Errors of Modern Textual Criticism

VHS videotape featuring David Cloud
Way of Life Literature
2001


We are pleased to announce the publication of a multi-media video
presentation titled The Errors of Modern Textual Criticism.

Rare photographs, books, and other visual aids are professionally mixed
into this high-quality presentation to illustrate the message.

In preparation for these messages, the author drew from the resources in
his own extensive private library as well as from theological libraries in
many parts of the world.

The modern versions (American Standard Version, Revised Standard Version,
New International Version, etc.) are based on the “science” of modern
textual criticism which was developed in the 19th century and resulted in
the English Revised Version of 1881. Recently the book From the Mind of
God to the Mind of Man, written by fundamental Baptists, claimed that
“…textual criticism … is not a negative attitude toward the inspiration of
the Bible. It is in reality an effort to assure us that we have the
inspired Word of God” (p. 24).

We are convinced that this is a false view of textual criticism, and in
this series of multimedia messages, we have presented evidence for four
grievous errors of modern textual criticism:

1. Modern textual criticism ignores the supernatural character of the
Bible.
2. Modern textual criticism ignores Satan’s attack on the Bible.
3. Modern textual criticism ignores God’s promise of preservation.
4. Modern textual criticism ignores the preeminence of faith.

Contrary to what some are saying today, the battle against modern textual
criticism is not new. The author quotes a wide variety of authorities who
stood against modern textual criticism in England and America at the end
of the 19th century and throughout the 20th. He exposes the deep Unitarian
connection in the founding of modern textual criticism. He documents the
apostasy of all of the editors of the United Bible Societies Greek New
Testament. He discusses the issue of Erasmus and his relation to the
Received Text. He traces the history of the devil’s attack upon the Word
of God that began in the Garden of Eden and has continued unabated
throughout the Old and New Testament eras. He shows that the Apostles
warned that the Scriptures would be attacked by false teachers, and the
centuries immediately following the death of the Apostles witnessed
exactly such attacks, as heretics attempted to change the Scriptures to
suit their false doctrines and thereby introduced great confusion into the
transmission of the text. He describes the battle for the Bible that went
on during Dark Ages, as Rome did everything in its power to keep the Bible
out of the hands of the common people. He traces the history of the
English Bible from the days of Wycliffe and Tyndale and Rogers. He
documents the massive attack upon the Bible that is going on in our day
through theological Modernism and New Evangelicalism. He cites more than a
dozen standard works on textual criticism to prove this modern textual
criticism is built upon the premise that the pure Scripture was not
preserved by God. Finally, he shows that God requires faith. It is
impossible to find the Word of God apart from faith, and yet modern
textual criticism is founded not upon faith in God’s promises but upon the
cleverness of human scholarship. This, in itself, is a great error.

This is an important presentation for Churches, Bible Colleges, and Home
Schools that want to prepare their people to deal with the apostasy of
these last days.

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