BJU's Deafening Silence On Corrupt Modern Bible Versions

by David J. Stewart | January 2013 | Updated January 2017

Jude 1:3, “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”

       Bob Jones University (BJU) claims to be “The Fortress of Faith,” a citadel of Biblical fundamentalism. I think it strange then that BJU is maintaining an active campaign against the KJV 1611. Consider the following transcribed advertisement that BJU included at the end of their Chapel Echoes program for August 19, 1995 (this advertisement was aired several times during July and August, 1995):

“In a day when Christian leaders and followers are doing what is right in their own eyes, the authority of the Word of God should be the emphasis in churches. However, many good men have focused their concern over translations of the Word of God, and have forced divisions over relatively unimportant differences between several good translations of the Bible. In the booklet ‘What Is The Inspired Word Of God?: Dr. Edward Panosian, chairman of the Division of Church History at Bob Jones University, discusses the textual debate, and warns against the assumption that any version is specially inspired. If you have questions about this issue, you’ll want to send for your free copy of ‘What Is The Inspired Word Of God?’ Write to Chapel Echoes, Bob Jones University, Greenville, SC 29614.”

After reading the booklet by Professor Panosian and the argument that he presents, it is clear that BJU is clearly outside of the AV 1611 position. The other so-called “good translations” to which Dr. Panosian refers are built upon the corrupt Westcott-Hort text. In the mind of BJU and company, those of us who hold to the AV 1611 and the manuscripts upon which it is built are the ones who are causing divisions among God’s people, and BJU clearly disapproves of this. BJU has compromised their position, and they are attacking ours. It is obvious that BJU is “building bridges” with regards to Bible translations in much the same manner as Pastor Tim Lee is “building bridges” with the Southern Baptist Convention.

My friend, God gave us the inspired and preserved King James Bible. Those 53 men (47 did the actual work of translating) were all Greek and Hebrew scholars. I am leery of individual Bible scholars today who are always correcting the King James Bible. I've been saved for over 30-years and have never used any Bible but the precious King James Bible. I have memorized hundreds of Scriptures, which are precious to my soul. The Devil likes to keep changing the Bible versions, to confuse everyone. The Bible all say different things.

Thankfully, God has made it easy for us to discern the truth for those who want it. The truth is this... ALL modern Bible versions come from the Greek of heretics Westcott and Hort. This is known as the Alexandrian manuscripts. Our beloved King James Bible is the ONLY Bible on the market which comes from a DIFFERENT Greek source, which is commonly referred to as the “Textus Receptus” (or the received text). The King James translators reject the Apocrypha (the Catholic Bible includes it) because they didn't recognize it as being inspired from God. The manuscripts which were accepted are the 66 awesome books of the King James Bible.

“God has a special rebuke, again and again and again in the Bible, toward those people who keep their neutrality in the work of God!”—SOURCE: Dr. Jack Hyles, a quote from the great MP3 sermon, “Where Were You In The Battle?

What's the Big Deal?

Here is BJU's most recent statement about Bible translations...

Although Bob Jones University does not hold to a King James Only position, we continue to hold the widely-used King James Version (KJV) as the campus standard in the classroom and in the chapel pulpit. The position of the University on the translation issue has not changed since the founding of the school in 1927.

We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Bible in the original manuscripts, and we believe that God has supernaturally preserved every one of His inspired words for us today. However, from the founder to the present administration, we have never taken the position that there can be only one good translation in the English language.

SOURCE: Statement about Bible Translations | Bob Jones University

Bob Jones University has produced many faithful servants of God over the years. In fact, the great First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana (where Dr. Hack Hyles pastored from 1959 to 2001) used to send their youth to BJU before Hyles-Anderson College was started in 1973. I was reading an excellent book this week by Bob Jones Sr. Titled, “Builder Of Bridges.” The book was first published in 1969. Inside the front cover is a photo of Brother Jones, rightfully praising him as the man who, “made bridges over chasms for thousands.” The Lord has mightily used Bob Jones University since 1927 to make the world a better place, training pastors and missionaries around the world. Albeit, BJU has indeed changed.

BJU has changed by not taking a stand against apostasy. The corrupting of the Bible is apostasy. Faithful preachers like Dr. Jack Hyles weren't exclusively King James Bible only until after the satanic New International Version (NIV) was published in 1984. When godly preachers saw what Satan was doing, they took a stand. Unfortunately, most evangelicals (like Bob Jones University) failed to take a stand and in so doing went backwards. No Christian, Christian institution nor church can remain spiritually idle. You're either moving forward for the Lord or you're being surpassed by apostasy, sinful compromise and ecumenicalism. As our churches move to the left, faithful preachers and Christians must counter that trend by moving to the right. Dr. Hyles explains this truth well in his MP3 sermon titled, “Which New Is Right?

Sadly, even Hyles-Anderson College (HAC) where I gratefully attended (1985-1993) has adopted the same position since 2008 on the Bible as BJU. The difference is that HAC (when Dr. Jack Hyles was alive) was exclusively King James Bible only; whereas BJU never took a stand against the modern corrupted Bible versions at all. Now, HAC is no better than BJU. They all give the impression that they are for the inspiration of the Bible, but they won't lift a finger to contend for the faith by exposing modern corrupt Bibles that butcher the Bible and render it uninspired. Please read “Why Would Anyone Use The NIV?” The NIV is not inspired, because it is not God's Word. Modern corrupted Bible versions have all been translated from the corrupted texts found in Alexandria, Egypt. This includes the corrupted New King James Version (NKJV). God only wrote one Book, not 400, which is how many English versions of the Bible have been published since the 1611 authorized King James Bible. The English language hasn't changed that much!

Please understand that the issue goes much deeper than just a bunch of Bible scholars who see the original Greek and Hebrew differently. In fact, the King James Bible was translated from the trustworthy Textus Receptus (or Received Text) from Antioch, Syria; whereas all modern Bible came from the corrupted manuscripts which originated in Alexandria, Egypt.

Bible Colleges Deceitfully Claim to Believe That the Holy Bible is Inspired Only in the Original Autographs, While at the Same Time Hypocritically Claiming That God Gas Preserved Every One of His Words Today! That is impossible! It cannot be both!

It is deceitful because if God only inspired the originals, then ONLY the originals are trustworthy, and we don't have God's Word today. If you go to Biblica.com (the publishers of the New International Version), then openly admit that they don't believe the Holy Bible is verbally (word-for-word) inspired; but rather, thought inspired. What good is a Bible that is not word-for-word inspired and preserved by God?

Is God incapable of giving us a perfect Bible? What kind of confidence does it give a Christian believer who is told that his or her Bible version is full of errors? Most Bible seminaries claim to believe that the Holy Bible was inspired only in the original autographs, but not in any preserved Bible today. Literally, they don't believe that we have a perfect Bible today. They think that at best, we have a flawed Bible translation, written by man. Yet they won't expose any of the modern corrupted Bible versions, because they believe that God's Word somehow got lost in history, and has been partially preserved through multiple ancient texts. It's all retarded what they believe. I mean, how can we have God's Word today if none of the Bible revisions are perfect? How can we know which ones are reliable, and which one's are not? It gets even more confusing, because there are multiple Greek texts as well. Which one's are preserved by God? Is it the Textus Receptus? Is it the Sinaiticus text? Is it the Vaticanus text? The answer, for anyone who is truly born-again and loves th Lord Jesus Christ, is the Textus Receptus (from which our beloved King James Bible is translated).

Either God has preserved His inerrant, infallible, inspired and perfect Word for today as He promised in Psalms 12:6-8; or else we have a bunch of imperfect Bible versions floating around today, that at best cannot be considered 100% totally reliable. Matthew 4:4 commands the Christian to live by EVERY WORD of God. But how can we live by every word of God, if we don't have an EVERY-WORD-BIBLE? Matthew 4:4, “But he [Jesus] answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” I believe we have that word-perfect book today in THE BOOK... THE KING JAMES BIBLE!!!!!!!

I'm so sick of Bible colleges and Baptist preachers saying that the King James Bible is the best and most reliable version, while at the same time denying that we have one perfect Bible today. Ok, then which is it? Do we have a perfect Bible that is not inspired? Or do we have an inspired Bible that is not perfect? The truth is that God has preserved His inspired, inerrant, infallible, perfect, words for us in the King James Bible; and all other modern Bible versions which were translated from the Greek work of Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort (two unsaved, pro-catholic, new age, Christ-Deity-denying, Anglican ministers) are of the Devil. The Satanic Beliefs Of Brooke Westcott And Fenton Hort: Fathers Of All Modern Bible Versions. There is ONLY one book that the Devil's crowd are attacking... THE KING JAMES BIBLE. They aren't attacking the Greek, because no one speaks Koine Greek today. They're attacking the English King James Bible!!! Satan doesn't care about the New International Version (NIV). Satan doesn't care about The Voice (VOICE). The Devil doesn't care about the Easy-To-Read Version (ERV). No, Satan only wants to discredit, question and destroy the King James Bible, because that's the real McCoy!!! If you don't have a King James Bible, you don't have a Holy Bible!!!

Evangelist Lester Roloff (1914-1982) was 100% right, who saw the modern Bible versions and their writers as RATTLESNAKES! ...

“The Word of God is our only hope—that's our only hope! This has been the generation of translations and abominations, and perversions, of the Word of God! It's been a long time; now when the Revised Standard Version came out, I stood against it before I knew what it was, because the wrong crowd heard of that, and the wrong crowd received it, and I knew it got too much publicity to be right! And I knew if the newspapers publicized something, it had to be wrong! And so I knew that the American people and a lot of American preachers—they welcomed it into their house before they knew it was a rattlesnake!” Brother Lester Roloff, a needful quote from the MP3 sermon titled, “'THE LIVING BIBLE' EXPOSED!

“The worst rattlesnake on this earth, is the man that twists or seeks to modernize, or take from or add to, the Word of God!” —Brother Lester Roloff, a needful quote from the awesome MP3 sermon titled, “'THE LIVING BIBLE' EXPOSED!

“Now the serpent (there's your rattlesnake right there!)... question the Word of God... This has been the same generation questioning the Word of God. I'm sick of hearing about all the mistakes in the King James version! “It's not dependable” [critics say]. It is! The night I got saved it was dependable! The night God called me to preach it was dependable! For 43 years, I've been preaching it and declaring it, and it's been dependable to rescue the perishing and care for the dying, and sober the drunkard, and to deliver the dope head! I've never found anything any better! And so you're not going to get me to raise a bunch of questions about the Word of God! When I say the 'Word of God,' I consider the King James Version the Word of God!!!” —Brother Lester Roloff, a needful quote from the awesome MP3 sermon titled, “'THE LIVING BIBLE' EXPOSED!

. . . THE MODERN BIBLE VERSIONS ARE DEADLY RATTLESNAKES!!!

Ironically, Brother Roloff used to preach in chapel to the students at Bob Jones University. Contrary to BJU's claims that they haven't changed since they first opened their college's doors in 1927, THEY HAVE CHANGED, horribly so, by not taking a stand against the Devil changing the Word of God!!!

“Did you realize tonight that we're living in a Godless nation, a Christless nation, a Bibleless nation?” —Brother Lester Roloff, a needful quote from the MP3 sermon titled, “'THE LIVING BIBLE' EXPOSED!

If you have been tricked by the Devil, to accept a counterfeit Bible version, then effectively you have the commandments of men! Eve was deceived by the crafty serpent (Satan). Whereas God had commanded Adam and Eve not to eat of the forbidden fruit, the serpent came along and questioned what God had said, thus introducing a SECOND AUTHORITY! Consequently, Eve was compelled to decide which of the TWO AUTHORITIES was correct! Had Eve refused to even consider a SECOND AUTHORITY, she never would have sinned. Don't miss that important observation, because that is exactly what the Devil is doing today, shaking the faith of young people in the Word of God by introducing a SECOND AUTHORITY (i.e., the Alexandrian manuscripts upon which the modern revisions are based).

Dr. Jack Hyles foretold of this battle over the King James Bible today...

“The biggest split that has ever come will come in the next ten years, if not sooner, over the King James Bible - and it couldn't come soon enough for me. I'm tired of colleges and universities advertising that they 'use' the King James Bible - tell the whole story! Tell everyone that you do not believe that it is inspired word for word.” Pastor Jack Hyles, from the Wednesday night Bible study titled, Revelation to Illumination (1998).

It's not for us to decide what is perfect, but God alone. If you consider that our beloved King James Bible was the masterful work of 54 scholars (there were 47 translators by the time they were finished) in the year 1603 to 1611, that is quite convincing evidence of God's divine hand of providence at work. All modern Bible versions have been published for money (they're all copyrighted). The King James Bible is not copyrighted and was produced solely for the purpose of getting God's words into the hands of the common man. Amen! Some people claim that the King James Bible is copyrighted by the crown in England. NO ONE would ever stop you, nor could they ever legally hinder you, from printing all the King James Bible your heart desired. That's not a legal copyright!!! Try printing your own NIV's in your basement and giving them away for free, and see what happens!!! Biblica will sue you faster than an ambulance-chasing lawyer! Please read, THE BLOOD SPRINKLED BOOK (based on an awesome MP3 sermon by Dr. Al Lacy). God only authored one book... THE BOOK... preserved in the inspired, perfect, blood-sprinkled, precious, KING JAMES BIBLE!!!

The great need of the hour is HOLY SPIRIT EMPOWERED, PREACHING PREACHERS, ON FIRE FOR GOD, WHO WALK WITH GOD!!! A preacher that prays right preaches right. The reason why our preachers today are compromised and no longer on-fire for God is because they are following the weak spirituality of the dead Bible colleges like Bob Jones University (BJU) and Moody Bible Institute (MBI), both of which DON'T believe that we have a perfect Bible version in the English language. They do believe the Bible is inspired. They do believe that the inspired words of God have been preserved unto all generations. But they do not see the problem with having hundreds of English Bible versions, all of which originate from the ungodly work of bozos Westcott and Hort.

Well, that causes a big dilemma, because all of the Bible don't agree. They say different things, which produces different church doctrines. So effectively BJU, MBI, HAC and other compromising Bible colleges are saying that we don't have God's perfect Word today, except in Greek, Chaldean and Hebrew. Thankfully, PCC still boldly proclaims the inspiration of the King James Bible. If there is no one perfect Bible in English, then we have a flawed Bible at best. When you consider that only one Bible today was translated from the Textus Receptus, it ought to be plainly evident to the honest truth-seeker that the King James Bible has been divinely preserved by God for the End Times. It is the world's last Bible for these last days. English is fast-becoming the international language.

I love what Brother Lester Roloff said... We need porcupine preachers, so people will get the point! Amen to that! The average Baptist church these days is deader than dead!!! I once attended an Independent Baptist church for a year before I couldn't take anymore of their lukewarmness and apostasy. They never preached about Hell, fire and damnation from the pulpit. I never heard one mention of Christ's Second Coming or the Rapture. No kidding. They never preached against sin.

“Every word in this Bible is inspired by God almighty!”
—Dr. Jack Hyles (a great quote from the classic sermon, “A Friend At Midnight.”)

A man with two watches cannot know what time it is;
And a man with two Bibles cannot know what the Word of God is!!!

“The only inspired Words of God are in the King James Bible!”
—Dr. Jack Hyles (an awesome quote —Dr. Jack Hyles (THE REAL BATTLE!”)

“We're in a battle for the Word of God, that's the big battle!”
BATTLE OF THE AGES (an MP3 sermon by Dr. Jack Hyles, “The King James Bible crowd is going to come out on top!”)

The Holy Bible is Worth Fighting Over!

I wouldn't give you a dime for today's Bible colleges and preacher's cemeteries (seminaries) who don't take a stand against Satan corrupting the Bible. Every mention of someone “worshipping” the Lord Jesus Christ (such as the leper in Matthew 8:2) has been replaced with the word “knelt” in modern versions. You can kneel before a king without worshipping him. It is such subtle (yet drastically different in meaning) deliberate changes by the thousands that have corrupted the inspired Words of God.

I did not publish this article to be unkind; but rather, to take a stand for the Word of God. We're in trouble in our churches. From BJU's own words in the preceding quote, they believe that the ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS were inspired, and that those words have been inspired word-for-word unto all generations. Amen for that!

Yet, BJU as well as Moody Bible Institute fail to see the danger and work of Satan in corrupting modern versions. What THEY WON'T TELL YOU at BJU is that they also believe the modern corrupted Bible versions are also inspired, and they really couldn't care less to fuss over the issue. Is that the kind of Bible college that you want to attend? Bible colleges are very tricky. I firmly believe that a lackadaisical attitude toward the Bible can only produce lackadaisical believers. What kind of Christian results when you sincerely believe that the English Bible in your hand is imperfect and full of errors? That's exactly what the Devil wants you to believe, doubting God's Words.

Pensacola Christian College (PCC) actually rejects the modern corrupt Bible versions, which is great. There are only about two dozen remaining faithful Bible colleges that still stick to the Greek Textus Receptus and the precious King James Bible which is translated from it.

Is Christianity all about show-and-tell or are we at war as the Bible says in 2nd Timothy 2:3-4? We are at war! What good is a soldier who has a compromised weapon? If America's Bible colleges saw the dangers of modern perverted Bible versions, then they would join the fight to defend the King James Bible and expose the false perversions like the New International Version (NIV). It is so hard to convince people that they've been deceived.

BJU says that they have never taken the position that there can be only one good Bible translation in English. What “can” and what “is” are two different subjects for debate. The fact of the matter is that the King James Bible is the ONLY English Bible version today that hasn't been translated from the heretical Greek manuscripts of Westcott and Hort. Take a look at this chart showing the origin of modern Bibles. Satan is deliberately corrupting the Bible and sneaking them into the churches under the disguise of being “new and easier to understand.” The truth is that Satan has butchered the Bible. Take a look at the new, gender-neutral, updated NIV which was published in 2010. It is shameful! The sad truth is that BJU doesn't take a stand against corrupt modern Bible versions.

All I know is that if anyone should be exposing Satan's attack against the Bible, it ought to be America's Bible college institutions. I'm tired of Bob Jones' graduates calling us King James Bible ONLY believers “a cult”! No, BJU and their graduates are not right with God!!! I say that kindly, but truthfully. No one is right with God who makes light of the corrupting of God's Word. Look at what the Alexandrian text (upon which ALL modern Bible versions are based) did to CORRUPT Acts 8:36-38. UNBELIEVABLE!!! If you're Ok with that, you are not right with God!!! Where is Bob Jones University in the fight for the purity of the Holy Scriptures???

“Let emotion in. Let tears in. You're missing life. Let love in! ... America's dying for a lack of love and compassion! And our churches are dying...” —Dr. Jack Hyles, a life-changing quote from the excellent MP3 sermon titled, "Take The Shield Down."

“There's nobody in this world that deserves your trust! And if you only trust folks that deserve it, you're never going to trust anybody. Now I don't know what you're going to do, but I'm going to trust everybody!” —Dr. Jack Hyles, a life-changing quote from the excellent MP3 sermon titled, "Take The Shield Down."

One Example of How Corrupt Bible Versions Corrupt Churches

In recent years I visited a Bob Jones affiliated independent Baptist church that published their own Bible. They have the King James Bible on the left, and what they call the “easy-to-read translation” on the right (which is the watered down, corrupted, Greek perversions of Westcott and Hort). The Satanic Beliefs Of Brooke Westcott And Fenton Hort, Fathers Of All Modern Bible Versions. Just like today's Bible colleges are lax concerning the purity of the Bible, so also are they lax on moral standards, permitting females to wear pants. Moody Bible Institute has gone as far as to eliminate a century old ban prohibiting staff and faculty from drinking booze, smoking cigarettes and gambling. Bible college? Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist College promotes Hip Hop bands, shows Hollywood movies and has received millions of dollars in donations from the Moonies religious cult. Fundamental?

In the Independent Baptist church that I just mentioned, who use a parallel Bible, they teach confessing sins one to another (as a form of monitoring one another to help each other live right). Chip Ingram pushes the unbiblical practice on his radio program. They ask one another if they've had lustful thoughts over the past week, or if they have hated anyone, lied, et cetera. It's called accountability. Although the Bible teaches in Hebrews 3:13 that we ought to encourage each other in the Lord to live for Christ, there is nothing in the Bible about confessing sins one to another. The associate pastor based his errant teaching upon James 5:16a, “Confess your sins one to another,” from a corrupt Bible. Modern corrupt Bibles use the word “sins” instead of “faults” as properly translated in the King James Bible. We ought not be afraid to admit that we have feet of clay, but don't ever show anybody your feet! Do you see how having a perverted Bible perverts church doctrine and creates a big unnecessary mess?

Something is very wrong with a professed Bible college that is slack, lackadaisical, indifferent and neutral on the issue of Satan corrupting our Bibles. What's the use of attending a Bible college that doesn't think the issue of Satan tampering with the Bible a battle worthy of fighting? Brother, THE BIBLE is the battle! The reason why they don't join the battle is because they are following mainstream new evangelicalism. They don't want to suffer persecution. They don't want to be outside the gate with Jesus. This is what the ecumenical movement is all about, that is, going along to get along. Have you believed a lie?

The King James Bible Defended

Bob Jones University's Contradictory Position On the Holy Bible

What It Means To Be King James Bible Only | MP3 (awesome truth by Pastor Steven Anderson)

BATTLE OF THE AGES (MP3 by Dr. Hyles, “The King James Bible crowd is going to come out on top!”)

“As long as I've got breath to breathe, I'll not dip my sails. Let me tell you something—This battle
we have tonight is a battle between the new-evangelical crowd and fundamentalist crowd. What it is!”
—Dr. Jack Hyles, a quote from the excellent MP3 sermon titled, "Nebuchadnezzar, God's Servant"

Psalms 116:15, “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.”

“The only inspired Words of God are in the King James Bible!”
—Dr. Jack Hyles (an awesome quote —Dr. Jack Hyles (THE REAL BATTLE!”)

THE CONSPIRACY OF THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT (awesome KJB defense by Dr. Ruckman)

Modern Bible PERversions Use Same Alexandrian Text As Jehovah's Witnesses

“If America does not wake up, her tombstone will read, 'She died because her pastors substituted visions, prophecies, dreams, man’s words, and tongues for the Words of God.'”—Dr. Bob Gray Sr., “Do We Have An Every Word Bible In 2017?

DO WE HAVE AN EVERY WORD BIBLE IN 2017?

“You'd be shocked if you knew, how the versions of the Bible that are coming out, which are so unnecessary and not even Bible—You'd be shocked if you knew what they're doing to cause Christian people to feel subconsciously unstable! You'd be shocked if you knew what it's doing to the nervous system of our people—All these Bibles!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, MP3 sermon, Don't Chase The Pendulum (1986).

Dr. James Sightler: Defender Of The Inspiration Of The King James Bible!

“Every word in this Bible is inspired by God almighty!”
—Dr. Jack Hyles (a great quote from the classic sermon, “A Friend At Midnight.”)


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