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We at Chick Publications have wrestled with the question for years: “Which Bible will we use in our tracts for Spanish-speaking people?” Our problem was that we could find problems with all of them. A few years ago one Spanish Bible version was sent to us, claiming to have fixed the corrupt Alexandrian errors, and we almost went with that Bible. But just to be sure, we sent a copy to our Spanish translators to verify the text. To our dismay, they found numerous mistakes. I was crestfallen. At that point I despaired of finding a Spanish Bible that was as true in form and meaning to God’s preserved Greek and Hebrew as the King James is in English. But a couple of years ago I began to hear from missionaries, encouraging us to consider the Reina Valera Gomez Bible. They were so polite and godly in their correspondence that we ordered some copies. Then I asked various Spanish speakers to read them and give me their thoughts, as I checked my copy of the RVG. The results were quite positive. The errors we found at that earlier stage Brother Humberto was humble enough to correct. “After all,” he said, “it is not my Bible.” That has been his attitude in all the time I have come to know him. Brothers and sisters, it is exciting to see that Brother Gomez has spent years cleaning up the text, in conjunction with other Bible-believers in 12 countries! In this way many Christians have been able to read and re-read the RVG and to show him anywhere that still needed to be corrected to match God’s preserved words. And they have seen that the form of Spanish communicates well in all those diverse countries, without bias or misunderstanding. The product of Gomez’ work, checked by those countless brothers and sisters under his leadership is what we call the Reina Valera Gomez Bible. We were overjoyed. As a result, we at Chick Publications have worked hard to change the scriptures in our Spanish tracts to use the RVG. And any future Spanish literature from Chick Publications will also quote the RVG. In short, I fully and enthusiastically endorse the Reina Valera Gomez Bible as God’s preserved words in Spanish. David W. Daniels |