KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

neither the KJV nor any Greek manuscript contains the word 'race' is ignored by new version editors. They continue to allow the pages of their versions to be used as semantic stepping stones to the New World Religion. To accomplish this the NIV, NASB, Living Bible and other versions mistranslate Greek and Hebrew words such as 'seed', 'brethren' and 'generation', as ' race '. To try to put some reality into their Root-race reverie, New Agers will no doubt latch on to I Peter 2:9 in the NASB; it reads, "But you are a chosen race." The Greek word here is genos from the root word ginomai , which means 'to come into being'. The KJV translates all such words as 'generate', 'generation', or 'Genesis'. The NASB translates a total of ten different words as 'race', (e.g., Acts 7:19, Marie 7:26 and elsewhere) In Zechariah 9:6, the NASB introduces the 'mongrel race' of Hermas 'half white and half black' stones. The Hebrew word is really 'seed' which they correctly translate hundreds of other times, (e.g., Genesis 1:22 "the tree yielding fruit whose seed. . .") The NASB also gives the reader a "Chosen race" or "holy race" pitted against a 'mongrel race'—-just like the New Age 7th Root race is pitted against the earlier races. The NIV mistranslates 'brethren' as 'race' in Romans 9:3, giving the reader the Root-race distinction, "Those of my own race." Commentators, tainted with New Age ideology, even suggest that Matthew 24:34 could be translated, "This race shall not pass away until all things be fulfilled ."14 Editors of new versions, commentaries, and lexicons rationalize their use of the word 'race', citing a handful of instances in which Greek mystery initiates such as Plato and Socrates, use the word 'race'. They perhaps are unaware of the Root-race theory which was very much a part of the esoteric philosophy of these men. Plato wrote much about the third Root-race, the Atlantians. Westcott picked up on it, writing in his books of scientific proof for the existence of Atlantis. He said the 'Lost Continent of Atlantis' was destroyed because, "the divine element within was overpowered by human passion."is 'The divine element within' and 'Atlantis' are two theories being promoted in New Age books such as The Golden Thread by Editors and 'Race'