Friday, November 23, 2018

Requested - Is the New KJV No Better Than the Apostate NIV?

 Graphic by Norma A. Boeckler


One person recently claimed, "The New KJV is no better than the NIV, so you might as well use the NIV."

That is patently false, because all King James Versions - note the plural - use the traditional text. However, the NIV uses the Butcher Commission of the International Bible Sorority, blackballing the verses they do not like. They erase the verses by dropping them into the footnotes, based on the hyperbolic lying of Tischendorf, Westcott, and Hort.

Regarding the New Testament text, which should matter to Lutherans, any King James is better than the NIV. In fact, the NIV should not be used at all, but there is big money in it for the synods.

Secondly, the New KJV does have translation errors in it, because it was marketed for the Babtists who liked the KJV but did not want the olde English in it. However, it is far closer to the precise translation of the KJV, maintaining that approach while the NIV uses the "dynamic equivalence" baloney of Nida.





When I have done comparisons, the KJV agrees with the old Luther translation. That is no shock because Tyndale's translation became the KJV.




The Great Commission, 
Teach or Manufacture?
KJV
Matthew 28: 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

NKJV
28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Apostate NIV
Matthew 28:19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

The apostate Lutherans love "make disciples" because they learned from Fuller, Cho, and other fraud machines that cell groups make disciples that make disciples that make disciples. The synods that fell for this are collapsing. The underlined verb in Greek means "teach nations" so nations are the object of the verb. It does not say "manufacture disciples." The New KJV was aimed at the Baptists so they like the distortion.

Holy Communion or Just a Symbolic Ordinance?
KJV
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

NKJV
1 Corinthians 10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

Apostate NIV
1 Corinthians 10:16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 

WELS and LCMS are so gushy with the anti-Lutherans that they have no problem with the rejection of the Real Presence. 

Baptism Saves or It Is Just a Symbolic...Wait, I'm Lost

KJV
1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

NKJV
1 Peter 3:21 There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Apostate NIV
1 Peter 3:21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 

No shock, the Babtist New KJV backs away from "baptism now saves us." The NIV is completely allergic to the Sacraments, but when The CORE starts with no communion - no shock!


Is the Savior Locked in Heaven? 
Then no Real Presence
KJV
Acts 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

NKJV
Acts 3: 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since [e]the world began.

Apostate NIV
Acts 3:21 Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.

New Living Translation
For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through his holy prophets.

I think the NIV had "must remain in heaven" in the earlier version, but that is gone, gone, forgotten, gone.



WELS-LCMS Certifies Their Anti-Christian Stance with
the NIV Universalism Addition

KJV
Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:


NKJV
Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 

Apostate NIV
Romans 3:21 But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. 22 This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Two parts here - 
1) The Greek says "faith of Jesus Christ" not faith in Jesus Christ. The second construction is common but "faith of Jesus" is used by Paul three or more times. Nevertheless, though the KJV is precise on this, the others are not.

The reliably apostate NIV has everyone on earth justified. That sounds like all the modern theologians  like Barth - and just like the apostate leaders of WELS-ELS-LCMS. Does ELCA teach this? Of course.

Count on the ever-changing NIV to get more feminism into the New Testament.