Battle of the Bibles - Present Truth

many young seminarians trained by the Jesuits to infiltrate Protestant institutions. He
claims:
"The first Protestant groups they [Jesuits] moved on were the 7th day Adventists
[sic] and the Full Gospel Business Men", (p 28).
Such claims help provide a rational explanation for the otherwise inexplicable
conduct of certain leaders whose actions appear more in keeping with the role of 'false
prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves"
of which Christ had warned His church (Matthew 7:15; Mark 13:22).
Dr Rivera has also written of the way in which Rome has carried out her plans
(as formulated at the Council of Trent) to subvert Protestantism through what he calls
the "Alexandrian cult":
"Today in many Bible colleges, professors who are in the Alexandrian cult are
constantly altering the King James Bible with the Greek and English versions of the
Roman Catholic Latin Vulgate. Naturally the students lose confidence in the Bible and
lack power when they become preachers" ("Sabotage", p 30).
It follows then, that if Rivera is correct in his claim that the Seventh-day Adventist
Church had been substantially infiltrated by Rome, we should expect that much of the
Adventist administration and the academics whom it employs would be avid promoters
of the modern versions. Let us see!
As the decade of the sixties was drawing to a close, it became evident to the
more discerning Seventh-day Adventist that there was much more to the fad for modern
versions than the wish to be seen to be in line with "reverent scholarship". For instance,
when the Ministerial Secretary of the Australasian Division of Seventh-day Adventists,
Pastor L.C. Naden was appraised of the RSV, he immediately reacted by circularising
the ministry, warning them of its pedigree and its pitfalls. But it was not long before a
young man by the name of Desmond Ford was appointed head of theology at the
Seventh-day Adventist's main ministerial training centre in Australia. He had spent quite
some time training overseas and had picked up quite a bit of the "reverent scholarship",
part of which was his predilection for the National Council of Church's Revised Standard
Version of the Bible.
He wrote a thesis which was published under the title of "Daniel" but his
interpretation of prophecy was at variance with historic Adventism. In fact, he went for
the futuristic interpretation of prophecy invented by the Jesuit Ribera which lets the
papacy off the beastly hook of Revelation. Throughout his book, Ford used the RSV to
support his position and no more objections to the use of the RSV were heard from the
ministerial staff! 24
(24 Although the Australian Division of SDA's later abjectly exonerated Ford, he was
eventually fired at the insistence of the General Conference in Washington. Much of his
heretical teaching dominates the ministry in Australia to this day.)
At that time, many Adventist academics and even some administrative leaders
were vigorously pushing what was soon to be known as the "New Theology". In the
interests of peace and unity, and acquiescent attitude to the new teachings began to
develop among leaders who compromised their principles - a failing which was to
characterise the church's rapid acceleration towards Protestant impotency.
But such enthusiasm for corrupted Scripture was not yet shared by the laity.
Changes in the pews came slowly. As young Seventh-day Adventist pastors introduced
the modern versions into their pulpits, many of the congregations resented the intrusion.
In the October 1982 edition of "The Ministry" magazine, issued at the Seventh-day
Adventist headquarters in Washington, there appeared an article by Elder Charles Case
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