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REVISIONISM ANCIENT AND MODERN
S H Tow
God had spoken: His Word
standeth sure, forever settled, inerrant, infallible, perfect. Who dare
doubt or question it but the father of lies and enemy of truth. His master
stroke “Yea, hath God said?” stumbled our first parents and plunged
the race into sorrow and curse.
That was revisionism of the
spoken word at the dawn of history.
In time God gave the Written
Word: holy men of God wrote as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. That
Word was denied to God’s people by unfaithful custodians, until God sent
the Reformation and the Bible of the Reformation—the King James Version (KJV)—to
lift the darkness of a thousand years.
Lovers and defenders of the
KJV affirm with Dean Burgon of Oxford that
The Bible is none other than the voice of Him that sitteth upon the
throne. Every book of it, every chapter of it, every verse of it, every
syllable of it, every letter of it, is direct utterance of the Most High.
The Bible is none other than the Word of God, not some part of it more,
some part of it less, but all alike the utterance of Him that sitteth upon
the throne, faultless, unerring, supreme.
Through three centuries, the
KJV reigned supreme, the unchallenged and unrivalled Word of God. But the
enemy of truth, with diabolical cunning and subtlety, schemed its
overthrow through a “Committee of Revision” headed by Westcott and Hort,
masterminds of subversion and champions of corrupted and doctored texts.
Their “Revised Version” of
1881, a masterpiece of intrigue, and “secret weapon” of the
Counter-Reformation, breached the dike of Holy Scripture, and a hundred
corrupt “Modern English Versions” poured through the floodgate of
Revisionism. In the century following, corrupt versions had all but
replaced the King James Bible.
Thank God, it was all but:
He has yet a valiant remnant who stand against the tide of corrupt English
Versions, like the faithful seven thousand in Israel (1 Kgs 19:18),
their knees have not bowed before the Baal of Modern Revisionism.
This Twenty-first Century
“Battle of the Versions” intensifies as the father of lies uses every wily
stratagem to overthrow the citadel of Biblical fundamentalism, hurling
false accusations against the beloved translation and the underlying
texts.
But we affirm our unshakable
faith in the KJV as the very Word of God—the best, most faithful, most
accurate, most beautiful translation of the Bible in the English language
that is based on God’s infallible, inerrant, inspired and preserved texts.
May all who love the Word of
God affirm with the Scripture, that “the law of the LORD is perfect,
converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the
simple” (Ps 19:7), and that “All scripture is given by inspiration
of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect,
throughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Tim 3:16,17).
Let God be true but every
man a liar. God’s Word is truth. Only the KJV and its underlying texts
preserve that truth perfectly.
Dr S H Tow is senior pastor of Calvary
Bible-Presbyterian Church, and author of Beyond Versions. The above is
taken from the Preface of
KJV Q&A:
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About the KJV and its Underlying
Texts.
- Published in
The Burning Bush,
Volume 9 Number
2 (July 2003)
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