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"to eventually get your
people to accept a more accurate Bible"
Pastor Kirk DiVietro of Franklin Massachusetts,
sent an email to David Cloud of Way of Life Ministries in January of 2005 that
reveals the hidden agenda behind the publication of the New King James Version.
David Cloud prefaced Kirk DiVietro's letter with the following statement:
Kirk DiVietro, Pastor of Grace Baptist
Church in Franklin, Massachusetts, attended one of the Thomas Nelson
planning meetings that prepared the way for the publication of the New King
James. He testified to me that the Thomas Nelson representative plainly
stated that their goal with the NKJV was to create a bridge to the modern
versions, to break down the resistance of those who still revere the KJV.
Following is Bro. DiVietro’s testimony as he gave it to me by e-mail on
January 9, 2005:
“Over 20 years ago I attended a
pre-publication meeting of the NKJV held by the Thomas Nelson People and
hosted by the Hackman’s Bible Bookstore in Allentown, PA. I am personal
friends with the owners who took great delight in seating me next to the
brother of the main translator of the NIV. The meeting was attended by
over 300 college professors and pastors. At the meeting we were treated
to a slide presentation of the history of the English bible and in
particular the King James Bible and its several revisions.
During the presentation of the NKJV the
Thomas Nelson representative made a statement which to the best of my
memory was, ‘We are all educated people here. We would never say this to
our people, but we all know that the King James Version is a poor
translation based on poor texts. But every attempt to give your people a
better Bible has failed. They just won’t accept them. So we have gone
back and done a revision of the King James Version, a fifth revision.
Hopefully it will serve as a transitional bridge to eventually get your
people to accept a more accurate Bible.’
Because of the years, and because I did
not write it down, I cannot give you the speaker’s name and I cannot
promise you that this is word for word correct, but the meeting so
seared my spirit that I have never picked up and opened a NKJV. I can
tell you that this is absolutely the substance and nearly the exact
words of what was said.” (1)
The accuracy of Pastor Kirk DiVietro's
recollection regarding the Thomas Nelson representative's statement, "We would never say this to our people, but we all know that
the King James Version is a poor translation based on poor texts" is
confirmed by the New King James Version editors:
It was the editors' conviction that the use
of footnotes would encourage further inquiry by readers. They also
recognized that it was easier for the average reader to delete something he
or she felt was not properly a part of the text than to insert a word or
phrase which had been left out by the revisers.
(Quote source: History of the King James
Bible, page 1235
of the the New King James Version, copyright 1979, 1980, 1982)
Notes: (1) What About the New King James Version?https://www.wayoflife.org/database/what_about_new_king_james_version.html
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