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For the diligent and AWARE child of God there is only one Bible version that
can be trusted today. The Word of God is not without enemies, those who hate
the Living God and prefer to have a god of their own making, would like to see
His word destroyed. Satan uses these weaker vessels to accomplish his work.
There are two main sources of manuscripts from which the New Testament has
been translated. First, there is the Traditional Text, which is also known as
the Majority Text, Received Text, or Textus Receptus. -This text comes from
Antioch, a Christian religious refugee center after the dead of Jesus. It is
this Text that was used in the translation of the King James Version of 1611.
The second source of texts is basically of two groups: The Latin Vulgate and
The Alexandrian Texts. The latter, followed by Westcott and Hort, is also
referred to as the "B" and "Aleph", or Vatican and Sinai, or Minority Texts.
The Vatican (B) text appeared in the Vatican, and the Sinai was found of all
places, in the wastebasket of the St. Catherine's Monastery on Mt. Sinai, in
February of 1859 by Dr. Tischendorf
These Greek Texts owned by the Roman Catholic church, and others very similar
in content were used as the primary source in the New Testament translation of
most of the New Versions of today.
The great Greek scholar, Dr.Scrivener, says in his book "A Full Collation of
the Codex Sinaiticus, "The Codex is covered with such alterations....brought
in by at least ten different revisors, some of them systematically spread over
every page, other occasional or limited to separated portions of the MS, many
of these being contemporaneous with the first writer, but for the greater part
belonging to the sixth or seventh century.
Dr. Alfred Martin echoes this, "Aleph shows the works of ten different
correctors down through the centuries).
The Alexandrian Texts go back to the days of Clement (200 A.D.), who founded
the "Catechetical School" at Alexandria. He brought the wisdom of the WORLD
into the teachings of the Christian faith and began to collect a group of
manuscripts which gradually got changed to suit the thinking of the learned
man.
The best known graduate of this Alexandrian School was Origen who followed
Clement as the head of the school. He became the most influential leader of
his generation. He edited a six-column Bible called the Hexapla. Each of the
columns had a different version of the Bible. He continually changed Bible
verses that did not agree with his liberal ideas. He spiritualized God's
Word.
Scholars tell us that these texts are the "oldest" and therefore the most
"accurate". But what they don't tell us is that there are also plenty of
manuscripts just as old from the Antioch school and that this "ACCURACY" has
been determined by their own OPINIONS based on their own BELIEVES.
The next historical step in corrupting the Bible was taken in the time of
Constantine. He accepted the Christian faith for political purposes and
ordered a Bible that would appeal to the masses. Eusebius, a follower of
Origen, was chosen for this task.
The corruption of God's Word was taken over by Jerome who was called upon by
the Pope to prepare a Bible that would flavor the Roman Catholic teaching.
This Bible was officially accepted by the Church at the Council of Trent in
1546. It was through Jerome that the seven Apocryphal books were placed in
the Bible. These were soon accepted by Roman Catholic Church as
authoritative.
In 1881 there appeared in England a two volume edition of the New Testament in
the Original Greek by Westcott and Hort.
The Westcott and Hort Greek New Testament was primarily based on the Roman
Catholic owned VATICANUS (B) and SINAITICUS (Aleph) manuscripts of the fourth
century. Both of which originated from the Alexandrian School. Their work
was used later as the main basis for all subsequent translations. The New
American Standard Version was translated from the 23rd edition of the Nestle
Greek Text which is very similar to the work of Westcott and Hort.
Professor Zane C. Hodges of Dallas Theological Seminary has estimated that 80%
-90% of the Greek New Testament Manuscripts in existence today are of the
traditional variety, upon which the KJV was based. He says, "It is also well
known among students of textual criticism that a LARGE MAJORITY OF THIS HUGE
MASS OF MANUSCRIPTS- somewhere between 80%- 90% or about 4,200 to 4,700 out of
a possible 5,255 copies of manuscripts, contain a Greek text which in most
respects closely resembles the kind of text which was the basis if our KJV.
One of the arguments against the King James Version and the Textus Receptus
from which it was translated, is that more manuscripts have been discovered or
catalogued since its translation in 1611. This is true, Thousands of
manuscripts have been brought to light since 1611, but THE GREAT MAJORITY OF
THESE ARE IN SUBSTANTIAL AGREEMENT WITH THE TRADITIONAL RECEIVED TEXT
UNDERLYING THE KJV.
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This part of the posting is to give you just a taste of some of the changes.
the changes are way too many to be all mentioned in this space. The corrupted
Alexandrian manuscripts differ from the Textus Receptus in over 5,000
instances resulting eventually in over 36,000 differences in the various
English versions.
"YE SHALL NOT ADD UNTO THE WORD WHICH I COMMAND YOU, NEITHER SHALL YE DIMINISH
OUGHT FROM IT..." Deuteronomy 4:2
" Add thou not unto His Words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a
liar." Proverbs 30:6
The examples here may pertain to all of some of the versions. The verses
have either been removed completely or in part or words have been subtly
changed as to give room for alternate interpretation.
Genesis 12:3
Matthew 6:33; 18:11; 27:35; 17:21; 23:14; 24:14
Mark 6:11; 15:28; 7:16; 9:44; 9:46; 11:26 15:28
Luke 4:4; 4:8; 4:18; 17:36; 23:17; 22:43-44; 23:42; 24:6-12-36-40; 51:52; 1-1
John 1:27; 7:53; 8:11; 6:47 & 69; 9:35; 5:3-4
1 John 4:3; 5:13
Acts 9:6; 8:37 ;28-29; 15:34; 24:7; 28:29
Ephesians 3:9 14
Galatians 6:17
Revelation 1:11 ;
Romans 16:24
I Cor. 5:4 9
Col.1:14
I Peter 1:22
Psalm 8:5
General Verses in which key words are removed or replaced in any or all of the
New Versions:
"The son" changed to "A son" Rev 1:13; 14:14; Matthew 27:54; Mark 15:39
Daniel 3:25; Mark 12:6
"Gospel of Christ" changed to "gospel"
Romans 1:16; I Cor. 9:18 also changes in exact context: John 6:68; Rev 14:6
There is one God changed to God is "ONE". James 2:19
"God" changed to "One" Genesis 49:24; Psalm 2:4; 50:1; 132-2,5; Habakkuk 1:12
Believing in Me (Christ) is changed to "believe": Mark 9:42; John 3:15 6:47
"Blood" removed Col 1:14; Rom 3:25; Luke 22:20 ICor 11:24.
Name "Jehovah" removed: Exodus 6:3; Psalms 83:18; Genesis 22:4; Exodus 17:15
Judges 6:24; Isaiah 12:2; 26:4 Jeremiah 23:20-27.
Holy Ghost or Spirit of God changed to "Spirit" Act 8:18, Romans 15:19;
John 7:39; Acts 6:3; ICor 2:13; Matthew 12:31; Acts 6:3 .
Gospel of "Righteousness" changed to "prosperity": Prov 8:18; prov 21:21
I Timothy 6:5
"Sodomite" changed to "prostitute" Deut 23:17; I kings 14:24 15:12; 22-46
II Kings 23:7 I Cor.6:9; Romans 1:27
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BOILING FROG
This part of the posting will refer to ALL New Versions of the Bible as New
Age Versions" that will include the NEW King James Bible and will leave out
the OLD KING JAMES BIBLE (1611), SINCE THIS BIBLE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS NOT
BEEN TOUCHED BY THE INSIDIOUS FINGER OF THE NEW AGE.
The "Word of God" is the only thing keeping Satan from deluding the whole
world. Once the "Word of God" is removed, then there is no authority for the
child of The Living God to stand upon. Once The Living God is eliminated,
then man becomes god. This is the teaching of the New Age that we are gods.
The New Age is not really new, It's the same Ancient Wisdom of the past or
what the Bible refers to as "BAAL WORSHIP" revived under a new cover.
So the leaders of the New Age have a plan in mind to do away with the Word of
God or what we call the Bible. They will produce a New Age Bible, a final
version that will please EVERY ONE. But a frontal attack will be too obvious
and unproductive, but a gradual change, one that we will not even notice will
do just fine. So what they are doing is producing new versions of the Bible
with what they claim are better manuscripts, even though they are in the
minority and show ample signs of CORRUPTION and editing.
The second part of the game is to change the words for a more up to date
modern vocabulary but in so doing they are using very select words and
expression that will fit their goals. Lets see how it works.
"The encyclopedia of OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY divulges Satan's secret in
their definition of "THE NEW AGE" calling it a "LARGELY SEMANTIC REVOLUTION."
(Semantics means changes in the meaning of words).
Lola Davis, another semantic soldier of the New Age writes in "TOWARD A WORLD
RELIGION FOR THE NEW AGE": When an appropriate COMMON VOCABULARY is developed,
each group can help toward a "WORLD RELIGION".
Since BOTH western CHRISTIANS and eastern MYSTICS are moving along a semantic
bridge -meeting in the middle- in spiritual BABYLON, their troops are
trumpeting two trends:" (New Age Bible Versions by G. A. Riplinger)
TREND ONE
Oriental mystics, traveling West via the New Age Movement, are adopting
Christian terms for their occult ideas and identities.
Some years ago the leading New Age newsletter Lucis Trust -United Nations
Plaza- (by the way; it was originally named Lucifer Trust) called for
volunteers to help find ACCEPTABLE CHRISTIAN COUNTERPARTS FOR NEW AGE WORDS.So
now 'Buddha', 'Krishna',and 'Lucifer', become "THE LORD" "THE CHRIST" and "THE
ONE". Occult initiation becomes "baptism"
"One of the biggest advantages we have as New Agers is, once the OCCULT,
METAPHYSICAL NEW AGE TERMINOLOGY IS REMOVED, we have concepts and techniques
that are very acceptable to the GENERAL PUBLIC. So we can change the names
and in so doing, we OPEN THE NEW AGE DOOR TO MILLIONS who normally would not
be receptive." (quote from The Sorcere's New Apprentice)
TREND TWO
Western word warriors traveling east on the SEMANTIC BRIDGE have matched moves
with the MYSTICS. Since Buddha, Krishna, and Lucifer became "the Christ, the
Lord, and "the One", editors riding the new version bandwagon east have
changed JESUS and JEHOVAH TO "The Christ", "The Lord"' and "The One", ALL IN
RESPONSE TO THE CALL FOR A COMMON LANGUAGE and the CROWNING OF THE NAMELESS
GOD OF OCCULTISM.
New Agers refer to LUCIFER as "The One" "A divine being". Now new versions
point readers to Satan instead of God.
In the "New Age Versions" we no longer find the name "Lucifer" to define
Satan in Isaiah 14:12, it has been replaced with "The Morning Star" which is
the Title for Jesus as per Revelation 22:16. There is no support in any
manuscript for this change.
The name "Jehovah" is changed to "LORD" which to a New Ager could mean
Krishna, Buddha, Lucifer or whatever God he looks up to.
The expression "LORD JESUS CHRIST" has been changed to "THE CHRIST". To a
New ager "CHRIST" is not the person of Jesus, but an "OFFICE" that can be
filled in by the highest Master. To them that OFFICE was filled in the past
by various masters or avatars including Jesus, Buddha etc, and will be filled
in the future by Lord Maitreya who is said to have come down from the
Himalayas and is currently living in London. So by dropping the name Jesus,
the expression is open to any interpretation.
The expression "HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL" is changed to "ONE" or "THE ONE".
To the New Ager God is not a personal Being but a "force". They refer to this
force or ultimate reality as "One" because the number perfectly denies any
duality or distance between God and man. When deity is ascribed to this "ONE"
reality, it becomes a proper name: "THE ONE".
The New Versions have also toned down on the name "JESUS" and the word "GOD"
those words have been changed to he or him.
Also the words SATAN, and "THE DRAGON" are eliminated in most versions. They
also omits that Jesus died for us, they just have him dying. That we are
saved by grace through his blood, we are just saved by "The One". That we are
to follow the gospel of Christ, has been changed to: "Follow The Gospel",
which one? it does not explain since the words Jesus Christ are removed.
That Jesus is the door is replaced with Jesus is "A" door, leaving room for
other doors. The fire of hell is gone. The Gospel has been changed from a
Gospel of "righteousness" to a gospel of "Prosperity". Homosexually is no
longer a problem, the words homosexual have been changed to temple prostitute.
Jesus is no longer "The" son of God but "A" son of God.
You may be saying that in your Bible there are still SOME references that
read right. Not for LONG my friend, they have not finished the job yet. In
the future the heat will increase and it will be "boiling frog" all the way to
dinner. The heat will increase slowly without you noticing. The aim is a
"ONE BIBLE" for a "ONE "WORLD RELIGION" one that can accommodate ALL PEOPLES
by fusing God and Lucifer or Satan into the same being.
As a true Christian, you may think that these versions are ok for you, after
all you did not even notice anything out of place. You are saved by the blood
of Jesus and you are fine, you understand everything the way it is suppose to
be anyway. I understand that, but what is our responsibility with the unsaved
people? By us giving our support to all these corrupt New Age Versions of the
Bible we are contributing to their confusion and to the success of the one
"WORLD RELIGION" whose Master is SATAN, and which will be essential to fulfill
Satan's purposes through the Antichrist.