NASB Translation Comittee
Member
Frank Logsdon was a major player in
the development of the New American Standard Bible (NASB).
He was a friend of DEwey Lockman, and was involved in a
feasiblilty study involving purchasing the copyright of the American
Standard Version (ASV) with Lockman that lead to the eventual
production of the NASB. He interviewed some of the
translators for the job, and even wrote the preface to the translation.
Slowly, he became aware that there
was something wrong with the NASB. He eventually rejected it, and
promoted the KJV. This was a mojor defection for the modern
version crowd
This is from Logsdon's speech "From
the NASV to the KJV." Read his speech in it's enterity here.
"I must under God denounce every
attachment to the New American Standard Version. I'm afraid I'm in
trouble with the Lord...We laid the groundwork; I wrote the format; I
helped interview some of the translators; I sat with the translator; I
wrote the preface. When you see the preface to the New American
Standard, those are my words...it's wrong, it's terribly wrong; it's
frightfully wrong...I'm in trouble;...I can no longer ignore these
criticisms I am hearing and I can't refute them. The deletions are
absolutely frightening...there are so many. The finest leaders that we
have today haven't gone into it [new versions of Wescott and Hort's
corrupted Greek text] just as I hadn't gone into it...that's how easily
one can be deceived...Are we so naive that we do not suspect Satanic
deception in all of this?"
