Sometimes people give you a message without saying it directly.
Do you know what the message of the New King James footnotes really is?
Hi, I’m David Daniels from Chick Publications.
When I was in Bible College, I got my first New King James New Testament.
This came out in 1979.
And it looked like this. Let me show you something.
Can you see? See here?
There's no footnotes.
What this told me was, "We have confidence in this text."
Now in 1982, the New King James Bible came out
and of course, it had footnotes.
In fact, it had footnotes marked either M or NU.
What that meant is this:
The M meant the 'Majority Text,' supposedly.
And the M meant, 'No no no no! You text up there? You're all wrong!
What you really should say is this!'
And the NU text said,
'Oh, no. The scholarly Nestles-UBS Critical Text - which means Alexandrian-
really says THIS!
What am I, as a Bible college, Bible-believing student, going to do?
Buy books! Yes! I got myself the UBS Greek New Testament
with all its little notes there.
And I started studying that, to figure out what the text says.
And then I found out I had to go to Bruce Metzger and get the Textual Commentary
on the Greek New Testament.
And boom! I'm going through and reading what The Committee said.
I get to learn about all their votes and everything.
And then that wasn't enough.
As I continued in Bible college and became one of the top students
I had to get the Reinecker's Linguistic Key to the Greek New Testament
so I could see the 'real message' of the Bible.
And so as I continued on, I could learn from here. And
then as I started seminary, I got to get
The Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament,
by Max Zerwick and Mary Grosvenor.
On this page, it says 'SI'. Do you see that?
SI is Latin. Because what it REALLY is, in English, is SJ.
Society of Jesus! Yes!
As you advance in Greek,
Jesuits tell you how to read your Bible!
So all these were to help me determine what the text actually said.
So I quickly went from Bible-believer to Bible-doubter
using a book that called itself 'the NEW King James'!
You with me?
I decided to make a physical representation.
I wanted you to see what this really looked like
in terms of my faith.
So I took the New Testament,
and whenever there was a verse
where the words in the text I now doubted because of the NU and M footnotes,
I marked it. In black.
Can you see that?
That's my faith going down the tubes.
Do you see all the black marks? That's just the footnotes
in the NU M Text to the New King James.
So they set those there, and you go from what?
Once you start questioning what God said, you go from faith in God's holy words
to doubt of what they even are!
In other words, 'Yea, hath God said?'
Get the idea?
Just like it says on my New King James, King James parallel Bible
'this is the perfect TRANSITION BIBLE if you are thinking about moving
from the classic King James to a modern translation.'
Footnotes never lead you to faith.
Footnotes only lead you to doubt.
'OK, Wise Guy, what about the footnotes in the King James Bible?'
I will tell you once, and you will remember forever.
The King James Bible was the first time 54+ translators
who actually wanted to translate the word of God,
got together into one place to do the job
well, 3 places, but you know what I mean.
After they had gone through the text
14+ times, they had to have some rules about what to do.
What if one guy still had an objection
after 14+ times through every single verse of the Bible?
They said, 'We will put it in a footnote, or an end note, or a side note,
preceded by the word, 'Or.' So if it says 'Or,' you can ignore.
I trust every single word of my King James Bible
not 'New,' but King James.
The text, not the footnotes.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.