Bible Translation Heresies NKJV NIV Etc
Satan is the great deceiving counterfeiter. The dictionary defines counterfeit as: imitate or copy closely, especially with intent to deceive.
Second Corinthians 11:14-15 warns of Satan's counterfeiting: “And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness." Isaiah 14: 14 tells of Satan's ultimate counterfeit: "I will BE LIKE the most High."
Modern bible translations are all built upon counterfeiting the original texts and the real KJV, which is the closest translation we have in English. Among the greatest, and most subtle, of these counterfeit bibles is the New King James Bible (NKJV). Christians that would never touch a New International Version (NIV), New American Standard (NASV), Revised Standard (RSV), the New Revised Standard (NRSV) or other perverted versions are now being "seduced" by the subtle counterfeiting of the NKJV.
Though the New King James does indeed bear a kind of "likeness" to the 1611 King James Bible, as you will see, there's something else coiled (Genesis 3:1) underneath the cover of the NKJV.
WHAT ABOUT THAT MYSTERIOUS MARK ON THE COVER OF THE NKJV Bible?
Symbols are used throughout the occult, and many people are asking about the mysterious symbol on the cover of the NKJV. Thomas Nelson Publishers of the NKJV claim, on the inside-cover, that this coiled three ring interconnected symbol is an ancient symbol for the Trinity. But Acts 17:29, clearly forbids such symbology when it says, “we ought NOT to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, GRAVEN BY ART and man's device."
The Aquarian Conspiracy, a key New Age handbook bears a similar symbol. New Agers freely state that this kind of symbol represents three inter-woven 6’s or 666.
This symbol is a Mobius, and is commonly used to represent 666. Nelson says, the emblem on the cover of the New King James Bible is an ancient symbol of the Trinity. But this old symbol, to the extent it applies, had gnostic origins, not Christian origins. It was always more gnostic than Christian.
This basic symbol is also sometimes called a Triqueta and is used as the centerpiece for the logo for The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, ITP. ITP is a new age school following occultist Jungian Psychology. One of their stated goals is “to reach the recognition of divinity within" Genesis 3:5, "Ye shall be as gods."
The same symbol with a circle added is displayed by the rock group Led Zeppelin. Members of Led Zeppelin are deeply involved in satanism and the occult. Guitarist Jimmy Page, was so consumed with satanism, he actually purchased satanist Aleister Crowley's mansion. Most occultists believe the symbol is from the teachings of Aleister Crowley and represents 666.
Then there is the picture of "The Hierophant" taken from the Tarot card set designed by satanist Aliester Crowley. The "Hierophant" is a priest in the Eleusinian occult. The "three circles" at the top of the wand or rod in the Hierphant's hand contain the exact three intertwined circles that is the "NKJV symbol. The NKJV symbol is upside down inside the three circles.
One of the most occultic television shows ever aired is called "Charmed". "Charmed" details the spells and occultic practices of three witches. The NKJV symbol is the show's primary symbol of witchcraft and is splattered throughout the series.
The same NKJV symbol is displayed on the cover of "The Book of Shadows". A book commonly commonly used in withcraft and Satanism. It is also called a grimoire, which is a journal kept either by individual witches or satanists or by a coven or group, which records the activities of the group and the incantations used.
There is a vast assortment of Satanic and Pagan Jewelry which include the NKJV logo, such as satanic pentagram rings, depicting the satanic Baphomet Goat.
The covers of rock albums such as, the rock group Deicide's album "Once Upon the Cross". It is a triquetra, the NKJV logo, with pentagrams and upside down crosses. The group Deicide members are very serious Satanists. Lead Singer Glen Benton has an upside down cross branded on his forehead. The inside cover of the album "Once Upon the Cross" has the Lord Jesus Christ, sliced up the middle, with his insides removed. The name Deicide means the death of God. The triquetra, the NKJV logo, is also the logo for the Rap-Metal band P.O.D.
The book "Blood on the Doorposts" by former Satanists, Bill and Sharon Schnoebelen, also documents the trio of sixes (666) in the NKJV symbol and goes so far as claim it is “symbolic of the anti-christ":
These are only a very few examples of the use of this symbol in demonic practice, and may supposedly secular organizations, such as the World Future Society and the Trilateral Commission, incorporate this symbol into their logo. It is strange in the extreme to see this same symbol appearing on the cover of the New King James Bible. The question begs, would God "mark" His word with a symbol in the occult?
The Preface to the New King James Version, the NKJV reads, "A special feature of the New King James Version is its CONFORMITY to the thought flow of the 1611 Bible.” Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Among the first changes that greets the reader of the NKJV is the removal of the much maligned "thee, thou and ye". The Preface to the NKJV states, "Thee, thou, and ye are replaced by the simple you. These pronouns are no longer part of our language."
BUT, "thee, thou and ye" were "NO LONGER part of the language" during 1611 either. Just read the introduction to the 1611 King James, and you will see there no examples of "thee", "thou" and "ye". In fact, Webster's Third New International Dictionary, says of ye that it was: "used from the earliest of times to the late 13th century." And yet the 1611 King James was published 400 years later in the 17th century! So why are they there in the KJV in 1611?
The reason is that the Greek and Hebrew languages contain a different word for the second person singular and the second person plural pronouns. Today we use the one-word "you" for both the singular and plural. But because the translators of the 1611 King James Bible desired an accurate, word-for-word translation of the Hebrew and Greek text, they could NOT use the single word "you" throughout. If it begins with "t" (thou, thy, thine) it's SINGULAR, but if it begins with "y" (ye) it's PLURAL. Ads for the NKJV call it "the Accurate One", and yet the 1611 King James, by using "thee", "thou", "ye", is far more accurate.
If the "thee's" and "thou's" are "no longer part of our language" why aren't the NKJV translators rushing to make our hymnbooks "much clearer"? "How Great Thou Art" should be changed to "How Great You Are", or "Come Thou Fount" to "Come You Fount.” It doesn't sound right, right? Isn't it amazing that they wouldn't dare "correct" our hymns, and yet, without the slightest hesitation, they'll "correct" the word of God.
The NKJV claims to make the "old" KJV "much clearer" by "updating obsolete words.”
Like that "obsolete word,” Hell. The NKJV removes the word Hell 23 times. And how do they make it "much clearer"? Why, by replacing Hell with Hades and Sheol. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines Hades as: "the underground abode of the dead in Greek MYTHOLOGY". To make it "much clearer" they turn the Bible into MYTHOLOGY. Not only that, but Hades is not always a place of torment or terror. The Assyrian Hades is an abode of blessedness with silver skies called "Happy Fields". And in the satanic New Age Movement, Hades is an intermediate state of purification!
Who in their right mind would think "Hades" or "Sheol" is "up-to-date" or "much clearer" than "Hell"? See Matthew 16:18. "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Compare this to the NKJV, “And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it."
And Luke 16:23 in the KJV: "And in Hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom." Compare this with the NKJV: "And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom."
Hell is removed in a lot of other places as well, see 2 Sam. 22:6, Job 11:8, 26:6, Psalm 16:10, 18:5, 86:13, 116:3, Isaiah 5:14, 14:15, 28:15,18, 57:9, Jonah 2:2, Matt. 11:23, 16:18, Luke 10:15, 16:23, Acts 2:27, 31, Rev. 1:18, 6:8, 20:13,14.
Then the NKJV decides that maybe it would be “clearer” to use their favorite word "Hades" for “grave” and makes 1 Corinthians 15:55 "much clearer" by changing "grave" to "Hades"! "O Hades, where is your victory?"
Another one of these so-called "obsolete words" is "repent". They take it out 44 times! And how does the NKJV make it "much clearer"? In Matthew 21:32 they replace “repent” with "relent". In Matthew 27:3 it becomes "remorseful" and in Romans 11:29 they change "repentance" to "irrevocable".
The term "new testament" is also taken out of the NKJV. In Matt. 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20, 1 Cor. 11:25, 2 Cor. 3:6, Heb. 9:15, they replace "new testament" with "new covenant" just as does the NIV, NRSV, RSV, and NASV). All this is an obvious assault on the written word of God.
The word "damned", "damnation" is NOT in the NKJV either. They make everything "much clearer" by replacing with word "condemn" as does the NIV, RSV, NRSV, NASV. "Condemned" is NO WHERE NEAR AS SERIOUS as "damned". Damned is eternal, condemnation is for a time. One can be "condemned" and not "damned". Romans 14:22 says, "Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth." Webster defines "condemned" as: to declare to be wrong, but defines the much more serious and eternal "damn" as: "to condemn to hell".
The word "devil" is NOT in the NKJV! It is replaced with the "transliterated" Greek word "demon" just as in the NIV, RSV, NRSV, NASV. The Theosophical Dictionary describes demon as having a meaning identical with that of 'god', 'angel' or 'genius'". Even Vines Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words defines "demon" as: "an inferior deity, WHETHER GOOD OR BAD". Webster defines "demon" as: "divinity, spirit, an attendant power or spirit", but defines "devil" as: "the personal supreme spirit of EVIL."
In 2 Timothy 2:15, the NKJV removes that "obsolete" word "study". It is the only time you're told to "study" your Bible in the Bible, AND THEY ZAP IT OUT. Why don't they want you to "study" your Bible? Maybe they don't want you to look too closely at it, you might find out what they've ACTUALLY done to your Bible. The KJV is the only English Bible translation in the world that actually instructs you to "study" your Bible!
Another "obsolete" word "virtue" is replaced with the modern “clearer” word "power" in Mark 5:30, and Luke 6:19, 8:46. How does anybody confuse "virtue" with "power"? Simple, by being "bosom-buddies" with the NIV, NASV, RSV, and NRSV crowd. And that is what they did.
One of the most absurd changes they have made is changing the word "servant" to "slave". The NKJV in Romans 6:22, reads: "But now having been set FREE from sin, and having become SLAVES OF GOD. And the NKJV, in 1 Corinthians 7:22, calls the Christian, "Christ's slave". Talk about a contradiction. John 8:36 says, "If the Son therefore shall make you FREE, YE SHALL BE FREE INDEED." But isn't a Christian supposed to serve? Yes, in love, but not as a slave. Galatians 5:13 explains it, perfectly: "For, brethren, ye have been called unto LIBERTY;(not slavery.) only use not LIBERTY for an occasion to the flesh, but BY LOVE SERVE one another."
Then, in order to "harmonize" with the satanic New Age Movement, and of course the NIV, NASV, RSV, and the NRSV, the NKJV changes "end of the WORLD" to "end of the AGE"! and, "WORLD to come" to "AGE to come". The New Age Movement teaches a series of ages, hence the name: New AGE).
The New Age Movement and the occult are longing for one called the Maitreya. The Bible calls him the Anti-Christ. New Ager's refer to him as the "the Coming One" AND SO DOES THE NKJV. According to the NKJV, in Luke 7:19, 20, and Matt 11:3, John tells his disciples to ask Jesus: "Are You THE COMING ONE." In the "The Great Invocation", a "prayer" highly reverenced among New Agers and chanted to "invoke" the Maitreya, they chant, "Let Light and Love and Power and Death, Fulfil the purpose of the Coming One."
And to REALLY show their sympathy with the satanic New Age Movement, in Acts 17:29 the New Age NKJV changes "Godhead" to "Divine Nature" just as does the NIV, and NASV.
And if you think the NKJV just "innocently" updated the "obsolete words", removed the "thee's and thou's" here's what the translators proudly admit: "IT IS CLEAR that this revision REQUIRED more than the dropping of "eth" endings, removing, "thee's" and "thou's," and updating obsolete words”.
And there is more changes:
- Genesis 2:18: The NKJV ought to make Hillary Clinton proud: "And the Lord God said, It is not good that man should be alone; I will make a helper COMPARABLE TO HIM” instead of “mete for him” which means appropriate for him.
- Genesis 22:8: One of the greatest verses in the Bible proclaiming that Jesus Christ was God in the flesh: was changed to read by the NKJV to say: "God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering:" The NKJV adds that little word "for" and changes the entire meaning. Where did they get their little "for"? From the NASV, that’s where.
- Genesis 24:47: The "old" KJV reads: "I put the earring upon her face". But the NKJV has different plans for beautiful Rebekah: "I put the nose ring on her nose". Where did it get the ridiculous idea to "cannibalize" Rebekah? Just take a peek at the NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV.
- Ezra 8:36: The KJV reads, "And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants." The "much clearer" NKJV reads, "And they delivered the king's orders to the king's satraps." Who in the world thinks "satraps" is "much clearer" than lieutenants? The NIV, NASV, NRSV, RSV do! They put in the same "much clearer" word.
- Psalms 109:6: removes "Satan". (NIV, NASV, RSV, NRSV).
- Matthew 7:14: changes "narrow is the way" to "difficult is the way". There's nothing "difficult" about the salvation of Jesus Christ. Jesus says in Matt. 11:30, "For my yoke is EASY, and my burden is light." This abuse of the bible turns the meaning upside down creating a contradiction!
- Matthew 12:40: changes "whale" to "fish" as does the NIV. The Greek word used in Matthew 12:40 is ketos. The scientific study of whales just happens to be, CETOLOGY from the Greek ketos for whale and logos for study. The scientific name for whales just happens to be CETACEANS from the Greek ketos for whale.
- In Matthew 18:26 and Matthew 20:20: The NKJV removes "worshipped him,” thus robbing worship from Jesus. See the NIV, NASV, RSV, and the NRSV who do the same thing.
- In Mark 13:6 and Luke 21:8: they remove "Christ”.
- John 1:3: changes "All things were made BY him;" to "All things were made THROUGH Him"
- John 4:24: changes "God is a spirit" to the impersonal, New Age pantheistic, "God is spirit".
- John 14:2: changes "mansions" to "dwelling places".
- John 14:16: changes "comforter" to "helper".
- Acts 4:27, 30: changes "holy child" to "holy servant" in referring to Jesus.
- Acts 12:4: changes "Easter" to "Passover".
- Acts 17:22: changes "superstitious" to "religious".
- Acts 24:14: changes "heresy" to "sect".
- Romans 1:18: changes "hold the truth" to "suppress the truth".
- Romans 1:25: changes "changed the truth" to "exchanged the truth".
- Romans 5:8: changes "commendeth" to "demonstrates".
- Romans 16:18: changes "good words and fair speeches" to "smooth words and flattering speech".
- 1 Cor. 1:21: changes "foolishness of preaching" to "foolishness of the message preached". There's nothing foolish about the gospel of Jesus Christ, unless you're not saved. 1 Cor. 1:18 says: "For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish FOOLISHNESS."
- 1 Cor. 1:22: changes "require" to "request".
- 1 Cor. 6:9: removes "effeminate".
- 1 Cor. 9:27: changes "castaway" to "disqualified".
- 2 Cor. 2:10: changes "person of Christ" to "presence of Christ".
- 2 Cor. 2:17: With all the "corruptions" in the NKJV, you'd expect 2 Cor. 2:17 to change, and it DOES. It changes, "For we not as many which CORRUPT the word of God" to "For we are not, as so many, PEDDLING the word of God". Changing the word corrupt to peddling degrades its meaning, and thereby contributes to degrading the whole Bible.
- 2 Cor. 5:17: changes "new creature" to "new creation".
- 2 Cor. 10:5: changes "imaginations" to "arguments". Considering New Age "imaging" and "visualization" is now entering the church wholesale, this verse in the "old" KJV just won't do, so it too is changed.
- 2 Cor. 11:6: changes "rude in speech" to "untrained in speech".
- Gal. 2:20: omits "nevertheless I live".
- Phil. 2:6: changes "thought it not robbery to be equal with God" to "did not consider equality with God something to be grasped". This robs Jesus Christ of His deity.
- Phil. 3:8: changes "dung" to "rubbish".
- 1 Thess. 5:22 changes "all appearance of evil" to "every form of evil".
- 1 Timothy 6:5: The NKJV changes "gain is godliness" to "godliness is a MEANS OF gain". There are NO Greek texts with "means of" in them.
- 1 Timothy 6:10: The NKJV changes "For the love of money is the root of all evil:" to "For the love of money is a root of all KINDS OF evil". The words "KINDS OF" are found in NO Greek text in the world. This change is reductive reducing ALL to ALL KINDS. At best it is no improvement, certainly not an important improvement that justifies tinkering with the text.
- 1 Tim. 6:20: changes "science" to "knowledge".
- Titus 3:10: changes "heretic" to "divisive man".
- In Hebrews 4:8 and Acts 7:45: the word "Jesus" is changed to "Joshua".
- 2 Pet. 2:1: changes "damnable heresies" to "destructive heresies"
- 1 John 3:16: removes "love of God".
- 1 John 5:13: The NKJV reads: "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may CONTINUE TO believe in the name of the Son of God." Herre they have added "CONTINUE TO" without any Greek text basis whatsoever. Not even the perverted NIV, NASV, NRSV and RSV have gone that far. What a cruel, subtil, Genesis 3:1, attack on the believer's eternal security.
- Rev. 2:13: changes "Satan's seat" to "Satan's throne" thus raising the status of the Thomas Nelson-NKJV god, Satan.
- Rev. 6:14: "Heaven" is changed to "sky". Really!
Now much more:
- The NKJV removes the word "Lord" 66 times.
- The NKJV removes the word God 51 times.
- The NKJV removes the word "heaven" 50 times.
- In just the New Testament alone the NKJV removes 2.289 words from the KJV.
- The NKJV makes over 100,000 word changes, and most will match those of the NIV, NASV, RSV, or RSV.
Thomas Nelson Publishers have the audacity to claim in an ad for the NKJV, "NOTHING HAS BEEN CHANGED except to make the original meaning clearer."
The NKJV, the New King James is a COUNTERFEIT translation inspired by the devil. It's NOT NEW at all. Most of the changes it makes are already in the NIV, NASV, NRSV, or RSV. And it's certainly NOT true in any way to the 1611 King James Bible.
