KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Imitation or New Creation?

The plastic saints have moved from the dashboard to the driver's seat. They "have been saved" at baptism and now "are being saved" by "faithfulness" and "obedience." They are "very religious in all respects" but have never given up the driver's seat to God, or read his road map, the bible. If these "wandering" cars don't stop for directions, they will be eternally lost. These wayfarers were deceived by billboards on the broad way, painted by con artists like Peale who publicize "the innate goodness" of man.9 God's road map warns instead that the antahkarana bridge is out (the New Age bridge leading to the divinity ofman).io God's 'guidepost' reads, "GOOD-GC)D=0". There is none good but one, that is God. Mark 10:18 Trying to be "like the most High" was Lucifer's downfall. God said, "I am God and there is none like me" (Isaiah 46:9). In spite of this, followers of Hinduism have a "devotion to acquiring Godlike qualities."n Gurus like Dr. Galyean, recipient of numerous federally funded grants, tell students "the whole puipose of human life is to reown the Godlikeness within us." The author of Toward a World Religion for the New Age observed that the occult theme wherein man "has potential to express many God-like qualities" is being "emphasized in Christianity" of late .12 New versions have supported this and salute the substitution of a dashboard 'likeness'.

KJV

NIV, NASB, et al. like newborn babes put on the new self which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness

as newborn babes put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

1Pet. 2:2 Eph. 4:24

(The words "as" and "like" are not interchangeable, e.g., "As a surgeon, I believe you need an operation." "John carves the turkey like a surgeon, maybe he could perform it and save us some money.")