KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

neither rationalism, intellectualism or Christian [?] values protected Kittel. . .from supporting Hitler [and mass murder]. This is a disturbing conclusion and one which requires careful consideration if we desire that the Hitler phenomena not recur.3i

Being Deceived?

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. II Timothy 3:13 If you feel that perhaps you have been deceived, you are not alone. At the very end of Kittel's life, he confessed that the years of his editorship of the Dictionary and his propaganda 'ministry' for Hitler,

.. .was based upon the most bitter deception of my life. 32

His lack of spiritual discernment or his "diseased conscience," as Erickson calls it, seems to have been accompanied by a defect in his scholarship. In citing an error in Kittel's work, Erickson writes,

This example throws a shadow of doubt on all of Kittel’s research.. .Kittel's factual base may not always have been strong enough to support the conclusions he drew.33

What are these conclusions? Perhaps you will hear some this week from the pulpit, the radio or television preachers, or as you read a 'New' version.

The Wizard of Ahs

The next time you hear a pastor proclaim, "The Greek here (yea hath God said?), be forewarned that his pronouncements are an echo from history past. Their hollow sound is one of Kittel's spiritually bankrupt grammatico-historico method of exegesis used by today's lexicons. Carson reveals: really means. .