FOES OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE REFUTED

FOES OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE REFUTED

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February 16, 1998 (David W. Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Dr. Donald Waite has published an interesting new book entitled FOES OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE REFUTED, December 1997, 156 pages. $9 + $4 S/H. Bible for Today, 900 Park Ave., Collingswood, NJ 08108. (800) 564-6109 (orders), (609) 854-4452 (voice), (609) 854-2464 (fax), BFT@BibleForToday.org (e-mail).

Dr. Waite answers false challenges which were made by men appearing on a John Ankerberg telecast entitled "Which English Translation of the Bible Should Christians Use?" It was aired in part during the Summer and Fall of 1996, and some of the telecasts were re-run in 1997. Though not all of the recorded material was broadcast, the entire debate was preserved on video tape and offered to Ankerberg's audience together with the script of the programs. Appearing in the debate on the side of modern texts and versions were John Ankerberg, James White (author of The King James Only Controversy), Dan Wallace (Dallas Theological Seminary professor), Kenneth Barker (NIV committee), Arthur Farstad (NKJV committee), and Don Wilkins (NASV committee). Appearing for the Received Text and the King James Version were Samuel Gipp, Joseph Chambers, and Thomas Strouse.

In the Foreword to Foes of the King James Bible Refuted, Dr. Waite says: "Here are refutations of some of the leading foes of the Grand Old Version, the King James Bible. Their arguments are not new. They have been around ever since the days of Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott and Professor Fenton John Anthony Hort and their forerunners. Look at the principles discussed in this book, rather than at the personalities involved."

Dr. Waite sets the record straight in regard to many fallacies commonly promoted by the proponents of the modern versions (and by those who claim to love the King James Bible but who discredit it at every turn

The following overview of Dr. Waite's education and ministry is excerpted from my book For Love of the Bible: A History of the Defense of the Received Text and the King James Bible from 1800 to Present (Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, fbns@wayoflife.org -- http://www.wayoflife.org/order.htm/) --

D.A. Waite is a Baptist scholar who has written in the defense of the Received Text and the King James Bible since 1971. He obtained a B.A. in classical Greek and Latin from the University of Michigan in 1948; a Th.M. with high honors in New Testament Greek Literature and Exegesis from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1952; an M.A. in Speech from Southern Methodist University in 1953; a Th.D. with honors in Bible Exposition from Dallas Seminary in 1955; and a Ph.D. in Speech from Purdue University in 1961. He holds both New Jersey and Pennsylvania teacher certificates in Greek and Language Arts, and has taught Greek, Hebrew, Bible, Speech, and English for over thirty-five years in nine schools.

Dr. Waite founded the Bible For Today (BFT) ministry in 1971, the year he published his first book on the subject of Bible versions. He has produced over 700 studies, booklets, cassettes, and VCR's that he distributes through BFT, along with hundreds of titles by other men on a wide variety of subjects.

Some pretend that today's King James defenders are intellectual pygmies who merely parrot things they have received from someone else. Such a view is far from the truth. Dr. Waite, for example, has produced a number of exacting studies in the field of Bible versions. I can understand how someone might disagree with the King James defender's conclusions, but to gloss over or ignore the diligent research behind the positions of men such as this and to pretend that they could not possibly be true scholars is a farce.

To find out for himself the exact number and nature of changes which have been made in the critical Greek text, Waite went through the Westcott-Hort text and compared it with the Received Text. He counted every single word difference, and weighed its significance. When Waite says there are 9,970 Greek words either added, subtracted, or changed from the TR in the Westcott-Hort text, he is not merely parroting what he read somewhere. He has done this with at least three of the modern English versions (the NASV, NIV, and the NKJV), comparing them word for word with the King James Bible and the Received Text, noting the number and significance of the differences. He has also published the results of these studies.

I repeat, it is one thing to disagree with Dr. Waite's conclusions. It is quite another thing to pretend that he and others like him are some sort of crackpot cultists.

FOES OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE REFUTED, December 1997, 156 pages. $9 + $4 S/H. Bible for Today, 900 Park Ave., Collingswood, NJ 08108. (800) 564-6109 (orders), (609) 854-4452 (voice), (609) 854-2464 (fax), BFT@BibleForToday.org (e-mail).

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