My dear readers,

1. Information for NIV users

In the '70s, BP Synod meetings witnessed unhealthy attempts to introduce the NIV (New International Version). Due to the disapproval of the KJV defenders in the Synod, the NIV proposal made no headway. In 1988, when the BP Synod was dissolved, some BP churches then switched to NIV.

Was it done in ignorance? Be advised: we are dealing with God’s Holy Word. Ignorance in the use of Bible versions is no light matter. Today the user, reading the corrupted version, may think that there is no difference. But in fact the NIV has subtly altered vital parts of the text to attack the person and redemptive work of the Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His ascension and return, and more, much more. (For information call at Tabernacle Books and get a copy of “NIV Claims Examined.”) We are in a mortal combat with Satanic forces. To imagine that the NIV is all right is great folly. Be well informed! Our Weekly Bulletin is God’s instrument to warn those who care to read. To be forewarned is to be forearmed!

2. “NIV Owner Big Pornography Publisher”
(Source: Google, Way of Life Literature)

The following article by Jay Klopfenstein is from The Christian News, Dec 20, 1993, p 20 –

Zondervan Corp., once a respected Christian publishing firm, Grand Rapids, Michigan, became a public company some 15 years ago. This was about the same time the NIV Bible was published by an outfit in New York called the International Bible Society, which financed the project. They then gave Zondervan Corp, the exclusive rights to the publication of the NIV version of the Bible.

Then, media magnate Rupert Murdoch bought Zondervan. Zondervan’s stock jumped $4.25 per share on the announcement. Murdoch, an international world citizen who started in Australia, was building a media empire via his company, News Corp. The following month, the tycoon Murdoch gobbled up the nation’s largest circulation magazine, TV Guide, also Seventeen, and Good Food magazines plus the Daily Racing Form on a $3 billion cash binge which was the second largest media deal ever. The seller was Walter Annenberg, 80-year-old Jewish publishing patriarch, who privately owned Triangle Publications whose lucrative national magazine distribution business takes not only their magazines to newsstands but also many others including Reader’s Digest.

In recent years Murdoch has built a media empire worldwide with revenues over $10 billion (64 percent in USA, 19 percent in United Kingdom and 17 percent in Australia and the Pacific Basin). Holdings include Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Fox Broadcasting Co., Fox Television Stations, Inc. Also owned in the United Kingdom are the Times, The Sunday Times, Today, Sun and News of the World. These account for one-third of all national newspapers sold in the UK market. Also 50 percent owned is British Sky Broadcasting Ltd., the leading UK direct-to-home satellite television broadcasting service. News Corp. is also the largest newspaper publisher in Australia.

This year expansion into Asia commenced with purchase of 66 percent interest in Star Television, the Hong Kong satellite TV company that broadcasts to 38 nations, mostly in the Middle and Far East. Also purchased were Chinese newspapers. Recently News Corp. signed six cable channels that will carry News Corp’s programming beginning around mid 1994, enabling the company to reach 25 percent of all US households.

3. News Corp’s group produce NIV together with Immoral Stuff

News Corp’s owner and sales promoter of the NIV Bible, is one of the major producers of modern movies, television programs, and magazines. Occasionally some productions are clean and worthy of family viewing, but not many! News Corp and other major studios circulate movies full of profanity, TV screens are full of disgusting trash and violence. A US Senator said, “The crudeness, cursing, profanity, vice and violence we tolerate today on our TV screens will be the crudeness, cursing, profanity, vice, and violence that we will be forced to endure in our real life in the years ahead.”

According to Morality in Media, “By the time the average child graduates from elementary school, he will have seen at least 8,000 murders and more than 100,000 other acts of violence on TV,” and, “A typical teenager watching TV sees nearly 14,000 sexual encounters in one year.”

When Rupert Murdoch bought Seventeen magazine, it was predicted it would become a perfect sister to his Elle, the hip and glossy fashion magazine published in France. Now seventeen magazine is described as “flashy, racy, titillating, hip, jazzy, flirty, glamourous and sexy.” It is probably the most widely read magazine by teenagers and pre-teens in the USA with a circulation of 1.9 million. If pastors and church leaders, who contribute to Murdoch and his News Corp, by promoting and selling the NIV Bible, would pick up the current December 1993 issue at their local magazine store, they would see 138 pages from cover to back of articles and ads, slick and sexually suggestive. These pages exude weird hair-do’s, witchcraft-type attire and punk-rock and sub-cultural sexually suggestive abnormalities.

Occasionally a pastor’s church bulletin contains an insert from American Family Association, which lists the horrible immoralities on TV with advice to boycott the advertisers. On this same Sunday, the pastor sermonizes about the evils of rock culture, pornography and sodomy; then he urges his parishioners to buy the NIV Bible. What folly! How absurd! (End of article) Jay Klopfenstein, The Christian News, Dec 20, 1993, p 20

Lovingly in the Lord
Dr SH Tow, Senior Pastor