Wittenburg Wednesday: One More Response

A few weeks ago, we began our Wittenburg Wednesday discussions.  Our first topic was concerning modern Bible translations – it is time for a new English Bible translation.  I sent out an e-mail to several well known KJV defenders, and several of them e-mailed back responses.  Here is a list:

Wittenburg Wednesday: Is it Time for A New Translation?
Wittenburg Wednesday Response: David Sorenson
Wittenburg Wednesday Response: Dr. D.A. Waite
Wittenberg Wednesday Response: Chuck Surrett
Wittenburg Wednesday Response: Dr. Jack Moorman
Wittenburg Wednesday Response: Gail Riplinger
Wittenburg Wednesday Response: Michael Maynard
Wittenburg Wednesday Response: Mark Langley
Wittenburg Wednesday Response: Gail Riplinger, part 2
Wittenburg Wednesday Response: Lloyd Streeter

I have recieved one more response since then that I thought I would share with you. 

Dr. William Grady is the author of several books including, Final Authority.  According to his website, “At present he is in full-time evangelism, a contributing writer for the Baptist Bread of Day Heights, Ohio, and a board member of both the International Baptist Outreach Missions of Asheville, North Carolina, and the Baptist History Preservation Society of Rockwell, North Carolina.” 

Here is Dr. Grady’s response to the topic, Is it time for a new English Bible translation?

Thank you for your recent e-mail.

I will try to answer your questions in the order they appear.

However, let me say first of all that the kind of “King James Bible emphasis” you would have received at PCC would be sub par as it is more of a defense of the Textus Receptus  than the AV 1611.  For example, I’m sure you have seen the footage of Del Johnson ridiculing my first book Final Authority.  (If you have not, refer to same on my website at Seven Signs of Pseudo King James Onlyism.)

The problem that you are struggling with is not due to the King James Bible; it is due to the apostate climate of the entire Christian School movement; from venerating reprobates like C. S. Lewis and his Laodicean fables (such as Chronicles of Narnia) through effeminate professors like Del Johnson to five-story water slide/tanning salon play centers for spoiled Christian teenagers.  This is not any kind of an attack on you personally, but a frank response to your enquiry (II Cor. 3:12; 10:10).  To get a profound insight as to how God’s work has been hampered so tragically by the Don Howards, Hortons, and the Christian School movement in general, see The Coming Destruction of the Baptist Faith in America by James Beller.
 
But back to your questions: The so-called “updating of 1769” was limited to exactly what you said – spelling and printing errors.  The various editions of the King James Version are not to be compared to the differences in the previous English translations from Wycliffe to the Bishop’s Bible.

As to how modern grammar style differs from that employed in 1611, I’m sure the Lord knew this would eventually happen, especially as the culture would later crash and burn in our modern hip-hop culture.  (See Gen 3:1 in Black Bible Chronicles – “Now the serpent was one bad dude.”)  Note how the Lord is not shook up about employing a style of grammar that is less than the accepted level of that time (Acts 4:13; II Peter 1:21).  You might want to secure a copy of Gail Riplinger’s recent work, The Language of the King James Bible.

With reference to your comparison of the Dark Ages to 21st-century America, your problem is a deficiency in right division, another “no-no” at places like PCC.  The two periods are not to be compared with respect to the need for a translation.  The converts at the end of the Dark Ages formed the foundation of the Philadelphia Church age.  Conversely, the advent of the Revised Version/American Standard Version ushered in the Laodicean age of abject apostasy, foretold in II Timothy 3.  (The plough boys of Tyndale’s day were not engrossed in C. S. Lewis, video games, My Space, You Tube, text messaging, etc.)  The proof of the pudding is in the eating; the most dedicated, separated anti-Catholic, born-again Christians in this nation today constitute a remnant of King James Bible-believing Baptists, while the rank and file of the pragmatic kingdom-building apostates are constantly promoting anything but the final authority of the AV 1611.

The answer to your last question pretty well sums up your entire dilemma.  It is given extensively on page 303 of my own  work, Final Authority.

I hope this has been some help to you.

Sincerely,

Pastor Bill Grady

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