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Copyright © By Dr. Adel Elsaie, Book Title: "History of Truth, The Truth about God and Religions" |
King James Version
In 1604 King James I commissioned a new revision of
the English Bible; it was completed in 1611. Following Tyndale primarily, this
Authorized Version, also known as the King James Version, was widely acclaimed
for its beauty and simplicity of style. In the years that followed, the
Authorized Version underwent several revisions, the most notable being the
English Revised Version (1881-85), the American Standard Version (1901), and
the revision of the American Standard Version undertaken by the International
Council of Religious Education, representing 40 Protestant denominations in the
US and Canada. This Revised Standard Version (RSV) appeared between 1946 and
1952. Widely accepted by Orthodox, Protestant, and Roman Catholic Christians,
it provided the basis for the first accepted English Bible. In the Preface of
the RSV, 1971, the following is written:
“The King James Version has grave defects. By the middle of the
nineteenth century, the development of Biblical studies and the discovery of
many manuscripts more ancient than those upon which the King James Version was
based, made it manifest, that these
defects are so many and so serious as to call for the revision of the
English translation.” The preface continued
to refer to the unhappy experience with unauthorized publications, “which tampered
with the text of the English Revised Version, in the supposed interest of
the American public.”
According to
a 2000 Gallop Poll, 4 in 10 Americans have a King James Version, and that is
what they read:
Trinity
There is reference in the New Testament, King James
Version, to the trinity, in the First Epistle of John 5:7-8.
King James Version
“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there
are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:
and these three agree in one.”
The above verses exist only in the authorized King
James Version, and form the strongest evidence for the doctrine of trinity.
“the Father, the Word, and the Holy
Ghost: and these three are one” has been removed in the Revised Standard
Version of 1952 and 1971, and many other Bibles. In the New Revised Standard,
1989, those same verses read as follows: “There
are three that testify, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three
agree.” The differences between these recognized Bibles represent a
theological crisis. The average Christian, as well as many Christian preachers
and ministers may not be aware of the removal of the strongest verses
advocating the trinity from their Bible! Any one should ask himself why these
verses of the King James Version were deleted from later versions of the New
Testament, and how they were introduced in the first place!
The following are
the above verses in different Versions of the Bible:
American Standard Version
“And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit
is the truth. For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the
water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.”
New American Standard Bible
“For there are three that testify the Spirit and the water and
the blood; and the three are in agreement.”
Revised Standard Version
“And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is the truth. There are
three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree.”
New Revised Standard Version
“There are
three that testify, the Spirit and the water and the blood, and these three
agree.”
Reading
the same verses from different versions of the Bible can be very confusing and
frustrating experience.
The only
begotten son
Again, the
word “only begotten” exists only in the Gospel according to John 1:14, only in
the King James Version:
“And the
Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth”
Interestingly enough, this word “only begotten”
does not exist in the Revised Standard Version, New Revised Standard, and other
versions.
Revised
Standard Version
“And the
Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld
his glory, glory as of the only Son from the
Father”
New Revised
Standard Version
“And the
Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as
of a father's only son, full of grace and truth”
Good News
Translation
“The Word
became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his
glory, the glory which he received as the Father's only Son”
New Living Translation
“So the Word
became human and lived here on earth among us. He was full of unfailing love
and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the only Son of the
Father”
Consequently, the two
basic principles of Christianity, trinity and son of god, exist only in Gospel
according to John and in First Epistle of John, only in the King James Version,
a version that was described as having grave defects. The average Christian should have the right to ask
why did the basics of my Christian faith expunge from later versions of the
Bible, and what happened to my faith? These are very serious and crucial
questions. Again the question is why this word “begotten”, that is extremely
important, was deleted from later Bibles? But this is what Christians are made
to believe in the churches without any references to the authenticity of the
Gospels or to the different versions of the Bible. However, Christians also
know that God has many sons according to the Bible:
Genesis 6:2 “That the sons of God saw the daughters
of men.”
Exodus
Deuteronomy 14:1 “Ye are the children of God.”
Psalms 2:7 “The Lord hath said unto me, (David) Thou art my son: this day have I begotten thee.”
Jeremiah 31:9 “for I (God) am a father to
Luke
Romans
One
of the tactics of the anti-Islam Evangelists and “Websiters” is to pick up the
verse that advances their purpose from one Version of the Bible. And they
totally ignore the same verse from other Versions that contradicts their point.
They really show their Mastery in playing the game of half the truth.
Muslims
say that nowhere in the Bible did Jesus say that he is the son of God. This was
the answer of half the truth:
Ye,
he did, read: Luke 22:70
New King James Version
“They all asked, "Are you then the Son of
God?" He replied, "You are right in saying I
am."
But
they conveniently ignore the same verse in other versions (I wonder why?):
King James Version
“Then said
they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I
am.”
Revised
Standard Version
“And they
all said, "Are you the Son of God, then?" And he said to them, "You say
that I am."
New Revised
Standard Version
“All of them
asked, "Are you, then, the Son of God?" He said to them, "You say that I
am."
American
Standard Version
“And they
all said, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I
am.”
So
where in the Bible did Jesus say bluntly that he is The Son of God or even the
son of god without the interpretations of half the truth? Some of those half
the truth claim that they know better than the authors of RSV, NRSV, American
Standard Version, and the rest of versions, perhaps because they know a little
bit of Greek. But, who can say that Jesus spoke Greek? He spoke the Aramaic
language, and there is no capital S or small s, for son, in this language.
Check http://bible.crosswalk.com/
Check http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible
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