THE BIBLE CORRUPTERS
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are CORRUPTERS: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. – Isa. 1:4
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is CORRUPTaccording to the deceitful lusts; -- Eph 4:22
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the CORRUPTIONthat is in the world through lust. –2 Pet. 1:4
Corruption is in the deceitful nature of the unsaved, but children of God must revert backward to their old nature in order to practice corruption. When folks first get saved, they have no problem with the word of God in regard to mistakes and errors in the King James Bible, whereasBible corruption must be learned and parroted as its corrupters become educated in the world’s wisdom rather than be “thoroughly furnished” from the inspired scriptures, from which they certainly do not learn such errors, mistakes, and better renderings.Education is ignorance, if you are educated in the corrupt wisdom of the world without your faith standing in the power of God, which is found in that which is quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword.
The Warnings Concerning Corruption
Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaamthe son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the SERVANTS OF CORRUPTION: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be CORRUPTED from the simplicity that is in Christ. – 2 Peter 2:15 – 22
One need not be around a Bible Corrector very long to observe his obstinate arrogance and pride and quest for prestige among Christendom (his wages of unrighteousness). The Bible Corrector is also rebuked throughout the scriptures, regarding his iniquity. If they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them; the scriptures cannot be broken. Bible Correctors are evangelical in that they ever seek to recruit others whom have higher views of their English Bible. They do this with great swelling words salted with education and intellect. Whether saved or not, one thing is for sure, they have turned from the holy words and commandments and had their minds corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. These blind bottom feeders are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth in regard to the English word of God.
Bible Correcting
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. – 1 Cor. 2:5
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. – Eph. 4:29
Perverse disputings of men of CORRUPTminds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. – 1 Tim. 6:5
Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of CORRUPTminds, reprobate concerning the faith. – 1 Tim. 3:8
But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they CORRUPTthemselves. – Jude 1:10
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own CORRUPTION; -- 2 Peter 2:12
Mark it down, Bible Correcting, whether creating and selling modern perversions or correcting the Bible from the pulpit or on a forum, is for gain of some kind, whether for money or prestige or employment. Still, Bible Correctors think it to be a godly endeavor. Nevertheless, it is merely the disputings of men of corrupt minds, who are destitute of truth. The Bible believer should have no part with them and should withdraw himself from their fellowship and association and rebuke the unfruitful works of darkness. Moreover, the Bible believer should not be found parroting the corrupt communication of Bible Correctors. Be sure that Bible Correctors resist the truth and have corrupt minds and are spiritual rejects concerning the faith, whether saved or not.
Be also sure that they are speaking evil of the English word of God, which they know not, and they corrupt themselves even more through their speaking evil of it, many perishing in their own corruption. Just as sure as men know naturally that there is a God, they know naturally that the word of God is what it is when they hear or read it. Before I was saved, as a boy, I knew intuitively that the English Bible, solely used at that time (KJB), was God’s book. Obeying and following it, of course, was another matter.
Existentialism, the engine of the New orthodoxy
“Existentialism is a philosophy holding that existence is prior to essence, and that man makes himself what he is and is responsible personally only to himself. . . . It is a philosophy that denounces all absolutes and basically is a rehashing of the old Greek philosophical belief that ‘Man is the measure of all things.” Man is allowed to subjectively believe whatever he desires to believe about a matter. Though in reality a thing may be false, one can existentially believe that it is true . . . When it comes to belief of the Bible, Karl Barth declares that the Bible becomes the word of god. . . . Next week that same scripture may not be the Word of God for him if it does not move him. Thus, it rests upon the individual’s response to the scriptures as to whether the Bible becomes the Word of God or not.”– Dr. H. T. Spence
For some time, we have been looking for a category to put Bible Correctors in, and I thing Brother Spence has hit on it, Bible existentialism. Bible Correctors have a humanistic view of the Bible. They believe that God may have flung the Bible out to us, but God no longer superintends the Bible, man does! In their minds, God does not preserve the Bible, he has commissioned textual critics, historians, archeologists, linguists, college professors, and others to tell us what the Bible is or is not.” Woe be it to those, who believe the Holy Spirit develops a consensus among Bible believers as to what it is just like he did with the canon of scripture that we have today. The wrath and hostility of the Bible Corrector will ultimately be on that kind of Bible believer. Moreover, the Bible Corrector will continue participating in the Bible of the Month Club,” gravitating from version to version as he sees fit, while he ignores the King James Bible completely.
The Solution
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. – Matt. 7:17, 18
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit CORRUPT: for the tree is known by his fruit. – Matt. 12:33
For we are not as many, which CORRUPTthe word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. – 2 Cor. 2:17
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be CORRUPTED from the simplicity that is in Christ. – 2 Cor. 11:3
Naturally, there are different degrees of Bible Correcting, but the Lord does not like lukewarm-ness or borderline situations. Corrupt Bible correctors bring forth evil fruit. Bible believers bring forth good fruit. Bible Correctors are admonished to get on one side or the other, for they shall be known by their fruit, and we shall do our best to make them be known for their evil fruit and their corruptness. Still, the different Bible camps are fairly distinct from one another and observable, except for those who entertain mental reservations. Some dotry to have the best of both worlds and pretend to be believer/defenders of the King James Bible, while flirting with better renderings and sub biblical views of inspiration and preservation. On the one hand, you have King James Onlies, who reject the perversions and arguments from History, Lexicons, the Hebrew and Greek, and Professor Whatchamahamczysz. Nevertheless, you also have the Bible Corrector/Corrupters who never miss an opportunity to denigrate the King James Bible with whatever means that they can as they corrupt the English word of God. Modern Bible correctors are rarely original in their writings, since they parrot others of similar views, either from history or academics. Far from being their own researchers of the Bible itself, they confine their research to history and secular academics, copying what others say. They are usually very shallow in biblical matters, from the scriptures themselves, being only critics of the Bible as opposed to being students of the Bible.
-- by Herb Evans