- The Bible is said to be the foundation stone upon which the Church of God rests. It is often quoted to encourage and build up faith in God and settle theological disputes. We read about the importance of the Bible in our spiritual walk at:
II Timothy 3:12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 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.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.Despite the stated purpose of the Bible as a great unifier, as the source to settle all matters of doctrine and lead us into spiritual maturity as followers of Master Y'shua, the Bible is often misused and employed to feed confusion, prejudice, and religious partisanship. The Bible is sometimes used to condemn and destroy faith in those with differing doctrinal understandings. Seemingly one can prove (or disprove) anything by quoting from its passages! Even worse, with so many conflicting versions of the Bible today, who knows what to believe!
Not so long ago if you spoke the English language your Bible translation was all but certainly the Authorized King James Version (KJV). If you spoke another language, your Bible was probably a translation of the KJV. There were a few other versions used by Christians, mainly as study aids, but the KJV was the Bible. When Christians said, "God said it, I believe it, that settles it!" what they believed were the words of the King James Bible. When they debated doctrine the King James was the authority both sides referenced. Using a different translation was always considered supplementary evidence as best. There was still great doctrinal diversity about what the Bible taught, but the source material (known as the Textus Receptus or Received texts) and the translation of those holy documents (the KJV) was deemed unassailable.
This sure foundation of the faith has now been severely undermined due in large part to secular publishing houses like Zondervan press producing and spending millions of dollars marketing these inferior paraphrases. Such companies have made billions of dollars by replacing the King James. They also helped produced the current lukewarm hypocritical Church foretold by Master Y'shua and his Apostle John at Revelation 3:14-19.
Because of Zondervan and other companies there are almost as many Bible versions now as there are Christian denominations! Unlike the single voice of the Authorized King James Version that since 1611 led the faithful godward, Christians now listen to scores of competing voices, each claiming to be the Pure Word of God in translation. The end result of this is the growing spiritual relativism that says there is no way of knowing what God actually intended in the pages of the Bible and the consequent lack of study. This confusion is not in the best interests of the Church of God but it fits well with the plans of Lucifer and his globalist minions.
Many Believers wrongly think that it doesn't matter which Bible version one uses, that they are all the same. They say that the new paraphrases use modern English and hence are easier to understand. But this is not the case as this page will demonstrate with the following examples.
Below I contrast the Authorized King James Version (translated from the time honored Textus Receptus) with the New International Version (NIV), a paraphrase of diverse and dubious manuscript sources and human bias. Note that over the years the NIV has produced numerous versions and updates of their paraphrases. In some cases the notations here may not therefore be what your edition of the NIV says. For instance while verses are completely deleted in some editions they are footnoted in others, placed in the margins, or italicized in others, and so on.
Psalm 12:6-7:
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KJV: 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.
- Note the difference, God will preserve "them," the words of the Lord as opposed to God will keep "us" safe. A completely different meaning.
NIV: And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times. O LORD, you will keep us safe and protect us from such people forever.
Isaiah 7:14:
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KJV: Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
- Note that the KJV calls her a "virgin" while the NIV has it as a "woman." This is due to the ongoing debate over the meaning of the word almah. Once again the NIV paraphrases according to interpretation rather than translation. Its true that the word "almah" does not directly translate as "virgin," however its root "alam" means something which is "concealed, kept out of sight, protected." This Hebrew word refers quite clearly to a young "protected" maiden, probably around the age of twelve to fourteen, i.e. a virgin. If Mary was not a virgin, then she was not an "almah" but in any case, she certainly wasn't an adult "woman."
NIV: Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.
Isaiah 14:12
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KJV: How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
- Note that the name of the Morning Star has been removed, thus bringing the individuality of Satan as our personal adversary into question. Such paraphrases support the belief that Satan is merely the anthropomorphism of evil.
NIV: How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn!
Micah 5:2
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KJV: ... Bethlehem ... out of thee shall He come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been of old, from everlasting.
- Note, will this king rule in Israel (as the benevolent Messiah) or will he rule over Israel (as the despotic Antichrist). Will he be an eternal being (as Christians believe) or will he simply from an ancient race of people etc.? In the KJV we note that this king will be male, whereas the NIV lacks this information. Once the Antichrist arises, such changes in meaning could lead to his acceptance.
NIV: ... Bethlehem ... out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.
Matthew 17:21
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KJV: Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Matthew 18:11
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KJV: For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Matthew 23:14
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KJV: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Mark 7:16
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KJV: If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Mark 7:19
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KJV: Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats.
- Note the clear intrusion into the Bible of the NIV editor's interpretation of this verse. The parentheses are in their text of the NIV.
NIV: For it doesn't go into his heart but into his stomach, and then out of his body. (In saying this, Jesus declared all foods "clean.")
Mark 9:44
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KJV: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Mark 9:46
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KJV: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Mark 9:46
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KJV: But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Mark 15:28
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KJV: And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Luke 4:4
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KJV: And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
- Note the removal of 'the word of God.' An interesting deletion considering what the NIV does to the written word to God!
NIV: Jesus answered, "It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone."
Luke 4:8
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KJV: And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind Me, Satan: for it is written...
- Note that once again the NIV removes references to Satan as an individual protagonist. Harmonious with the teachings of Secular Humanism and the New Age Movement, the NIV teaches us that Jesus was engaged in an inner struggle with his own "demons," rather than in a confrontation with another being. This is a fundamental change in biblical doctrine.
NIV: Jesus answered, It is written ...
Luke 17:36
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KJV: Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Luke 23:17
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KJV: (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
John 5:4
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KJV: For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Acts 8:37
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KJV: And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Acts 15:34
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KJV: Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Acts 18:21
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KJV: But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
- Note the omission of why Paul was going to Jerusalem: to "keep" or observe the Jewish feast. This is an example of the NIV removing evidence that the disciples continued to observe the Jewish feasts after Jesus' resurrection. Whatever one believes on this subject, the NIV is clearly altering biblical doctrine by how it paraphrases such texts.
NIV: But as he left, he promised, "I will come back if it is God's will." Then he set sail from Ephesus.
Acts 24:7
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KJV: But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Acts 28:29
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KJV: And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
Romans 1:27
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KJV: ...men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
- Note that the NIV alteration of this verse is a bit less obvious than in some of the others. One needs to consider the Greek here. These worshipers were "working that which is unseemly." The use of the word "working" (Katergazomai) shows that there was a specific end result in mind, i.e. earning the blessings of the Pagan deities (the sole subject of this section), the normal reason for all idolatry. All they received for their "work" however were venereal diseases "...and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was fitting..." There is nothing in this verse to justify the paraphrase, "...the due penalty for their perversion." The KJV says they received the "recompense of their error which was meet" or fitting. Nothing about "perversions" here. The sex cults throughout the empire were hotbeds of sexual diseases and the worshipers often became infected with STDs.
The NIV completely ignores the word Katergazomai in their paraphrase, even though it is the key word in the verse. I offer a detailed study of Romans 1 elsewhere. Again, regardless of what one believes on this topic, it is inexcusable for the NIV to purposely misrepresent what the Bible says and thereby to stoke the fires of prejudice.
NIV: ...Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Romans 16:24
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KJV: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
NIV: Verse DELETED by the Editors of the NIV!
I Corinthians 6:9
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KJV: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- Note how the NIV adds words whole cloth to the text without a shred of textual support. There are Greek words denoting "homosexual," however none of these are in the Bible. Again, regardless of what believes on this topic, adding words to the Bible in order to support ones personal beliefs is a blasphemous sin and does a great disservice to the Christian community!
NIV: Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
I Corinthians 9:27
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KJV: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ...
- Note that keeping a thing in submission or under ones control is not the same thing as enslaving it. We are supposed to subdue and maintain dominion over the earth, but that must does mean we are to enslave its inhabitants (Gen. 1:28).
NIV: No, I beat my body and make it my slave ...
Galatians 5:12
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KJV: I would they were even cut off which trouble you. [those requiring circumcision of Gentile Believers in verse 11]
- Note that this is an extreme condemnation against those who felt Christians should observe the Torah not shown in the KJV. In the KJV Paul expresses his frustration at the so-called Judaizers, wishing they would stop trying to sway the Gentile Believers to their position as the matter had already been settled by the Church elders. This harshness in the NIV completely contradicts the ideals of Christian love. By this emphasis the editors of the NIV might well be accused of promoting antisemitism.
NIV: As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
Ephesians 3:9
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KJV: ...God, who created all things by Jesus Christ.
- Note the removal of Jesus' role in the creation. The NIV seems intent on reducing Jesus status.
NIV: God, who created all things.
I Timothy 3:16
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KJV: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
- Note the omission of "God" in this verse. For those who believe that Jesus was God incarnate, this is a major loss as it is one of the clearest supports for the deity of Jesus in the Bible. In the NIV there is no evidence that "he" was God, merely one placed in humans flesh, even this point is dropped from related verses (comp. I John 4:3 in the NIV).
NIV: He appeared in a body, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was preached among the nations, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory.
I John 4:3
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KJV: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist ...
- Note that once again the NIV rejects the notion that God is come in the flesh, a standard pillar of the various Church creeds. Those who reject Jesus 'are not of God,' but his taking on of human flesh, implying that he had once existed in a form without human flesh, is omitted.
NIV: but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist ...
I John 5:7
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KJV: For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
- Who are they? The Church has historically pointed to this verse as a clear biblical reference to the Holy Trinity, as the King James has it, to the Father, the Word (Jesus), and the Holy Ghost. In the NIV their identities are unknown.
NIV: For there are three that testify:
Revelation 22:14
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KJV: Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life ...
- Note the absence of the requirement to observe the Holy Torah. We see in this the intention of the NIV editors to further remove Christianity from its Jewish roots. We also understand a more antisemitic purpose: This verse shows that the Jews, those who hold to the Torah, are still active in the plan of God as we approach the end of the current age and prepare for the coming kingdom. Once the kingdom of God is established "on earth as it is in heaven" the Jewish Messiah, ruling from within Jewish Israel (Jerusalem) will govern the world. The people referred to in this verse are Jews who have kept the Law and who are allowed to enter into the New World because of it. There's no reference to their becoming Christians. Again, whatever one might believe on this point doctrinally, it is clear that the NIV has its own agenda.
NIV: Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life ...
"And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city,
and from the things which are written in this book" (Rev. 22:19).- I realize of course that this stern warning is in reference to anyone who would tamper with the Book of Revelation, but surely the same warning applies to the other sixty five holy books!
We read at II Tim. 2:15:
"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
The Word of Truth is the Holy Bible.
Paul continues to tell Timothy at II Timothy 3:16:
"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, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."So the Bible is essential to our spiritual lives. We must 'rightly divide this Word of Truth' and never take it out of context for our own purposes as is all too often done. The Bible is an absolutely Holy Thing. It contains the Words of HaShem. When that Holy Helper becomes compromised, when its teachings are altered and its principles perverted, then our spiritual life will suffer terribly as we are now seeing throughout all segments of the Nicean Christian faith. It is vital to hold onto the King James Version of the Bible and relegate the others, at best, to the conditional use as study aids.
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