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IDENTIFICATION
of the Written WORD of God for the English Speaking People Today:
Perversions
of God's Word are nothing new.
Jeremiah
23:36 (KJV)
(The Lord said)... ye
have PERVERTED THE WORDS OF THE LIVING GOD…
2
Corinthians 2:17 (KJV) For we
(Paul, Barnabas, Silas, Timothy, etc.) are
not as many, which CORRUPT THE WORD OF GOD: but as of
sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak
we in Christ.
Mark
4:15 (KJV) SATAN
COMETH … and TAKETH AWAY
THE WORD… sown in their hearts.
Most pastors and Christians
consider the modern Bible translations they use as “harmless,” but
they’re not. There has been a concerted effort to corrupt the word of God.
Satan seeks a “universal Bible” of his own, as the basis for unifying
all religions into a one-world religion, under a one-world government led by
the coming false messiah, Anti-Christ, possessed by Satan himself.
His Bibles diminish the pure Gospel of Christ. You might ask; how can
you say that? If you compare the modern translations carefully with the
Authorized King James Bible, verse for verse, you will see that there is a
concerted effort to diminish the place and singularity of Jesus as “the
Son of God,” and His blood shed that was “for
the sins of the world.”
By example: The New
King James Bible Version has 100,000
changes from the KJV. It omits
“hell” 22 times, “blood” 23 times, “repent” 44 times,
“heaven” 50 times, “God” 51 times, “Lord” 66 times, and
“devils,” “damnation,” and “JEHOVAH,” are completely omitted. Most
all modern translations (NIV,
ESV, NASB, AMP, RSV, Living Bible, et al) have been similarly
corrupted because they are most
all derived from the same “new” corrupted Greek text that was
assembled by these two men, Westcott
& Hort. These men drew their “new” Greek text from the disputed Alexandrian
text and Latin Vulgate. A
group of “scholars” in
Alexandria
,
Egypt
thought they could do better than the KJV’s Textus
Receptus manuscripts. When they made their copies, they made “corrections”
that they thought better presented what the Scriptures should
say. Some of their errors were gross blunders (like quoting Malachi
and calling it from Isaiah) but others were more subtle (slight word changes
to take away the deity of Christ). They removed verses they didn’t
like. The KJV’s Textus Receptus
is the Greek text that has been used by Christians for nearly 2,000 years.
Over 99% of the 5200 existing Greek New Testament manuscripts are in
agreement with the text of the English Authorized Version of 1611. Yet, the
Alexandrian text has recently been the most influential in the so-called modern,
critical editions of the Greek
New
Testament, achieving widespread acceptance in the Greek text
of Westcott & Hort (1881), culminating in the United Bible Society Nestle-Aland
27th edition of the New Testament. The Catholic RSV of 1965 and NSRV
of 1981 are based on the “secondhand” Latin Vulgate Text.
“Brooke
Foss Westcott
(1825-1903) and Fenton John
Anthony Hort (1828-1892)
have been highly controversial figures in biblical history. On one side,
their supporters have heralded them as great men of God, having greatly
advanced the search for the original Greek text. On the other side, their
opponents have leveled charges of heresy, infidelity, apostasy, and many
others, claiming that they are guilty of WREAKING GREAT
DAMAGE
ON
THE TRUE TEXT OF SCRIPTURE.”
Consider
these Westcott/Hort Quotes & Facts: “It
cannot be said that they believed that one could attain
Heaven by either works or faith, since both believed that Heaven
exists only in the mind of man.”
Westcott believed in and attempted to practice a form of Communism…
Westcott & Hort believed it possible to communicate with the dead
and made many attempts to do just that through a society which they
organized; called “The Ghostly
Guild.” Westcott accepted
and promoted prayers for and to the dead. Necromancy, communion
with the dead, is forbidden in Deuteronomy
18:10-11 There shall not be
found among you any
one that ... (is a) consulter
with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a NECROMANCER.
Hort was a proponent of
Darwin
and his theory of evolution. These men are the source of today’s modern
Bibles – NIV, NASB, ESV, Living Bible, etc!
Here
a list of verses by which you can check to see IF YOUR BIBLE HAS BEEN CORRUPTED
or NOT.
> WHO IS MARK QUOTING
IN THE 1ST PART OF MARK 1:2?
Mark
1:2 (KJV) “As
it is WRITTEN IN THE PROPHETS, Behold,
I send my messenger…”
Below are two
typical of the corrupted new age Bible translations, having many
inaccuracies.
Mark
1:2 (NIV) It is written
in ISAIAH the prophet: “I
will send my messenger ahead of you…
Mark
1:2 (NASB)
As it is written in ISAIAH
the prophet: “Behold, I send My
messenger …
Isaiah 40:3
comes close BUT the words “I
WILL SEND MY MESSENGER” (KJV) are NOT
there.
Isaiah 40:3 KJV The
voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
LORD…
Actually, MARK
1:2 IS QUOTING the PROPHET MALACHI 3:1 – NOT
ISAIAH.
Malachi 3:1 (KJV)
Behold, I
WILL SEND MY MESSENGER,
and he shall prepare the way before me…
This
is only one of many hundreds of major conflicts between the KJV and new age
translations.
AS YOU WILL SEE ITS
IMPORTANT TO HAVE ALL THE VERSES WITH ALL THE WORDS!
> Who killed Goliath?
(We know young David killed
Goliath, see Isaiah 21:9) Let’s compare Bibles.
2
Samuel 21:19 (KJV) And there
was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of
Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew THE
BROTHER of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was
like a weaver's beam.
2
Samuel 21:19 (NIV, NASB, etc)
In another battle with the Philistines at Gob, Elhanan
son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, who
had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod.
>
Can you find the name
“Lucifer”
(KJV)
in
Isa 14:12 of
your Bible? It’s
Not in NIV, NASB, ESV,
AMP, RSV, etc.
> Are these complete
VERSES IN YOUR BIBLE? NOT in the NIV, NASB, etc.
Matthew
17:21 (KJV) Howbeit this kind
goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Mark
9:44, 46, 48 (KJV) Where
their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched
Acts
8:37 (KJV) And Philip said,
If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and
said, I believe that JESUS CHRIST
IS THE SON OF GOD.
1
John 5:7 (KJV) For there are three
that bear record in heaven, the
Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. (This
is an attack on the Triune Godhead!)
> Who is Jesus’
father? We know Jesus was conceived
of the Holy Spirit from Mat 1:20.
-
Luke 2:33 (KJV) And
Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken
of him (Jesus). (Note
that Joseph is not called Jesus’ father as it is below.)
-
Luke 2:33 (NIV,
NASB, etc) The child's
FATHER and mother marveled at what was said about him.
An attack on the
truth that Jesus was “the
Son of God,” conceived by the Holy Spirit (NOT Joseph).
>
Is Jesus God?
Apparently NOT
in the NIV, NASB, etc.
Romans
9:5 (KJV) Whose are
the fathers, and of whom as concerning
the flesh CHRIST CAME, WHO
IS OVER ALL, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans
9:5 (NIV, NASB, etc) Theirs
are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ,
who is God over all,
forever praised! Amen.
> Were all things
created by Jesus Christ?
NOT in the NIV, NASB, etc.
Ephesians
3:9 And to
make all men see what is
the fellowship of the mystery,
which from the beginning of the
world hath been hid in God,
who created all things by Jesus Christ:
Ephesians
3:9 (NIV) and to make plain
to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept
hidden in God, who created all
things.
> Jesus is “the
Alpha and Omega, first & Last”! NOT
in the NIV, NASB, etc.
Revelation
1:11 (KJV) Saying, I
am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write
in a book, and send it
unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna,
and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto
Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
Revelation
1:11 (NIV, NASB, etc) which
said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven
churches: to
Ephesus
,
Smyrna
,
Pergamum
, Thyatira,
Sardis
,
Philadelphia
and
Laodicea
."
Note
what is missing. Yet another attack on the Son of God as the eternal God!
>
DOES GOD’S “WORD” MATTER? God’s
“Name” is “above
ALL blessing and praise.” Compare
these.
Nehemiah
9:5b (KJV) … Stand up and
bless the LORD your God for ever and
ever: and blessed be thy glorious
NAME, WHICH “IS” EXALTED ABOVE ALL blessing and
praise.
Nehemiah
9:5 (NIV) …Stand up and
praise the Lord your God, who is
from everlasting to everlasting." "Blessed be your glorious name,
and “MAY IT BE” exalted
above all blessing and praise.
> Yet, God has
placed His WORD above His NAME! Compare the text.
Psalm
138:1-2 (KJV) I will praise
thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee. 2
I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for
thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for
thou hast magnified THY WORD ABOVE ALL THY NAME.
Psalms
138:1-2 (NIV, NASB., etc) I
will praise you, O Lord, with all my heart; before the "gods" I
will sing your praise. 2 I will
bow down toward your holy temple and will praise
your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above
all things your name AND
your word.
THE
PERFECT WRITTEN “WORD.”
Psalm
19:7-10 (KJV) The
law (written instruction
in the Torah, the Pentateuch) of
the LORD is perfect (without
blemish), converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is
sure, making wise the simple. 8 The
statutes (commandments) of the
LORD are right,
rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is
pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The
fear of the LORD is clean,
enduring for ever: the judgments of
the LORD are true and
righteous altogether. 10 More
to be desired are they than
gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
1
Thess 2:13 (KJV) For this
cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the
word of God which ye heard of us (Paul and his), ye received it
not as
the word of men, but as it is in
truth, THE WORD OF GOD, which effectually WORKETH ALSO IN YOU THAT
BELIEVE.
1Cor
14:37 (KJV) If
any man think himself to be a
prophet, or spiritual, let
him acknowledge that the things that I
(Paul) write unto YOU
ARE THE COMMANDMENTS (instruction) OF
THE LORD.