All Flesh Must Be Eaten Adventure – Diablo Gulch

by: Charles Plemons - June 12th, 2008   Filed under: All Flesh Must Be Eaten 1 Comment

I have just posted my first free adventure for the All Flesh Must Be Eaten game system. It is called Diablo Gulch and is set in a Weird West genre. The adventure features zombie survival in the Wild West! Several of us played the game at our 2008 May Day gaming event and had a fantastic time. Afterward, I polished it up a bit and have now made it available for download.

The adventure serves as a great introduction to the Unisystem™ game and is intended as a one-shot scenario. With some tweaking, it could also kick off a Weird West campaign. This adventure is a fan-based work of fiction and is not endorsed or supported by Eden Studios in any way.

Religion Category

by: Charles Plemons - June 12th, 2008   Filed under: Religion Add Comment

I’ve added a new Religion category to this blog. It will contain items of, obviously, religious nature. So far, I’ve only posted in the Bible Study subcategory, but I have to post in the main one to make Bible Study show up on the blog navigation bar.

Problems with the NIV Bible

by: Charles Plemons - June 12th, 2008   Filed under: Bible Study Add Comment

When I was a teenager, the Lutheran church put a NIV translation of the Bible in my hands, and I grew up with it. Years later, I received a New Kings James Version (NKJV) and started using it. Not long after, I heard that there were some problems with the NIV, and a couple were pointed out. I accepted that and put it in the back of my mind. Now, I’ve done some research and found that a lot more is wrong with the NIV than I even knew! I have found that some scholars are saying over 64,000 words are missing from the NIV! If that weren’t enough, some verses do not exist in the NIV at all.

Verses Missing from the NIV

  • Matthew 17:21; 18:11; 23:14
  • Mark 7:16; 9:44; 9:46; 11:26; 15:28
  • Luke 17:36; 23:17
  • John 5:4
  • Acts 8:37; 15:34; 24:7; 28:29
  • Romans 16:24
  • 1 John 5:7 (truncated)

Don’t believe me? Go to an online Bible resource like BibleGateway and look them up. Compare the NIV text with the NKJV, KJV, ASV, or NASB. Supporters of the NIV say these missing texts do not matter or that what they teach appear elsewhere. Do you want to rely on a Bible that is, without question, omitting portions? Revelation 22:18-19 gives you something to think about.

Also consider the NIV translation of John 3:16.

16″For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Now look at the NKJV of John 3:16.

16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Note that the word is “should”, not “shall” (this matches in the KJV, ASV, ESV, 21CKJV, and so on). Changing this one word can lead to some serious errors in Christian thought, such as “belief only” salvation (disproved in Matthew 7:19; John 15:8; John 15:10; John 15:14; Titus 1:16; Titus 2:7; Titus 3:8; 1 Peter 2:15; 1 Timothy 4:12; 1Timothy 6:18-19) or the thought that once a Christian you cannot loose salvation (disproved in Galatians 5:4; Hebrews 3:12-13; Hebrews 4:1; Hebrews 4:11; Hebrews 6:4-8; 2 Peter 2:20-21).

If you regularly use the NIV, I urge you to do some research on your own. Find out more about it. The Word of God is too important; don’t ignore these concerns without finding out for yourself!