Journal: Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal
Volume: DBSJ 02:1 (Fall 1997)
Article: Review Article New Age Bible Versions
Author: S. E. Schnaiter

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Review Article
New Age Bible Versions

S. E. Schnaiter*

* Dr. Schnaiter is Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC.

New Age Bible Versions by G. A. Riplinger. Munroe Falls, OH: AV Publications, 1993, 690 pp., $14.95.

New Age Bible Versions (hereafter, NABV) purports to be a “scoop,” an exposé of an “alliance between the new versions of the bible [sic] (niv, nasb, Living Bible and others [i.e., nkjv, nrsv, nab, reb, cev, tev, gnb, phillips, njb]) and the chief conspirators in the New Age movement’s push for a One World Religion” (p. 1). Its author, G. A. Riplinger, is listed on the back cover as having achieved B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. degrees and as having done post graduate study at Harvard and Cornell Universities. Nowhere does the book reveal what area of study or expertise her degrees cover. It was necessary to inquire elsewhere to discover that her degrees are in home economics and interior design. She reveals that, while a professor at Kent State University, this book was the culmination of a study begun by a student’s question: “Is the fall recorded in Isaiah 14 about Lucifer [as the kjv and Hebrew text indicate] or Jesus, the morning star, as the niv and nasb imply?” (p. 4). She feels that this supposed conflict1 illustrates how subtle changes in the Word of God have come about as a result of modern versions which do not conform to the kjv (to whatever degree), and that these “changes, additions and omissions discovered in the new versions have affected the health of the body of Christ and taken it step by step away from the image of God” (p. 5).

The advertising blurb on the front cover which touts the book as “an exhaustive documentation exposing the message, men, and manuscripts moving mankind to Antichrist’s one world religion”

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suggests the author’s overall outline. The book divides twofold concerning what she contends are “New Age” Bible versions: first, their “Message”—presented in four major sections; second their “Men and Manuscripts”—presented in three major sections. The first four major sections subdivide in...

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