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BBB:Origen and Bob Jones University by Peter Ruckman
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.
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.