this is a post I submitted in 2006 on another blog. (blogstream.com)

New King James Bible or New Age King James Bible?

I have written many times about the perversions of scripture in the modern bibles and have given many examples from most of the popular new perversions in print, including the one I think is the most deceptive of them all, the New King James Bible. However, I still have people ask me, but what about the New King James. Isn’t it a King James Bible from the same Majority text manuscripts that the original King James is taken from?

For those that are trying to use the same majority text manuscript argument, to justify the New King James Bible, you must realize that is not the issue. Nor is the same majority text manuscript a legitimate reason to embrace this scripture altered perversion of the ‘Holy Bible’. We need only to point out how the original King James scriptures have been altered and changed.

If we fall into the enemy’s trap of debating over what word in the English should have been used for the Greek in the majority text manuscripts, the enemy can keep this debate going forever. It is common knowledge that no two scholars can even agree on what word in the English should or should not have been used. The many varied readings in modern bible versions attest to this fact. Therefore, which scholars rendering are you going to go with.

The modern versions have no foundation to stand on as they all disagree in scripture rendering, so who is the final authority to say which bible is right, if we reject the KJB 1611-1769 as the true Holy Bible? Well according to one well-known worldwide ministry ‘The Kenneth Copeland’s’, “we are”. That is right; they claim we have to find the one we like, get hold of a Greek lexicon and look up words for our self. I can only imagine that they view the choice of a Bible as if you were at a smorgasbord, it is all good just pick what you like and eat it. Don’t you know the sly old Devil is just partying over this revelation from the Copeland’s.

Before the modern bible versions gained a foothold in the Churches, the average Christian could spend their studying and reading the Holy Bible and allow the Holy Spirit to Give the proper understanding. However, now Christians are regularly being told in many ways that the 400 year old AV KJB 1611-1769 is just to hard read and understand, the language is to out dated for the modern mind to understand, the are grave errors in it , it is not an accurate translation, and it needs to be updated.

This leaves the new and old Christian, whom have bought into this KJB doubt, with the dilemma of first trying to fetter out which Bible should I study, whom do I listen for insight into which Bible. Once the arduous task of selecting a Bible Version to read is done, the Christian is then further prompted to go another step. He or She is advised, more often than not, to get hold of a Greek and Hebrew Lexicon and look up the words in that bible to see what they literally mean and if they can agree with it; just one more log of doubt thrown into the fire of Bible propriety.

A doubt producing procedure at best, even for the personal modern bible version the person has selected. The modern Christian is taken from doubting the time tested 400-year-old English King James edition of the Holy Bible into even doubting the supposed more accurate and easier to read modern version perverted Bible. Who wins in this game of ‘bible version bible version who has the real one, will the real bible please stand up’.

There are two winners in this insidious game; the first is the Devil, Satan himself. Satan has said once again as he did in the garden of Eden, “Hath God said”, that is not really what God meant to say in the King James Bible, for he surely knows most Christians will not be wise to his devices.…

The second winner is the writers and publishers, whom are making millions of dollars, promoting and selling their exclusive copyrighted perverted bibles to unsuspecting Christians under the guise of readability and accuracy.

Here is the actual quote from an e-mail I received from the Copeland’s in request of what they considered was the right Bible. I e-mailed them after hearing Gloria Copeland make this statement on TBN during one of her sermons. “This is what the Amplified Bible says, I then go to KJB and there it is, they all say about the same thing (hath God said). Gloria Copeland must hold to the doctrine that just about, is good enough, when it comes to what God has said in his word.

“They all say about the same thing” (hath God said); who do you think would embrace that statement, a Holy God or the Deceiver Satan himself? I believe a six year old could answer that one right.

This is an excerpt from the Copeland team reply to my request on which Bible did they think was right, the full reply is posted on my other blog along with my reply back to them, it is quite and eye opener. I will post if anyone would like to read it

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Dear Clyde,

Greetings in the wonderful Name of Jesus.

You asked for insight into what Brother Copeland thinks about different translations and the "King James Version" of the Bible. Clyde, the truth is that no one translation is perfect. There will always be shortcomings since man is involved in the translations and revisions from original manuscripts. Therefore, no matter which translation you use, you must personally be satisfied with it. …….
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As you can see, they hold to the Doctrine that you are the final authority as to what is Gods’ word. Sadly, the best that the Copeland’s had to offer is that we can never be sure if we have what God said, printed in English, if you think it is right it is, if you think it is wrong it is wrong. How is that not making us the arbitrator of what is or is not God’s word?

The 1611-1769 AV KJB should not be accredited to the King James translators alone. They merely carried on what the six editions of the Holy Bible had already started, and produced a more pure edition, not a revision or a “Quote” version of the Holy Bible, it is the Holy Bible . I have refrained from referring to the KJB 1611-1769 as version that is an insult to a Holy God who promised to preserve his word for all generations. The same Holy Bible that William Tyndale and the others had their lives taken for having the boldness to go against overwhelming opposition of the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church burned William Tyndale at the stake for the heinous crime of writing the New Testament in the English language from the original Greek text. The KJB 1611-1769 is merely an edition of the six editions that came before, starting with William Tyndale and ending in the KJB 1769 edition we have in print today.

If you doubt that, the New King James is a new age Bible, look at the Triquetra Symbol on the front of the hard cover New King James Bible. With a little research, you will find that this symbol is heavily tied to the New Age Movement, Paganism, and Satanism. It adorns many of the New Age books, Satanic alter covers, pagan jewelry, Satan rock group logos and more

the New King James text itself often uses the term ‘new age’ or ‘age’ in scripture where the AV 1611 KJB uses the word ‘world’, The following is an example:

Hebrews 9:26 (New King James Version) 26. He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
Hebrews 9:26 (KJB)
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Notice now they set the tone in terminology to accommodate the new age advocates. The New Agers are looking for a new age to come. True KJB Bible believers are looking for a new world to come, as the old world will be renewed in the end, this constitutes a big difference in beliefs, the first being Pagan New Agers, the second being Jesus Christ believing Christians.

If you still doubt that the New King James is a Paganistic New Age Bible, just watch who does and does not object to it. You can rest assured the Roman Catholic Church will never object to this Perverted New Age Bible. The New King James Bible is perverted; however, the writers have tried to hide this fact by changing this scripture:
2 Corinthians 2:17 (New King James Version:
17 For we are not, as so many,[a] peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.
This is what the Holy Bible KJB has to say:
2 Corinthians 2:17 (King James Bible)
17For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
The New King James writers have cleverly covered the fact that they have corrupted the word, by removing the evidence.

One point most have missed concerning this word change in the New King James, as I also did, until it was pointed out to me, is this. The New King James in changing corrupt to peddling has given the meaning that some people during that time were selling the word of God. Which is a falsehood; there were no Bible publishers during that time.

The Bible in the form we have today did not exist. The New Testament existed only in circulated letters to the Churches and was being lived at the time; the Old Testament was in the control of the Jewish Rabbis. To produce a copy of the Old Testament was a laborious task, which had to be done by hand, painstakingly by the Jewish scribes.

In order to make sure the copy they were making was error free, they not only read the copy, but also every mark on the copy was counted against the original they were copying. If the count was off by just one number, the copy was discarded, destroyed and they started over again. Yet modern Christians are willing to accept any thing a publisher calls a Bible, no mater how many alterations from the original it contains.

New Age Bible? The New King James Bible fits the mold.
In the service of Jesus Christ, Clyde