TEXTUAL WARFARE
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Why isn't Christendom listening to the Evidence?
For more than 100 years, Evidence --- sound evidence, factual
data, clear references, and logical reasoning that even a school child can
follow --- have been compiled regarding the total INACCURACY of the
Westcott-Hort critique of the HOLY SCRIPTURES.
Yet, the academic school of textual criticism continues to employ
the Westcott-Hort "critique" of the HOLY WORD of GOD, even as they
add their own theories to Westcott and Hort's assumptions.
Nestle-Aland's work about 80 years later, follows the same general path.
Kurt Aland said in his introduction to the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th Edition, page 43 , that "The age of Westcott and Hort and Tischendorf is definitely over !"
Yet, Mr. Aland and his cohorts adopted the same school of
thought that Westcott-Hort did. In
brief, that
the Holy Scriptures
needed
to be corrected.
BUT … did they ask GOD?
The corrections were done via learned men, exceedingly skilled in
Greek and Latin and some in Syriac-Aramaic and Hebrew, yet exceedingly lacking
in ONE area... the area that counted most.
I+ have yet many things to
say unto you,
but ye cannot bear them now..
Howbeit when HE,
the SPIRIT of TRUTH,
is come,
HE will guide you
into all Truth:
for HE shall not speak of Himself;
but whatsoever HE shall hear,
that shall HE speak:
and HE will shew you things to come.
John 16:12- 13
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TRUTH, it seems, was somehow lacking.
The SPIRIT of TRUTH was not the Guiding Hand upon their
corrections. These men who dared touch the Scriptures said, in essence,
"Has GOD really said that
? "
Thus, they edited their life away... and the life of many
Believers. Their erudite corrections --- not led by the SPIRIT, not approved by
the Apostles and Prophets, and with no ecclesiastical authority or unction from
The Throne of GOD --- actually ERODED
the faith of many.
Who
concerning the truth have erred,
saying that the resurrection is
past already;
and overthrow the faith of some.
2 Timothy 2:18
The crucial issue is, however, not what these learned men have
done, but rather this:
WHY has
Christendom
AGREED with them?
Why has mainstream Christendom allowed these scholars to lead
them… instead of the HOLY SPIRIT ?
Why has mainstream Christendom thought it "right" to
discard the HOLY SCRIPTURES entrusted to the Church for over 2,000 years?
Certainly it was NOT because of the "thee's, thou's, and
thy's" in the Authorized King James Version. Those corrections COULD have been made 100
years ago. The archaic words which nowadays mean something else, like
"conversation" and
"comfort" and "convenient", could have easily been aligned
with the Greek word meaning and stated
in modern English.
Perhaps, there were no "thee's, thou's, and thy's" in
German, French, Spanish, and all the other languages hosting the translations
of the Textus Receptus of the Holy Word of GOD.
Therefore, a change "so that the common people
could understand the Scriptures better" was not
the purpose guiding the new translations.
Respect of men of reputation, a respect of the mortarboard and
cap tassel, weighed MORE in the eyes of our earth-bound church authorities than
the INSPIRATION of GOD.
That INSPIRATION --- "in-breathing," if you will ---
breathed the Life of The LORD via the HOLY SPIRIT into the words of GOD. Yes, those
very words of GOD.
Should we be surprised that the thoughts of men did not agree
with the thoughts of GOD? What did The LORD JESUS tell His+ disciple Peter?
But
when HE+ had turned about
and looked on His+ disciples
,
HE+ rebuked Peter, saying,
Get
thee behind ME+, Satan:
for thou savourest not
the things that be of GOD,
but
the things that be of men.
Mark 8:33
Men have always elevated academic learning. Why else was it,
should we suppose, that The LORD permitted invading armies to burn the massive
library of world knowledge that existed in Alexandria, Egypt, said to have
occurred over several years by the means of a variety of wars?
Volumes and volumes of ancient
learning 40,000 to estimates of close to
half a million scrolls of all the ancient learning went up in flame.
We KNOW
The LORD is not against knowledge.
WISDOM was with GOD in the beginning, at the creation of the
earth. Solomon was made the wisest man on earth, due to the SPIRIT of GOD.
Solomon was granted this gift of great knowledge and understanding when he
humbled himself.
And even as they
did not like to retain GOD
in their knowledge,
GOD gave them over
to a reprobate mind,
to do those things which
are not convenient;
Romans 1:28
WHY has
Christendom
AGREED with them?
We will thoroughly review individual verses, passages, and words
that the scholars have tampered with and altered … and look at the basis for
these changes, to see if they are valid.
However, the scholars and linguists are not to blame.
No, rather,
the accountability must rest with the leaders of our modern Christianity who chose and STILL ARE
CHOOSING to ignore the factual evidence supporting the validity of Scripture …
including the testimony of the HOLY SPIRIT.
In short, Christian leaders since the 1700’s , starting with
Johann Griesbach and his theological teachers at the infamous University of
Tubingen in Germany around 1775, have agreed with questioning the HOLY DEPOSIT
because of the questioning scholars whose
mind-set is of the natural man.
WHY has
Christendom
AGREED with them
… instead of the HOLY SPIRIT ?
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