The Burning Bush Vol 9 No 2.pmd - Far Eastern Bible College

REVISIONISM ANCIENT AND MODERN
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God had spoken: His Word standeth sure, forever settled, inerrant,
infallible, perfect. Who dare doubt or question it but the father of lies and
enemy of truth. His master stroke “Yea, hath God said?” stumbled our
first parents and plunged the race into sorrow and curse.
That was revisionism of the spoken word at the dawn of history.
In time God gave the Written Word: holy men of God wrote as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost. That Word was denied to God’s people
by unfaithful custodians, until God sent the Reformation and the Bible of
the Reformation—the King James Version (KJV)—to lift the darkness of
a thousand years.
Lovers and defenders of the KJV affirm with Dean Burgon of
Oxford that
The Bible is none other than the voice of Him that sitteth upon the throne.
Every book of it, every chapter of it, every verse of it, every syllable of it,
every letter of it, is direct utterance of the Most High. The Bible is none
other than the Word of God, not some part of it more, some part of it less,
but all alike the utterance of Him that sitteth upon the throne, faultless,
unerring, supreme.
Through three centuries, the KJV reigned supreme, the unchallenged
and unrivalled Word of God. But the enemy of truth, with diabolical
cunning and subtlety, schemed its overthrow through a “Committee of
Revision” headed by Westcott and Hort, masterminds of subversion and
champions of corrupted and doctored texts.
Their “Revised Version” of 1881, a masterpiece of intrigue, and
“secret weapon” of the Counter-Reformation, breached the dike of Holy
Scripture, and a hundred corrupt “Modern English Versions” poured
through the floodgate of Revisionism. In the century following, corrupt
versions had all but replaced the King James Bible.
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