An evaluation of the Greek behind the King James and Modern Versions

By

Neville Salvetti

Preface

In 1881 the Revised Version Bible was produced amidst great controversy about its apparent rewriting of The Bible Text.

The controversy raged for years and still is occurring today.

Many great minds gave themselves to the discussion both for and against the Revised Version and the ‘New’ Greek text it was based upon and what follows in this booklet is on the dissertations of these people. People like, Philip Mauro, Dean Burgeon,Dr Scrivener, Bullinger and many others as well as what God has personally shown me which is why some of the arguments I raise hae not been used before in this debate.

What follows is based on their scholarship which is far greater than I and many others can ever aspire too.

I examine the evidence for and against the credulity of the choice of the five main manuscripts used as the basis for the Revised Version as against the credulity of the thousands of manuscripts that were used as the basis for the King James Version of The Bible.

Why did they need an updated version of The King James Bible?

The main reasons were to make it easier to understand and to correct any errors of the text that had been discovered since it was translated in 1611.

There was no desire for a new translation or even for a new Greek text based on documents that were not accepted by the original translators of the King James and Christendom. In fact there was to be no deviation from the text of The King James Bible, except to correct any obvious errors in translation.

Terms of reference of the Revised version Committee

In May of 1870, the Convocation of Canterbury (made up of Anglican bishops) laid down some basic rules which were to be observed by the translation groups given the task of updating the King James Bible. These rules were as follows:

[1] To introduce as few alterations as possible into the text of the Authorised Version.

[2] To limit, as far as possible, the expression of such alterations to the language of the Authorized and earlier English Versions.

[3] Each company to go twice over the portion to be revised, once provisionally, the second time finally, and on principles of voting as hereinafter is provided.

[4] That the Text that is to be adopted be that for which the evidence is decidedly preponderating; and that when the Text so adopted differs from that from which the Authorised Version was made, the alteration be indicated in the margin.

[5] To make or retain no change in the Text on the second final revision by each Company, except two thirds of those present approve of the same, but on the first revision to decide by simple majorities.

[6] In every case of proposed alteration that may have given rise to discussion, to defer the voting thereupon till the next meeting, whensoever the same shall be required by one third of those present at the meeting, such intended vote to be announced in the notice for the next meeting.

[7] To revise the headings of chapters and pages, paragraphs, italics, and punctuations.

[8] To refer, on the part of each Company, when considered desirable, to Divines, Scholars, and Literary Men, whether at home or abroad, for their opinions.

THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONVOCATION OF CANTERBURY

In addition to the rules just mentioned, the Convocation also passed five resolutions that were to govern the actions of the translation Committees. These resolutions are as follows:

[1] That it is desirable that a revision of the Authorised Version of the Holy Scriptures be undertaken.

[2] That the revision be so conducted as to comprise both marginal renderings and such emendations as it may be found necessary to insert in the text of the Authorised Version.

[3] That in the above resolutions we do not contemplate any new translation of the Bible, or any alteration of the language, except where in the judgment of the most competent scholars such change is necessary.

[4] That in such necessary changes, the style of the language employed in the existing Version be closely followed.

[5] That it is desirable that Convocation should nominate a body of its own members to undertake the work of revision, who shall be at liberty to invite the cooperation of any eminent for scholarship, to whatever nation or religious body they may belong.

How Faithful were they to what they were appointed to do?

The Committee completely ignored the guidelines and did the opposite of what was appointed for them to do so that a New Bible Translation was made based on a New Greek text made from texts that had been originally rejected by the translators of the King James version.

In fact it could be assumed from what was published that the guidelines given to the committee was actually the opposite of the ones that had been actually given to them. Their Bible showed Gnostic tendencies in th e way it treated Jesus, but then the main texts they used have been shown to be edited by Gnostics to back up their beliefs about Jesus.

IF the text they had was better than those used for the King James they should have openly gone to the bishops and presented it to them and asked their permission to use it. But they did not as their new Greek text backed their belief system and they knew it would be rejected by the bishops so they secretly made it and used it for the translation of the Revised Version.

Only evil works in darkness keeping men from ignorance as truth is not afraid to display itself.

What guidelines did they ignore?

In May of 1870, the Convocation of Canterbury laid down some basic rules which were to be observed by the translation groups. These rules were as follows:

[1] To introduce as few alterations as possible into the text of the Authorised Version.

The New Bible is 20% or more different to the text of the King James Version and the changes often have no reason for their being made

[2] To limit, as far as possible, the expression of such alterations to the language of the Authorized and earlier English Versions.

This is hard to keep when you consider the text was changed up to 20% and that the names showing whom Jesus was were altered or removed at times.

A completely new language was used and th ere were words that were different to the meanings of those in the King James

[3] Each company to go twice over the portion to be revised, once provisionally, the second time finally, and on principles of voting as hereinafter is provided.

The Committees were ruled by two men who said what was to be in there and had the majority follow their rebellion against the guidelines given them. Few in th e committee stood against their changes and these few were easily overruled by their friends in the committee.

[4] That the Text that is to be adopted be that for which the evidence is decidedly preponderating; and that when the Text so adopted differs from that from which the Authorised Version was made, the alteration be indicated in the margin.

The difference to the King James were not told so that no one knew for a while how different the Revised Version was to the King James text. The marginal notes were actually used to cast doubt on the King James Test and not to show its supposed errors.

The texts adopted by the majority of the committee members had been rejected by mainstream Christianity for hundreds of years and the Vaticanus had been known to the translators of the King James Version but rejected by them as too inaccurate and unreliable, yet the committee chose this text knowing it was against what the King James Version stated and modified its text significantly.

[5] To make or retain no change in the Text on the second final revision by each Company, except two thirds of those present approve of the same, but on the first revision to decide by simple majorities.

As the committee was run by two people this requirement was immaterial. What Westcott and Hort wanted was passed. Besides they fed the new Greek text a bit at a time to the committee so that no one saw it in its fullness and realised its differences.

[6] In every case of proposed alteration that may have given rise to discussion, to defer the voting thereupon till the next meeting, whensoever the same shall be required by one third of those present at the meeting, such intended vote to be announced in the notice for the next meeting.

[7] To revise the headings of chapters and pages, paragraphs, italics, and punctuations.

[8] To refer, on the part of each Company, when considered desirable, to Divines, Scholars, and Literary Men, whether at home or abroad, for their opinions.

This was not done as there would hae been an outcry by many of these scholars over what was being translated.

Whose authority was rejected?

God had placed on the hearts of the Bishops of The Anglican Church to update the King James words so it was more easily understood by the ordinary people. God placed in their hearts the guidelines for this revision committee which was communicated by the bishops to that committee.

So the committee did not rebel against the bishops but against God, who gave the bishops the authority to do this revision and had told them how it was to be done.

In conclusion

It can be seen the whole process was deception and rebellion against the guidelines given them and good does not come from a process where evil consummates its beginning. This is one reason to avoid translation on the modern Greek. A Greek text was use that was rejected by the writers of The King James Bible who were far better scholars than those on the Revised Version committee.

You wonder why people would sneak in a Greek text, Publish a bible on it against the guidelines of the committee that appointed them and then show the world the Greek text they based their new translation on which they claimed was better than the Greek used for centuries for all previous translations into English.

According t o them 1700 years of scholarship was wrong and they were the first to correctly work out what the Greek should have been. In this they state they are better than the scholars who did the King James Version.

Given the fact The Revised Version uses a vastly different greek text and translates the Bible differently in 20% of th e time it is not a version, so even the name is deceitful, but a new translation similar in some ways to The King James but completely different in its honesty and integrity of publication and translation.

THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE CONVOCATION OF CANTERBURY

In addition to the rules just mentioned, the Convocation also passed five resolutions that were to govern the actions of the translation Committees. These resolutions are as follows:

[1] That it is desirable that a revision of the Authorised Version of the Holy Scriptures be undertaken.

[2] That the revision be so conducted as to comprise both marginal renderings and such emendations as it may be found necessary to insert in the text of the Authorised Version.

Changes of 20% not pointed to in the margins definitely is rebellion against this point

[3] That in the above resolutions we do not contemplate any new translation of the Bible, or any alteration of the language, except where in the judgment of the most competent scholars such change is necessary.

They made a translation 20% different to the King James and not a revision of the King James using a completely different Greek text and completely altering the language used and not just updating it to make it easier to read..

[4] That in such necessary changes, the style of the language employed in the existing Version be closely followed.

This was ignored when it did not convey what they wanted to teach thorough their translation.

[5] That it is desirable that Convocation should nominate a body of its own members to undertake the work of revision, who shall be at liberty to invite the cooperation of any eminent for scholarship, to whatever nation or religious body they may belong.

Only those who agreed with the new translation were consulted, if any outside the committee, so that this point was ignored.

You must be concerned about the motives of a translation so deceitfully made and so different to what the people making it were appointed to do and which was made in rebellion against God so that He cannot bless it.

The rules of historical evidence are examined next

These rules were determined by scholars to show what could be considered accurate or reliable for historical purposes.

The following is from an excellent history of The Bible whose source I have lost unfortunately but whose contents can easily be verified from other sources.

“It is to be noted That the Textus Receptus was not used by The KJV translators as the Greek text it referred to ( based on Erasmus, Stephanus and Beza) was not published until 1633, after the KJV was published.

As it can be seen the KJV translators did not mention a Greek text

so no Greek can be said to be the one used by them but Beza’s 1589 edition 3 and 4 appear to be the most likely one referred too but that is because It and the KJV Translators used the same sources to make their translation.

In otherwords they looked at what the global church accepted as the true text and worked with that possibly using Beza’s text as a basis. But they examined not just Greek,, but Spanish, Aramaic, Latin, Syriac and other languages that traced their lineage back to the apostles.

There was another centre of Greek learning in Alexandria. This was controlled by heretics who translated the Greek in a way to suit their beliefs. Unfortunately The Roman Catholic Churched used their Greek and tried to erase The original Latin Vulgate by writing their own version in 380 and calling it the Latin Vulgate.

Christians avoided this translation and used The original vulgate so in 1280 The catholic Church used force to make people use their inferior translation. The original Latin Vulgate Bibles were burnt along with their owners until people stopped using them out of-fear and started using the inferior Latin Vulgate of Rome.

This was the Vaticanus and The Siniaticus is a relative of this manuscript and both are probably based on the one source badly copied.

The KJV is said to be based on the Textus Receptus, which is incorrect. Its brief was to use the Bishops Bible as its base and to correct any errors in it, The Translators used many vernacular Bibles and the Greek based on Erasmus so to attack the Textus Receptus as the basis for the KJV is incorrect. The detractors of the KJV need to show that its sources which trace back unbroken to the originals (mostly non-Greek) are inaccurate. This they have not done and cannot do.

So we have a new Greek text provided with no continuity of translations to the originals, based on the edits of heretics, firstly when the Greek originals were written when and then alterations of (Westcott and Hort, the sole editors of this new Greek) when this new 'improved' Greek was slipped secretively to the translators of the ERV.”

This shows that two of the tests, th at of continuity and usage by all are failed by the Greek text used for the Revised Version but not for the Greek texts used for the King James Version. These two tests being failed alone makes the Vaticanus and SIniaticus determined unrliable for any translation purposes.

Using the historical method to examine the three following sources

Source Criticism

Procedures for Contradictory sources

It can be seen that the evidence great that the Vaticanus and Siniaticus were not generally accepted as scripture except by an heretical sect of Gnostics and do not provide a good witness to what the Scriptures should say haveing been edited to back up the Gnostic errors about who Jesus was.

Proof the Vaticanus is also to be noted that the King James and The Peshitta agree over 95% of t he time and the differences between them are not material and do not affect doctrine or promote a heresy unlike the Vaticanus and Siniaticus that have over 3000 differences and promote Gnosticism by their alterations in their text.

Gnostic influences in the Vaticanus and Siniaticus

Based on

Evidence Vaticanus is Gnostic

http://www.kjvtextualtechnology.com/essay-3--evidence-of-text-tampering-by-gnostics.php

By Dr L Bednar

Another gtood source is found at http://www.studytoanswer.net/bibleversions/gnostic.html

To quote Dr Bednar

“Tampering of types favorable to Gnostic dogma potentially accounts for much of the difference between Greek Alexandrian texts and the Traditional-Text ancestor of the Received Text. A substantial number of Traditional-Text passages hostile to Gnosticism are absent in Alexandrian texts, and Alexandria, Egypt was an active center of Gnostic heresy in the first few centuries.

Now most anti-Gnostic teaching remains intact in most Traditional-Text manuscripts, likely due, in part, to the eastern region responsible for maintenance of the Traditional Text being generally located beyond the direct influence of Gnostics, preventing easy access to most copies.

What is perhaps most important is that the extent of tampering in any manuscript would be limited by a likely desire of this false cult to achieve a sense of authenticity by minimizing disagreement with the popular New Testament, many true passages being susceptible to distorted verbal interpretation that might seem to harmonize them with Gnosticism. Only certain types of passages could not be interpreted in such fashion, leading to efforts to remove them when.

The main thrust of Gnostic tampering is aimed at Christology, likely because satan covets the position of Christ as the prince of heaven, as we see in Isa.14:13-14, where he says, "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars (angels) of God.....I will be like the most High" (a title reserved for the Son of God).”

This is the period in which the Vaticanus and Siniaticus were copied in Alexandria and altered to reinforce the credibility of Gnostic beliefs. This is also why the new versions make Christ more like a new age master than God and saviour using new age terminology to describe Him and removing all they God to hide that He is God, Saviour and King of all.

Dr L Bedner gives examples and I can recommend his website and writings on the subject as amongst the best. Not all his examples are given by me.

Variants in Critical Greek Texts Supportive of Gnostic Dogma

A. Gnostic-Type Dogma on the Deity Of Jesus Christ

1. Acts 8:36-38 Baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch

KJV

36…See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? (spoken by the eunuch)

37: And Philip said, if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he…said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

38…they went down both into the water…and he baptized him.

NIV

36..the eunuch said, "Look here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized?”

37:

38: And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him.

The KJV verse 37 shows undeniable evidence that it's genuine, for in its absence there is no answer by Philip to the eunuch’s question on what hindered his baptism. Absence of the verse denies the doctrine of limiting baptism to all who believe in Jesus as God’s Son so that readers may think baptism, rather than belief, is the important factor, a popular modern notion, and they may never see the vital need to believe in God’s Son.

The KJV verse 37 has just minor Greek manuscript support, and is omitted in modern English versions on this basis. Regarding a cause of omission of the verse in the NIV critical Greek text, the eunuch’s confession of Jesus as God’s Son refutes the dogma of Cerinthian Gnostics who said Jesus was born of a human father, a mere man indwelled temporarily by the divine Christ to impart a temporary deity, and removing verse 37 would serve their dogma.

(Editors note: Babies and demons can be baptised according to the modern versions as no confession of faith is required.)

2. Luke 2:33 Joseph is not the father of Jesus!

KJV: And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him (spoken by Simeon of Christ).

NASV: And his father and mother were amazed at the things…

NIV: The child's father and mother marveled at what was said...

In Lk.2:33 NIV & NASV critical Greek texts call Joseph the father of Jesus, thus denying Jesus’ deity. But Joseph was just a foster-father, the Holy Ghost being the true father of the earthly form of Christ. The error relates to Alexandrian manuscripts that scholars say are the best, but tampering by Cerinthian-type Gnostics is indicated. As we noted, they denied Jesus was God in the flesh, saying He was born of a human father and had a temporary deity by union with the divine Logos at the baptism in the Jordan. They believed the divine nature vanished on the cross and Jesus supposedly died a mere man.

4. 1 Timothy 3:16 God manifest in the flesh

KJV….great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

NIV…the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in a body…

NASV…mystery of godliness: He who was revealed in the flesh…

The concept of Jesus as God in the flesh was contrary, not only to Cerinthian-Gnostic dogma, but also to that of Docetist Gnostics, the latter suggesting Jesus was merely a phantom spirit manifested as the divine Christ, and only seemed to have a body.  Greek manuscripts containing this verse on Jesus in His earthly history as God…in the flesh would displease Gnostics. To remove their problem, all they needed to do was remove The from Theos (God) to produce os (who), adding a vowel breathing mark. The texts of modern versions replace God with who (resultant language is awkward, and certain manuscripts have which, increasing the evidence of tampering).

He gives many other examples that show the deity and virgin birth of Christ were edited out of their gospel texts as well as Him being Lord of all!

Gnostic differentiation of Jesus from names for God: In numerous passages

of the Alexandrian texts, the name Jesus or the term Son of man is disassociated from terms such as Christ, Lord or Son of God. This reflects Cerinthian dogma on a human Jesus who supposedly was temporarily indwelled by the divine Christ. We note below some of the many examples of this.

16. Mk.16:9-20 12 final verses of Mark on Resurrection morning lost?

16:8 And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they any thing to any man; for they were afraid.

Some scholars think verse 8 ends Mark's Gospel, saying the last 12 KJV verses are not genuine, even though most events of those verses are in other gospels. They think that Mark's gospel omits events that center on Resurrection-Day events of the divine Jesus Christ, not only the actuality of the Resurrection, but the report of Mary Magdalene to the disciples, the meeting with Jesus on the Emmaus Road, the great commission, the Ascension and the error of disbelieving in Christ. That would make the Gospel of Mark incomplete in the extreme, and would have it terminate on a note of the fear of certain women entering the sepulcher, rather than a note of Resurrection triumph. Some say Mark ended his gospel here, which would make it abnormally different, but most say there’s a lost true ending different from that of the KJV.

Such theories arise since two favored Alexandrian manuscripts, a Latin one and an old Syriac version omit the 12 verses. But a great majority of Greek manuscripts, Old Latin manuscripts, translations and commentaries have the verses. The Latin manuscript omitting them shows evidence of Docetist tampering, indicating deliberate omission. Scholars have no justification for ignoring this Traditional-Text passage, and the biblical church and others have retained it for centuries. To justify their negative view, scholars offer only their manuscript preference and imaginative arguments like a writing style of the 12 verses supposedly different from the normal one of Mark.* Thus the laity are taught that the 12 verses of God’s Word are not genuine through the use of improvised arguments of style and grammar.

Resurrection of the divine Jesus Christ was viewed by Gnostics as spiritual, instead of physical, and the Cross as the occasion to discover the inner divine self and impart the hidden knowledge to men. With the scriptures plainly revealing the Resurrection as a physical event, with the purpose of sin remission for mankind, Gnostics would see the gospel accounts of Resurrection morning as a major hindrance to the teaching of their dogma. But tampering aimed at altering this teaching would be difficult to achieve since the matter is so basic to Christianity and well known to Christians. Any success of the effort could never be more than very minor, so it is no surprise that so few texts were affected, just the two main Alexandrian manuscripts and a few versions, and even this was achieved in just one of the four gospels. Indicated tampering in the Resurrection account of Mark also eliminated various other teachings disliked by Gnostics, such as Christ's Ascension in bodily form, the importance of belief, and damnation for disbelief, in Christ's gospel, all of these denying the Gnostic concept of hidden knowledge as the basis of salvation. They would dislike the teaching on the miraculous empowerment of men in their earthly bodily form for the work of ministry, miraculous signs that would attend the bodily ministry of the gospel by the early believers, and the importance of bodily baptism. Further, the finale of this gospel would be the part most easily omitted from the textual standpoint since this omission would least likely interfere with various other aspects of this gospel.

As it can be sen that the variances and readings of these two codices can easily be explained if they were the result of editing by a heretical sect which would also explain the 20% difference they have to most traditional texts.

The Best Copies to use

Modern theologians believe we do not have the original documents of scripture which are alone inspired so we need to look for the best earliest manuscripts and use those as a basis for working out what God desired to say in His Bible.

The Vaticanus and Siniaticus are supposed to be the best codices to use as they are the earliest remaining ones we have. People ignore the real reason for these still remaining, that they were so bad no one used them while the better manuscripts fell apart from use.

They assume these are the most accurate having fewer scribes to copy them and ignore the hundreds of documents found that are earlier than these two codices and which back up the Textus Receptus and not the New Greek text that was based on these two codices.

They ignore the following problems with these two codices:

1. There are no other early manuscripts or earlier translations of the bible that back up what these two codices write so that they do not have the acceptance of the church as being accurate Scripture because they were considered so erroneous in their text.
2. They were only used in one area and had been rewritten toi reflect the heretical beliefs of t hat area so were grossly modified copies to reflect the beliefs of the heretics in that one area
3. They were both copies of one manuscript and they were not even good copies being carelessly written and full of copiest type errors.
4. They were still copies and not close ones to the originals (differing in over 3000 places) and so could not be said to be the best manuscripts unless backed up by what was generally accepted by Christendom, which they were not and so only had themselves to witness to their accuracy (you cannot be your own witness to the accuracy of what you say and they would not be accepted because of this as evidence or considered reliable in a court of law).
5. The two codices disagree with each other in over 3000 places and as there are no other codices to compare them to you cannot reliably use them to make a translation as you do not know which difference is error or correct. Besides one was corrected over 8 times by different people and filed away as being worthless after all these attempts to correct it. The corrections were actually made to bring the codex in to agreement with the manuscripts used for the Textus Receptus and so in a sense is a witness to the accuracy of the these texts and actually speaks against the accuracy of the Vaticanus and Siniaticus.
6. Man has to work out what the correct Greek text is because they believe we do not have the originals and copies do not accurately reflect the originals so they h ave to work out what God said. The finite mind of man without the help of God, who was such a weak God He could not preserve what He said Had had to tell Him what should have been said in the Greek text and work it out for Him

It can be sen that these codices go against all that was accepted for 1700 years as being the correct Greek text, which was evidenced by its usage in different languages and by churches throughout the world. None of this can be said of these two manuscript's so that they lack one of the criteria used to evaluate the accuracy of manuscripts.

When all is considered it can be seen that the two codices are unreliable and really unusable for the purposes of making an accurate translation of The New Testament and would only be used if you ignored all the errors that made it unusable and inaccurate and the fact they were for the use of a localised sect in Egypt and not considered scripturally accurate by the rest of Christendom.

When all is considered it can be said that no scholar in his right mind would rely on them or use them for anything except to show how not to make reference material unless they were deluded, or had pride in what they did or had a hidden agenda to water down The Bible and make it more acceptable to all religions as is happening now.

The seven tests of truth

Dean Burgan was one of the greatest Biblical scholars of all time. He examined the controversy over these two texts (the received text and the erroneous eclectic critical text) and defined seven tests to determine which was the true Greek text and thus the one to use for the purpose of Bible translations.

The Test of Antiquity

Which text is the oldest.

Being the oldest text does automatically make it a better text. Even though the critical text has two codices that are 1600 years old, the received text is mentioned in documents that are just as old if not older. The fact that they are quotes from the Bible and not actual codices like the Sinai and Vatican Codices does not invalidate their witness to the antiquity of the received text. In fact the writings of the church ‘fathers’ were written well before these two eclectic codices were written are 2 or more to 1 in favour of The traditional received Greek test.

The Test of Numbers

How many copies are there surviving of each text.

This not a good test today with the advent of printing but in the days when documents were hand written (as these were), people only copied that which was best. The test of numbers in regards to existing documents goes to the received text where, at the time of Dean Burgin, 5210 of the 5255 manuscripts were of the received text. One wonders why modern translators have limited themselves to such a small body of evidence (45 Manuscripts roughly) to use as a basis of the sacred text of The Bible.

Variety as a test of truth

Are there many different variations in the existing texts.

The received text is found throughout the Roman world and mainly agree with each other while the critical text (which reflect the bias of their writers and which differ appreciably from each other at times) is found only in Egypt which would indicate it was a local phenomena attached to the beliefs of people in a specific area unlike the received text which was accepted throughout the rest of Christendom. On this basis the received text wins again.

Respectability or weight of truth

How reliable is the text.

The Sinai and Vatican codices fail this Test as they disagree with each other in over 3000 places in the Gospels alone. They cannot both be right so one has to be a false witness and possibly both, depending on how much error is them. There is little or no problem with the receive text in this area. As evidence of the correctness of the received test is its uniformity in spite of the number of manuscripts available and it is to be noted that it has been used from the time of the apostles till now while the critical text disappeared for 1450 years and was ignored by the majority of Christians.

The critical text loses again.

Continuity as a test of truth

The received text has continuity from the time of when the Gospels were first being written to the time the King James Translation was made and later. The Sanai and Vatican codices were written between 300- 400 AD used for two- three centuries then forgotten for over 1100+ years.

These two codices are the main documents for the critical test used in modern versions. They fail the continuity test which shows the Byzantine texts on which the received texts were based were considered scripture from the writings of the apostles until the King James was published and through this translation are still continuing on unbroken till the current date while one of the major codex used for the critical test was consigned to the rubbish heap to be used as fossil fuel and the other was filed as being useless.

The Critical text fails again

Content as a test of truth.

Is the text true to the doctrinal meaning of the passage or does it translate differently in different passages, according to what the translator or editor believes should be there. Because of its omissions the critical text is not doctrinally sound at times as a result of words, phrases or passages partly omitted, left out, altered or translated unusually. It fails this test while the received text is consistent in its usage and translation.

Internal evidence as a test of truth

The received text has no need to be corrected and so you will not find manuscripts it is based on which need doctrinal corrections. There are adjustments to correct a spelling or miscopied word and the correction will agree with the other Byzantine manuscripts. There are also no verses that contradict each other as there are in every bible version based on the erroneous modern Greek text of Westcott and Hort or on Greek texts developed from it.

The Sinai codex was corrected by 10 different people over a period of 200 years before they stored it away as still unreliable to use. Given the agreement in many places of the Vatican codex with the Sinai codex there must be similar error in the Vatican codex as well. So it can be seen the critical text is based on two Greek codices that were not considered very accurate or correct and needed to be edited to reach the truth of what they should have said and even after editing one was discarded as too unreliable to use an the other shelved and forgotten.

The Old Testament

The changes made to the old testament by the translators of the Revised Version has no real rationale or basis to be so extreme at times and so different. There is only on Old Testament text and that was also used by the King James translators. So the changes to the Old Testament Text is inexplicable and cannot have been because the text translated had errors in them. There should have been little difference to the text of the King James with just modernisation of the words used being the main change. But this is not so and you wonder what agenda they had to make the changes to the old testament that they did.

I mention two but there are others and all are well documented if you are interested in them.

Because of their belief that Biblical texts do not reflect the originals because they are copies they have altered Ps 12:5-7 to change the preservation from God’s Bible instead to refer to God’s people.

The Old Testament text has the following:

Psa 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

Psa 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Psa 12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

Note that The text of th e Bible is referred to as being kept by God. But in modern versions we have th e following:

Psa 12:6 The LORD'S words are true and pure, like silver purified by fire, like silver melted seven times to make it perfectly pure.

Psa 12:7 LORD, take care of the helpless. Protect them forever from the wicked people in this world.

Note that now the people are preserved.

This allows the modern editors to change the Bible anyway they desire and condone because they are trying to find the original meaning of the Bible.

The other alteration of concern is almost blasphemous:

(ASV) How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!

This talks about Satan falling from heaven but uses a title of Jesus.

2Pe 1:19 (KJV) We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

2Pe 1:19 (ASV) And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

They know it is a title of Jesus and translate it such here but use it for Satan.

It is blasphemous to translate the word which means ‘Lucifer’ as ‘day star’ (morning star) which is a title of Jesus. Unfortunately modern Greek lexicons are designed to back up the new translations so it will tell you it can also mean daystar. So the question arises why change the name of Satan for one that is used to describe Jesus?

Not believing any part of The Bible

If you do not believe in Six Day Creation, The Fall of Mankind or The Biblical Flood, then you cannot believe any other part of the Bible including how to obtain Salvation.. If God was not able to preserve His Word so that these three untruths were written what else is written that is not from Him.

You need to find a Bible that tells you the true words of God and a God who can keep His word safe so it is received as it was given centuries earlier.

You do not believe in the God of The Bible who said He did these things or you do not believe The Bible tells you what God says in which case you cannot use it for anything as it all may be wrong.

So if you say you do not have the originals then you really are using reason to determine what a Bible says and cannot use that Bible for any purpose of a spiritual nature as you have said we do not have the originals to compare it to so th at you do not know which part of it is correct.

The Modern Greek text and Bibles based on reason

Scholars believe we do not have the original text and that we have to work out what God said. They use a 4th century text which cannot be guaranteed to say what God wanted saids, which is their first problem.

The second problem is that man is reasoning out what God said and has not got His Mind’s way of thinking so that there is no guarantee that what they said is correct so you cannot trust any Bible based on this Greek as man has determined what was in it and not God according to the editors of it. He just had it badly transmitted by those who copied it so that errors crept in which scholars have to correct and the problem is they do not know which is error and which is correct having no Bible to compare it too and they have to assume they know what is correct which means you cannot really trust any of it as their assumptions as what is correct or what needs correcting may be wrong.

They cannot use the King James Bible as that is what they are correcting and if it is correct then why are they correcting it.

Not having the originals that were inspired, how do the scholars know that what they assumed God said is correct?

The problem is their starting manuscripts are copies so have errors and how do they know that what they fix actually says what God wanted to say or whether it is actually making the text more inaccurate as they have no reference to go back to to determine what God actually said.

Either we have what God said, as the manuscripts used for The King James say or we do not and if we do not have them then no amount of educated guessing by scholars (and it is guessing as we do not have the originals) can actually be said to be what God wanted to say.

Some examples of the corruption

Mark 16:9-21

I have shown earlier how the Gnostics needed to remove this passage for their belief system. I now add some more information in regard to the removal of this passage.

Modern Bibles imply this passage is not original through implying it is in few old manuscripts. This is the first lie as th ere are 1750 that have in and five manuscripts that do not have it in and these are the five they use to judge the rest.

Of these five, one has a space to place it in and another, the Vaticanus had the last page of the Gospel of Mark altered and replaced by a different writer to the one who originally wrote this copy of it so that it appeared that Mark 16:9-21 was not in the original. The new writer wrote only three columns on the page he used to replace the last page of Mark. The rest of this codex is in four columns.

So it can be seen that the Vaticanus was edited to comply with the belief of the Gnostic heretics in Alexandria.

Now why would Satan want it removed so badly that he left most of what it said in other gospels? Was it because it could not be used against Him?

In this section is the only delegation we have from Jesus to control Satan. By removing this section and implying it is not original Satan has removed the Authority to attack him and his plans cast him out in the Name of Jesus.

It is the only section where Jesus tells what His follows would do and by removing this we do not have Jesus tell us what was required o those that follow Him.

But then Satan is to be expected to influence a text that was begun in rebellion against the authority that commissioned it and which uses manuscripts he guided Gnostic heretics to write..

Like in the Garden with Adam and Eve, the writers of this New Greek text thought they were finding and revealing truth for people to know, but in reality they were guided by Satan to rebel against authority and do these corruptions to the traditional texts.

This alone should warn you of the dangers of the modern Greek text that Satan has influenced and which has been reasoned out by man supposedly pursuing the best available version of what God originally said without actually having the originals to say that what they wrote was correct..

I will show more of Satan’s Influence.

Acts s 8:37

This has been mentioned earlier in the section on gnostic influence.

This verse had to be left out by Gnostics who could not make the declaration in it. Leaving it allowing anyone to be baptised, Gnostics, children and even demons masquerading as Christians without having to declare wholeheartedly that Jesus was Human, God and Saviour (Son of God being a term applied to The Messiah/Saviour who was born a human).

So this allows almost anyone to say they are a baptised Christian if the acknowledge Jesus but not His divinity or Redemption (that He is saviour).

Only Satan would want to hide these things and needed to use reputable people to do this (liberal theological Scholars who were not recognised as liberal and so would not be argued with).

According to the new Greek Jesus sinned

Mat 5:22 (RV) but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment;

Jesus was angry twice so twice He sinned according to this verse and this means He cannot be saviour/Messiah and redeem us. This would suit Satan who would wipe out all a Christian believed in if they believed this verse was true. There would be no redemption or salvation and not mansion in heaven. All would belong to Satan’s Kingdom. It can be seen why Satan promoted this translation of this verse.

The original King James said the following”

Mat 5:22 (KJV) But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:

The editors of the new Greek left out ‘without a cause’ and the cause is the purpose of God where you express the anger of God towards a matter.

Once again it can be seen Satan influenced the editors of the new Greek

Apparently Jesus Lied

Joh 7:8 Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.

Joh 7:10 But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then went he also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

Apparently Jesus lied, saying He was not going up to the feat but did so secretly. This is of course not what happened as the King James has the following:

Joh 7:8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.

Joh 7:10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

As it can be seen the word ‘yet’ was left out by the editors of the new Greek who must have known Jesus would be made to appear to lie if they did this.

If Jesus lied we have the same situation as in Matt 5:22. There would be no redemption or salvation and no mansion in heaven. All would belong to Satan’s Kingdom. It can be seen why Satan promoted this translation of this verse.

1 John 5:7 of the received text is left out of the critical text and v6-8 are combined to form a new v7 in the NIV. This rearrangement of verses implies the omitted v7 is not The Word of God. The omitted verse is as follows:

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

This had to be removed by Gnostics who did not believe Jesus was god.

Another passage that shows they do not know doctrine or are deliberately ignoring it is James 5:16 The NIV has ‘sins’ while the KJV has ‘faults’. Which is correct?

According to the Bible our sins were dealt with at Calvary and were forgiven there. They are forgiven before we sin so we do not need to confess them to anyone. All God requires of us now is repentance from the sinful act. We are told admit our weaknesses (faults) so we can be helped to overcome them but we do not need to confess any sins resulting from them.

However, if you believe someone apart from God has the authority to forgive sin then you would translate this passage as ‘sins;’ and not ‘faults’. The editors of this new Greek believed this and so translated the word as ’sins’ and not ‘faults.’

In 1 Tim 3:16 the word ‘God ‘is replaced by ‘He’ and by this the divine nature of Jesus is attacked. ‘He’ refers to a human nature. ‘God ‘refers to a divine nature. This verse was necessary to be altered by Gnostics to remove the divinity of Jesus.

In Phil 4:13 Christ is removed as our strength and a mysterious person strengthens us called ‘him’, who could be anyone. This removes the divine help God gives us in Jesus and replaces it with man. ‘Him could be Satan, your brother a friend and not necessarily Jesus.

A non-Christian reading this verse would not know who you were talking about and could assume it was their own god. Why do the editors of these two texts want to remove this witness of The Word to Jesus unless it was not part of Gnostic belief.

People do not understand how much New Age type thinking is allowed by changes like this so that the Bible becomes more palatable to New age and other religions as they can substitute, Satan, Buddha, Gaia or who ever they want for the word ‘him’. This problem does not arise with the KJV as it specifically mentions Jesus is our strength.

Jesus was humanised by the Gnostics and made a lesser deity so that He is equal to or less in stature than other deities. This is what the New age teaches and Satan desires for His worshippers so that he is apparently greater than Jesus in the spiritual hierarchy.

An example of how a modern version treats Jesus is the NIV.

In the NIV Lord is omitted 39 times, Jesus is omitted 87 times and Christ is omitted 39 times and more worldly and new age friendly titles are sometimes substituted.

The problem with the NIV is that at times it changes the Name of Jesus to generic one and does not capitalise these generic names. Anyone who was not a Christian or who was a new Christian would not know these names referred to Jesus so would not have a reason to believe in Him. The NIV would not lead them into faith in Jesus (Rom. 10:17). It would also allow people to substitute their own god for Jesus and by this generic use of names for Jesus set the basis for a one world bible where the generic names of Jesus could be applied to their own god.

Christians would automatically substitute Jesus but those outside the church would not and so evangelism would be hindered as you could not point to Jesus because the Bible used would have generic names and not promote the divinity of Jesus.

Perhaps this is why Jehovah’s Witnesses prefer the NIV to th eir own Bible as it better represents thier heresy and it is easier for th em to use in their evangelism than their own book. There can be no other reason for them proffering the NIV over their own translation.

In his book “Serious omissions in the NIV Bible”, Keith Piper lists 30 ways the NIV attacks Jesus, 17 ways it downgrades Jesus and 10 ways it alters the requirements for Salvation. Why would a Bible attack Jesus. Why would the translators and editors use a critical text that attacks and down grades the divinity of Jesus as well as hiding salvation. It may not be intentional and a result of the Gnostic editing of what was considered by them to be the best texts u sable for Bible translation not realising it had been heavily edited by Gnostics to remove Jesus as divine.

Surely God would not change His Bible in such a way that reduces the chance for people to see Jesus and have faith in Him and which also allows his enemy to use it for his own purposes!

Mauro states the following in His book

As to the merits (or demerits) of the myriads of changes of translation brought in by the Revisers of 1881, we would call attention (as well worthy of consideration) to the judgment of the Committee of 34 Hebrew and Greek scholars who prepared the Tercentenary Edition of the Bible. The duty com mitted to them was to make A careful scrutiny of the Text, with the view of correcting, in the light of the best modem research, such passages as are recognized by all scholars as in any measure misleading or needlessly obscure. And this as we understand it, is substantially what the revisers of 1881 were instructed and expected to do.

The result of this scrutiny of the entire Text of the English Bible by the Committee of 1911 was that

they repudiated over 98 percent of the changes introduced by the Revisers of 1881. That is to say, they accepted less than two out of every hundred of the changes brought in by the Revisers.

It can be seen from the judgment of proper scholarship that the new Greek used or the Revised Version and which forms the basis of modern versions was considered very unreliable and only 2% Accurate in its changes.

The results of the modern texts in the church

“By their fruits you shall know them” said Jesus so let us look at the fruits of the received text and the critical text.

The received text resulted in the Reformation, England became a great nation because it followed its principles and only started to decline after the publication of the Revised Version in 1881 which was based on the critical text. When the NIV was published in 1970 the western churches started their major decline. It too was based on the critical text.

There are other evidences of the effect of the critical text on the Church

There is confusion in translations based on the critical text where modern versions do not agree with each other in the way passages are translated. This causes problems in Bible studies and in following readings in the Bible in sermons because people with different versions try to work out which is the correct text as well as what The Bible actually says and whether what it says is peached correctly, especially when tradiyional doctrine is difficult to find in what a modern version says.

There is confusion in doctrine as things left out or questioned in modern versions conflict with the doctrines of yesteryear as expounded in the received text (used by the translators and editors of the KJV). The problem of doctrinal conflict in the text behind the Bible only occurred after the critical text was used to replace the received text

The church has little fruit to be seen by society so has become irrelevant or a mystery to many.

There is a worldliness in the church as The Word is not affecting the people in the way it used too. Miracles and gifts (the demonstration of The Kingdom) are no longer visible in the majority of western churches.

More people are liberal in their theology both in the congregation and ministry leadership because the modern versions are not as condemning of sin as the received text was so they tolerate sin that would not have been accepted in the time when the manuscripts used for the Received Text were used as the basis of Bible translations. If the new bibles did not allow these things then why do denominations tolerate these things?

Churches no longer do the work of Jesus and many are social clubs that do not offer the world anything that would attract them to Jesus and in fact now use worldly methods to try and attract people ignoring how the King James says we should evangelise and in fact believing it is no longer done because the section saying we have the authority to do it (Mark 16:9-21) is not considered part of The Bible..

The fruit of the critical text does not recommend it as being a dynamic, Spirit Filled, powerful Greek Text in a way the received text is.

They also hide the test for an Antichrist.

1 Jn 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

The fruit of the translators and editors of the modern bible versions is such that they do not want you to identify Antichrist by the omission of “Christ is come in the flesh”. This omission also allows anyone to be a Christ for the purposes of their belief system as you do not need them to have a virgin birth.

Any bible removing this verse must also be an Antichrist as it does nor confess (preach) that Christ has come in the flesh but hides it from people.

Why do they hide the Antichrist test and remove the need to declare Jesus is The Christ requiring only to confess Jesus and even then it can be their Jesus and not the Jesus of the KJV.

According to this verse in modern bibles you can be a heretic, believe in Jesus and not be an Antichrist (against Christ) which means any liberal editor or translator of the modern bibles is not an Antichrist even though they may reject Jesus is the Christ (anointed one) . This lack of belief in The Christ opens the way to a one world faith based in a belief in Jesus (whoever you make Him out to be) and a bible that allows you to believe what you want about Jesus and allows you to adapt it to your particular faith.

If you Look hard you will find other signs of the decline in the Church as a result of the usage of the so called better critical text.

Concluding Remarks

I am no scholar so I have drawn on the work of others more knowledgeable than myself but Just looking at how the new Greek text treats Jesus and the confusion of Bible translations that has resulted from it I find it difficult to see the hand of God on it especially with some of the glaring heresies in it unlike the Greek texts used for the KJV which Glorifies Jesus and results in cohesiveness in the Bibles translated from it and which agrees with Bibles in other languages that were written about the same time as the earliest of these Greek texts was written, which the New Greek text does not agree with..

The Holy Spirit unifies the Body of Christ and does not cause confusion. The fact that modern Bibles do not agree with each in what they say as well as cause confusion when they are read in groups shows that The Holy Spirit cannot be present or even behind them when they are used

When you consider the heretical nature of the manuscripts the new Greek is based on and that it was given to the translation committee in bits and pieces so no one could see its overall changes as well as the fact it was written in secret by two people who had rejected traditional authority of The King James Bible, the guidelines they had been given to only to update the language of you can see why Jesus was so badly treated by them. They had no respect for Him or the authority He had placed over them.

Their credibility as editors was further damaged as they were afraid for people to see the new Greek text and only released it after the Bible based on it had been published

Satan was in charge of them which is why they rejected Authority and The Greek behind the King James, ignored the errors of the texts they used and made a bible that was so bad it was rejected and had to be revised soon after it was published so it was more acceptable.

Little good has come to the modern Church as a result of these Bibles that have turned into a money making machine where everyone is able to make a version because we do not have an inspired text but must work out what it says our self and as long as it is not to heretical it has to be accepted. So error has crept into the church as a result of these moder versions because people are able to make Bibles that emphasise their belief system and alter what they need to do in them as long as the alterations are not too heretical or able to make margin notes that back up their belief system and interpret verses to suit their faith.

By their fruits you will know them and th e fruit of the modern Greek and Bibles based on it is confusion as different versions say different things and no two version completely agree on what the Bible should say unlike that of the King James which always led to order and agreement in all its translations and editions and was able to quickly and easily point out when heresy was trying to be introduced unlike the translations based on the modern Greek text.

A Warning

The Bible was written by men inspired by The Holy Ghost, If you attack the Bible you attack the Holy Ghost. If you knowingly call into question the Bible in any way you are demeaning the Holy Spirit as He is the writer of it (Job 32:8, 1 Pet 2:21). This is really Blaspheming The Holy Spirit for which you lose your salvation and are unable to repent (Heb 6:4-6).

To doubt parts of the Bible as being accurate also questions the Holy Spirit’s credibility and demeans Him resulting in Blaspheming Him.

Woe to the Bible translators who deliberately write what they believe should be there, ignoring what God had said already because they believe that they are wiser in their own eyes than God. They have their reward on earth and will have none after death except hellfire in the days of eternity!

They blasphemed the integrity of The Holy Spirit and will not be able to repent.

Woe to the churches that blindly accept their writings as truth. They will be blind guides leading the blind sheep and will go the way of the world in what they do. Unless they repent they will not demonstrate The Kingdom of God and may end up not being a part of it being candidates for the lukewarm church Jesus will spew out of His mouth in the end times.

Mat 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

You have been warned!