KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

moon and power of nature.. .But unlike Artemis, she was not regarded as a virgin, but as a mother.. .24 The name Artemis, transliterated directly from the Greek bible into new versions, clearly identified the goddess to Greeks, but not to "all Asia and the world" for whom the KJV is intended. The use of the name ’Diana', a dynamic equivalency (translating a word as meant and not as written), shows the breadth of scholarship of the KJV translators. A knowledge of classical mythology was common in 1611 when reading books rather than watching television was the pastime of choice. (New versions use dynamic equivalencies frequently, such as translating 'Jesus' as 'Joshua' in Acts 7:45 and Hebrews 4:8. These, however, shows the naivete of new version editors regarding the prophetic nature of the O.T. references concerning Joshua.) The Ephesians remained undaunted in their zeal for the 'Mother of God'. Four hundred years after Paul's rebuke these citizens declared 'Mary' the 'Mother of God' at the Council of Ephesus. They were led by: 1) Cyril of Alexandria, Egypt, a follower of 'Sophia' the Mother of God and 2) Egyptian Christians who believed the Trinity consisted of the Father, the Virgin, and the Son.25 Jesus Christ, speaking to the church at Ephesus, refers to men such as these saying, "[T]hou hast tried them which say they are apostles and are not and hast found them liars." And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. Revelation 17:6 From the hand of the queen, blood has streamed, says verse six—on a course through the ages to fill river Styx. She beats God's martyrs and treats her followers to floggings too. History traces as the blood races during annual festivals for the bloodthirsty goddesses of Egypt (Isis), Rome (Cybele, Mary) and Ephesus (Diana). Flagellation sects in the Catholic world during the 10th and 14th centuries mirrored the masochism of certain Tibetian, Mongolian and American Indian tribes. "I beat my body" (NIV)