Bible Question: I've been following the discussion regarding KJV vs. other translations. There has been a lot of good material presented. What is your take on the Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament. How widely used has this NT been in translating our modern versions. What about Westcott and Hort's well documented disdain for God's Word, and their background in the occult? I absolutely believe the infallability of God's Word, and that He will protect it against tampering, and will maintain the integrity of His message. |
Bible Answer: Westcott and Hort What about Westcott and Hort's "well documented" disdain for God's Word, and their background in the occult? Excerpted from: REVIEW/REFUTATION OF Gail Riplinger’s New Age Bible Versions by James Richard May, M.A., M.B.A '...Ms. Riplinger is a totally unreliable source of information and nothing that she writes can be accepted as truth unless independently confirmed. (...) 'The Ghostly Guild 'Riplinger makes much (too much) of a society at Cambridge that Westcott joined known as the Ghostly Guild. Its purpose was “the investigation of all supernatural appearances and effects,” (Arthur Westcott, The Life and Letters of B.F. Westcott, p. 117). The purpose is defined as investigation, not participation. One of Gail’s numerous comments upon the society is as follows: 'Westcott’s son writes of his father’s lifelong “faith in what for lack of a better name, one must call Spiritualism . . . ” The subject was, he notes, “unintelligible or alarming to the general.” In response to public disfavor regarding his esotericism and liberalism and in light of his position in the ‘religious’ community, Westcott determined that public involvement in the Ghostly Guild “led to no good,” (NABV, p. 407). 'The genuine discussion of the Guild by Westcott’s son Arthur which Riplinger twists for her own purposes is: 'What happened to this Guild in the end I have not discovered. My father ceased to interest himself in these matters, not altogether, I believe, from want of faith in what, for lack of a better name, one must call Spiritualism, but because he was seriously convinced that such investigations led to no good, (Arthur Westcott, The Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, Vol. II, p. 119). 'So here is the truth: Westcott did not leave the Ghostly Guild because of his public reputation, as Gail falsely states it, but rather because 1) to some extent he had become skeptical of what his son titled “Spiritualism,” and 2) because “he was seriously convinced that such investigations led to no good.” While we know little about the Guild, it certainly does not appear to be something that a Christian should have joined.[19] Our condemnation, however, should be tempered by our limited knowledge and by the recognition that Westcott himself turned away from the activities of the guild. (...) 'No personal Gospel for Westcott? 'According to Gail, Westcott “subscribes to ‘only a social interpretation of the Gospel,’” (NABV, p. 234), but of course, this is just another perversion. When we examine the reference that she gives (Life and Letters, Vol. II, p. 101), we discover that Westcott’s son is quoting a sermon by F.J.A. Hort and that the words ‘only a social interpretation of the Gospel’ are Hort’s words, not Westcott’s. We further discover that he is not denying a personal interpretation of the Gospel, but is asserting that there is a social one as well, and that there is “help which only a social interpretation of the Gospel can give . . . .” So what about Westcott? Did he believe in a personal Gospel? 'In the case of the unbeliever, the judgment is completed; he is separated from Christ, because he hath not believed on the revelation made in the person of Him who alone can save, (Westcott, The Gospel According to St. John, p. 56). 'Life, in other words, life eternal, is in Christ Jesus, and is realized in all its extent in union with Him: it is death to be apart from Him, (Westcott, The Epistles of St. John, p. xxxix). 'By believing on the light we become sons of light, (Westcott, The Epistles of St. John, p. 21). 'The efficacy of Christ’s work extends both to sin and sins. As ‘the Lamb of God’ ‘He taketh away the sin of the world’ . . . . The sinner incurs a debt; he falls into bondage; and he is estranged from God. . . . Thus it is that man needs forgiveness, redemption, reconciliation, (Westcott, The Epistles of St. John, p. 39). 'For Christ’s sake the Father (v. 14) forgives those who are united with Him, (Westcott, The Epistles of St. John, p. 59). '. . . those who believe in the name of the Son of God (v. 13), who cast themselves wholly upon the revelation, are assured of the possession of life eternal, (Westcott, The Epistles of St. John, p. 59). 'The universal gift of life offered by Christ has to be personally appropriated, (Westcott, The Epistles of St. John, p. 217). 'So much for another pathetic and wicked accusation.' ____________________ To read more go to: (www.kjvonly.org/james/may_reviews.htm) |
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