Rather, continuing with the
documented truth:
...The changes being made in the modern versions are not incidental. They are part of a satanic agenda to undermine key Biblical teachings and prepare the population for an all-inclusive one world religion.
Are we beginning to see the connection?
The message ‘C. S. Lewis’ gave to
Phillips was identical to that given by all New Age channelers today. C. S. Lewis merely told him in essence, “I’m OK, You’re OK; Don’t Worry. Be Happy (about your distance from God).”
Phillips’ despondency and ‘distance’ from God, as he describes it, were brought on by his faulty theology.
Is it scriptural to believe God took men like
Phillips and catapulted them to
the position of greatest influence over the body of Christ, that of bible correctors? Scripture identifies them as God’s
rejected - not God’s
chosen.
DEATH: A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizard shall surely be put to
death. Leviticus 20:27
Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also
rejected thee from being king. (1 Samuel 15:23) So Saul
died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it (1 Chronicles 10:13). And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him. (1 Chronicles 10:13, 14)
CUT OFF: And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul and will
cut him off from among his people. (Leviticus 20:6)
The Lord will
cut off the man that doeth this, the master and
THE SCHOLAR. (Malachi 2:12)
And when they shall say to you, ‘Seek unto them that have familiar spirits...it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8:19,20)
Phillips tells in his own
autobiography, “I was still doing a fair measure of speaking in schools and churches until the late summer of 1961. And then quite suddenly
my speaking, writing and communication powers stopped. I was not in panic but I was certainly alarmed, and when a few weeks rest brought no improvement I cancelled all speaking engagements for the rest of the year" (age 55).
The Price of Success, the title of his autobiography, is
apropos.
“The froward tongue shall be cut out.” (Proverbs 10:31)
The speechless sphinx syndrome can even happen to a believer, as it did to Zacharias, because “...thou believest not my words” (Luke 1:20).
“What hast thou to do to declare my statutes or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction and casteth my words behind thee.” (Psalm 50:16-20)
The ‘dumb spirit’ may plague its host with an accompanying ‘lunacy.’
Phillips’ necromancy and the ‘dumb spirit’ it generated harassed
Phillips with life-long bouts of insanity.
Phillips even used the word “demon” to describe the source of his psychosis. His autobiography repeatedly refers to E.S.P. (check the index); he said he has “known the gift of telepathy;” he asked a palm reader to read his palm;
ad nauseum.
His mental illness began as what he calls a “nervous illness,” after his ordination to the priesthood of the Church of England. He resigned a pastor’s assistant job after a friend decided:
“[T]hat my trouble must be psychological and arranged for me to see the best psychologist I have ever met...He was a personal friend of Jung...Following the Jungian techniques I lay on a couch...[and] came to see for myself that the seeds of my present distress were sown in early childhood.
I found the mental pain more than I could bear and I went as a voluntary patient to a psychiatric clinic...I was at the point of breakdown...which in popular parlance is called a nervous breakdown...The hardest thing of all to bear is what I can only describe as a nameless mental pain, which is, as far as I know, beyond the reach of any drug and which I have tried in vain to describe to anyone. One of the psychiatrists asked me write down as far as I could the nature of the almost intolerable pain...He was a distinguished man in his field and was about to visit a number of mental hospitals in a south London group.”
[
Phillips lists his condition as follows:]
“1. There is a slow but inevitable diminution of the self and it is apparently leading to self-extinction.
2. Familiar things become somehow touched with horror...[T]he sense of alienation means that one is not in one’s own country or has strayed into a strange country by mistake.
3. [A] roaring galloping torrent of condemnation [is] directed against the self’s achievements. With remorseless energy this particular ‘demon’ rushes to and fro up and down in one’s mind and with savage cruelty exposes everything that the self has done as being useless and worthless.”
He closes his list with another ”demon” and elsewhere writes:
“[D]emon...the hellish torments of mind...utter despair...frightening experiences...seized by irrational panic...despite the use of drugs...the fears of childhood re-appear with monstrous force...The experiences are really evil and they sometimes are terrifyingly so...[Y]ou may ask where does the Christian faith come in all of this. The answer is that probably emotionally it is of little help at all...God himself appears to be far away. [He writes of]...praying to an empty heaven...I do not believe that there is any substitute for the long unhurried conversations between the sufferer and a compassionate trained psychiatrist...I set myself down for what must be a long siege and so it has proved...I never thought, for example, that I should ever know the type of despair that leads people to self-destruction. I know it now.”
Phillips can find little help” in his own new version which is “swept” of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. (e.g., John 1:1, Galatians 2:17, Luke 24:49). His “garnished” view of salvation where “agnostics...are saved.” leaves him in “despair.”
Phillips’ own instructions to “empty the mind of the ...Authorized Version” left him with the “hellish torments of the mind” brought by the “demon” disguised as C. S. Lewis.
The Jungian analysis on which
Phillips relied can be as occult as his encounter with ‘the dead.’ Jungian analysis can include the use of spirit guides.
Phillips’ use of the word “demon” to describe the source of his psychosis is confirmed by Jung himself. Jung’s
Collected Letters Vol I records his discussion with the president of the American Society For Psychical Research, William James. He admits, spirits, not the unconscious, were the source of the psychic phenomenon he had experienced since he was three years old and living with his father, a medium and a minister. The official British
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (S.P.R.) published Jung’s views about spirit phenomena in 1920. (This is cited in his
From the Life and Letters of C. G. Jung and his memoirs.) Jung’s experiences ranged from a six-year mental breakdown during which a spirit entity named Philemon began to channel writings through him, to seeing “the head of an old woman on the bed next to him when he opened his eyes.”
Phillips boasts:
“I have known the gift of telepathy. [This term was first devised by Westcott’s protégé Fredric Myers.]...I have had first hand incontrovertible experiences of extrasensory perception and a little precognition...I had very occasionally extrasensory powers.”
He asked a palm-reader to read his palm, remarking:
“She had never seen me before in her life. At once and without hesitation she began to tell me some of the salient points of my life and to tell me my hopes and fears -- This was, to say the least, uncanny and I said, ‘Right, now tell me what I was thinking as I walked up the stairs...’[W]ithout hesitation she told me that I had been worrying about a new car. This was perfectly true.”
Phillips’ substitution of Jung for Jesus, the TV for the KJV and the ‘spirit’ of C. S. Lewis for the Holy Spirit makes him an apt translator for a generation of Christians who are unwarily following in his footsteps, leading as they do to mental problems.
There is much more that could be documented re:
J. B. Phillips, but I trust, dear reader, you get the point:
Avoid him, and those who would endorse him and/or his modern copyrighted “version." ...what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?...Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, -- 2 Cor. chap. 6.
Pastors used to spend 10 - 15 minutes explaining what they had just read out of the KJV.
Now they spend even
more time "correcting" God's pure
inspired preserved word --- just like the wanna-be scholars in these forums.
When the NIV came out I was over joyed that God's word have come into the 20th century.
God's inspired word, the Majority Text of antiquity represented by over 99% of all evidence, e.g. the KJB, was already here --- StanJ's (
and Phillips’) non-recommendation of it notwithstanding. God's pattern has always been the same: Give the COMMON man the COMMON Bible in the COMMON language of the day to do one thing - evangelize the world.
So why do wanna-be scholars cling to the
less-than-1% Alexandrian Minority Text manuscripts, rejected as corrupt, on which all modern versions are based? ...Because it gives them the wiggle room they require to
play wanna-be scholar, rather than
submit to God.
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
A faithful and accurate translation of the original texts should be ANY Christians desire.
Of course it should. But it will never come from wanna-be scholars and their opinions. Thank God he has already provided his faithful with it ala his inspired preserved pure vernacular Bibles. For English speaking people today, that vernacular Bible is the KJB.
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. -- Psalm chap. 12
The uninspired copyrighted opinions of such men as
Phillips bring death. If you have invested your time and/or money in endorsing anything copyrighted by this man, repent now.
If, as StanJ has stated, all translations are uninspired, and one of the ‘editors’ of an uninspired translation that he has ‘recommended’ in this thread (i.e. J. B.
Phillips) has now been documented to be a voiceless necromancer who suffered from 'clinical' psychosis, then
all other translation recommendations from StanJ are also highly suspect. After all, the onus of due diligence is on the one who would purport to know better -- and, as we've repeatedly seen, StanJ is clearly one who would purport to know better.
Bottom line: The thesis of the OP has been tried and has been found worthy, and merely on the documented facts surrounding the life of one 'recommended' modern version editor, a
J. B. Phillips.
Obviously, StanJ is not well-researched on what he is promoting. BTW, spamming forum threads with web sites that merely voice the opinions of other men is NOT primary (or even secondary) source documentation.
So, at this point, StanJ's credibility (at least in this thread and in any threads concerning bible “version” issues) is zero. But the good news is, he can now re-start with a clean slate. It’s not a sin to be wrong; it’s not even a sin to be grossly wrong. It is a sin, however, to refuse the reproof, the correction, when the
documented truth of the matter has been made available.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve...but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Godspeed, StanJ.
