Q
Has the Amplified Bible been endorsed or authorized by the
Lockman Foundation?
A
Yes it has. The Lockman Foundation and Dewey Lockman sponsored
and copyrighted the Amplified Gospel of John back in 1954 and the
Amplified New Testament in 1958. Zondervan then took it over. I
believe, and in 1962 came out with Job through Malachi. In 1964
they came out with Genesis through Ester. In 1965 the entire
Amplified Bible was published. Zondervan has recently been taken
over by Harper San Francisco, a secular publishing house that was
in turn bought out by Rupert Murdoch, media's "prince of
darkness." Zondervan has been in secular hands for some time.
One of the members of the Amplified Version committee, Dr.
Franklin Logsdon, has renounced the Amplified Version, as well as
the New American Standard. He said:
"As a member of the editorial committee in the production of
the Amplified New Testament, we honestly and conscientiously
felt it was a mark of intelligence to follow Westcott and
Hort. Now, what you have in these books strikes terror to
my heart. It proves, alarmingly, that being conscientiously
wrong is a most dangerous state of being. God help us to be
more cautious, lest we fall into the snares of the arch
deceiver."
The books that he referred to are Which Bible? and True or
False?, by Dr. D. O. Fuller. These showed Dr. Logsdon, for the
first time, the corrupt nature of the Westcott and Hort Greek
text underlying new versions-- that would include the NIV, the
Amplified, and the NASB. The particular problem with the
Amplified Bible is that it is guilty of adding to God's word. It
is called an "expanded translation." It is in direct violation
of Revelation 22:18 which says: "For I testify unto every man
that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man
shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues
that are written in this book:" Proverbs 30:6 adds: "Add thou
not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a
liar." We are forbidden to add anything to the word of God, and
the Amplified Bible translation has in fact done that.
