KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

[The] London Committee for the Revision of the Bible. . .show[s] the origin of the bible to be occultism. . .and pagan.47

Westcott's then "shocking" Greek New Testament slowly infiltrated the liberal seminaries during the first half of this century and today floods the bookstores under 'New' version covers. James Webb, author of The Occult Underground and The Occult Establishment is among a string of historians tying Westcott's work to the "Occult Revival." He observes:

It is to restate a truism that what is avant-garde for one generation is taught to the next in the schools [seminaries]. By the third generation, it has become an accepted part of the unperceived assumptions on which everyday life is based.48

Even the NIV Concordance editor concedes that this century's versions are a deviation from the text type used, as Blavatsky said, "for nearly 1500 years." He acknowledges, "A century ago—even a half century ago. . .nothing seriously threatened these standards. "49 Noting their deviation from the traditional text, one NIV editor yields, "Certain verses that. . .have traditionally been thought to be part of Holy Writ, were in the judgement of the translators, not present.. ."50 Wheaton professor, Dr. Gordon Fee, comments on the "clipped" character of all versions except the Authorized Version (KJV). The contemporary translations as a group have one thing in common: they tend to agree against the KJV. . .in omitting hundreds of words, phrases and verses.51 The NIV has 64,098 less words than the KJV. Manuscripts and Greek New Testaments produced according to the "revise" rule of Philo's school are markedly different from the great mass of N.T. manuscripts (over 5000) used to produce the KJV. J.B. Phillips, another Spiritualist and new version editor, acknowledges this "vast" difference in his forward to the NASB Greek-English Interlinear New Testament .