NEW BOOKS REFUTING CENTRAL SEMINARYâS POSITION ON BIBLE VERSIONS

BOOKS REFUTING BJU/ CENTRAL SEMINARY’S POSITION ON BIBLE VERSIONS

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Updated April 1, 2000 (first published July 15, 1999) (Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, Michigan 48061, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Dr. Donald Waite, Bible for Today, has published two new books that refute the attack upon King James Bible defenders by schools such as Bob Jones University and Central Seminary.

Dr. Waite is a Baptist scholar who has written in the defense of the Received Text and the King James Bible since 1971. Dr. Waite has 118 semester hours (1,888 class hours) of training in the biblical and other foreign languages, plus countless hours of teaching and personal research in the use of these languages. He obtained a B.A. in classical Greek and Latin from the University of Michigan in 1948; a Th.M. with high honors in New Testament Greek Literature and Exegesis from Dallas Theological Seminary in 1952; an M.A. in Speech from Southern Methodist University in 1953; a Th.D. with honors in Bible Exposition from Dallas Seminary in 1955; and a Ph.D. in Speech from Purdue University in 1961. He holds both New Jersey and Pennsylvania teacher certificates in Greek and Language Arts, and has taught Greek, Hebrew, Bible, Speech, and English for over thirty-five years in nine schools.

Dr. Waite founded the Bible For Today (BFT) ministry in 1971, the year he published his first book on the subject of Bible versions. He has produced over 700 studies, booklets, cassettes, and VCR’s that he distributes through BFT, along with hundreds of titles by other men on a wide variety of subjects.

Some defenders of the modern versions pretend that today’s King James defenders are intellectual pygmies who merely parrot things they have received from someone else. Such a view is far from the truth. Dr. Waite, for example, has produced a number of exacting studies in the field of Bible versions. I can understand how someone might disagree with the King James defender’s conclusions, but to gloss over or ignore entirely the diligent research behind the positions of men such as this and to pretend that they could not possibly be true scholars is a farce.

To find out for himself the exact number and nature of changes that have been made in the critical Greek text, for example, Waite went through the Westcott-Hort text and compared it with the Received Text. He counted every single word difference, and weighed its significance. When Waite says there are 9,970 Greek words added, subtracted, or changed from the Received Text in the Westcott-Hort text, he is not merely parroting what he read somewhere. He is citing his own scholarly research. He also diligently compared an original King James Bible with one currently in print, counting every single difference. Thus, when he says there are only 136 differences of any substance between the KJV of 1611 and the KJV of 1990, he knows exactly what he is talking about. He has done similar comparisons with at least three of the modern English versions (the NASV, NIV, and the NKJV), comparing them word for word with the King James Bible and the Received Text, noting the number and significance of the differences. He has also published the results of these and a vast number of other important studies.

I repeat, it is one thing to disagree with Dr. Waite’s conclusions. It is quite another thing to pretend that he and others like him are some sort of crackpot cultists.

Following are the two books by Dr. Waite in refutation of recent publications and statements by certain fundamentalist schools:

FUNDAMENTALIST DISTORTIONS ON BIBLE VERSIONS. This book refutes statements by nine spokesmen from seven "major fundamentalist institutions." The schools are Bob Jones, Detroit, Central, Calvary, Maranatha, Northland, and Clearwater. 80 pages. Index. $7.00 + $4 S/H

CENTRAL SEMINARY REFUTED ON BIBLE VERSIONS. This is a brilliant and thorough answer to The Bible Version Debate: The Perspective of Central Baptist Theological Seminary (1997). 184 pages. Index. $10 + $4 S/H

ADDRESS ALL ORDERS AND QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO Bible for Today, 900 Park Ave., Collingswood, NJ 08108. 800-564-6109 (orders), 856-854-4452 (voice), 856-854-2464 (fax), BFT@BibleForToday.org (e-mail).