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THE PILGRIM
"KING
JAMES
ONLY
HOKEY"
by
BOB
L. ROSS
ANOTHER DECEPTION
IN OUR TIME IS THE IDEA THAT
"ONLY ONE
TRANSLATION" OF THE BIBLE IS
THE "INSPIRED WORD OF GOD",
NAMELY THE KING JAMES
VERSION OF 1611.
THERE IS SUPPOSED TO
BE SOME SORT OF "SATANIC CONSPIRACY"
ON THE PART OF ALL OTHER TRANSLATIONS
TO UNDERMINE THE "ONLY INSPIRED
TRANSLATION." THIS IS PURE
"HOKEY" (CORNY ...PHONY
...CONTRIVED).
NO
TRANSLATION IS
AN
"INSPIRED"
TRANSLATION
AND,
NO TRANSLATION
IS
A
"PERFECT"
TRANSLATION!
IF YOU
DISAGREE, YOU ARE
WELCOME TO
"PROVE" ME
WRONG
IF EITHER IS
TRUE,
SURELY GOD
HAS
REVEALED THIS TO MANKIND
LIKE
HIS OTHER
ABSOLUTE
TRUTHS!
[scripture
please
______
(or
somewhere else)
where
God has revealed
the
ONE
particular
TRANSLATION
that is either
"INSPIRED"
OR
"PERFECT"].
WE PUBLISH ANOTHER
ARTICLE WHICH DETAILS THE
"INSTRUCTIONS" WHICH KING
JAMES OF ENGLAND GAVE TO THE
TRANSLATORS OF THE KING JAMES VERSION,
AND IT CLEARLY REVEALS THAT A LOT
OF THE "INSPIRATION"
BEHIND SOME OF THE WORDS USED WAS
FROM THE KING
HIMSELF!
FOR INSTANCE, WHY
DIDN'T THEY TRANSLATE THE GREEK WORDS
FOR "BAPTIZE" AND "CHURCH"
PROPERLY?
KING
JAMES WAS THE "HEAD" OF
THE "CHURCH OF ENGLAND", WHICH IS THE
EPISCOPALIAN OR ANGLICAN CHURCH. IN REALITY,
IT IS THE "ENGLISH EQUIVALENT" OF THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
IN THE 16TH CENTURY, THE POPE WOULD
NOT PERMIT HENRY VIII TO DIVORCE HIS
WIFE, CATHARINE OF ARAGON. HENRY HAD
PARLIAMENT TO SEPARATE ENGLAND FROM PAPAL
CONTROL, BUT THERE WAS LITTLE CHANGE
IN ROMAN DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE BY
THE STATE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. HENRY'S
WIFE WAS ROMAN CATHOLIC AND KING JAMES
HIMSELF SIDED AGAINST THE PURITAN EFFORTS
TO PURIFY THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF
ITS "PAPAL
SUPERSTITIONS".
AT THE TIME OF
THE TRANSLATION, THE ROMAN CHURCH AS
WELL AS THE ANGLICAN CHURCH WERE BEING
THREATENED BY THE VARIOUS SEPARATISTS AND
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE TIME. TWO OF
THE FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINES OF THESE CHURCHES
WERE UNDER SIEGE ...
(1) THE BAPTISM OF
INFANTS
(2) CHURCH GOVERNMENT BY
HIERARCHY
"ANABAPTISM" (THE
RE-BAPTISM OF THOSE WHO HAD BEEN
BAPTIZED AS CHILDREN) WAS RAMPANT, ADVOCATED
BY THOSE WHO BELIEVED IN THE BAPTISM
OF BELIEVERS ONLY AND THE PRACTICE OF
IMMERSION.
"CONGREGATIONALISM" WAS
A THREAT TO THE EPISCOPAL FORM OF
CHURCH GOVERNMENT. THE "CHURCH OF ENGLAND"
HAD PRIESTS, BISHOPS, AN ARCHBISHOP AND
THE "HEAD" HIMSELF ...KING JAMES.
THESE SEPARATISTS,
INDEPENDENTS, NON-CONFORMISTS, ETC. WERE
THORNS IN THE FLESH TO THE HIERARCHY,
SO THEY WERE THE OBJECTS OF
PERSECUTION. MANY FLED TO EUROPE, SOME
TO AMERICA.
[REFER TO THE ARTICLE
-- PETER RUCKMAN'S "OLD GIRL FRIEND" -- HOW
KING JAMES AND THE HARLOT STATE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND PERSECUTED AND BURNED THE
BAPTISTS & OTHERS.]
[See the
LIST
]
UNFORTUNATELY, THE
KING JAMES
VERSION REFLECTS THE
PREJUDICE OF JAMES
AND THE ENGLISH RELIGIOUS HIERARCHY ..."OLD
ECCLESIASTICAL WORDS TO BE KEPT". THEIR
REFUSAL TO TRANSLATE "BAPTIZE" &
"CHURCH" CORRECTLY AND LITERALLY IN
THEIR TRUE ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS ONLY SERVED
TO PERPETUATE THE IGNORANCE OF ROME
AND ITS ERRORS. BY "ANGLICIZING", OR
"TRANSLITERATING" THE GREEK WORD "BAPTIZO",
ITS REAL MEANING
("IMMERSION") WAS VEILED. BY NOT
TRANSLATING "EKKLESIA" AS
"ASSEMBLY" OR
"CONGREGATION", THE
OLD WORD
"CHURCH" CONTINUED TO BEAR THE SAME
CONCEPT AS HAD BEEN PROMOTED BY THE
HIERARCHY.
WHO KNOWS HOW
MUCH GOOD FOR THE CAUSE
OF TRUTH WOULD
HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED HAD THE KING
JAMES VERSION PROPERLY RENDERED
"BAPTIZE" AS
IMMERSION AND
"EKKLESIA" AS
CONGREGATION. PROBABLY THE
MOST DAMNABLE PRACTICE EVER SPAWNED IN
THE NAME OF CHRISTIANITY IS THE
PRACTICE OF BAPTIZING INFANTS AND BY
THIS ACT SUPPOSEDLY MAKING THEM NEW
CREATIONS IN CHRIST.
"INFANT
BAPTISM--REGENERATION" IS THE VERY
PILLAR OF ROMANISM FOR IT IS BY
THIS MEANS THAT THEY SECURE 99%
OF THEIR "CONVERTS!"
THE PROPER TRANSLATION
OF THE GREEK TO THE ENGLISH WOULD
NO DOUBT HAVE GREATLY CONTRIBUTED TO
CAUSE OF TRUTH IN OPPOSITION TO THIS
HERESY.
AND, OF COURSE, IF
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH GOVERNMENT IS TRUE,
WHAT NEED IS THERE FOR OVERLORDS LIKE
THE HIERARCHY OF ROME OR THE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND? THEY ARE AT ONCE
OVERTHROWN IF THE CONGREGATION IS ITS
OWN GOVERNING BODY!
FOR THE ABOVE
REASONS, AS WELL AS
OTHERS, I THINK
NOT OF THE KJV AS A
"DIVINELY INSPIRED
TRANSLATION", BUT
SIMPLY AS A TRANSLATION MADE BY
MEN, RULED OVER BY
KING JAMES, WHO WERE
BENT ON PRESERVING THEIR OWN
"ECCLESIASTICAL
TRADITIONS", PROPERLY
TRANSLATING ONLY SO FAR AS THE
TRANSLATION WAS NOT A THREAT TO THEIR
UNSCRIPTURAL VIEWS.
THE INSPIRED WORD
OF GOD CAME IN THE ORIGINAL HEBREW
AND GREEK WRITINGS (2
PETER 1:21). A
"TRANSLATION" INTO ENGLISH OR ANY
OTHER LANGUAGE IS THE "INSPIRED"
WORD OF GOD TO THE EXTENT IT
PROPERLY
TRANSLATES THE
LANGUAGES IN WHICH THE SCRIPTURES WERE
FIRST WRITTEN. I HAVE NEVER YET
READ A COMMENTARY OR RESPECTABLE BOOK
WHICH DID NOT AT ONE PLACE OR
ANOTHER CLARIFY OR CORRECT WHAT WAS
REGARDED BY THE WRITERS AS A
MISLEADING OR ERRONEOUS TRANSLATION. ONE OF
THE PRIMARY PURPOSES OF BOOKS AND THE
STUDY OF THEM IS TO DETERMINE THE
TRUE MEANING OF THE HEBREW AND GREEK
WRITINGS, AS WE
DO
NOT ALWAYS HAVE
IT COMPLETE IN ANY
SINGLE TRANSLATION.
IF THIS SUPPOSEDLY
"DESTROYS" THE FAITH OF SOME IN "THE
INSPIRATION OF THE BIBLE", THEN ALL I
CAN SAY IS ...IGNORANCE IS NOT
BLISS! YOU NEED TO
GET A PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE
DOCTRINE OF
INSPIRATION AND REALIZE
THAT IT DOES NOT
MEAN ANY TRANSLATION IS
"INSPIRED", BUT
RATHER THE INSPIRED WORD OF GOD CAME
IN THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS. I
PERSONALLY HAVE FOUND CAUSE FOR
DISAPPOINTMENT WITH
ALL TRANSLATIONS AT CERTAIN
POINTS.
written by Bob L. Ross
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NOTES
OF
INTEREST
by Bob
L. Ross
THE BIBLE
"RESTORED
?"
A reader sent us an item on the wwweb
entitled "Refuge King James Bible Church."
This item tells of a church in Arlington, Texas which believes the KJV is
the "restored" Bible. It says, "We
believe God prophesied that he would restore the
Bible in universal language of the end times", and that this "restoration
comes by Resurrection."
Evidently, they believe that since
there are "no original manuscripts", the Bible
"died" and then was
"resurrected" with the KJV. This is similar to
the Campbellite ["Church of Christ"] theory about the
"restoration of the
church" it supposedly
died-out, then was
"restored" by the Campbellite movement
of the early 1800's.
I have noticed that the "restoration"
theory has often been a popular "explanation" for cultic ideas.
One comes up with a wierd idea, alleges
it was once believed but lost-out to
"apostacy",
making a
"restoration"
necessary. I have also noticed that such "restorers" develop
a cultic following which spends its time and effort
"proving" itself to be the
"one-and-only" as to
having "the truth." It's an
old game only the "format"
changes from time-to-time.
"THE
TRANSLATORS
WERE UNINSPIRED
MEN, AND CONSEQUENTLY
LIABLE TO
MISTAKES; THE TRANSLATION IS
'INSPIRED', SO
FAR AS IT
EXACTLY GIVES
THE ORIGINAL. . . SO FAR,
NO MORE"
| JOHN
GIRARDEAU
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"VARIETY OF
TRANSLATIONS IS
PROFITABLE FOR
FINDING OUT OF THE
SENSE OF
THE SCRIPTURES."
| the
TRANSLATORS
of the
KING
JAMES VERSION to the
READERS
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