My original plan was to write one comprehensive article, but as I started dealing with the misinformation that is going around, I realized that it would be so long that only nerds like myself would bother to read it. Since my goal is to inform people with the truth, I decided it would be better to break it up into more digestible parts. Once the series is complete, I will make available a PDF file that has all the information in one place for those who desire to have such a resource.
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There’s a proverb that says, “A lie can make it halfway
around the world before the truth finishes tying its shoelaces.” This article
is my humble attempt to help get the running shoes on the truth and get it out
of the starting block.
In the past few months I have seen the argument coming up
again on social media as to why the New International Version (and other modern
translations of the Bible) are unreliable, corrupt, or even part of a satanic
plot to lead people astray.
Let me state up front that I recognize most people are
sharing these memes and posts because they possess a zeal for God’s word. But,
as the Apostle Paul said in Romans 10 regarding many of his Jewish contemporaries, “their zeal is not based on
knowledge.”
The latest version I have seen circulating has the following
graphic:
This image is accompanied by the following wording in the
body of the Facebook posts I have seen being shared:
VERY
CRITICAL ALERT!!!
NIV
was published by Zondervan but is now OWNED by Harper Collins, who also
publishes the Satanic Bible and The Joy of Gay Sex.
•The
NIV and ESV has now removed 64,575 words from the Bible, including Jehovah,
Calvary, Holy Ghost and omnipotent to name but a few...
•The
NIV and ESV has also now removed 45 complete verses. Most of us have the Bible
on our devices and phones especially "OLIVE TREE BIBLE STUDY APP."
•Try
and find these scriptures in NIV and ESV on your computer, phone or device
right now if you are in doubt:
Matthew
17:21, 18:11, 23:14;
Mark
7:16, 9:44, 9:46;
Luke
17:36, 23:17;
John
5:4; Acts 8:37.
...you
will not believe your eyes.
•Refuse
to be blinded by Satan, and do not act like you just don't care. Let's not
forget what the Lord Jesus said in John 10:10 (King James Version).
There
is a crusade geared towards altering the Bible as we know it; NIV, ESV and many
more versions are affected.
•THE
SOLUTION:
If
you must use the NIV and ESV, BUY and KEEP AN EARLIER VERSION OF the BIBLE. A
Hard Copy cannot be updated. All these changes occur when they ask you to
update the app. On your phone or laptop etc.
There’s a lot of error to address here. Before we get into
the details of specific verses that do not appear in modern translations, and
the reasons behind that, let’s deal with some more basic errors in these claims.
I’ll take these in the order they appear in the post.
NIV
was published by Zondervan but is now OWNED by Harper Collins, who also
publishes the Satanic Bible and The Joy of Gay Sex.
HarperCollins does not “own” the NIV. In the 1970s, while
translation work on the NIV was still being done, funding for the translation
team, the Committee on Bible Translation (CBT), was running out. It looked like
they weren’t going to be able to complete the Old Testament translation, and
the NIV might exist only as a New Testament. Zondervan Corporation, which had
signed on as the exclusive U.S. licensee for producing printed copies of the
NIV, provided an infusion of cash as an advance on the royalties they had
agreed to pay to the New York Bible Society, the initial sponsor of the new
translation.[1]
Zondervan was acquired by Harper & Row, a division of
News Corp., in 1988.[2]
In 1989, News Corp. purchased Collins & Sons, creating HarperCollins.[3]
The copyright of the text of the NIV translation remains with Biblica (the
current name of the International Bible Society, formerly the New York Bible
Society), and neither Biblica nor any of its licensed printers has editorial
control over the translation work of the biblical scholars on the CBT.[4]
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