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This is the continuation of an article taken from Blind Guides (pp.22-34) by G.A. Riplinger. Blind Guides is a scholarly and detailed response to the crtiques of Hunt, McMahon, Lalonde, Cloud, Morey, White, Hanagraaff, House, Passantinos, and others concerning Dr. Riplinger's New Age Bible Versions.
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(Part Five) of New Age Bible Versions |
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Cloud finds "frightful" the use of rhetorical devices such as rhyme (stage and page), double-entendre, pun, alliteration (close 'the cover'), and acrostic metaphor (G.A. & God and). Experienced readers can identify when style is being emphasized, at the expense of precise thought, to creatte word pictures. Only a Pharisee would take literally, what was written metaphorically. Cloud is very facile himself, however, at using the technique of propaganda writers, that is, inserting words like "frightful" to 'frighten' readers, when no frightening information, other than the word "frightful," is given. Cloud cleverly OMITS the very next sentence in his quote from "End Times." It read, "My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad" (Ps. 34:2). The humble, the meek, and the weak rejoice when God is glorified. It is crystal clear to "the weak things of the world," of whom I am one, that as Jesus said, "without me ye can do nothing" (John 15:5). Why does God choose little Davids to slay big Goliaths, young Gideons to conquer the multiplied Midians, weak Jaels to kill strong Siseras, a feeble woman to deck Abimelech? He does it so "that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us" (II Cor. 4:7) and so "that no flesh should glory in his presence." The meek are being edged off the pew with a push from new versions. In Isaiah 61:1, "good tidings to the meek" has been replaced with "good news to the poor" in the NIV and NKJV. Cloud's five "T" statements, about his accomplishments, are reminiscent of Lucifer (Is. 14). He fell through pride. Pride holds Satan captive and inadvertently traps others with him and his cause. |
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May God have mercy on David Cloud for his conscious attempt to DECEIVE his reader. He quotes from a letter from Henry Morris dated Feb. 28, 1994. The letter actually said, "I did provide an endorsement...Her purpose was honest and honorable..." Cloud picks excerpts out to pretend Morris did not give the endorsement on p. v of the book. Cloud's section title, 'Endorsements Which Are Not Endorsement,' would be his ruin in a court of law, were I not a Christian. Morris' request to be omitted in future printings rose from outside pressure. He wrote in Jan. 1994, "We have had a number of supporters call and write objecting to my endorsement of your book...I hate to ask you to do this since I do think you have done a great job on the book and it is very important...your book seems to be selling extremely well. I am glad for that and trust it will have a great ministry." In July 1994, he wrote again saying, "I still tell people that you have a great deal of valuable material in your book and that they ought to read it." Cloud has misrepresented Dr. Morris, one of this generation's most gracious giants of the faith. Cloud conveniently neglected to point out to his readers that I inserted the name of the then President of Moody Bible Institute into the Logsdon quote TO DATE IT FOR THE READER and ensure that it was clearly a "comment" about the KJV, not my book. Clouds constantly change their shape depending on how much 'heat' comes their way. Pilots know that Clouds are dense and full of hot air; consequently, they detour around them when they can. I'd recommend the same course.
Sleeping saints need buglers, though they are seldom praised. When detractors wake from their sleep — as Jacob did — they will say,
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