Battle of the Bibles - Present Truth

"When the Western world was floundering in an unjust and uncompetitive order
... God reached out and put His hand on Russian Communists to produce a juster [sic]
order and to show a recumbent church what it has missed in its own gospel" (ibid pp 9,
10).
Among the revisers of the RSV we find quite an assortment of what we might call
critical liberal modernists. Their rejection of the Received Text is clearly revealed in the
Preface to their "Revision":
"The King James Version of the New Testament was based upon a Greek text
that was marred by mistakes, containing the accumulated errors of fourteen centuries of
manuscript copying" (Preface, 1957 Edition).
Such an attitude reveals the "revisers" hopeless infatuation with the Roman
Catholic line which has been debunked through documentation presented in the book
you are now reading. It is quite unworthy of the Protestant heritage under which the
majority of the revisers sheltered and gained their living. They failed to recognise that
had there been no Received Text, such as used by Tyndale and the King James Version
translators, there would be no Protestant denominations in which they could
masquerade as believers.
It is not surprising then that we find others of their fraternity exposing their
traitorous intentions:
"The leaders of the [RSV] committee are active in the ecumenical movement, the
World Council of Churches, which desires to include the Roman Catholics, and have a
'one world church'. All this fits into a pattern" (Carl McIntire, "The New Bible, Why
Christians Should Not Accept It", Second Ed. p 21).
That the revisers had indeed succeeded in producing an ecumenical Bible is
verified by an article by priest Bernard Orchard in a popular Roman Catholic Weekly:
"The most recent and best (translation) in the Englishspeaking world is the
Revised Standard Version which in 1957 was brought to completion by the careful
revision of the deuteroncanonical books, roughly speaking identical with the Protestant
apocrypha. The result is a scholarly rendering of Scripture which is a delight to read and
with very little editing could be made entirely acceptable to English-speaking Catholics"
("The Commonweal", October 9, 1959, p 48).
As if such warnings were not sufficient to alert the Seventh-day Adventist Church
to the modernistic-cum-Roman nature of the RSV, there appeared in 1953 a particular
warning aimed specifically at Adventists by none other than the son of B.G. Wilkinson,
Dr Rowland F Wilkinson. Three editions of his pamphlet: "The New Revised Standard
Version of the Bible" appeared in that year alone, all emanating from Takoma Park,
Washington, where the Headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was located.
Wilkinson's pamphlet caused quite a stir among Adventists as, one by one, he
singled out corrupted texts which generally impinge on the Protestant faith and Seventhday
Adventism in particular. (For further information see "The Comparison of Texts" in
Chapter twenty-seven).
In June 1960, Dr Rowland Wilkinson brought out an amplified edition of his
pamphlet. His writings revealed an insight into Rome's strategy and the background of
the RSV which would have done his father proud:
"A religious revolution is now shaping up in Western Christendom. The world
ecumenical movements in Protestantism and Catholicism recognise that to unite there
must be a mutually acceptable Bible" (p 3).
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