KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

"Salvation is achieved through self-discipline [faithfulness] not faith.. ."63 Christians, on the other hand, are "justified by faith." Jesus Christ is called "Faithful and True" (Revelation 19:11). Because he is faithful, we can have faith. Our faith (pistis ) brings faithfulness (pistos ). The two words are clearly different in meaning in both Greek and English. Yet all new versions, in their attempt to present a 'works’ based salvation mistranslate pistis as 'faithfulness' in the following verses. NfV, NASB, et al. KJV faithfulness Matt.23:23 faith faithfulness Gal.5:22 faith [I]t is scarcely right to put ' 'pistis ' and 'pistos' in direct parallelism. The word 'faithfulness' as it would be understood by most English readers would not, as far as I can judge, convey the idea of pistis. . .[There is a] difference between faith and faithfulness.69 New version editors know that pistis means 'faith' because they translate it as such elsewhere. As usual, their mistranslations are not wholesale, just enough to leaven the loaf. To further dismantle 'faith', the new versions, based on less than 1% of the Greek manuscripts, completely eliminate 'faith' from Acts 6:8 where Stephen is "fuH of faith." New versions goad the 'falling away' as they give expression to New Age philosophies. Their New Age bywords act as battering rams in this declination. For example, in a June 6, 1990 Focus on the Family series on the 'fruit of the spirit' (Galatians 5:22) guest Joanne Wallace, in an otherwise accurate presentation, described 'faithfulness' (NKJV, NIV, NASB Galatians 5:22) as "paying your bills on time and canceling appointments when you can't make them." This is a far cry from the 'faith' (KJV Galatians 5:22) "which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3). New versions produce pulpiteers like Kenneth Copeland, who pronounce, "The Bible commands ministers to be faithful not correct. "70 New versions prod A noted dissenting new version editor points out this error in these new versions: