Is CHRISTENDOM Listening ?




TEXTUAL WARFARE

--- OR ---

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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