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- ORIGEN AND BOB JONES UNIVERSITY
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- For many, many years Bob Jones University has been recommending the
- New American Standard Version as the most accurate of the modern
- Alexandrian texts, coming from the text of Nestle's 1890 (which now
- contains more than seven hundred reversals of texts). This New ASV
- (supposedly a very right-wing type of publication) is basically a
- Jehovah's Witnesses Bible which teaches that Jesus Christ was a
- created God (John 1:18). Notwithstanding this obvious heretical
- reading, Bob Jones published a pamphlet by the head of their Bible
- department, named Stewart Custer, called naively "The Truth about the
- KJV Controversy." In it not only was the NASV text justified by Iying
- about manuscript evidence and family classifications, but Origen was
- put into an Orthodox position where you could hardly question him as
- an heretic.
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- Since the head of the Bible department at Bob Jones doesn't know
- whether he's standing right side up or upside down ever since a
- butterfly kicked him in the head, we thought the 1936 edition of the
- Encyclopedia Britannica might give a little light on the "Bible" at
- Bob Jones they can't get from "the original Greek." In the
- Encyclopedia Britannica (Vol. XVI, pp. 900-902), we read that Origen
- taught the Lord Jesus Christ was "a created being who did not have
- eternal existence as God." This explains why Origen approved of the
- reading of Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in the NASV in John 1:18 that says
- Jesus Christ was a "begotten God." That is, he was not the eternal
- God, but a God begotten separately. If you read John 1:18 in the NASV
- you'll find there are two Gods in the verse; exactly as you'll find
- them in the New World Translation, the official Bible of the Jehovah's
- Witnesses. This is Origen's "orthodoxy." At no place could you find
- this better represented than in an NASV, unless it would be an old
- ASV. For in the old ASV in the margin of John 9:38 we find that Jesus
- Christ is presented not as the "begotten God" at all or even "God
- manifest in the flesh," but as a "creature." Look at the marginal note
- on John 9:38 in any edition of an ASV. This is the Arian heresy of
- Origen, Sinaiticus, and Vaticanus as promoted in the translations
- recommended by the Bible department at Bob Jones University. Don't be
- upset. Don't be shocked. Don't worry about Ruckman's "name calling."
- And for goodness sake, don't worry about anybody being "slandered" or
- somebody "misrepresenting their position." Those alibis are used by
- Karl Keating and the Knights of Columbus. A Fundamentalist has no
- business whining like that just because he has been caught by the
- truth.
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