KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Mariolatry and prejudice his chances of election to a Divinity Professorship at Cambridge.22

While pursuing phantoms in France, Westcott was also pouring over documents to find support for the esoteric changes he wanted to make in his 'New' Greek New Testament. From La Salette, he slipped to Milan to mull over the Muratorian Fragment of the N.T.. His view of 'visions' now appears on the pages of all new versions. KJV taking his stand on Col. 2:18 intruding into those visions he h a s things which he seen. hath not seen One hundred years ago the reading in today's versions was merely a note in Westcott's Revised Version (RV), since only a few manuscripts of bad character omit the word 'not'. The elimination of this highly critical word gives the text the exact opposite meaning intended, adding it to the growing list in which new versions urge the reader to disobey the true word of God. The NASB also adds the word 'visions' which is not in any Greek manuscripts. Further, "taking his stand" is not an accurate translation of embateuo, which all interlinear bibles render as the KJV does. Will this verse, as it stands in new versions, be plucked out of context and replanted in some New Age tome to calcify in the minds of the naive that there is biblical support for these 'angels of light'? (Already, books like Angels on Assignment , about Assembly of God Pastor Buck, are urging readers to pursue visions and return to Rome.) NASB et al.

The Image of the Beast?

New Ager Madeline L'Engle's book, A Cry Like a Bell , suggests that 'the Virgin' may be the focal point of worldwide ecumenical unity .23 Almost 100 years ago, religious historian Alexander Hislop concluded that 'the Virgin' would be the "image of the beast" worshipped during the great tribulation .24 The tremendous