Our Secret Origins
Hello, my name is Joseph Armstrong! I’m a King James Bible believer and I run a YouTube channel called the Bible Version Conspiracy. Regardless of my KJV-only convictions, it’s not how I was raised.
As a child, I always memorized my Bible verses from an NIV, even though the church I grew up in had only KJVs in the pews. The experience of my parents taught them that the NIV greatly enhanced Bible understanding, so I grew up with several modern Bible translations. As a pre-teen, I was introduced to Kent Hovind’s Creation Science Seminar which reinforced some of the things I was learning from my homeschool curriculum regarding the deficiencies in modern versions.
My first books on the subject of the Bible version issue were Gail Riplinger’s “New Age Bible Versions” and “The Language of the King James Bible”. Since then I have spent several hundred dollars amassing a library of books both for and contrary to the position taken by that author. So far, I can say that my experience has confirmed the basic thesis laid out in those first two books.
My first video was uploaded on March 29th, 2013, in my family’s dimly lit back room which I used as a school room and later claimed as an office/studio. Over the years, I would make many videos on YouTube (which are now mostly private) talking about this controversial subject for hours on end and exploring books I was reading such as “The Scholarship Only Controversy” by Peter Ruckman, “Blind Guides” by Gail Riplinger, and “The Word: God Will Keep It” by Joey Faust. In total, my uploaded videos amounted to around 860 videos (many over an hour long) and more than 500 subscribers.
Eventually, I earned an AAS in Graphic Arts Technology, married my sweet wife Destiny in 2017, and had four sweet little babies! We pray to God to make us adequate and worthy of raising them in the fear of God and with the courage to ask questions.
My hope for the Bible Version Conspiracy is that it takes off along with our business card-styled tract ministry, Card-Carrying Christians and that they will take us into a full-time life of serving God and traveling as a family. (You can help us reach this goal by checking out our “Join Our Mission” page.)
Our Mission
Using visual and audio media, we
- Bring awareness to the conspiracy lying behind the modern Bible version controversy on both sides of the aisle and bring the conspiracy into common public and scholarly discussion.
- Document a personal quest to untangle the modern Bible version controversy to determine if KJV-Onlyism withstands the closest scrutiny.
- Build a video library that details the accuracy and inerrancy of the KJV and how modern biblical scholarship falls short in its criticisms.
- Magnify the word of God and light it sheds on the modern Bible version controversy.
Our Vision
Envisioning.
Hidden In Symbol
Let’s go in-depth on our new logo, the complexities of the design process, and the deeper meanings that’s packed into it!
An Unusual Set of Beliefs
The Bible: The Bible is given by inspiration of God and the KJV is God’s word to the English-speaking world. (2 Tim 3:16)
God: God is eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God. (1 Tim. 1:17) The Trinity (or Godhead) is a very real thing and is compellingly argued for in the book “Cults and the Trinity” by Ken Johnson.
Jesus Christ: Is the Son of God the Father, fully God, and fully man. The so-called “Christ Spirit” is not New Age and not a thing. for more on this, check out our live video on “God With Us?“
Holy Spirit: Third person of the Godhead and the promised Comforter for Christians until Christ’s return.
Satan: The accuser of the brethren and the adversity of God. (Rev. 12:10)
The Scriptural Canon: Sixty-six books from Genesis to Revelation. Extracanonical books like the Apocrypha and Enoch are interesting and informative reading, but not scripture. The books known as pseudepigrapha (false writings claimed to be by the Apostles, but written long after their deaths) are not even close to scripture and are often heretical and demonic. See our page on the Lost Books and the book on the “Demonic Gospels” by Ken Johnson for more information.
Salvation: We are saved by grace through faith alone in Christ who was sacrificed for us. (1 Cor. 5:7)
The Resurrection/Rapture: Pre-Tribulational, but we like to keep an open mind. A tremendous scriptural and historical defence of the Pre-Trib Rapture is contained in the book “The Rapture” by Ken Johnson.
For the historical background and confirmation of our basic Baptist beliefs, “The New Covenant of Damascus” by Ken Johnson (and many of his other books in our Library) has a lot of information on exactly who the Messiah was and what He came to do.
Even though you may agree with these beliefs, they are very unusual these days. “So, what I told you was true… from a certain point of view.” (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
Our Heretical Beliefs
We have many beliefs some consider heretical. Here are only some of them.
Dispensationalism
Yeah, I agree, sort of. But not with Darby, Schofield, Larkin, Bullinger, Ruckman, or Stam. I’m pre-trib, and I recognize the truths they taught about it, but their dispensational systems are off. Especially Ruckman’s works for everyone but the “Church Age”, etc.
Tongues
Historically, and biblically, this is a gift of the Holy Ghost seen in Acts 2 especially where the apostles spoke in foreign languages they had never learned. Each apostle went as a missionary to the language group that had been “downloaded” to him. Charismainia and much of Penticostalism are either fraud or sometimes possession, even though some may be sincere believers.
Sabbath & Sunday
The Sabbath is still Saturday because Sabbath litterally means “seventh day”. Sunday has been historically celebrated as the Lord’s day because of the resurrection and our blessed hope of the new beginning that will be granted when God makes a new heaven and new earth after the Age of Grace, Tribulation, and Millenium are completed.
Sexuality
There are only two genders and they aren’t fluid, you’re just confused or you could have a more serious problem. Get away from the gender-bending chemicals in your diet and stop frying your brain in front of TV and TikTok and that will help you out a lot.
Nation of Israel
We believe that they are God’s chosen people and that they are in serious trouble. Many prophecies need to be fulfilled in them and they will be. Did the Illuminati create the modern state of Israel? Why not? Practically the next thing on the calendar is for them to accept the Antichrist in their restored Temple. Stephen Anderson has some really bad teaching on this that (sadly) ignores the very scripture it claims to be quoting.
Were most of the tribes lost all over the world? I think it’s a strong possibility, but it can’t be used to justify any degree of racism. I think a pretty interesting book on this possibility is “Israel’s Lost Empires” by Steven M. Collins. You can listen to an interesting podcast about it here. To be clear, we are NOT Christian Identity or British Israelites. Good thing, too. I don’t think I want to be part of the Tribe of Dan: the only one left out of the 144,000 and the tribe the Antichrist is supposed to come from! (See more about the Antichrist in the video “End-Times (Church Father Hippolytus’ book on the Antichrist)” by Ken Johnson and the book “The End-Times by the Ancient Church Fathers“, also by Ken Johson.
Hebrew Roots
Yes, Christianity came from Old Testament Judaism. But that doesn’t mean that commands for the Jews (such as feasts, washings, the Sabbath, etc.) apply to Gentile Christians. It also does not justify the extremes of the Hebrew Roots Movement.
Check out some very good reasons we are not Hebrew Roots or Sacred Namers in the video “Ken Johnson: The Ancient Origins of the Hebrew Roots Movement” by Ken Johnson as well as his book “Ancient Origins of the Hebrew Roots Movement: The Noahide and Mosaic Laws as Seen in the Dead Sea Scrolls by Ken Johnson.” Since these ideas are held by Jim Staily and to a lesser degree Bill Schnoebelen, we might as well discuss their other favorite teaching.
Flat Earth
It’s a globe. We have had passionately flat friends, and we seriously considered it for years. Turns out, however, that all the so-called “biblical”, observational, and “scientific” arguments for it fall flat and don’t hold water. We hold that the Flat Earth is a psyop to make the Bible and Christians look stupid and distract us by making Bible believers fight among themselves.
In my mind, the best argument against the flat earth is the cycles and eclipses of the moon, which is why many flat people argue the moon is a pre-adamic holographic projection designed by “THEY” to fool us. The most present argument, however, is from the fact that if the sun were small and close, it should increase in apparent size by at least 6 times as it traverses the sky in the course of a day, and of course, this is not the case. Bonus: None of the modern Flat cosmologies match the ancient Hebrew one that they try to use to get you to listen to them.
I still try to keep an open mind to Geocentrism (which flatters steal 90% of their scientific and biblical arguments from, and which I am much more open to) and Flat Earth, but my patience with flatness is wearing very thin. Feel free to send us your flattest arguments.
Mandela Effect
The claim is that everything from product and store branding to the Bible itself is changing before our eyes! This is a direct result of CERN, D-Wave computers, time travel, alternate dimensions merging with ours, or black magic warping the fabric of reality. Only a select few remember the way things used to be. Or do they?
It is an interesting theory with many passionate proponents, but (as with the Missing 411 phenomenon) we believe there are real less exotic, case-by-case reasons behind this perplexing phenomenon. Here are some of the most likely suspects (some of whom have been caught red-handed):
- False memories/misidentification
- Typos/Mistaken news reports
- Learned false memory/cultural influence
- Brand identity shifts/variation
- Mental illness/parasites
- Demonic oppression/spells
- Spousal gaslighting/abuse
- Drug abuse/unknowingly UTI
- Mind control programs/psyops
- Household “spirits”/hauntings, etc.
We’re not here to call you a demon-possessed idiot, declare that you’re not saved because we disagree, or write you off as a heretic for not seeing things our way. Please do not hesitate to send us your Mandela Effect story. Something is happening and your testimony matters in unraveling it! You can visit our dedicated page for more information on the Mandela Effect.
Want more information on other ways you can label us a heretic? Reach out to us in the form below!
Also see Card-Carrying Christians and josepharmstrong.design
Bible Version Conspiracy 