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DEAN BURGON SOCIETY eNEWS Volume 1 Issue 92 February, 2010

THE DEAN BURGON SOCIETY, INC., proudly takes its name in honor of John William Burgon (1813-1888), the Dean of Chichester in England, whose tireless and accurate scholarship and contribution in the area of New Testament Textual Criticism; whose defense of the Traditional Greek New Testament Text against its many enemies; and whose firm belief in the verbal inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible; we believe, have all been unsurpassed either before or since his time.

DBS eNEWSDBS eNEWSDBS eNEWS “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O

LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” Psalm 12:6-7

Dr. D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D., Editor Dr. H. D. Williams, M.D., Ph.D., Managing Editor

THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE DEAN BURGON SOCIETY

Special Points of Interest In This Issue BOOK SALE (SEE PAGE 2) A Page from the past (page 3) Pictures from 1989 DBS Annual Meeting (page 4) Part I of a New Article by Dr. Ferguson(page 15) New Featured Books (page 15 and following)

Pastor D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D. is President of the Dean Burgon Society. He has held that position for 32 years. Under his leadership, the Dean Burgon Society has defended the preserved Words of God and provided many publications to pastors, missionaries, and students for study.

Two New Books

On page 15 of this DBS eNEWS, you will find information on two new books that are now available from both the Dean Burgon Society and the Bible For Today. 1. THE FIRST 200 QUESTIONS ANSWERED By Dr. D. A. Waite–Real Questions From Real People With Real Answers. The title implies that there might be some other questions answered some time in the future. There are many questions that pertain to the Bible and its underlying Hebrew, Ara-maic, and Greek Words. I have well over 1,000 more questions that I have not used. People write in their questions each day and I try to give them a proper answer. Perhaps at a later time, I will get out a SECOND 200 QUESTIONS ANSWERED book. 2. CLEANING-UP HAZARDOUS MATERIALS–A REFUTATION OF GAIL RIPLINGER’S HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. The book is by Dr. Kirk DiVietro, Th.M., Ph.D. edited by Dr. H. D. Wil-liams, M.D., Ph.D. Here is why I urge everyone to read this clean-up book. a. Because of the False View of Inspiration. Gail Riplinger does not have a proper view of 2 Timothy 3:16 and of the Greek adjective, THEOPNEUSTOS meaning “God-breathed.” b. Because of the False View of the King James Bible. Gail Riplinger does not look to the original Words given by God in the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek as foundational, but relies entirely on the King James Bible’s English. c. Because of the False View of Lexicons and Textual Aids. Gail Riplinger trashes all such aids supposedly because of the bad character of the authors. In reality, she does not want any light to be shown on the King James Bible except the words found therein. d. Because of the Correcting of Pastors and Other Leaders. Gail Riplinger violates the New Testament commands about a woman’s place regarding the teaching of pastors and other men. Especially is it obnoxious when she corrects and condemns the theology of these men. This book is 416 pages in length. It answers some of Gail Riplinger’s 1200-page book that is filled with serious inaccuracies, errors, and false Biblical doctrine. You must order it.

In Christ, Pastor D. A. Waite, DBS President


DBS REGIONAL MEETINGS

The DBS is willing to hold Regional Meetings around the US and in other nations. However, the host church will need to pay all of the expenses of the speakers, which may include travel expenses, lodging, and meals. For regional meetings, three to four speakers is normal. A regional meeting is scheduled normally on Monday and Tuesday afternoons and evenings.

In addition, the DBS live-streams meetings around the world. It will require the host church to provide the internet connection plus the expenses of our excellent computer specialist and technician, Dan Waite. He will need to rent a van to bring the necessary equipment for the live-streaming. If you are interested, email us at: [email protected].

BOOK SALE At the Annual Meeting of the DBS, the Executive Committee voted to place the remaining hardcover books in storage on sale. This is in response to several changes the DBS is making in publishing their books. In the future, DBS will publish books by print-on-demand (POD). This will eliminate many administrative problems such as storage. The POD books will be perfect bound (paperback). So, if you would like case bound (hardcover) books, now is the time to purchase them at a discount before they are gone. When they are gone, the DBS does not plan to print hardcover books at present in the future. Below is a chart with the sale price for single copies of the remaining hardcover books COMPARED to the price of POD books. Contact: 1-800-JOHN 10:9, or go to www.DeanBurgonSociety.org.

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The Last Twelve Verses of Mark $7.50 $22.00

The Revision Revised $12.50 $29.00

The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels

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Inspiration and Interpretation $12.50 $29.00

The Causes of Corruption of the Traditional Text

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A Guide to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament

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8000 Differences Between the N.T. Greek Words of the KJB and Modern Versions

$10.00 $27.00

Verbal Plenary Preservation of the Bible

No hardcover books available $15.00

The Oxford Debate No hardcover books available $10.00

Scrivener’s Annotated Greek NT $17.50 This may be printed in leather in the future

Why The DBS Deserves Its Name $2.50 (paperback) $10.00


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A PAGE FROM THE PAST

THE DBS NEWS June, 1979


DBS Annual Meeting

1989


[Editor’s note: The article to follow is by Dr. P. S. Ferguson. By necessity, the article will be divided into three

parts because of its length (see the “Contents” below). The second and third parts will be in future issues of the DBS eNEWS]

THE HISTORIC VIEWS OF THE CHURCH CONCERNING PRESERVATION BY

Dr. P. S. FERGUSON

Contents INTRODUCTION I. Reformers and Preservation II. Warfield Overturns Historic Position III. Preservation Views Today CONCLUSION

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS DBSJ Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal KJV King James Version CT Critical Text MT Majority Text TR Textus Receptus WCF Westminster Confession of Faith

Dr. Kirk DiVietro, Pastor

The 32nd Annual DBS Conference

The DBS 32nd Annual Conference in 2010 will be

hosted by Pastor Kirk DiVietro at Grace Baptist Church, 69 Beaver Street, Franklin, MA, July, 14-15, 2010. Please mark your calendars.

The church phone number is 506-528-8550. The two

airports located near Franklin, MA are Logan and Providence. The Providence airport is the easiest airport for the church and Southwest airlines is the best airline into Providence and the Franklin area.

Additional information concerning meals and

accommodations will be provided as the date of the annual meeting nears.


Introduction The battle for the Word of God is not a new battle. Today, while many of its most vitriolic opponents are in the grave, and the volumes written to discredit it and to overthrow its influence, are forgotten, the Bible has found its way into every major nation and over 2,000 languages of the planet. As Lewis Sperry Chafer wrote, “It is not such a book as man would write if he could, or could write if he would.”[1] The fact that this book has survived so many centuries, notwithstanding such unparalleled efforts to destroy it by imperial and papal Rome as well as apostate textual criticism, is strong evidence that God Almighty its Author has also been its Preserver.

The Bible did not appear from a vacuum but was inspired and preserved under the Sovereign control of Al-mighty God. This includes all natural processes and agencies through which these inspired Words were enscrip-turated and passed down through the ages. Only God could have inspired Moses to inerrantly record 2,500 years of human history unaided. The Bible has been preserved against all odds, both in its canonicity and in the purity of its contents. Indeed on the two times we are told that the Lord wrote He used the “finger of God” and, in the first instance, He committed it in stone no doubt to illustrate the infallibility, inerrancy, and indestructi-bility of His Words (Exod.31:18; John 8:6). This was despite there being various forms of writing material al-ready available, but the stone represents a permanent quality that cannot be erased or modified (Matt. 7:24). God reveals that the Bible is classed with a very few realities which will endure forever (Matt 5:18). God also made clear that we are to be “mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand gen-erations” (1Chron 16:15). Eternal endurance is promised to the Bible, as it truly is the Indestructible Book.

It is startling the confusion Satan has sown worldwide through liberalism, higher criticism, cults, and false religions, especially in the last one hundred years on the infallible nature of Holy Scripture. This has been espe-cially notable since the advent of the printing presses and the ubiquitous availability of the complete Bible to all since our beloved King James translation in 1611. The church has historically held fast to the Word, not only as given by divine inspiration but also as preserved throughout the ages. However, a new view has crept into the Church, which has relegated the authentic text to the autograph originals only. Until the eighteenth century challenge of evolution by scientific rationalism, the almost universal view of the Christian world was that the Earth was only a few thousand years old. Likewise, the Church held to the historic doctrine of the perfect inspi-ration and preservation of the Words of God in all ages until challenged by rational textual criticism.

Historic Fundamentalism may be moving away from these doctrines, but this not the historic position of be-lievers and the Reformation. This new view is around 100-150 years old, like the age of the Charismatic move-ment, rejection of ex nihilo creation, and the critical text. Charles Hodge pertinently observed, “It would be a lamentable spectacle to see the Church changing its doctrines or its interpretations of Scripture, to suit the con-stantly changing representations of scientific men as to matters of fact.”[2] Probably the greatest sign of the de-cline of the Church has been the attack on the doctrine of Scriptural Preservation and the King James Version in the postmodern zeistgeist. Rome, along with post-Enlightenment thought, has now captured even Fundamen-talism, at least concerning the Greek New Testament texts. However, giants of the past like Dean Burgon state the historic position,

I am utterly disinclined to believe, so grossly improbable does it seem — that at the end of 1800 years, 995 copies out of every thousand, I suppose, will prove untrustworthy, and that one, two, three, four, or five which remain, whose contents were till yesterday as good as unknown, will be found to have the secret of what the Holy Spirit originally inspired. I am utterly unable to believe, in short, that God’s promise has so entirely failed, that at the end of 1800 years, much of the text of the Gospel had in point of fact to be picked by a Ger-man critic out of a waste paper basket in the convent of St. Catherine.

The intellectual and preaching giant, C.H. Spurgeon also declared the Authorized Version “will never be bet-tered, as I judge, till Christ shall come” [3] but his opinion is swept aside by the new generation of Fundamental-ists. Critical Text (CT) advocates have no ultimate and certain standard for determining objective truth. Fortu-nately, most CT advocates of the past were better believers than theologians and have been able to live with the inherent contradiction of their system by simply declaring the gospel from the Received Text. This has now been challenged by the belligerent approach of the new breed of CT adherents and multiplication of translations and the latest edition of the evolutionary Greek Text.


The annual Congress on Fundamentalism held at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 22-29, 1978 passed the following resolution signed by FBF President Dr Rod Bell, Dr Gilbert Stenholm of BJU, Dr. Arno Weniger, Jnr. of Maranatha Baptist Bible College, Dr Ian Paisley, and Dr Bob Jones Jr.,

That we recommend the use and distribution of only the King James Version of the Bible in English and only those foreign language versions and translations which have been faithfully translated by those committed to the verbal inspiration of the Holy Scripture.[4]

The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship (FBF) used to stand unequivocally against all Bible versions produced by liberals. In their 1984 Resolutions they state,

We condemn paraphrases such as The Living Bible and Good News for Modern Man and the products of unbelieving and liberal scholarship such as the Revised Standard Version and the New English Bible.

We deplore the rash of new versions which add to or delete from the Word of God, such as the New Interna-tional Version, with special reference to those so-called “revisions” which by footnote additions undermine the text.

We recognize the unique and special place of the Authorized King James Version, providentially preserved by God in the English-speaking world.[5]

The one consistent trend in all the varied errors, deviations and heresies that has afflicted the Church in the past three hundred years is that their advocates will first criticize the standard received edition or translation of Scripture. The Institutional Church has now publicly given up on having an agreed “text” of the Scriptures and attacks on the historic view of perfect preservation and the KJV are now common place. Even professed Funda-mentalists take great pride today in fervently arguing that God did not perfectly preserve His Words, leaving us with an uncertain errant text. The logic of this is that God failed to guide His people to know and keep His words and failed to make it available for all generations, despite what He promised to do. They argue for “essential preservation” but the word “essential” means only pertaining to or constituting the essence of a thing. Tolerance is the cry for all views on this issue yet we forget that Christ rebuked a Church for tolerating a Jezebeel in its midst. Tragically, the Church is being destroyed from within as Cicero Marcus Tullius, born on 3 January, 106 BC and murdered on 7 December, warned of a nation in 43 BC in the Roman Senate,

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a na-tion, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.[6]

Speaking of God and the preservation of Scripture, Central Baptist Theological Seminary President, Kevin Bauder [7] tries to argue the Lord is indifferent as to His Words as Bauder claims, “He might preserve some words and He might permit some to be lost, depending upon His own purpose.” [8] BJU professor, Stewart Cus-ter speaking at Marquette Manor Baptist Church in Chicago in 1984 said that God preserved His Word buried, “in the sands of Egypt.” [9] Larry Oats of Maranatha Baptist College in Wisconsin, an institution under Dr Myron Cedarholm that formerly argued for the fact of the preserved Word of God in the King James Version [10], claims, “God could have preserved His Word but history proves He did not.” [11] William D. Barrick of The Master’s Seminary argues,

Traditionally the church has declared its belief that the preservation of the Scriptures is the result of God’s providential activity. God must have a role in the preservation of His Word if it is to be kept inviolate. The ac-tive preservation of the Scriptures is necessary because the sinful nature of mankind is antagonistic to God and His Word. Such antagonism breeds both contempt for Scripture and the neglect of Scripture. It is fully within the capacity of sinful mankind to allow the Word to perish and to alter its wording intentionally or unintention-ally.[12]

But he then paradoxically concludes, “The responsibility for preservation in this world rests squarely upon


human shoulders.”[13] Paul W. Downey of Temple Baptist Church writing in God’s Word in Our Hands claims, like the Neo-

Orthodox, “God’s Word transcends written documents, even the physical universe, and will be completely and ultimately fulfilled if not one copy remains. The power and effectiveness and duration of the Word of God, and man’s responsibility to obey it, do not demand the presence or even the existence of any physical copy.” Downey also wrote, “The essential message of Scripture has been preserved not only in the Byzantine text-type, but in the Alexandrian text-type as well; the K.J.V. is the Word of God as well as the NASB.”[14] Later he writes, “Some among us believe the Bible makes no direct promise of its own preservation, that it only implies it by infer-ence.”[15] With tongue firmly in cheek, Bob Jones, III (then President of Bob Jones University) on the back cover of the same publication writes concerning the thrill of knowing we have just the general concepts or mes-sage from God today,

Like a clean-edged sword, God’s Word in our Hands cuts through the current confused and schismatic clatter on the subject of biblical preservation. These conservatives and God-fearing authors do the church great ser-vice by presenting us with soul-thrilling evidence of the reliability and durability of the eternal Word.

However, as Dr D A Waite writes in reviewing God’s Word in Our Hands, “There are over 5,255 manuscripts. If God’s “Word” is “in our hands,” how can it be both “in our hands” and also all over the world in these 5,255 manuscripts? That is impossible.”[16] It is little wonder with such men in leadership in Fundamental schools and churches that God gave His prophets the warning of a famine of God’s Words in the last days (Amos 8:11).

RIDICULE OF PERFECT PRESERVATION To stand for perfect preservation is arrogantly dismissed as adopting the Bible’s faith-view in order to escape

from the “fact” that textual criticism has shown that God did not preserve all of His Words and make them gen-erally available in every generation. These truculent critics ridicule anyone who exalts the authority of the writ-ten Word over the authority of liberal “scholarship.” Many adopt the methodology of the evolutionists who fig-ured that the best way to insulate their doctrines from scrutiny is to prevent a debate from ever beginning in the first place by ridiculing your opponents as “fideistic” and demanding that “religious presuppositional” views must not mix with “science.” CT advocates refuse to disclose their presuppositions since they are aware that re-vealing the bases for the radical beliefs will make their arguments vulnerable to a Biblical challenge. Their books have verbose theological presuppositions to account for canonicity and inspiration of the Words of Scripture but are strangely silent concerning preservation. They adopt the same rationalistic accommodation with “science” as Davis Young in The Biblical Flood where he rejects the historic interpretation of the Universal Flood by arguing,

As we have seen, the idea of a universal deluge was the settled interpretation of the church for nearly seventeen centuries, but that has changed as a body of compelling evidence undercutting that interpretation gradually ac-cumulated. The cumulative pressure of general revelation can be ignored for only so long.[17]

In a summary response to Young’s theories, Marvin Lubenow correctly retreats to the orthodox Biblical pre-suppositional literal hermeneutic,

Davis Young is correct in saying that harmonization based on the old earth-old Adam position has failed. Be-cause he does not recognize that his data has been placed in a philosophic framework alien to Genesis, he has nowhere else to go. He is suggesting that “…the Bible may be expressing history in nonfactual terms…” There is a name for nonfactual history: fiction. However, Young clearly does not intend to imply that. Hence, his words convey no information. We see the frustrations of a man who is utterly sincere in wanting to maintain biblical integrity but is unable to extricate himself from, the man-made philosophic framework of earth history.[18]

These textual critics are removing the “ancient landmarks” concerning preservation and replacing them with a rationalistic system of logic. Although they cry “fideistic presupposition” at us, we may point out that they are presupposing that God has not done what He promised to do with unbiblical and revisionist logic. Their fideism is not in God, but in man through a supposedly neutral, scholarly, and scientific means to restore as closely as possible to what the original text of the Bible was. They are effectively removing the concept of Divine revelation, as an operative concept, from Christian epistemology. It is ironic that one side of the debate is unfairly accused


of engaging in fideism, when the reality is that both sides are working from the same fundamental conviction. However, we must always draw our conclusions about the evidence by means of the presuppositions. Presuppo-sitions are not disconnected from evidence, but the interpretation of the evidence must always come from the presuppositions.

A typical statement is that of Gerald Priest, Professor of Historical Theology at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary,

Many “evangelical” heresies are simply the old ones with new names, e.g., Open Theism, a form of Pela-gianism (Clark Pinnock, Greg Boyd); Man-centered soteriology, a form of Semi-Pelagianism (Charles Finney, Dave Hunt); Self-esteemism, a form of Gnosticism (Robert Schuller), Annihilationism, a form of Socinianism (Clark Pinnock, John Stott) and King James-onlyism, a relatively new heresy in response to numerous Bible versions (Peter Ruckman, Donald Waite, David Cloud), to name a few.[19]

This view has become so pervasive in fundamentalism that it is perhaps the most divisive issue in the his-tory of the movement. Concerned fundamentalist theologians and pastors have been offering correctives but leading proponents of KJV-onlyism have remained unconvinced and obdurate.[20]

One ad hominem tactic these groups use is to label you a “Ruckmanite.” However, as one TR defender once observed, “A Ruckmanite is what the opponents call you when they are losing the argument.” Another old ca-nard tactic, opponents such as Doug Kutilek utilize, is to say that your belief in preservation is rooted in the thinking of Benjamin Wilkinson, who was a Seventh Day Adventist and published Our Authorized Bible Vindi-cated in 1930.[21] However, these anti-KJV opponents do not acknowledge that their view is derived from the work of two apostate Anglican scholars and that Wilkinson’s views were rejected by the Adventists who embrace fully the critical theories of Westcott and Hort. Leading Neo-Evangelical critic of the TR, James R. White warns that King James Bible proponents, “undercut the very foundations of the faith itself.”[22] BJU Board Member and Fundamentalist Baptist Pastor, Mike Harding also scoffs,

KJV Onlyism is the greatest embarrassment to historic Fundamentalism that I know. It shows how intellectu-ally bankrupt and dishonest some aspects of Fundamentalism really are. It is laughable if it were not so serious in its consequences.[23]

William Combs of the Fundamentalist Detroit Baptist Seminary also attacks preachers, such as Dr. Ian Pais-ley, who stand for perfect preservation, by citing their beliefs in a condescending way,

[David] Cloud says: “I believe the King James Bible is an accurate and lovely translation of the preserved Greek and Hebrew text of Scripture. I do not believe the King James Bible contains any errors.” In like man-ner, Thomas Strouse writes: “The KJV is the Word of God in the English language. It has no errors in it be-cause it carefully reflects the original language texts closest to the autographa.” Ian Paisley agrees: “I believe the Authorised Version preserves the Word of God for me in the English tongue and that it contains no errors.” Although many of those in the KJV/TR camp refrain from using language associated with the original inspira-tion of the Scriptures, some are not so guarded. Paisley argues: “There is no such thing as verbal Revelation without verbal Inspiration and there is no such thing as verbal Inspiration without verbal Preservation. In all cases it is not partial but plenary i.e. full, complete, perfect.”[24]

Combs boldly asserts, “The Bible does not teach its own perfect preservation, and it is a serious error to claim otherwise.”[25] The attack by so-called Fundamentalists against KJV proponents is nothing new. Basil Manly wrote in his classic work The Bible Doctrine of Inspiration in 1888, “There is even now, with some ignorant per-sons, an assumption of the infallibility and equality with the original of some particular translation, as the Vul-gate, or King James, or Luther’s.”[26]

If modern Fundamentalists posit a view on preservation it is usually a nebulous and unchallengeable posi-tion of the “non-preserved preservation” view that God has preserved His Word through the totality of all extant Greek and Hebrew manuscripts that we have. However, such advocates never point to a complete compilation of all extant manuscripts that we have resulting in the fact that we can never be sure that we have the complete Word of God. Dan Wallace claimed in 2008 that there are at least “as many as another 1000 Greek New Testa-ment manuscripts yet to be discovered.”[27] Some inconsistently mock those who believe in perfect preservation as “heretical” as they claim it is unreasonable and amounts to re-inspiration, yet they claim that 90-98% purity


of the text is down to God’s supernatural providence. However, both processes require the same miracle of God’s magnificent providence.

Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary (DBTS) decide to comfort the saints of God by openly stating, “We do not hold that the Word of God is to be found exclusively in one English translation or any one translation in any other language since all such have mistranslations, miscopying, or misprinting, however minor, and are not therefore inerrant.”[28] They also say, “We therefore hold that the integrity of any text, text type, translation, version, or copy of the Scriptures is to be judged by the autographs only and not by an English translation or any other reproduction or translation.” This is a nonsensical position as we do not have the autographs, so it is im-possible for “the integrity of a text, text type, translation, version, or copy” to be “judged by the autographs,” and it is fallacious to say that they are so judged. For instance, how can the Critical Text or the Textus Receptus be judged by an autograph that does not exist? No doubt DBTS will argue that there are modernist experts who can determine which manuscripts are closest. However, as the logical conclusions of guilty man on spiritual matters will always be in error they need to explain what makes a modernist an expert on something that does not ex-ist? The truth is that every believer using Biblical theological or philosophical presuppositions is led to some conclusion as to the content of the original autographs. That is the only logical and honest position rather than this absurd semantic gyration. Most CT advocates sound like the average freshman College student that has just failed his introductory logic courses rather than a serious theologian. They delineate the depths into the sea of absurdity that those who reject the Biblical presuppositional approach will go rather than face up to the bibli-cally obvious.

DBTS also say “We acknowledge the right of all Christians to study the manuscript evidence regarding the text of Scripture and to come to a preference for a text, text type, translation, or version….We do not grant the legitimacy of regarding one text, text type, or translation as the very Word of God to the exclusion of all others.” Their argument is that they grant all believers the right to study this issue but only to the extent that they come to a preference, but not to a firm conviction on this matter. What Scriptural right have they to make this claim? They go on to maintain, “In light of the considerable discussion and controversy among fundamentalists about versions, translation theories, manuscripts, texts, and text types, we hold that no particular beliefs about the best textual and translation theories should be elevated to the place of core fundamentalist beliefs or articles of distinctively fundamentalist faith.” The irony in all of this is that, like the secular pluralists, DBTS deny us a right to hold our view of preservation as a distinctive belief but then demand we accept their belief of no confidence or certainty that the multi-text only view is the only legitimate view. They refuses to receive the Scriptures as they exist in history, but demands that they have the right and authority to reconstruct and impose their own mak-ings upon us; accepting nothing as authentic or genuine, but only their own opinions.

DBTS boldly assert that it is illegitimate is to take a distinctive view, yet do exactly the same thing to which they are objecting by a juxtaposition of non-exclusion and exclusion. They attempt to claim the supposed moral high ground by saying that it is wrong to preclude other possible views by then doing exactly that - precluding other views. It is a similar logic to the Neo-Evangelicals who reject separation and then want to separate from the separationist Fundamentalists! Does the Bible give a foundation for the belief that a firm conviction on the text is illegitimate or do we have to turn to DBTS to tell us what is and isn’t legitimate? In this DBTS statement we see the assertion of uncertainty, the emphasis on man and his ability to rationally observe and scientifically judge the revealed truth of Scripture, and the arrogant intolerance of any certitude and disagreement with them on preservation. Without the Biblical doctrine of preservation, we are left with non-answers in these areas. An-other irony is that DBTS has such certainty about what God has not said in the face of what He has said on per-fect preservation. To the naive observer, DBTS may appear to be simply making minor changes in the interpre-tation of the Biblical text. However, what they really are doing is converting completely over from a biblical his-torical framework to a naturalistic one. These DBTS scholars need correcting for when theologically educated men make absurd statements they are no less absurd than when the lay person make them. We reject their argu-ments because they are fundamentally illogical, and believers should not utilise unsound arguments nor appeal to unbelievers to place their confidence in them. Despite their bombastic approach, DBTS are like the rhetori-cian in the story who wrote in the margin of his notes, “Argument weak. Shout here.”

Myron J. Houghton, professor in the Theology Department of Faith Baptist Theological Seminary, also en-gages in the same logical fallacies,


I believe God verbally inspired the original manuscripts of Scripture without error and without omission, but I also believe He has preserved His Word through manuscripts that have some differences. I do not always know which reading reflects the original wording of a passage, but I do know that all of these readings reflect doc-trine taught somewhere in the Bible and that none of these differences change what God's Word teaches. I can trust the Bible in my hands to be the Word of God.[29]

Central Baptist Seminary Professor, Edward Glenny concurs with this “work in progress” text,

In our defense and propagation of the faith the key issue is not whether today we know the precise form of the words recorded in the autographa. To make that our focus moves us away from God to concentrate on the process…The key issue is that God has spoken in the autographa and He has spoken with authority and with-out error and we are responsible to respond to Him.[30]

Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth could not have put it any better! However, the message was in the Words; there is no message apart from the Words and there is no inspiration apart from the Words. Textual criticism has been fruitlessly seeking a perfect text by correcting the “errors” in the TR and after 350 years of making “corrections,” they candidly confess they have not realized their goal and cannot. This uncertain “certainty” posi-tion of modern Fundamentalism is in marked contrast to what the Lord spoke through Solomon about the in-spired words, “Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?” (Prov 22:20-21). Luke penned a two volume, fifty-two chapter history of the life of Christ and the first thirty years of the church, which had more words than all of Paul’s epistles, and he expressly stated it was for the purpose, “That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed” (Luke 1:4).

In another article, Samuel Schnaiter of BJU critiques Wilbur Pickering’s Majority Text position by making the deeply disturbing critical observation, “Finally, although Pickering has avoided an excessive reliance on theological presuppositions in his presentation, it is nevertheless clear that a theological presupposition essen-tially undergirds his entire purpose.”[31] According to Schnaiter it is acceptable and even necessary to have theological presuppositions about the resurrection, but it is unacceptable to hold theological presuppositions about the historical sources that the belief in the resurrection is based upon. The ecumenist, Daniel Wallace of Dallas Theological Seminary concurs, “A theological a priori has no place in textual criticism”[32] and has also stated, “Evangelicals tend to allow their doctrinal convictions to guide their research. It is better to not the left hand know what the right hand is doing: methodologically, investigate with as objective a mind as possible, al-lowing the evidence to lead where it will.”[33] Interestingly, Bishop Westcott rejected such an approach to studying the text, as he wrote to Hort, “I hardly feel with you on this question of discussing anything doctrinally or on doctrine. This seems to me to be wholly out of our province. We have only to determine what is written and how it can be rendered. Theologians may deal with the text and version afterwards.”[34] Leading contem-porary textual critic, Bart Ehrman also concludes,

The fact that Warfield and Burgon both affirmed a doctrine of general preservation, and yet held antithetical views of how the text was preserved suggests that the doctrine is inappropriately used in support of any par-ticular view of the text’s transmission history. Instead such affirmations can only be made subsequent to the assessment of the evidence for the progress of the history of transmission. The evidence must lead to the doc-trine, not vice versa—else the doctrine will simply be adduced to support a certain set of historical conclusions.[35]

Such a statement shows the depth of rationalistic and unbiblical thought that is now prevalent in modern fundamentalism. For an experienced Seminary Professor like Schnaiter at a leading Fundamentalist school to implicitly reject both the existence and need of a Biblical pre-supposition concerning a Biblical doctrine is frankly astounding. Like the Deists, this view is premised on the belief that nature is the only light needed by man in his search for God and His truth. The same failure to renounce the intellectual autonomy of man outside the revealed promises of God was at the center of man’s fall into sin. The Scriptures explicitly warn that man as a finite creature man is forbidden to test God’s Word (Deut 6:16; Luke 4:12).

Nowhere in Scripture does God separate so-called “spiritual” truths from “secular” ones. By contrast, it is em-phasized that “all wisdom and knowledge” is found in the revelation of Christ, who is God in the flesh. (Col 2:3) and God demands man to believe Him rather than judge the Bible according to their finite reason by appealing


to their own “logic.” The Psalmist makes it clear, “In thy light shall we see light” (Ps 36:9). Unbib-lical pre-suppositions will therefore “oppose themselves” (2 Tim 2:25), as their fundamental be-liefs will fail to properly integrate because of inherent contradictions. By rejecting the presup-positional approach, CT advocates interpret preservation promises in light of biblical criticism. This invariably opens the door to all biblical criticism, which can be witnessed in the lives of men like Bart Ehrman who correctly observed that once you adopt naturalistic premises it is wholly consistent not to let it guide you on other doctrines such as inspiration, inerrancy etc.

[1] Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology, Vol 1, (Kregel, Grand Rapids, 1947-48), 22. [2] Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology (New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1871, reprint: Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1946), 1:57. [3] An excerpt from “The Last Words of Christ on the Cross,” a sermon on Luke 23:46; Psalm 31:5; and Acts 7:59 preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, on Sunday evening, June 25, 1882. [4] The resolutions were drawn up by a Committee consisting of Dr. Rod Bell, Chairman; Rev. Homer Massey, Sec-retary; Rev. Charles Anderson, Dr. Allen Dickerson, Dr. Gilbert Stenholm, Dr. Carl Bieber, Rev. Bill Williams, Mr. Dennis Pegrom, Dr. John McCormick, Dr. Arno Weniger, Jnr., Dr. James Zaspel, Dr. Ian Paisley, Dr. Bob Jones, and Dr. Ed. Nelson. It is set forth in the Revivialist December 1970 online at http://www.ianpaisley.org/revivalist/1978/Rev78dec.htm accessed 21 February 2009. [5] 1984 FBF Resolutions adopted at Maranantha Bible College on June 12-14, 1984 online at http://www.fbfi.org/content/view/20/22/ accessed 21 February 2009. Interestingly, one of those signing this resolution was J. B. Williams who later edited From the Mind of God to the Mind of Man, (Greenville: Ambassador-Emerald International, 1999). [6] Cited in Barbara O'Brien, Blogging America: Political Discourse in a Digital Nation, (New York: Franklin, Beedle & Associates, Inc., 2004), 157. [7] Like many of the Central Baptist faculty, Kevin Bauder received graduate training at a Neo-Evangelical Semi-nary that is strongly opposed to the KJV. [8] Kevin Bauder, One Bible Only? Examining Exclusive Claims for the King James Bible, (Grand Rapids: Kre-gel, 2001), 159-160. [9] Jack Moorman, Forever Settled, (New Jersey: Bible For Today, 1985) 90-95. [10] Kent Brandenburg on his blog writes, “When I was a senior in high school, Maranatha had the very first Dean Burgon Society meeting with Dr. Donald Waite and Dr. David Otis Fuller. Two of the faculty, Dr. Strouse and Dr. Hollowood, were on the board of the society. Maranatha herself published two books in its history, the first a two volume set of Armitage’s History of Baptists, and the second a little green and yellow paperback that was a com-parison of the King James Version with the modern versions, Evaluating of NT Versions, by Everett Fowler, of which Dr. Cedarholm wrote a strong TR/MT introduction.” online at http://kentbrandenburg.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-do-you-think.html accessed 20 February 2009. [11] Marion H. Reynolds, Jr., “Dangerous Misconceptions Concerning Satan,” Foundation Magazine (May-June 1996), Editorial. [12] William D. Barrick, TMSJ 9/1 (Spring 1998): 27. [13] Ibid, 29. [14] James B. Williams ed., God’s Word in Our Hands: The Bible Preserved for Us (Greenville: Ambassador Em-erald International, 2003), 376-377. [15] Ibid, 390. [16] D. A. Waite, “Fundamentalists Battle Bible Preservation,” online at http://www.deanburgonsociety.org/PDF/BFT_3287.pdf accessed 20 February 2009. [17] Davis A. Young, The Biblical Flood: Case Study of the Church’s Response to Extra-biblical Evidence (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995), 309. [18]Marvin Lubenow, Bones of Contention (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992), 234. [19]Gerald L. Priest, “Early Fundamentalism’s Legacy: What Is It and Will It Endure Through the 21st Century?,” DBSJ 9 (Fall 2004): 317. [20] Ibid, 342. [21] Doug Kutilek, “The Unlearned Men:The True Genealogy and Genesis of King-James-Version-Onlyism” online at http://www.kjvonly.org/doug/kutilek_unlearned_men.htm accessed on 5 February 2009. [22] James R. White, The King James Only Controversy, (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1995), Intro-duction, VII. [23] See Mike Harding’s comments on forum entry online at http://www.sharperiron.org/showpost.php?p=107862&postcount=125 accessed on 24 November 2008.

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William Combs, “The Preservation of Scripture,” DBSJ 5(Fall 2000): 31. [24] Ibid, 38. [26] Basil Manly, The Bible Doctrine of Inspiration, (New York: AC Armstrong and Sons, 1888), 84. [27] Interview with Daniel Wallace cited in “Q & A: Daniel Wallace,” Christianity Today (April 2008) online at http://www.ctlibrary.com/ct/2008/aprilweb-only/117-32.0.html accessed 10 February 2009. [28] William Combs, “Errors in the King James Version” DBSJ 4 (Fall 1999): 152. [29] Myron J. Houghton, “The Preservation of Scripture,” in The Faith Pulpit (August 1999) online at http://www.faith.edu/seminary/faithpulpit.php?article=./faithpulpit/1999_08 accessed 2 April 2009. [30] Edward Glenny, “The Preservation of Scripture,” in ed. Michael Grisanti, The Bible Version Debate, (Minneapolis: Central Baptist Theological Seminary, 1997), 82. [31] Cited in “Textual Criticism and the Modern English Version Controversy,” Biblical Viewpoint, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (April 1982): 72. [32] “The Majority Text” by Daniel Wallace in Bart D. Ehrman, The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research, (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995), 309. [33] Daniel Wallace, “The Problem of Luke 2:2” online at http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=1146 accessed 25 March 2009. [34] Arthur Westcott, Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, (London: Macmillan Co., 1903), 393. [35] Cited by Wilbur Pickering, from a copy sent to him personally by Bart D. Ehrman: “New Testament Textual Criticism: Search for Method,” M.Div thesis, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1981, 44.

[Editor’s note: This concludes part one of Dr. Ferguson’s excellent article. Look for parts II and III in up-coming issues]

Psalms 12:6-7 “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” Matthew 4:4 “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” 1 Peter 1:23-25 “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.” Psalms 100:5 “For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.” Psalms 119:89 “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.” Matthew 5:17-18 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”


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CLEANING-UP HAZARDOUS MATERIALS A Refutation of Gail Riplinger's Hazaardous Materials

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Pastor D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D., President of the DBS said: “Why I urge you to read Dr. DiVietro’s book.

Because of the False View of Inspiration. Mrs. Riplinger has a completely distorted view of Bib-lical inspiration. 2 Tim 3:16 refers to the way the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Words were produced. It was by the process of God’s “breathing out” (THEOPNEUSTOS) of those Words. Because of the False View of the King James Bible. Mrs. Riplinger has a completely distorted view of the King James Bible. She believes the King James Bible was given by God Himself rather than its being the only faithful, true, and accurate English translation made by a group of men--scholarly and equipped, but still just men. Because of the False View of Lexicons and Textual Aids. Mrs. Riplinger has a completely dis-torted view of the purpose and usefulness of sound lexicons and textual aids for Pastors and others in their study of the Bible. The measure of a useful lexical aid is not the extent to which the author’s doctrine or lifestyle agrees with her own, but the extent to which the volume produces honest and helpful meanings and uses of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Words underlying the King James Bible. The focus must be on the results produced, rather than the personal faults or traits of those who have produced it. Because of the Correcting of Pastors and Other Leaders. Mrs. Riplinger, throughout this and other of her books, demeans and challenges various Pastors and other Bible-believing church leaders. Even though she might disagree, it is out of place and unbiblical for a woman to rebuke men.” BFT #3457 One for $25.00 + $8 S&P; Two at $23 each or $46 + $10 S&P;Five at $20 each or $100 + $15 S&P.

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The Reason For This Book. Though other writers have written books giving their answers to many questions, I thought another such book might be in order. Some of the answers are not in other books. Some questions are answered differently than others have answered them. The Goal of This Book. The goal has been to give to the readers some explanation of what our Bible For Today ministry believes on a number of important topics. Many of our friends do not know what we believe and where we stand on a number of questions. This book will inform them fully about these matters. The Name of This Book. The title of the book, “The First 200 Questions Answered by Dr. D. A. Waite” implies that this might be just the beginning in a series of works. This might be true, depend-ing on what happens in future days. The Usefulness of This Book. As you can see, unlike many books, this book has an elaborate seven page “Index of Words and Phrases.” Because of this, the reader can look up any subject they wish to look into and find it without difficulty. Some of the entries might seem trivial and unnecessary, but that depends on what is being searched. It is hoped that this index will make this book a more useful tool than without it. If there are topics not discussed that you would like to read about, perhaps they will be included in the next 200 questions. BFT 3309-01 One for $14.00 + $7 S&P; Two at $12 each or $24 + $9 S&P; Five at $10 each or $50 + $12 S&P.

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The Book Refuted. This book is called a critical answer to King James Only-

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The Purpose Revealed. In this book, I have made COMMENTS on 225 of

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We believe in the plenary, verbal, Divine inspiration of the sixty-six canonical books of the Old and the New Testaments (from Genesis to Revelation) in the original languages, and in their consequent infallibility and inerrancy in all matters of which they speak (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 Thessalonians 2:13). The books known as the Apocrypha, however, are not the inspired Word of God in any sense whatsoever. As the Bible uses it, the term "inspiration" refers to the writings, not the writers (2 Timothy 3:16-17); the writers are spoken of as being "holy men of God" who were "moved," "carried" or "borne" along by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:21) in such a definite way that their writings were supernaturally, plenarily, and verbally inspired, free from any error, infallible, and inerrant, as no other writings have ever been or ever will be inspired.

We believe that the Texts which are the closest to the original autographs of the Bible are the Traditional Masoretic Hebrew Text for the Old Testament, and the traditional Greek Text for the New Testament underlying the King James Version (as found in "The Greek Text Underlying The English Authorized Version of 1611").

We, believe that the King James Version (or Authorized Version) of the English Bible is a true, faithful, and accurate translation of these two providentially preserved Texts, which in our time has no equal among all of the other English Translations. The translators did such a fine job in their translation task that we can without apology hold up the Authorized Version of 1611 and say "This is the WORD OF GOD!" while at the same time realizing that, in some verses, we must go back to the underlying original language Texts for complete clarity, and also compare Scripture with Scripture.

We believe that all the verses in the King James Version belong in the Old and the New Testaments because they represent words we believe were in the original texts, although there might be other renderings from the original languages which could also be acceptable to us today. For an exhaustive study of any of the words or verses in the Bible, we urge the student to return directly to the Traditional Masoretic Hebrew Text and the Traditional Received Greek Text rather than to any other translation for help.


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This book on First Timothy is from expository preaching sermons by Pastor D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D. It brings to the mind of readers two things: (1) the meaning of the words in the verses and (2) the practical application of those words to the lives of both saved and lost people. BFT #3085 for a gift of $14.00 + $5.00 S&H.

This book on Second Timothy is the eighth in a planned series of books based on expository preaching from various books of the Bible. It is an attempt to bring to the minds of the readers two things: (1) the meaning of the words in the verses and (2) the practical application of those words to the hearts and lives of Bible-believing Christians. BFT #3105 + $5.00 S&H.

This book, Fuzzy Facts From Fundamentalists on Bible Versions by Pastor D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D. embraces a response to the various Fundamental insti-tutions that share a denial that God promised and has fulfilled His promise to preserve the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek Words which were originially given by verbal, plenary inspiration. The controversy was sparked by the publica-tion of two books by Central Baptist Seminary, "The Bible Version Debate--The Perspective of Central Baptist Theological Seminary" and "One Bible Only?--Examining Exclusive Claims for the King James Bible." Both of these books attack the preservation of God's Words and Dr. Waite's book refutes their claim. BFT #3064 + $5.00 S&H.


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This book on Romans is from expository preaching sermons by Pastor D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D. It brings to the mind of readers two things: (1) the mean-ing of the words in the verses and (2) the practical application of those words to the lives of both saved and lost people. BFT #2906 for a gift of $25.00 + $5.00 S&H.

This book, The Oxford Debate on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament by Edward Miller is the record of a debate held at Oxford University in 1897 by noted scholars of the day. Edward Miller was the assistant to Dean John William Burgon. He printed the text of the debate with the approval of the participants. The debate was about the two methods of textual criticism: (1) the method of Bishop B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort, and (2) the method of Dean John William Burgon. Dean Burgon supported the Traditional Text and Westcott and Hort supported a text they constructed from two old manu-scripts. BFT #3397 for a gift of $10.00 + $5.00 S&H.

There are numerous opinions in the literature concerning the meaning of “inspiration” of the Bible such as “the partial view,” “the natural view,” “the neoorthodox view,” “the pagan view,” and many others. The explanation of most of the various views is very troubling. Very few positions exalt the true origin of the original Words of the Bible in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. The positions fail to correctly recognize that the process and the product of “inspiration” is a miracle “once delivered.” Dr. Williams’ work will help others to understand the meaning of the words associated with “inspiration” in their Biblical context. ·And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.”. 2 Timothy 3:15 ·All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” 2 Timothy 3:16 ·For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” 2 Peter 1:21 ·But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.” Job 32:8-9 BFT #3392 www.biblefortoday.org


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This book, Foes of the King James Bible Refuted by Pastor D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D. is important because it answers various arguments set forth by foes of the King James Bible and its underlying Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek Texts. The arguments of the foes are not new. They have been around ever since the days of Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott and Professor Fenton John Anthony and their forerunners. Look at the principles discussed in this book, rather than at the personalities involved. BFT #2777 for a gift of $9.00 + $5.00 S&H. In this book, Fundamentalist Distortions on Bible Versions, Dr. Waite clearly outlines the mistakes seven fundamentalist schools are making in regard to 1. a false view of the doctrine of Bible preservation as found in the Bible, 2. their "ecumenical" and "pluralistic" approach to Bible versions. The Fundamental schools reproved and rebuked in this work reject the evidence for 356 doctrinal errors in the 'new' versions of the Bible and reject any one who uses ONLY the King James Bible. BFT #2928 for a gift of $7.00 + $5.00 S&H.

THE REVISION REVISED AND OTHER BOOKS BY DEAN BURGON, EDWARD MILLER, JACK MOORMAN AND MANY MORE AT THE DEAN BURGON SOCIETY AND BFT

Any of the books by Dean John William Burgon, Edward Miller, his assistant and former student, or Jack Moorman, etc., can be ordered from the Dean Burgon Society or Bible for Today or purchased on Amazon by typing in the title. The Revision Revised BFT #611

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This book, Origin of the Critical Text by Dr. Williams, M.D., Ph.D. is a synop-sis of the origin of the corrupted Critical Text (CT) that lies behind the mod-ern versions of the Bible. The development of the text from "the beginning" until modern times through significant pivotal points is examined. It is writ-ten so that the layman can understand the issues, but it will be a valuable addition to the libraries of schools, pastors, teachers, and people in the pews..

This book, The Lie that Changed the Modern World by Dr. H. D. Williams, M.D., Ph.D. is a detailed progressive account of important historical facts that pertain to the preservation of the Words of God and those who would corrupt them. The results of the corruption of Bible texts and manuscripts and their influence on modern versions is examined. Furthermore, an analy-sis of the social effects on society, churches, and the individual are evalu-ated.

Dr. D. A. Waite, Th.D., Ph.D., said: There is a vital need for this book, Word-For-Word Translating of the Received Texts, Verbal, Plenary Translating by Dr. H. D. Williams, M.D., Ph.D. to inform sincere Bible-believing Christians about the proper techniques of translating the words of God into the receptor languages of the world. No book like this one has ever been written. It is a unique and and much-needed book that emphasizes the proper Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts to trans-late as well as the method to be used. It can be used as a guide for proper translating.


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This book, One Tittle Shall In No Wise Pass by Dr. Chester Kulus, Ph.D. is a thorough examination and refutation of the false premise by many scholars that the vowels were not inspired or present in the Hebrew text from the beginning. Every library, pastor, teacher, missionary, and evangelist should have this VERY important work in his library.

This book, Verbal Plenary Preservation by Rev. Dennis Kwok and the faculty of Far Eastern Bible College is a course on the doctrine of the verbal (the words) plenary (all the words) preservation of the Bible. It is a much need book because the battle for the Bible is intense in these last days. The course is needed to help individuals understand the issues and to grow in the knowledge of the preservation of the Bi-ble, the inspiration of the Bible, and proper translation of the Bible. It is a course taught at Truth Bible-Presbyterian Church in Singapore by its Pastor and the fac-ulty of Far Eastern Bible College.

This book, Wycliffe Controversies, is by Dr. H. D. Williams, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. John de Wycliffe (1324?-1384) is an important person in the history of the Bible and Bible translating and many question surround his work. Are the Wycliffe Bible versions based upon Old Latin Texts close to the Received Text or are they closer to Alexandrian Texts that influenced Jerome's Latin Vulgate? In addition, many other questions have been raised in the literature such as who were Wy-cliffe's close associates that participated in the work; where and when did the Lollards that were associated with him originate; and many other controversies. Modern scholars have called into question Wycliffe's participation in translating and whether he translated any of the Wycliffe Bible. Was his curate or secretary, John Purvey, a Lollard as well as a writer of the prologue and a translator and of the Late Version of the Wycliffe Bible? This work is an attempt to bring attention to the questions and contradictions in the literature. This book does not solve all the problems and questions. It is an endeavor to itemize the controversies and suggest some answers. Dr. Williams' work will present the significant conflicts in current and past literature in one place so that researchers and interested stu-dents will have a starting point.


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