KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

"initiation in the Mysteries. . .deep in mystic rites. . .purified with holiest water.. Elsewhere he says,

The remission of sins has always been connected with Baptism, the sacrament of incorporation. . .[We are] placed in relation to God by Baptism.37

Philip Schaff, at the hub of the 'New' Greek and ASV, was tried for heresy by his denomination for his belief in baptism/initiation regeneration. From his hub, spokes like the Living Bible and NASV moved this creed into the next century. Hort peddled the same heresy:

I am a staunch sacerdotalist. . .Paul connected the state [salvation] with a past completed act [baptism] by which it was formerly taken possession of.38

See this "past completed" action of baptism in the NASV, NIV and all new versions. Their verbs are mistranslated, as even the preface of the NASB Interlinear Greek-English New Testament. admits:

The Authorized Version is idiomatically correct.. .39

Christians "are saved" (present tense) when they receive Jesus as Saviour. The new versions present the baptism/initiation views as intended by their editors, a past completed act that does not necessarily follow into the present.

KJV

NEW VERSIONS

Mark 16:16 is baptized Eph. 2:8 are saved I Cor. 1:2 are sanctified

has been baptized have been saved have been sanctified have been raised

Col. 3:1 be risen have come to know him I John 2:3 know him have been born again have been made complete Col. 2:10 are have died Col. 2:20 be dead

I Pet. 1:23 being born again

are dead

have died were called died

Col. 3:3

2 Tim. 2:11 be dead I Tim. 6:12 art also called