From Bible Versions...To Test the True Character of Your Bible... by
Eldred Thomas
      The Revised Version of 1881 was the first attempted English
revision of the Bible since the Authorized or King James Version of
1611.  The incorrectly called Revised Version of 1881 was based on
Westcott and Hort's Greek Text basked on the corrupted manuscript, the
"Vaticanus" or "B">  This Greek Text, like the "B" manuscript it was
based on, had more than 7,000 changes. Unbfortunately, ALL MODERN
VERSIONS  are based on this Greek Text, as of December 1978.
  The Critical Bible is composed of these modern versions. Most
Christians who accept the critical Bible do not know its origin
or background.
  The Catholic Bible has been known at different periods as the
"Vulgate," the "Douay-Rheims," and at the present the "New American
Bible."  In the foreword of the "NAB," a statement is made which could
have very important connotations to "Evangelicals."   The statement
is: "In general, Nestle-Aland's New Testament Greek was followed."
Both Nestle and Aland follow the corrupt Westcott and Hort Greek Text.
In 1588, Sir francis Drake under Queen Elizabeth defeated the Spanish
armada, supported by the Pope, which was an attempt to make England
Catholica dn to force England to accept the Bible of the Jesuits, the
Douay-Rheims.
  From time to time, the Douay-Rheims has been revised.  With the advent
of the Westcott and Hort Greek Text and the successding modern
versions based on this text, the Catholics have recently released a
Bible called the "New American Bible" which used as its text the
Nestle-Aland, which is basically a Westcott and Hort Text.  This
should be of great interest to evangelicals.  Now the Catholic
Bible with the exception of the Apocrpha, is virtually the same as the
Protestant Modern Version Bibles.  This has happened in spite of the
fact that evangelicals have historically refused to accedpt the Catholic
bible.
  It should be noted also that there are those who would like a Bible
  that would be acceptable by all religions: Mohammedans, Catholics
Protestants, and all the rest.  I wonder what kind of Bible this would
be?
  The Lord wants us to love one another and come to a saving knowledge
of Jesus Christ as our personal Savior.  This can only be done if we
adhere strictly to His Holy and Divine Word.
  The Evangelical Bible which was guarded over by the Holy Spirit and
protected by the blood of the martyrs, has come down to the present
day and was used by all the great men of faith that God chose to
use, such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, Zwingli, John Knox, Whitefield
John Wesley, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Charles Finney, Dwight L. Moody,
and Billy Sunday.
   This text was carried by missionaries from antioch into Southern
France, then to Englland and Scotland, then to Northern europe and
Northern Italy.  The evangelical Text was first placed in print in 1516,
providentially, just one year before the Reformation was ignited by
Martin Luther by the posting of his 95 Thesis on the door of the church
in Wittenburg, Germany.  Luther used this text the following year to
translate the Bible into German.  Calvin and Zwingli also used it, and
later it became the basis for the King James Version in 1611.
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