Hey everybody, Pastor Steven Anderson here from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona
continuing my response to the King James only controversy by James White. Today
we're gonna be talking about chapter 6 on translational differences. Now there
are two issues at play here with the modern versions. Number one, the modern
versions are translated from a different Greek text. The King James is from the
Received Text or Textus Receptus and the new versions are from corrupt
Alexandrian manuscripts. Things like Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, etc.
So not only are they translated from a different source document though, which
is the biggest issue, they also have translational differences and of course
the King James is right and these other versions are wrong as we're gonna
demonstrate as I go through his chapter here. So he brings up a lot of specific
examples in this chapter of translational differences between the
two. Some of them don't really make a big difference. Some of them don't make
any difference at all and some of them make a huge difference. The first
example he gives is Acts 20-28. Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the
flock over the which the Holy Ghost had made you overseers to feed the church of
God which he had purchased with his own blood. The NIV instead of saying to feed
the church of God says be shepherds of the church of God. The Greek word is
pemanin and it's better translated here as feed. The King James is right but
anyway that's not really a big deal so I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on
that. The next one he gives is Ephesians 4-24 where the King James says to put on
the new man and the New American Standard says put on the new self. Okay
well not only does the King James sound better by saying put on the new man it's
more accurate. The Greek word is anthropon which is where we get our word
for anthropology the study of mankind and so the natural translation here is
put on the new man anthropon. They say put on the new self you say why would
they change that to self because it's not what anthropon means. The reason why
is because the modern versions are always striving to make the Bible as
gender neutral as possible so that's why they love to replace a word like man
with self even though it's not there in the Greek. Then he starts getting into
some things that actually really matter here. Okay a different gospel he says
with a question mark. The new versions affect salvation period. Okay he tries to
say oh they don't affect any salvation doctrine they're not teaching another
gospel but in fact they are. He doesn't cover this in this chapter but what
about where instead of saying that the way is narrow and few there be that find
it the new versions including the New King James and other modern versions
change it to difficult is the way that leadeth unto life and few there be that
find it. So making salvation difficult yeah that's perfect for workspace
salvation. It's hard. You got to work hard. It's difficult whereas according to the
Bible Jesus did the hard part. He died. He was buried. All we have to do
is believe. A little child could enter the kingdom of God with simple childlike
faith. It's not difficult. Okay also the King James says it's hard
for a rich man to be saved and then the NIV will change that part to just say oh
it's just hard to be saved. Isn't it hard to be saved whereas the King James says
it's hard for them that have riches to enter the kingdom of God. Actually it
says it's hard for them that trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God. So
there are things that affect salvation so he brings up some things that affect
salvation. First he has a goofball chart by Gail Riplinger that is silly and I'm
not even gonna deal with but he has this other chart here where he shows the
differences in these verses like in John 3 36 the difference between believeth
not and not obey. Let me read for you John 3 36 and you can see what a big
difference this is. In John 3 36 in the King James it says he that believeth on
the Sun hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Sun shall not see
life but the wrath of God abideth on him. This is a great verse for teaching
salvation by faith. I mean there are two kinds of people there's he that believeth
on the Sun and he that believeth not. That's what gets you saved is believing.
The ESV says whoever believes in the Sun has eternal life whoever does not obey
the Sun shall not see life but the wrath of God remains on him. Now the way they
worded that in this context it makes it sound like you have to obey the commands
of the Sun okay and that's not what this verse is saying. This verse is saying if
you believe you're saved if you don't believe you're damned but if you read it
in the ESV you'll walk away saying well you can either believe in the Sun or not
obey the Sun and then this gives rise to this false doctrine that believing
includes doing the works or believing includes obeying the commandments.
Nothing could be further than the truth. The Bible's yeah nothing could be
further from the truth. The Bible clearly says in Romans 4 5 but to him that
worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly. His faith is
counted for righteousness even as David also described it the blessedness of the
man unto whom God impudeth righteousness without works saying blessed are they
whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered blessed is the man to
whom the Lord will not impute sin. So the Bible says him that worketh not but
believeth he's saved righteousness is imputed unto him his iniquities and
transgressions they're forgiven they're covered so you don't have to have faith
and works it's faith without works and you're saved that's what it says folks
Romans 4 5 him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the
ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness okay the Bible says we're
saved by grace through faith not of works lest any man should boast so this
thing that faith includes works or that includes obedience to Christ or Christ
commands is a false doctrine so these are very serious changes here in this
chart when it changes unbelief to disobedience in all these different
places and you know you heard that example from John 3 36 is it's it's very
bad he says there is no conflict between obedience to Christ and belief in Christ
true faith is obedient to Christ there's no such thing as a disobedient faith so
you know he's being a little bit crafty here but if you just listen to the words
of James White's pastor Jeff Durban because James White goes to Jeff
Durban's church now Jeff Durban flat-out says that you know saving faith includes
works you know if you're not doing works then you're not really saved well that's
not what Romans 4 5 says but anyway that's a major major red flag about
these modern versions where they change unbelief to disobedience and and not
believing to not obeying and in fact let me just prove it wrong for you right now
let me just pull up Hebrews chapter number three here okay because this is
one of the places where it uses this same Greek word and he has it listed
here Hebrews 3 18 disobedience versus believe not and let's look at what it
says here it says and to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest
but to them that believed not so we see that they could not enter in because of
unbelief okay so basically the King James says to whom swear he that they
should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not okay the new
versions will say them that were disobedient okay but listen to the very
next verse the very next verse says so we see that they could not enter in
because of unbelief so he wants to make the case here that this Greek word
apitho you know can mean not obeying in this context but the very next verse
uses the Greek word Apistea which means unbelief unequivocally it means
unbelief and it says those who believe not in verse 18 and then verse 19 it
says so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief so that actually
makes sense whereas what the new versions have oh those who were
disobedient so you see how they couldn't enter in because of unbelief it's like
what you just said it was disobedience now you're saying it's unbelief so you
can use the internal evidence to prove that the King James is right to
translate the word apitho in these contexts as unbelief or believing not
okay let's move on to what I think is one of the worst changes in the modern
versions where they have this concept of being saved in places where it should
say that we are just saved okay and he has a chart showing these Acts 2 47 New
American Standard those who were being saved King James said such as should be
saved 1st Corinthians 1 18 says those who are perishing and unto us who are
being saved whereas the King James says them that perish versus us which are
saved same thing in 2nd Corinthians 2 15 those who are being saved those who are
perishing them that are saved them that perish and there are multiple
occurrences of this over and over again let's just look at 1st Corinthians 1 18
because that's a good example I mean all the rest of them are just the same issue
so let's just look at one in detail okay 1st Corinthians 1 18 in the King James
version for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness but
unto us which are saved it is the power of God okay here's what the New American
Standard says for the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are
perishing but to us who are being saved it is the power of God now you can see
why this is such a bad doctrine because again it points toward works based
salvation like it's like salvation is a process we're being saved whereas the
way it reads in the King James we are saved it's a done deal we're already
saved we have eternal life as John 5 24 says we've been passed from death unto
life the new versions have us being saved NIV it's foolishness to those who
are perishing but to us who are being saved it's the power of God now let me
prove this to be wrong beyond any shadow of a doubt the first point I want to
make is that we're not being saved and the lost are not perishing now here's
what James White says in his book it's obvious that those who are perishing are
in the process of doing so and have not as yet completed that process what
they're in the process of dying perish means die okay so how how is it that he
thinks that all the unsaved are dying I mean it's like I'm dying how long have
you been dying all my life I've been dying my folks dying is not something
that the unsaved are all doing right now they're not just all in the process of
dying that's stupid so if they're not in the process of dying then we're not in
the process of being saved there are those who perish meaning those who die
the people who die and go to hell and then they're the people that are saved
those who perish those who are saved the King James makes sense the new versions
don't make sense because they say those who are perishing versus those who are
being saved but let me just prove this wrong beyond any shadow of a doubt
because I can show you an example in the Greek New Testament using this exact
verb tense because he's got this chart here showing well in the Greek it's a
present participle well I can show you an example in the Greek New Testament
of this exact word in the exact same verb tense where it can't mean being
saved okay and this is in Revelation 21 and remember Revelation 21 this is after
the millennium this is the new heaven and the new earth okay so the Greek
verse says ketta ethne tone so zome on and o 40 of T's peri party sushi okay so
it says the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it and
the word that I want to point out is the the nations of them which are saved the
them which are saved is this Greek word so zome on okay then which are saved so
zome on okay well if we go back to 1st Corinthians chapter 1 verse 18 it says
tease that so zome anise he mean the name is Theo SD so it says to them which
are saved so zome anise so here we have to them that are saved the Greek word is
so zome anise and then over here we have this word so zome anone well guess what
those are the exact same Greek verb tense okay now that's why they read the
same in English in the King James it says in 1st Corinthians 1 18 unto us
which are saved it's the power of God what is the King James say in Revelation
21 the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it so the
same verb saying the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light
of it is the same word that's used when it says unto us which are saved now the
only difference in the ending is just because one is dative and one is not so
it's just that's it one of them is genitive but the thing is when you look
at these verses if you were to insert this logic into Revelation 21 then you
would be talking about people in the new heaven and the new earth and you would
be saying the nations of them which are being saved shall walk in the light of
it that's ridiculous that's crazy that's stupid isn't it to say the nations of
them which are being said how can they be being saved it's all over I mean
we're on to the new heaven and the new earth I mean the judgment seat of Christ
is over the great white thrones over death has been destroyed I mean it's
just everything is completely done we're in the eternal state new heaven
new earth the nations of them which are saved walk in light of New Jerusalem
according to their logic you'd be saying oh the nations of them which are being
saved will walk in the light of it they're still being saved does it ever
end no it's ridiculous folks so the King James is proven to be right in saying
the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it that
translation of this Greek word works consistently for Revelation 21 or 1st
Corinthians 1 18 to ethne tone so zomano of them which are saved so it's in a
genitive case so zomano but it's the same verb tense it's that same present
participle as over in 1st Corinthians 1 18 so zomanis okay so anyway they're
wrong folks the King James is translating the Greek correctly into
English let's move on and he has another section called age or world okay so he
shows how the King James translates this word as world whereas the New American
Standard translates it as age and he says those who look for new age
conspiracies get a lot of mileage out of the use of age in the modern
translations why are they you know changing things and and changing all the
modern versions to say age it does point toward a new age okay if you have a
current age then you'd have a new age so you know they're right to criticize that
wording okay but let's look at some examples here of this okay because you
know all throughout the New Testament the King James is translating this word
as world whereas they're translating this age let me give you some examples
here where you can see how world is such a superior translation to age for this
Greek word a own okay let me give you some examples how about Luke 1 70 where
it says as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the
world began okay so they would say that I guess the holy prophets have been
speaking since the age began okay John 9 32 since the world began was it not
heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind they would say
well since the age began acts 3 21 says whom the heaven must receive until the
times of restitution of all things which God had spoken by the mouth of all his
holy prophets since the world began I mean the holy prophets have been
speaking since the world began they wanted to say since the age began okay
because this is I'm showing you examples of the where the King James translates
this Greek word as world and I'm showing you how if you just read the verses
world is a great translation and age would be a bad translation okay acts 15
18 known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world that well
just since the beginning of the age I guess would be what they would have
Romans 12 to be not conformed to this world I mean I guess they're gonna have
to change all those stickers that that all the Christian bookstores sell where
it says not of this world they're gonna have to change them to not of this age
all right so you know be not conformed to this world yeah I'm gonna go with the
King James world 1st Corinthians 1 20 where is the wise where's the scribe
where is the disputer of this world have got have not God made foolish the
wisdom of this world okay so I guess they would have it say you know hasn't
God made foolish the wisdom of this age but here's what's funny about this is
that in this particular verse it uses the word world twice okay because it
says sorry I lost my place let me find it again it says where is the wise where
is the scribe where is the disputer of this world okay and that's that Greek
word a own which they want to say is age okay but then in the next breath in the
same verse he says hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world and in
the second world it uses a different Greek word kosmos which you know they're
not gonna dispute that that means world okay so basically the point is that he's
using them interchangeably because it makes sense the way you read in the King
James where is the disputer of this world hasn't God made foolish the wisdom
of this world that's the way the King James reads but if you were to
substitute an age here it would be where is the disputer of this age hasn't God
made foolish the wisdom of this world the true story is that these are just
two synonyms of the word world and the Bible is just using them both for
euphony for style etc I gotta hurry here first Corinthians 2 6 how be it we speak
wisdom among them that are perfect yet not the wisdom of this world nor of the
princes of this world that come to not I guess they would want it to say yet
not the wisdom of this age nor the princes of this age and you know which
none of the princes of this age knew I think that the King James is right to
say world I think if you study it out you'll see that world is better
translation and so why'd they switch to age if world is better well maybe they
are a little bit New Age leaning why would that be a shock okay the next
section in his translational differences chapter is hell or Hades and this has to
do with the fact that the new versions are constantly removing the word hell
and replacing it with either Sheol Hades Gehenna death the grave or things of
that nature in fact when you're reading an NIV the word hell never occurs in the
Old Testament you read the entire Old Testament and it never says the word
hell one time that's pretty disturbing because that makes it seem like hell
didn't even exist in the Old Testament like it's just a New Testament doctrine
and that's what Jews will tell you they're like oh well you know the Old
Testament doesn't even teach hell and so these modern versions are supporting
that garbage by removing all the many many times that the King James says hell
in the Old Testament and then the New Testament they remove many occurrences
of hell as well okay so hell or Hades now let's talk about this word Hades
okay so Hades is an English transliteration of the Greek word that
Christ uses for hell one of the two Greek words that Christ uses for hell
now what's a transliteration a transliteration is different than a
translation okay a translation is when you replace a
Greek word with an English word a transliteration is where you just take
the Greek word and make it sound English or give it an English pronunciation okay
for example in Spanish we would have the the word burrito right well the English
word burrito is not a translation of burrito it is just a transliteration
okay it's just kind of Americanizing a word from another language okay like for
example if we take the the German word angst and then we transliterate in the
English angst okay where you just kind of Americanize a word so the Greek word
is pronounced obvious okay and the Greek word obvious and I'm using modern Greek
pronunciation the only right Greek pronunciation amen I'm saying obvious
for the Greek word well that is Americanized or anglicized into Hades
okay then there's another Greek word used for hell in the New Testament that
is Yena and Yena is Americanized into Gehenna
becomes Gehenna in a transliterated form okay so here's what's going on and try
to stay with me I'm gonna try to keep this simple there are two main words for
hell in the New Testament okay obvious and Hannah and we're just gonna use
their anglicized versions to make it easier for you the listener Hades and
Gehenna okay both of these are consistently translated in the King
James as hell okay both words are consistently translated as hell now
these are technically two different places okay because whenever the Greek
New Testament uses the word Hades it's referring to the current location of
hell which is in the center of the earth in the heart of the earth the bottomless
pit that place is consistently referred to in the New Testament with the Greek
word anglicized as Hades okay then the lake of fire the final abode of the lost
that will burn forever and ever in hell okay that final resting place is Gehenna
okay so these are two places there's the current hell which is Hades and then
there's the future place Gehenna and these are different places because the
current location of hell is in the heart of the earth whereas the future
location is the lake of fire in outer darkness there's nothing outer about the
center of the earth right the outer darkness place is Gehenna now the big
question is between these two things Hades or hell so the modern versions
want to take out hell whenever it says Hades and they either replace it with
Hades or the grave or death or something like that so let me go through
all of the verses in the New Testament that use the word Hades okay in the
underlying Greek okay listen to them in the King James Version these are all the
verses that use the Greek word Hades and it's translated in English as hell and
thou Capernaum which art exalted unto heaven shall be brought down to hell now
notice they're brought down to hell okay so the context shows you which
place he's talking about clearly we're talking about the current location for
if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in Sodom it would
have remained until this day Matthew 16 18 and I say also unto thee thou art
Peter and upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it again the current location Luke 10 15 and thou Capernaum
which art exalted to heaven shall be thrust down to hell again down to hell
and in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and see if Abraham afar off and
Lazarus in his bosom so the rich man wakes up in hell current location acts
227 this is speaking of Jesus Christ because that will not leave my soul in
hell neither will thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption acts 231 he's
seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ that his soul was
not left in hell neither his flesh did see corruption obviously Jesus Christ's
soul descended into the lower parts of the earth so again the context makes it
obvious it's the current location in the center of the earth 1st Corinthians 15
55 Oh death where is thy sting Oh grave where is thy victory okay now this right
here is referring to Jesus Christ when he is dead for three days and three
nights Oh death where is thy sting Oh grave where is thy victory okay so grave
there is the word Hades revelation 118 I'm he that liveth and was dead and
behold I'm alive forevermore amen and have the keys of hell and of death why
because he was dead he was down there he got the keys and he has the keys of hell
and of death revelation 6 8 I looked and behold a pale horse and his name that
sat on him was death and hell followed with him again the current location and
the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their
works so death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them because they're
coming up out of hell out of Hades and going to the final place the lake of
fire and then revelation 2014 and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire
this is the second death news whoever was not found written the book of life
was cast into the lake of fire so we see here that the Greek word Hades translated
into English as hell okay with one exception first Corinthians 15 55 where
it's translated as Oh grave is consistently referring to the current
location in the center of the earth okay so that's the location that we're
talking about okay but here's the thing people will say well you know the King
James is wrong to use the word hell for both Hades and Gehenna because it's two
different words in Greek it should be two different words in English but
here's the thing the word hell is an understandable word everybody knows
what it means everybody understands it to be a place of fire and punishment in
the afterlife and so it's a clear good word to translate both places now James
White has no problem with translating Gehenna as hell he takes issue with
translating Hades as hell okay he just wants it to say Hades okay here's the
thing about that if you actually study the etymology of the English word hell
how it entered our language it comes from pagan Scandinavian religion their
underworld basically it was called hell okay well that's exactly where the Greek
word Hades comes from it was a Greek underworld of mythology but Christ used
that word not to talk about some mythological Greek place but to talk
about hell you know to talk about the place of fiery punishment in the center
of the earth now the problem with transliterating hell as Hades is that
when people hear the word Hades they don't think of a fiery place of
punishment in the afterlife they think of you know a Greek mythology place I
mean when I was growing up I learned about Greek mythology that Hades is the
underworld of Greek mythology so that's the main definition of Hades even if you
look up Hades in the dictionary I think definition number four is Christian hell
so it's not as good of a word it's not as clear of a word when you when you say
Hades instead of hell okay now you say well but you know how are we gonna know
between these two places well as I just demonstrated to you every single use of
the word Hades that's translated as hell it's obvious from the context that he's
talking about the place in the center of the earth because it talks about
going down or it's talking about people currently going there or Christ's soul
being there for three days and three nights so we know that it's that place
in the lowest parts of the earth okay now when we look at the list of verses
that use the word hell with the Greek word Rehna or Gehenna then we see it's
different Matthew 5 22 says whosoever shall save thou fool shall be in danger
of hell fire okay and that's Gehenna Matthew 5 29 if thy right eye offend thee
pluck it out and cast it from thee and this is the same context as the verse we
just read Matthew 5 22 for it is profitable for thee that one of thy
members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell verse
30 not that thy whole body should be cast into hell so in the first three
mentions of Rehna in the Greek New Testament or Gehenna we see that that
they're talking about throwing the whole body into hell well does the body go
into the current location of hell no the soul goes to hell the body is not cast
into hell quote-unquote until people are thrown in the lake of fire after the
great white throne of judgment okay so after the great white throne of
judgment that's where people's soul and body will be thrown into hell because
their bodies are resurrected it's known as the resurrection of damnation and
then they're thrown into hell so when it says or thrown into the lake of fire you
could say so when it says in Matthew 10 28 fear not them which kill the body but
are not able to kill the soul but rather fear him which is able to destroy both
soul and body in hell you wouldn't have to go back to the Greek to figure out
whether he's talking about the current location or the future location because
the fact that the body is going there is proof that we're talking about Rehna and
we're not talking about Adis okay so it says in Matthew 18 9 it's better for
thee to enter into life with one eye rather than having two eyes to be cast
into hell again we're talking about the body going there okay Matthew 23 15 you
make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves Matthew 23 33 you
serpents you generation of vipers how can you escape the damnation of hell
mark 943 again it says that it's better than having two hands and to go into
hell into the fire that never shall be quenched mark 9 45 having two feet to be
cast into hell mark 9 47 then having two eyes to be cast into hell Luke 12 5 but
I will forewarn you whom you shall fear fear him which after he had killed have
power to cast into hell yea I say unto you fear him so being cast into this
place that's the lake of fire that's again that is the future abode of hell
and then in James chapter 3 it says that the tongue is a fire a world of
iniquity so is the tongue among our members that it defiled the whole body
and set on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell so that's it
that's all the usage of Adis and Irena in the New Testament and we see that the
word Adis or Hades I'll use the anglicized version Hades is used to talk
about the current location in the center of the earth down into hell people in
hell right now whereas Irena or Gehenna anglicized would be the future location
what we would call the lake of fire and when we talk about hell figuratively
like the tongue is set on fire of hell or using it as you know a metaphor then
we would also use that future location as the metaphor so you know he's
criticizing the King James for using the word hell in both you know for using it
for both Hades and Gehenna but actually you know it's a great word for both and
obviously in Revelation 20 death and hell are cast into the lake of fire so
what is that that's that's the current location of hell Hades moving to the
future location of hell again and it's okay to call both places hell I think
hell is a great name for both places if you're not saved when you die you're
gonna go to hell you're gonna burn in hell for all eternity well that makes
sense people understand that it's clear and when you read the Bible there's no
confusion in the King James look I read the King James as a child and it made
perfect sense to me I I clearly understood that there's a current
location and there's a future location and they're both called hell and the
King James but he wants to strain it a net and swallow a camel I think hell's a
great translation for both places it accurately describes both he wants to
strain it a net and swallow a camel and he wants us to accept a Bible version
the NIV that never uses the word hell a single time in the entire Old Testament
and it removes half of the mentions of hell in the New Testament okay and he
thinks that's fine but but oh that's so terrible that the King James uses the
word hell for two different Greek words or really three different Greek words
because there is a third word that's used only one time when it talks about
the demons the the angels that left their former habitation you know being
having a place in hell reserved for them as Tartarus it's a different word
there but anyway I'm gonna move on from that I think we've said enough about
that then he has a section about Isaiah 14 12 and the King James it says how
art thou fallen from heaven Oh Lucifer son of the morning how art thou cut down
to the ground which this week in the nations now this is a prophecy about the
devil being cast out of heaven and it calls him Lucifer this is the only time
in the Bible that word Lucifer is used the new versions like the NIV say how
you have fallen from heaven Oh Morningstar now the reason why this is so
bad is that Morningstar is a title of Jesus Christ so the King James the
traditional English Bible for hundreds of years said that is Lucifer being
cast out of heaven which is accurate if you read the context it's talking about
the devil the new versions say Morningstar you're being thrown out of
heaven because you wanted to be like the Most High that makes it sound like Jesus
because Jesus is identified as the Morningstar in the New Testament it
makes it sound like Jesus is this pretender who wants to be God who's
gonna be cast into hell when in reality it's Lucifer who's the pretender that
wants to be like God and he's saying well you know Lucifer comes from the
Vulgate you know fourth century AD he when he translated it into Latin he came
up with that word Lucifer and then that translation got transferred into the
King James well that's because it's a good translation I mean Lucifer just
means light bearer okay and that's a good translation of the Hebrew there so
when you read it in the NIV it just sounds flat-out demonic having the
Morningstar being cast out then he gets to 1st Corinthians 6 excuse me 1st
Timothy 6 10 and this is one that people who are against kjv onlyism bring up a
lot where the King James says for the love of money is the root of all evil
the new versions say that it's a root of all sorts of evil and they say well how
could you know money be the root of all evil and they'll say you know is is is
rape that's evil you know is that motivated by money what about murder
what about you know hatred or what they'll say how could it be the the root
of all evil but if you actually read the verse it says for the love of money is
the root of all evil which while some coveted after they have erred from the
faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows he says they that will
be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts
which drown men in destruction and perdition so covetousness or the love of
money leads you into all these other foolish and hurtful lusts which drown
men in destruction and perdition so you start out as a little kid loving money
or coveting desiring things that don't belong to you and then you grow up and
you be a fornicator an adulterer a drunkard everything else so what he's
saying is that the love of money leads you into all these other sins it's the
root of all evil meaning that if you become let's say a gambler you get into
the casino life the gambling life or if you become someone who's obsessed with
making money and you start going to all the Donald Trump Robert Kiyosaki
seminars about making money and you join Amway and you're all into becoming rich
and everything it will lead you into all evil so the King James is right that
covetousness and the love of money leads you into all other sins all of them
including rape murder adultery drunkenness sorcery you name it it leads
you to all of those things and that's why we need to be aware of covetousness
or the love of money then he talks about you know study to show thyself approved
versus be diligent to present yourself approved okay that's not something I
want to spend time on but Hebrews 4 12 okay this is one where it says in the
King James for the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any
two-edged sword what a great verse the NASB says for the Word of God is living
and active the NIV says for the Word of God is living and active now quick and
powerful in the King James is not the same as alive and active in the new
versions now quick and alive are the same thing quick and living are
identical so there's no problem with the new version saying living instead of
quick but active instead of powerful they're basically making the Word of God
sound like yogurt you know it's alive and active you know on the side of the
yogurt it tells you it has living and active cultures in it acidophilus etc so
you know the King James is not like yogurt alive and active it is quick and
powerful now he brings up the fact that the Greek word that the King James
translates here as powerful is rendered as effectual in other places 1st
Corinthians 16 9 and Philemon verse 6 so he says the word rendered powerful here
but rendered effectual in 1st Corinthians 16 and Philemon refers to
something that is active and effective in its task surely no one can argue
seriously that the modern translations are in any way inferior to the KJV at
this point of course they're inferior because he's trying to move the goal
post here and say well effectual that's like active they're active and effective
no no active and effectual are not the same thing okay active just means I'm
doing stuff if I'm active it means I'm just doing stuff if I'm effectual or
effective or powerful it means that I am accomplishing great things there's a big
difference between just being active and being effective I mean I've seen a
lot of active workers that didn't accomplish jack squat but they sure
looked busy whereas an effective worker an effectual worker a powerful worker is
actually getting something done a powerful speaker a powerful preacher an
effective preacher an effectual preacher is getting some done an active preacher
might just mean that he talks a lot he preaches a lot of sermons so to try to
say that active and powerful or the same thing is ridiculous or just try to say
that active and effective are the same thing is ridiculous surely no one's
going to argue that you know the modern versions are not as good as the King J
well yeah excuse me sir I'll argue that right now the next thing he brings up is
Psalm 8 5 and the King James it says that thou has made him a little lower
than the angels okay and of course this is a prophecy that's later applied to
Jesus Christ in the New American Standard it says yet thou has made him a
little lower than God now that's pretty weird to say yet thou has made him a
little lower than God the King James says a little lower than the angels and
then when this is quoted in the New Testament in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 7
it's quoted as thou made us him a little lower than the angels and the New
American Standard will say angels there but then in the Old Testament it says
thou made some a little lower than God because the Hebrew is difficult here and
the Hebrew in Psalms is some of the most difficult Hebrew because of the poetic
nature of Psalms and so the modern versions get it wrong the King James
gets it right okay then he brings up Colossians 2 14 the King James says and
took it out of the way nailing it to his cross the New American Standard says he
has taken it out of the way nailing it to the cross now there is no problem
here with the New American Standard saying the cross versus King James his
cross that's just a difference in style the literal Greek wording here is the
cross okay but because it's talking about Jesus Christ and the cross the
King James stylizes it as his cross but you have to understand when you
translate things between languages it's not gonna be exactly word for word every
time and so there is room for things to be the same but not worded exactly the
same okay so his cross the cross in this verse in comparison with the Greek New
Testament they're both fine so that that one's a moot point then he compares 1st
Peter 2 9 where the King James says a peculiar people that we are to be a
peculiar people the new versions New King James for example says his own
special people and then the NIV says a people belonging to God and he
criticizes the peculiar people like peculiar means weird or something but
that's not what peculiar means peculiar just means different unique right set
apart his own special people just sounds goofy and stupid and then the NIV is is
too loose with its translation then he shows some other differences Luke 3 14
do violence to no man the New King James says do not intimidate anyone I
mean that's just a laughable translation it sounds silly he's telling soldiers
don't intimidate anyone what he really means is for them not to do violence to
any man violence meaning violating them you know harming innocent people he's
talking about you know don't harm innocent people as a soldier because
soldiers sometimes will kill women and children and rape and pillage so he's
telling them hey you're a soldier be content with your wages he's not telling
to stop being a soldier but he says don't do any violence to any man don't
intimidate anyone good night I mean when you're when you're a soldier you're
gonna be you ought to be intimidating if you're gonna be a good soldier 2nd
Timothy 3 3 despises of those that are good in the King James the New King
James says despises of good Titus 1 8 a lover of good men Titus 1 8 a lover of
what is good in the New King James well here's the thing if you get the context
of tighter that if you get the context of Titus 1 8 it says a lover of
hospitality a lover of good men well that actually flows better and makes
more sense with the context than a lover of hospitality a lover of good stuff it
doesn't make as much sense in the context so the King James gets it right
so then on the last page of the chapter after all those examples he says no
grand conspiracies as you can see there's no conspiracy the modern
versions are just doing their best and they're not trying to twist anything or
corrupt anything and in this book he constantly refers to the King James
people as conspiracy theorists and it's a big conspiracy theory obviously there's
a conspiracy to change God's Word there are all kinds of phony versions out
there the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 we are not as many which
corrupt the Word of God so if there are many that corrupt the Word of God and if
publishers and false prophets and false teachers are getting together and
changing God's Word and twisting God's Word that's a conspiracy oh there's no
conspiracy they're not trying to affect salvation oh really is that why they
changed it from not believing to obeying no conspiracy here folks nothing to see
here is that why they changed it from you are saved to your being saved is
that why they changed it from narrow is the way to difficult is the way folks
there is a conspiracy to change salvation in the Bible to attack the
Trinity in the Bible to teach other false doctrines of the Bible to make the
Bible gender neutral and to soften the Word of God from being as sharp as a
two-edged sword to being alive and active yogurt okay and to turn it into a
butter knife instead of a sword yes there is a conspiracy from wicked men
behind the NIV New American Standard New King James they're liars they're
deceivers they're frauds and yes there is a conspiracy because people have
conspired to twist God's Word James White is part of that conspiracy with his
deceptive book so anyway that's chapter six or for you on the translational
differences I went through all the differences he brings up except for the
ones that are just not really relevant or just minor like you know he brings up
just some little nitpicky things you know honorable versus honest or you know
things of that nature but you know I went through the ones that actually
mattered 90% of the chapter so the next chapter is called textual differences so
that's the other half of this issue there there are the translational issues
and then there are the textual issues god bless you have a great day