Why LBS uses and teaches the King James Bible 1611
Constantine had a court preacher named Eusebius, a church historian. Eusebius produced fifty copies of Scripture using Origen’s Hexapla and the column he used was the fifth column – the Septuagint. He wrote the Septuagint with the help of two Ebianite men, Senacus and Theodocia. Ebianites were a cult that believed in salvation by works. Two manuscripts – the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus – came from the Septuagint.
Along with the philosophy of salvation by works, his teacher Philo, a Jewish philosopher who tried to reconcile the Old Testament with the Greek philosophers by using Allegorical Interpretation, influenced Origen’s writings. He also studied under Amonous Saccus, a pantheist. Origen inherited his library from a man named Ambrose, a Gnostic.
Origen believed in baptismal regeneration. He believed the soul is eternal and therefore pre-existent, which means that before you were born your soul was off in space somewhere. The Mormons teach this belief. And he believes, like the predominantly Oriental religions, that after life on earth the soul migrates to a higher or lower form depending on their deeds on earth.
Origen moved into Catholicism through Jerome, who is called the “Father of Latin Christianity.” Jerome translated the Bible into Latin in 405 A.D. for the Catholic Church. In other words, Jerome was greatly influenced by Origen in this translation.
Origen moved into Protestantism through Brook Westcott, John Hort and Phillip Schaff. Briefly, Westcott and Hort were two non-Christian Anglican preachers who believed in talking to the dead. It cannot be said they believed a person could attain heaven through works, since they thought heaven was a state of mind and not a physical place. They also did not believe that God inspired and preserved His Word.
Westcott and Hort gave England the Revised Version of 1881 and Schaff gave America the American Standard Version of 1901, which simply was an Americanized version of the Revised Version. So, these men set up the Greek text for those revisions and they followed the footsteps of Origen.
Origen said this about Genesis – “What intelligent person would believe a first, second and third day took place without a sun, moon and stars?” That heresy can be found as note number 4 in a Scofield Bible about Gen. 1:3.
These beliefs influenced all of today’s modern translations, except the King James Bible. The translators of the King James Bible used the Textus Receptus manuscripts while all the other translations predominantly used what is called “an older” manuscript, the Vaticanus.
And these beliefs are evident in the NIV, NASB, ESV and other popular translations. Here are a few examples:
Matthew 9:13 (KJV)
13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matthew 9:13 (NASB)
13 “But go and learn what this means: ‘I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 9:13 (ESV)
13 Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Matthew 9:13 (NIV)
13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.'[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Sinners don’t need to repent?
John 1:18 (KJV)
18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
John 1:18 (NASB)
18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
John 1:18 (ESV)
18 No one has ever seen God;(B) the only God,[a] who is at the Father’s side,[b](C) he has made him known.
John 1:18 (NIV)
18 No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only,[a][b]who is at the Father’s side, has made him known.
Changing “the only begotten Son” to God to support the Arian philosophy. You’ve got two different Gods in that verse, and one of them is begotten, which means the other one created Him – He is a demi-God, an aeon, according the NASB.
Colossians 1:14 (KJV)
14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
Colossians 1:14 (NASB)
14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:14 (ESV)
14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:14 (NIV)
14in whom we have redemption,[a] the forgiveness of sins.
The blood of Jesus Christ has been taken away as the answer for the forgiveness of sins.