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1 The Bible Version Issue Test Questions Teacher Answer Sheets Way of Life Literature Advanced Bible Studies Series

2 by David W. Cloud This material cannot be placed on BBS or Internet Web sites This book is one of the titles in the Way of Life Bible Advanced Bible Studies Series Published by Way of Life Literature P.O. Box , Port Huron, MI (toll free) fbns@wayoflife.org ( ) (web site) Canada: Bethel Baptist Church, 4212 Campbell St. N., London, Ont. N6P 1A (voice) (fax) info@bethelbaptist.ca ( ) Printed in Canada by Bethel Baptist Print Ministry 2

3 THE BIBLE VERSION ISSUE TESTS Following are the tests and teacher score sheets for the course The Bible Version Issue. This is one of the titles in the Way of Life Literature Advanced Bible Studies Series. The course itself can be obtained from Way of Life Literature. (TEACHERS ARE WELCOME TO PHOTOCOPY THE TESTS) SECTIONAL TEST ON PART I. WE HOLD TO THE KING JAMES BIBLE BECAUSE OF THE DOCTRINE OF PRESERVATION 1. What verse says that without faith it is impossible to please God? 2. What verse says that faith comes by hearing the Word of God? 3. What passage in the New Testament says God committed the Old Testament Scriptures to the Jews? 4. The Masoretes guarded the Old Testament Scripture from the century to the century. 5. List eight of the most important passages that teach the doctrine of preservation. 6. Name one Reformer who interpreted Psalm 12:7 as the words of God. 7. What verse says God s Word is settled forever in heaven? 8. What verse says God changes the times and the seasons? 9. What verse says God will reprove those who add to his words? 10. What verse says God s words will not depart out of the mouth of believers? 11. What verse says not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law? 12. What verse says the words of Jesus Christ shall not pass away? 13. What passage in Matthew teaches us how God preserves the Scriptures in the New Testament dispensation? 14. What verse says it is the church that is the pillar and ground of the truth? 15. What verse warns that many antichrists have come? 16. What verse says the natural man cannot understand the things of the Spirit? 3

4 SECTIONAL TEST ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREEK TEXT UNDERLYING KING JAMES BIBLE 1. In what country did the Alexandrian Greek text underlying the modern versions arise? 2. What verse says the Holy Spirit would guide the apostles and prophets into all truth? 3. What verse says the New Testament is given in words taught by the Holy Spirit? 4. In what verse does Peter put the writings of the apostles on the same level as those of the Old Testament prophets? 5. In what verse does Peter call the writings of Paul scripture? 6. What verse says the New Testament faith was once delivered during the days of the apostles? 7. What verse says the church at Thessalonica received the teaching of Paul as the word of God? 8. What is significant about Antioch in the New Testament? It was the place where the first church was established. It was a place where many heretics operated. It was the place where the first missionary church was established. 9. Why is the Traditional Reformation text also called Antiochian or Syrian? It came originally from Syria. It came from Alexandrian. It was edited by a heretic named Antiochian. 10. In what verse did Paul speak of many which were corrupting the Word of God? 11. What scholar said the worse corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected occurred within a hundred years of the apostles? 12. In what century did Tertullian warn that the Marcionites were adding to and taking away from the Scriptures? 13. Check the following statements which are true regarding Gnosticism: It taught a way of salvation through secret knowledge. It taught that Jesus was not a man but a ghost. It denied that the world was made directly by one God. It taught that the Holy Spirit was a man. It differentiated between the Christ spirit and the man Jesus. It taught that baptism should be by sprinkling. 14. Where was the seedbed for Gnosticism located? Antioch Syria Greece Egypt 15. Marcion and his followers did what to the Scriptures: added to them? shortened them? 16. Check the following true statement(s) about Adoptionism. The man Jesus did not really die on the cross. Jesus was born an ordinary man and became the Son of God at his baptism. The man Jesus became the Son of God when he was born and became the super Son of God when he was baptized. The man Jesus became the Christ at his baptism. 4

5 17. Check the following true statement(s) about Arianism. The Son of God was created. The Son of God is not equal with God. The Son of God is not eternal. 18. What did Origen believe about Jesus? He is the eternal God. He had no beginning. He is equal with God the Father. He was created. 19. Why is the Westcott-Hort principle that the oldest manuscripts are the best bogus? Check the following statements that are true. We know that heretics tampered with manuscripts during the early centuries. A very old manuscript might be one of those that was corrupted. Egypt was a hotbed of heresy, and an old manuscript originating in Egypt would be highly suspect. 20. In what way do the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts attack the deity of Christ in John 1:27? By omitting the words is preferred before me By changing only begotten son to only begotten God By omitting the words who is in heaven By omitting the word God By omitting the Johannine Coma By omitting the Lord 21. In what way do the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts attack the deity of Christ in John 3:13? By omitting the words is preferred before me By changing only begotten son to only begotten God By omitting the words who is in heaven By omitting the word God By omitting the Johannine Coma By omitting the Lord 22. In what way do the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts attack the deity of Christ in 1 Corinthians 15:47? By omitting the words is preferred before me By changing only begotten son to only begotten God By omitting the words who is in heaven By omitting the word God By omitting the Johannine Coma By omitting the Lord 23. Check the following statements that are true of an uncial. It is a manuscript written in regular style of writing with small letters as opposed to all caps. It is a manuscript written in all capitalization. It is also called a cursive. It is also called a majuscule. Uncial also means codex. Uncial also means papyrus. This method of writing manuscripts began in the early 9th century. 5

6 24. Check the following statement(s) which are true about a lectionary. It is an uncial. It is a minuscule. It is a collection of New Testament passages to be read in churches. It is a codex or a scroll. 25. In what century did the Byzantine Empire fall and the Greek manuscripts were carried into Europe? 26. What important invention was made at this same time? The computer The typewriter Printing by movable type Offset printing 27. After devoting much of his life to investigating the history of the Bible, what was John Burgon s conclusion about the Received Text? It is the text that has come down to us through the centuries It doesn t have sufficient manuscript evidence to support it as authentic. We can t be sure whether it is the preserved Word of God. 28. What godly objective did Erasmus have that set him apart dramatically from most Catholic authorities of that day? He wanted to leave Rome and establish New Testament churches. He wanted to practice believer s baptism by immersion. He wanted to make the Scriptures available in the common languages for every person. 6

7 SECTIONAL TEST ON PART II. WE HOLD TO THE KING JAMES BIBLE BECAUSE THE THEORIES UNDERLYING THE MODERN GREEK TEXT ARE HERETICAL 1. In what way did the fathers of modern textual criticism treat the Bible differently than other books? They treated the Bible as the preserved Word of God. They treated the Bible as the infallibly inspired Word of God. They treated the Bible the same as other books. 2. The modern Greek New Testament is how much shorter than the Received Text? By the equivalent of 1 and 2 Peter combined By the equivalent of the entire Gospel of John By the equivalent of the entire book of 1 Corinthians 3. What did Westcott and Hort think of the Vaticanus? It has been tampered with by heretics. It is the very worse manuscript. It is the very best manuscript. 4. Check the following statements that are true about the discovery of the Sinaiticus. It was discovered at the Vatican Library. It was discovered in the 15th century. It was discovered by Tischendorf It was discovered by Westcott and Hort It was discovered at St. Catherine s monastery near Mt. Sinai It was discovered in the 19th century 5. What Greek manuscripts are meant when modern version marginal notes refer to oldest and best manuscripts? 6. What was the chief characteristic of Egypt in the early centuries after the apostles during the days that the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus were created? It was the location of the first great missionary church. It was where Peter and John ministered It was a hotbed of theological heresy 7. What two Greek manuscripts are the source of most of the omissions and glaring changes in the modern versions? 8. In Acts 20:28, the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus change church of God to church of the Lord. How does this weaken the doctrine of Christ s deity? Heretics such as the Jehovah s Witnesses believe that Jesus is the Lord but that he is not God. Heretics such as the Jehovah s Witnesses believe that Jesus is both Lord and God. 9. In Romans 14:10, the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus change judgment seat of Christ to judgment seat of God. how does this weaken the doctrine of Christ s deity? Heretics don t believe that Jesus will judge anything. The judgment seat of Christ identifies Jesus with Jehovah God, when this verse is compared to Isaiah 45:23. The judgment seat of God allows heretics to say that Jesus Christ is not the same as God. 7

8 10. In 1 John 4:3, the Vaticanus changes confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh to confesseth not Jesus and most modern version follow this change; how does this weaken the doctrine of Christ s deity? Heretics such as the Jehovah s Witnesses confess Jesus but they do not confess that Jesus is the same as Christ and therefore the eternal God. To confess Jesus is an almost meaningless test of doctrinal soundness, because even the rankest heretics confess Jesus in their own way. 11. How many times do the Vaticanus and the Sinaiticus differ from one another in the Gospels alone? More than 300 times More than 1,000 times More than 3,000 times 12. John Burgon concluded that the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus owed their survival solely to what? They were hidden in a pot in a cave near the Dead Sea They were lost for a long time inside of a packet of Septuagint manuscripts. They were obviously depraved and therefore not used. 13. John Burgon called Sinaiticus and Vaticanus two witnesses? 14. To what do the papyri owe their survival? They were preserved by the arid climate in Egypt. They were hidden away in the Vatican. They were hidden away near Mt. Sinai. 15. In what way does the doctrine of preservation assure us that the papyri should not be used to overthrow the traditional Greek New Testament? The doctrine of preservation promises that the Scriptures will be preserved as they are used, not by being hidden away. The doctrine of preservation promises that every Bible manuscript will be perfect. The doctrine of preservation promises that God will not allow heretics to tamper with the manuscripts. The doctrine of preservation promises that the true manuscripts will only be found among the Waldenses. 16. What are the major reasons why we reject modern textual criticism? Check the following statement(s) that are true. We reject modern textual criticism because its goal is unscriptural. We reject modern textual criticism because its theories are strange. We reject modern textual criticism because its rules are unsettled. We reject modern textual criticism because its rules are applied in different ways by individual critics. We reject modern textual criticism because its fruit has been increasing uncertainty and skepticism. We reject modern textual criticism because its fruit has been a weakening of the authority of Scripture We reject modern textual criticism because its fruit has been the promotion of the ecumenical movement. 17. How is the goal of modern textual criticism unscriptural? It is unscriptural because God has preserved the Scriptures and they don t have to be recovered. It is unscriptural because believers don t need to look at old manuscripts. It is unscriptural because we still have the original Scripture manuscripts. 8

9 18. Why does Jack Moorman liken textual criticism to The Artful Dodger? Check the following statement(s) that are true. It is always changing. It is dishonest. It is not what it claims to be. 19. John Burgon said that talk about genealogical evidence, when applied to manuscripts is. 20. John Burgon called Hort s theory of a Syrian recension an excursion into. 21. Hort claimed that the Traditional Text is a product of conflation; what is this? Conflation means to blend or fuse together. Conflation means to omit words and phrases that do not seem authentic. Conflation means to carefully preserve every word of a manuscript. 22. True or false: It is far more reasonable to assume that the Alexandrian text omitted things than that the believers in Syria added things. 23. What verse says the devil corrupts the simplicity that is in Christ? 24 What verse says God has hidden His truth from the wise and revealed it to babes? 25 What verse says God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise? 26. F.C. Conybeare claimed the New Testament text is for ever. 27. Edward Hills warned,... the logic of naturalistic textual criticism leads to 28. Roman Catholic Patrick Henry said the ecumenical activities between Catholics and Protestants in the field of Bible texts signals a in the church. 29. What is the one key Bible doctrine that overthrows modern textual criticism? 30. What verse warns about science falsely so called? 9

10 SECTIONAL TEST ON PART III. WE HOLD TO THE KING JAMES BIBLE BECAUSE THE MODERN TEXTS AND VERSIONS ARE A PRODUCT OF END- TIME APOSTASY 1. According to Robert Dabney, evangelicals have adopted their textual criticism from the mint of. 2. Edward Hills warned that in the realm of New Testament Textual criticism the presuppositions of modern thought are to the historic Christian faith According to Johann Eichhorn, who wrote the Pentateuch? Moses Joshua God unknown editors 4. Schleiermacher exalted what over Bible doctrine? Experience Truth Light 5. What part of the Bible did F.C. Baur attack? The Pentateuch The Poetic Books The Books of Prophecy Revelation The Gospels 6. In 1887 Charles H. Spurgeon warned of the which has flashed from the pulpit and spread among the people. 7. What was Kant s chief authority? The Bible The German Constitution His own reasoning The Tubingen School 8. According to Hegel, there is a merging of opposites to form a new idea or thought. What did he call this action and what did he call the new thought thus formed? 9. What is the first doctrine that Unitarianism denies? The humanity of Christ The reality of Satan The Trinity and the deity of Jesus Christ 10. Why was the Trinitarian Bible Society formed? To publish Bibles that translate baptizo as immersion. To publish Bibles throughout Asia. To publish Bibles in places where the British and Foreign Bible Society did not go. To protest the careless way that the British and Foreign Bible Society was treating doctrinal purity and to uphold the doctrine of the Trinity in the context of the Bible publishing endeavor. 11. In what century did Unitarianism arise in America? 12. What famous American college was taken over by Unitarianism in the early 1800s? 13. Ralph Waldo Emerson urged scholars to free themselves from traditions such as the Bible and to trust in what? The American Constitution Self The Hindu Scriptures The writings of Madame Blavatsky 10

11 14. What was one of the major objectives of the Unitarian Book Society? To defend the King James Bible To publish the Received Greek New Testament To publish an English translation of the Griesbach critical text 15. Name some of the prominent textual critics who were Unitarians. Check the correct answer(s). Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau William Channing Joseph Henry Thayer William Bentley George Vance Smith Joseph Priestly Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ezra Abbot 16. In what year was Darwin s Origin of the Species published? 17. In what year did Joseph Smith publish The Book of Mormon? 18. What is the name of the prophetess who founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church? 19. Who was the founder of the Jehovah s Witnesses? 20. What do Jehovah s Witnesses believe about Jesus Christ? Check the true statement(s). Jesus Christ is not a true man. Jesus Christ is a created being. Jesus Christ is God. Jesus Christ is the same as the Holy Spirit. 21. Who wrote Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures? 22. What decree was made at the first Vatican Council? Mary is the Queen of Heaven The Pope never makes mistakes. The Pope is infallible when he speaks ex cathedra. The Pope ascends to heaven bodily after he dies. 23. What was the goal of the Oxford Movement? To reform the Church of England to make it more biblical. To bring the Church of England back to Rome. 24. What textual critic did Westcott and Hort venerate above that of every other textual critic? 25. Who was the father of German rationalism? 26. Bible believers in that day condemned Griesbach for making changes to what three verses? 1 Timothy 3:16 John 1:1 Acts 20:28 John 3:16 Mark 16:15 1 Corinthians 15:33 1 John 5:7 27. Who was it that loved Griesbach s modern textual criticism? Bible believers Unitarians Baptists 28. Tischendorf described the goal of his textual criticism as the to the original form of the New Testament. 29. Why did the Unitarian George Smith like the changes made in the modern versions? The changes fit his doctrine that Christ is not God. The changes made the Bible s doctrine of Christ more inline with traditional doctrine. 11

12 30. What did Westcott and Hort believe about the infallibility of the Bible? The Bible is infallible in all its parts. The Bible is not infallible in all things. 31. What did Hort believe about Darwin? Hort believed that Darwin was teaching heresy. Hort warned Westcott to beware of Darwin. Hort accepted Darwin s teaching on evolution. 32. What did Westcott believe about the first three chapters of Genesis? These chapters teach infallible history. These chapters are not literal history. 33. What did Westcott and Hort believe about the doctrine of substitutionary atonement? Check those statement(s) that are true. Believers are redeemed from their sins by the offering of the blood and death of Jesus Christ. Redemption required the offering of the literal blood of Christ. The atonement of Christ is only symbolic. The popular doctrine of the atonement is a counterfeit Jesus bore our sins in his life more than in his death. 34. Why did Philip Schaff s first public address in America produce a storm of criticism? It was too strong on the infallibility of Scripture. It questioned the deity of Christ. It questioned the book of Revelation. It was Romish. 35. Name two Unitarians that were on the American Standard Version committee. B.B. Warfield George Vance Smith Robert Dabney Ezra Abbot Joseph Thayer Robert Breckenridge 36. What was the theological position of the authors of the Brown, Driver, and Briggs Hebrew English Lexicon? They believed in the infallible inspiration of Scripture. They held to modernistic views. 37. What did Eberhard Nestle believe about biblical infallibility? He accepted it. He rejected it. 38. Which one of the editors of the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament is a Roman Catholic Cardinal? 39. How many of the editors of the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament accept the Bible as the infallibly inspired Word of God? All of them Most of them Some of them None of them 40. Metzger called Job an ancient. 41. Metzger said Jonah was taken from the realm of popular. 42. What are some reasons why it matters if influential names in modern textual criticism are skeptics? Skeptics do not have spiritual discernment and cannot understand the things of God. God commands his people to avoid skeptics. Skeptics cannot get their facts right. Skeptics cannot understand the words of the Bible. 12

13 SECTIONAL TEST ON PART IV. WE HOLD TO THE KING JAMES BIBLE BECAUSE OF ITS SUPERIOR DOCTRINE 1. What percentage of the New Testament is affected by textual variants between the critical Greek text and the Reformation Greek text? 2. The textual omissions in the critical Greek text are equal to the omission of what two books from the New Testament? 3. How many entire verses are omitted or questioned in the critical Greek text? 4. How many partial verses are omitted in the critical Greek text? 5. What warning is given in Revelation 22:18-19? 6. What groups of Christians in the 19th century recognized that the Bible text-version issue is a doctrinal issue? Bible believers Pentecostals Unitarians 7. John Burgon observed that since it was the doctrine of the eternal Godhead of Jesus Christ that was under attack in the first centuries after the apostles, it is a memorable circumstance that it is those texts... which have suffered most severely, and retain to this hour traces of having been in various ways with. 8. What is the name of a Unitarian textual critic who understood that the changes in the modern critical Greek text lent support to their heresy pertaining to Jesus Christ and weakened orthodox doctrine? B.B. Warfield Ezra Abbot A.A. Hodge Robert Dabney 9. Why is it wrong to change only begotten Son to only Son or one and only Son? Check the following statement(s) that are true. Jesus Christ is not the only Son of God. The word begotten is in the Greek and should be translated in English. 10. What are nine verses in which the modern versions weaken the doctrine of Christ s deity? 11. The modern versions remove God from 1 Timothy 3:16; how does this destroy the mystery? The term mystery means God. The term mystery means something mysterious. To remove God means there is no mystery because every man is manifest in the flesh. 12. What percentage of the Greek manuscripts have God in 1 Timothy 3:16? A few of them. Many of them. The vast majority of them. 13

14 13. 1 John 5:7 is removed from most modern Bible versions, but it was included in most versions prior to the 20th century. When did 1 John 5:7 first appear in the English Bible? In the Tyndale Bible in the 16th century. In the King James Bible in the 17th century. In the Wycliffe Bible in the 14th century. 14. Is the word fasting entirely removed from the modern versions? 15. The modern versions remove without a cause from Matthew 5:22. How does this make Jesus a sinner? 16. In John 7:8, the modern versions omit the word yet. How does this make Jesus into a liar? 14

15 SECTIONAL TEST PART V. WE HOLD TO THE KING JAMES BIBLE BECAUSE OF ITS UNMATCHED HERITAGE (from Wycliffe to 1611) 1. In what century did John Wycliffe live? 2. What year was the Wycliffe New Testament finished? 3. In what university did Wycliffe teach theology? 4. For what reason did John of Gaunt remove his protection from Wycliffe? Wycliffe called the Pope the antichrist. Wycliffe taught that salvation is by grace alone without works. Wycliffe rejected the dogma of transubstantiation. 5. What language was the Wycliffe Bible translated from? 6. Why is it not possible to find John Wycliffe s burial place today? His tomb has been moved several times. The Lutterworth church has forgotten which tomb belongs to Wycliffe. His bones were dug up and burned by the Catholic Church. 7. In what year did the Constitutions of Arundel make it illegal to translate the Bible into English in England? 8. Why was the tower at the Archbishop of Canterbury s Lambeth Palace named Lollard s Tower? John Lollard designed it. John Lollard was the first man to live in the tower. Lollards were imprisoned there. 9. What was the first English New Testament to be printed? The Wycliffe The Matthews The Coverdale The Tyndale The King James 10. What was the first English New Testament translated from Greek? The Wycliffe The Matthews The Coverdale The Tyndale The King James 11. At which university was Tyndale educated? 12. How many languages could Tyndale speak fluently? 13. The Roman Catholic Church did not allow the people to read the Bible in English, but it did allow a few books such as The Mirror of the Life of Christ by Nicholas Love. Who was the hero in this book? Jesus Christ Joshua Mary 14. When a Catholic priest told Tyndale that they were better without God s laws than the popes, what famous reply did Tyndale give? If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a that shall know more of the Scriptures than thou doest. 15. Tyndale testified that I never altered of God s Word against my conscience; nor would this day, if all that is in the earth, whether it be pleasure, honor, or riches, might be given me. 15

16 16. What do the ecclesiastical authorities in England do when the Tyndale New Testaments began to be smuggled in from Europe? They passed a law requiring every church to display a copy. They praised it as a great event in England s history. They asked Tyndale to return to England and lead in the printing efforts. They condemned it and burned the copies. 17. In what town and country was Tyndale imprisoned in the castle? Hamburg, Germany Worms, Germany Antwerp, the Netherlands Vilvoorde, Belgium 18. How long was he imprisoned? 19. How was Tyndale put to death? His head was cut off. He was strangled to death and then burned. He was drowned. 20. According to a computer study done in 1998, what percentage of the King James Bible is from Tyndale? 21. What edition of the Tyndale Bible was brought to America by its first settlers? The Coverdale The Matthew The Bishops Bible The Geneva Bible 22. What was the first printed entire English Bible? The Tyndale Bible The Coverdale The Matthew The Bishops Bible The Geneva Bible 23. Thomas Matthew was a pen name for what man? 24. In what ways was the Geneva a milestone in the English Bible? It was the first entire English Bible to contain verse divisions throughout. It was the first English Bible to be printed. It was the first English Bible translated from the Greek. It was the first English Bible that used italic to mark words not in the original. It was the first English Bible to have the entire Old Testament translated from Hebrew. 25. What was the name of the palace where the conference was held in 1604 at which the king decided to approve the production of the new Bible translation? 26. What was the name of the Puritan who proposed the new Bible translation to the king? 27. Roughly how many translators worked on the King James Bible? The work was divided between how many companies of translators? 29. What occurred in the field of biblical scholarship since the 19th century which makes it less possible to translate the Bible properly than in the 17th century? Modernism has corrupted the field of biblical scholarship. The Cults have made it impossible to translate the Bible properly. The Roman Catholic Church has taken control of all translation work. 16

17 30. In the 19th century, Charles Philpot warned that the learned men and scholars of his day are notoriously either tainted with or. 31. Each part of the King James Bible was examined at least how many times? 32. Which KJV translator was the master of 15 languages? Lancelot Andrewes William Bedwell John Bois Richard Brett Lawrence Chaderton Francis Dillingham Richard Kilby John Laifield John Rainolds Henry Saville Miles Smith Samuel Ward 33. Which KJV translator was reading the entire Hebrew Bible at age five? Lancelot Andrewes William Bedwell John Bois Richard Brett Lawrence Chaderton Francis Dillingham Richard Kilby John Laifield John Rainolds Henry Saville Miles Smith Samuel Ward 34. Which KJV translator had made an adventurous trip across the sea to Puerto Rico? Lancelot Andrewes William Bedwell John Bois Richard Brett Lawrence Chaderton Francis Dillingham Richard Kilby John Laifield John Rainolds Henry Saville Miles Smith Samuel Ward 35. Which KJV translator knew Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Latin, Greek, and Arabic as well as his own mother tongue? Lancelot Andrewes William Bedwell John Bois Richard Brett Lawrence Chaderton Francis Dillingham Richard Kilby John Laifield John Rainolds Henry Saville Miles Smith Samuel Ward 36. In whom did the King James men trust for the wisdom to translate the Bible? Their diligent scholarship Their king Their God 37. What part did King James I have in the translation? He translated some portions of the Gospels. He translated the book of Genesis. He had no part in the translation work. 38. Edward Hills said the language of the Bible should be as well as. 39. What type of changes has been made to the King James Bible since 1611? Some verses have been omitted. Some changes have been made to the Hebrew and Greek texts. The changes largely have to do with spelling and punctuation. 40. The King James Bible is written on what level? Third to fifth grade Eighth to tenth grade College level 41. Shakespeare used a vocabulary of roughly English words, whereas the King James Bible used only about. 17

18 42. Why did the King James translators used thee, thou, and thine? What benefit do these old words have? These words make the King James sound more majestic. These words were in common usage when the King James was translated. These words make a distinction between the plural and singular of the second person pronoun. 18

19 FINAL TEST ON THE BIBLE VERSION ISSUE 1. What verse says that without faith it is impossible to please God? 2. What verse says that faith comes by hearing the Word of God? 3. What passage in the New Testament says God committed the Old Testament Scriptures to the Jews? 4. What verse says God s Word is settled forever in heaven? 5. What verse says God will reprove those who add to his words? 6. What verse says God s words will not depart out of the mouth of believers? 7. What verse says not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law? 8. What verse says the words of Jesus Christ shall not pass away? 9. What passage in Matthew teaches us how God preserves the Scriptures in the New Testament dispensation? 10. What verse says the natural man cannot understand the things of the Spirit? 11. In what verse did Paul speak of many which were corrupting the Word of God? 12. Why is the Westcott-Hort principle that the oldest manuscripts are the best bogus? Check the following statements that are true. We know that heretics tampered with manuscripts during the early centuries. A very old manuscript might be one of those that was corrupted. Egypt was a hotbed of heresy, and an old manuscript originating in Egypt would be highly suspect. 13. After devoting much of his life to investigating the history of the Bible, what was John Burgon s conclusion about the Received Text? It is the text that has come down to us through the centuries It doesn t have sufficient manuscript evidence to support it as authentic. We can t be sure whether it is the preserved Word of God. 14. What godly objective did Erasmus have that set him apart dramatically from most Catholic authorities of that day? He wanted to leave Rome and establish New Testament churches. He wanted to practice believer s baptism by immersion. He wanted to make the Scriptures available in the common languages for every person. 15. The modern Greek New Testament is how much shorter than the Received Text? By the equivalent of 1 and 2 Peter combined By the equivalent of the entire Gospel of John By the equivalent of the entire book of 1 Corinthians 19

20 16. In what way does the doctrine of preservation assure us that the papyri should not be used to overthrow the traditional Greek New Testament? The doctrine of preservation promises that the Scriptures will be preserved as they are used, not by being hidden away. The doctrine of preservation promises that every Bible manuscript will be perfect. The doctrine of preservation promises that God will not allow heretics to tamper with the manuscripts. The doctrine of preservation promises that the true manuscripts will only be found among the Waldenses. 17. How is the goal of modern textual criticism unscriptural? It is unscriptural because God has preserved the Scriptures and they don t have to be recovered. It is unscriptural because believers don t need to look at old manuscripts. It is unscriptural because we still have the original Scripture manuscripts. 18. What verse says the devil corrupts the simplicity that is in Christ? 19. What verse says God has hidden His truth from the wise and revealed it to babes? 20. What verse says God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise? 21. What is the one key Bible doctrine that overthrows modern textual criticism? 22. What verse warns about science falsely so called? 23. According to Robert Dabney, evangelicals have adopted their textual criticism from the mint of. 24. Tischendorf described the goal of his textual criticism as the to the original form of the New Testament. 25. What percentage of the New Testament is affected by textual variants between the critical Greek text and the Reformation Greek text? 26. The textual omissions in the critical Greek text are equal to the omission of what two books from the New Testament? 27. How many entire verses are omitted or questioned in the critical Greek text? 28. Check the verses in which the modern versions weaken the doctrine of Christ s deity? John 1:1 John 1:23 John 3:16 John 8:50 Acts 20:18 Romans 14:14 1 Cor. 15:45 Eph. 3:7 1 Tim. 3:15 1 John 4:10 1 John 5:9 29. What language was the Wycliffe Bible translated from? 30. How many languages could Tyndale speak fluently? 31. According to a computer study done in 1998, what percentage of the King James Bible is from Tyndale? 32. What type of changes has been made to the King James Bible since 1611? Some verses have been omitted. Some changes have been made to the Hebrew and Greek texts. The changes largely have to do with spelling and punctuation. 20

21 The Bible Version Issue ANSWERS TO TESTS Following are answers to the tests for the course The Bible Version Issue. This is one of the titles in the Way of Life Literature Advanced Bible Studies Series. The course itself can be obtained from Way of Life Literature. ANSWERS TO SECTIONAL TEST PART I. WE HOLD TO THE KING JAMES BIBLE BECAUSE OF THE DOCTRINE OF PRESERVATION 1. What verse says that without faith it is impossible to please God? _Heb. 11:6 2. What verse says that faith comes by hearing the Word of God? _Rom. 10:17_ 3. What passage in the New Testament says God committed the Old Testament Scriptures to the Jews? _Rom. 3:2 4. The Masoretes guarded the Old Testament Scripture from the 5th century to the 15th_ century? 5. List eight of the most important passages that teach the doctrine of preservation. Psalm 12:6-7; 111:7-8; 119:152; 119:160; Isaiah 59:20-21; Matt. 5:18; 24:35; 1 Peter 1: Name one Reformer who interpreted Psalm 12:7 as the words of God. One of the following: Martin Luther, Henry Ainsworth, or John Wesley 7. What verse says God s Word is settled forever in heaven? Psalm 119:89 8. What verse says God changes the times and the seasons? Dan. 2:21 9. What verse says God will reprove those who add to his words? Prov. 30:6 10. What verse says God s words will not depart out of the mouth of believers? Isaiah 59: What verse says not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law? Mat. 5: What verse says the words of Jesus Christ shall not pass away? Mat. 24: What passage in Matthew teaches us how God preserves the Scriptures in the New Testament dispensation? Matthew 28: What verse says it is the church that is the pillar and ground of the truth? 1 Timothy 3: What verse warns that many antichrists have come? 1 John 2: What verse says the natural man cannot understand the things of the Spirit? 1 Cor. 2:14 21

22 ANSWERS TO SECTIONAL TEST ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREEK TEXT UNDERLYING KING JAMES BIBLE 1. In what country did the Alexandrian Greek text underlying the modern versions arise? Egypt 2. What verse says the Holy Spirit would guide the apostles and prophets into all truth? John 16:13 3. What verse says the New Testament is given in words taught by the Holy Spirit? 1 Cor. 2:13 4. In what verse does Peter put the writings of the apostles on the same level as those of the Old Testament prophets? 2 Pet. 3:2 5. In what verse does Peter call the writings of Paul scripture? 2 Pet. 3:16 6. What verse says the New Testament faith was once delivered during the days of the apostles? Jude 3 7. What verse says the church at Thessalonica received the teaching of Paul as the word of God? 1 Thess. 2:13 8. What is significant about Antioch in the New Testament? It was the place where the first church was established. It was a place where many heretics operated. It was the place where the first missionary church was established. 9. Why is the Traditional Reformation text also called Antiochian or Syrian? It came originally from Syria. It came from Alexandrian. It was edited by a heretic named Antiochian. 10. In what verse did Paul speak of many which were corrupting the Word of God? 2 Cor. 2: What scholar said the worse corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected occurred within a hundred years of the apostles? F.H.A. Scrivener 12. In what century did Tertullian warn that the Marcionites were adding to and taking away from the Scriptures? _2nd 13. Check the following statements which are true regarding Gnosticism: It taught a way of salvation through secret knowledge. It taught that Jesus was not a man but a ghost. It denied that the world was made directly by one God. It taught that the Holy Spirit was a man. It differentiated between the Christ spirit and the man Jesus. It taught that baptism should be by sprinkling. 14. Where was the seedbed for Gnosticism located? Antioch Syria Greece Egypt 15. Marcion and his followers did what to the Scriptures: added to them? shortened them? 16. Check the following true statement(s) about Adoptionism. The man Jesus did not really die on the cross. Jesus was born an ordinary man and became the Son of God at his baptism. The man Jesus became the Son of God when he was born and became the super Son of God when he was baptized. The man Jesus became the Christ at his baptism. 22

23 17. Check the following true statement(s) about Arianism. The Son of God was created. The Son of God is not equal with God. The Son of God is not eternal. 18. What did Origen believe about Jesus? He is the eternal God. He had no beginning. He is equal with God the Father. He was created. 19. Why is the Westcott-Hort principle that the oldest manuscripts are the best bogus? Check the following statements that are true. We know that heretics tampered with manuscripts during the early centuries. A very old manuscript might be one of those that was corrupted. Egypt was a hotbed of heresy, and an old manuscript originating in Egypt would be highly suspect. 20. In what way do the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts attack the deity of Christ in John 1:27? By omitting the words is preferred before me By changing only begotten son to only begotten God By omitting the words who is in heaven By omitting the word God By omitting the Johannine Coma By omitting the Lord 21. In what way do the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts attack the deity of Christ in John 3:13? By omitting the words is preferred before me By changing only begotten son to only begotten God By omitting the words who is in heaven By omitting the word God By omitting the Johannine Coma By omitting the Lord 22. In what way do the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts attack the deity of Christ in 1 Corinthians 15:47? By omitting the words is preferred before me By changing only begotten son to only begotten God By omitting the words who is in heaven By omitting the word God By omitting the Johannine Coma By omitting the Lord 23. Check the following statements that are true of an uncial. It is a manuscript written in regular style of writing with small letters as opposed to all caps. It is a manuscript written in all capitalization. It is also called a cursive. It is also called a majuscule. Uncial also means codex. Uncial also means papyrus. This method of writing manuscripts began in the early 9th century. 24. Check the following statement(s) which are true about a lectionary. It is an uncial. It is a minuscule. It is a collection of New Testament passages to be read in churches. It is a codex or a scroll. 23

24 25. In what century did the Byzantine Empire fall and the Greek manuscripts were carried into Europe? 15th 26. What important invention was made at this same time? The computer The typewriter Printing by movable type Offset printing 27. After devoting much of his life to investigating the history of the Bible, what was John Burgon s conclusion about the Received Text? It is the text that has come down to us through the centuries It doesn t have sufficient manuscript evidence to support it as authentic. We can t be sure whether it is the preserved Word of God. 28. What godly objective did Erasmus have that set him apart dramatically from most Catholic authorities of that day? He wanted to leave Rome and establish New Testament churches. He wanted to practice believer s baptism by immersion. He wanted to make the Scriptures available in the common languages for every person. ANSWERS TO SECTIONAL TEST ON PART II. WE HOLD TO THE KING JAMES BIBLE BECAUSE THE THEORIES UNDERLYING THE MODERN GREEK TEXT ARE HERETICAL 1. In what way did the fathers of modern textual criticism treat the Bible differently than other books? They treated the Bible as the preserved Word of God. They treated the Bible as the infallibly inspired Word of God. They treated the Bible the same as other books. 2. The modern Greek New Testament is how much shorter than the Received Text? By the equivalent of 1 and 2 Peter combined By the equivalent of the entire Gospel of John By the equivalent of the entire book of 1 Corinthians 3. What did Westcott and Hort think of the Vaticanus? It has been tampered with by heretics. It is the very worse manuscript. It is the very best manuscript. 4. Where and by whom was the Sinaiticus discovered? It was discovered at the Vatican Library. It was discovered in the 15th century. It was discovered by Tischendorf It was discovered by Westcott and Hort It was discovered at St. Catherine s monastery near Mt. Sinai It was discovered in the 19th century 5. What Greek manuscripts are meant when modern version marginal notes refer to oldest and best manuscripts? Sinaiticus Vaticanus 24

25 6. What was the chief characteristic of Egypt in the early centuries after the apostles during the days that the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus were created? It was the location of the first great missionary church. It was where Peter and John ministered It was a hotbed of theological heresy 7. What two Greek manuscripts are the source of most of the omissions and glaring changes in the modern versions? Sinaiticus Vaticanus 8. In Acts 20:28, the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus change church of God to church of the Lord. How does this weaken the doctrine of Christ s deity? Heretics such as the Jehovah s Witnesses believe that Jesus is the Lord but that he is not God. Heretics such as the Jehovah s Witnesses believe that Jesus is both Lord and God. 9. In Romans 14:10, the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus change judgment seat of Christ to judgment seat of God. how does this weaken the doctrine of Christ s deity? Heretics don t believe that Jesus will judge anything. The judgment seat of Christ identifies Jesus with Jehovah God, when this verse is compared to Isaiah 45:23. The judgment seat of God allows heretics to say that Jesus Christ is not the same as God. 10. In 1 John 4:3, the Vaticanus changes confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh to confesseth not Jesus and most modern version follow this change; how does this weaken the doctrine of Christ s deity? Heretics such as the Jehovah s Witnesses confess Jesus but they do not confess that Jesus is the same as Christ and therefore the eternal God. To confess Jesus is an almost meaningless test of doctrinal soundness, because even the rankest heretics confess Jesus in their own way. 11. How many times do the Vaticanus and the Sinaiticus differ from one another in the Gospels alone? More than 300 times More than 1,000 times More than 3,000 times 12. John Burgon concluded that the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus owed their survival solely to what? They were hidden in a pot in a cave near the Dead Sea They were lost for a long time inside of a packet of Septuagint manuscripts. They were obviously depraved and therefore not used. 13. John Burgon called Sinaiticus and Vaticanus two _false witnesses? 14. To what do the papyri owe their survival? They were preserved by the arid climate in Egypt. They were hidden away in the Vatican. They were hidden away near Mt. Sinai. 15. In what way does the doctrine of preservation assure us that the papyri should not be used to overthrow the traditional Greek New Testament? The doctrine of preservation promises that the Scriptures will be preserved as they are used, not by being hidden away. The doctrine of preservation promises that every Bible manuscript will be perfect. The doctrine of preservation promises that God will not allow heretics to tamper with the manuscripts. The doctrine of preservation promises that the true manuscripts will only be found among the Waldenses. 25

26 16. What are the major reasons why we reject modern textual criticism? Check the following statement(s) that are true. We reject modern textual criticism because its goal is unscriptural. We reject modern textual criticism because its theories are strange. We reject modern textual criticism because its rules are unsettled. We reject modern textual criticism because its rules are applied in different ways by individual critics. We reject modern textual criticism because its fruit has been increasing uncertainty and skepticism. We reject modern textual criticism because its fruit has been a weakening of the authority of Scripture We reject modern textual criticism because its fruit has been the promotion of the ecumenical movement. 17. How is the goal of modern textual criticism unscriptural? It is unscriptural because God has preserved the Scriptures and they don t have to be recovered. It is unscriptural because believers don t need to look at old manuscripts. It is unscriptural because we still have the original Scripture manuscripts. 18. Why does Jack Moorman liken textual criticism to The Artful Dodger? Check the following statement(s) that are true. It is always changing. It is dishonest. It is not what it claims to be. 19. John Burgon said that talk about genealogical evidence, when applied to manuscripts is moonshine. 20. John Burgon called Hort s theory of a Syrian recension an excursion into cloudland. 21. Hort claimed that the Traditional Text is a product of conflation; what is this? Conflation means to blend or fuse together. Conflation means to omit words and phrases that do not seem authentic. Conflation means to carefully preserve every word of a manuscript. 22. True or false: It is far more reasonable to assume that the Alexandrian text omitted things than that the believers in Syria added things. True 23. What verse says the devil corrupts the simplicity that is in Christ? 2 Cor. 11:3 24. What verse says God has hidden His truth from the wise and revealed it to babes? Mat. 11: What verse says God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise? 1 Cor. 1: F.C. Conybeare claimed the New Testament text is for ever irrecoverable. 27. Edward Hills warned,... the logic of naturalistic textual criticism leads to complete modernism 28. Roman Catholic Patrick Henry said the ecumenical activities between Catholics and Protestants in the field of Bible texts signals a _new age in the church. 29. What is the one key Bible doctrine that overthrows modern textual criticism? Preservation 30. What verse warns about science falsely so called? 1 Tim. 6:20 26

27 ANSWERS TO SECTIONAL TEST ON PART III. WE HOLD TO THE KING JAMES BIBLE BECAUSE THE MODERN TEXTS AND VERSIONS ARE A PRODUCT OF END-TIME APOSTASY 1. According to Robert Dabney, evangelicals have adopted their textual criticism from the mint of infidel rationalism. 2. Edward Hills warned that in the realm of New Testament Textual criticism the presuppositions of modern thought are hostile to the historic Christian faith According to Johann Eichhorn, who wrote the Pentateuch? Moses Joshua God unknown editors 4. Schleiermacher exalted what over Bible doctrine? Experience Truth Light 5. What part of the Bible did F.C. Baur attack? The Pentateuch The Poetic Books The Books of Prophecy Revelation The Gospels 6. In 1887 Charles H. Spurgeon warned of the skepticism which has flashed from the pulpit and spread among the people. 7. What was Kant s chief authority? The Bible The German Constitution His own reasoning The Tubingen School 8. According to Hegel, there is a merging of opposites to form a new idea or thought. What did he call this action dialectic and what did he call the new thought thus formed synthesis? 9. What is the first doctrine that Unitarianism denies? The humanity of Christ The reality of Satan The Trinity and the deity of Jesus Christ 10. Why was the Trinitarian Bible Society formed? To publish Bibles that translate baptizo as immersion. To publish Bibles throughout Asia. To publish Bibles in places where the British and Foreign Bible Society did not go. To protest the careless way that the British and Foreign Bible Society was treating doctrinal purity and to uphold the doctrine of the Trinity in the context of the Bible publishing endeavor. 11. In what century did Unitarianism arise in America? 18th 12. What famous American college was taken over by Unitarianism in the early 1800s? Harvard 13. Ralph Waldo Emerson urged scholars to free themselves from traditions such as the Bible and to trust in what? The American Constitution Self The Hindu Scriptures The writings of Madame Blavatsky 14. What was one of the major objectives of the Unitarian Book Society? To defend the King James Bible To publish the Received Greek New Testament To publish an English translation of the Griesbach critical text 27

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