KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

NEW VERSIONS Are there few who are being saved? are being saved? those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved are turning to God your brother was dead and has begun to live is being renewed were being saved

KJV

Luke 13:23 be saved 2 Cor. 2:15 are saved I Cor. 1:18 are saved

darkness is passing away I John 2:8

is past

Acts 15:19 turned Luke 15:32 is alive

Col. 3:10 Acts 2:47 2 Cor. 4:3

is renewed should be saved

are perishing

are lost

Dean Burgon, noted Greek scholar, comments on the "are being saved" and "have been saved" rendition of the Greek verbs.

[Tjhe schoolboy method of translation is therein exhibited in constant operation throughout. . .We are never permitted to believe that we are in the company of Scholars.. .the idiomatic rendering of a Greek author into English is a higher achievement by far. . .[EJxamples of their inconsistency. . .reduces the whole matter to a question of Taste. . .[T]he vast number of cases in which they have forsaken their own rule shows that it could not be followed without changing the meaning of the original. . .They virtually admit that they have been all along unjustly forcing on an independent language an alien yoke.42

Foster of the NIV and NKJV committees agrees, admitting, "This in itself results in an unnatural straining of the tenses of the English. "43 However, the doctrinal bend of the translator tends toward a progressive kind of salvation and this is reflected in their new versions. As one says, "[T]he work of a life is to realize this idea [Plato]. . .aorist in contrast with the present." Or as channeled entity Lazaris phrases it: "[T]hat is the human condition: to be saving itself. "44