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Summary: Pure junk
Review: A naive person might be overwhelmed by D.A. Waite's monumental charts showing places where the NIV deletes key Christian doctrines and the KJV affirms them. However, these charts are wrong. Many of the supposed "heretical" readings of the modern Bibles listed in these charts don't exist anywhere but Waite's head. Waite would be promptly sued for slander if he made similar allegations about anyone other than Bible translators, who as a rule don't sue.In fact, there are many places where the modern Bibles affirm Jesus' deity where the KJV misses it - for example, Col. 1:19, Acts 3:16, John 1:18, etc. I assume that this means the KJV is a false Bible and the NASB and the even-better ESV are now God's standard Word for mankind. Waite makes some good points about dynamic-equivalent translations - the only problem being that most modern translations aren't dynamic (the NASB, ESV, HCSB, and NKJV are all more literal than the KJV), so it's hardly necessary to use a Bible that isn't even written in modern English to get a "literal" translation. I found it very disturbing that Waite denied the historic Christian teaching of Christ's eternal Sonship and seems to affirm an Adoptionist Christology (in plain English: Waite seems to say that the man, Jesus, became God after he was humanly born, rather than existing as God for all eternity) in order to preserve the KJV's flawed reading of John 1:18. If Waite's views successfully permeate Fundamentalism via the likes of David Cloud, Peter Ruckman, G.A. Riplinger, and Jack Chick, then Fundamentalism will cease to even be a Christian movement and will join the ranks of American-born cults like the JWs and Seventh-Days. Before anyone even thinks of listening to what Waite says about the KJV, he should ascertain what Waite says about the Son of God!
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Summary: Great tool
Review: Many people defend the KJV of the Bible for the wrong reasons. Dr. Waite is a scholar and a true man of God who does not shy away from answering questions or objections. He has done a wonderful job in his defence. He visited my church for a preaching conference and I showed him an older edition of the book, and he said; "Anyone who has a soft cover of the KJB Defended deserves a hardcover." then he reached out to his table and he handed me a hardcover edition of his book, what a generous man. In a day and age where the Burgons, and the Hills are gone let us savor the Waites.
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Summary: Brave attempt at defending the KJV.
Review: Reading Dr. Waite's book gave me some food for thought. As a conservative Christian, I believe in the inerrancy of the Word of God, and Dr. Waite had some good points. In the book, he has a section entitled "superior translation technique," and I agree with his assessment. Being a student of both Greek and Hebrew, I appreciated Dr. Waite's affirmation that the WORDS of Scripture are important. After reading his book, I had much less of an appreciation for "dynamic equivalency" and favor the word-for-word approach. However, I must take issue with his unwavering support of a Bible version that makes use of such late manuscripts (some of the verses in the KJV have no early textual basis, and some are as late as the 12th to 15th centuries). He attacks the modern versions of the Bible for denying the deity of Christ, and he gives several examples of this by comparing the KJV with other versions. Tending to use the NASB, I checked some of his examples and found them wrong. He accuses some of the modern translations as stating that Jesus was the Son of Joseph rather than the Son of God, but interestingly enough, in the KJV in John 1:45, Jesus is called the Son of Joseph. As a born-again believer in Jesus Christ, my faith in His deity isn't shaken by this in the least. Mostly this book has a lot of rhetoric and not much else, but it did give me an appreciation for more literal translations of the Word of God.
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