Hard facts about the Septuagint

• The one and only preserved letter (really a book by Artistes) that describes the creation of the Septuagint around 250 BC is a forgery, because various facts in that letter do not fit the historical facts of that era, and is so inaccurate it could not have even been written anytime near 250 BC, so  ...

  • scholars who state the Septuagint existed about 250 BC by citing this letter have nothing to stand on, since the letter is a forgery

• other scholars who defend the Septuagint all disagree with one another and/or give witness in hearsay form, simply citing other scholars who are making up stories (well proven now), or they themselves quote the fraudulent letter of Artistes
• other scholars still have credibility issues due to even contradicting themselves.

• There is now evidence that Philo of Alexandria, Egypt had the money in 50 AD to finance a Greek version of the Hebrew, only it is riddled with false doctrines, and further, would have been too late for Jesus to use, since Jesus was already crucified and resurrected. This Greek soon became known as the Septuagint, not a 250 BC version, but 50 AD, and not having 70-72 faithful Hebrew scholars translating into Greek, but some Alexandrian scholars. However, Philo passed it off as a copy of the 250 BC text (that really never existed). Apparently Philo was anti-Jewish and wanted to corrupt the Jewish bible just enough to try to say, I found the real Word from God since the Jewish text was lost (even though that was a false story), thus trying to alter Jewish doctrine, especially with apocrypha containing heresy of all sorts.

• Even some scholars of the first few centuries agreed that the Septuagint was a fake, having uncovered the details above.

• Jesus said in Matthew 5:18 “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.”

  • This verse shows that Jesus was referring to the Hebrew text, because a "tittle" is the little dot that serves as a word separator in Hebrew (like white space) and the "jot" is any Hebrew character.

  • Jesus would not say this while referring to the Old Testament if it was not the Hebrew version
  • Essentially, Jesus endorsed the Hebrew Old Testament, not the Greek Septuagint (even if it did exist, but it did not).
    

• Jesus and His disciples are all Jews, and would never use a Greek text, so even if the Septuagint existed then, they would not quote from it, lest they look like fools in front of other Jews who could by law only use the texts available in the temple.

• The formal gender of most of the nouns is different from the Masoretic text, changing the class of noun, and thus the meaning. In fact it is akin to throwing pieces of a puzzle out and trying to make sense of it.

  • For example, in Proverbs 15:8, the word for “abomination” in the Masoretic is feminine, but in the Septuagint, it is neuter. The feminine is all-inclusive, but the neuter is an undefined abomination, as if God is wishy-washy about abominations.

  • Furthermore, in this same verse the word for “delight” in the Hebrew is in the masculine, which means God's delight is focused on the person he delights in, but the Septuagint puts it in the feminine, which converts the person God delights in into a corporation, which is laughable!

• Creating and/or knowingly using a forgery of scripture is "the unforgivable sin", because it is blaspheming the Holy Ghost by making it appear the Holy Ghost inspired the writings of a forgery.  We have shown the Septuagint (LXX) is a forgery with a few simple proofs.