KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Process Theology’s Past

The Hindu deity Kali is called the "goddess of becoming, of evolution." Plato spoke of the world as "that which is always becoming. "53 Aristotle believed that the world and the individual "were being" redeemed through a process. From this background Clement and Origen viewed "salvation as an educational process."54 They introduced this concept in I Peter 2:2, among other places, by adding "to salvation" to their Greek N.T. manuscripts. As a result, the new versions read:

KJV

NASB

ye may grow

You may grow in 1Pet. 2:2 respect to salvation

thereby

Of course we "grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" (II Peter 3:18) and grow in "faith" (II Thessalonians 1:3); but Christians do not grow "to salvation." New versions follow Aleph, B, and P72 here, ignoring the vast majority of MS which agree with the KJV. If P72 (now held by the Vatican) is to be taken as a reliable witness, then its apocryphal additions such as 'the Nativity of Mary', 'the Eleventh Ode of Solomon', Melito's Homily on the Passover, and the 'Apology of Phileas' should be tacked on the end of the NASB. Hegel haunted the nineteenth century with the heresy "History is God in process." Schlegel shadowed with his saying, "[M]an is progressively becoming God." Author of The Occult Establishment observes the possessing of society by this specter.

[PJrogress is found as the cardinal point in all mystical texts. . .and relates to the mystical ascent toward God. The doctrine of spiritual progress was resurrected by the prophets of the nineteenth century occult revival.55

Some serve up Satan's story straight, while new version

editors spruce it up with surplice and scapular.