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Author: Calvin George

  • Excerpts from all 9 chapters of the book “The History of the Reina-Valera 1960 Spanish Bible”

    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…

  • Spanish Bible Gnostic heresy allegations at Reina-Valera-Gomez Conference

    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…

  • Critique of Gomez Spanish Bible conference of November 2007

    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…

  • Why the word hell appears less often in the common Spanish Bible compared to the KJV

    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…

  • Refutation of 38 objections to the common Spanish Bible from a proponent of the new Gomez Spanish Bible

    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…

  • Over 99 verses wrongly maligned in new book against the Spanish Bible

    The following document is provided in PDF format at the following link until we can provide it in a standard html format: Over 99 verses wrongly maligned in new book against the Spanish Bible

  • Critical review of Gary La More’s anti-Spanish Bible book While Latinos Slept

    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

  • Reina-Valera-Gómez? Over 20 reasons why I cannot endorse the Reina-Valera “Gómez”

    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…

  • Welcome to our redesigned website

    Where did the old website go? While we continue the update, the old website will continue to be available at www.literaturabautista.org, but it will no longer be brought up to date. Why was it changed? I liked the old website. The renovation was carried out to be able to offer you faster and easier access…

  • The Danger of Ruckmanism as Applied to Foreign Language Bibles

    By Calvin George At a time when the Bible version issue is a hot topic in fundamental churches, attention is being brought to the Bible versions used by missionaries where a foreign language is spoken. Cursory comparisons are frequently being made between the KJV and foreign language Bibles to test their fidelity. The term “Ruckmanism”…