POSSESSING GOD'S WORD

       INTRODUCTION

Today, many Christians possess modern translations, not realizing they are based on untrustworthy Greek and Hebrew texts. These old and new testament texts were created by Hort and Westcott, who made the false claim that since their texts were based on the earliest and best manuscripts, around 4th century AD, and being earliest, they must automatically be more accurate.

However, between the beginning of the 2nd and 5th century AD, more and more false teachings came out of the Church at Rome, and out of Alexandrian churches with their Arian and Gnostic beliefs.

Given the amount of false teachings, it was necessary for bible texts that supported these false doctrines to be created to reduce adverse discovery by believers. The result was primarily the Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and Alexandrian type texts supposedly during this 2nd to 5th century AD period.

The propagation of false doctrines to modern translations worked this way:
  1. documents containing false doctrines (2nd-5th century AD)
  2. then Sinaiticus, Vaticanus and Alexandrian bible texts (4th-5th century AD)
  3. then Hort and Westcott bible texts (late 1800s)
  4. then modern translations began propagating in the 1970s.
The result has been significant harm to today's churches. This is because many false doctrines are now propagated into modern translations, wherein almost all of this has been through removal of "offending" doctrines, allowing church core doctrines to become more liberal.

Our in-depth studies have found over 3200 verses with doctrinal changes, primarily through the removal of words, phrases, sentences and even sections of scripture. And virtually all modern translations based on Hort and Westcott have the very same doctrinal changes. This table illustrates this:  http://www.millpark.org/bible/doctrine-critical/Hort_and_Westcott_and_RT_versions.html .

Here is a reference to many of the corrupted verses: http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/manuscript_evidence.html .

If you look those verses up in their context, the wise believer can discover what false doctrines have arisen.
MAJOR REVELATIONS FROM OUR GREEK STUDY (summaries):

1. ACCOMODATE UNIQUELY CATHOLIC, ARIAN AND GNOSTIC DOCTRINES IN ABOUT 42% OF THE VERSES (~3200 VERSES) WHICH IS ASTOUNDING !!!!

2. HAVE ABOUT 31% OF NT VERSES ARE BACK-TRANSLATED INTO GREEK FROM THE LATIN TEXTS OF 4TH CENTURY ROME

3. THE "EARLIEST AND BEST" MANUSCRIPT CLAIM IS ACTUALLY THE "EARLIEST AND BEST UNIQUELY CATHOLIC / ARIAN / GNOSTIC" MANUSCRIPT, WHICH RAISES ISSUES
  
1. AS PROVEN BY STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY THEORY!

2. HAVE CHANGES MOTIVATED BY RELIGIOUS VIEWPOINT ACCOMMODATION, PARTICULARLY CHURCH AT ROME, AND ALEXANDRIAN CHURCHES, IN FIRST 5 CENTURIES

3. SINAITICUS IS A FORGERY AND VATICANUS IS NOT FROM 450 BUT 949 AD, AND BOTH HAVE TEXTS THAT WERE OVERWRITTEN WITH ALTERNATE GREEK WORDS TO ACCOMMODATE UNIQUELY CATHOLIC DOCTRINES

4. ALEXANDRIAN AUTHORS ALSO EMENDED ARIAN AND GNOSTIC DOCTRINAL ACCOMMODATIONS INTO THE GREEK TEXTS

5. OF ALL THE VARIANTS, ONLY 7% ARE IN NON-DOCTRINAL VERSES , BUT 60% ARE IN OF DOCTRINAL VERSES, PROVING CHANGES WERE MOSTLY DELIBERATE !!!!!!!!!!!!
1. RECENT TRANSLATORS OF THE GREEK NT, IN THE AUTHORS' OWN WORDS, SHOW THEY ARE DUBIOUS AT BEST, APOSTATE AT WORST

2. MANY RELIGIOUS ACCOMODATIONS AND BIASES DEGRADE THE MODERN TRANSLATIONS

3. MUCH OF THE GREEK IS NOT EVEN TRANSLATED (ABOUT 1% OF VERSES, ABOUT 80)

4. SINAITICUS IS AN ADMITTED FORGERY AND VATICANUS IS A WIDELY OVERWRITTEN TEXT AND SO IS ALSO A FORGERY, SO BOTH ARE NOT THE "OLDEST AND BEST MSS"

The above findings were derived from over 3600 man-hours of research.

The Table of Contents that follows outlines a study that will show, with significant forensic evidence, which line of scripture can be trusted today, and why. This is a broad study, perhaps a 1-2 hour read for some, so it is broken down into sections, as follows, to allow for breaks.


TABLE OF CONTENTS (links)
  1. MOTIVATION
  2. THE STUDY
    1. INTRODUCTION
    2. TRANSLATORS / HANDLERS
    3. LATIN VESTIGES
    4. DOCTRINAL ACCOMMODATIONS
    5. EVIDENCE FOR THE MAJORITY TEXTS
  3. FAITHFUL TRANSLATIONS (including a few modern ones)
  4. CONCLUSIONS (Note: while you are obviously free to read the conclusion first, you will only come to appreciate the validity of the conclusions by reading the entire study first.)
Note that this is not a KJV-only study!  If anything, we favor the Stephanus Greek New Testament over all others, from which come 150+ translations in 150+ languages of the world.  (This study only addresses New Testament history and issues.)

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