KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

Former head of the Jehovah Witness Watchtower and Tract Society, Charles Taze Russell writes in his Studies in Scripture (Vol. 1, p. 158): [E]ach for himself [must] prove by obedience or disobedience their worthiness of life eternal. The Jehovah Witness Bible consequently substitutes the word ’disobedience' for 'unbelief and 'obey' for 'believe'. Is there a typographical error in the new versions, which also make these substitutions? Or is the error on their covers, which say 'Holy Bible' instead of Jehovah Witness Bible ?

KJV

NASB (NIV et al).

believeth unbelief believed not unbelief unbelief do not believe

John 3:36 Rom. 11:32 Heb. 3:18 Heb. 4:6 Heb. 4:11 Rom. 15:31

obey (NASB) disobedience disobedient disobedience disobedience

disobedient (NASB)

Scholar Rudolf Bultmann reminds Greek-o-philes that "faith is obedience" and the KJV consequently renders the word apeitheo as a 'dynamic equivalent' within the context of Christianity, not Platonism.65 Even the NIV and NASB render apeitheo as 'unbelief in Acts 14:2, conceding the appropriateness of this translation. A salvation based on obedience allows an act of 'disobedience' to disannul that salvation. Much study of the new versions leaves Christian leaders spouting:

The durability of his justifying grace is on the basis of obedience to God. A person can lose his salvation through neglect or disobedience.66

Jimmy Swaggart penned the previous statement before he 'disobeyed' and discovered that his fallen state did not void his sonship. He perhaps garnered his view from the new versions in the following verses.