Glenn Beck peddles David Barton’s rewrite of the NASB to share a Holy America and make some quick bucks
Ed Decker
After hearing Glenn Beck promoting a special kind of bible, I skimmed through the numerous websites promoting the Founders’ Bible and the ministry of David Barton, Glenn Beck’s token Christian Pastor. The Bible is more a declaration of the holiness of the United Sates of America than a true study bible.
Barton has inserted over 900 pages of his own insights and commentary along with 150 plus founders’ quotes and biographies to strengthen his position that America was founded as a Christian nation and is the bearer of Biblical and Christian authority today.. Today’s Israel.. Today’s chosen people.. adoration of the Constitution as a product of biblical truth.
And, along with Beck, going after the far right in its marketing, makes big bucks for him.
Beck is another spoke in the same wheel. I listened to them jabber about it. Reminded me of an old song I used to sing to my kids 50 years ago..
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe?
If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, sing Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy
The quick talking, energetic promos Beck was jammering away with sounded just the same. I had to slow it down and listen to it several times.
The problem is that Beck is a committed, temple level Mormon who believes with all his soul that a bible such as the NASB is from the pit of hell..
The Mormons teach that through so many levels of translations much of the [KJV] bible has lost parts, wrong words and translations caused by sloppy and evil [read the Catholic Church here] men. Not even their own KJV only bible is above suspicion. Any Bible that came after that one is not to be trusted from its first page to the last.
In the LDS foundational ‘Articles of Faith” we read in #8.
8 We believe the aBible to be the bword of God as far as it is translated ccorrectly; we also believe the dBook of Mormon to be the word of God. read it here
So who is Beck, really? It is a mystery. In promoting this NASB bible, heavily burdened with Barton’s view of the holy constitution and Holy America, he is defying his own Prophets and elders, people he swore a holy temple oath to obey without question
Is it because he is reacting to Barton’s love of the constitution, or Beck’s belief that Jesus will return to a holy America at his temple in Independence Missouri ?
Or is it that Barton is regurgitating the same old stuff that Mormon, Cleon Skousen did with the LDS Freeman Institute and the NCCS [National Center for Constitutional Studies].. the same man Beck’s claims was his life mentor.
Or is it the big bucks they both bring in selling this redesigned and rewritten bible to a gullible public?
Why would Beck sell out his core beliefs for the sale of a book that his prophet curses as the works of evil men? And why would any self proclaimed orthodox minister saddle up with a cultist who, within his faith, mocks the Christian pastors of America? The same church that sends out tens of thousands of missionaries to steal Christians away from every orthodox church, including Barton’s?
I remember talking to a Mormon business man years ago who had openly done some pretty bad things to some of his Mormon brethren. They went broke and he walked with the money.
He said “Church is Church and Business is Business”.
I think that is the same game here.. Beck and Barton are raking in the cash, smiling at each other, saying, “church is church and business is business. we love this business!”
Ed Decker
Barton worships the constitution, just as Beck does. I do wonder at the condition of Barton’s soul. He is blind to some of the things that went on in this country even during the very beginning.
I’ve heard out of Beck’s own mouth that he believes the constitution is Scripture – with tears in his eyes and plenty of blubbering. Makes me sick.
Barton is riding the ecumenical wave – and I expect to see him at the Vatican next, as the NASB is a Catholic Bible.
sage_brush, the NAB (New American Bible) is a Catholic Bible. On the other hand, the NASB (New American Standard Bible) was translated by evangelicals. The NASB is the most literal of the major English Bible translations of the past 100 years. The NASB is a fine translation. I’m sorry to see any Bible version bound together with material about American history. The Bible is in a category by itself. It’s OK to put in explanatory notes and such in the margins or somewhere less conspicuous than the main text, but adding unrelated material is a really bad idea.
Sorry, Fig, but no. The NASB is the latest evolution of the NAB – even Frank Logsdon of the NASB translation committee has publicly pronounced the NASB to be a terrible translation.
…”But I finally got to the place where I said, ‘Ann, I’m in trouble; I can’t refute these arguments; it’s wrong; it’s terribly wrong; it’s frightfully wrong; and what am I going to do about it?’ Well, I went through some real soul searching for about four months, and I sat down and wrote one of the most difficult letters of my life, I think.
“I wrote to my friend Dewey, and I said, ‘Dewey, I don’t want to add to your problems,’ … ‘but I can no longer ignore these criticisms I am hearing and I can’t refute them. The only thing I can do–and dear Brother, I haven’t a thing against you and I can witness at the judgment of Christ and before men wherever I go that you were 100% sincere,’ (he wasn’t schooled in language or anything; he was just a business man; he did it for money; he did it conscientiously; he wanted it absolutely right and he thought it was right; I guess nobody pointed out some of these things to him) ‘I must under God renounce every attachment to the New American Standard.’ – Dr. Frank Logsdon, Co-Founder NASB (Source: Rejecting the American Standard Version (http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=6260443325) by Frank Logsdon – Sermon Audio)
http://www.hissheep.org/kjv/a_comparison_of_the_kjv_nasb.html
They are making merchandise of people and God’s undiscerning children. God bless you:)
http://holdingforthhisword.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/wheat-and-tares/