A Grievous Wolf - Time for Truth

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Noting Grievous Wolf’s fixation with ‘the Greek,’ see Questions 5, 11, 15, 17, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 30,
31, 32, 38, 39, 40, 46, Dr Mrs Riplinger’s summary from In Awe of Thy Word p 956 bears careful reflection.
“Authority must remain with the Bible in use, not with the critical edition of one man or one ecclesiastical
tradition. Scrivener’s [based on Beza’s 1598 Edition] and Berry’s [based on Stephanus’ 1550 Edition]
printed editions are not ‘authoritative’ or to be regarded as ‘the Original Greek’ “in microscopic
points of detail,” where they differ from the manuscript tradition or the King James Bible and other
great vernacular Bibles (Cambridge History of the Bible, vol. 2, p 499)…These particular editions were
never read and used by the masses of Greek-speaking true Christians.
“It must be remembered that even the 5200 existing handwritten Greek manuscripts were the product of
the Greek Orthodox Church. Its membership has never been made up of true believers. The scriptures
have been entrusted to the priesthood of true believers, just as they were entrusted to the Hebrew priests
in the Old Testament. Unbelievers, Greek speaking or otherwise, cannot discern spiritual things…
“The desire to appear intelligent or superior by referring to ‘the Greek’ and downplaying the common
man’s Bible, exposes a naivety concerning textual history and those documents which today’s pseudointellectuals
call ‘the critical text,’ ‘the original Greek,’ the ‘Majority Text,’ or the ‘Textus Receptus.’
There existed a true original Greek (i.e. Majority Text, Textus Receptus). It is not in print and never
will be, because it is unnecessary. No one on the planet speaks first century Koine Greek, so God is finished
with it. He needs no ‘Dead Bible Society’ to translate it into “everyday English,” using the same
corrupt secularised lexicons used by the TNIV, NIV, NASB and HCSB [Holman Christian Standard Bible].
God has not called readers to check his Holy Bible for errors. He has called his Holy Bible to
check us for errors.
“What Would Jesus Do?
Inspire a Bible people can read?
Inspire conflicting Greek editions which few can read?
Inspire unsaved liberals to write conflicting Greek lexicons to translate conflicting one-man Greek
editions?
Inspire originals then lose them?” (author’s emphasis)
Those are salutary remarks for all serious students of the bible translation issue. What Grievous Wolf
would make of them, though, is anybody’s guess.
47. Which reading is the verbally (word-for-word) inspired word of God to be the inerrant scripture –
“whom ye” [Cambridge KJV’s] or, “whom he” [Oxford KJV’s] at Jeremiah 34:16?
Jeremiah 34:16 is a verse that arch-Bible critic James White put forward as one of seven ‘errors’ in the
1611 Holy Bible and which Dr Ruckman answered in successive issues of the Bible Believers Bulletin.
See Bible Believers Bulletin, September 1995-March 1996. The September and December 1995 issues
carried the details of Dr Ruckman’s response to White’s challenge.
The following explanation is from the Time for Truth site, with respect to James White’s contempt for
the 1611 Holy Bible that matches that of his fellow blind guide, Grievous Wolf. It is entitled James
White’s 7 “Errors.”
See www.timefortruth.co.uk/content/pages/documents/1309647419.pdf.
Dr Ruckman has some explanatory comments about Jeremiah 34:16. See below. They are sufficient
for a bible believer - though not for James White. He insists that because the different readings are still
found in different editions of the AV1611, “The person who does not make the KJV the absolute authority…has
an easy answer; look at the Hebrew text and find out…[and] the Hebrew is plural
here…the correct translation is the plural “you,” i.e. “ye,” which is, in fact, the reading found in the
AV 1611.”
But only because “the Hebrew is plural here” [i.e. White insists that only “the Hebrew” is trustworthy,
not the 1611 Holy Bible as such, because two different editions have different readings]. According to