The Bible’s Built-in Dictionary by Gail Riplinger

Don't let the devils henchmen talk you out of THE BOOK (KJB)!

The following is an excerpt from my treatise on Biblical Repentance:

The Bible’s Built-in Dictionary

“My examination of the 1000 most difficult words in the KJV reveals that God defines all of them, in the context. . .” —Gail Riplinger, The Language Of The King James Bible.

"One very conspicuous feature of the Word of God is its Self-Interpreting power. In the mastery of human books help is needful from large libraries and patient research in the realms of science and philosophy. Grammars, and glossaries, histories and biographies, copious lexicons and learned encyclopedias, often become necessary to furnish the mere sidelights to interpret the terms and illumine the sense of human literature. But, in studying this Divine Book, confessedly the crown of all literature, other writings, though often helpful, are never indispensable. To a remarkable degree, God’s Word explains and interprets its own contents, is its own grammar and lexicon, library and encyclopedia." —Arthur T. Pierson, Knowing The Scriptures

To preface this section, I must at first lay down, as it were, the underlying reason for directing readers to only define biblical words using the bible itself. That any diversion from the prescribed method given here in this discourse is not endorsed by this author. So from here on out, I want it to be clearly understood that every reference to “the bible” is a reference only to the Authorized Version: The King James Bible. That as far as the author is aware no other translation contains within its pages this remarkable God given internal dictionary. “The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” (Psa 119:130).

“There has been a remarkable recent discovery which made front page news in The Times of London (Dec. 24, 1994). The oldest remains of any New Testament manuscript were discovered. Using a high-magnification device and the epifluorescent confocal laser scanning technique, the small fragment was dated A.D. 66. Close examination shows that it contains the King James Bible’s reading from Matt. 26:22, ‘hekastos auton,’ — ‘every one of them.’ It proves wrong the reading in the NIV, NASB, and all new versions which are based on the Critical Greek text which reads, ‘heis hekastos,’ ‘each one’ or ‘one after the other.’ Dr. Carsten Thiede, author of Eyewitness to Jesus remarked, ‘It is self-evident that this original reading, preferable on the grounds of internal criteria and now corroborated by the oldest papyrus of St. Matthew’s Gospel, must replace the text in the two most widely used versions of the Greek New Testament, that of the United Bible Societies (at the present in its fourth revised edition) and the so-called Nestle-Aland, the Novum Testamentum Graece (now in its twenty-seventh revised edition). At the Munster Institute, which looks after this text, a rearguard action is being mounted, not surprisingly in view of its vested interest in the controversy. One of its staff members, Klaus Wachtel, recently published an article that refuses to acknowledge the change. . . In any case, it is a form of intellectual resistance which can not last; the facts are now beyond dispute.’ (pp. 61-62).” —Gail Riplinger, The Language of the King James Bible (pg. xv).

In order for us to come to a clear understanding of what true biblical repentance is, we must first come to a clear understanding on how we define words using nothing more than the bible itself. For those who are unaware, as previously mentioned, the King James Bible contains within its own text a God given built-in dictionary. And because it does, whenever we are in doubt concerning the meaning of a word (in the KJB), the rule of thumb is to simply go back and find either its first use within the scripture itself, or the first use of any of its variants. If by doing so the meaning is still unclear, seek out its next subsequent use and so forth. Remember, “God is not the author of confusion.” (1 Cor 14:33). And because He’s not, it stands to reason that He would never write a book that could then only be interpreted or understood with the help of other men, or require us to learn languages which many, even with today’s modern methods, do not have the capacity to learn; and which have been dead for hundreds and hundreds of years. No one today speaks “koine greek” as was spoken in the days of the Apostles or “latin vulgate” as was spoken in the days or Tertullian et al., or any other of the original biblical tongues as they were spoken at the times those documents were originally written. In fact, the meaning of words change at such a drastic rate that even our modern dictionaries are updated every few years. And that is another reason it would be foolish to look to any modern dictionary or lexicon for the meaning of words defined directly within the biblical text. If then the eternal God, which sees the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end, wrote within the bible text itself a dictionary that is available to everyone, what need we, then, to look any other place except for the text itself to define its own words? For how could an omniscient God state in the scriptures themselves that we “have no need that any man teach us,” (1 John 2:27), then turn right around and leave us to rely on the “wisdom of man’s words” to understand it? To do so, would constitute nothing more than a clear contradiction of the scripture on His part, and would therefore make Him a liar. And we know that God cannot lie (Tit 1:2, Heb 6:8). And this is the reason Peter can boldly state that “no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation” (2 Pet 1:20). And Paul likewise can assert: “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual” (1 Cor 2:13).

Although much more could be said to validate this principle of biblical interpretation and of defining words within the text rather than relying on the “wisdom of man's words,” I believe the information given adequately substantiates this essential principle; that without which, any number of biblical heresies can and have been proven. Matter of fact, nearly EVERY biblical heresy proliferated today can either be traced back to the failure of God's people to either use the bibles built-in dictionary, or by taking verses completely out of their context. So, with the aforementioned method clearly imprinted in our minds, let us now allow the scriptures themselves define to us what true biblical repentance IS, and let’s neither “lean upon our own understanding” nor give heed to what man’s wisdom has maligned it to be.