New Age Bible Versions: An Exhaustive Documentation of the Message, Men & Manuscripts Moving Mankind to the Antichrist's One World Religion (Paperback)

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• Paperback: 690 pages
• Publisher: A V Pubns; 4 edition (June 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963584502
• ISBN-13: 978-0963584502
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (154 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #131,830 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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26 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Information is wisdom, March 7, 2002

By	Bill Swann "Golfing fool" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As I read negative review after negative review of this book, I was struck by one repeated phrase. "While some King James only people have a valid point of view", and then rip Dr. Riplinger. Satan comes to deceive, confuse, and bewilder. The Bible is the infallible word of GOD. If you are a Christian, that much you absolutely have to believe. Therefore if you have two books both purporting to be the Infallible WORD OF GOD, and they differ, one is completly wrong. There can be no half rights, only absolutes. Finally read the Preface of any translation you pick up, the men who worked on the Authorized KJV 1611 didn't believe themselves to be infallible, compare the sincerity in that preface to any other traslation.

Dr. Riplinger knew she would be attacked by the minions of Satan when she wrote this and her other works proclaiming the singular truth that the 1611 KJV is the true translation of the INSPIRED WORD OF GOD. No matter how many reviews rip her books to shreads, anyone who reads her books completly will have a greater understanding of what this war of words over translations is really all about.

23 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exposing Satan's Subtle Perversion of the Scriptures, May 6, 2002

By	Stephen McGinty (Gilbert, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This is a must read for Christians. It exhaustively exposes the attempt of the New Age scribes to pervert the Holy Scriptures with new Bible versions such as the NIV, NASB, Living, etc. If you have intertained the idea of using some of the modern Bible translations other than the Authorized King James Version, please read this book first. What a blessing this work is.

17 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars required reading, May 29, 2007

By	D. T. Kleven (Eau Claire, WI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was raised reading the NIV, then switched to NASB in high school (to get a more "literal" translation), and then switched again to ESV in college (to follow the "reformed" guys who love it so much.) I had a friend who was KJV-only and I (with my superior "reasoning" skills) would put him in his place time after time. "How ridiculous!" I would say. I studied the debate, and stuck with my NASB, but somehow the questions stuck around. I studied it again: stuck with NASB. I studied it again after I switched to ESV, and stayed with the ESV. I knew that the AV (KJV) and the NASB couldn't both be equally accurate, because my friend and I had done parallel readings in passages and found clear examples where EITHER one OR the other was correct (or neither) but NOT BOTH; the newer version had done more than simply update the "archaic" language: it changed the meaning. So three rounds into the research, and I still resisted. God was doing other work on me too at the time, and He finally got me to the point where I couldn't put up a fight anymore. I quit relying on myself (and other men) and switched to the AV. At first it was really hard, and gave me headaches, but after persevering through the first few weeks, the light broke through and I absolutely love the AV now and have no trouble reading it at all. Just recently, I've started reading into the subject again to be able to give a defense and to prepare to do battle for the truth, and came across New Age Bible Versions. I had seen this book for a long time, and had been avoiding it! We are all conditioned to reject Riplinger (and Ruckman, for that matter) out of hand. "Don't waste your time, etc." But finally I decided to give her a try, and I am very glad that I did.

Let me say that I'm not sure that NABV should be the first and only book on the subjects that someone should read. For someone with no background at all into the textual aspect of things, I can see how you could get lost sometimes. For someone with no exposure to the new age, I can see how it can all seem like a crazy conspiracy theory. So I go back and forth, sometimes the best tactic is to shock someone with the truth and they see it and recognize it and act accordingly. Sometimes when the truth is too shocking, or hits too close to home, we put up walls and retreat behind the walls of irrational emotional outbursts, personal attacks, and straw-man arguments to avoid the implications of the truth. For some people this may be the best book to start with. For others it might be better to lay some groundwork. I read Edward Hills' "The King James Version Defended" before I read this and I know that I was better prepared to assimilate all of the information, and also better prepared to see the hollowness of all the criticisms against NABV. I would certainly recommend Hills work as a precursor to Riplinger's.

All in all, I thought that NABV was excellent and laid out very clearly the key differences between the modernist versions and the AV, as well as the history of the new age movement, and a good section on textual criticism. Another reviewer recommended reading the last section first, and perhaps that would be very helpful too.

I agree that there are parts of this book that were pointless. I'd put the number at about 10%. These are one page, one paragraph, or even one sentence elements that contribute nothing to the overall work, and also provide a target for those who want to reject the truth of the matter. Critics love to point out the acrostic algebra, the hissing sss sound, and the speculation about B.F. Westcott = W.W. Westcott.

The critics have a tendency (I want to say ALWAYS, but I'll refrain) attack the spurious 10% and refuse to address the remaining 90% of the document. It is actually ironic that these are the some people who ignore the 90% of greek manuscripts (the Majority Text) in favor of the minority when making English translations.

Before reading this, I read a 60 page booklet criticizing "KJV-Onlyism" with Riplinger and NABV being the special target. I went in with an open mind (there are people who adhere to the AV who reject Riplinger, I was prepared to be one.) I will most likely read more material that criticizes this position, but unfortunately I have already noticed the tendency to construct straw men and ignore the real arguments. I don't think the Scholarship-Onlyists have a very strong case, and if you read Riplinger's book and then compare it to the criticisms (without an axe to grind) you'll find that there is more to Riplinger than "acrostic algebra."

All in all I would say that I highly recommend this work within a larger context of investigation, perhaps after a good introduction to the subject (like Hills).