Author: Calvin George

It is this author’s opinion that many lists of supposed problem passages in the text of the Reina-Valera 1909 and 1960 are put together based on the creator’s mere impressions, designed in turn for those who will likewise use their mere impressions to reach lasting conclusions, rather than a scholarly analysis that takes into consideration the…

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Excerpt from Chapter 1 WHY IT WAS FELT THAT THE 1909 REVISION NEEDED TO BE REVISED By 1946 the American Bible Society and the BFBS were reporting that numerous suggestions were being received as to the need for a new revision. Although the Valera line had undergone many minor revisions, it still retained much of…

This is a critique of one aspect of a conference that took place in November 2007 in Iglesia Bautista Libertad in Matamoros, Tam. Mexico, where reviser Humberto Gomez is the pastor. The conference is covered more in-depth at Critique of Gomez Spanish Bible conference of November 2007 The first Spanish Bible reading that Dr. D.A. Waite…

This detailed report is a critique of a conference that took place at the end of November 2007 in Iglesia Bautista Libertad in Matamoros, Tam. Mexico, where Missionary Humberto Gomez is the pastor. Although he had advisers, Humberto Gomez was the sole man who made final textual decisions for the Bible they now call Reina-Valera-Gomez…

By Missionary Calvin George Because the Spanish word for hell appears less often in the common Spanish Bibles compared to the KJV, some have put together a conspiracy theory of sorts to put the common Spanish Bible in a bad light. The word “hell” shows up in the KJV 54 times, in the Spanish 1865…

By Calvin George The following is a review of the article 38 Reasons I cannot use the 1960 Reina Valera by Tim Urling. Within the article, the writer mentioned that he was providing “Scriptural” reasons. However, some of the things he objects to apply to the 1909, the version he used before the RVG 2004, and in…

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The following document is provided in PDF format at the following link until we can provide it in a standard html format: Critical review of Gary La More’s anti-Spanish Bible book While Latinos Slept

By Missionary Calvin George Revised January 14, 2008 In recent weeks and months I have been asked on repeated occasions what I thought of this new Spanish Bible revision on the scene. For over a year I have studied material written by its reviser, carried on some correspondence with him, and spent some time studying…