New Book on the Doctrine of Scripture

[Alan Dale Gross]

However, the fact is that both the Bible League and the T.B.S. denigrate the NKJV, despite it being Textus Receptus. This is what annoys me. I tend to be a Majority Text supporter rather than T.R., but the NKJV suits me fine. If these people don't like the NKJV, they should produce a new translation that is better, but they don't.

And support for the KJV is steadily declining as its language becomes more and more strange to young people.

Just for kicks, I've heard what they have to say about the daunting predicament of formulating another English Version, as we can only imagine. They would be asking themselves to do justice to trying to emulate the accomplishments of the King James translators who were so knowledgeable in the nuances of any number of languages referenced, while also being Supernaturally faithful to their conviction that God's Word has been Preserved through a long line of select Manuscripts to compare, as well as, to the other comparable translations before the KJV and since.

So, that project is still on their back burner, to date. And yet God's Word has still been Preserved in a vocabulary level requiring only the slightest amount of additional education, worthy of it august and venerable attainments and historic stature.

And, it's God's Word, for God's Sake.

I mean, what Greater Gift has God ever Given to Mankind than the King James Version of the Holy Bible? Not many.

For example they would be heavily concerned in an endeavor of that nature to give utmost attention and respect to those original language Manuscripts, of which they know and say in their;

Statement of Doctrine of Holy Scripture:

"(5) The Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles received the preserved and standard Hebrew text of the Old Testament as Scripture (Luke 4:16-19, 21; 2 Timothy 3:16). This serves as our pattern for accepting the historically received text of the New Testament also as Scripture (1 Timothy 5:18 cf. Luke 10:7; 2 Peter 3:15-16).

"(6) These texts of Scripture1 reflect the qualities of God-breathed Scripture, including being authentic, holy, pure, true, infallible, trustworthy, excellent, self-authenticating, necessary, sufficient, perspicuous, self-interpreting, authoritative and inerrant (Psalm 19:7-9, Psalm 119). They are consequently to be received as the Word of God (Ezra 7:14; Nehemiah 8:8; Daniel 9:2; 2 Peter 1:19) and the correct reading at any point is to be sought within these texts.2"

(7) Translations from the original languages are likewise to be considered the written Word of God in so far as these translations are accurate as to the form and content of the Original. Acts 8:32f, 15:14-18, Romans 15:8-12."

And that would be their mission, if they accepted it, to approximate an equally stringent criteria of that which they hold for the Original Language Manuscripts, much less the complete, Christian Oriented, 'Version' we now have possessed for over four hundred years and is still going strong among those contending for the Faith (the Word of God in its entirety) "once delivered to the saints".

NOTE 1. The Trinitarian Bible Society maintains that the providentially preserved true and authentic text is to be found in the Masoretic Hebrew and the Greek Received Texts. In so doing, it follows the historic, orthodox Protestant position of acknowledging as Holy Scripture the Hebrew and Greek texts consistently accessible to and preserved among the people of God in all ages. These texts had remained in common use in different parts of the world for more than fifteen centuries and they faithfully represent the texts used in New Testament times.

NOTE 2. Errors, omissions, and additions in particular manuscripts do not impinge upon the qualities of Scripture, including inerrancy, because the errors are, in fact, no part of inerrant Scripture.

And support for the KJV is steadily declining...

Never underestimate the negative capabilities of a roaring lion going about seeking whom he may desire, who enlists the most weak minded among us, to get them to Marshall their spitballs against that Battleship Juggernaut carrying God's Written Revelation Intact. They are innumerable these days, as the evidence of God's Judgment that has fallen on the increasingly paganized West, called 'The Great Modern Day Christian Apostasy'.

 

[Alan Dale Gross]

However, the fact is that both the Bible League and the T.B.S. denigrate the NKJV, despite it being Textus Receptus. This is what annoys me. I tend to be a Majority Text supporter rather than T.R., but the NKJV suits me fine.

"The Constitution of the Trinitarian Bible Society specifies the textual families to be employed in the translations it circulates. The Masoretic Hebrew1 and the Greek Received2 Texts are the texts that the Constitution of the Trinitarian Bible Society acknowledges to have been preserved by the special providence of God within Judaism and Christianity. Therefore these texts are definitive and the final point of reference in all the Society’s work.

"NOTE 1. The Society accepts as the best edition of the Hebrew Masoretic text the one prepared in 1524-25 by Jacob ben Chayyim and known, after David Bomberg the publisher, as the Bomberg text. This text underlies the Old Testament in the Authorized Version."

NOTE 2. The Greek Received Text is the name given to a group of printed texts, the first of which was published by Desiderius Erasmus in 1516.

from:

Statement of Doctrine of Holy Scripture - Trinitarian Bible Society

www.tbsbibles.org

That the NKJV is faithfully based on the Textus Receptus has not been substantiated and is part of the reason for its disapproval among many.

The reality they lied in their advertising about that and paid every Tom, Dick, and Harry to lie about it, is almost as bad as the name 'New King James', when they are not a 'revision' of the King James Version any more than 'The Revised Version' is a 'revision' of the King James Version.

They are two spurious pseudo-revisions that are not what they purport to be, but the worse thing may be the publication of their liner notes which are entirely devoted as a priority, to the RCC Original Language Manuscripts, among some of the other 1% of the worst Manuscripts known to Mankind, none of which were what they were all purported to be, ether.

Why are they there? Its a Bridge Document attempting to bridge the gap between Christian influenced Bibles and those influenced by various groups who wanted it to say what they want it to say and to not say what they, as men and women, didn't want it to say.