"Pilgrimettes"  From  THE  PILGRIM    

 "KING  JAMES  ONLY  HOKEY"

   by  BOB  L.  ROSS

           ANOTHER  DECEPTION  IN  OUR  TIME  IS  THE  IDEA  THAT  "ONLY  ONE  TRANSLATION"  OF  THE  BIBLE  IS  THE  "INSPIRED  WORD  OF  GOD",  NAMELY  THE  KING  JAMES  VERSION  OF  1611.

          THERE  IS  SUPPOSED  TO  BE  SOME  SORT  OF  "SATANIC  CONSPIRACY"  ON  THE  PART  OF  ALL  OTHER  TRANSLATIONS  TO  UNDERMINE  THE  "ONLY  INSPIRED  TRANSLATION."  THIS  IS  PURE  "HOKEY"  (CORNY ...PHONY ...CONTRIVED).

           NO  TRANSLATION  IS  AN  "INSPIRED"  TRANSLATION  AND,   NO  TRANSLATION  IS  A  "PERFECT"  TRANSLATION!  IF  YOU  DISAGREE,  YOU  ARE  WELCOME  TO  "PROVE"  ME  WRONG — IF  EITHER  IS  TRUE,  SURELY  GOD  HAS  REVEALED  THIS  TO  MANKIND  LIKE  HIS  OTHER  ABSOLUTE  TRUTHS!  [scripture  please  ______ (or  somewhere  else)  where  God  has  revealed  the  ONE  particular   TRANSLATION  that  is  either  "INSPIRED"  OR  "PERFECT"].

          WE  PUBLISH  ANOTHER  ARTICLE  WHICH  DETAILS  THE  "INSTRUCTIONS"  WHICH  KING  JAMES  OF  ENGLAND  GAVE  TO  THE  TRANSLATORS  OF  THE  KING  JAMES  VERSION,  AND  IT  CLEARLY  REVEALS  THAT  A  LOT  OF  THE  "INSPIRATION"  BEHIND  SOME  OF  THE  WORDS  USED  WAS  FROM  THE  KING  HIMSELF!

          FOR  INSTANCE,  WHY  DIDN'T  THEY  TRANSLATE  THE  GREEK  WORDS  FOR  "BAPTIZE"  AND  "CHURCH"  PROPERLY?

          KING  JAMES  WAS  THE  "HEAD"  OF  THE  "CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND",  WHICH  IS  THE  EPISCOPALIAN  OR  ANGLICAN  CHURCH.  IN  REALITY,  IT  IS  THE  "ENGLISH  EQUIVALENT"  OF  THE  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  CHURCH.  IN  THE  16TH  CENTURY,  THE  POPE  WOULD  NOT  PERMIT  HENRY  VIII  TO  DIVORCE  HIS  WIFE,  CATHARINE  OF  ARAGON.  HENRY  HAD  PARLIAMENT  TO  SEPARATE  ENGLAND  FROM  PAPAL  CONTROL,  BUT  THERE  WAS  LITTLE  CHANGE  IN  ROMAN   DOCTRINE  AND  PRACTICE  BY  THE  STATE  CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND.   HENRY'S  WIFE  WAS  ROMAN  CATHOLIC  AND  KING  JAMES  HIMSELF  SIDED  AGAINST  THE  PURITAN  EFFORTS  TO  PURIFY  THE  ESTABLISHED  CHURCH  OF  ITS  "PAPAL  SUPERSTITIONS".

          AT  THE  TIME  OF  THE  TRANSLATION,  THE  ROMAN  CHURCH  AS  WELL  AS  THE  ANGLICAN  CHURCH  WERE  BEING  THREATENED  BY  THE  VARIOUS  SEPARATISTS  AND  REFORM  MOVEMENTS  OF  THE  TIME.  TWO  OF  THE  FOUNDATIONAL  DOCTRINES  OF  THESE  CHURCHES  WERE  UNDER  SIEGE ...

          "ANABAPTISM"  (THE RE-BAPTISM  OF  THOSE  WHO  HAD  BEEN  BAPTIZED  AS  CHILDREN)  WAS  RAMPANT,  ADVOCATED  BY  THOSE  WHO  BELIEVED  IN  THE  BAPTISM  OF  BELIEVERS  ONLY  AND  THE  PRACTICE  OF   IMMERSION.

           "CONGREGATIONALISM"  WAS  A  THREAT  TO  THE  EPISCOPAL  FORM  OF  CHURCH  GOVERNMENT.  THE  "CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND"  HAD  PRIESTS,  BISHOPS,  AN  ARCHBISHOP  AND  THE  "HEAD"  HIMSELF ...KING JAMES.

          THESE  SEPARATISTS,  INDEPENDENTS,  NON-CONFORMISTS,  ETC.  WERE  THORNS  IN  THE  FLESH  TO  THE  HIERARCHY,  SO  THEY  WERE  THE  OBJECTS  OF  PERSECUTION.  MANY  FLED  TO  EUROPE,  SOME  TO  AMERICA.

[REFER  TO  THE  ARTICLE -- PETER  RUCKMAN'S  "OLD  GIRL  FRIEND" -- HOW  KING  JAMES  AND  THE  HARLOT  STATE  CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND  PERSECUTED  AND  BURNED  THE  BAPTISTS  &  OTHERS.]  

[See the  LIST ]

         UNFORTUNATELY,  THE  KING  JAMES  VERSION  REFLECTS  THE  PREJUDICE  OF  JAMES  AND  THE  ENGLISH  RELIGIOUS  HIERARCHY ..."OLD  ECCLESIASTICAL  WORDS  TO  BE  KEPT".  THEIR  REFUSAL  TO  TRANSLATE  "BAPTIZE" & "CHURCH"  CORRECTLY  AND  LITERALLY  IN  THEIR  TRUE  ENGLISH  EQUIVALENTS  ONLY  SERVED  TO  PERPETUATE  THE  IGNORANCE  OF  ROME  AND  ITS  ERRORS.  BY  "ANGLICIZING",  OR  "TRANSLITERATING"  THE  GREEK  WORD  "BAPTIZO",  ITS  REAL  MEANING  ("IMMERSION")  WAS  VEILED.  BY  NOT  TRANSLATING  "EKKLESIA"  AS  "ASSEMBLY"  OR  "CONGREGATION",  THE  OLD  WORD  "CHURCH"  CONTINUED  TO  BEAR  THE  SAME  CONCEPT  AS  HAD  BEEN  PROMOTED  BY  THE  HIERARCHY.

         WHO  KNOWS  HOW  MUCH  GOOD  FOR  THE  CAUSE  OF  TRUTH  WOULD  HAVE  BEEN  ACCOMPLISHED  HAD  THE  KING  JAMES  VERSION  PROPERLY  RENDERED  "BAPTIZE"  AS  IMMERSION  AND  "EKKLESIA"  AS  CONGREGATION.  PROBABLY  THE  MOST  DAMNABLE  PRACTICE  EVER  SPAWNED  IN  THE  NAME  OF  CHRISTIANITY  IS  THE  PRACTICE  OF  BAPTIZING  INFANTS  AND  BY  THIS  ACT  SUPPOSEDLY  MAKING  THEM  NEW  CREATIONS  IN  CHRIST.  "INFANT  BAPTISM--REGENERATION"  IS  THE  VERY  PILLAR  OF  ROMANISM  FOR  IT  IS  BY  THIS  MEANS  THAT  THEY  SECURE  99%  OF  THEIR  "CONVERTS!"  THE  PROPER  TRANSLATION  OF  THE  GREEK  TO  THE  ENGLISH  WOULD  NO  DOUBT  HAVE  GREATLY  CONTRIBUTED  TO  CAUSE  OF  TRUTH  IN  OPPOSITION  TO  THIS  HERESY.

          AND,  OF  COURSE,  IF  CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH  GOVERNMENT  IS  TRUE,  WHAT  NEED  IS  THERE  FOR  OVERLORDS  LIKE  THE  HIERARCHY  OF  ROME  OR  THE  CHURCH  OF  ENGLAND?  THEY  ARE  AT  ONCE  OVERTHROWN  IF  THE   CONGREGATION  IS  ITS  OWN  GOVERNING  BODY!

          FOR  THE  ABOVE  REASONS,  AS  WELL  AS  OTHERS,  I  THINK  NOT  OF  THE  KJV  AS  A  "DIVINELY  INSPIRED  TRANSLATION",  BUT  SIMPLY  AS  A  TRANSLATION  MADE  BY  MEN,  RULED  OVER  BY  KING  JAMES,  WHO  WERE  BENT  ON  PRESERVING  THEIR  OWN  "ECCLESIASTICAL  TRADITIONS",  PROPERLY  TRANSLATING  ONLY  SO  FAR  AS  THE  TRANSLATION  WAS  NOT  A  THREAT  TO  THEIR  UNSCRIPTURAL  VIEWS.  

          THE  INSPIRED  WORD  OF  GOD  CAME  IN  THE  ORIGINAL  HEBREW  AND  GREEK  WRITINGS  (2  PETER  1:21).  A  "TRANSLATION"  INTO  ENGLISH  OR  ANY  OTHER  LANGUAGE  IS  THE  "INSPIRED"  WORD  OF  GOD  TO  THE  EXTENT  IT  PROPERLY  TRANSLATES  THE  LANGUAGES  IN  WHICH  THE  SCRIPTURES  WERE  FIRST  WRITTEN.  I  HAVE  NEVER  YET  READ  A  COMMENTARY  OR  RESPECTABLE  BOOK  WHICH  DID  NOT  AT  ONE  PLACE  OR  ANOTHER  CLARIFY  OR  CORRECT  WHAT  WAS  REGARDED  BY  THE  WRITERS  AS  A  MISLEADING  OR  ERRONEOUS  TRANSLATION.  ONE  OF  THE  PRIMARY  PURPOSES  OF  BOOKS  AND  THE  STUDY  OF  THEM  IS  TO  DETERMINE  THE  TRUE  MEANING  OF  THE  HEBREW  AND  GREEK  WRITINGS,  AS  WE  DO  NOT  ALWAYS  HAVE  IT  COMPLETE  IN  ANY  SINGLE  TRANSLATION.  

          IF  THIS  SUPPOSEDLY  "DESTROYS"  THE  FAITH  OF  SOME  IN  "THE  INSPIRATION  OF  THE  BIBLE",  THEN  ALL  I  CAN  SAY  IS  ...IGNORANCE  IS  NOT  BLISS!  YOU  NEED  TO  GET  A  PROPER  UNDERSTANDING  OF  THE  DOCTRINE  OF  INSPIRATION  AND  REALIZE  THAT  IT  DOES  NOT  MEAN  ANY  TRANSLATION  IS  "INSPIRED",  BUT  RATHER  THE  INSPIRED  WORD  OF  GOD  CAME  IN  THE  ORIGINAL  WRITINGS.  I  PERSONALLY  HAVE  FOUND  CAUSE  FOR  DISAPPOINTMENT  WITH  ALL  TRANSLATIONS  AT  CERTAIN  POINTS.

written by  Bob L. Ross

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NOTES  OF  INTEREST

by  Bob L. Ross

THE  BIBLE  —  "RESTORED ?"

         A reader sent us an item on the wwweb entitled "Refuge King James Bible Church." This item tells of a church in Arlington, Texas which believes the KJV is the "restored" Bible. It says, "We believe God prophesied that he would restore the Bible in universal language of the end times", and that this "restoration comes by Resurrection."

         Evidently, they believe that since there are "no original manuscripts", the Bible "died" and then was "resurrected" with the KJV. This is similar to the Campbellite ["Church of Christ"] theory about the "restoration of the church" — it supposedly died-out, then was "restored" by the Campbellite movement of the early 1800's.

         I have noticed that the "restoration" theory has often been a popular "explanation" for cultic ideas. One comes up with a wierd idea, alleges it was once believed but lost-out to "apostacy", making a "restoration" necessary. I have also noticed that such "restorers" develop a cultic following which spends its time and effort "proving" itself to be the "one-and-only" as to having "the truth." It's an old game — only the "format" changes from time-to-time.