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Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

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This, of course, is pantheistic, though perhaps<br />

all who profess this teaching are not avowed<br />

pantheists. The new theology changed the<br />

Protestant conception of Christ; then very naturally<br />

it changed all the fundamental doctrines and<br />

consequently made the <strong>Bible</strong> secondary as the<br />

fountain of faith, while nominally giving the <strong>Bible</strong><br />

its customary usages. However, like the Gnostics<br />

of old, this new theology would not scruple to<br />

change sacred passages to support their theology.<br />

The glorification of the Vaticanus and<br />

Sinaiticus<br />

Why was it that at so late a date as 1870 the<br />

Vatican and Sinaitic Manuscripts were brought<br />

forth and exalted to a place of supreme dictatorship<br />

in the work of revising the King James <strong>Bible</strong>?<br />

Especially when shocking corruptions of these<br />

documents betray a “systematic depravation”? On<br />

this Dean Burgon says: “The impurity of the texts<br />

exhibited by Codices B and (#) [Aleph] is not a<br />

matter of opinion, but a matter of fact. These are<br />

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