Final Authority:

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Summary: Almost abandoned this one...
Review: First you must be English, then you must be Baptist...oh yes, and a bigot, too.

Grady could almost make me disagree with him based solely upon my distaste for his nasty rhetoric directed at those with whom he disagrees. His pompous, sarcastic dialogue, judgemental accusations, and seeming inability to rightly apply analogies and illustrations were almost too much to prolong the read. Yet, despite the bar-room brawl style of writing and his limited powers of reasoning, there is information in this book that you just won't get elsewhere; it's a gem!

What Grady does most successfully is nail the coffin shut on Hort and Westcott, those liberal change-agents who sought, not to revise the KJV (as was their assigned task), but to rewrite the Bible based upon a liberal Greek translation they had secretly written years prior to the revision process. Nearly all subsequent modern translations are based upon their work. Their work, in turn, is highly dependent on Alexandrian manuscripts. That these manuscripts were heavily influenced by the Thomas Jeffersonesque cut-n-paste style of the heretic, Origen of Alexandria, becomes apparent after reading Grady's text.

Would you be surprised to hear Westcott say, "Oh, the weakness of my faith... So wild, so sceptical am I. I cannot yield." or "...that simple faith and obedience which so many enjoy, I fear will never be mine." How about, "No one now, I suppose, holds that the first three chapters of Genesis...give a literal history..."
How confident do you feel with a Westcott and Hort derivative Bible, knowing Hort claimed, "I reject the word infallibility---of Holy Scripture..."
Yet these are the men behind the text of our modern versions; it does make one wonder...

Grady's book contains all this, and so much more. I'm glad to have read it, as it whet my taste for more scholarly work on the subject. If in earnest search for the truth, you seek all the facts, it wouldn't hurt to read a biased report on each side of the issue. You'll quickly see how supposed scholars routinely dismiss each other via circular reasoning, omission of contrary data, and assumptive reasoning. But in the process, you'll gain tremendous insight into what makes each side tick.

Obviously much work remains to be done. We need to better and more fully excavate the northern Mediterranean, plumb the depths of the Vatican (what do they have from early compilations of circulating Scripture?), and unearth the earliest texts of the testaments. We need better than translations and versions of interpolated copies. We need God's Word---as He gave it to us---in an interlinear fashion. And while we're at it, we need to stop dumbing down our society. We need to teach our kids to think, so we can give them the Word of God, literally translated, and expect them to be able to make sense of it.

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Summary: Great Scholarship good Footnotes
Review: Grady does a good job of coming up with facts about the history of how we got the KJV. I think it is well researched. He will not appeal to those who are ecumenical in nature because he still espouses the ideals of the Protestant Reformation.

Grady's appeal is in his treatise on not just the KJV but those bibles that preceded it. Anyone wanting to understand how we got the English bibles must read this.

The argument is, the Textus Receptus verses the Revised Version and its tranlations and versions.

Grady does a good job chronicling the translators from Wyclif to Tyndale, down to the KJV translators.

There will be many detractors to his findings. Unlike the anti-KJV books which have weaker arguments and more emotional arguments, Grady pulls no punches.

What he needs is to appeal to all audiences by mentioning the hatred for the KJV from some audiences. A must read for those researching the KJV only study. (I call it the Textus Receptus only.)

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Summary: Thankyou for writting this book!
Review: I had the pleasure of hearing brother Grady preach several years ago at my church, and I must say it was a blessing. He has an amazing way of teaching and preaching. My pastor let me borrow a copy of "Final Authority", and I loved it so much I bought my own copy. At first, I thought "Oh my soul, it's such a long book!", but once I started reading it, I couldn't stop. That was two years ago and I am currently rereading it for the third time.
Grady answers the question of what our final authority is, and brings to light some very interesting things people advocating modern translations don't tell you. He exposes Westcott and Hort's unorthadox theology, and clearly shows how the manuscripts used in translating the Authorized Version are not the same ones that all other modern versions are translated with; and so much more!
God never failed in His promise to preserve His Word. We have it in the King James Authorized Version.
I have learned so much from this book and I am immensly grateful to brother Grady for writting it.
~Abby Louise Allison

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Summary: Save your money from this Racist
Review: I read this book and it started out okay until he started complaining about everything and everyone famous in society. The worst part is when he put down Dr. Dobson for condoning interracial marriages. I dont usually agree with Dobson and I'm a Bible believing fundamentalist Baptist like Grady however I would not go to the church he goes to. I talked with him by e-mail and brought up arn't we all descended from Adam and Eve? Didn't you know Moses wife was ethiopian? Numbers chap 12. His response was the most hateful response I've ever gotten He mocked Moses (God thought he was important enough to write the first 5 books of the Bible) and that Moses didn't live in 20th century america and he didn't read his book. What Satanic pride, what hate, I wouldn't even consider him a christian. Without love and charity for your fellow man we as christians are nothing. 1Corinthians chap. 13. I also was offended simply because my wife is hispanic, but the truth is there is only one race the human race. A christian shouldn't marry a non-christian but if both are christians it is okay. It doesn't matter what skin color we have. Also avoid D.A. Waite he is the same way as Grady although more slick Good sources are Riplinger, and Samuel Gipp. Also I recommend Kent Hovinds tapes and Dave Hunts books on cults especially Catholicism.