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                          CHAPTER FlVE

                    The Fruits Of Believing
                     The Professional Liars

    Now here we lay side-by-side two baskets of fruit; two
samples of what is produced in the "hothouse" (or greenhouse)
of higher Christian education. One of these will be the profes-
sions of faith and confessions of belief from men whose faith
was destroyed in the classroom of a Christian college, or
seminary (a Fundamental or ''Orthodox" school). and came
out as Alexandrian clones believing in Greek scholarship as the
determining factor in finding the truth. The other will be some
men who were exposed but looked a little "deeper" into the
material they were being given, and came to the conclusion that
since the whole system was based on the preferences and opin-
ions of men who were trying to get rid of one Book, that their
scholarship should be JUNKED.

    First up to bat will be Dr. Wierville (1971), who will give
you POWER FOR ABUNDANTLIVING, by giving you the of-
ficial standard position on "the Word of God" as held by John
R. Rice, Curtis Hutson, Bob Jones III, B.H. Carroll, Robert
Sumner, J. Gresham Machen, Benjamin Warfield, and Gary
Hudson.

    You will never find it worded better than here; one reading
will show you how Curtis Hutson, in 1991, got into such a mess
when he talked about ''the Bible," "correcting the Bible," and
"Unnecessary Divisions Among Fundamentalists'' who all
believed the King James Bible was "the Word of God. '' Ditto
James Combs (Baptist Bible Tribune), at the same time.

    Party line: "We are interested in the accuracy and integ-
rity of God's Word. We must get back to that original Word
which was given when holy men of God spoke as they were
moved by the Holy Spirit. We must strip ourselves of translators

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theologies. ..and once more discover the perfect GOD BREATH-
ED ' 'Word. "

    ''The Bible IS the revealed Word and Will of God..Most
people do nol believe that the Bible IS the revealed Word and
Will of God. They take out one segment of the Word of God
and insert another. But to be logical and consistent, either the
entire Bible IS the Word of God from Genesis to Revelation
or it is not the Word of God anywhere. . . One of the greatest
errors in the translation of the Bible was placing the four Gospels
in the New Testament . . . At this point (2 Tim. 3: 16), the transla-
tion has failed to communicate the IMPACT of the verse. The
Bible, the Word of God, in its originally revealed form, is the
Word of Truth. When I refer to the 'Word of God' I do not
mean a copy, or a translation, or a version: I mean that Word
of God which was originally given by revelation to holy men.
When we get back to that ORIGINAL GOD BREATHED
WORD-which I am confldent we CAN-then once again we
will be able to say WITH ALL THE AUTHORITY OF THE
PROPHETS OF OLD "THUS SAITH THE LORD."

    "We must go back to the Word of God. No one can know
the WILL of God without knowing the Word of God. The Bi-
ble is the revealed Word of God; THIS WORD OF GOD means
what it says [present tense] and says what it means [present
tense], and God has a purpose for everything He says [present
tense], where He says it [present tense], why He says it [pre-
sent tense], how He says it [present tense], and to whom He
says it [present tense].''

    Those are from pages 5,19,128,133,141,154,155,165,191,
and 209, in Power for Abundant Living. You will find that posi-
tion, given exactly as that, on an hour and a half tape from the
auditorium at BJU under the auspices of Bob Jones Jr., Bob
Jones III, Wisdom, Panosian, and Stewart Custer. Curtis Hut-
son repeats the last part of the second paragraph almost ver-
batim when writing to Dr. Noe of Livonia, Michigan [1990].
(See the direct quotation in The Last Grenade, p. 113.)

    Now, do you realize the extent of the depravity and insan-
ity in the three paragraphs just quoted from Wierville? Do you
yet fully comprehend what these apostate Fundamentalists are

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giving you, in the name of the Greek teachers and scholars at
Moody, BJU, Fuller, PCS, Tennessee Temple, Dallas, Biola,
Piedmont, BBC, Pillsbury, and Liberty University? All right,
go back and read it, and note the italics.

    1. Translations are theological attempts to deny what the
Word of God says.

    2. No translation is the "Word of God " because no transla-
tion is "God breathed.''

    3. No preacher can say "Thus saith the Lord" with any
authority until he has read the ORIGINAL, GOD BREATHED,
''Word'' of God.

    Moody, Spurgeon, Sunday, Booth, Knox, Whitfield,
Luther, Chyrsostom, Finney, Sam Jones, Bob Jones Sr., John
Patton, David Livingston, and William Carey had no author-
ity for their life ministries.

    4. No Christian alive on this earth today can know the Will
of God because the ''Word" of God WAS (past tense) lost more
than 1,800 years ago.

    5. Bob Jones Jr. cites the quotation on ''what I mean when
I say 'the Bible' or the 'word of God''' in The Last Grenade,
pp. 154, 290, 302. Buy a copy and read it.

    6. After talking like a perfect idiot for thirty minutes, Wier-
ville suddenly reverses field and says that the Bible IS (not was)
the revealed Will of God and "this Word of God'' can be read,
memorized, studied, and understood. Bob Jones Jr. did exactly
the same thing when he stated in his advertising brochures that
BJU believed "WHATEVER THE BIBLE SAID IS SO'' and
all things are to be judged "BY THE BIBLE.''

    What Bible?

    Go back and read chapters 1 and 2. What Bible?

    NO BIBLE ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH. (See John
R. Rice: p. 63).

    No Bible that ever WAS on the face this earth. The
"original autographs" were never found in ONE BIBLE of any
kind; a "Bible" is a BOOK

    This is the result of studying "New Testament Greek''
under a Greek teacher in a "Bastion of Faith,'' a ''School for
Champions,'' or a ''Fortress of Faith." It is, by Webster's

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definition: ''IRRESPONSIBLE MADNESS.''

    And this explains, thoroughly, why these wretched apostates
get bent out of shape about ''Ruckmanites'' and ''King James
Onlyism." They are Kookites hung up on ''Disneyworld
Onlyism. ' '

    Let us now turn the coin over and see how a scholar comes
out who didn't take his classroom training seriously, especial-
ly where it ran afoul of THE BOOK. This is C. H. Waller, cited
by Charles Haddon Spurgeon:

    Here is an "historic position" from 1887, more than twenty
years before my mother was born, and this position is now called
"RUCKMANISM" by the apostate Fundamentalists (1990) who
lost their faith in the Bible listening to (or reading after) a Greek
teacher:

    Truth: "Contradiction is a very different thing from ap-
parent discrepancy...INSPIRATION DOES NOT STOP AT
THE AUTOGRAPHS. Those who hold that the words of Scrip-
ture are God's word written, very often limit their statements
to the autographs of the first writers [Bob Jones Jr., Bob Jones
III, Robert Sumner, James Combs, Chuck Swindoll, John Rice,
Curtis Hutson, etc]. This, of course, is necessary if inspiration
attaches to the authors of the Bible RATHER THAN TO THE
BOOK ITSELF. But if the scripture is to last forever it is
manifest that its authority must last too. The inspiration of scrip-
ture must extend to the whole meaning and purpose of scrip-
ture in the mind of its divine Author. IT CANNOT BE 
LlMITED to that portion which lies within the horizon of the
original scribes."

    Evidently, Bob Jones III, Curtis Hutson, Kenneth Wuest,
A.T. Robertson, Wierville, Arthur Farstad, Wiersbe, Will-
mington, Wilbur Pickering, Hudson, Hymers, Hobbs, Sturz,
Afman, Price, Combs, Martin, and Homer Duncan, are HER-
ETICS .

    Why wasn't the student in the Greek class given this in-
formation by Waller, since it dealt directly, and immediately,
with THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES and the ORIGINAL
MANUSCRIPTS? Why was only ONE view of 2 Timothy 3:16
given in the Greek class, when 2 Timothy 3:16 itself was NOT

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a reference to ''original autographs" to start with? (Boy, when
it comes to sins of OMISSION, you couldn't beat this bunch
with the Sanhedrin!)

    Truth: "Moses and the prophets, for example, cannot
possibly have foreseen all that their utterances would mean for
the Gentiles when expounded to them by the teaching of Christ
and His apostles in the New Testament. Nor can St. Paul have
foreseen all that his epistles would convey to English readers.
And yet, wherever the Greek application of the Old Testament
or the English application of the New lies fairly within the con-
fines of the original, the authority of the latest form of Holy
Scripture is as GREAT AS THAT OF THE EARLIEST. IN
THIS SENSE, even translations are practically the INSPIRED
WORD OF GOD. Nothing that is mistaken [Vaticanus,
Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, and Cantebrigensis for example!] or
erroneous [the RV, ASV, NASV, RSV, or NRSV for example!]
can be so."

    Observe that Waller has caught the significance of God
BREATHING, or NOT BREATHING, on a translation. He got
this from refusal to confine the BREATH of God (see Job 32:8
and Ezek. 37:5,12) to a ONE-TIME, BY-GONE, PAST
EVENT. All the Greek scholars did just that. They killed God
so that He died when the Greek language died, and that was
more than 1,800 years ago.

    Truth: "Verbal inspiration requires that the words of the
Gospels should be GOD'S WRITTEN WORD, and that is all.
If our Lord spoke Aramaic, as He certainly did on many occa-
sions, the words which He spoke in one language have necessar-
ily been reported in ANOTHER. The report, therefore, CAN-
NOT BE VERBAL. The title on the cross, which was written
in three languages, has been reported to us in ONE alone. Be-
ing in three languages, they could not possibly be WRITTEN
IN THE SAME WORDS But that is not the point. The record,
which as reported by them, may be relied upon as THE VERY
WORD OF GOD. ''

    Why was the Greek student not given this information?

    Why wasn't this article by C.H. Waller ever published in
The Biblical Viewpoint (BJU), The Biblical Evangelist (Robert

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Sumner), Our Baptist Biblical Heritage (Hudson), Christian-
ity Today, Moody Monthly, The Fundamentalist Journal or 771e
Baptist Tribune (James Combs)?

    Is some Christian hypocrite afraid of the conflicting views
of a scholar who is just as saved and just as consecrated (and
just as separated, and just as ''once married") as he is? It ap-
pears to be so.

    C.H. Waller: "It will be evident on reflection that VER-
BAL INSPIRATION has been strangely TRAVESTIED
BEFORE ITS REJECTION (! ! ! ) on the ground that it was sup-
posed to demand a verbal report of what was actually spoken
and not only a report of everything that was placed on record,
GIVEN IN GOD'S WORDS.''

    Do you know what Waller is driving at?

    The denial of the plenary, verbal, inspiration of the original
manuscripts STEMS from rejection of the authority of the
English scriptures that God gave to the world in 1611. You take
that step first. You always take THAT step before you take the
final step of the "Liberal" or "Modernist."

    Charles Woodbridge: ''Where are our SCHOOLS leading
us? Are we like silly sheep following their slippery paths?''
Yes, son, YOU sure are, and so is any silly sheep who follows
the path of Nestle, Hort, Schaff, and the NASV, RSV, NIV, or
any other Roman Catholic perversion of the scriptures. "The
sad story of educational compromise in other schools is long,
tedious and disappointing. It is wise for Christians who desire
to remain loyal to THE WORD OF GOD to keep their eyes on
THAT WORD and not to deviate from its mandates no matter
how strong, persuasive or magnetic the forces of compromise
may be." (Woodbridge, 1971, Bible Separation).

    Having given you the historic position of Bible-believers
back in 1887, let us step up to 1989 and see how the Alexan-
drians are doing who took Westcott and Hort seriously-along
with their retinue (Trench, Gloag, Knowling, Lightfoot,
Goodspeed, Ellicot, Schaff, Green, Deismann, Thayer, Ren-
dall, Nicoll, etc). Here is one. Here is a first class, grade A,
Alexandrian clone put together by a master craftsman with all
the ''curious works of art" that only a genius could devise. This

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is Homer Duncan, speaking up for every apostate, Bible-
rejecting, Bible-denying, destructive critic in America who
USES the AV to make a living with. This is the oft-repeated
"Creed of the Cult'7 that has been repeated so many times since
1880, that the sucker who sits under a Greek teacher now thinks
that it was the position held by the Body of Christ from 300
to 1990 A.D. It is not two hundred years old and it doesn't come
from ''the Body;" it comes for an isolated, separated, deadly
minority of backslidden scholars who spent their lives behind
closed doors carrying out "ministries" that were no more
"Pauline'' than those of Kenneth Wuest or Dr. A.T. Robert-
son. On comes Homer Duncan, to say what any of us could
repeat by rote memory before he ever said a word of it. This
is the FRUIT of taking a Greek course in Greek seriously, where
you are denied three-fourths of the information you should have
been given.

    Party Line: ''First, I believe the BIBLE, as given in the
original autographs, IS (!) the verbally inspired, infallible, in-
errant, Word of God. I have studied, preached, and taught THE
BOOK for forty-eight years."

    Bonkers. ''THE BOOK" Duncan preached was not the Bi-
ble. ''The Bible" was a lost pile of papers (according to what
he just stated). He did not preach a lost pile of papers for forty-
eight years because he never saw one of them, let alone read
them.

    Party Line: ''I love, BELIEVE, study, and preach from
the King James Version of the Bible.  As my father before me,
I BELIEVE the King James Version is unsurpassed in the beauty
of its language.''

    Bananas: he didn't say he believed ANY of it was true.
let alone all of it.

    "Some of the differences between the King James Version
and the modern translations depends on which Greek text is
used.'' He then tells you that it is all right to strike "God"
out of 1Timothy 3:16, since one verse cannot do away with
a major doctrine (see Chapter One), and that you can take the
"blood" out of Colossians 1:14, because either way it doesn't
do any harm, and then you can strike 1 John 5:7 out because

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you don't need it to prove the Trinty. Notice: three negative
attacks on one text (the AV) to get rid of it, without giving the
reader any of the manuscript evidence for one text listed. The
evidence for 1 Timothy 3:16 will be found in The Bible
Believer's Commentary on the Pastoral Epistles. The evidence
for Colossians 1:14 is listed in The Bible Believer's Commen-
tary on Galatians-Colossians, and the evidence for 1 John 5:7
can be obtained from the Bible Baptist Bookstore (Pensacola,
Florida) for fifty cents.

    Party Line: ''By 'THE BIBLE' I do not mean any particular
English version of the scriptures...but the scriptures as originally
given...all versions are a substantially accurate rendition of the
Hebrew and Aramaic of the original Old Testarnent manuscripts,
and of the Greek of the original New Testament manuscripts.
To that extent they are the 'Holy Scriptures,' the 'Bible'," (Dun-
can citing r orrey).

    Twinkies: By the statement, R. A. Torrey (as Curtis Hut-
son) never preached "THE BIBLE" a day in his life. Read the
first twenty words. He preached from what he said you could
call as a "Bible,'' but since you had no originals to compare
it with to see if it was a ''substantially accurate rendition'' (see
above), you simply lived "by faith," and LIED ABOUT YOUR
FAITH.

    ''To all intents and purposes, we have the autographs, and
thus when we SAY we believe in the verbal inspiration of the
autographs, we are not talking of something imaginary and far
off, but of the texts WRITTEN BY THOSE INSPIRED MEN
and preserved for us so carefully by faithful believers of a long
past age (Laird Harris).''

    Fruitloop City: You do NOT have the autographs; they are
afar off, and now they exist only in the imagination, for they
perished, ''in reality," at least five hundred years before the
first Crusades. The term ''texts" covered five thousand
manuscripts and pieces of manuscripts which deny the Deity
of Christ, deny the Virgin Birth, deny the Blood Atonement,
attack the gospel of the Grace of God, present two gods, lie
about who quoted the Old Testament (Mark 1), invent an eclipse
at Calvary. call Barabbas "Jesus," omit Christ's bloody sweat,

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and delete more than five hundred words from the Protestant
''texts'' of the Reformation. This is the result of taking your
Greek studies "seriously." You become a professional LIAR.

    And what does Robert Scumner say about this rnadcap
nonsense? "That is our position exactly!" (Bible Translations).

    Party Line: "We think any who make exclusive use of that
translation (AV) as a test of fellowship (for example, Philpot,
below) are wrong, especially when they infer a recommenda-
tion of another version-which has been translated by compe-
tent, evangelical scholars-is a departure from the faith...there
are good recent translations of the holy scriptures, such as the
NASV and the NIV, translated by godly Bible believing men....
No major doctrine of the Bible is changed one way or another
regardless of which Greek text is used'' (Duncan).

    See how you do it? By attacking the Bible believer who
believed his Bible, Duncan ran two Roman Catholic, Dark Age
texts in on you that came from Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. After
doing this, Homer Duncan (with all the piety of a boiled owl)
says, ''Though I have not been able to find a perfect transla-
tion of the Bible, for more than forty-eight years I have built
my life on the unchanging foundation as found in the ETER-
NAL WORD of the only true and living God.''

    Booby hatch: He couldn't find a perfect translation in forty-
eight years, but ''built his life'' on a non-existent foundation
that no man living or dead has seen since 800 B.C.? And what
about the Book that Homer read, preached, and taught all his
life? He says it erred on Revelation 22:19, because he heard
a Greek teacher say that; he says 1 Kings 7:16 and Jeremiah
52:22 are errors because Wally Criswell couldn't reconcile the
passages; he says that Jehoiachin couldn't be eighteen (2 Kings
24:8) because of 2 Chronicles 36:9, so that is another error;
and he says that 2 Samuel 8:4 and 1 Chronicles 18:4 show some-
one is Iying. All four "DOCTRINAL PROBLEMS" were
solved in Problem Texts (1970) without one reference to one
Hebrew or Greek manuscript, or one Greek word ever writ-
ten, or spoken. In the case of Revelation 22, the Greek
manuscript evidence was given showing that Erasmus was cor-
rect and the critics simply didn't know what they were talking

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about. But as we said on pages 6, 13, the Greek students in
the classrooms are not shown this evidence. It is available from
the Trinitarian Bible Society, and has been available for more
than two hundred years.

    Now, taking for granted that Homer Duncan is giving a
late ' 'historic position' ' that popped up after Westcott and Hort,
let us go back before the RV (1884) of Westcott and Hort and
look at a real "HISTORIC POSITION." We will see how Bible-
believing people looked at the King James Bible before R.A.
Torrey was born, before Duncan's grandmother was born, and
before Curtis Hutson's great grandmother was born. We regress
to 1869 (The Gospel Standard).

    Truth: "The present English Bible (AV) has been blessed
to thousands of the saints of God. It is, we believe, the grand
bulwark of PROTESTANTISM; and we should be traitors in
every sense of the word if we consented to give it up to be rifled
by the sacrilegious hands of the Puseyites, concealed papists,
German Neologians (NESTLE!!), and the whole tribe of the
enemies of God and godliness. If the new translation were once
to begin where would it end? THE SOCINIANISING NEO-
LOGIAN WOULD BLOT OUT "GOD" FROM I TIMOTHY
3:16 AND STRIKE OUT i JOHN 5:7 as an INTLRPOLA-
TION (!!). We should have a Bible that nobody would accept
as THE WORD OF GOD, to which none could safely appeal
and on which none implicitly rely."

    And thus, forty-two years before World War I, Philpott
explains why BJU wants to be identified with a Book in 1990
they do not believe in, and yet recommend a translation that
REMOVED ''GOD" FROM I Timothy 3:16. Philpott called
their hand before the turn of the century. At that time, Bob Jones
Sr. was not shaving. Consider this remarkable prophesy. Here
is a man over in England, writing more than fifty-eight years
before Bob Jones Sr. founded BJU (Lynn Haven, FL ''Col-
lege Point''), and he says, that if BJU abandons "King James
Onlyism" they will kick God Almighty out of the Incarnatior
in I Timothy 3 :16-which they did-and get rid of the "Johan-
nine comma''-which they DID. If that weren't enough, look
what the Trinitarian Bible Society had to say in 1980, more

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than one hundred years after Philpott's prophesy:

    Truth: "We are opposed to the progress of ERROR in the
guise of knowledge. Evangelical ministers, writers, teachers,
and scholars do NOT serve the cause of TRUTH by insisting
that all the versions are theologically the same...that their varia-
tions are insignificant and trivial." (This is Sumner's positior
in Bible Translations). THESE STATEMENTS ARE FAR
FROM TRUE, and when they are made they need to be
challenged and shown to be wrong." (So BJU refused to de-
fend the truth and chickened out just like Warfield and Charles
Hodge had done earlier). ''If every minister with a little Greek
and a handful of books on textual criticism begins to amend
the text piecemeal (see Custer, for example, p. 21), there will
be as many different forms of texts as there are pulpits. The
spate of modern versions, with their numerous omissions and
startling innovations, BREEDS CONFUSION, doubt,
misunderstanding, and DIVISION," (The Bible, A Sure Foun-
daJion, p. 20, 21).

    Who were the ''hell-raising, trouble-making, church-
spliting, divisive brethren who sowed discord among the
brethren?" (See Bob Jones III and John R. Rice in The Last
Grenade, p. 88, 305). They were the faculty and staffs of OX-
FORD, BOB JONES, CAMBRIDGE, PCS, YALE, HAR-
VARD, TENNESSEE TEMPLE, LOUISVILLE AND
DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES, BBC, THE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, COLGATE ROCHESTER,
LIBERTY UNIVERSITY, SANTA ROSA CHRISTIAN
SCHOOLS, AND EVERY OTHER CHRISTIAN INSTITU-
TION IN AMERICA THAT ATTACKED ''KING JAMES
ONLYISM . "

    Now compare 1980 (above) with these words penned in
1869 in regards to "King James Onlyism."

    Truth: ''What a gloom too it would cast over the minds
of many of God's saints to have those passages which had been
applied to their souls translated in a dlfferent way, and how
it would seem to shake all their experience of the power and
preciousness of God's word! But beside all this, there would
be TWO BIBLES spread throughout all the land, the old and

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the new, AND WHAT CONFUSION WOULD THIS CREATE
IN ALMOST EVERY PLACE! Nothing settles disputes so soon
as when the contending parties have confidence IN THE SAME
UMPIRE and are willing to abide by his decision. But this
JUDGE of all disputes, this UMPIRE of all controversy [FINAL
AUTHORITY!] would cease to be the healer of strife if its pre-
sent acknowledged AUTHORITY were put to an end by a
rival."

It now has 125 rivals.

The rivals did cause gloom to the saints.

The rivals did do away with final authority.

They did create confusion.

There is no way to heal the strife for there is no arbitrator.

    Ever since the "rival" showed up (RV, 1884), the Chris-
tian educators have been trying desperately to settle the STRIFE
and CONFUSION, they created, by appealing to the Christians
TO GIVE UP THEIR AUTHORITY AND ACCEPT CHRIS-
TIAN SCHOLARSHIP AS THE UMPIRE. This is the brand
NEW ''historic position" that cropped up in 1884 with Westcott
and Hort. Why weren't the students in every Greek class in
America given the material by Philpott and the Trinitarian Soci-
ety? After all, it dealt directly and specifically with THE GREEK
WORDS IN THE GREEK TEXTS USED FOR THE ASV,
NASV, RSV, NRSV, NIV, NEB, and TEV.

    Someone's education (any fool who took Tennessee Tem-
ple, Liberty University, PCS, Dallas, Denver, Moody, BIOLA,
BBC, Fuller, etc. seriously) is woefully deficient in CONTENT.
They were defrauded of their education.

    Now about Baptist Bible College in Springfield? Well here
it is from the editor of the Baptist Bible Trihune (James Combs,
Jan. 12, 1989) on the official stationary: 1) He thanks God for
a pamphlet by Gary Hudson (see, The La.ct Grenade, pp.
224-235) on W71y I Left Ruckmanism. '' 2) He says it "meets
an important NEED." 3) He says he USES the King James
Version and so do the faculty members at BBC, but they, of
course, realize it is not INSPIRED. 4) He commends Hudson
for getting Donald Waite' s approval and blessing on the
pamphlet-Hudson dumps Waite and the Dean Burgon Soci-

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ety in less than ten months after the publication-and recom-
mends that you USE the King James Bible because it is the best
translation. After this, James Combs went around the country
(I have the tapes) bellowing, "BBC believes the King James
Bihle IS the Word of God! I believe the King James Bible IS
the Word of God!" etc., to keep the enrollment up. But Ar-
cher Weniger (Ecumenical Folly) lets the cat out of the bag on
this "Word'' business. Note, the designation with a capital ''W''
is given as though the speaker or writer were honoring the
WORDS of God by capitalizing them as in references to Deity
(God, Jesus, Lord, Christ, etc), but this is fraud. The "Word,"
in the book, is Jesus Christ (John 1:1-3) and the ''word'' is
a reference to WORDS that He spoke (see John 6:63; 8:47).
Thus, James Comb's pious profession (duplicated by Dell, Sher-
man, Dollar, Henderson, Walker, Melton, Kutilek, etc.) is
nothing but rank hypocrisy in its rawest form. You see, not
one man in the bunch said he believed the King James Bible
was "THE SCRIPTURES." You say, "what difference would
that make?'' Archer Weniger is about to show you the dif-
ference, although, he still is in fellowship with two of the most
confused and contradictory Alexandrians in the Cult: Bob Jones
Jr., and Bob Jones III.

    ''Dr. J. Carter Swaim, NCC Director of the Dept. of
English Bible (RSV, NRSV) set the tone of the entire Assembly
(Dec. 5, 1961). Theologians are assuring us that what is primary
is not the church nor the Bible, but the Word of God...some
would not agree to the proposition that the Word of God is
MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE BIBLE. ' ' (This was Homer
Duncan, verbatim, in the National Council of Churches, now
being condemned by Archer Weniger. It is the position of Bob
Jones Jr. and Bob Jones III. Watch the birdie!) ''...Because
THEY regard them as one and the same. 7he Bible IS the 'Word
of God ' [Duncan, Sumner, Jones, Combs, Kutilek, Custer, Af-
man, Martin, Price, Ross, Hymer, Horton, Hobbs, Hindson,
Dobson, Hudson, etc.] YET THE SCRIPTURE; SUGGESTS
that the two ARE NOT TO BE EQUATED. . .the prophet did
not say ''THE BIBLE'' will stand forever .... Paul cannot have
in mind the Bible . . . when he says, "The word of our God will

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stand forever.' God's best Word to man is NOT A BOOK but
a Person. There is a sense in which the Bible is still an open-
ended book. We beg you therefore to HEED GOD'S LIVING
WORD as it comes to you THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES. "
The Word is NOT the same as the scriptures, but somehow,
mysteriously, it can come THROUGH THE SCRIPTURES.
Why wasn't this information given out at PCS and BBC?

    We have taught this matter at Pensacola Bible Institute since
1965.

    Someone is paying money for an education they are not
getting.

    On Monday, December 5, 1961, at a luncheon held at the
Foothill Boulevard Baptist Church in Oakland, ''Bible-
believing'' Fundamentalists met with one hundred ministers and
they drafted a bold, militant, Fundamental statement for
"historic militant Fundamentalists'' to take in their bold ''mili-
tant stand'' for historic Biblical Christianity. Do you know what
it said? It said just what the Liberal, Dr. J. Carter Swaim had
just said, in other words: "Any merger of Protestant denomina-
tions . . . based upon the sacrifice of scriptural principle, and that
denies the VALIDITY OF THE BIBLE AS THE INFALLIBLE
'WORD OF GOD,' is a merger against the Gospel of Christ."

    What Bible?

    Not any Bible on the face of this earth. (see Wierville,
p. 50).

    Weniger and BJU have never seen an ''infallible'' Bible
a day in their life, and they would be the first to tell you so
if you wrote them.
 
   The ''bold, militant historic'' Fundamentalist "congress''
of December 5, 1961 worded their statement so only the
"Word" was INFALLIBLE. That is what the unsaved Liberal
at the NCC had just said (Dr. J. Carter Swaim).

    Watch dear old "godly'' Dr. John R. Rice embrace J.C.
Swaim.

    Here is the view of the unsaved liberal (Carter Swaim)
above given by Dr. John R. Rice, exactly as Curtis Hutson
copied it from him. "Here, then, is a clear BIBLE DOCTRINE
that the WORD OF GOD abides forever, it endures forever,

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it shall never pass away! So, if we know the DETAILED
METHODS by which God preserves His "Word" (note the 
Neo-orthodox designation as used by James Combs of the Baptist
Tribune) well and good . . and not altogether, perhaps, in one
copy or in one translation, but IN THEM ALL COLLEC-
TIVELY [ASV, NASV, NWT, RV, RSV, NASV, NRSV, CEV,
NEB, TEV, NKJV, etc.] God has preserved His PERFECT
WORD [not words, not a Book, not scripture] NEVER TO BE
DESTROYED never to pass away."

    So when the naive young man reads "PREACH THE
WORD" (this is the call to the minister in 2 Timothy 4:24) 
he takes this to be ''Preach the Duoay Rheims, New World 
Translation, ASV, RSV, NRSV, NASV, The Cotton Patch Ver-
sion, the New Jerusalem Bible, the Contemporary Englisfl Bi-
ble, NEB, NKJV, NIV, and the other eighty.'' And when he 
reads "HE THAT IS OF GOD HEARETH GODS WORDS"
(John 8:47). "THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK" (John 6:63)
he is to understand that he can never find these words or read
them without a copy of the ASV, NASV, RV, RSV, NRSV, TEB, 
NKJV, NIV, NEB, CEV, Weymoulh, Berkley, Moffatt,
Goodspeed, Hort, Nestle, Aland, Metzger, AV, NWT, TEV,
Riverside, Wuest, and the other eighty.

    Observe, that John R. Rice, Bob Jones III, Harry Emer-
Fosdick, Dean Weigle, Robert Sumner, Barth, Curtis Hutson,
Brunner, Bishop Eugene Carson Black, John MacArthur, and
Carter Swaim all have one great "Christian" (and "Biblical")
conviction in common: i.e. THE "WORD OF GOD" IS NOT 
A BOOK. 

    Did you notice that? That is why they ''CALL" some Bi-
ble ''the Word of God''-to make you think they believe what
they do NOT believe. When pinned to the mat, all ten will ad-
mit that NO BOOK ON THIS EARTH IS "the Word of God.''
John Rice just confessed it in print, with his name attached to
the book he wrote. Do you know why James Combs (BBC and
the Tribune) ''CALLS'' the AV the "Word of God?" We do.
Because the Book he ''uses'' is not "scripture'' and the ''Word
of God'' is NOT a BOOK: it is the message contained in one
hundred corrupt English translations, plus five editions of the

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Greek Receptus, plus nine critical editions by Nestle, Aland,
Metzger, Hort, Souter, Alford, Lachmann, Vogel, and Merk.
"You see, then, that God is determined HIS WORD shall be
known and He has wonderfully preserved IT, though sometimes
it be not all in one translation, nor in one copy, nor in the
preaching of one preacher" (John R. Rice). "Well there are
many translations [none listed]. The dfferences in the transla-
tions are so minor, SO INSIGNIFICANT [this is the mark of
a SINFUL COWARD according to the Trinitarian Bible Soc-
iety: see page 58] that we can be sure not a single doctrine,
nor a single STATEMENT OF FACT [for example, 2 Tim.
2:15, I Tim. 6:9,10, 2 Cor. 2:17, 1 Thess. 5:23] has been
missed in OUR TRANSLATIONS [without naming one]. And
where the WORD OF GOD is not perfectly translated in one
instance [no instance given] it is CORRECTED in another
translation [no other translation given].   And besides, we can
go back to THE ORIGINAL HEBREW AND GREEK TEXTS
to check for ourselves the translations .... use Youngs Analytical
Concordance. THERE YOU WILL FIND IN EVERY SINGLE
CASE THE ORIGINAL GREEK OR HEBREW WORD. ''

John R. Rice is a liar.

    He will lie to make you think he has the ORIGINAL
GREEK TEXT.

    He will lie just like Bob Jones III and Stewart Custer (p. 21).

    When it comes to Alexandrian cloning and brainwashing
techniques, John R. Rice will lie to you like Curtis Hutson,
Robert Sumner.

    There are no "ORIGINAL HEBREW AND GREEK" texts
for anyone to go back to, and Young's Concordance does not
have in it ONE WORD FROM ANY ORIGINAL HEBREW
OR GREEK ''TEXT."

    Professional liars bring forth fruit "after their kind." They
produce professional liars. The line of succession is unbroken
through one hundred years (1890-1990).

    TRUTH: "Good, godly, kind, sweet, charitable, wonder-
ful, soul-winning, Fundamentalist men of God'' WILL LIE
LIKE A PERSIAN RUG WHEN IT COMES TO A CONTEST
BETWEEN GOD'S ABSOLUTE AUTHORlTY (THE HOLY

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BIBLE) AND THEIR ADAMIC, UNREGENERATE
NATURES. No Fundamentalist is exempt. Rice is simply one 
more example among five hundred saved preachers whose egos
got the best of them when they tried to avoid ridicule for stand-
ing by THE BOOK. The woods are "full of 'em.''

    John R. Rice's position and Bob Jones III's position is the 
position of J. Carter Swaim, speaking for the National Council
of Christian Churches: NO BOOK IS THE "Word'' of God.

    The two positions are identical and were prophesied to be l
so in 1869, five years after Lee surrendered at Appomattox.
The ''Word'' of God is an inerrant, infallible, inspired, non-
existent SPOOK that can be found somewhere in translations
that attack the Deity of Christ (NASV), the Virgin Birth (NASV, 
NIV), the Incarnation (NASV, NIV), the Ascension (Nestle's,
ASV, NASV), and cover up the sins of modern Bible revisers
(Rom. 1,2; 2 Cor. 2, 1 Tim. 6 in the ASV, NASV, NIV, and
NKJV). At BJU, they have been recommending to the student 
more than thirty thousand changes in the AV text, since 1930.
These were based on the ASV until 1959 and then, after that,
on the NASV, until 1991. At Moody and Fuller, they recom-
mend more than thirty thousand changes in the AV text, based
on the NIV and the NRSV, using the ASV until around 1952.
There is not ONE major Christian college, seminary, univer-
sity, or Bible institute on the continent that has ONE copy of
THE SCRIPTURES. All they have is uninspired, fallible, er-
rant CORRECTIONS of the Authorized Version. Twenty-six
years before World War I broke out, Charles Haddon Spurgeon
said this about the faculties and staffs of these "Orthodox''
landfills:

    Truth: (Sword and Trowel, 1888) ''The act of altering the
Word of God is SINFUL. ONLY UNHOLY (!) MINDS
WOULD ATTEMPT IT." (How is that for "secondary sep-
aration!?")

    "The desire to alter the Word of God is WEAKNESS. The
authority, the power, the meaning, the terror of God's truth
must be preserved in all their FULNESS [Hell, not Hades;
BASTARD, not illegitimate; DUNG, not offal; WHORE, not
harlot, etc.] if God's purposes are to be carried out.''

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''The ambition to alter the Word of God is PHARISAIC.
Our Lord reproved this spirit in scathinG and unmistakable
language."

"The craving to alter the Word of God is accursed.  THIS   
IS THE CRIME OF THE PRESENT DAY (RV: 1881-1884).
The Lord preserve us from it.''

    Charlie's prayer was not answered. Unfortunately, on oc-
casion, he wished to strut his own knowledge before his con-
gregation and his students, and on those occasions he overruled
 his own convictions, GIVEN TO HIM BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
(see above), so his prayer fell flat. God did not preserve England
or the United States from the Pharisaic (see above), accursed,
sinful CRIME (see above) of tampering with the Book. The
Christian leaders divorced the Book from the "Word," and then
claimed they were not tampering with the "Word" because they
were only destroying THE BOOK (see Weniger, Sumner, Dun-
can, and Swaim above).

    The Book says (not "the Word of God,'' etc.) "BY THEIR
FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM." Spurgeon's success
as a Baptist pastor had nothing to do with his lapses of faith
in the Book he preached. Arlin Horton's income (PCS) cer-
tainly might be connected but, in his case, he spent a lifetime
AVOIDING the issue so that the funds would keep coming in.
Spurgeon, at least, faced the issue. Bob Jones University's finan-
cial and spiritual success was not due to the ''official position
on the Bible'' taken by the faculty. It was due to the wisdom
and spiritual power of the now deceased founder, and the
wisdom of those trustees who handled money matters. There
is nothing about R. A. Torrey's ministry, that was spiritual,
which could be attributed to the stupid corrections he occasion-
ally made on the King James text. Those were his short com-
ings (''sinful crimes'' according to Spurgeon). "The fruits
of righteousness" produced by BBC, Tennessee Temple, etc.
(and there are many, never have ANY connection, directly
or indirectly, with any staff member correcting the King James
Bible. They were due to prayer, soul-winning, good teaching
in the home before going to school, a local church that believed
the King James Bible, and the truths that were taught from

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THAT Book, without leaven or alteration.

    Thc confounding of spiritual power and spiritual success
with destructive criticism of the Book is the work of a
DEMENTED MIND or, according to Ruckman's Law, ''If-
fen hit don't make sense, they's a buck in hit."

    We teach students at PBI that any jughead stupid enough
to think that the spiritual successes of Hyles-Anderson, Lib-
erty University, PCS, Moody, Fuller, Wheaton, and etc., were
due to their brilliant intellectuality and ability to revise the AV,
should take a long walk on a short pier, for the good of mankind.
It will "make the world a better place to live in, etc."

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