tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55453914494706161722024-03-08T08:12:09.743-08:00King James Bible Research CouncilPastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-62653254795109424932014-12-16T16:51:00.000-08:002014-12-16T16:51:01.628-08:00
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PART I</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A recent visit to a symphony concert was very
enjoyable. I delighted hearing Brahms Symphony No. 2 performed by the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra. I did not realize at that time how God would use that
experience to give me a deeper understanding of His precious word.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In musical terms, a symphony is
described as a compound form. The classical symphony usually has four sections,
or movements, and while it is possible for each movement to be performed
separately, that is rarely done. The relationship between the movements, such
as the interplay of mood, the creativity of structure, or the unfolding of a
story, is what makes the listening experience complete.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Obviously, the Word of God is a
compound form with 66 separate movements, or books. Each book can be read
separately, but the full satisfaction comes from recognizing how each section
is skillfully integrated into a meaningful whole.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There are two levels of
appreciation when listening to a symphony. The first and most elementary is the
emotional response. Every listener is able to appreciate on this level.
However, the skill of the conductor lies in his ability to direct the various
emotions to a point of unity. In other words, each listener will be directed
toward the same emotional response. That feeling of oneness generated in an
assembly of strangers is reason to visit a concert hall, as opposed to
listening in solitude, where one misses out on that experience.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When we read or hear the Words
of God, each of us can have an emotional response. We can marvel in awe at the
act of creation, or cheer with the Israelites when David slays the giant. We
cry along with Jeremiah and walk and leap and praise God with the lame man who
was healed by the Apostles. These are common emotional responses. The role of
the Holy Spirit, when we read or hear the Words of God, is to take us as
individuals and lead us to a point of unity in Christ. Similarly, just as in a
concert hall, for the blessing of unity to be realized, the assembling of the
saints together should not be forsaken.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The second level of appreciation
for a symphonic composition is reached through an understanding of the
mechanics of construction. The whole process begins with a design concept in
the mind of the composer who employs musical symbols on a printed page to
transmit his concept to others. It can readily be seen that Scripture began as
a design concept in the mind of the Almighty who chose to transmit this concept
to us living today, through the printed page, the Holy Bible. Less obvious
however may be the mechanics of this transmission, which will now be examined
in detail.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Musical notes can be arranged in
two ways; the linear arrangement which creates melody and the vertical
arrangement which creates harmony. A melody is a meaningful arrangement of
tones that is constructed with a plan or purpose. It is designed to attract our
attention and elicit a response. Symphonic compositions that have delighted
people through the ages are the ones that have immediately recognizable
melodies. These melodies that are elevated to prominence in a composition are
called <u>themes.</u> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Our beloved King James Bible has
beautiful melodies that sing out from the pages. Each melody is made up of a
series of words, for examp</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">le,
“For God so loved the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">world that he gave his only
begotten Son.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This melody abounds throughout the Bible, in many
variations and in many different contexts, but when we hear it, even if it has
been disguised, we remember that we have heard it before and it is familiar to
us. Or, consider </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">the melody, “Behold the Lamb of
God</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When this theme is encountered
in the Bible and we remember the Lamb and think on Him, we interact with that
melody to the stirring of our very soul.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">One of the marks of greatness of
a classical composer is his ability to manipulate melodic fragments into
various constructs and then reorganize them into even more meaningful patterns.
Full enjoyment of a symphony on this second, deeper level depends upon our
ability to remember the melodies heard previously, and when, after a sometimes
prolonged interlude, they reappear in all their majesty, it is like reuniting
with an old friend. The more familiar we become with the composition, the more
we anticipate the arrival of that recognizable melody. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The same is applicable to the Bible’s major
themes. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Just as a symphony, with its
different movements, is united by its thematic material, so is the Bible. The
themes are manipulated, maneuvered, transformed, and sometimes disguised, but
study and meditation can often reveal them. A musician who has studied the composition
will understand it in greater depth and see the marvelous intricacies better
than someone hearing it for the first time. However, the conductor, or in our
analogy, the Holy Spirit can guide us into a more complete understanding.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let us digress at this point as
we ponder the role of the conductor. He (or she) <u>never</u> adds to,
subtracts, or in any way changes the score that the composer has written. The
job of the conductor is to interpret the information on the page and to lead,
guide and direct the musicians in the performance. As pertains to the matter of
interpretation, there are certain notations that may not be changed; for
example, the notes themselves may not be altered unless there is an obvious
misprint. The work must be performed in the same key that was chosen by the
composer because a certain mood or impression can be </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">generated through this choice of key.
However, when the composer writes “allegro” on </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">the score, to define the speed at which the music is to
be performed, just how fast is </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“allegro”?
If he writes “pianissimo” on a section, just how soft is that? The conductor </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">determines these criteria within certain
universal parameters and thus puts his signature on the performance.</span></div>
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God’s words and brings us to a knowledge of the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">truth, it is not accomplished by changing or modifying
those words in any way. What </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">God has written is forever
settled and preserved for us. The role of the Holy Spirit is to </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">equip
us to understand and perform God’s Word</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">s as
was intended by the composer Himself. Just as a conductor cannot transmit the
message without participation by the musicians who bring their own special
gifts and abilities to the performance, </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">the Holy
Spirit uses the saints of God to perform the Words of God.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now we revert back to our study
of the mechanics of a symphonic composition. We have discussed the linear
construction, or melody. Next we consider the vertical structure, or harmony.
The chordal structure is implemented to support the melody by setting the
melody in a certain tonal environment. This setting, or context, then
determines the mood of the composition, much the same way that wall color
determines the mood of a room.</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 14pt 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To illustrate this concept as it
applies to The Words of God, let us consider various books of the Bible and
establish a prevailing mood for each. For example:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 3.0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
book of Psalms<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>majestic</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 0.15pt 0in 0pt 1in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 3.0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Song
of Solomon<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>intimate,
playful</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 3.0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jeremiah<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>melancholy</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 0.05pt 0in 0pt 1in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 3.0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Proverbs<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>neutral</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 0.2pt 0in 0pt 1in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 3.0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ruth<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>bright</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 0.15pt 0in 0pt 1in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; tab-stops: 3.0in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Revelation<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>foreboding</span></div>
<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 13.65pt 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If we were musically notating the
book of Ruth, we would certainly not end it in a minor key. This book, with the
underlying theme (melody) of redemption, would undoubtedly end in triumph, the
genealogy of David triumphantly proclaiming the redeemer to come. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Contrast
this with the book of Jeremiah “the weeping prophet</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">,</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">” </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">where
the idea of redemption is more obscure and the entire book would be musically
portrayed in a minor key. It is the harmonic construction that gives each book
its distinctive color, or mood.</span></div>
<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 13.85pt 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The third element in a musical
composition we have not yet mentioned. It is the element of rhythm. One can
readily understand that even the most sophisticated progression of notes would
be meaningless without rhythm. Rhythm brings order; that order resulting from
repeated occurrences. God Himself established rhythm; in the seasons, in the
oceanic tides, and in the heavenly spheres, where events are repeated enough to
establish meaning. In fact, as early as the second verse in the creation
account (Gen 1:2) we see the earth without form and void until the Spirit of
God moved upon the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">face of the waters. That word, “moved” means,
literally, “vibrated</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">,</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">” </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">producing rhythmic waves of energy. So, we
can see how the Creator used rhythm to bring order out of formlessness.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
examination of the subject of rhythm in God’s Word brings numerous</span></i></div>
<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">examples to light. We have obvious rhythm in
the book of Judges, each leader </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">punctuating the course of a nation’s hist</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ory, either for good or for evil, one reign
flowing </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">rhythmically into the next with the often repeated
refrain, “And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord.” We see
rhythm in the book of Joshua; in fact, it is a</span></i></div>
<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 0in 0in 34.3pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">marching rhythm as Israel
conquers the Promised Land. We have obvious rhythm in the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Psalms, the structure of which
is sometimes so precise and the words so melodious, even in translation, they
can be turned into song without any modification at all. With the advent of
computers, we have discovered Bible codes, (an unfortunate term) where rhythm
is being discovered in the actual words themselves as they appear on the
printed page, and that rhythm pulses as intended so long as the words have not
been altered or changed. The truth is, if the Words of God are quick and
powerful, then they have the pulse beat or the rhythm of life itself.</span></div>
<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.65pt; margin: 0in 0in 34.3pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As with any comparisons, more
could be said. Perhaps through this short musical journey where we have
compared Scripture to a finely constructed symphony, we have come to appreciate
our KJB even more. Unfortunately, as with any comparison of things earthly to
things heavenly, the earthly falls far short. One observation does remain true
however, the Words of God, although composed in eternity past, have been
completely recorded for us in book form and preserved by divine covenant. We
are able to hold this miraculously written letter from heaven, stained with the
blood of martyrs, in our very hands, translated into the English language and
infallibly preserved. Our beloved King James Bible resonates with the harmonies
of eternity and the rhythm of life. But it is the glorious melody, that
pervasive theme, composed of the notes of mercy and grace, that saturates the
whole so completely and lovingly. It is a melody we can sing in our hearts.
Jesus Christ, our blessed redeemer, is that unchanging melody. Jesus Christ,
the same yesterday, today and forever.</span></div>
</div>
<div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD’S WORD IS A SYMPHONY OF PRAISE</span></b></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 15.65pt; margin: 16.55pt 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PART II</span></b></div>
<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 15.35pt 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The foregoing treatise is an
analogy that perhaps gives one a greater understanding and appreciation fo</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">r God’s Word. Comparing Scripture </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">to a finely constructed symphony is a
delightful exercise, both intellectually and spiritually. However, if the
treatise ends here, is there any lasting effect? To make an impact, we must
make it apply to our lives. The remainder of this presentation will instruct
you on </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">how to perform God’s Symphony.
You, the saints of God, are the musicians called to </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">perform the Words of God each and every day.
Are you qualified?</span></div>
<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 14.25pt 0in 24.6pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">’s suppose for a mome</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">nt
that you are going to an audition for participation in a symphony orchestra.
Obviously, the first requirement is that you are able to play your instrument;
that you can decipher the notes on the page and produce an accurate rendition.
If you are going to accurately decipher the Words of God for performance
purposes, the first qualification is faith. You must have faith in the living
Word, Jesus </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Christ, before you can acceptably
perform God’s written Word. While it is true that there </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">are those who attempt to perform
the Words of God without possessing a saving faith, their performance is not
pleasing because without faith it is impossible to please Him. (Heb 11:6). The
performance may be technically flawless, every note accurately played, but
there is no connection. The performance is lifeless; without heart; dead. Why
is that? We remember in the OT how God condemned the bringing of offerings and
sacrifices to Him without the right attitude of the heart. Their performance
was technically correct, but without understanding. Faith is the qualification
that makes us alive to the things of God and gives us an understanding heart so
that our performance may be acceptable in His sight.</span></div>
</div>
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<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.75pt; margin: 13.8pt 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The second qualification is a
desire to perform well. While there is a place for amateurs in a youth
orchestra, musicians are expected to perfect their skills. This is impossible
without practice; many, many hours of practice. As a musician desiring to </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">play
God’s Symphony, you must also practice. You must study </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">the notes (Words), engrave them on your
heart, meditate on them in your mind and thoroughly understand</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 14.05pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">them before </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">you </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">attempt to bring them to performance. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do you </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">have a musician’s</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 13.75pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">dedication?</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 13.5pt 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This brings
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">us </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">to the question, “What </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">will you </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">do with the difficult passages?”</span></div>
<div style="-ms-text-justify: inter-ideograph; line-height: 13.8pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There are two possibilities. One is to
practice them unto perfection. The second is to allow the other musicians to
carry the difficult passages without you. Ladies, do you </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">allow
your husband’s commitment and dedication to carry you th</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">rough the difficult passages? Do you allow
him to carry the load that is rightfully yours? Do you understand that the
trumpet cannot play the part that was written for the violin? The performance
of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">God’s Symphony with your husband
should be a duet; each p</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">art in harmony with and
complementing the other. The part he has been given to play may be the more
prominent, but he needs the underlying harmonic support that has been written
for you. We must study the whole Word of God, being familiar with all, but we
must, as individuals, be dedicated to performing the passages written
specifically for us.</span></div>
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that is absolutely essential to symphonic performance. Each musician must be
subject to the authority of the conductor. Remember that previous imaginary
audition? Suppose you only agreed to perform on Sundays? Suppose you only
agreed to perform </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">your </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.6pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">musical version even though it was far
different from the original? Suppose you only agreed to perform at your
convenience; in your season? Suppose you insisted on being the final authority
of how those notes should be interpreted instead of being guided through the
performance by the conductor? You</span></div>
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and your chance to shine would be </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">extinguished.
B</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ut
Jesus says, “Ye are the light of the world” (Mt 5:14) and “Let your </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">light so shine before men that they may see
your good works (a pleasing and acceptable </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">performance of God’s Word</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">s</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">) and glorify your Father which is in
heaven.” (Mt 5:16).</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My prayer for all of us is that
we learn to be proficient, capable musicians, dedicated to the performance of a
lifetime. The house lights have dimmed, a hush has descended and the curtain is
rising. The audience is watching and prepared to listen. The musicians are
tuned up and ready to perform. All are anticipating the arrival of the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.55pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">conductor who appears from the
wings and makes his way to the podium. There is no delay; he lifts his baton
and the performance begins. The Symphony of Praise rings out from the stage,
fills the hall, and resounds in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the
uttermost part of the earth. (Acts 1:8) The magnificent harmonies reach the
heavens and enter into the court of the composer Himself, where it is forever
settled.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">O God, we desire to bring honour
and glory to you through our performance of your precious, preserved Words.
Under the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, may those eternal Words
become A Symphony of Praise.</span></div>
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Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-8338950486914485922014-12-11T11:59:00.001-08:002014-12-11T12:02:56.099-08:00A SCRIBAL ERROR IN 2 CHRONICLES 22:2? NO!<br />
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<b><span style="color: #264989; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A SCRIBAL ERROR IN 2 CHRONICLES 22:2? NO! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #264989; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Robert J Sargent</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2<span style="color: black;"> Kings 8:26—“Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he
began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was
Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.”</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 Chronicles 22:2—“Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when
he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is there a discrepancy between 2 Kings 8:26 and 2 Chronicles
22:2? To the casual reader, there indeed appears to be a contradiction between
two parallel accounts of the accession of King Ahaziah over Judah. Was Ahaziah
22 or 42 when he ascended the Judean throne? </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is an easy solution to the problem—<i>if</i> you are a
Bible corrector! Obviously this just has to be an error! The “scholarly”
statement of this “explanation” is: “The number ‘forty and two’ in 2 Chron 22:2
is evidently the mistake of a copyist.” In other words, since Ahaziah’s father
Jehoram died at age 40 (2 Chron 21:20), it would have been impossible for
Ahaziah to succeed him at an age of 42! Therefore, somewhere in the history of
the transmission of the Hebrew text, a careless scribe committed a
transcriptional error.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The problem with this easy solution is: if there is one
error in the Bible (albeit an innocent slip of the pen), who is to say there
are not other errors in the Bible? How could we be absolutely certain that the
precious verses God used to speak to our heart and save our soul are not among
those containing errors? Can we really trust our Bible?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For a number of compelling reasons, we believe the Bible is
the <i>Perfect Word </i>(Ps 119:140) of a <i>Perfect God</i> (Tit 1:2) and
given to man in a <i>Perfect Manner</i> (2 Pet 1:21, 2 Tim 3:16) and preserved
in a <i>Perfect Form</i> (Ps 12:6-7). Our Bible is not only infallible in all
its teachings but inerrant in all its content. That is why we can say with full
assurance: “<i>I know</i> whom I have believed;” that is why we can say with
absolute confidence: “there hath <i>not failed</i> one word of all his good
promise.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Statements of Fact</span></b></div>
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concerning the age of King Ahaziah when he began to reign? Before we come to
untie what one writer calls “the Gordian Knot of the Chronology of the Kings of
Israel and Judah,” several statements of fact need to be made.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(I)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some parts of God’s Word are likened to milk (1 Pet 2:2),
while other parts are called strong meat (Heb 5:12-14). This conundrum most
definitely falls into the strong meat category.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Every Christian is commanded to study the Bible (2 Tim
2:15). This particular question is one which requires much careful and
diligent study.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whenever we encounter a difficult-to-understand Bible
passage, it does not mean the Bible is somehow in error. We have to consider
two realities: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that we may not be of sufficient spiritual maturity to
grasp the deep treasure God has put there in His Word (1 Cor 3:1-2, Luke
24:25), and must therefore keep growing and keep studying; or <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that God never intended for us to know everything there is
to know (John 21:25), and must therefore be content with the knowledge that
He has given us all we need to know until we enter into His glorious presence
in heaven (1 Cor 13:12).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(IV) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The two passages in question are accurate English
translations of the Masoretic Hebrew text—all the extant Hebrew manuscripts
say the same thing! This is not some supposed “poor translation” by the
translators of the Authorised, King James Version. Why, those men would run
rings around 20<sup>th</sup> century scholarship—and do you not think they
would have had enough sense to “patch up” such a glaring inconsistency if
they really believed it was an error? (This perplexing question is actually a
wonderful demonstration of the honesty of the translators of the Authorised,
King James Version.)<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(V)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When interpreting the Bible chronologically (which is part
of the solution to these problem texts), it is absolutely necessary to keep
in mind some important facts:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(1) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scripture deals only with whole years when it comes to the
reign of the kings. A part of a year is counted as a whole year, and when
applied to the kings of Israel, that part of one year may actually be counted
twice—once for the outgoing king, once for the incoming king. As a matter of
fact, at time of the events mentioned in our problem text, the Northern
kingdom of Israel had three kings reigning in the same year—Ahab (absent in
battle, then killed), his son Ahaziah (co-Rex, then dies of a fall), and his
grandson Jehoram.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
</td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.25pt 0in 0in; width: 6%;" valign="top" width="6%"><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 5.25pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(2) </span></div>
</td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0in 5.25pt 0in 0in; width: 88%;" width="88%"><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 5.25pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes the reign of a king is dated from the beginning
of a dynasty instead of the beginning of his own succession to the throne.
The classic example of this is found in 2 Chronicles 16:1 where the reign of
Asa at the time of Baasha’s invasion has been counted from the division of
the united monarchy under Rehoboam. (This explains the apparent contradiction
with 1 Kgs 16:8.) Chronicles records the length of the kingdom; Kings records
the length of the term of office. We may find this a strange way of
reckoning, but that is the way it is sometimes counted in the Biblical
record.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(3) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes the beginning of the reign of a king may be
given from his anointing or from his accession, or both! The Lord Jesus
Christ was born King of the Jews (Matt 2:2), but His reign will not begin
until He sits upon David’s throne in the Millennium. Following the
deportation of his father, Jehoiachin legally became king of Judah when he
was eight years old (2 Chron 36:9), but his mother ruled for him as queen
(Jer 13:18) until he was 18 (2 Kgs 24:8). Three months later both king and
queen mother were deported (2 Kgs 24:12).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(4)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was not uncommon for there to be more than one king
reigning at a given time in either Israel or Judah. Some ruled as pro-Rex (in
place of the king), others as co-Rex (together with the king).<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(VI) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The term “son,” as it is used in the Bible, does not
always mean the contiguous male offspring of a father. A father may actually
be a grandfather (Dan 5:2—Belshazzar was Nebuchadnezzar’s grandson), or
step-father, or a distant forebear (Matt 1:1).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(VII)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This particular question is somewhat complicated by the
similarity of names of the kings of Israel and Judah during the period of
time. There were in fact two Ahaziahs, one in the Northern kingdom of Israel
and one in the Southern kingdom of Judah. One way to keep them straight in
your mind is to remember the following formula: ISRAEL = A-A-J
(Ahab-Ahaziah-Jehoram); JUDAH = J-J-A (Jehoshaphat-Jehoram-Ahaziah). Lastly,
Ahaziah has three names in the records: Ahaziah (2 Chron 22:1), Jehoahaz (2
Chron 21:17), and Azariah (2 Chron 22:6).</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Biblical Solution</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The “key” which unlocks the door to our understanding this
matter is found in the New Testament. The royal genealogy of the Lord Jesus
Christ is recorded in the Gospel according to Matthew. Matthew 1:8 lists the
kings in the Davidic line at the time of our particular concern—and there are
some notable omissions!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The following chart compares the kings of Judah as given in
the Old Testament record to the same kings listed in Matthew 1:8:</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OLD TESTAMENT RECORD</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CHRIST'S GENEALOGY</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jehoshaphat</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jehoshaphat</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jehoram</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jehoram</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Three kings of Judah are not counted in the lineage of Jesus
Christ! Why? The answer to that is found in Exodus 20:5, Numbers 14:18 and
Psalm 109:13-15 and is seen in the character of this reign (2 Chron 22:2-4).
The fact is, Ahaziah is not counted as a seed of David—his ancestry is traced
to the house of Omri. The Bible accentuates both the bloodline and the
influence of his mother (Athaliah), who is the daughter of Omri—either
literally, or in the sense that she is the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel (2 Kgs
8:18), i.e., she is Omri’s granddaughter.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two Possible Explanations</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This being the case, there are now two possible
explanations: </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Solution #1</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahaziah was literally 22 years old (2 Kgs 8:26) when he
ascended to the throne of Judah. He was the actual son of Jehoram and Athaliah.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahaziah was co-Rex with his ailing father Jehoram (2 Chron
21:18) for one year (2 Kgs 9:29—the 11<sup>th</sup> year of Jehoram of Israel)
and sole king for one year (the 12<sup>th</sup> year of Jehoram of Israel—2 Kgs
8:25).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahaziah ascended to the throne in 894 BC [Ed: 842/1 BC]. If
we count backwards 42 years (to 936 BC) we come to the first year of Omri [Ed:
885/4 BC]. In other words, Ahaziah was indeed 22 years old (as stated in
Kings), but his reign is counted (in Chronicles) from the beginning of the evil
dynasty of Omri. This is the Holy Spirit’s way of highlighting the wicked
aberration in the royal Davidic line.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The phrase “Forty and two years” may then be taken as a
Hebrew idiom “A son of forty two years”—meaning that it was 42 years from the
beginning of the dynasty founded by Omri.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Solution #2</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ahaziah was literally 42 years old (2 Chron 22:2) when he
ascended to the throne of Judah. He therefore was not the literal son of
Jehoram (who died at age 40), but a son in the sense of being a step-son. His
mother was his father’s wife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If we count back 20 years (to when Ahaziah was 22 years
old—2 Kings 8:26) we come to the year 914 BC [Ed: 862/1 BC] which is the eighth
year of Jehoshaphat. This was about the time that Jehoshaphat “joined affinity
with Ahab” (2 Chron 18:1), since we know that in the third year of Jehoshaphat’s
reign he instituted a revival in Judah (2 Chron 17:7-9), following which his
kingdom prospered (2 Chron 17:12).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are told in 2 Chronicles 18 that several years after this
alliance was forged, Ahab and Jehoshaphat engaged in a joint military venture
against Syria (2 Chron 18:2). Both kings went into battle (2 Chron 18:28) and
Ahab was killed (2 Chron 18:33-34). Prior to the battle the faithful prophet
Micaiah was deported in chains to Amon where (the one-year-old) Joash was
residing (1 Kgs 22:26). It is here, in this passage, we have a most revealing
statement: Joash—the biological son of Ahaziah (2 Chron 22:11)—is called the
“king’s son,” indicating that Ahaziah was already a king! How could this
possibly be? If, as part of the affinity Jehoshaphat made with Ahab, Ahaziah
was anointed king at this time, the pieces of the puzzle begin to fit together.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In other words, Ahaziah was anointed king at age 22—he
finally sat on the throne of Judah 20 years at age 42.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Word of God does not give all the details of the
affinity between the two monarchs. Evidently, it was far-reaching because in 2
Chronicles 21:2 Jehoshaphat was given the title “king of Israel!” Furthermore,
when Jehoshaphat’s son Jehoram finally gained sole rule over Judah, he not only
murdered his brothers, but “divers also of the princes of Israel” (2 Chron
21:4). Why would he do that if they were not a threat to the Judean throne?</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Not only that, but Ahaziah obviously felt “right at home” in
the Israeli court (2 Chron 22:6). Perhaps both kings were interested in
reuniting the monarchy which had been divided for about 70 years—undoubtedly
with different motives. Ahab (or Jezebel!) conspired to install one of his own
on the Judean throne following the death of Jehoshaphat—a move which would be
accomplished by earmarking Ahaziah (whose mother was Ahab’s own daughter) ahead
of time. When Ahab’s scheme to have Jehoshaphat killed in battle backfired (2
Chron 18:29, 31-33), Ahaziah had to wait 20 years to be enthroned.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this way, Ahaziah was both 22 and 42 when he began to
reign—22 when he was anointed, 42 when he was seated.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The only question which remains is: Who was his biological
father? The affinity struck between Ahab and Jehoshaphat appears to be somewhat
sordid—a tangled web in fact! Consider that Ahaziah is said to be: </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The son of Jehoram (2 Chron 22:1). Since Ahaziah was two
years older than his “father” Jehoram, he must have been his step-son,
brought into that relationship with his mother Athaliah when she married
Jehoram.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The son-in-law of the house of Ahab (2 Kgs 8:27). This
relationship would have been established by his marriage to Zibiah (2 Chron
24:1) who must have been either a daughter or grand-daughter of Ahab.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The son of Jehoshaphat (2 Chron 22:9). It seems Ahaziah
was given a decent burial only out of respect for the fact that he was a son
of Jehoshaphat (2 Chron 22:9). Could it be that in earlier times, Jehoshaphat
followed the custom of cementing royal ties (1 Kgs 3:1) by going in unto
Athaliah, Ahab’s daughter? Perhaps it is at this point that the Biblical
record ceases to give sufficient details for anyone to know for certain.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Almighty God is never pleased with unholy alliances (2
Cor 6:14-17). The Lord never recognised the reigns of Jehoram and Azariah, who
both sought to introduce Baal worship into Judea—along with Joash, they are
omitted from the genealogy of the Saviour. When Ahaziah died, God Himself cut
off the house of Ahab from the royal line (2 Chron 22:7-9).</span></div>
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Robert J Sargent serves as pastor of Bible
Baptist Church in Oak Harbor, Washington. The above article is taken from
Things Hard to be Understood by David Cloud, Way of Life Literature
(http://wayoflife.org), 2001. Permission granted to use this article 12-10-2014</span></i>Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-29258722282491788772014-03-08T12:27:00.000-08:002014-03-08T12:28:19.339-08:002014-2015 King James Bible Research Council Meetings<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Upcoming King James Bible
Research Council Meetings</span></u></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">May 18, 2014 - Grace Baptist Church, Madison WI. - Pastor Dean
Howell. Dr. Brown will be preaching all three services. The topic: Why We Use
The King James Bible. The traveling Antiquarian Bible Museum will be on display.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">April 25-27, 2014 - Maranatha Baptist Church, Sinking Springs, PA.
- Dr. Meritt K. Hole. Dr. Brown will be dealing with Understanding The Bible
Version Debate; Why We Use The King James Bible; Inspiration, Preservation and
Translation. The traveling Antiquarian Bible Museum will be on display. Church
web - www.mbcss.org </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">November 3-4 - Wyldwood Baptist Church, Oshkosh, WI. - Pastor
Jason Brenedstuhl - Annual Conference of the King James Bible Research Council.
Numerous men will be speaking throughout both days. NOTE: Cast your absentee
ballot BEFORE you come to the meetings.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">November 5-6 - West Coast Baptist Baptist College, Lancaster CA.
Dr. David Sorenson will be representing the King James Bible Research Council
and speaking both of those days.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Dr. Stringer and I have been invited to St. Lucia to do a King
James Bible Conference beginning November 11, 2014. Plans are being developed
for this conference.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: black;">“The
Leaven Permeating & Destroying Today’s Fundamental Baptist Churches”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Preached at
the Midwest Independent Baptist Pastor’s Fellowship meeting at Ravenswood
Baptist Church, Chicago Il. August 12-13, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">1 Corinthians 5:6-7</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that <u>a little
leaven leaveneth the whole lump</u>? 7 <u>Purge out therefore the old leaven,
that ye may be a new lump</u>, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our
passover is sacrificed for us:”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black;">Let’s examine <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">two</span> things that are
leavening today’s Fundamental Baptist Churches…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Leaven of <u>Broadmindedness & Tolerance</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black;">Never before in
40 plus years of ministry have I seen what I am seeing today: Once fundamental,
Baptist churches distancing themselves from biblical separation and adopting a
broadminded, tolerant, progressive stance toward the beliefs and practices of
the world! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">The call today is for <u>open-mindedness</u>
and <u>tolerance</u> so that everyone is accepted and so that the unsaved won’t
be offended! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">By and large, the modern
“church” is </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>not</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">
emphasizing teaching doctrine, </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><strong>not</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">
preaching against sin, </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><strong>not</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"> promoting holy living, and </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><strong>not</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"> pointing people to Christ! They fear they would lose
members and money. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><strong>Today’s churches want people to “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">feel good</i>” and “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be comfortable</i>.”</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">I have seen so many Fundamental
Baptist churches and schools change their theology, though they claim they have
not changed! They will blog till they are blue in the face claiming they are
FUNDAMENTAL! However, they have turned their back on Biblical Separation!
Separation has become a “dirty word.” If you are a separatist you intolerant,
unloving, and narrow minded!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One example of many is Northland
students are now “rapping” for Jesus and the school participated in the </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><strong>I am Redeemed
CCM</strong></span></i><span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> rock concert tour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">You don't have to be different from the world to be
a church-member now. There is little about the average church to make men stand
back in reverence toward God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">The Church has sacrificed depth for width and
instead of being a deep well to draw refreshing, thirst quenching living water
it offers stagnant swamp water polluted by sewage of the world! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">We MUST remember that the </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">New Testament Church</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">started out on the narrow road and stuck to
it! <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">Matthew 7:13-14</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enter ye in at <u>the
strait gate</u>: for wide <i>is</i> the gate, and broad <i>is</i> the way, that
leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because <u>strait
<i>is</i> the gate, and narrow <i>is</i> the way, which leadeth unto life</u>,
and few there be that find it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The New Testament
church was not broadminded and tolerant! It </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">was the most exclusive fellowship on earth! <u>They
did NOT cater</u> to the unsaved crowd! They did not integrate worldliness into
their services to attract and please the world’s crowd!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;">As one preacher put it, “<b>We
face the peril of the wide gate and the broad way today, and it tantalizes us
all the more because ‘many enter through it.’” </b>And, today most Christians
would rather be called almost anything on earth beside <u>narrow</u> and <u>intolerant</u>!
The power of political correctness IS leavening an increasing number of
fundamental Baptist Churches!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Preacher, don’t let the leaven of broadmindedness
& tolerance get into your church! If it is there, purge it out! There are
things you SHOULD have a holy intolerant of! </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">sexual promiscuity, adultery, child sexual abuse,
cohabitation, incest, teen pregnancy,</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the murder of the helpless unborn, homosexuality,
same sex marriage are but a few).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;">Far too many churches are
sheltering sin in the Church. And, if a preacher cries out against it he told,
"Don't be too hard, nobody is perfect," or they selectively quote --
"Judge not that you be not judged."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are paying an awful
price today for our tolerance of sin within the Church. “If the church of the
Acts had overlooked iniquity and by-passed evil and smilingly looked the other
way while the devil sneaked into every phase of her life as we have done today,
Christianity would have died in infancy.” </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Vance
Havner)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many churches are lack
the power of God today because they are tolerating sin within. As difficult and
distasteful as it is, we MUST exercise Church discipline when face with sin in
the Church body. Paul exhorts the Church at Corinth <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">– “</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">Your glorying <i>is</i>
not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? 7 <u>Purge
out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened</u>.
For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 5:6-7</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black;">The second thing that is leavening fundamental Baptist
Churches today…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Leaven of Running A Show Boat Instead of A Life Boat<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">When Linda
and I went on our Mediterranean cruise there was lots of entertainment
available. We went to one ice skating show and went to just a few minutes of
another show…it was not fit for Christian consumption! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">Many
churches are shifting from the Biblical model of ministry to a worldly model of
ministry! Perhaps you are wondering what I mean by that. Let me explain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">ü</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> The World’s Model of Ministry<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">The world’s
ministry model for ministry is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">focused
on entertainment</b>. The Webster’s Online Dictionary defines entertainment to
be – amusement or diversion provided especially by performers.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">I have seen
it firsthand several times in churches I have attended, most recently in
Florida. Two BIG screen TV’s were running information and clips constantly once
you walk into the auditorium until the live entertainment started. Worship
teams with choreographed music presentations were next. Actors gave their
performances and finally, there was a short Cotton Candy message: That’s a
message that is very sweet but has no substance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">The word
“entertain or entertained is only used twice in the New Testament and that is
in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hebrews 13:2</b> <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span>Be not forgetful to entertain
strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Obviously it has
NOTHING to do with entertainment as defined above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">In the late
1800 Charles Spurgeon wrote an article called – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats</i></b>.
It is definitely applicable to our day! He wrote in part – <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">“The devil has seldom done a cleverer thing than hinting to the Church
that part of her mission is to provide entertainment of the people, with the
view of winning them…Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in
the Scriptures as a function for the Church. If it was a Christian work, why
did not Christ speak of it? ‘Go ye’…into all the world and speak the Gospel to
every creature. This is a clear enough. So it would have been if He had added,
‘and provide amusement for those who do not relish the Gospel.’ No such words
are to be found…. Jesus pitied sinners, sighed and wept over them, but never
sought to amuse them.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">ü</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> The Biblical Model of Ministry<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">In the
Biblical model of ministry PREACHING & TEACHING the Word of God is central!
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">My 1828
Webster’s Dictionary defines preaching this way – “To discourse [formally talk]
on the gospel way of salvation and exhort to repentance; to discourse on
evangelical truths and exhort to a belief of them and acceptance of the terms
of salvation.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">The words <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">preach, preached, preaching</b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">preacheth</b> are found 136 times in the
New Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">Christians
are told to “preach the Gospel” (Matthew 16:15); Christ sent the disciples out
to preach (Mark 3:14); He commanded the his disciples to preach unto the people
(Acts 10:42); It is by preaching that men are saved (1 Corinthians 1:21); For
believers, preaching is the power of God (1 Corinthians 1:18); It builds up
believer’s faith (Colossians 2:7).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">That brings
me to another preaching related issue. We have people who have recently come to
our church because another large Fundamental Baptist Church will not deal with
anything controversial. Their preaching has definitely been <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">leavened</b>, and corrupted. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">Many once
solid churches have adopted the stance that preaching should be non-judgmental
and non-directive. That means, don’t call anything wrong and don’t tell them
what is biblically right! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">The Bible
tells how to handle time like we are facing<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">!
<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">2 Timothy 4:1-5</span></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I charge <i>thee</i> therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they
will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away <i>their</i>
ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5 But watch thou in all things, endure
afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">One preacher said - “Fearless preaching
is all the more necessary in dangerous times. When people will not tolerate the
truth, that’s when courageous, outspoken preachers are most desperately needed
to speak it. Sound preaching confronts and rebukes sin, and people in love with
sinful lifestyles will not tolerate such teaching. They want to have their ears
tickled.”</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Refuse to join the pastors
today are either ignorant of or totally ignore Paul’s directive relating to
preaching</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. If you are a believer, refuse to stay at a church
that uses <b>leavened preaching</b>!</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black;">We must go
against the tide. We must purge out the leaven of broadmindedness and
tolerance. We must not look at church as a show boat but a life boat. Our
preaching must be strong and direct! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">Jude 1:3-4</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"> “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of
the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort <i>you</i>
that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ye should earnestly contend for the
faith which was once delivered unto the saints</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to
this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into
lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We
must never become one of those Churches that are so engrossed in trying to
please non-Christians that many have forgotten their first duty is to please
God.”</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;">Which
Reading of John 9:4 Is Correct?</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;">by David L. Brown, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;">Recently
I was asked a question concerning <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John
9:4</b>, which reads like this in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>King
James Bible</u></b> – “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">I</span></u></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> must work the works of him that sent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>me</u></b>, while it is day: the night
cometh, when no man can work.” The question was, why the different reading in
other versions. I want to briefly answer that question and tell you why it
makes a BIG difference?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NIV</b> reads – </span><span class="woj"><sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“</span></span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
long as it is day, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>we</u></b> must do
the works of him who sent <u>me</u>. Night is coming, when no one can work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="woj"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NASB</span></b></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
reads <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">– </span></span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>We</u></b> </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">must</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">work</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> the </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">works</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> of Him who </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">sent</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> <u>Me</u> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="5"></a>as
</span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">long</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> as it is </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">day</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">; </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">night</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> is </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">coming</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">when</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">no</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">one</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">can</span></span><span class="wordsofchrist"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="strongs"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">ESV </span></b></span><span class="strongs"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">reads – “</span></span><span class="bv1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We</span></b></span><span class="bv1"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> must work the works of
him who sent <u>me</u> while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.</span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><u><span class="MsoHyperlink"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The
New King James</span></b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> reads - </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><sup><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></sup></span></u><span style="font-size: x-small;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span></sup><span class="woj"><sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“</span></sup></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">[</span></sup></span></span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%209:4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-26445a" title="See footnote a"><sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">a</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">]</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
must work the works of Him who sent <u>Me</u> while it is day; <i>the</i> night
is coming when no one can work.” However, in the footnotes undercut the reading
by saying <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">[</span></sup></span></span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%209:4&version=NKJV#fen-NKJV-26445a" title="See footnote a"><sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">a</span></span></sup></a><span style="color: black;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">]</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the
NU (Nestles-United Bible Society) reads <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="red1"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">New
Living Bible</b> reads - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“<u>We</u></b>
must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>us</u></b>.”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Let me say, that the overwhelming majority of
Greek Manuscript Evidence supports the King James Bible reading - </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–
“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">I</span></u></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> must
work the works of him that sent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>me</u></b>,
while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Scrivner
Greek New Testament</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> reads - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">John 9:</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">4</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">εμε</span></u><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">(</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">eme
= I, me </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">)</span><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">
δει εργαζεσθαι</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">…</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">Byzantine Greek New Testament</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">
reads</span><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"> - </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">John 9:4</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">εμε</span></u><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">(</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">eme
= I, me</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">)</span><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">
</span><sup><span style="color: green; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">δει</span><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>εργαζεσθαι</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">…</span><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">The
corruption occurs, as you might guess in Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament,
which the Nestles and United Bible Society Greek New Testaments follow. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 9:4</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reads
this way in them -</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">ημας</span></u><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">h</i>emas=us, we)</span><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>δει</span><sup><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>εργαζεσθαι</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">…</span><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; mso-hansi-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">Where
did Westcott & Hort come up with that reading? The corrupt reading occurs
in Sinaiticus, Vaticanus P66 and P75. But there is more. </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead of “him that sent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>ME</u></b>” which is even the reading of Vaticanus (and so in the
NASB, NIV & ESV), Sinaiticus, P66 and 75 actually say “of him that sent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>US</u></b>.” This reading is beginning
to appear in the modern versions, such as the New Living Translation.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These changes corrupt doctrine</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">! - </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>I</u> </b>must work the works of him that sent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>me</u></b>” is changed to "<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>We</u></b>
must work the works of him that sent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>us</u></b>."
The uniqueness of Christ as the Sent One of the Father is destroyed and He is
placed equally with the disciples as sent from God to do the work of God. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>This is an attack on the Person and Work
of Christ </u></b>. Jesus was sent by the Father and the disciples were sent by
Jesus, "as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The correct reading is</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">I</span></u></b><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"> must
work the works of him that sent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>me</u></b>,
while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: black;">This is just one example of
many showing how the Word of God is being undermined today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Baptist Church</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"> <br />
11700 NW 28th Court <br />
Plantation, FL 33323<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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David L. Brown </b>- </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Why We Use the King James Bible</span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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H. D. Williams</b> - </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">The Accuracy & Faithfulness of the KJB</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Steve Zeinner - </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Choosing the Right Text
& Method for Bible Translation Around the World<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11:00 a.m.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Phil Stringer - </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text1;">The Last 12 Verses of Mark</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2:30 p.m.<span style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Dr.
David Sorenson</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> – </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seven Fallacies of Modern Bible Versions</span> <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3:30 p.m.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr.
David L. Brown</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> - </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";">Understanding the
Battle Over Bible Versions</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">4:30 p.m.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Panel
Discussion </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">– <span style="font-size: small;">Questions from those attending<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>
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Phil </span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Stringer</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> - </span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif";"><strong>Proper Defense
of the King James Bible</strong></span></i></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Conference Motel
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="color: black;">A
block of rooms has been reserved at a special rate of $122 per night. This is
measurably less than the going rate this time of year. Each room has 2 queen
beds. Tell them you are a part of the conference at Plantation Baptist Church. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">President: Dr. David L. Brown<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Phone: 414-768-9754<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Email: </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">kjb.research.council@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Web: www.kjbresearchcouncil.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Blog: kjbrc.blogspot.com<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-60157882790663679302012-12-06T15:23:00.000-08:002012-12-06T15:26:44.578-08:00Video Links For KJBRC Annual Conference<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">The King James Bible Research Council Annual Bible
Conference<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Video Links & DVD available <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">October 28, 29, 30, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Programs are available for $3 per DVD postage paid in
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Call: 414-768-9754 for more information or to order or
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">King James Bible Research Council</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">P.O. BOX 173</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Oak Creek, WI 53154<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">The Origin of The Critical Test – Dr. H. D. Williams</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Rejection and The Words of God - – Dr. H. D. Williams</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Conscience and The Voice of God – Dr. H. D. Williams</span></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=102812212129"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=102812212129</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Even Words of Truth –
Dr. Randy King</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Inspiration, Preservation & the King James Bible – Dr. David L.
Brown</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Keepers of the Word – Dr. Doug LeVesque</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Hebrew Masoretic Text – Dr. Bobby Adams</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Efficacy of the Scriptures – Dr. Gary Mann</span></span></b></div>
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True Scripture – Dr. Larry Bednar</span></span></b></span></div>
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Reno</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">The Apostasy of The Critical Text – Dr. David Sorenson</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">The Hidden Gospel – Dr. Steve Zeinner</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">The Words of His Holiness – Dr. Phil Stringer</span></span></b></div>
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Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-55383184054058825302012-11-01T16:10:00.000-07:002012-11-01T16:10:05.664-07:002012 Conference Messages
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Greetings in the name of our Wonderful Lord and Savior,
Jesus Christ</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">I have attended conferences that focused on the King James
Bible and its underlying texts for more than 20 years and I must say, for me,
this is the best one I ever attended. It was a wonderful mix of teaching and
preaching. We had special music for each session from Ravenswood Baptist
Church, Camp Joy in Whitewater Wisconsin and from First Baptist Church of Oak
Creek, Wisconsin. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">We have a regional conference at Plantation Baptist Church
in Plantation, Florida February 29 and March 1<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup>, 2013. Come and
join us if you are able. I will be letting you know more as we complete the
planning of this conference. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Below are the links in order of our conference messages. Feel
free to download them and post them on your own web sites, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">Standing For His Words That Endure Forever,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Kunstler Script"; font-size: 26pt;"><span style="color: black;">Dr.
David L. Brown<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;">King James Research Council President</span></span></span></div>
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the October 2012 King James Bible Research Conference<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>The Origin of The Critical Text – H. D. Williams</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Rejection & The Words of God – H. D. Williams</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Conscience & The Voice of God – H.D. Williams</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Monday, October 29, 2012</strong> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>The Hebrew Masoretic Text – Dr. Bobby Adams</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Inspiration, Preservation & The King James Bible – David
Brown</strong> </span></span><a href="http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=102912213009"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=102912213009</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Chrislam & It's Effects on Translating – Dr. H.D.
Williams</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>The Urgency of The Issue – Dr. Dan Haifley</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Keepers of The Word – Dr. Doug LeVesque</strong></span></div>
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Mann</strong></span></span></div>
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the KJB – Brother Mark Reno</strong></span></span></div>
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God's Hand on True Scripture – Dr. Larry Bednar</strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;"><strong>The
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Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-75685056579721137232012-10-02T09:41:00.000-07:002012-10-02T09:51:42.100-07:00Inspiration, Preservation & The King James Bible<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><span style="color: red;">On Inspiration, Preservation and The King James Bible</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">“</span><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">πασα
γραφη θεοπνευστος</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";">”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic";"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">(Compiled & edited by Dr. David L. Brown from
materials by Drs. David Sorenson, Phil Stringer, H. D. Williams, Larry Bednar, Edward F. Hills
and myself)</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><span style="color: black;">There are
many definitions of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inspiration</i></b> when it is used in the context of the Bible. In
fact, Charles Ryrie lists eight in his book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Survey of Biblical Doctrine -</i> Natural Inspiration, Mystical
Inspiration, Concept Inspiration, Partial Inspiration, the Neo-orthodox view of
Inspiration, the Inspired Purpose view, etc. Then, Dr. Phil Stringer notes in
his article <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The King James Only Baptist
Civil War Over Inspiration -</i> “there seem to be three prominent positions
among those who use the term ‘inspired’ to describe the King James Bible.” The
first is the re-inspiration of the 1611 KJB. The second I will call the
modified re-inspiration view in which God re-inspired the 1611 KJB in English
and continues to re-inspire other languages today. Thirdly, there is the
derivative inspiration view.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>A great
deal of confusion and misunderstanding continues to be generated because people
define <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inspiration</i></b> differently, and then do not clarify what
definition they are using when they speak of the inspiration of the Bible. With
this thought in mind, let me clarify what I mean when I refer to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inspiration</i></b>
as it relates to the Bible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">I will begin
with the definition given in </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Dr. H. D. William’s book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Miracle of Inspiration –<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><span style="color: black;">Inspiration is the miracle whereby the Words of Scripture
in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek were God-breathed and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“once delivered”</i> using <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“holy
men of God” </i>and their vocabulary, who perfectly recorded them ‘once’ as
they were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“moved”</i> along by the Holy
Spirit in such a way that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“all”</i> the
Words written are infallible and inerrant in the sixty-six books of the canon
of Scripture. (See 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Jude 1:3).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">II Timothy 3:16</span></b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"> says, “All
scripture is given by inspiration of God.” The word</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">translated as<i> inspiration</i> is<i>
theoneustos</i>. Any student of Scripture knows that word literally means “God</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">breathed.” <u>But what does<i>
God-breathed</i> mean</u>? I submit that<i> God-breathed</i> is a reference to
being God</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">spoken. Every
time we speak, we breathe out words. So did God when He gave His Word to holy
men of old.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Scripture is very good at interpreting itself. God said to
Jeremiah, “Write thee all the words that I have</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">spoken unto thee in a book” (Jeremiah 30:2).
Hundreds of times in the Bible, we read “Thus saith the Lord.”</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">The Bible is therefore a God-spoken
book. Inspiration in its simplest sense is a figure of speech referring to </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">how the
Bible has come from the mouth of God. It is a God-spoken book. Jesus said, ‘Man
shall not live by</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God’ (Matthew 4:4). Jesus
referred to</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">God's Word
as having come out of the mouth of God. And so, when we read about inspiration
in II Timothy</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">3:16, the
foundational thought is that of a God-spoken Book.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">There certainly have been several methods by which God has spoken His
words. In some cases, He dictated</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">directly such as to Moses or Jeremiah. Atop Mount
Sinai, the Ten Commandments and portions of the Law</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">were written with the finger of God.
However, in the greater portion of Scripture, holy men of old spake as </span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">they were moved by the Spirit of God
(II Peter 1:21). God so superintended their minds that what flowed </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">from the
tips of their pens were in fact the words of God. But in the greater context,
all Scripture was God</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">breathed. It
was God spoken. That is the essence of inspiration.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><span style="color: black;">Dr. Phil
Stringer’s explanation adds a helpful dimension in understanding biblical <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">inspiration</i></b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Bible tells us what “inspiration”
is!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It defines itself. Many of my
brethren use the term “inspiration” as a synonym for inerrant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it means much more than that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of my brethren use the secular
definition of the term “inspiration”— to motivate or cause by supernatural
influence” (Webster’s Illustrated Contemporary Dictionary).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this definition falls far short of what
the Bible says about its own “inspiration.” If “inspiration” is really “divine
influence” then many sermons, songs and books are ‘inspired.’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, ‘Biblical inspiration” is much more
than that. <u>“Inspiration” took place when God took control of a person and
spoke His words through them or caused them to write down His words</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span> </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>I do not
believe that the King James Bible is “inspired</u></b>.” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Inspiration
happened only once</u></b>; that is when God took control of a person and spoke
His words through them or caused them to write down His words. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is not because I believe that there is
any weakness or any inferiority in the King James Bible. I believe the King
James Bible is pure, perfect and inerrant!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is nothing about the King James Bible that needs to be corrected
or improved. But, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">God inspired His words only
once</span></u></b><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">,
when they flowed from the tip of the pens of the various Scriptural authors. He
has NOT done it again! The Words of God have been settled in heaven. God gave
some of them to Moses to record on earth. He gave some to Jeremiah, some to
Paul, some to Peter and so on. They recorded the exact words that God gave
them. God finished delivering His words to men as John finished the Book of
Revelation. That is how inspiration works. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">However,
there is something else to consider and that is the preservation of God’s
words. <u>God has preserved those words</u>! Those words are preserved in the
traditional texts of the Bible. God’s preservation maintains all the authority
and Holy Spirit power that God originally placed on and in His words. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Inerrancy </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">and
infallibility are brought forward to this day through the process of
preservation. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Dr. Edward
F. Hills stated that the Scriptures have been preserved by God in His
providence so that the Church would always have the Words as a lamp to her feet
and a light to her path. Dean John Burgon wrote in his work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Traditional Text</i>, “There exists no
reason for supposing that the Divine Agent, who in the first instance thus gave
to mankind the Scriptures of Truth, straightway abdicated His office; took no
further care of His work; abandoned those precious writings to their fate.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We
believe as our Baptist forefathers believed that God has promised in both the
Old and New Testaments to preserve His Words as given to<b> </b>us in the original Hebrew/Aramaic and Greek texts, and
by His Providential care, God has kept His<b> </b>Word pure down through the ages as He promised! These
Baptist wrote in their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">London Baptist
Confession of 1677 and 1689</i>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">“The
Old Testament in Hebrew, (which was the native language of the people of God of
old), and the New Testament Greek (which at the time of the writing of it was
most generally known to the nations) being immediately inspired by God, and by
his singular care and providence kept pure in all ages and are therefore
authentical…” </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Our Lord assured us that His Words would not pass
away (Matthew 24:35). We know that God’s righteous judgments endure forever
(Psalm 119:160). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord told Isaiah to
write His Words on a tablet and a scroll and He would preserve them. The verse
says, “</span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Now
go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for
the time to come for ever and ever:” (Isaiah 30:8).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><span style="color: black;">In Christ’s
day there were NO original manuscripts of the Old Testament, but He quoted the
copies as authoritative and exhorted the people to live by every word that God
had spoken (Matthew 4:4 quote from Deuteronomy 8:3). Clearly Jesus believed God
had preserved His Words. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><span style="color: black;">We believe
that God Inspired His Words once and that God has preserved His Words in the
Hebrew, Aramaic Masoretic Text of the Old Testament and the Traditional Text of
the New Testament. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-font-width: 105%;">That brings me to these questions,
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;">“Did God again speak to the King James'
translators in like fashion as He</span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">spoke through Moses, David, Isaiah, Paul, or John?”
Or, “</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Did God re-inspire the King James' translators?” Again, Dr. David
Sorenson gives us a clear answer – <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">The answer to that question should be apparent. <u>There</u></span><u><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></u><u><span style="mso-font-width: 105%;">is absolutely no record or claim
that the King James' translators, erudite and godly as they were, received</span></u><u><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span></u><u><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">any such second inspiration</span></u><span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">. A careful
study of their work and the subsequent publishing process absolutely</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.45pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">militates against any such notion. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>The King James Version<i> as a
translation</i> is not inspired</u></b>!” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">As stated
earlier, </span><span style="mso-font-width: 105%;">God inspired
His words only when they flowed from the tip of the pens of the various
Scriptural authors. He</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 105%;">has not done so again. <u>We do NOT believe in double
inspiration of any type, no matter who promotes it</u>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-font-width: 105%;">That brings up another question.
Is the King James Bible the Providentially Preserved Word(s) of God? Clearly
God has providentially, if not miraculously preserved the Scriptures in the Greek
Received Text and the Hebrew/Aramaic Masoretic text of the Bible. But, <u>has
God preserved the English King James Bible in the same way</u>? No, I do not
believe that is true. However, let me ask you this -- <span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Was God aware of the project authorized by King James I of England to
produce an official translation of</span></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">the Bible in English? Of course. Was God aware in
advance that the KJV would become the most influential</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">and most widely published
translation of the Bible in human history? Of course He was. Is it therefore </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">incredulous
to assume that He therefore gave providential care and direction to the greater
process of</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="mso-font-width: 105%;">preparation, translation, and
publishing of that translation? To assume that God had nothing to do with the</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">greatest translation of His Word in human history is naive
to say the least. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Is it not also more than plausible that He gave
providential direction and guidance in the</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">preparation, translation, and publishing of the
most influential Bible translation in history? Let the reader </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">be the judge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="color: black;">
</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">The fact is, </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">the King
James Version of the Bible is the most widely known and distributed translation
of the Bible from</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">the
traditional texts of the Old and New testaments. It also is the most accurate
English translation of the Traditional Texts. Though critics allege the KJV has
problems and errors, I am not aware of any error in the</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">King James Bible. I have seen the
various allegations of errors or problems therein. But all of these</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">allegations or errors evaporate upon
close examination.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">The 47
working King James' translators were in all likelihood, the greatest assemblage
of scholars of the</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">biblical
languages into the English in church history. Moreover, they worked in six
committees checking and</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.4pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">cross
checking each other's work over a period of seven years. Thereafter, the King
James Bible went</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">through a
number of editions which in each case purified either editorial or printer
errors. Their work was</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">based upon
six preceding generations of English translations going back to Tyndale. They
consulted other</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">major
translations of the Traditional Text such as Luther's translation, the Reina
Valera, the Diodati, the</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Olivetan,
and others. There has never been before or since a more thorough and exhaustive
translation project</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">of the Bible
than the King James Version. The translators were more linguistically qualified
than any other</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">group of
translators before or since. They were godly men. Some were pastors, some missionaries,
some</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.35pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">evangelists,
others professors in Bible colleges. All were in the gospel ministry. All had
repudiated Rome.</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">All were
Bible scholars in their own right, even apart from their linguistic skills.
Some knew the biblical</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.3pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">languages
since childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">The
translational expertise, the intensive editorial cross checking, and the
careful revisions over a period of</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">150 years have produced the greatest Bible
translation in the history of the world. British Bible historian</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">Adam Nicolson has estimated that
more than 5 billion copies of the King James Bible have been published</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">and distributed over the past 400
years. That is more than any other translation of the Bible in any other</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.25pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">language. That also is likely more
than all the rest put together. Having explained the intricacies of how the
King James Bible came together, <u>this is NOT double inspiration</u>. What we
believe is this -</span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Bookman Old Style";"> </span>the King James Version preserves, by accurate
translation the Greek Received Text and the Hebrew/Aramaic Masoretic text for English
speaking people and by that accurate translation of these texts our King James
Bible maintains all the authority and power that God placed on and in His Words.
As Dr. H. D. Williams explains in his book, “We do not call the words chosen to
translate the original Words of God inspired, although God grants <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>acquired </u></b>authority or power to
them if they are accurate and faithful translations of His Words.” Our King
James Bible has NO translational errors and therefore I repeat, Our King James
Bible maintains all the authority and power that God placed on and in His
Words.<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt; mso-font-width: 105%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: black;">Second Annual<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Papyrus; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: black;">King James Bible Research Council Conference<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-effects-shadow-align: bottomleft; mso-effects-shadow-alpha: 40.0%; mso-effects-shadow-angledirection: 18900000; mso-effects-shadow-anglekx: 0; mso-effects-shadow-angleky: 0; mso-effects-shadow-color: black; mso-effects-shadow-dpidistance: 3.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-dpiradius: 4.0pt; mso-effects-shadow-pctsx: 100.0%; mso-effects-shadow-pctsy: 100.0%;"><span style="color: black;">In A Sound, Sensible Way<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">“Heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">Matthew 24:35</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: black;">SUNDAY, October 28 – Pre-
Conference Messages<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">9:30-10:30
a.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr.
H. D. Williams</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Origin of the
Critical Text</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">10:45-
Noon<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. H. D. Williams</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rejection
& The Words of God</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">6:15-7:15
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. H. D. Williams</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Conscience
& The Voice of God</i></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">MONDAY, October
29 – KJBRC Messages<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">1:00-1:50
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Bobby Adams</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Hebrew
Masoretic Text</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">2:00-2:50
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Mike Bader</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Enabling The
Deaf to Access the KJB</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">3:00-3:50
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-themecolor: text1;">Dr. H. D. Williams</span></b><span style="mso-themecolor: text1;"> - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chrislam
& Its Effects on Translating</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">4<span style="color: black;">:00-4:50
p.m.<span style="mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Dan Haifley </b>– <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Urgency of the Issue!</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">5:00-5:30
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-themecolor: text1;">Dr. Doug Levesque</span></b><span style="mso-themecolor: text1;"> – To Be Announced</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">ü</span></span><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">5:50-7:00 p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Evening
meal at area restaurants</b><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">7:00-8:00
p.m. <span style="mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Randy King – </b></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Even Words of Truth</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">TUESDAY, October
30 – KJBRC Messages<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">1:00-1:50
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Gary L. Mann</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Efficacy
of the Scriptures</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2:00-2:50
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-themecolor: text1;">Mr. Mark Reno</span></b><span style="mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span>– <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Roman Catholicism's Historical View of </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">the King James Bible<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">3:00-3:50
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Larry Bednar</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inspiration
& Preservation: Seeing</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s Hand on True Scripture<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">4:00-4:50
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-themecolor: text1;">Dr. David Sorenson </span>- </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Apostasy of the Critical Text</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">5:00-5:30
p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. David L. Brown</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inspiration,
Preservation & the King</i></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James Bible</span> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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p.m.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Evening meal in the Fellowship Hall</b></u><s><o:p></o:p></s></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">7:00-8:00
p.m. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Phil Stringer</b> – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Words
of His Holiness<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="color: black;">Conference
Hotel <o:p></o:p></span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="color: black;">We have a special
rate at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MainStay Suites – Milwaukee
Airport on 1001 W. College Ave. Oak Creek, WI</b>. Their phone is 414-571-8800
$65 for a standard room with a queen bed and sofa bed & kitchenette. A standard
room with 2 queen beds and a sofa bed & kitchenette is $75. Tell them you
are with the First Baptist Church conference. <u>Reservation MUST be made by
September 28th to get this price</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: black;">Standing
For the Enduring Words of God<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 20pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;">Dr. David L. Brown</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: black;">KJBRC President<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Phone:</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"> 414-768-9754<o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Email: </span></u></b><a href="mailto:KJB.Research.Council@gmail.com"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">KJB.Research.Council@gmail.com</span></a><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-926967067644117622012-07-12T10:25:00.000-07:002012-07-12T10:25:31.393-07:00<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">The
Use of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Italics</i> in the King James
Bible</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">by Dr.
David L. Brown<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Why did the King James
Bible translators use <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i></b> in the King James Bible? Was
it because God miraculously gave the translators additional inspiration the
same way He did as recorded in </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">2
Peter 1:21, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">holy men of God spake <i>as they were</i> moved by the
Holy Ghost”? Or is it, as </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">some have assumed, that these words were printed in this fashion for emphasis?
The answer to both of these questions is, NO. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In fact, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the words
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i> in the King James Bible
are words that were added by the translators to help the reader. This is
usually necessary when translating from one language to another because a word
in one language may not have a corollary word in English and idiomatic expressions
often do not easily move from one language to another. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hence, </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the words in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i>
are words which do not have any equivalence in the Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek
text.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> By adding these words, the translators’ goal was to make the
meaning of the sentence clearer and produce a more readable translation that
read smoothly, yet was true to the original. However, to make sure that the
reader understood that these words were not in the manuscripts, they set them
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i>. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;">Gordon <span class="ilad">Campbell’s book </span>entitled <i>Bible: The Story of the King
James Version</i>,</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;">published by Oxford <span class="ilad">University</span> Press. Published in 2010, it is a history of the
King James Bible.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span class="ilad"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;">Campbell</span></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;"> states that KJV <span class="ilad">translator</span> Samuel Ward reported to the 1618 Synod of Dort the
procedures or rules that guided the making of the KJV. He noted <u>that some of
those rules were supplementary rules that added information not found in the
fifteen rules given the KJV translators</u>. Campbell asserted that this
information reported by Samuel Ward has "the inestimable advantage of
reflecting what actually happened rather than what was supposed to happen."
(p. 41).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;">Here is the rule
the KJV translators used themselves as presented by Samuel Ward that relates to
the use of italics:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;">"Words that it was anywhere necessary to
insert into the <span class="ilad">text to</span> complete the meaning were to be
distinguished by another type, small roman…"</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-themecolor: text1;"> (p. 42).</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So you
are not confused, I remind you that the 1611 Bible was in fancy </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Old English Text MT"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Black
Letter</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> type. The added words were in smaller </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Roman</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> type and not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i>. In later editions that were set
in Roman type, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i> were used.
This is what we see in our King James Bibles today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black;">F. H. A. Scrivener
wrote: "The end proposed by the use of italics is thus explained in the
Geneva edition of 1578.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Where as the
necessity of the sentence required anything to be added (for such is the grace
and propriety of the Hebrew and Greek tongues, that it cannot but either by
circumlocution, or by adding the verb, or some word, be understood of them that
are not well-practised therein), we have put it in the text with another kind
of letter.' If this be the rule which the translators of our present version proposed
to themselves (and we have every reason for believing that it was), it follows
that such a rule should be carried out uniformly, and on all occasions" (<span class="ilad"><i>Supplement</i></span><i> to the Authorized English Version of the
New Testament</i>, Vol. I, pp. 60-61). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black;">Scrivener also
quoted in a note a similar comment from the 1557 Whittingham's New Testament.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: black;">Thus, the early
English translators themselves stated one of the rules or principles that they
used for "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i>" [or
putting some words in a different kind of letter or type], and the above
evidence shows that principle was also affirmed and advocated by the KJV
translators.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-themecolor: text1;">The words<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics
</i>are there for a purpose. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While there are many illustrations to show how
helpful the </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">italics</span></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"> are, I will show you just one. We
see that David killed Goliath in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1
Samuel 17:49</b></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">“ And David put his hand in his bag, and took
thence a stone, and slang <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it,</i> and
smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead;
and he fell upon his face to the earth.” <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is confirmed in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Samuel 21:9</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">“And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou
slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">it
is here </i>wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> it:</i> for<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> there is </i>no other save that here. And David said,<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> There is</i> none like that; give it me.” <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watch carefully the importance of the italics
in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">II Samuel 21:19,</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">“And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where
Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> the brother of </i>Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spear was </i>like a weaver's beam.”</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>B</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ut, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">omitting
the italicized words from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">II Samuel
21:19 </b>as the ESV, NASB, NIV, The Message, etc. state, it would lead you to
believe Elhanan was the one who slew Goliath. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look carefully at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">II Samuel 21:19 </b>from the New American Standard, “And there was war
with the Philistines again at Gob, and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the
Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a
weaver’s bean.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, we know that is
not a true statement by </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">reading </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">1 Chronicles 20:5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan
the son of Jair slew Lahmi <u>the brother of Goliath</u> the Gittite, whose
spear staff <i>was</i> like a weaver's beam.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Clearly, the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>words in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i> were not miraculously given to the translators by God as
additional inspiration the same way He did as recorded in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Peter 1:21</b>, <span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">“</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;">holy men of God spake <i>as they were</i>
moved by the Holy Ghost.” Neither are the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i>
there to add emphasis. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The words in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">italics</i> in
the King James Bible are words that were added by the translators to help the
reader better understand the intent of the passage translated from the original
languages.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-38889603231284269112012-05-31T10:48:00.000-07:002012-05-31T10:48:49.320-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mark These Dates On Your
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2012 </span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I
will have <b>the Antiquarian Rare Bible Display</b> at Dr. Mark Poorman’s
church, Woodcrest Baptist Church, 6875 University Ave. NE, Fridley, MN. I will
be preaching a mini-King James Conference in the morning and evening service. Please come and join us if you are anywhere near. For directions visit -</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 17px;"> <a href="http://www.woodcrestbaptistchurch.org/">www.woodcrestbaptistchurch.org</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">August 20-21 (Monday and
Tuesday) </span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">–
Although the <b>MIBPF</b> is not affiliatew with the King James Bible Research
Council, they take our position and myself (Dr. David L Brown) and several
others are members. I invite you to join us for the -- <b>Annual Preaching
Conference of the Midwest Independent Baptist Pastors’ Fellowship</b> – Dr.
Lance Ketchum, Chairman - At Woodcrest Baptist Church, 6875 University Ave. NE,
Fridley, MN. Old Time Preaching on the topic – Separation: Holiness To Te Lord!
For more information email – <a href="mailto:Dr.Ketchum@msn.com">Dr.Ketchum@msn.com</a>
See their blog at – <a href="http://mibaptistpastorsfellowship.blogspot.com/">http://mibaptistpastorsfellowship.blogspot.com</a>
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Baptist Church, 10550 South Howell Ave. in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Mark those
dates on your calendar. For more information email <a href="mailto:kjb.research.council@gmail.com">kjb.research.council@gmail.com</a>,
see our web site <a href="http://www.kjbresearchcouncil.com/">www.kjbresearchcouncil.com</a>,visit
our blot at <a href="http://kjbrc.blogspot.com/">http://kjbrc.blogspot.com</a>
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<!--EndFragment-->Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-34240979261581471862012-03-16T18:01:00.000-07:002012-03-16T18:01:55.385-07:00Don't Trade In Your King James Bible!<div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt;"><div class="MsoTitle" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Don’t Trade In Your King James Bible</span></strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><strong>by Dr. David L. Brown</strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="mailto:PastorDavidLBrown@gmail.com">PastorDavidLBrown@gmail.com</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/KJBRC"><span style="color: purple;">www.facebook.com/KJBRC</span></a></span></b></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">Ó</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">September 2011 by David L. Brown <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t Trade In Your King James Bible-C[1]</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Hebrews 11:32-40</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">For nearly 2000 years, the Bible has remained the most controversial and contested book of all times. The Dragon, that Old Serpent, which is the Devil, or Satan has hated the Words of God since <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Eden</city></place>. He has sought to corrupt it, compromise it, water it down, obscure it and destroy it. (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Genesis 3:1-7</b>) Satan is still doing that today in the modern Bible versions. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">There was a time when men or women who dared to handle it, possess it, or yes, even read this sacred Book and were found out, it would cost them their very life. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Since the completion of the New Testament canon it can be said that the Bible has become <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the most bloodstained book in all of history</i></b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Men have fought for it and even been burned at the stake for it. Believers have been (and continue to be) imprisoned, beaten, buried alive and killed, just for reading it. One account in Foxes Book of Martyrs tells of a true story of a widow who was brought to trial for teaching her children the Ten Commandments and the Lord’s Prayer in English. But no solid evidence was produced, so at first she was released. However, when the sheriff went to help her down from the platform, he felt something in her sleeve. Reaching in, he pulled out a little scroll containing the Lord’s Prayer and Ten Commandments in English. Immediately she was convicted of heresy and shortly thereafter burned at the stake. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Others, like John Wycliffe, who gave us the first English Bible, have had their bones disinterred, and burned to ashes and have been accursed to damnation and eternal fire by the Roman Catholic Church. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Bible believing Christians have suffered all this and more for daring to share the empowered Words of the Holy Scriptures with a lost and dying world. The baton has been passed to us. We must carry the Light of the Gospel to our friends, and neighbors! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">God Gave Us His Perfect Word(s) </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">In 2008 I took a group of people on a trip to see the important biblical places in the <place w:st="on">Middle East</place>. We arrived at St. Catherine’s Monastery guesthouse in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Sinai</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Egypt</country-region></place> for a late supper. It was already dark. The monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery located at the foot of <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">Mt.</placetype> <placename w:st="on">Sinai</placename></place>. This is where the corrupt Greek Manuscript, Sinaiticus, also called </span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">א</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> – Aleph, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">was found in a trash can by a flamboyant antiquity’s dealer named Constantin Von Tischendorf. They claim it is the oldest and best manuscript, neither of which claim is true. What is even more interesting is how liberal scholars hide the public claim of Constantine Simon Simonides, a senior textual scholar, that he had written the manuscript himself in 1839 when he was at </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agiou_Panteleimonos_monastery" title="Agiou Panteleimonos monastery"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Panteleimonos monastery</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> at <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Athos" title="Mount Athos"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Athos</span></a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">. Either way it is a horribly corrupt manuscript. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Now, St. Catherine’s is said to be the oldest, continuously inhabited Christian Monastery in the world. But it certainly was NOT the monastery that interested me! It was <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">Mt.</placetype> <placename w:st="on">Sinai</placename></place>! The next morning I stared up at that mountain and tried to picture in my mind what it was like almost 3500 years ago when God met Moses on that mountain top. In about 1280 B.C<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. the first written communication from God to man</b> came on <place w:st="on">Mount Sinai</place>, etched in stone tablets by the finger of God. “These sacred words from the Ten Commandments have shaped the world and its ethical system for 3,500 years.” </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Visual History of the English Bible</i> by Donald L. Brake; Baker Books; p. 25). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">My heart is grieved as I see our Nation move from the Solid Rock of the Judeo-Christian ethic (Old Testament-New Testament principles) to the shifting sand of the relativistic ethic of Humanism. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Although Moses destroyed the tablets God had written when he saw the idolatry of the people upon descending from the mountain (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Exodus 32:19</b>), God instructed Moses to</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">, “Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">these</i> tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.” (Exodus 34:1). But, in spite of a bad start, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>it is on <place w:st="on">Mount Sinai</place> that God began to communicate with human beings in written form</u></b> using the language that the people knew. God continued His progressive revelation for the next 1500 years until the canon of Scripture was closed with the book of Revelation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Let me give you an overview of how God revealed His Word(s) to us. Consider this from William Smith written in the 19<sup>th</sup> century. – “There are at least 36 different authors, who wrote in three continents [<place w:st="on">Europe</place>, Asia & Africa], in many countries, in three languages - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hebrew</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aramaic</b> (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Genesis 31:47; Jeremiah 10:11; Ezra 4:8-6:18; 7:21-26; Daniel 2:4-7:28</b>) and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greek</b>. The Bible is written from every possible human standpoint. Among the authors were kings, farmers, mechanics, scientific men, lawyers, generals, fishermen, ministers and priests, a tax collector, some poor, some city bred, some country born, thus touching all experiences of men, extending over 1500 years."<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">(Smith's Bible Dictionary; </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">by William Smith; published 1884; p.91)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">As I stared up at the 7,498 foot summit of Jabel Musa </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">my mind took me to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Exodus 19: 16 ff</b>, which gives the account of Moses being on <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">Mt.</placetype> <placename w:st="on">Sinai</placename></place> early the morning God visited Moses. There was thunder, lightning, loud trumpets, fire, and smoke. The whole mountain shook. As I looked at <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">Mt.</placetype> <placename w:st="on">Sinai</placename></place> I thought, this may have been the place where Moses received the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments written by the finger of God three and one half millenniums earlier. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It was on Mt. Sinai that Moses received <u>the very first written communication</u> from the Lord God Almighty</b>. It was on <place w:st="on"><placetype w:st="on">Mt.</placetype> <placename w:st="on">Sinai</placename></place> that the written progressive revelatory journey of God speaking to man began. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Praise God For Our King James Bible, God’s Inerrant Words To All Who Speak English</b>.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">God Inspired His Word(s)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">I believe God inspired His Words! Why because He says so! <b>2 </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Timothy 3:16</b> “<u>All scripture <i>is </i>given by inspiration of God</u>, and <i>is </i>profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">In fact, I believe in the Verbal, Plenary Inspiration for the 66 books of the Bible. By <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">verbal inspiration</b> I mean, every word is inspired. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">By <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">plenary inspiration</b> I mean every book is fully, equally and entirely inspired – from Genesis to Revelation! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">2 Peter 1:21</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> “For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake <i>as they were </i>moved by the Holy Ghost.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">God inspired His Word(s) once when the Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost! What they wrote was NOT their own private or personal ideas. But, inspiration would be of no value to us today if God did NOT preserve His Word(s).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">God Preserved His Word(s)</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">As a friend of mine put it, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“God gave us His Words by verbal plenary inspiration. God preserved those Words by Verbal plenary preservation. Almighty God promised and performed both events!”</i></b> D.A. Waite</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">God did promise to preserve his Word(s) and I believe He did! </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Matthew 24:35</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Matthew 5:18</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">There is a bunch of intellectual bible believers, who ignore what the Bible says and who try to hoodwink, dupe and con Christians by saying <u>God only inspired the thoughts of the Bible, not the words</u>! In fact, virtually all the new versions take that approach in their translations! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NO! NO! NO!</b> That is not what Christ said; the FACT IS that not only are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>the Words inspired</u></b>, but the letters are inspired. The jots and the tittles are inspired! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 3:4</b> “God forbid: yea, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>let God be true, but every man a liar</u></b>; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Shame on them for promoting something that is A LIE! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Proverbs 30:5-6</b> My Bible says – “Every word of God <i>is </i>pure: he <i>is </i>a shield unto them that put their trust in him.<i> 6 </i><u>Add thou not unto his words</u>, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">My Bible says in - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Deuteronomy 4:1-2</b> “Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do <i>them, </i>that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.<i> 2 </i><u>Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you</u>, <u>neither shall ye diminish <i>ought </i>from it</u>, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Don’t ADD and don’t TAKE AWAY! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">So Where Are the Words of God TODAY? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">God <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HAS</b> providentially preserved His Word, including the very words of Scripture, in the traditional texts of the Bible. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Our King James Bible preserves by accurate translation, the inerrancy of the Greek Received Text and the Hebrew/Aramaic Masoretic text for English speaking people</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">. ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE HAVE THE WORDS OF GOD IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE! They have had it for 400 years! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">You do NOT have the pure words of God in the Modern Versions of the English Bible</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">! They are corrupted!!! They may contain the words of God, but they also contain errors! Allow just one illustration -</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Our King James Bible, the pure Words of God, says in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mark 1:1-3</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;<i> 2 </i><u>As it is written in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prophets</b></u>, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. [<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Malachi 3:1</b>] <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">3 </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.” [<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 40:3</b>]</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">The new versions say – “It is written in <u>Isaiah</u> the prophet…” and then goes on to quote Malachi and Isaiah! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">That is an error my friends! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Let me cite one more. In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 1:18</b> the King James Bible reads – </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">“No man hath seen God at any time; <u>the only begotten Son</u>, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared <i>him.</i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">” </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Here is what the NASB says – “</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">No one has seen God at any time; <u>the only begotten God</u> who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained <i>Him</i>.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">My God was NOT begotten! He has always existed from the beginning! Now, Jesus was begotten (born) of Mary! Though he was the eternal WORD (John 1:1&14) he took on a human body that he might die for our sins! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Don’t use a paraphrase</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">! They really are not Bibles at all. Don’t use the modern versions; they are based on the corrupt texts that we read about in the New Testament. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">2 Corinthians 2:17</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> “For we are not as <u>many, which corrupt the word of God</u>: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">2 Thessalonians 2:2</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"> “That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor <u>by letter as from us</u>, as that the day of Christ is at hand.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Satan’s Design is to Corrupt the Word(s) of God</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">. He tried to do it in the past and he continues to do it today. Our King James Bible is the Word of God for English speaking people today! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: windowtext 1pt dashed; border-left: windowtext 1pt dashed; border-right: windowtext 1pt dashed; border-top: windowtext 1pt dashed; mso-border-alt: dash-small-gap windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 1pt; padding-left: 4pt; padding-right: 4pt; padding-top: 1pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: dash-small-gap windowtext .5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Did you know that there are 17 complete verses missing from nearly all the modern versions of the Bible? Here is a list. Check it out for yourself. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: dash-small-gap windowtext .5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: dash-small-gap windowtext .5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Matthew 17:21<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mark 15:28<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Acts 24:7<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: dash-small-gap windowtext .5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Matthew 18:11<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luke 17:36<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Acts 28:29</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: dash-small-gap windowtext .5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Matthew 23:14<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luke 23:17<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Romans 16:24</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: dash-small-gap windowtext .5pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mark 7:16<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 5:4<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>I John 5:7</span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: dash-small-gap windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mark 9:44 & 46<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acts 8:37<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-border-alt: dash-small-gap windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">Mark 11:26<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acts 15:34<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;">It took 231 years (from Wycliffe to KJB – or 85 years from Tyndale to the KJB) for English speaking people to have the pure word of God. The King James Bible has endured for 400 years! Do not trade in your pure Bible for a corrupt one! </span></div>Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-3764081775276282682012-02-03T14:08:00.000-08:002012-02-03T14:08:43.532-08:00MORE PROOF THAT THE TR IS OF APOSTOLIC ORIGIN<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">More Proof The Traditional Text (Textus Receptus) Is of Apostolic Origin</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Compiled by Dr. David L. Brown</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Higher Criticism of the Bible is a frontal assault upon God’s Words! Ever since this diabolical theory of dealing with God’s Word(s) was introduced in <place w:st="on"><country-region w:st="on">Germany</country-region></place> in the 18<sup>th</sup> century, the Traditional Text of the Bible, which underlies our King James Bible, has been under attack. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Higher criticism treats the Bible as a text created by men. Their presupposition is that the Bible is a conglomeration of works by unknown authors and editors which was assembled and modified at the authors desired. They assert that the Bible has not been carefully preserved and therefore the Bible cannot be entirely authoritative. In particular they reject the texts that underlie the King James Version of the Bible, claiming that those texts are of a much later date, an editorial “recension” or revision of the earlier true text. They promoted that lie that there were NO early manuscripts from the Traditional Text. The so called Alexandrian and Western texts were older and better. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Here is the problem. Professor Merrill M. Parvis of Harvard wrote. “The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Textus Receptus</i> (also known as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Traditional Text</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ecclesiastical Text</i>) is not the ‘true’ text of the New Testament…” He went on to admit however, “The Textus Receptus is the text of the Church. It is that form of the text which represents the sum total and the end product of all the textual decisions which were made by the Church and her Fathers over a period of more than a thousand years.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">I submit to you that the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Textus Recptus</i></b> always has been the New Testament used by the Chruch!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My contention is clearly supported by biblical evidence recently examined by Dr. Carsten Peter Thiede, Director of the Institute for Basic Epistemological Research in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Paderborn</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Germany</country-region></place>. I should note, that Dr. Thiede is not TR supporter!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Dr. Thiede examined three New Testament fragments that were originally acquired in <place w:st="on"><city w:st="on">Luxor</city>, <country-region w:st="on">Egypt</country-region></place> in 1901. In 1953 they were dated to about 180-200 A.D. However, Dr. Thiede carefully redated them and placed the at 66 A.D., making them the ONLY first century New Testament fragments extant. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">However, this was only the beginning. Using a very technical and accurate epiflourescent confocal laser scanning microscope, he found that the Matthew 26:22 fragment revealed the Textus Recutus reading! It head “hekasotos auton,” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">every one of them</i></b>, as the King James reads as opposed to “heis hakastos,” <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">each one</i></b> [one after another], as the critical texts read.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">This fragment clearly documents the antiquity of the Textus Receptus text to the time of Peter, Paul, John the Apostle, etc. Increasingly, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the recension theory</i></b> is being exposed for the lie that it is!</span></div>Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-40877391652479043072011-12-15T10:12:00.000-08:002011-12-15T10:12:56.347-08:00Why You Should Use The King James Bible – Part #1<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">The battle over Bible versions rages on. However, I have settled that issue in my mind, based on the facts, many years ago. But, I know there are may people in the pews of our churches who still struggle with the Bible Version issue. I regularly get phone calls from people who have heard that I stand for the Hebrew Masoretic and Greek Received Text and the King James Bible. They ask me, “Why do you advocate the use of the King James Bible?” and/or “Isn’t this version or that version a good version?” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">In a clear, concise and uncomplicated way, I want to explain to the Christian struggling with the <b><i>version issue</i></b>, why I came to the conclusion that <b>the King James Bible is the best version available in the English language today</b>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Let me state it simply: There are basically <u>only two foundations that Bible translations have been and are being built upon</u>. It is either the <b>foundation of faith</b> or <b>the foundation of doubt</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">The Foundation Of Faith That Our King James Bible Is Built On</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Let’s begin with <b>the foundation of</b> <b>faith</b>. The <u>key issue</u> is this: I believe that <b>God inspired the original writings of the Bible</b>, which are called the <b>autographa</b>. There are many verses that teach this. Here are two key verses that I want you to see…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b>2 Peter 1:20-21</b> "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation (that is, they did not originate with man).<i> 21 </i>For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake <i>as they were </i>moved by the Holy Ghost."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b>2 Timothy 3:16</b> "All scripture <i>is </i>given by inspiration of God, and <i>is </i>profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">But, there is also the matter of <b>verbal preservation</b> <b>of the apographa </b>(copies of the originals). I believe that <u>God has preserved His Words in the copies of those original writings in the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Old Testament and the Traditional Text (Textus Receptus) of the New Testament</u>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">I have <b>FAITH</b> that the God who inspired the <u>original autographs</u> can and did preserve the <u>apographs</u> so that we can say, “Thus saith the Lord; This IS the Word of God” when we hold up our King James Bibles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Nineteenth century believing Bible scholar par excellent, John Burgon wrote: "<b>If you and I believe that the original writings of the Scriptures were verbally inspired by God, then of necessity they must have been providentially preserved through the ages</b>."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">The <b><i>Westminster Confession of Faith</i></b> published in the 1600’s says, "The Old Testament in Hebrew, and the New Testament in Greek, <u>being immediately inspired by God</u> and <u>by His singular care and providence kept pure in all ages</u>, are therefore authentical, so as in all controversies of religion the Church is finally to appeal unto them." </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">My point in quoting this document is simply this; <b>Bible believing Christians in the past, for the most part, believed in the inspiration and providential preservation of the of the Word of God</b>. It is only in the last quarter of the 19<sup>th</sup> century and 20<sup>th</sup> century that born again Christians have believed anything else! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">In fact, the Bible teaches <b>providential preservation</b>! The Lord Jesus Christ taught providential preservation. In <b>Matthew 4:4</b> we read, "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, <u>but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God</u>." Did you know that no original manuscripts existed in Christ’s day? Yet, Christ confidently quoted a portion of <b>Deuteronomy 8:3</b> as the authoritative Word of God, and it was copy of the original without a doubt.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">There are many <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Scriptures that indicate God has providentially preserved His Word</u></b>. Here are just a few.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Psalms 12:6-7</b> "The words of the LORD <i>are </i>pure words: <i>as </i>silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.<i> 7 </i>Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Psalms 33:11</b> "The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Psalms 100:5</b> "For the LORD <i>is </i>good; his mercy <i>is </i>everlasting; and his truth <i>endureth </i>to all generations."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Matthew 24:35</b> "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Luke 16:17</b> "And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b>1 Peter 1:23, 25</b> "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b>I believe God</b>. What God promised, He is able to perform (<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 4:21</b>). He has promised to preserved His Word(s), and I believe Him. I have the faith that He has done it. Therefore, I have chosen to use the King James Bible, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because it is built on the Traditional Text, which is laid on the foundation of faith</i></b>.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: black;">Next: Part #2 - The Foundation of Doubt that the new Bible versions are built on. </span>Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-20954353119970492112011-12-11T14:24:00.000-08:002011-12-11T14:24:04.382-08:00<h6 class="uiStreamMessage uiStreamHeadline"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">I speculate that very few of those who use the King James Bible have ever read the preface. I would urge you to take the time to take 20 minutes and read through it. I think you will find it very interesting. <br />
</span><a avglschecked="1" href="http://arcticbeacon.com/books/Translators_Preface_to_1611_KJV.pdf" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span>http://arcticbeacon.com/books/</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>Translators_Preface_to_1611_KJV</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span>.pdf</span></span></a></span></h6>Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-10184165662384233212011-12-10T15:14:00.000-08:002011-12-10T15:14:37.311-08:00Thee's, Thou's, Thine, Ye, You & Your - Why We Need Them!<h6 class="uiStreamMessage" data-ft="{"type":1}"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The King James Bible Thee's, Thou's, ye's and you's ARE A BIG HELP IN UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE! Thee and thou, you and ye are more than style in the KJV; they identify singular and plural. Thee, thou and thine are always singular. Ye, you and your are always plural. In modern English, you and your are interchangeably singular or plural. An example of the need for this accuracy is found in John 3:7: "Marvel not that I said unto thee (Nicodemus), ye (everybody) must be born again".</span></span></h6>Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-32666804360966192482011-11-30T16:50:00.000-08:002011-11-30T16:50:04.828-08:00Visit The King James Bible Research Council Web PageHello. I would like to invite you to visit our Web site - <a href="http://www.kjbresearchcouncil.com/">http://www.kjbresearchcouncil.com/</a><br />
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We will be adding more very soon.Pastor David L. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17487343096182899881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5545391449470616172.post-60235675771139296992011-11-24T18:04:00.000-08:002011-11-24T18:04:26.992-08:00Our Doctrine & Purpose<h2 align="center" class="style1" style="color: #0000a0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong class="H1" style="color: #0000a0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br />
</strong></h2><h2 align="center" class="style1" style="color: #0000a0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: x-large;"><strong class="H1" style="color: #0000a0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">The Doctrinal Statement of The King James Bible Research Council</strong></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000a0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-family: 'EngravrsRomanBdBT'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">A Sound & Sensible Voice for the KJB and other traditional texts</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0000a0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: 'EngravrsRomanBdBT'; font-size: 11.000000pt;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>As a council of Fundamental, Bible Believing Christians</b>…</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b></b></span><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We believe</b> the HOLY SCRIPTURES, the 66 canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, are given by inspiration of God, and are able to make men wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We believe</b> that God has providentially preserved His Word, including the very words of Scripture, in the traditional texts of the Bible.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We believe</b> the King James Version preserves, by accurate translation, the inerrancy of the Greek Received Text and the Hebrew/Aramaic Masoretic text for English speaking people.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We believe in one God revealed as existing in three equal Persons, </strong>the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.</strong></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We believe the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person. </strong>He is a Person distinct from the Father and from the Son.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We believe </strong>that through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, so that death passed unto all men, for that <strong>“all have sinned.”</strong></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We believe in the death, burial and literal, bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, mans’ only true Substitute; </strong>and that His vicarious death is the sufficient expiation for the guilt of all who trust Him.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We believe that men are justified by faith alone, </strong>and are accounted righteous before God only because of the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We believe </strong>in the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>We believe </strong>it to be the <strong>responsibility </strong>of the believers in the Lord Jesus Christ <strong>to make His Gospel known to all men.</strong></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Our Purpose</strong></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Our purpose</b> of is to promote the King James Bible and other Traditional Text translations around the world.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Our Goals</b></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We have four primary goals:</b></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) To do research on the King James Bible and other traditional texts</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) To provide publications and media to promote the King James Bible</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) To provide a Speakers Bureau for churches, colleges, schools.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) To provide the person in the pew understandable, positive, clear information, about the superiority of the King James Bible.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The King James Bible Research Council is not designed to replace or compete with any other organization but to add <img height="1" src="http://www.kjbresearchcouncil.com/clip_image001.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_i1025" width="1" /> a new voice to a very important discussion.</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyone who wants to be on the email list for this organization should send an email to</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:KJB.Research.Council@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">KJB.Research.Council@gmail.com</a></div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. David L. Brown – President</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Phil Stringer – Vice President</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. David Sorenson – Secretary</div><div style="color: #000050; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. H. D. Williams – Treasurer</div><div><br />
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