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embracing Roman Catholicism, was eminently qualified to identify Protestantism's great bulwark. He cried out in despair: "The printing of the English Bible has proved to be by far the mightiest barrier ever reared to repel the advance of Popery, and to damage all the resources of the Papacy" (Eadie, "The English Bible", Vol.11, p 158 - cited in "Our Authorised Bible Vindicated", p 88). A "mighty barrier" indeed! It has turned out to be an enduring bulwark against Atheism, Modernism, Liberalism and Catholicism. It travelled the broad waters of the British-ruled seas to lands both old and new where it has been translated into "a thousand tongues". It formed the basis of common law in countries which it civilised. It stimulated the minds of men who developed the Protestant work ethic and brought about the Industrial Revolution which built Western civilisation. In short, its illuminating rays took the world out of the Dark Ages of ignorance and superstition and pointed the way to the shining light of intellectual, civil and religious liberty. Our Authorised Bible has withstood the attacks of scoffers, sceptics and selfstyled scientists. It has been challenged by numerous "newer and better" translations, yet it has remained the standard to which succeeding translators aspire and by which all are judged. Its numeration of chapters and verses is slavishly copied by the great majority. After three hundred years of use, the "Ladies Home Journal" of November 1921 confidently asserted: "Now, as the English-speaking people have the best Bible in the world, and as it is the most beautiful monument erected with the English alphabet, we ought to make the most of it, for it is an incomparably rich inheritance, free to all who care to read. This means that we ought invariably in the church and on public occasions to use the Authorised Version; all others are inferior. " Questions then, must inevitably arise: What do the Protestant Bibles of the Received Text line have that is lacking in others? Why did the world have to await the arrival of the "Waldensian Bibles" to break the Roman shackles which bound it to the Dark Ages? The answer is simple. They transmit the inspired word of God as opposed to those which are contaminated by the philosophy, interpretations and emendations of men. To demonstrate this claim, we shall briefly divert our attention from the glorious march of the Authorised Bible of King James to that period of early Christianity when the church, along with its Scriptures, first came under attack - an attack which has been sustained in varying degrees of subtlety and intensity to this very day. 9
Section Two Chapters Twelve to Fifteen BATTLE OF THE BIBLES H. H. MEYERS "My Words Shall Not Pass Away " "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand forever" (Isaiah 40:8). Chapter Twelve Seeds of Apostasy St John, the apostle of Jesus Christ is believed to have passed away around 100 AD. Having outlived his fellow apostles, he was able to take an active part in collating their writings into what we now call the New Testament (Eusebius, "Ecclesiastical History", Book III Chapter 24). So carefully were the writings which form the New Testament chosen, that no Christian Church Council dared to question what the early church had set aside as inspired Scripture until the convening of the papal Council of Trent in 1645 (Dean Stanley, "Essays on Church and State", p 136). John foresaw that the fledgling Christian Church would come to be seen as an enemy of the pagans. Just as the Prince of Darkness had sought to destroy the Word Incarnate (John 1:14), so the Word of Inspiration would surely come under attack. Therefore, before concluding his Revelation of Jesus Christ, John recorded one of God's most terrible warnings to mankind: "If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 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" (Revelation 22:18, 19). The evil philosophies issuing from pagan countries at the commencement of the Christian era were numerous. Because they contrasted greatly with the quality of love which God had so dramatically demonstrated by sacrificing His "only begotten Son" that all who truly believe might have eternal life (John 3:16; 1 John 5:13), the pagan religions could not compete with Christianity. Therefore, the Arch-deceiver needed to come up with a counterfeit Christianity which in reality was a modified form of paganism. This "Christianity" would play on the people's ignorance and present a pleasing alternative to those un-regenerated hearts, which found the Christian demands of obedience to God's Law irksome. Dr. B.G. Wilkinson, in his comprehensive work: "Our Authorised Bible Vindicated", notes three warnings given by the apostle Paul as to what the Christian Church could expect: 1. "False Knowledge Exalted Above Scripture" 1
Page 1 and 2: Table of Contents By way of introdu
Page 3 and 4: Section One Chapters One to Eleven
Page 5 and 6: Wycliffe's unpretentious priests gl
Page 7 and 8: Chapter Two Colet and Erasmus Desid
Page 9 and 10: friends rallied around him and with
Page 11 and 12: day but they have taken on a more v
Page 13 and 14: With Erasmus's translation, Tyndale
Page 15 and 16: Jane Seymour, the third of Henry's
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Page 19 and 20: attacked and destroyed monasteries
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Page 25 and 26: • That Scripture can only be inte
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Page 29 and 30: negotiated with winds not always fa
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Isaiah 7:14 "Behold a virgin shall
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him". Luke 2:33 "And Joseph and his
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JB "Christ, our, passover, has been
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the Protestant Bible. Having achiev
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So, once more, as in the days of Co
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