Q
All the bible versions or translations that Mrs. Riplinger criticized are in the Moody Monthly. Does this mean that the Moody organization endorses these modern versions?

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In the mid-1960s, Moody hosted the kickoff conference for the NIV. However, I do not think there is a consensus there regarding new bible versions. For instance, one of the past vice-presidents of Moody Bible Institute, Dr. Alfred Martin, said the theories and Greek text behind the new versions “collapse when subject to close scrutiny.” So, he is not a fan of the NIV or NASB. One of the former pastors of Moody Memorial Church, Dr. S. Franklin Logsdon, mentioned earlier as a member of the Amplified Version committee, said:

“I must under God renounce every attachment to the New American Standard Bible.... The deletions are absolutely frightening.... Some of the finest people in the world believe in that Greek text, the finest leaders that we have today. You’d be surprised; if I told you, you wouldn’t believe it. They haven’t gone into it, just as I hadn’t gone into it; [they’re] just taking it for granted. At any rate we went out and started on a feasibility report, and I encouraged him [Dewey Lockman] to go ahead with it. I’m afraid I’m in trouble with the Lord, because I encouraged him to go ahead with it. We laid the groundwork; I wrote the format; I helped to interview some of the transIators; I sat with the translators; I wrote the preface. When you see the preface to the New American Standard, those are my words.... I’m going to talk to him [referring to Dr. George Sweeting, president of Moody Bible Institute] about these things.... Friends, you can say the Authorized Version is absolutely correct. How correct? One hundred percent correct.”

So, I would guess that, just like many churches today, there is not necessarily a consensus at Moody about new bible versions. The wheat and the chaff grow together; the carnal and the spiritual Christian hoe together.