Logos Bible Software, Mark Ward, and the KJV
June 12. 2025
David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061
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We are pleased to announce the free eBook The Deceptive Dangers of Logos Bible Software by Brian Snider. It is available at https://www.wayoflife.org/free-ebooks/
It is a well-documented warning about how that Logos is at the forefront of the ecumenical blending and merging that is producing a one-world “church” in preparation for the day of the Lord and the full-blown Mystery Babylon of Revelation 17-18.
Following is an excerpt:
MARK WARD and the KJV
Those who love error must of necessity hate the truth.
That is the only explanation for the strange attitude Logos seems to have toward the traditional Bible of English speaking people. They praise Ehrman, Spong and the Pope, but warn about the KJV.
For the last few years, they have campaigned against the continued use of the KJV through the person of Mark Ward. Ward has called himself ‘an apostle’ to the KJV only crowd, and, like Michael Heiser, he found in Faithlife a forum for promoting his views.
Ward left Logos last year (2024) but Logos gave him an international forum which he used to campaign for all the modernists who have attacked the Bible for the last 350 years.
You may say, ‘but he only wants people to have a Bible in modern English?!’
Yes, but modern Bibles are based on the work of men who don’t believe Moses and who believe that the New Testament are just oral tales handed down.
He knows that but he will not discuss it. And because most people are ignorant of this history, he is able to act like it doesn’t exist.
Ward holds a PHD from Bob Jones University. The fact that he is highly educated and knows his subject well is only part of his effectiveness. Ward is an eloquent and educated proponent of his point of view. He’s very compelling.
He has used two tools to overwhelm thousands people, young and old.
First, dialogue. He is not here to argue. He is your friend. He just wants to help you leave the past with its KJV-only ignorance and grumpiness and join the smart and nice people of the future. (Fundamentalists are grumpy, you know.)
Secondly, he only presents one side the story: readability. He argues readability first, last and middle. He refuses to discuss the elephants in the room which are the unbelieving critics who have used atheistic theories to whittle away at scripture.
He acts as if he is completely unaware that there are Satanically led deceivers among Bible scholars.
He is oblivious to the warnings of Scripture that they will grow worse and worse as we get closer to the return of the Lord. That part of the equation does not exist at all as far as he is concerned.
To that end, he refuses to discuss modernism as it relates to the Bible version issue. He is so convinced that readability is the only thing people should worry about, that he recommends any modern English Bible without regard to who edited it or what their biases might be.
He has little criticism for The Living Bible, the Good News Bible and the Message.
It is this dishonesty that makes Ward a dangerous man to listen to. When you hide significant facts from your listeners it reveals who you are.
Since the 1600s, rationalism has overwhelmed the field of Bible scholarship. Godly men have seen it and warned about it. J. C. Philpot feared the day infidels would edit the traditional Bible.
“Instead of our good old Saxon Bible, simple and solid, with few words obsolete, and alike majestic and beautiful, we should have a modern English translation in pert and flippant language of the day. The (Authorized Version) ... is, we believe, the grand bulwark of Protestantism; the safeguard of the Gospel, and the treasure of the church; and we should be traitors in every sense of the word if we consented to give it up to be rifled by…sacrilegious hands…and the whole tribe of enemies of God and godliness.” J C Philpot
The issue is not whether or not language in the KJV has become antiquated over time. The issue is that the current tribe of scholars operate on atheistic principles. There is NO GOD in their methods. They say the Bible must be treated like any other book. They deny the foundational principle of Bible scholarship, and that is a belief that the scriptures were given supernaturally.
Virtually all of the current crop of modern scholars deny that the Bible is a completely supernatural book. They all operate on the basis that the Bible came about by natural means.
Ward loves comparing himself to William Tyndale and sees himself as doing the same work that Tyndale did. But that is because he has blinded himself to the fact that the battle Tyndale fought was a different battle on a different field.
Tyndale was going against the spirit of his day by trying to get the word of God to people in a language they could understand. In his day, the battle was over being able to read the Word of God at all.
Today, most Christians own several Bibles. The battle is not over having a Bible, it’s over having one that is pure and unadulterated.
Today, the battle is over those who handle the scripture but deny its supernatural origin. And Ward promotes those men to the hilt. If anything, he is the anti-Tyndale. Tyndale could never have worked with the men Ward endorses.
Tyndale would have no truck with the likes of those who teach that Genesis is a fable. Ward recommends the work of those men. He’s is comfortable in that environment.
If Tyndale had been in the mainstream, as Ward is, he never would have been burned the stake.
As of last year, Ward is no longer affiliated with Faithlife. After leaving Faithlife, he worked briefly at Crossway, publisher of the ESV and other reformed materials, but now is on his own as a YouTuber, speaker and influencer.
Ward has recently sworn off his advocacy against KJV Onlyism with some stipulations. He claimed in a recent video (Dec. 31, 2024) that he had answered all the claims of KJV onlyists.
That is patently untrue.
The truth is, he has neglected to answer the underlying complaints of the entire KJV-only mindset, and that is that Satan is at work through unbelieving scholars to undermine all of scripture. Fundamentalists and Bible believers stand on the fact that the Bible teaches that apostasy will be the hallmark of Christianity in the last days. When the great Christian scholars of the age teach that Moses is a myth and that we do not know who wrote significant parts of the New Testament we clearly see the accuracy of the warnings of scripture.
KJV-onlyists have taken scriptural warnings at face value and are on guard against unbelievers who would corrupt the word of God. These corrupters are everywhere. Ward, apparently, has never come across even one of them.
Ward makes this boast: “Almost anything a King James-onlyist says, I’ve got a link to a video where I address the argument that they’ve made.”
Again, this is a lie. He has only answered the arguments he has chosen to answer as he repeatedly said that he will not discuss textual criticism.
Readability is important, but it pales in comparison to the changes that these folks have brought to the text of scripture or the doctrinal positions of those who are driving those changes.
Even though Ward is no longer at Faithlife, they gave him a powerful forum and he used it convert thousands of people to his point of view.
At Logos, Ward went along with Faithlife’s program of straddling a chasm as wide as heaven and hell.
A couple of years ago, Ward was challenged online about his position on working alongside Roman Catholics.
“You work for Faithflife and have been associated with Logos for a long time. Faithlife and Logos work together to promote Catholic materials that deny salvation by grace, substitutionary atonement, turn people to worship Mary and follow the Pope, among other highly destructive doctrinal errors. I received advertisements from your company regularly offering me Catholic materials. A small amount of archaic language vs. attacks on the Gospel itself. What am I missing?” Jon Cloud
Ward answered that he did not work on the Catholic side of the organization. So, Jon reworded the question.
“I was asking whether you have written against these attacks on the Gospel by the company you work for, not whether you worked on Catholic materials yourself. Their promotion of Catholic and liberal material is beyond academic interest. They are making money selling Gospel-denying materials to Catholics (Catholic edition, etc.) and promoting these materials without warning. Certainly, for academic purposes and apologetic ones, scholars and leaders need access to even very dangerous books. That is not what is taking place. Logos and Faithlife are actively promoting Catholic books, not to scholars but even to the weakest believers, again, with no warning whatsoever. Do you warn about this? (Gal. 1:8 is much stronger than 1 Cor. 14:7.)” Jon Cloud
This comment was deleted and Ward quit answering.
While at Faithlife, Ward’s entire campaign focused on a few antiquated words in the KJV, while ignoring the blasphemy that his own company published. If you can be in an environment with Romanists and cultists and modernists, and all you can fuss about is the traditional Bible of English speaking people, you have told us everything we need to know about your spiritual insight.
The Deceptive Dangers of Logos Bible Software by Brian Snider is available for free at
https://www.wayoflife.org/free-ebooks/
It is a well-documented warning about how that Logos is at the forefront of the ecumenical blending and merging that is producing a one-world “church” in preparation for the day of the Lord and the full-blown Mystery Babylon of Revelation 17-18.
Following is an excerpt:
MARK WARD and the KJV
Those who love error must of necessity hate the truth.
That is the only explanation for the strange attitude Logos seems to have toward the traditional Bible of English speaking people. They praise Ehrman, Spong and the Pope, but warn about the KJV.
For the last few years, they have campaigned against the continued use of the KJV through the person of Mark Ward. Ward has called himself ‘an apostle’ to the KJV only crowd, and, like Michael Heiser, he found in Faithlife a forum for promoting his views.
Ward left Logos last year (2024) but Logos gave him an international forum which he used to campaign for all the modernists who have attacked the Bible for the last 350 years.
You may say, ‘but he only wants people to have a Bible in modern English?!’
Yes, but modern Bibles are based on the work of men who don’t believe Moses and who believe that the New Testament are just oral tales handed down.
He knows that but he will not discuss it. And because most people are ignorant of this history, he is able to act like it doesn’t exist.
Ward holds a PHD from Bob Jones University. The fact that he is highly educated and knows his subject well is only part of his effectiveness. Ward is an eloquent and educated proponent of his point of view. He’s very compelling.
He has used two tools to overwhelm thousands people, young and old.
First, dialogue. He is not here to argue. He is your friend. He just wants to help you leave the past with its KJV-only ignorance and grumpiness and join the smart and nice people of the future. (Fundamentalists are grumpy, you know.)
Secondly, he only presents one side the story: readability. He argues readability first, last and middle. He refuses to discuss the elephants in the room which are the unbelieving critics who have used atheistic theories to whittle away at scripture.
He acts as if he is completely unaware that there are Satanically led deceivers among Bible scholars.
He is oblivious to the warnings of Scripture that they will grow worse and worse as we get closer to the return of the Lord. That part of the equation does not exist at all as far as he is concerned.
To that end, he refuses to discuss modernism as it relates to the Bible version issue. He is so convinced that readability is the only thing people should worry about, that he recommends any modern English Bible without regard to who edited it or what their biases might be.
He has little criticism for The Living Bible, the Good News Bible and the Message.
It is this dishonesty that makes Ward a dangerous man to listen to. When you hide significant facts from your listeners it reveals who you are.
Since the 1600s, rationalism has overwhelmed the field of Bible scholarship. Godly men have seen it and warned about it. J. C. Philpot feared the day infidels would edit the traditional Bible.
“Instead of our good old Saxon Bible, simple and solid, with few words obsolete, and alike majestic and beautiful, we should have a modern English translation in pert and flippant language of the day. The (Authorized Version) ... is, we believe, the grand bulwark of Protestantism; the safeguard of the Gospel, and the treasure of the church; and we should be traitors in every sense of the word if we consented to give it up to be rifled by…sacrilegious hands…and the whole tribe of enemies of God and godliness.” J C Philpot
The issue is not whether or not language in the KJV has become antiquated over time. The issue is that the current tribe of scholars operate on atheistic principles. There is NO GOD in their methods. They say the Bible must be treated like any other book. They deny the foundational principle of Bible scholarship, and that is a belief that the scriptures were given supernaturally.
Virtually all of the current crop of modern scholars deny that the Bible is a completely supernatural book. They all operate on the basis that the Bible came about by natural means.
Ward loves comparing himself to William Tyndale and sees himself as doing the same work that Tyndale did. But that is because he has blinded himself to the fact that the battle Tyndale fought was a different battle on a different field.
Tyndale was going against the spirit of his day by trying to get the word of God to people in a language they could understand. In his day, the battle was over being able to read the Word of God at all.
Today, most Christians own several Bibles. The battle is not over having a Bible, it’s over having one that is pure and unadulterated.
Today, the battle is over those who handle the scripture but deny its supernatural origin. And Ward promotes those men to the hilt. If anything, he is the anti-Tyndale. Tyndale could never have worked with the men Ward endorses.
Tyndale would have no truck with the likes of those who teach that Genesis is a fable. Ward recommends the work of those men. He’s is comfortable in that environment.
If Tyndale had been in the mainstream, as Ward is, he never would have been burned the stake.
As of last year, Ward is no longer affiliated with Faithlife. After leaving Faithlife, he worked briefly at Crossway, publisher of the ESV and other reformed materials, but now is on his own as a YouTuber, speaker and influencer.
Ward has recently sworn off his advocacy against KJV Onlyism with some stipulations. He claimed in a recent video (Dec. 31, 2024) that he had answered all the claims of KJV onlyists.
That is patently untrue.
The truth is, he has neglected to answer the underlying complaints of the entire KJV-only mindset, and that is that Satan is at work through unbelieving scholars to undermine all of scripture. Fundamentalists and Bible believers stand on the fact that the Bible teaches that apostasy will be the hallmark of Christianity in the last days. When the great Christian scholars of the age teach that Moses is a myth and that we do not know who wrote significant parts of the New Testament we clearly see the accuracy of the warnings of scripture.
KJV-onlyists have taken scriptural warnings at face value and are on guard against unbelievers who would corrupt the word of God. These corrupters are everywhere. Ward, apparently, has never come across even one of them.
Ward makes this boast: “Almost anything a King James-onlyist says, I’ve got a link to a video where I address the argument that they’ve made.”
Again, this is a lie. He has only answered the arguments he has chosen to answer as he repeatedly said that he will not discuss textual criticism.
Readability is important, but it pales in comparison to the changes that these folks have brought to the text of scripture or the doctrinal positions of those who are driving those changes.
Even though Ward is no longer at Faithlife, they gave him a powerful forum and he used it convert thousands of people to his point of view.
At Logos, Ward went along with Faithlife’s program of straddling a chasm as wide as heaven and hell.
A couple of years ago, Ward was challenged online about his position on working alongside Roman Catholics.
“You work for Faithflife and have been associated with Logos for a long time. Faithlife and Logos work together to promote Catholic materials that deny salvation by grace, substitutionary atonement, turn people to worship Mary and follow the Pope, among other highly destructive doctrinal errors. I received advertisements from your company regularly offering me Catholic materials. A small amount of archaic language vs. attacks on the Gospel itself. What am I missing?” Jon Cloud
Ward answered that he did not work on the Catholic side of the organization. So, Jon reworded the question.
“I was asking whether you have written against these attacks on the Gospel by the company you work for, not whether you worked on Catholic materials yourself. Their promotion of Catholic and liberal material is beyond academic interest. They are making money selling Gospel-denying materials to Catholics (Catholic edition, etc.) and promoting these materials without warning. Certainly, for academic purposes and apologetic ones, scholars and leaders need access to even very dangerous books. That is not what is taking place. Logos and Faithlife are actively promoting Catholic books, not to scholars but even to the weakest believers, again, with no warning whatsoever. Do you warn about this? (Gal. 1:8 is much stronger than 1 Cor. 14:7.)” Jon Cloud
This comment was deleted and Ward quit answering.
While at Faithlife, Ward’s entire campaign focused on a few antiquated words in the KJV, while ignoring the blasphemy that his own company published. If you can be in an environment with Romanists and cultists and modernists, and all you can fuss about is the traditional Bible of English speaking people, you have told us everything we need to know about your spiritual insight.
The Deceptive Dangers of Logos Bible Software by Brian Snider is available for free at
https://www.wayoflife.org/free-ebooks/
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