How God preserved His words in Spanish through the RVG

For me to lead souls to Christ I need a Bible. I have learned that not just any Bible will do. I want a Bible that is completely accurate, with nothing missing. In 1602 God provided the Spanish-speaking world His precious words in the Reina-Valera Bible.

However, after 1602, modernistic, ecumenical Bible societies got their hands on our Received Text-based Protestant Bible in Spanish and corrupted it by incorporating Alexandrian Critical Texts.

For several years, I was puzzled over which Spanish Bible I should use. They all had problems. I prayed that God would raise up some brave Hispanic Bible believer to revise the Reina-Valera Bible by replacing the corruptions with pure readings that reflected the Received Texts.

God answered my prayer. This book reveals the history behind the making of the Reina-Valera Gómez Bible (RVG) and expresses the true motives and desires that drove this work.

Following this fascinating history is a 44 page chart showing the corruptions that found their way into our Bibles, and how they are corrected in the RVG.

Emanuel Rodriguez              

Forward
Preface
Contents
Introduction

Chapter 1
About Dr. Humberto Gómez
     Trouble and prison
     Humerto Gómez gets saved
     Family members get saved
     The call to preach
     Introduction to the Bible version issue
     Work on the RVG begins

Chapter 2
A Brief History of the Reina-Valera Bible
     The Ferrara Bible
     Francisco de Enzinas
     Erasmus and his Greek New Testament
     The opposition of the Catholic Church
     Juan Perez de Pineda
     Julian the Little
     Casiodoro de Reina
     Cipriano de Valera

Chapter 3
The Necessity of Further Revision
     Valera's desire for textual purity
     Departures from the Textus Receptus in the 1602 Valera
     The idea of revision revisited
     The Critical Text movement
     Revision work in the 1800s
     The 1909 Antigua
     The 1960 Reina-Valera Bible
     Enter Eugene Nida
     Nid'�s view of translating
     The RV 1960 and the Critical Texts
     Corruption in the RV 1909 and 1960

Chapter 4
Principles of the Reina-Valera Gómez Revision
     The theological premise
     The right philosophy of Bible translating
     Word-for-word translating
     Remaining true to our heritage
     By Spanish speakers - for Spanish speakers
     An international endeavor
     The foundation
     The standard
     The important role of the King James Version

Chapter 5
The Making of the Reina-Valera Gómez Bible
     The Spanish base text
     Dr. Gómez goes full-time
     The first edition is printed
     The role of Jim and Tim Fellure
     A worldwide collaboration
     Carlos Donate
     Dr. Donald A. Waite
     Dr. Rex Cobb
     Joseph Martinez
     David W. Daniels
     Reynaldo Villareal Jr.
     Michael Lemma
     Nelson Gimenez
     Shane Rice
     Ulises Velazquez Galindo
     Donald Heinz
     The contribution of the critics
     Why is it copyrighted?

Chapter 6
Removing Hell from the Bible
     The dangers of transliteration
     Old Testament transliteration
     New Testament translation
     Hades: Hell or the grave?
     2 Peter 2:4 explained
     Modern Bibles follow modern patterns

Chapter 7
Twenty Reasons a Veteran Hispanic Missionary Endorses the RVG

Chapter 8
8 Reasons the President of a Bible Society Endorses the RVG
     Because of its base text
     Because it is based on sound doctrine
     Because of those who created and endorse it
     Because it has convinced honest skeptics
     Because of the demand for it
     Because of its availability
     Because it has an honest name
     Because of its critics

Chapter 9
Do You Have the Courage to Stand?

Chapter 10
The Price that was Paid

Chapter 11
Testimonies and Endorsements
     A Bible printer
     A native Mexican pastor
     The premier defender of the Received Texts
     A veteran Bible translator
     More testimonies

APPENDIX A:Spanish Bible Verse Comparisons