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New Age Bible Versions, by Gail Riplinger, has received
critical reviews--even from those who claim to hold fast to the King
James 1611. David Cloud of Way of Life
Ministries released a critical review of New Age Bible
Versions in 1994. His review laid
the charge
that, among other things, Gail Riplinger has quoted people out of context.
I realize that David Cloud's
charge that Gail Riplinger misued quotations is a subjective one, so I checked
out the few passages he cited in his article, "The Problem With New Age Bible
Versions." I agree that the conclusions Gail Riplinger reached do not
always match what the speaker intended in his remark. If you have concerns about
quotations cited by Gail Riplinger in New Age Bible Versions
or any other author, try to find the original source of the quote so that you
can read it in full context. Prove all things and hold fast only to what is good.
After reading this review, I quickly wrote to David Cloud about this
matter on July 9th:
I just finished reading, "The Problem With New Age Bible
Versions." I am in shock. I will take my recommendation
for this book off my website.
Thank you for exposing this matter. It is critically important
to be accurate when quoting someone or representing what
they say. To do otherwise is to lie. I am sad to learn
about this but now I am accountable to God for what I know.
I now realize that I should
have waited before I wrote this letter. Upon further investigation I need to say that
in
spite of any imperfections (such as misused quotes)Gail Riplinger's New Age Bible
Versions is critically important reading for those who are
willing to face
the depth of the conspiracy against the King James Bible
and
the Christians who trust it. The
fact that Mrs. Riplinger's conclusions make some people
uncomfortable should not discourage you from examining her
claims. Her books contain vital information that is not found
elsewhere and is not watered down to maintain the status quo --
excerpt for her apparent unwillingness to address
John Darby
and Cyrus Scofield's influence in the modern version movement.
I initially agreed with David
Cloud's assessment that Gail Riplinger took the NIV editor,
Edwin Palmer's quote out of context, (thus the reason for my
email) but after reading her
explanation in Blind Guides, I now understand the reason she
interpreted his remark to mean that he questioned the deity of
the Lord Jesus Christ:
New Age Bible Versions
documents scores of places in which new
versions deny that Jesus is God. Palmer's NIV does it
dozens of times. Had he rendered these verses as strongly
as the KJV does, he could not say there were "few clear and
decisive texts that declare that Jesus is God." (1 Tim.
3:16 is just one of many examples.) Palmer thinks John 1:18
is "one of those few clear and decisive texts that declare
that Jesus is God, "but only if the verse is rendered
"begotten God" (NASB) or "One and Only " (NIV). Actually,
the NASB presents an inferior, created "God," not co-eternal
with the Father. The NIV says nothing about Jesus Christ
here. Only the KJV's "begotten Son" presents Jesus Christ
as "equal with God" as stated in John 5:17-26).
(Quote
source: Blind Guides Note: I do not endorse
the harsh tone Gail Riplinger took in the defense of her
book, New Age Bible Versions. Scholarly, yet humble responses are
fitting and these are the ones we need to heed.)
It is important to note that in
spite of any flaws rightfully or unfairly accessed by critics of New Age Bible Versions, Gail Riplinger's
research has uncovered the
conspiracy to replace
the King
James Bible with modern versions that facilitate New
Age/Christian syncretism. The majority of her book is filled
with important, well-researched information not covered by those
who have written about the Bible versions but have failed to
point out the obvious occult/New Age connection.
Some individuals who have been
critical of New Age Bible Versions are oblivious to the
degree of spiritual harm
infiltrators have accomplished via modern
'bible' versions.
For example, David Cloud remarked:
"I
do not see the modern versions DIRECTLY PROMOTING the New
Age."
(Quote source:
"The Problem with New Age Bible
Versions")
New Age
Bible Versions contains LOTS of
proof that the modern versions promote a "Jesus," a "Father," a
"spirit," a "kingdom," "angels," etc.
that New Agers would approve. Modern 'bible' versions (including
the NKJV) do teach New Age doctrine and contain New Age
terminology. The New King James Version, for example, brazenly marks itself
for its master not only with the pagan
triquetra symbol (666 mobius) on the cover but also by
blaspheming the Lord Jesus Christ by giving him the title of the Maitreya,
the World Teacher: "the Coming One." (See: (NKJV
and Lucis Trust: Ready For One World Church) Not surprisingly, the
NKJV Transitional
Version removes the word, "master" in reference to the Lord
Jesus Christ and demotes him to teacher many times.
New Age Bible Versions exposes the
plot to merge New Age doctrine and Christianity via modern
Bible versions. Those who do not believe that God could lead a
woman to write about the
evil men who conspired and
who continue to work to destroy the authority of the King James Bible in
the sight of God's people
should ask themselves some questions:
Is a female author of a book
acting in the same capacity as a pastor?
Is a book a church pulpit
in which the readers are subject to the spiritual authority
of the author?
Since the answers to
these questions is "No," There are no legitimate grounds to dismiss an
author's findings simply because she is a women.
In Awe of Thy Word
(See
Announcement)
The information contained in Gail
Riplinger's book, In Awe
of Thy Word, is going to make many pastors and bible students uncomfortably
accountable before the judgment seat of Christ for what they
know and for what they could have known if they had been
open to confirming the facts documented therein about
the pagan beliefs and biases of the men who authored the concordances,
interlinears and lexicons
that ministers have depended upon for decades.
Desperate to discredit the KJV,
King James Bible critics often use the name-calling propaganda
technique in their efforts to deter people from reading Riplinger's books.
(It is easy to understand the reason they resort to this
tactic; Dr. Riplinger's book, New Age Bible Versions contains
information that is dangerous to the one world church movement.) The word, 'Ruckmanite' is commonly
used to slur
Christians who believe the King James Bible is the preserved word of God
in English.
Due to Gail Riplinger's
sharp responses when criticized and her
association with Peter Ruckman (who often has an ungodly manner and
maintains the strange view that the "KJV
is separately inspired of God")
KJV opponents and detractors have a wide open door to try to discredit everything that
she has written. Do
not allow propaganda techniques to cause you to reject the light
that you can receive from this particular book.
ANNOUNCEMENT June, 2008:
I appreciate Gail Riplinger's painstaking research on the
wonderful history of the KJV1611 and the Bibles that preceded it
and her exposure of the
beliefs and biases of the men who authored the concordances,
lexicons and interlinears that, in my opinion, have been used by
many to undergird the falling away of the church. However,
I
am withdrawing my unqualified endorsement of In Awe
of Thy Word
because Mrs. Riplinger's book encourages the reader to pursue
the study of what she believes is the science of discovering the
meaning of letters and sounds in words in order to glean
more understanding and appreciation of the King James 1611
Bible and as a further proof that the KJV is the real English
Bible.
Near the end of her book she cited keywords to encourage readers to search
the internet in order to do further study on "letter meanings."
Dozens of current and
exhaustive bibliographies can be found by searching the
internet for "bibliography sound symbolism" (e.g.
http://www.umich.edu~archive/linguistics/software/dos/monosyl.zip.).
(In Awe of Thy Word
page 1174)
After reading this passage in In Awe of Thy Word, I typed
into the Google search engine the search words Gail Riplinger
recommended: bibliography sound symbolism. The first site
that came up was
www.trismegistos.com/MagicalLetterPage/. This is
the main page of the Margo's Magical Letter Page website!
I only needed to read for a few moments to realize Margo's description of letter meanings was similarly expressed in Gail Riplinger's In Awe of
Thy Word!
Each consonant and vowel in
a language has a meaning, in the sense that every
word containing that sound has an element of meaning which
words not containing that sound do not have. What underlies
this sound-meaning is the form of the sound, i.e. its
pronunciation - a sound means what it is. For example, to
pronounce a stopped consonant [b, d, g, p, t, k], you
completely block the flow of air through the mouth.
Consequently all stopped sounds involve a barrier of some
kind. The nature of that barrier varies depending on whether
the sound is voiced [b, d, g] or unvoiced [p, t, k], whether
it is labial [b, p], dental [d, t] or velar [g, k], and so
forth.
(Quote source:
http://www.trismegistos.com/MagicalLetterPage/)
It is no wonder that Mrs. Riplinger's writing about the alleged meanings of letters
is expressed
similarly to Margo's. Margo is Margaret Magnus, author of Gods of the Word: Archetypes in the Consonants. Mrs.
Riplinger wrote about this Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) linguistics researcher in glowing terms in
her book as well as providing the title of her book and
making mention of the fact that (sadly) Margaret Magnus'
explanations for letter sounds came from the sayings of
sages and New Agers.
Margaret Magnus' explanation
for the meaning of letters sounds rather
mystical to me. Further down on her main page, she wrote:
We scientific types are not
the first to discover this. The first ones to notice it were
the Mystics. (2) You find references to it in the Upanishads
and in Plato and all over The Nag Hammadi Library.
The major Arcana of the Tarot are based on the meanings of
the Hebrew letters as outlined in the Kabbalah.
(Quote source:
http://www.trismegistos.com/MagicalLetterPage/)
[Question:
If Margaret Magnus is the "scientific type," why did she name
her book about her observations of letter meanings, Gods of the Word: Archetypes in the Consonants?
bold emphasis added]
The fourth site down on the
same Google page reveals that Margo's Magical Letter Page is one
of the (miscellaneous) links on the Kabbalah Links Page! (3) The Kabbalah Links
Page's description for Margo's site is as follows:
Sound Symbolism,
Phonosemantics, Phonetic Symbolism, Mimologics, Iconism,
Cratylus, Ideophones, Synaesthesia, The Alphabet, The Word.
Kabbalists have always
deconstructed language in curious ways. A site that
explores some of the less well-known attributes of language
and sound. Recommended. [emphasis mine]
Mrs. Riplinger warned her
readers to limit their studies to science and avoid New Age
information. Specific information about how to discern between the two was not included in
her seemingly casual warning--other than to communicate that esoterics see
letters in gods that are not there and that they ascribe nonsense meanings
to letters:
(The internet can be a real
"web." Be careful to limit your study to that of verifiable
science; avoid mystical New Age information that
counterfeits the truth of God (e.g. Kabbalah). They "changed
the truth of God into a lie" and even worship God's creation
(Rom. 1:25); esoterics have their own nonsense meanings
ascribed to letters; these should be avoided. But just
because New Age vegans worship 'mother earth' is no reason
to quit eating vegetables. Likewise, just because esoterics
see in letters 'gods' that are not there, this should not
deter true scriptural and scholarly investigation into the
word of God.)
(In Awe of Thy Word, page
1116)
Note:
No meanings that satanists or witches ascribe to
letters--and then put into practice to invoke "gods" (devils) to
send on assignment-- is nonsense. Curses are far from
harmless--especially when directed toward those who "give place"
to the devil by (knowingly or unknowingly) venturing into their territory.
I believe the practice and
methodology of ascertaining letter and sound meanings stems
directly from the occult. I am deeply concerned that Mrs.
Riplinger is delving into and promoting this practice and I do
not believe that God shows his approval of the King James 1611 English
translation via worldly and/or occult methodologies.
The brilliant Russian
mathematician, Ivan Panin, falsely "proved" that the Westcott and Hort
Greek text is the
most accurate manuscript based on his "scientific discovery" that the bible has a "hidden mathematical structure." Do
you see where the
"hidden meanings" paradigm shift
can lead? (Occult means hidden!)
The Holy Spirit bears witness that we are the children of God:
The Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirit, that we are the
children of
God: (Romans 8:16)
The Holy Spirit is also capable of bearing witness
to which English translation
of the Bible is perfectly acceptable in the sight of God.
It is the Holy Spirit who
opens the scriptures to our understanding, andif we obey the
light that he has given ushe will give us a deeper
understanding of his word. If you cannot understand the meaning of
a word in the KJV 1611 based on the context, I suggest that you
consult the
1828 Noah Webster Unabridged Dictionary. Noah Webster often
demonstrated the meaning of a word by citing that word in a bible verse.
I regret that the important
matter of letter and sound meanings escaped me before. I must
admit that I skimmed and at times completely swept past the letter and sound meanings
sections of In Awe of Thy Word because I was not
interested in that part of her book. Rather, I wanted to read
the historical
sections regarding the background of the KJV 1611 as well as
earlier bibles and of course, I wanted to find out as much as I
could about how lexicons, concordances, etc. were produced. I realize now that I should not have endorsed her
book without having closely examined all of its contents.
Update July 2, 2009 Gail Riplinger's
stance that the letters of the English alphabet have meanings
is definitely incorrect. She is causing her readers to
believe that God assigned meanings to letters in the English
language, thus causing them to function as runes:
God built the Bible letter
by letter. He gave each sound a sense. The meanings
of each letter can be found in the Bible, in the book of
Genesis. For example, the word, 'place'
is the first word to begin with the letter 'p.' 'P' then
often carries the meaning 'place' throughout the Bible
(Gen. 19). . . An appendix at the end of this book details
some of the central meanings of each letter. (In Awe of Thy Word, pg. 16
bold emphasis added.)
Gail Riplinger actually
provided the definition of runes.
It is runes that have
word meanings. That is the reason they are suited for divination and
other magickal purposes.
The primary characteristic
which distinguishes a runic alphabet from other alphabets is
that each letter, or rune, has a meaning. For example,
whereas "ay", "bee", and "cee" are meaningless sounds
denoting the first three letters in our alphabet, the names
of the first three runes, "fehu", "uruz", and "žurisaz" are
actual words in the Germanic language, meaning "cattle",
"aurochs", and "giant", respectively.
(Quote source: The Runic
Journey http://www.tarahill.com/runes)
Notes:
(1)
http://www.trismegistos.com/MagicalLetterPage/Mystics.html
(2) http://www.digital-brilliance.com/kab/link.htm
Liberty To The Captives disagrees with and
warns
against
the
dispensationalist once-saved-always-saved/pre-trib rapture doctrines held by
individuals such as David Cloud, Peter Ruckman, Gail Riplinger, and Dr. Waite of Bible For Today.
(See:
John Darby Version:
Doctrinal Changes to the Bible)
Return to:
Barbara Aho, Which Bible is
Your Final Authority? Page 2
Also see:
Barbara Aho Bids
Goodspeed to King James 1611 and
(outside link)
Non-Ruckmanite Answers to Anti-KJV Questions
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