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 | | From: | admin | | Subject: | Preservation or Restoration #7 | | Date: | Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:53:18 GMT |
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 | The following is a continuing post from the Book "Which Version is the
Bible" by Floyd Nolen Jones. Chapter 1, pages 10, 11
Which Version is the Bible? Ó
Copyright 1995 · Floyd Jones Ministries, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. This book may be freely reproduced in any form as long
as it is not distributed for any material gain or profit; however, this book
may not be published without written permission.
THE GREEK STRONGHOLD
For the past several decades most conservative fundamental Bible colleges
and seminaries have been perpetuating a significant weakening of the faith
of their students with regard to the inerrancy of the Scriptures. The
result is that today most Church pulpits are now filled by these students
who have since become pastors. The scenario is similar and familiar almost
no matter where one goes. As the young impressionable man of God enrolls
for study and preparation to become a pastor, he is soon informed that the
New Testament was written in Greek. Consequently the student eventually
finds himself enrolled in a first year Greek course.
The moment the student enters the class, a peculiar phenomenon occurs. Not
yet knowing Greek, he immediately finds himself placed at a great
disadvantage. What is the effect upon him from the spiritual standpoint?
Very soon, the professor will subjugate the young man under his authority -
not merely as an older man or as a teacher, but with regard to all spiritual
matters by virtue of his knowledge of the Greek language. The clear
impression that is conveyed toward the student is "You don't have the Word
of God. It is written in Greek. You just don't know the 'Holy' language.
I do." So at the onset, the student is placed in submission under a teacher
who may or may not love the Lord or believe in the verbal inspiration and
preservation of the Scriptures.
Having been thus subjugated to a Greek scholar, further adverse
ramifications will follow shortly. The mind tends to accept as fact that
the student never knows as much as his teachers. If he did, most teachers
would soon convince him to the contrary. We tend to elevate teachers to a
high intellectual pedestal, and many teachers assist us in so doing. In the
mind of the learner, his Greek or Hebrew professor usually remains a
spiritual authority and the professor feels likewise.
Being subjugated to a Greek faculty, the young impressionable student is
unaware of what is transpiring. The final authority for his life is no
longer the Holy Scriptures which brought him to the Lord and set his soul on
fire. Final authority has become the Greek lexicons and his Greek
professor, the scholar, rather than the Word of God and the Holy Spirit.
This is accomplished by subtly convincing the inexperienced student that he
doesn't have the Word of God at his disposal. He soon begins to wonder if
it even exists.
The real issue here is that of authority. Authority is the controversy of
the universe. If the Bible is not really the infallible Word of God, then
what is final authority? Is it the Greek/Hebrew instructor? "Mother
Church"? the Pope? the head of one's denomination? one's local preacher
or Bible teacher? Thus someone has placed himself between the laity and God
by virtue of his knowledge of Greek. The church at large is being told:
"You laymen simply do not know the language and therefore cannot understand
God or doctrine as we who know Greek and/or Hebrew."
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