KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

He throws the pass, because he has no chance of scoring with a discussion of 'the Greek'. Catching his pass and scoring points which will touch down into the hearts of believers is simple. To summarize: (1) New version's abbreviated and altered titles come from less than 1% of the manuscript evidence, usually less than a handful. (2) KJV titles come from the Majority Text, represented in many cases by as many as 600 manuscripts, a listing which would fill the page.7 Note the following examples.

LESS THAN 1% OF MS Lord (i.e., Aleph, B, A)

MAJORITY TEXT Lord Jesus Christ (Majority Text) Lord Jesus Christ (Majority text, Aleph, and P46, earlier than B and A) Lord Jesus Christ (Majority text and Aleph)

I Cor. 16:22

I Cor. 5:4

Lord Jesus (i.e., B, A)

Jesus Christ (i.e., B, A)

2 John 1:3

Those manuscripts which characteristically lower Christ's claim are those Alexandrian MS: Aleph, B, P75 et al, which came under the spell of the masters of subtlety, the Egyptian magicians, Clement and Origen. Their wand waved away words which attested to Christ's deity. A few strokes here and there changed a portrait into a caricature. On the defaced canvas of Aleph and B, the editors of the 'New' Greek text saw a disfigured deity. "[H]is visage was so marred" (Isaiah 52:14) it matched their distorted views.

"Christ was and is perfectly man." "He never spoke directly of himself as God." "He does not expressly affirm the identification of the Word with Jesus Christ."8 B.F. Westcott

”[T]he divine anointing or Christhood. .the prophet, the people. . . and the dimly seen Head.. .are all partakers of the divine anointing and messiahship."9 F.J.A. Hort