we
mentioned this in five publications printed before any of these men got together with the book selling company to
even discuss a revision (see the Bible Believer's Commentary Series on Acts, Genesis and Proverbs, the Christian's
Handbook of Manuscript Evidence, and Satan's Masterpiece, the New ASV, all published before 1975).

Since the promoters of this Athenian gimmick like to talk about the "DISTINCTIVE FEATURES" of the New
"King James" Version, we will take the liberty to list a few of them ourselves. These are the real "DISTINCTIVE
FEATURES" of the King James Perversion.

1. The "thees" and "thous" have been eliminated so they will not match the HYMNALS used in the churches of over
5000 Bible- believing pastors. Furthermore, the translators themselves have not changed the "thees" and "thous" in
the hymnals of their OWN churches. Their double standard of hypocrisy in these matters is too embarrassing to
discuss: they want Bible readers to get used to speaking in a language that DIFFERS FROM THEIR SONGS OF
PRAISE TO GOD.

Could anything be more irreverent and STUPID?

2. The Liberal method of forcing the Prophets to be POETIC instead of LITERAL has been augmented by writing
page after page of Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah in BLANK VERSE instead of as documented statements on the
truth. One will find that this method was used by the RSV of the NCCC in 1952 and it was used by the ASV of
1901. There are NO EDITIONS OF ANY AUTHORIZED VERSION IN 300 YEARS THAT RESORT TO THIS
ALEXANDRIAN ALLEGORICAL EXPEDIENT.

3. A prominent "distinctive feature" about the 1982 Nelson- Hindson-Farstad fiasco is the careful attention that
someone has given to every verse that deals with people who use the word of God as a tool and corrupt it to make a
living. These verses are 1 Timothy 6:5, 10, 20 and Romans 1:18, 25; 16:18 and 2 Corinthians 2:17. Is it not a
remarkable and "DISTINCTIVE FEATURE" of this version that someone could not leave one single verse in those
passages as it was found in 1611, 1613, 1640, 1680, 1700, 1715, 1739, 1759, 1780, 1835, 1900, 1930, 1960, and
1980?

Wouldn't you call that "highly distinctive"?

4. But by far the most "distinctive feature" of the Falwell-Farstad-Hindson version is the opinion of the translators
about themselves and their spirituality. Entirely UNLIKE the AV committee of 1611, these 1982 stuffed shirts say
that they have "given themselves diligently to the HIGHEST STANDARDS of scholarship and THOROUGH
RESEARCH." I don't recall anyone on the AV committee being stupid enough to brag like that about their own
work.

"We have again and again been made aware that GOD WAS AT WORK AMONG US, imparting to us a small
measure of HIS INFINITE WISDOM" (p. 1).

My, what a profession! I don't recall the AV translators making any profession like that at all. Why, that is as close
as you can come to saying that God the Holy Spirit was INSPIRING THE WORDS YOU WROTE. Of course they
don't say that, but the context of "God's being at work AMONG US" is "when it has been necessary to spend days or
even weeks weighing a SINGLE WORD..."

My, My, what have we here?

God imparted wisdom to this committee in weighing individual words! Too bad He didn't in 1611, eh what?

My what a "DISTINCTIVE FEATURE"! Here are men who limit their time (seven years) to the exact number used
by the committee (1604-1611) so you will think they are engaged in the same activity; then, after reading all of
"Ruckman's stuff" about the AV translators being "led" in their choice of words, the same profession is made, while
these incredible phonies claim "the SAME SPIRIT OF OPENNESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY" that is in
"KEEPING WITH THE TRADITION OF THE FIRST KING JAMES VERSION" (p. 1).

Well they weighed "corrupt" in 2 Corinthians 2:17 and threw it out lest someone would think the reference was to
them. They weighed the word "science" in 1 Timothy 6:20 and threw it out since it was "archaic" (!). They weighed
the word "child" in Acts 4:27 and decided it pointed out the Deity of Christ too clearly, so it was thrown out. They
weighed the word "HUMBLED" in Philippians 2:7 (1979 edition) and decided to accept the RSV word "emptied" of
the NCCC in its place. They weighed the word "APPEARANCE" in 1 Thessalonians 5:22 and altered it so a
Christian could appear to do evil as long as he wasn't doing it, and....but why go further?

We have here enough "distinctives" to raise a first class "stinct."

"Vile" (all editions of any AV) was too strong so it went out of Philippians 2. "DUNG" was too strong so it went
out. "SUPERSTITIOUS" was too strong (Acts 17), so after "carefully weighing these words," with GOD
WORKING AMONGST THEM (!), and their thorough research and "highest standards of scholarship," these blind
guides altered the AV to match the Revised Standard Version of the National Council of Communist Churches
(Weigle, Sockman, Dahlberg, Oxnam, Peale, the whole crew).

Because of these and other "DISTINCTIVE FEATURES," no honest-to-God, real, Bible believers in America
would recommend the Falwell-Nelson version to ANYONE. The motive for its publication was monetary; the
profession of its translators was egotistical; their claims to fidelity are false; their profession of faith in the Scriptures
is false; the readings of their text are not the readings of ANY Authorized Version; and their tactics and approach in
selling their product betray their "company" (1 Cor. 15:33); they are the backslidden apostates of Laodicea who have
mistaken income and attendance for "godliness," scholarship and discipline for intelligence, and professions for
HONESTY. By the Grace of God we will never make THOSE mistakes.
7. A Critique of the New “King James” Bible
In this article we shall use the letters JFV for the "Jerry Falwell Version" (since he has been the "kingpin" so to
speak in the promotion of this newest Athenian gimmick) and alongside it we shall put what ALL EDITIONS OF
THE KING JAMES VERSION SAY FROM 1611 to 1982 and compare them with the JFV which professes to be
one in a series of "editions" of that text. So that the reader will be rooted and grounded in scientific documented fact,
we will place after the JFV its matchmate in the Communist version put out by the National Council of Churches
(Sockman, Weigle, Albright, Peale, Kagawa, Niebhur, Tillich, Dahlberg, etc.), the RSV of 1952; and we will also
put the matchmate found in the apostate ASV (1901) so that you can see that this latest fickle fad was for the
purpose (again!) of restoring the bankrupt ASV of 1901 which Christian scholars tried to pawn off on the public for
fifteen years. (When they gave up, they tried to pawn off a "New" ASV and this failed so miserably that the JFV had
to be resorted to.) Among the men responsible for this new Communist "King James" Bible are Rev. A. V.
Henderson (pastor of Temple Baptist Church, Detroit) and Curtis Hutson (the Sword of the Lord). May they rest in
peace.

Since the motive behind all English translation work since 1884 has been sales, we should naturally turn to 1
Timothy 6:10 (For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil....--NKJV) and find the ASV reading of 1901
standing in the JFV. No edition of the AV 1611 ever had such a reading in it. I have a 1611 and a 1613 edition right
here in my office. Not even the Communist Bible of the NCC (RSV) is that far off of the AV reading.

Since all revisors who corrupt the word of God do so with a bad conscience, not one of them could ever tolerate the
AV reading (in all editions from 1611 to 1982) in 2 Corinthians 2:17. For this reason we find the Jerry Falwell
Version has adopted the reading of the liberals in the NCC (RSV) which happens to be the reading of the bankrupt
ASV that came from the Westcott and Hort Greek (For we are not,as so many, peddling the word of God...--N KJV).

Since all men engaged in perverting the truth of God are highly susceptible to their depravity,we would expect
Romans 1 to land on the perverter with tremendous force. It does. All editions of the AV from 1611-1982 read
contrary to the Jerry Falwell Version in Romans 1:18 (For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth...--NKJV) and 1:25 (Who exchanged the truth of
God for the lie...--NKJV). Here Falwell and his friends are again promoting the readings of the National Council of
Communist Churches as they translated it in the RSV. The words "suppress" and "exchange" have been thrust into
the correct text to cover the sins of the translator who "CHANGED THE TRUTH" and "HELD THE TRUTH IN
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS." The ASV naturally agrees with the liberals and modernists in the NCCC.

Since all modern apostate fundamentalists think that science is more valuable than the AV of 1611 (or at least can sit
in judgment on it), the word "science" has been removed from 1 Timothy 6:20 (...avoiding the profane and vain
babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge--NKJV) to match the Communist Bible of the
NCCC and the apostate NASV of Bob Jones University. The word "SCIENCE" was found in all editions of the AV
from 1611 to 1982.

Since money-mad apostates who are engaged in perverting the word of God are basically materialists who judge
success or failure in the ministry by sales, enrollment, income or attendance, they would naturally have a heart
attack at 1 Timothy 6:5. So said, so done. To cover up the tracks of people like modern Christian celebrities and
monument builders,the JFV has perverted the verse so that you would not think that some Christians believe "THAT
GAIN IS GODLINESS" (...Who suppose that godliness is a means of gain---NKJV). The verse in the JFV has been
brought into line with the liberal Bible published by unsaved modernists in the National Council of Churches.
Naturally the ASV of 1901 reads with Jerry Falwell's Version and Dean Luther Weigle's Version (RSV).

Since no modern apostate understands the Christian being "IN CHRIST'S STEAD" and being "AS HE IS," the term
"PERSON OF CHRIST" in 2 Corinthians 2:10 had to be done away with. The purpose for this was to erase the cross
reference to John 20:23 where the Holy Spirit interpreted the passage in that fashion in ALL EDITIONS OF THE
KING JAMES BIBLE FROM 1611 to 1982. The JFV is not an edition of the Authorized Version. JFV's reading in 2
Corinthians 2:10 (Whom I have forgiven I have forgiven it for your sakes in the presence of Christ--NKJV) is the
reading of modernists and liberals in the NCCC and was first used in the ASV of 1901.
Moving in as close as possible to the RSV reading of Galatians 5:4, "You are SEVERED from Christ" (which
implies they were joined to Him at one time, which they were not: see the context), the JFV says, "YOU HAVE
BECOME ESTRANGED FROM CHRIST" (implying they were not strangers, when Ephesians 9:19; 2:12 says they
WERE).

To protect their own phony Greek scholarship, the Athenian ant-eaters (see comments on Acts 17 in The Bible
Believer's Commentary on Acts, 1972) have inserted the RSV reading of the National Council of Communist
Churches into Acts 17:22 (I perceive that in all things you are very religious--NKJV). The word "superstitious" (no
one is more superstitious than conservative and evangelical Greek scholars!) was too strong for their stomachs so
they altered it to match the words of the modernists and liberals whom it scalded first. JFV here reads with the RSV
and the ASV. It is not an "edition" of the AV in any sense of the word.

In 1 Corinthians 1:22 (For the Jews request a sign--NKJV) the ignorance of the committee shows through
beautifully. Here we are told that the Jews do not really REQUIRE a sign: they simply "request" one. Any fool who
read Exodus 4 knows the national history of the Jews began with SIGNS and that, therefore, they have a right to
require a sign. That is why Christ DID THOSE SIGNS AMONG THEM (John 12) and went even further and gave
those SIGNS to His successors after His resurrection (Mark 16). The JFV reads with the ASV, although that corrupt
counterpart says "ASKS" instead of "REQUESTS." Neither reading has anything to do with sound doctrine, Biblical
interpretation or Biblical accuracy.

Since all Laodicean apostates think exactly alike (fundamentalists and conservatives foremost), we would naturally
immediately turn to 2 Timothy 2:15, for this is the verse in the Bible that shows the Christian HOW TO STUDY
THAT VERY BOOK. The JFV has thrown away the key and gotten rid of the scriptural way to study the Bible by
adopting the Communist reading of the RSV, "BE DILIGENT TO PRESENT YOURSELF" (RSV, "DO YOUR
BEST TO PRESENT YOURSELF") and simply omits the word "STUDY." There is no "STUDY" in the JFV
version; neither is there in the ASV of 1901 nor the NASV of 1960.

Perhaps the crummiest thing about this New American, New King, New Standard, New James Rat's Nest is the
promotional material which tells the sucker that this version will "UNLOCK THE SPIRITUAL TREASURES
FOUND UNIQUELY IN THE KING JAMES VERSION." Other gaffed acts are promotional material which
implies that for 371 years no one could really find these truths. To emphasize this Satanic nonsense, Falwell is
sending out a copy of the 1611 Version with his new "rat's nest" to convince the gullible that:

1. The language had never been updated when it had.

2. That the AV included the Apocrypha as part of the Bible, which it didn't.

3. And that since the reader's standard AV (published anywhere between 1613 and 1982) doesn't MATCH the 1611
VERBATIM, the JFV has the license to reinsert the readings into it of the National Council of Liberal and
Modernist Churches who never accepted ANY Bible as the word of God. At the close of the Introduction (p. v) is
the standard girl scout profession of the brownies in Laodicea (see details in Problem Texts, 1980). All profess that
there was a Book (Bible) on earth that had "ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHS" in it.

No one but a madman would believe that. There has never been on this earth ANY "BIBLE" that contained the
original autographs of Moses, David, Isaiah, Paul and Luke. The profession is a blatant LIE by men who have been
conditioned to lie and teach lies to others in the name of "FUNDAMENTALISM." These apostate fundamentalists
have simply reinserted the ASV readings and RSV readings into the "Authorized Text" and pretended that they were
engaged in the same kind of work as that done by the translators of 1611 and the "revisors" of 1613. They are not.
They are corrupters of the pure Bread of Life in:

Acts 17:16 (provoked)--...his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols.

Acts 17:22 (the Areopagas, religious)--Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagas and said, "Men of Athens, I
perceive that in all things you are very religious.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (creation)--Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

Philippians 2:7 (an attack on the Deity of Christ [emptied])--But emptied Himself by taking the form of a servant....
(This verse has been changed again in later editions of the NKJV.)

Acts 4:27 (an attack on the Deity of Christ: see comments in The bible Believer's Commentary on Acts, 1972)--For
truly against your holy Servant Jesus....

1 Thessalonians 5:22 (no "appearance")--Abstain from every form of evil.

Matthew 20:20 (attack on the Deity of Christ: "worshipping" has been omitted)--Then the mother of Zebedee's sons
came to Him with her sons, kneeling down and asking something from Him.

James 5:16 (a halfway move has been made to the Roman Catholics by using TRESPASSES)--Confess your
trespasses one to another....

2 Thessalonians 2:7 (The word "he" has been capitalized to force upon the reader the private interpretation that the
"HE" has been capitalized to force upon the reader the private interpretation that the "HE" of that passage is the
Third Person of the Trinity)--For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do
so until He is taken out of the way.

No real Bible believer could be fooled by the Jerry Falwell Version, otherwise known as the New American, New
King, New Standard, New James, New RAT'S NEST (the New King James Bible).

It is a Laodicean monstrosity, and the incredible profession of the "scholarly team" (see their Introduction, p. 30) is
that for the first time in 371 years the King James Bible is able to speak God's eternal TRUTHS WITH CLARITY.
This horrendous LIE is worded as follows on page 1 of their Introduction, "THE FIRST KING JAMES VERSION
OF THE HOLY BIBLE WAS PUBLISHED IN 1611...NOW ALMOST 371 YEARS LATER THAT A.V. HAS
BEEN CAREFULLY UPDATED" (READINGS OF THE RSV AND ASV INSERTED!!) "SO THAT IT WILL
ONCE AGAIN SPEAK GOD'S ETERNAL TRUTHS WITH CLARITY."

We will stick with our "old" King James Version that has served us so well.
8. The Creed of the Alexandrian Cult
1. There is no final absolute authority but God.

2. Since God is a Spirit, there is no final absolute authority that can be seen, heard, read, felt, or handled.

3. Since all books are material, there is no book on this earth that is the final and absolute authority on what is right
and what is wrong; what constitutes truth and what constitutes error.

4. There WAS a series of writings one time which, IF they had all been put into a BOOK as soon as they were
written the first time, WOULD HAVE constituted an infallible and final authority by which to judge truth and error.

5. However, this series of writings was lost and the God who inspired them was unable to preserve their content
through Bible- believing Christians at Antioch (Syria) where the first Bible teachers were (Acts 13:1) and where the
first missionary trip originated (Acts 16:1-6) and where the word CHRISTIAN originated (Acts 11:26).

6. So God chose to ALMOST preserve them through Gnostics and philosophers from Alexandria, Egypt, even
though God called His Son OUT of Egypt (Matt. 2), Jacob OUT of Egypt (Gen. 49), Israel OUT of Egypt (Exod.
15), and Joseph's bones OUT of Egypt (Exod. 13).

7. So, there are two streams of Bibles: the most accurate--though, of course, there is no final, absolute authority for
determining truth and error; it is a matter of "preference"--are the Egyptian translations from Alexandria, Egypt, that
are "almost" the "originals," although not quite.

8. The most inaccurate translations are those that brought about the German Reformation (Luther, Zwingli, Boehler,
Zinzendorf, Spener, etc.) and the worldwide missionary movement of the English speaking people: the Bible that
Sunday, Torrey, Moody, Finney, Spurgeon, Whitefield, Wesley, and Chapman used.

9. But we can "tolerate" these if those who believe in them will tolerate US. After all, since there is NO ABSOLUTE
AND FINAL AUTHORITY that anyone can read, teach, preach, or handle, the whole thing is a matter of
"PREFERENCE." You may prefer what you prefer, and we prefer what we prefer. Let us live in peace, and if we
cannot agree on anything or everything, let us all agree on one thing: THERE IS NO FINAL, ABSOLUTE
WRITTEN AUTHORITY OF GOD ANYWHERE ON THIS EARTH.

This is the creed of the Alexandrian Cult.