On the KJV versus the New KJV

 

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I am not KJV-Only, and I think few are. I am KJV-Best because all the others says, "We are almost as good as the KJV."

This is Doc Lito's post, which is below, on his fondness for the New KJV.

I have said for decades that the New KJV was far better than any other modern translation - ESV (just another RSV), RSV, New RSV, NIV, and so forth.

People really need to know how much they have been swindled by the NIV-ESV-RSV combine, which is weak in numbers but backed by the denomination's colleges and seminaries. I have heard that the New KJV is trashed as much as the KJV because the modernists want a platform attacking the divinity of Christ, faith in Christ, and the Trinity. The Westcott-Hort-Nestle-Aland Greek New Testament does that for the NIV-ESV-RSV.

My guess is that the New KJV is picking up its numbers from disenchanted NIV-ESV-RSV veterans. One poll showed the KJV demolishing the NIV-ESV-RSV, having 50% of the readership, another 10-12% going to the New KJV. That leaves little room for the Westcott-Hot fans, so named (by me) because they are hotter than Georgia asphalt for the fraudulent Sinaiticus (Aleph) and Vaticanus (B) codices. 

To paraphrase Dean Burgon on Aleph and B, the only way a tiny minority of the so-called evidence (Aleph and B) can overturn 95% of the manuscripts (the Majority Text-KJV) is by walking among the clouds with impossible theories and claims. 

No one has any explanation for the 5% (Aleph and B) having no descendants and 40% disagreement! with each other. Their stools have two wobbly legs. The modernists bitterly cling to Westcott-Hot because the duo's dishonesty and trickery gave the rationalists what they needed - a Bible without the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, the miracles, and the Resurrection. 

The second edition of The Bible Book will give fair treatment to New KJV because it continues the Luther-Tyndale-KJV tradition of precise translation based on the best text. The Little Three gush money for their denominational partners, but think of this. 

In the past, the Christian Church guarded the Word, as Jesus Christ commanded time after time in John's Gospel. But now the money-making combines tell the denominations what their churches will get. The NIV even obsoleted itself so they could sell New NIVs to the same pinheads who bought the previous NIV. Uppity-ups like the Missouri Synod brag about using the ESV because it is 2% better than the NIV. Oh joy! Send me a case and bill it to Matt the Fatt.

Some of us are getting older faster, so the next two generations below us need to know why the KJV remains the standard, the best, and why no one should trust  a glory hound like Tischendorf who "rescued a 1500 year old manuscript from the fires at an Orthodox monastery." 

 Tischendorf got the rest of his Aleph to the Tzar, and put his name on it. He is a model for modern Lutherans, always working for the Vatican and Eastern Orthodoxy, loathing Luther.

 Tischendorf was sent to find Aleph and he spirited away a chunk of it to give to a Catholic king. It was pure white leather and supple, but 1500 years old. Yes, I believe not a word of it.

 

 The Hebrew letter Aleph stands for Sinaiticus, the "oldest Bible in the world," and yet the newest discovered. 

Dear Pastor Jackson,

I was reading your service post, Matthew 24:24-28, and I thought of this.

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.  Behold, I have told you before.  Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert (Sinaiticus); go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers (Vaticanus); believe it not.  For as the lightning cometh out of the east (Byzantium), and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

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GJ - I think this is a brilliant analogy, because Sinaiticus was found in the desert monastery, where Tischendorf was directed to find it. Vaticanus was held by the Vatican and has no clear origin. Constantin Tischendorf is the one who promoted both codices, which have no children. They are sterile and useful only for old men (Kurt Aland) who believe nothing and deny that the Four Gospels were written by the Apostles and their associates.

Byzantium is the name for the Eastern Roman Empire, which was Greek and Christian, lasting from Constantine the Great until 1453 AD when the last of the Eastern Roman Empire (the city of Constantinople) fell to the Ottoman Empire.

The Fall of Constantinople led to the escape of Greek scholars with their treasures, including many copies of the Bible. Sometimes this tradition is called the Byzantine Text (Stephanos text, Biblegateway.com) because of their protection of the Scriptures by Christian scholars. It is also called the Majority Text, because those manuscripts agree with one another to an astonishing extent, given the many centuries from the Apostolic Age to those examples. The text parents, grandparents, great-grandparents etc were worn out through copying but the text remained 90-95% the same.

Theodore Letis uses the term Ecclesiastical Text, because the believing Church continued reproducing from the original texts. A few called it the Textus Receptus, because Erasmus used a few manuscripts (received text), all he had at the moment, to create the first Greek New Testament in the modern age, which sparked the Reformation when Luther translated it into German.

The Fall of Constantinople was tragic, but it unleashed the Renaissance as scholars and artists headed for Europe. Their new hosts re-discovered the glory that was Greece - 

• The Republic, 
• History, 
• Philosophy, 
• Law,
• Literature, 
• Poetry, 
• Drama, 
• Comedy, 
• Math, 
• Architecture, 
• Engineering, 
• Astronomy - 

all components for the future nation founded as America.

As I suggested, the Traditional Text was preserved by believers in the Church. All the modern texts are sold to the public by various businesses, including the Beck Bible sold by Christian News, later having as many names as the RSV. But that is OK. All Bibles are inspired, as declared by Mirthless Mark Schroeder, the bookkeeper for the Wisconsin Sect.

 Constantinus Tischendorf - how impressive. This emperor has no clothes (codices).

 This is the codex that was discovered pure white and supple, pretty good for 1500 year old skin! Now it has a nice tan, both parts, so we can pretend it is ancient.