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- BBB:Bible preservation by Herb Evans
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- The following article is by Herb Evans and contains a very
- interesting quotation by Dr. J. Frank Norris, given in June 1924. Frank
- Norris is repudiated by "Hot Dog" Hymers and Gary Hudson. He is also
- repudiated by the faculty and staff at Baptist Bible College, as well
- as Arlington.
-
- Read the article; it's very interesting. Notice that Gary Hudson
- professed here to have an advanced revelation from what he wrote
- several months ago in his book, "Why I Left Ruckmanism." He said the
- King James was an exact copy of the originals. I have the quotation,
- and it will appear in print pretty soon in our publication called "The
- Last Grenade."
-
- by Herb Evans
-
- ". . . my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out
- of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of
- thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever" (Isa.
- 59:21).
-
- "The one issue between the fundamentalists and the modernists is the
- integrity of the Scriptures....Have we an infailible, supernaturally
- inspired and inerrant Bible? On the answer to the question hangs the
- whole body of truth. If we have no infallible Bible, then we have no
- infallible Christ" (Dr. J. Frank Norris, Sixth World's Fundamental
- Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 1924).
-
- "I do not `now' believe that the TR nor the MT are infallible or
- inerrant, and I NEVER HAVE....I do not believe an exact, inerrant
- version or text exists" (Gary R. Hudson, October 30, 1989).
-
- Friend and foe alike, who have been observing the "supposed
- Ruckmanite Defector" (what did he defect from?), will no doubt wonder
- at the latest advanced revelaion. We wonder what the periodicals and
- Bible society, which sponsored his books and tapes, are going to do
- with the obvious contradiction to their own charter and position.
-
- We had tried, unsuccessfully, to get Gary to admit to such a clear,
- concise statement, to no avail. Dallas Bunch, a pastor in Maryland, was
- able to get this statement from Gary in writing.
-
- Gary has come a long way from his early days of speaking "double-
- speak," and we commend him for it. We can remember when Gary believed
- that copies, which Timothy had, were "inspired" and "preserved." We can
- remember when Gary accused Dr. Ruckman and "Ruckmanites" of changing,
- adding to, and dishonoring the "God-given Hebrew and Greek texts." We
- can remember when he called something the "providentially preserved
- texts." We can even remember when Gary believed that "the correct line
- of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts" were the scriptures, which "cannot be
- broken," and spoke of the "preserved wording of the original texts."
-
- We are most perplexed as to the reason why Gary even bothers to
- chastise corrections of the Greek with the English or advanced
- revelations from the English. What about advanced revelations from the
- errant, fallible Greek and Hebrew?
-
- What a strange view of "preservation"! We wonder if it was taught
- prior to 1950.
-