His crime was that he translated the Holy Scriptures into English and was making copies
available to the people in violation of the rules of the Roman Catholic Church.
Which Bible Version is God’s Word?
By: Edward Hendrie
One of Satan’s favorite methods of attack is through religion. Satan loves religion and infuses his religion with, devil inspired, man made rules. God, on the other hand, hates man made religion. Jesus did not mince words when he expressed his disgust with the religious leaders of the time in Israel, who rebelled against God and set up a religious system based on tradition that was in direct conflict with God’s Holy Law.
Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:6-9 AV)
The religious leaders of Israel set up a whole regimen of rules and traditional practices and in doing so had ignored the wishes of God.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. (Matthew 23:22-28 AV)
The scribes and Pharisees slaved and worked in order to gain followers, but because their religion was not of God but was created by men, not only did their followers end up in hell but so did they.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. (Matthew 23:13-15 AV)
Just as Satan did with the Jews, he has so done today. Only today Satan has created a religion that is a counterfeit to Christianity. The apex of this counterfeit Christianity is found in the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Catholic Church has taken up the torch of disobedience with fleshly Israel and has continued the conspiracy against God. This book will establish beyond all reasonable doubt that the Roman Catholic Church is the seat of the antichrist and is a principal in a conspiracy against Christ. The Roman Catholic doctrines are not just a phony substitute for Christianity, they are the antithesis of Christianity, they are against the doctrines of Christ. Satan, however, has seduced the world into believing that Roman Catholicism is the religion of Christ. In fact, though, it is the religion of the antichrist.
Paul warned the early disciples about the wolves in sheep’s clothing that would creep into the church. The real threat to God’s church is not from outside the church but from inside the church.
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. (Acts 20:29-30 AV)
God has appointed a place for such religious deceivers. They will be cast out into outer darkness where there is weeping and knashing of teeth. (Matthew 8:12, 24:51).
How is one to know if a religious leader is a man of God or a man of sin? One way is to look at whether he bears good fruit or evil fruit. What is meant by fruit? God tells us in the Holy Bible that the fruit of a person is what he speaks: “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.” (Luke 6:45 AV)
Without God’s word, though, it is not possible to distinguish the good fruit from the evil fruit. If moral distinctions are going to be made between good and evil it is necessary to look to the book written by the creator of all things, good and evil.
Jesus admonished the people of the world to not simply call him Lord, but to also do what he says. (Luke 6:46 AV) In order, however, to do what he says, we must first know his words contained in his Holy Bible. One should follow the example of the Bereans and compare any religious doctrine with the word of God. The Bereans were viewed by God as more noble than others because they searched the scriptures to check to see if Paul and Silas were correct in their doctrine. See Acts 17:10-11.
God’s word is unique because it is God’s revelation of Him to man. The Holy Bible states that:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3 AV)
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Colossians 1:14-17 AV)
The gospel found in John states that God (the Word, the Creator) came to earth in the flesh: Jesus Christ.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14 AV)
In the Holy Bible God the Father makes it clear that his Son, Jesus, is God.
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. (Hebrews 1:8 AV)
The Holy Bible is not like any other book, it is unique, it was written by God through men.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (2 Timothy 3:16 AV)
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. (2 Peter 1:20-21 AV)
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (1 Corinthians 2:13-14 AV)
2. Creation and Salvation Through God’s Word
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. How did he create? He created by speaking. “God said . . . and it was so.” See Genesis 1:1-2:25. “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” (Hebrews 11:3 AV)
By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. (Psalms 33:6-9 AV)
The Holy Bible clearly states that God not only created through his Word, he also eternally saves through his Word.
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. (1 Peter 1:23-25 AV)
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. (2 Timothy 3:15 AV)
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:13-17 AV)
God’s word is the way to salvation. God would not leave us without the means for our salvation. The following scripture passages testify that God has promised that his word will be preserved forever.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5:18 AV)
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (Matthew 24:35 AV)
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. (Psalms 12:6-7 AV)
[T]he word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. (1 Peter 1:25 AV)
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. (Isaiah 40:8 AV)
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. (Psalms 119:89 AV)
4. The Roman Catholic Attack on God’s Word
Satan knows that the word of God is the way to salvation. Satan also knows that God has promised to preserve his words, and so it would be futile for him to try to destroy God’s words. Therefore, instead of trying to destroy God’s words, Satan instituted a two prong strategy to keep the Holy Scriptures from the people. The first prong of the strategy was to outlaw the possession and reading of the Holy Bible. When, over the years, that strategy proved ineffective, Satan instituted his second prong, which is to deny that God has preserved his words and offer counterfeit bibles to the world and to deceive people into believing his counterfeits are the closest that they can get to God’s genuine word.
The Roman Church knows that if the people are able to read for themselves God’s word they will discover that the Catholic traditions and doctrines are not just in addition to the Scriptures, they violate the Scriptures. The Catholic Church has a long history of trying to keep God’s word from the people. For example, at the Council of Terragona in 1234 A.D. the Roman Catholic Church prohibited anyone from possessing any part of the Old or New Testaments in any of the Romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Provencal, French, Rhaeto-Romance, Italian, Sardinian, and Romanian). The council ruled that anyone owning a Bible was to turn it over to the local Catholic bishop to be burned. In 1229 at the Council of Toulouse (Pope Gregory IX presiding), the Catholic Church prohibited “laymen” from having the Holy Scriptures or translating them into the “vulgar tongue” (common language of the country). In 1551 the Catholic Inquisitional Index of Valentia forbade the Holy Bible to be translated into Spanish or any other “vernacular.” In 1559 the Roman Catholic Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Prohibited Books) required permission from the Catholic Church to read the Catholic version of the Bible; all Christian Bible versions were simply prohibited. On September 8, 1713, Pope Clement XI issued his Dogmatic Constitution, Unigenitus, which in part condemned as error the teaching that all people may read the Sacred Scripture. On May 5, 1824 Pope Leo XII issued his encyclical Ubi Primum which exhorted the bishops to remind their flocks not to read the Bible. On May 24, 1829 Pope Pius VIII issued the encyclical Traditi Humilitati, which exhorted Catholics to check the spread of Bibles translated into the vernacular, because those Bibles endangered the “sacred” teachings of the Catholic Church. On May 8, 1844, Pope Gregory XVI issued his encyclical Inter Praecipuas in which he described Bible societies as plotting against the Catholic faith by providing Bibles to the common people, whom he referred to as “infidels.” On January 25, 1897 Pope Leo XIII issued his Apostolic Constitution Officiorum ac Munerum which prohibited all versions of the Bible in the vernacular tongue. The 1918 Catholic Code of Cannon Law, Index of Prohibited Books, Cannon 1385, § 1 prohibited publishing any edition of the Holy Scriptures without previous Catholic “ecclesiastical censorship.” The 1983 Catholic Code of Cannon Law, Cannon 825, § 1 prohibits the publishing of the Sacred Scriptures without the permission of the Apostolic See or the Conference of Bishops.
The official doctrines of the Catholic Church prohibiting the publication, possession, or
reading of the Holy Bible, were not a mere suggestions, they were enforced. For example, on
October 6, 1536 at Vilvorde (outside Brussels, Belgium) William Tyndale was burned at the
stake.
His crime was that he translated the Holy Scriptures into English and was making copies
available to the people in violation of the rules of the Roman Catholic Church.
The progenitors of the Catholic Church were around in the time of the apostles, wresting the Holy Scriptures from the people.
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. (2 Peter 3:15-17 AV)
With the advent of the printing press (circa 1455) making Bibles available to the ordinary man, it became obvious to Satan that he could not keep God’s word from the masses, so he instituted the second prong of his attack on God’s word in earnest. He offered counterfeit bibles. The Holy Scriptures reveal a pattern by Satan from the beginning to tamper with God’s word. God commanded Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:16-17 AV)
In Genesis 3:1-5 the serpent misquotes God, changing God’s words; he tricks Eve into eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil by asking her if God commanded that they not eat of any of the trees in the garden. When Eve responds, she also misquotes God, saying that he commanded that they should not touch the fruit, when God merely prohibited the eating of the fruit. God told Adam that if he ate from the tree “thou shalt surely die.” Once Satan perceived that Eve was ignorant of God’s true words he felt confident that he could convince Eve to disobey God by subtly misquoting what God had said. Satan took the warning by God and added one word. Satan said to Eve: “Ye shall not surely die.” What Satan said sounded authoritative. It sounded almost like what God had said; but that one word corrupted God’s word and turned it from the words of God to the words of Satan. The result of the corruption by Satan of God’s word was the greatest tragedy in history, the fall of Adam and Eve!
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. (Genesis 3:1-5 AV)
In apparent reference to Satan’s corruption of God’s word in the Garden of Eden, Jesus admonished Satan: “That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” (Luke 4:4 AV) Just as Satan did in the Garden of Eden, he now tries to confuse people about what God has said: “Yea, hath God said . . . .” Pediatrician Dr. Lawrence Dunegan attended a lecture on March 20, 1969 at a gathering of pediatricians at a meeting of the Pittsburgh Pediatric Society. The lecturer at that meeting was a Dr. Richard Day (who died in 1989). At the time of the lecture Dr. Day was Professor of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York. Previously, Dr. Day had served as Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Dr. Dunegan was well acquainted with Dr. Day and described him as an insider in the “order.” Dr. Dunegan did not explain what the “order” was, but from the lecture it was clear that it was a very powerful secret society made up of minions in service to Satan. During the lecture Dr. Day revealed many of the satanic plans that the members of the “order” had agreed upon that would change the United States from a Christian society to a pagan society. One of the strategies was to introduce new bible versions. By the time of the lecture in 1969, that strategy had long previously been implemented. Dr. Day was indicating that the final success of that strategy was in sight as henceforth it would be implemented with new vigor. Dr. Dunegan explains:
Another area of discussion was Religion. This is an avowed atheist speaking. And he [Dr. Day] said, "Religion is not necessarily bad. A lot of people seem to need religion, with it's mysteries and rituals - so they will have religion. But the major religions of today have to be changed because they are not compatible with the changes to come. The old religions will have to go. Especially Christianity. Once the Roman Catholic Church is brought down, the rest of Christianity will follow easily. Then a new religion can be accepted for use all over the world. It will incorporate something from all of the old ones to make it more easy for people to accept it, and feel at home in it. Most people won't be too concerned with religion. They will realize that they don't need it.
In order to this, the Bible will be changed. It will be rewritten to fit the new
religion. Gradually, key words will be replaced with new words having various
shades of meaning. Then the meaning attached to the new word can be close to
the old word - and as time goes on, other shades of meaning of that word can be
emphasized. and then gradually that word replaced with another word." I don't
know if I'm making that clear. But the idea is that everything in Scripture need not
be rewritten, just key words replaced by other words. And the variability in
meaning attached to any word can be used as a tool to change the entire meaning
of Scripture, and therefore make it acceptable to this new religion. Most people
won't know the difference; and this was another one of the times where he said,
"the few who do notice the difference won't be enough to matter."
In accordance with the aforementioned conspiracy, Satan and his minions now offer
people a whole assortment of different bible versions, which change and twist God’s word.
God’s word is with us today in the Authorized (King James) Version (referred to as AV or KJV).
All other bible versions are tainted by the hands of Satan and his minions, including the New
King James Version (NKJV). “Ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of
hosts our God.” Jeremiah 23:36. The corrupted bible versions are essentially Roman Catholic
bible versions.
Sadly, most of the so called church leaders of today have accepted Satan’s
counterfeit bibles.
The following is a partial list of the fraudulent bible versions: New International Version (NIV), Contemporary English Version (CEV), New Century Version (NCV), New World Translation (NWT), American Standard Version (ASV), New American Standard Bible (NASB), Revised Version (RV), Revised Standard Version (RSV), New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), Amplified Version (AMP), New King James Version (NKJV), 21st Century King James Version (KJ21), Third Millennium Bible (TMB), Douay-Rheims Version (DRV), Good News for Modern Man (GNB), Today’s English Version (TEV), Living Bible (LB), Darby Translation (DBY), Jerusalem Bible (JB), and New Jerusalem Bible (NJB).
The Authorized (King James) Version is an English translation of the Masoretic
(traditional) Hebrew Old Testament, whereas the new bible versions are taken from an inferior
and corrupted mixture of the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), Samaritan Pentateuch, Dead Sea
Scrolls, and a variety of other transcripts. The corrupt Septuagint used today was translated by
Origen (185-254 A.D.), who was a unitarian evolutionist.
Origen believed in reincarnation and
denied the existence of hell.
There are approximately 4,489 Greek New Testament manuscripts known to be extant
today.
Of these, 170 are papyrus fragments dating from the second to the seventh centuries;
there are 212 uncial (capital letter) manuscripts, dating from the fourth to the tenth centuries;
there are 2,429 minuscule (small letter) manuscripts, dating from the ninth to the sixteenth
centuries; and there are 1,678 lectionaries, which are lesson books for public reading that contain
extracts from the New Testament.
The vast majority of these manuscripts are in agreement and
make up what is known as the Textus Receptus (received text). There has been a recent
discovery of a small fragment of the earliest known New Testament manuscript not included in
the above tally, which was dated to 66 A.D. and is in agreement with the Textus Receptus. The
King James New Testament is based upon the Greek Textus Receptus, whereas the new
translations are based upon a very few number of corrupt manuscripts including the Roman
Catholic Greek texts Vaticanus and Sinaiticus, and a few other texts, the origins of which are a
mystery.
The manuscript Sinaiticus, which is often referred to by the first letter of the Hebrew
alphabet, Aleph, is written in book form (codex) on velum.
It contains many spurious books
such as the Shepherd of Hermes, the Didache, and the Epistle of Barnabas.
Sinaiticus was
discovered in a waste basket in St. Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai in February of 1859.
Sinaiticus is covered with alterations that are systematically spread over every page and were
made by at least ten different revisors.
The alterations are obvious to anyone who examines the
manuscript.
Most of the revisions to the text were made in the sixth or seventh century.
The manuscript Vaticanus, often referred to by the letter “B,”originated in the Vatican
library, hence the name.
Vaticanus was first revealed in 1841; where the transcript had been
prior to that date is unclear.
One thing this is clear is that the manuscript omits many portions
of scripture which explain vital Christian doctrines. Vaticanus omits Genesis 1:1 through
Genesis 46:28; Psalms 106 through 138; Matthew 16:2,3; Romans 16:24; the Pauline Epistles;
Revelation; and everything in Hebrews after 9:14.
It should not be surprising that the Vatican
would produce a manuscript that omits the portion of the book of Hebrews which exposes the
mass as completely ineffectual and deletes Revelation chapter 17, which reveals Rome as the seat
of “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Notice that the two primary manuscripts used by the new
bible versions were found in the care and custody of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts, which make up less than one percent of the
existing ancient manuscripts, differ significantly from the Received Text. Vaticanus omits at
least 2,877 words; it adds 536 words; it substitutes 935 words; it transposes 2,098 words; and it
modifies 1,132 words; making a total of 7,578 verbal divergences from the Received Text.
Sinaiticus is an even worse corruption, having almost 9,000 divergences from the Received
Text.
John Burgon, Dean of Westminster and the preeminent Greek textual scholar of his time, said the following about the Vaticanus and Sianaiticus manuscripts.
The impurity of the text exhibited by these codices is not a question of opinion but
of fact. . . . In the Gospels alone Codex B (Vatican) leaves out words or whole
clauses no less than 1,491 times. It bears traces of careless transcription on every
page. Codex Sinaiticus abounds with errors of the eye and pen to an extent not
indeed unparalleled, but happily rather unusual in documents of first-rate
importance. On many occasions, 10, 20, 30, 40 words are dropped through very
carelessness. Letters and words, even whole sentences, are frequently written
twice over, or begun and immediately cancelled; while that gross blunder,
whereby a clause is omitted because it happens to end in the same words as a
clause preceding, occur is no less than 115 times in the New Testament.
The Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts are so clearly corrupt that Dean Burgon was at
a loss to explain textual scholars accepting them as valid. He concluded that those manuscripts
have “established a tyrannical ascendancy over the imagination of the critics which can only be
fitly spoken of as blind superstition.”
The following is Dean Burgon’s assessment of the new
Greek text, which was produced largely from the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts, and
which underlies the new bible versions.
[T]he Greek Text which they have invented proves to be hopelessly depraved
throughout . . . [I]t was deliberately invented . . . [T]he underlying Greek . . . is an
entirely new thing, is a manufactured article throughout. . . . The new Greek text
was full of errors from beginning to end. . . . Shame on [those] most incompetent
men who - finding themselves in a evil hour occupied themselves . . . with
falsifying the inspired Greek Text . . . Who will venture to predict the amount of
mischief which must follow, if the ‘New’ Greek Text . . . should become used.
The Latin translation of the bible is called the Latin Vulgate. Incidently, the Catholic
Church used Jerome to pull a switch. The Latin text that is today called the Latin Vulgate is very
different from the traditional Latin Vulgate. Jerome used corrupted Greek texts from Alexandria,
which he translated into Latin, he then added 14 apocryphal books; the Catholic Church called
Jerome’s new Latin translation the Latin Vulgate.
This corrupted Latin Vulgate text is the
official bible text for the Catholic Church and was the source text for the Jesuit Douay-Rheims
English translation of the bible.
How did the new versions of the bible become so corrupted? The personalities behind
the new texts have an occult new age agenda. The compilers and translators of the new editions
aren’t just unchristian they are antichristian. The compilers of the corrupted Greek text used in
virtually all of the new bible versions were Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony
Hort. They were nominal Protestants, but they were defacto Roman Catholics. Hort denied the
infallibility of the Holy Scriptures, he did not believe in the existence of Satan, he did not
believe in eternal punishment in Hell, nor did he believe in Christ’s atonement.
Hort, however,
did believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, he believed in purgatory, and he also believed in
baptismal regeneration.
Hort hated the United States and wished for its destruction during the
civil war, because he was a communist who hated all things democratic.
Westcott was equally Romish in his beliefs.
He, like Hort, rejected the infallibility of
the Holy Scriptures.
He viewed the Genesis account of creation as merely an allegory.
He did
not believe the biblical account of the miracles of Jesus.
He did, however, believe in praying
for the dead and worshiping Mary.
Politically, Westcott was a devout Socialist.
Westcott and Hort were both necromancers who were members of an occult club called
the “Ghostly Guild.”
Westcott also founded another club and named it “Hermes.”
According
to Luciferian H.P. Blavatsky, Hermes and Satan are one and the same.
Hort viewed evangelical
Christians as dangerous, perverted, unsound, and confused.
Westcot and Hort’s Greek text was
largely based on the fraudulent Catholic texts Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.
Assisting Westcott and Hort in their revision was Dr. G. Vance, a Unitarian, who denied
the deity of Christ, the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, and the Godhead (Jesus Christ, God the
Father, and the Holy Ghost).
Jesuit Roman Catholic Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, the prelate
of Milan, was the editor of the corrupted Greek text.
Martini believed the occult new age
philosophy that man can become divine.
Remember, that is the very lie that Satan used to
deceive Eve into eating the forbidden fruit: “ye shall be as gods.” Genesis 3:5.
In addition, the new bible versions use a method of translation known as dynamic equivalence, rather than the formal equivalence used in the Authorized Version (AV), which is also known as the King James Version (KJV). Formal equivalence is a word for word translation, whereas dynamic equivalence is a thought for thought translation. A translator using dynamic equivalence is less a translator and more an interpreter. Thus, the new versions of bibles should more accurately be called interpretations, rather than translations. The dynamic equivalent interpreters of the new bible versions have often made unfounded assumptions as to the meaning of particular passage. Rather than translate what God wrote, they have, with some frequency, twisted passages by injecting their own personal bias. Some of these interpreters have displayed malicious intent and caused great mischief.
The subjective bias of the interpreters have caused changes in the new version English
bibles that are not supported by any of Greek or Hebrew texts. For example, dynamic
equivalencies caused 6,653 English word changes in the New International Version (NIV),
approximately 4,000 word changes in the New American Standard Bible (NASB), and
approximately 2,000 word changes in the New King James Version (NKJV), none of which are
supported by the words in any of the Greek or Hebrew texts.
Those word changes reflect the
subjective bias of the interpreters. The combined effect of having a corrupted text and then
having that text interpreted using dynamic equivalence has been that the NIV has 64,098 fewer
words than the AV.
That is a 10% loss in the bible. That means that an NIV bible would have
170 fewer pages than a typical 1,700 page AV bible.
The new versions of the bible are
materially different; they are the product of the imaginations of interpreters who have applied
their personal prejudices to slant already corrupted texts to comport with their own ideas. They
are truly counterfeit bibles.
The Holy Bible is a legal document prepared by God. It contains the Old and New Testaments of Jesus Christ. A testament is a memorialization of the will of a testator. It only has legal effect once the testator has died. The New Testament, in reality, is the last will and testament of Jesus Christ.
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. (Hebrews 9:15-17 AV)
A testator he is free to change the testament and add to it. That is what Jesus did when he added the New Testament to the Old Testament. “By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.” (Hebrews 7:22 AV) However, it is only the testator who is allowed to change or add to a testament. If anyone else adds to or changes a testament, the changes make the resulting document a forgery.
When trying to determine the meaning of a last will and testament, courts always try to interpret what is the will of the testator. That is why a person’s testament is called a will. If a will is to be translated from one language to another, because the heirs or the court speak a different language, courts always use formal equivalence because it is important that the heirs know exactly what the testator said. In fact, a translator must take an oath to faithfully translate the will of the testator. It is important not to allow any bias from a translator to affect what is the meaning of the words used. If a court allowed dynamic equivalence to be used when translating a last will and testament then the court would not be interpreting the will of the testator; the interpretation would have already been done by the translator of the document when he interpreted the meaning of each passage. The judge would be stuck with a document which has been injected with meaning by the translator. The judge would, in effect, be interpreting the intent of the testator intermixed with the intent of the translator. The final verdict regarding the intent of the testator would be corrupted by the bias or errors of the translator.
In the case of the Holy Bible, it is the New and Old Testaments of God Almighty. They are the most important legal documents ever written. God Almighty is the testator. He wrote both testaments. In addition, he created the languages into which his original testaments would be written. He also created the languages into which those testaments would be translated. Genesis 11:7-9. He has supernaturally controlled the process from beginning to end. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (2 Timothy 3:16 AV) In addition, he has promised to supernaturally preserve his testaments. “[T]he word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.” (1 Peter 1:25 AV) The heirs of Christ are Christians. “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.” (Romans 8:16-17 AV)
In order for Christ’s heirs to understand his will they must have a faithful translation. If his heirs try to interpret God’s will by using a translation that contains not the pure intent of God, but instead the intent of the translator, then they can no longer determine God’s will. A will that has been rewritten and corrupted with the thoughts of one other than the testator, it is considered a forgery and a fraud. So also are the new translations of the bible forgeries and frauds.
Defenders of the new bibles claim that the essential doctrines of the Christian Faith are expressed in the new bibles, even though they have been deleted or changed in many passages. James H. Son, author of The New Athenians, likened the logic of that argument to removing a stop sign from a busy street intersection and then justifying the removal because the other traffic signals in the city were left intact. Even though the sign only contained one word, that word is of critical importance to those who arrive at the intersection, just as each word in the Holy Bible is of critical importance to those who are reading it. God has made the point in the Holy Bible that every word of God is important. “And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.” (Luke 4:4 AV) Incidently, the doctrine of Luke 4:4 is missing in the new bible versions. The NASB, for example leaves out the last clause and simply states: “And Jesus answered him, ‘it is written, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE.’” (Luke 4:4 NASB) The new versions leave the reader in ignorance as to what it is other than bread by which man lives.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. (Deuteronomy 8:3 AV)
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. (Proverbs 30:5 AV)
Look at the passage in Galatians 3:16, wherein God points out the importance of every one of his words. In that passage God explains the importance of the distinction between the singular word “seed” and the plural word “seeds.”
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. (Galatians 3:16 AV)
If one looks at the AV passages that refer to the promises made to Abraham, one sees that in fact God refers to Abraham’s “seed,” singular. In the NIV, however, the passages that prophesy the blessings that were to flow from Abraham’s seed, Jesus Christ, are changed and obscured. If one were to try to find the passages referred to in Galatians 3:16 in the NIV one would not be able to do so, because the NIV does not use the word chosen by God but has substituted words chosen by man as inspired by Satan.
AV
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. (Genesis 22:18 AV)
NIV
[A]nd through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me. (Genesis 22:18 NIV)
AV
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. (Genesis 17:7 AV)
NIV
I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. (Genesis 17:7 NIV)
It is important for God’s heirs to know who they are. His heirs are those who have the faith of Abraham, not those that have the flesh of Abraham.
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham. (Galatians 3:6-9 AV)
This point is understood by the passage in Galatians 3:16 that explains what is meant by the precise word “seed” used in the Old Testament. “And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:29 AV)
Without the precise word “seed” the meaning of the will of God can be misinterpreted to support false doctrines like that pretribulation rapture fraud, which makes Christ’s church a mere parenthesis in history. Under the pretribulation rapture corruption, fleshly Israel is to inherit the promises of God; contrary to God’s express intent that it is those who are chosen and justified by his sovereign grace who are his heirs and not those who are born of the flesh of Abraham. “That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” (Titus 3:7 AV)
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.” (Romans 9:6-8 AV)
That is one example of a false doctrine that is supported by the change of just one word. There are other false doctrines that have sprung from other corrupt changes to God’s word in the new bible versions.
The promoters of the new bible versions claim that they are merely updating the archaic English in the King James Bible. They are being disingenuous. The Holy Bible is a legal document. The English of the King James Bible is not archaic, it is precise. The precise language used has eternal importance. Thee, thou, thy, and thine are singular pronouns. Thou is the subjective second person singular, thee is the objective second person singular, and thy and thine are possessive second person singular. Ye is a is subjective second person plural pronoun. In the King James text the precision of the language puts the reader in the midst of the narrative. The reader is able to tell whether the person is the object of the action or the subject causing the action. The reader can also tell if the subject or object is a group or an individual. The new versions use either the pronouns “you” or “your” for all of the narratives and the reader is not able to know anything about the setting of the narrative. All one need do is read Galatians 3:16 to know that singularity and plurality are important to God.
The writers of the Authorized (King James)Version (AV) did not use the more precise pronouns because that was the customary language of the 16th century, they purposely used those words because they wanted to accurately and faithfully translate God’s word into English. To prove the point, all one need do is read the dedicatory at the beginning of the Holy Bible (AV); the dedicatory was written at the completion of the AV Holy Bible in 1611 A.D., not once was thee, thou, thy, thine, or ye used in the dedicatory.
One of the arguments used by the promoters of the new versions is that the new versions
are easier to read than the King James Bible. Some Bible passages are hard to understand, but
that is no excuse to change the meaning of the passages just to make them more readable. Dr.
Donald Waite said it best: "Some people say they like a particular version because they say it's
more readable. Now, readability is one thing, but does the readability conform to what's in the
original Greek and Hebrew language? You can have a lot of readability, but if it doesn't match up
with what God has said, it's of no profit. In the King James Bible, the words match what God has
said. You may say it's difficult to read, but study it out. It's hard in the Hebrew and Greek and,
perhaps, even in the English in the King James Bible. But to change it around just to make it
simple, or interpreting it, instead of translating it, is wrong. You've got lots of interpretation, but
we don't want that in a translation. We want exactly what God said in the Hebrew and Greek
brought over into English."
Besides, it is simply not true that the new bible versions are easier
to read. According to a readability study the AV reads at the 5th grade level, whereas the NKJV
and NASB read at the 6th grade level and the NIV reads at the 8th grade level.
When reading
the Holy Bible one should understand that “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit
of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned.” (1 Corinthians 2:14 AV) If a passage is hard to understand pray for understanding
and study the Bible for the answer. Let God’s word explain God’s word.
God has promised to preserve his word forever (Psalms 12:6-7), that not one jot nor one tittle will pass from his law (Matthew 5:18), and that heaven and earth will pass away but his words will never pass away (Matthew 24:35). The promoters of the new bible versions call God a liar. They assert that God’s word has not been preserved. They admit that they don’t know which version is truly God’s word. If you ask them to present God’s word, they will tell you that parts of his word are lost forever, but that they can come up with a text that they will try to convince you comes close to God’s word. But God has stated emphatically: “[T]he word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.” (1 Peter 1:25 AV) “[L]et God be true, but every man a liar.” (Romans 3:4 AV)
S. Franklin Longsdon was assigned by Dewey Lockman of the Lockman Foundation to
write the guidelines for the translation of the NASB. Longsdon prepared the guidelines, but after
much study and prayer he wrote to Lockman that the NASB was terribly wrong and renounced
any attachment to the NASB version of the bible.
The most popular version of the new bibles is the New International Version (NIV). Dr.
Virginia Mollenkott, the textual style editor for the NIV, is an admitted lesbian.
The Chairman
of the NIV Old Testament Committee, Dr. Woudstra, was considered to be sympathetic to the
interests and practices of sodomites. The NIV chief editor vaunted the fact that the NIV showed
that it is a great error to believe that in order to be born again one has to have faith in Jesus as
Savior. He also thought that few clear and decisive Bible texts express that Jesus is God.
Rupert Murdoch owns the exclusive rights to the NIV.
Murdoch has been described as
an internationalist and a pornographer.
Time magazine called Murdoch one of the four most
powerful people in the world, and for good reason, he has a media empire that includes
Twentieth Century Fox, Fox Television, cable television providers, satellites, and newspapers
and television stations throughout America, Europe, and Asia.
The pope bestowed upon
Murdoch the title of “Knight Commander of St. Gregory” for promoting the interests of the
Roman Catholic Church.
The New King James Version (NKJV) and the 21st Century King James Version (KJ21) are particularly misleading. They try to trade on the accuracy of the Authorized (King James) Version of the Holy Bible (AV) by putting King James in their titles. They claim that their bibles are simply updates of the King James. Their copyright, however, gives them away. What they don’t tell the public is that in order to obtain a copyright on a book that is in the public domain, as is the King James Bible, they are required to make substantial revision to the text, such that it can be clearly distinguishable from the original. Essentially, it must be a new literary work. Otherwise, the publisher of the revision cannot claim a copyright. The NKJV and the KJ21 are both copyrighted books; which means they must be substantially different from the King James Bible. Yet, in order to sell the new bible they tell the public that it is really the same as the old King James Bible, that they have simply updated the archaic language in order to make it more readable.
The publishers of the NKJV and the KJ21 versions are being disingenuous when they
claim that their new versions are not new at all, but just easier to read updates of the original
Authorized (King James) Version (AV). The NKJV made over 100,000 word changes from the
AV, deleting 2,289 words from the New Testament alone. The NKJV removed the word “Lord”
66 times, removed the word “God” 51 times, and removed the word “Heaven” 50 times. Yet,
Nelson publications has the nerve to advertise that "Nothing has been changed except to make
the original meaning clearer."
The KJ21 publishers claim that:
The 21st Century King James Version (KJ21®) is neither a new translation nor a
revision, but an updating of the King James Version (KJV) of A.D. 1611. While
no attempt has been made to "improve" the timeless message or literary style of
the KJV, words which are either obsolete or archaic, and are no longer understood
by literate Bible readers, have been replaced by carefully selected current
equivalents.
The KJ21 publishers state that in order to maintain the accuracy and keep the KJ21
faithful to the original AV they even kept the thees and thous, etc. They have, in fact, made
many unnecessary changes to the text, which make their bible less clear and understandable. If
one reads the text of the KJ21, one sees that conjunctions are added when unnecessary and the
word order is changed in passages, not to make the passages clearer, but so that the revision is
considered substantially different from the King James Bible. They had to make substantial
changes in order to obtain a copyright on the publication. The KJ21 is, quite simply, about
making money. The publishers are not telling the truth when they claim that the KJ21 is not a
revision but only an update. George Shafer did a computer check of the verses in the four
Gospels, comparing the KJ21 with the original AV. He discovered that the KJ21 modified 2,200
of the 3,779 verses.
That is a change in approximately 60% of the verses in the four gospels.
Why did they make so many changes, when they claimed to have only updated it? Remember,
they must make substantial changes in order to get a copyright, but they also want to sell their
corrupted bibles.
The KJ21 claims in their preface: “The KJ21® is unique among modern Bibles in that it
is closer in language to the original King James Version than any other Bible copyrighted in the
twentieth century. Unlike all other modern Bibles, it alone retains the power, beauty, and poetic
language of the glorious King James Version.”
The KJ21 publishers are saying that they have
changed the powerful and beautiful King James Bible to a lesser degree than other copyrighted
new bible versions. The KJ21 publishers seem to be admitting that the leaven of changes to the
King James Bible are for the worse, so they made fewer of them. “A little leaven leaveneth the
whole lump.” (Galatians 5:9 AV) All it takes is a little poison to poison a well. These new bible
versions are spiritual poison.
The publishers of both the KJ21 and the NKJV fall all over themselves praising the accuracy and literary beauty of the King James Bible. If it so accurate and beautiful, why change it? The answer is MONEY! “For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” (1 Timothy 6:10 AV) The new bible versions are evil.
The texts of the new bible versions, such as the NIV, manifest the pagan antichrist agenda of its publishers. In Isaiah there is a passage about Lucifer that refers to him as “Lucifer, son of the morning.” In the NIV, the Isaiah passage is changed.
AV
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15 AV)
NIV
How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven, I will raise my throne above the stars of God: I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, in the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the most High.” But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit. (Isaiah 14:12-15 NIV)
Notice that the NIV has changed the subject of the passage from “Lucifer” to the “morning star.” What is the significance of that change? In Revelation 22:16, Jesus calls himself the “morning star.” Do you see what Satan has done? Jesus is the “morning star” in the NIV Isaiah passage. Satan has taken a passage that refers to Satan’s destruction and has twisted it in the NIV to describe the destruction of Jesus, who is Lord God Almighty.
The authors of the NIV, who are evil minions of the devil, have committed the unpardonable sin by changing Isaiah chapter 14 in the NIV to blasphemously attribute to God the evil characteristics of Lucifer. In their Satanic NIV, Isaiah chapter 14 has been changed to prophesy that it is not Lucifer who will in the end be cast into hell, but rather the “morning star,” who is the Lord God Jesus Christ.
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. (Matthew 12:24-32 AV)
In Revelation 20:12 the small and great stand before God, who is seated on a great white throne. However, in the NIV, NASB and other corrupted versions Satan accomplishes his ultimate goal of taking God from his throne; in those new versions all mention of God sitting on the throne is deleted. The small and great are simply standing before the throne.
Another example of Satan’s twisting of God’s word is found in Luke in the new versions of the bible. In the Authorized Version, Mary’s and Joseph’s relationship to Jesus is described as “Joseph and his mother.” Whereas, in the NIV, and virtually every other new version of the bible, Mary’s and Joseph’s relationship to Jesus is described as “the child’s father and mother.” We know that Joseph was not Jesus’ father, because Mary, when she was still a virgin, conceived Jesus by the Holy Spirit. God is Jesus’ Father. Jesus is the Son of God, not the son of Joseph. “. . . [T]hat holy thing which shall be of thee shall be called the Son of God.” Luke 1:35.
AV
And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. (Luke 2:33 AV)
NIV
The child’s father and mother marvelled at what was said about him. (Luke 2:33 NIV)
Throughout the corrupted bible versions, passages that prove the deity of Jesus are removed or changed. For example, the translators of the NIV, NASB, RSV, and most of the new translations delete Jesus’ assertion in Revelation 1:11 that: “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.” In addition, the NIV and the other new bible versions delete the word “God” from 1 Timothy 3:16, using the pronoun “He” in its place. 1 Timothy 3:16 clearly reveals that Jesus is God. The new bible versions, however, remove the revelation that Jesus is God from that passage.
AV
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (1 Timothy 3:16 AV)
NIV
Beyond all question, the mystery of go