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	'''Benjamin George Wilkinson''' (1872–1968) was a [[Seventh-day Adventist Church\|Seventh-day Adventist]] [[missionary]], educator, [[Christian theology\|theologian]] and considered one of the originators of the [[King-James-Only Movement\|King James Only]] beliefs.<sup>[1]</sup> He was also the Dean of Theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Washington Missionary College (now known as [[Washington Adventist University]]) which is located in [[Takoma Park, Maryland]], near [[Washington, D.C.]]		'''Benjamin George Wilkinson''' (1872–1968) was a [[Seventh-day Adventist Church\|Seventh-day Adventist]] [[missionary]], educator, [[Christian theology\|theologian]] and considered one of the originators of the [[King-James-Only Movement\|King James Only]] beliefs.<sup>[1]</sup> He was also the Dean of Theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Washington Missionary College (now known as [[Washington Adventist University]]) which is located in [[Takoma Park, Maryland]], near [[Washington, D.C.]]

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'''Benjamin George Wilkinson''' (1872–1968) was a [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Seventh-day Adventist]] [[missionary]], educator, [[Christian theology|theologian]] and considered one of the originators of the [[King-James-Only Movement|King James Only]] beliefs.[1] He was also the Dean of Theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Washington Missionary College (now known as [[Washington Adventist University]]) which is located in [[Takoma Park, Maryland]], near [[Washington, D.C.]]

==Biography==
Wilkinson is remembered mainly for a book he wrote in 1930 entitled ''[[Our Authorized Bible Vindicated]]'' in which he asserted that some of the new versions of the Bible coming out, came from manuscripts with corruptions introduced into the Septuagint by Origen, and manuscripts with deletions and changes from corrupted Alexandrian text. Some years later [[Independent Baptist]] preacher [[David Otis Fuller]] also wrote a book concerning the Textual debate entitled, ''[[Which Bible?]]'',[2] which helped to popularize [[King-James-Only Movement|King James Only]] beliefs although he excluded Wilkinson's Adventist beliefs from his book.

Wilkinson criticized the [[English Revised Version]], which New Testament was completed in 1881, because he claimed it was translated from inaccurate Greek texts. For example, in [[Acts 13:42]] a change in the [[Greek language|Greek]] text removed the word [[Gentile]]s. This was in a verse that requests Paul to preach on the [[Sabbath in Christianity|Sabbath]]. The longer Majority Greek text that was rejected in the ERV is helpful for the Adventist apologetic for Sabbath keeping.

Wilkinson also criticized ERV translations. In [[Hebrews 9:27]] the AV has "But after this, the judgement", the ERV "after this cometh judgement". Wilkinson supported the article inclusion with references to Middleton, Edmund Beckett and Canon Farrar. The AV text is considered more compatible with the Adventist belief in '[[soul sleep]]' while Wilkinson, from Farrar, asserted that the ERV text would support the 'intermediate state' belief.[3]

Wilkinson criticized [[Brooke Foss Westcott|Westcott]] and [[Fenton John Anthony Hort|Hort]],[1] believing they made changes to the text used in translation. Due to the fact that they rejected the use of the Textus Receptus and instead used their revised Greek text based mainly on the [[Codex Vaticanus]] and [[Codex Sinaiticus]].[4] Those who preferred not to use the Textus Receptus, such as Westcott and Hort, used what Wilkinson claimed were corrupted manuscripts. Similarly, an earlier writer on the textual issues, [[John William Burgon|John Burgon]], called it a "fabricated text", and "among the most corrupt documents extant"[5] and likened the primary manuscripts used, the [[Codex Vaticanus]] and the [[Codex Sinaiticus]], to the "two false witnesses" of Matthew 26:60.[5]
.[6] The Codex Vaticanus that has come down to us had portions which have been collated and changed or edited by several scribes over the centuries, with many exclusions [7][8][9] and errors that were intended to be corrections made in the process,[10][11] while the [[Codex Sinaiticus]] has known textual variants in its text and exclusions.[12][13][14]

In his book ''Truth Triumphant'', Wilkinson painted a true church after Jesus' ascension in the face of apostasy and persecution, fled into the wilderness, preserved the Word of God and teaching of Jesus. The true church manifested during the [[Reformation]], bringing in long lost teachings of the bible that was forbidden during the [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]], and that she will triumph over the beast and its image in the last days.

Benjamin was also a participant in the Seventh-day Adventist [[1919 Bible Conference]] which was a highly significant event within the Adventist Church. It discussed the nature of inspiration, both of the Bible and Seventh-day Adventist prophetess [[Ellen G. White]]. Wilkinson was a representative of the conservative faction at the conference, arguing that White's writings were inerrant. However, other leaders such as [[A. G. Daniells]] argued that White's writings were not inerrant, but still supported [[biblical inerrancy]]. Many Adventists today use the King James Version, but they do not necessarily support the [[King-James-Only movement]]. And many Adventists use modern versions, as the General Conference does not take a singular position, and also there has been distribution of the Clear Word paraphrase.

Wilkinson Hall, the main administrative building on [[Washington Adventist University]]'s campus, is named in his honor.

==See also==
* [[Seventh-day Adventist theology]]
* [[Our Authorized Bible Vindicated]]
* [[King-James-Only Movement]]
* [[Bible version debate]]
* [[David Otis Fuller]]
* [[Revised Version]]
* [[Seventh-day Adventist eschatology]]
* [[History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church]]
* [[28 fundamental beliefs]]
* [[Prophecy in the Seventh-day Adventist Church]]
* [[Investigative judgment]]
* [[The Pillars of Adventism]]
* [[Second Advent#Seventh Day Adventists|Second Advent]]
* [[Seventh-day Adventist theology#Baptism|Baptism by Immersion]]
* [[Christian conditionalism|Conditional Immortality]]
* [[Historicism (Christian eschatology)|Historicism]]
* [[Three Angels' Messages]]
* [[Seventh-day Adventist eschatology|End times]]
* [[Sabbath in Seventh-day Adventism]]
* [[Ellen G. White]]
* [[Seventh-day Adventist worship]]

==References==
* 1. One Bible Only? Examining Exclusive Claims for the King James Bible by Roy E Beacham and Kevin T Bauder general editors, Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids, MI, 2001, pg 44.
* 2. Which Bible? Grand Rapids: Grand Rapids International Publications, 1970. 3rd ed. 1972. ISBN 0-944355-24-2
* 3. Answers to Objections, B. J. Wilkinson
* 4. Westcott & Hort, The New Testament In The Original Greek (New York 1882)
* 5. Burgon, Revision Revised, p. 9.
* 6. Burgon, Revised Revision, p. 48.
* 7. Metzger, Bruce M. (2001). A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. pp. 26, 33, 35, 36, 50, 81, 86, 87, 93, 99, 102–106, 187–189, 315, 388, 434, 444. ISBN 3-438-06010-8.
* 8. Philip B. Payne Fuldensis, Sigla for Variants in Vaticanus and 1 Cor 14.34-5, NTS 41 (1995) 252.
* 9. Eberhard Nestle, Erwin Nestle, Barbara Aland and Kurt Aland (eds), Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition, (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1991), p. 440. [NA26]
* 10. Bruce M. Metzger, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Greek Palaeography, New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, p. 74.
* 11. Carlo Maria Martini, La Parola di Dio Alle Origini della Chiesa, (Rome: Bibl. Inst. Pr. 1980), p. 287.
* 12. Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 60.
* 13. Fee, G. D. (1968-9). Codex Sinaiticus in the Gospel of John, NTS 15, pp. 22-44.
* 14. Bruce M. Metzger (2001). "A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament", Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart: United Bible Societies.

==External links==
* [http://jewel.andrews.edu:82/search/aWilkinson+Benjamin+George Andrews.edu], Articles by Wilkinson as cataloged in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI)

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