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Question #10 -
QUESTION:
What does this statement mean? "The King James Bible
was good enough for the Apostle Paul, so it's good enough for
me."
ANSWER:
This statement is usually made in a sarcastic manner in
order to embarrass Bible believers in their belief. The FACT
is, the King James Bible WAS good enough for
Paul. (See Question #11) But for now I'd like you to see that it
was the only Bible that Luke would use.
EXPLANATION: In Acts
1: 1,2 Luke makes the following statement: "The former
treatise have I made, 0 Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both
to do and teach, Until the day in which he
was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given
commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:"
"The former treatise" is of course
the Gospel of Luke which Luke wrote to a believer named Theophilus.
Theophilus was apparently an early Christian who had never
personally met the Lord while He was on this earth. Considering,
though, that he was the recipient of both the Gospel of Luke and
the Acts of the Apostles, he was most certainly one of the best
informed.
Luke, in what may have been a passing comment,
in the second verse of Acts chapter one, rings the death blow to
the famous Nestle's Greek New Testament and also the New American
Standard Version. Luke states that his "former treatise"
told of all that Jesus began to do, and continued, "until the
day in which he was taken up." The things which Jesus began
to do are first recorded in Luke 2:41-52 in which He was left
behind in Jerusalem when Joseph and His mother left to return to
Nazareth. This correlates with Acts 1:1. Luke's gospel is the only
one of the four gospels which records any of Christ's actions
prior to His baptism at the age of thirty years old. (Matthew
3:16, Mark 1:9 and John 1:29-34)
Luke's gospel ends with Christ being
"carried up into heaven " in Luke 24:51. This correlates
with Acts 1:2 "Until the day in which he was taken up."
Thus, Luke states that his gospel begins with
the earliest acts of Christ and ends with His ascension.
Therefore, any Greek manuscript or manuscripts, no matter what
their age, containing the Gospel of Luke which omits either of
these accounts is not authentic. In an
examination of the 23rd Edition of Nestle's Greek Text we find
that the Greek words, "Kai anepheroto eis ton huranon,"
"and was carried up into the heaven" are not
found in this text.
The footnote in the critical apparatus
indicates that the authority for removing this phrase is no more
than manuscript (MS) Sinaiticus, D, one majuscule MS known as
number 52 and one 5th century palimpsect (a MS
which has been erased and written over top of). The phrase
"and carried up into heaven" is found in
B, C, E, F, G, H, L, S, T, V, Y, Z, Delta, Theta, Psi, and Omega
plus papyrus p75, and most remaining witnesses. Yet on the basis
of only two MSS the conservative scholars of the secret Lockman
Foundation have omitted this phrase from Luke 24:51 in the New
American Standard Version (NASV). Hence, the NASV is not truly a
reliable translation. In fact, of most modern versions, only the
"liberal" scholars of the Revised Standard Version (RSV)
agreed with the "conservative" scholars of the NASV in
omitting the phrase. Thus the known Communistic liberals of the
RSV and the conservatives of the NASV are in full agreement that
Christ did not ascend bodily into heaven.
So we see that if Luke, the writer of the
Gospel of Luke and the book of the Acts of the Apostles, could
examine a King James Bible and a New American Standard Version he
would declare the New American Standard Version a fraud and
promptly proclaim the King James Bible as authentic.
Well, quite frankly, if it's good enough for Luke,
it's good enough for me.
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