For some mysterious reason,
many Fundamentalist scholars identify as "Christian" the Celtic Church
and certain other religious sects that are historically known to be Gnostic
and even deeply occultic. Following are two examples of this type of misinformation
as they are found in the books of David Otis Fuller and D.A. Waite. David
Otis Fuller wrote in Which Bible?:
"The first
stream (of manuscripts) which carried the Received Text in Hebrew and Greek,
began with the apostolic churches, and reappearing at intervals down the
Christian Era among enlightened believers, was protected by the wisdom
and scholarship of the pure church in her different phases: precious manuscripts
were preserved by...the Syrian Church of Antioch which produced eminent
scholarship; by the Italic Church in northern Italy; and also at the same
time by the Gallic Church in southern France and by the Celtic Church in
Great Britain; by the pre-Waldensian, the Waldensian, and the churches
of the Reformation." 67.
Defending the King James
Bible, by D.A. Waite, catalogues various churches which used the Old
Latin and Syriac Peshitta as translations of the Textus Receptus:
a.
Historical Evidences for the Received Text During the Apostolic Age (33-100
A.D.)
(1)
All of the Apostolic Churches used the Received Text.
(2) The
churches in Palestine used the Received Text.
(3) The
Syrian Church at Antioch used the Received Text
b. Historical
Evidences for the Received Text During the Early Church Period (100-312
A.D.)...
(4)
The Peshitta Syriac Version, (150 A.D....) This was based on the Received
Text
(5) Papyrus
#66 used the Received Text
(6) The
Italic Church in Northern Italy (157 A.D)
(7) The
Gallic Church of Southern France (177 A.D.)
(8) The
Celtic Church in Great Britain used the Received Text
"Why did
all these have their Bibles based on the Received Text? -- the churches
in Italy, France, and Great Britain -- why? Because that was the true Word
of God, and they knew it. That was the Received Text...The Churches used
this text and not any other....
(9)
Church of Scotland and Ireland used the Received Text
(10)
The Pre-Waldensian churches used the Received Text
(11)
The Waldensian (120 A.D. and onward) used the Received Text. 68.
Fundamentalists are fond
of listing the Waldensians and pre-Waldensians as the "true Christians" who preserved
the stream of manuscripts that would later be called the Textus Receptus.
In his outstanding book,
Baptist Successionism: A Crucial Question in Baptist History, James
Edward McGoldrick documented the doctrines held by the Waldenses:
“In 1179 a small delegation
of Waldenses appeared at Rome during the Third Lateran Council and asked
Pope Alexander III (1159-81) for his approval of the Waldenses’
ministry. At that time the Waldenses gave the pope a copy of their Bible
translation. The pope and council recognized the Waldenses’ right to
practice evangelical perfection but denied them the right to preach… As
of yet the Waldenses had issued no pronouncements which could have been
rightly construed as heresy, and in 1180 Waldo signed a statement of
faith dictated by a papal legate in which the popular exponent of
apostolic living subscribed to all of the major tenets of traditional
Catholicism…
“…Because Waldo’s confession
of faith is quite specific in its affirmation of loyalty to traditional
Catholicism, it bears quoting at length:
“‘…We believe in one Church,
Catholic, Holy, Apostolic and Immaculate, apart from which no one can be
saved, and in the sacraments therein administered through the invisible
and incomprehensible power of the Holy Spirit, sacraments which may be
rightly administered by a sinful priest…’”
“…Waldo’s outlook on the
Christian life was at least semimonastic… When Waldo adopted a life of
poverty, he left his family after giving some of his possessions to his
wife and come to a convent of nuns, to which he entrusted the care of
his daughters…
“In a statement of
faith…Peter Waldo affirmed his belief in transubstantiation, prayers for
the dead and infant baptism. The famed Baptist historian A.H. Newman
drew the only conclusion warranted by the evidence. ‘ Waldo and his
early followers had more in common with…Roman Catholicism than with any
evangelical party. His views of life and doctrine were scarcely in
advance of many earnest Catholics of the time.’
“…the early generations of
the sect maintained the essentially Catholic view that salvation comes
by grace plus human works of merit… in the early phase of their history
they retained a priest-centered, sacramental view of salvation. They
accepted all seven sacraments of the medieval church, including infant
baptism, the real presence of Christ in the eucharist, and priestly
absolution from sin. In fact, a Waldense confession of faith composed at
a relatively late date of 1508 espoused all of these tenets.” (McGoldrick,
pp. 71-80)
Moreover, Peter Waldo translated the bible used by
the Waldenses from the Latin Vulgate, rather than manuscripts in the line of the
Received Text:
“The Latin Vulgate Bible was the only edition of the Scriptures at that
time in Europe; but that language was inaccessible to all, except one in
an hundred of its inhabitants. Happily for Waldo, his situation in life
enabled him to surmount that obstacle…. [H]e either himself translated,
or procured some one else to translate the four Gospels into French…”
(William Jones, History of the Christian Church, Vol. II, pp.7,
9, 10; 5th Ed., 1826).
“He [Waldo] employed Stephen of Ansa and Bernard Ydross to translate the
Gospels from the Latin Vulgate of Jerome into the Romance dialect for
the common people.’ (Thomas Armitage, History of the Baptists,
Traced by their Vital Principles and Practices, from the Time of Our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to the Year 1886, p.295).
There can be no question that the Celtic Church and those sects
described as pre-Waldensian - the Cathari, Bogomils and Albigenses - were
Gnostic in the extreme. David Cloud has written volumes of anti-Catholic
material to vindicate these heretical sects which were the object of the
Papal Inquisition:
"The persecutions
which were poured out upon these Bible-believing people beginning in the
7th century caused them to be scattered throughout Europe, everywhere carrying
with them the New Testament faith. The Lutheran historian Mosheim, writing
in the 17th century, says:...They were later known by many names, including
Paterini, Cathari, Bulgarians, Patarins, Gazarians, Turlupins, Runcarians,
and Albigenses... The term 'Albigenses' probably derived from a Council
which was held in the year 1176 at the town of Lombers near Albi, "for
the purpose of examining certain reputed heretics" (Faber, p. 221)...
"The Bogomiles,
possibly an offshoot from the Paulicians, were condemned as heretics and
suffered great persecution...The Alibgenses rejected the Roman Church and
esteemed the New Testament above all its traditions and ceremonies... Reineriou
also falsely accused the Waldensians with Manicheanism. This Reinerius
is probably the same persecutor employed by Pope Innocent III to hunt out
the 'heretical' Waldenses and Cathari throughout southern France and northern
Spain..." 69.
"We have now
seen that the Baptists, who were formerly called Anabaptists. ... were
the original Waldenses, and have long in the history of the Church received
the honor of that origin. On this account, the Baptists may be considered
the only Christian community which has stood since the apostles, and as
a Christian society which has preserved pure the doctrines of the Gospel
through all ages." 70.
Examination of historical
records unveils a far different picture of the Waldensian and pre-Waldensian
churches, which are found to be instead among the guardians of the Gnostic
heresies. Space does not permit a full treatment of this subject,
but a sampling of encyclopedias and other sources bears witness to this
assertion:
International Encyclopedia
of Secret Societies & Fraternal Orders:
"The Waldenses
were part of the Manichean-Bogomil-Cathari-Albigensian tradition... They
first came to prominence in the south of France in the late 12th century..."
71.
Occult
Theocrasy, Edith Starr Miller:
“...Peter
of Bruys (died 1126) and the monk Henri (died (1148)…gained
many adherents and left numerous disciples whose Manichean opposition to the
Church was identical with that of the Cathares.
Upon such grounds fell the preaching of Peter Waldo
who, although he repudiated the dualist doctrine of the Manicheans, formed a
serious opposition to the Church. He created the sect of the Waldenses divided in two degrees, Perfect
and Believers. The former made a vow of Poverty and as such took the names
of Poor Brethren, the latter formed the Outer or Third Order.... From
the South of France and Northern Italy, persecution drove the Waldenses to the
Central and Northern provinces of France, thence to England, then from
Lombardy to Germany and Bohemia. John Wickliffe (1324-1384) in England and
John Huss (1369-1415) in Bohemia, were their foremost representatives and in
the latter country they formed the Bohemian Brethren who later took the name
of Moravian Brethren or Religious Masons."
(Chap. XXIII, 143:163-64)
A Concise History
of Foreign Baptists,
G.H. Orchard:
“Dissenters were
called by various names, as the Poor of Lyons, Lionists, Paterines, Puritans,
Arnoldists, Petrobrussians, Albigenses,
Waldenses, etc…, different names, expressive
of one and the same class of Christians. ‘However various their names, they
may be‘ says Mezeray, ‘reduces to two, that is, the Albigenses…and
the Vaudois, and these two held
almost the same opinions as we call Calvinists.’…
The Albigenses, ‘whose religious views had
been a considerable time established,’ (Dr. D.R. Alexis’s Rem. Albig. Ch.,
c.11, p.116) gave their entire support to Waldo,
so soon as he appeared in public.” (p.192)
Joachim of Fiore and
the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the 19th Century,
Marjorie Reeves &
Warwick Gould:
“Leroux saw the
thirteenth century as one of extraordinary religious ferment and, with a fine
disregard for doctrinal differences, put all the heretics into one basket -
Amalricians, Albigensians, Waldensians,
Cathars,
Apostolic Begards, Followers of Eon de L’Etoile and Pierre de Bruys,
Joachites, and so on - for according to him they were all preaching the
doctrine of the new evangel, of a religion superior to Christianity... (George
Sand) echoes Leroux in pointing to all those earlier ‘voices of St John’ who
sustained the heresy of the Evangel,
including Joachim of Fiore, John of Parma, St Francis, …In other lists she
names the Poor of Lyons, Wycliffites, Picards, Taborites Adamites, Fraticelli,
Begards, Waldensians… Here, she says,
is the key to all the convulsions and mysteries of the Middle Ages, and she
asks the question: Where shall we find another key to open the problems of
this present time?’” (256:88,100)
The Dictionary of Bible and Religion,
William Gentz:
“The
Waldenses
were ascetics who
believed in visions, prophecies, spirit possession. They also were committed
to millenarian views.”
(234:1097)
Columbia
Encyclopedia, "Manichaeism":
"Little is
heard of the Manichees in the West after the 6th cent., but their doctrines
reappear in the medieval heresies of the Cathari, Albigenses, and Bogomils.
It was the practice in the Middle Ages to call by the name of Manicheaism
any dualistic Christian heresy." 72.
Glossary
of Christian History
"Albigenses:
A group commonly called Cathari, meaning "pure ones." Since they
were especially influential in and about the town of Albi in southern France
some people called them Albigenses. Although most of what we know about
the Albigenses comes from their enemies, it is likely that they filtered
into Europe from Bulgaria. Like the Gnostics in the early church, the Cathari
held that the universe is the scene of an eternal conflict between two
powers, the one good, the other evil. Matter, including the human body,
is the work of this evil power, the god of the Old Testament. He had imprisoned
the human soul in its earthly body. To escape from the power of the flesh
the true Cathar was supposed to avoid marriage, sexual intercourse, eating
of meat, and material possessions. Here was a radical poverty, but not
one based on the example of Jesus so much as on the perceived nature of
the universe. The Cathari rejected not only popes and bishops, but basic
Christianity. They tried to escape from evil, not by repentance and faith
but by dividing the self in two. Not only did the Cathari succeed in reviving
the ancient dualist heresy, by 1200 they had gained the protection of the
princes of Toulouse, a cultural area in southern France, and were spreading
at an alarming rate. The Roman church eventually unleashed the Inquisition
against the Cathari to rout them out and destroy them and the movement
was brought to an end before the thirteenth century closed."
Occult Theocrasy, Edith Starr Miller:
"Manicheism,
with its hierarchy and missionary system, had taken root in Europe and,
with its chief seat in Bulgaria, had thus found it way into Northern Italy
and the southern part of France. Unquestionably Manicheans in their beliefs
and teachings, the Cathares (purifiers or pure) held the unadulterated
tradition of Manes. Their hierarchy was that established by their founder.
In the 12th century, their chief supreme chief was in Bulgaria having under
him, bishops, priests, deacons and simple Perfects. These composed the
class of Perfects who were distinguished from the second degree of Believers...
"As to the Albigenses,
their name derived from Albi, a town of Languedoc, covered not one
but many sects issued form Manicheism and Arianism, and counted also many
Jews or Judaised Christians. Under this appellation of Albigenses, historians,
whether political or religious, have almost unanimously included the Cathares." 73.
Languedoc, the home of
the Catharis and Albigenses in southern France, was linked to the Albigensian
heresy and the Grail treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau by authors of Holy
Blood, Holy Grail -- and also to the Cabala:
"The Languedoc
had much in common with Byzantium. Learning, for example, was highly esteemed...
Greek, Arabic and Hebrew were enthusiastically studied; and at Lunel and
Narbonne, schools devoted to the Cabala - the ancient esoteric tradition
of Judaism - were thriving... And while culture flourished in the Languedoc,
something else flourished as well - the major heresy of medieval Christendom.
In the words of Church authorities the Languedoc was 'infected' by the
Albigensian heresy, 'the foul leprosy of the south.' ...Not infrequently
they were branded or stigmatized with the names of Arian, Marcionite, and
Manichean...
"Elusive though
it is, there does seem to be some link between the Cathars and the whole
cult of the Grail as it evolved during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
A number of writers have argued that the Grail romances - those of Chretien
de Troyes and Wolfram von Eschenbach, for example - are an interpolation
of Cathar thought...Something had been smuggled out of Montsegur just after
the truce expired. According to tradition the four men who escaped from
the doomed citadel carried with them the Cathar treasure, but the monetary
treasure had been smuggled out three months earlier. Could the Cathar 'treasure',
like the 'treasure' Sauniere discovered, have consisted primarily of a
secret? Could that secret have been related in some unimaginable way to
something that became known as the Holy Grail?" 74.
The
Merovingian
Order of the Holy Grail cites the writings of high-ranking Rosicrucian,
Arthur E. Waite, who claimed that the Hidden Church of the Holy Grail descended
from Joseph of Arimethea, who, according to Merovingian lore, was the natural father of Jesus. It was through this
family, claim the Merovingians, that the Holy Grail was brought to the Languedoc in France:
"The First Family escaped the Holy
Land (First Chosen Land), and went to France (Europe being the Second Chosen
Land). They settled at Marseilles and then went to the Languedoc and settled
at Rhedae (Rennes le Chateau). Here, the High Priesthood taught its doctrine
to the Celtic peoples."
A. E. Waite was prominent
member of the Rosicruciana in Anglia and the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Waite
wrote in The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal that, within Christianity,
the Gnosticism of the East held the "pearl of great price", a reference
to the hidden knowledge and esoteric wisdom of remote antiquity:
"Behind all
this I should look assuredly to the East, in the direction of that pure
catholic Gnosticism which lies like a pearl of great price within the...shell
of external Christianity, which is not of Marcion or Valentinus, of Cerenthus
and all their cohorts, but is the unexpressed mystery of experience in
deep wells whence issue no strife or sects." 75.
Fundamentalist leaders have deceptively portrayed the Church of Antioch and its
spiritual descendants - the Waldensian,
Cathari, Albigensian and the Celtic churches - as bastions of Christian
orthodoxy. It is possible that some Fundamentalists have reiterated, at
times nearly verbatim, statements from other sources
without verifying their accuracy. However, an error of this magnitude seems
intended to deceive. At some point, one or more of these Fundamentalist
leaders
set forth a monstrous lie which was received as truth by their
disciples, who trusted in the credentials and reputation of impressive
persons, and did not conduct their own research on the subject.
The implications of
such a deception within Fundamentalism are staggering, considering that
the Celtic Church claims to be the authentic Christianity and is preparing
to place on the Throne (Mercy Seat) in the rebuilt Temple of Jerusalem
a false messiah of the lineage of Jesus Christ! The Stone of Destiny as
'Jacob's Pillow' will be used in the coronation of their "Christ" as the
King of Israel:
"On declaring
himself Overlord of Scotland in 1296, Edward I of England stole what he
thought was the Stone of Destiny. What he actually got was a piece of sandstone
from a monastery doorway, which has since rested beneath the Coronation
Throne at Westminster Abbey. This piece of rubble is 26 inches long by
11 inches deep (c. 66x 28 cm) and weighs about 335 lbs (c. 152 kg). Royal
seals of the early Scots kings depict a much larger installation rock,
but this rock was not the sacred Stone of Destiny -- no more than is the
medieval masonry prize of King Edward. The real Stone of Destiny is said
to be smaller, more naturally rounded, and is of inscribed black basalt,
not of hand-cut sandstone. It was hidden by the Cistercian Abbot of Scone
in 1296, and it has remained hidden ever since. The Columbian tradition
tells us that, on secreting the Stone, the Abbot prophesied that one day
'The Michael' would return to his inheritance." 76.
(This conspiracy is treated
in our report The Merovingian Dynasty.)
Those who have
sought to mainstream the Celtic Church, and with it the Syriac Peshitta,
have set the parameters of the discussion carefully. It is the old Hegelian
dialectic of two opposing sides -- within Christianity the proponents of
the KJV (Textus Receptus/ Fundamental) vs. those of modern versions (Alexandrian/
Catholic) -- which are vying for supremacy in a contest whose end has been
predetermined. Having valiantly contended for their respective Greek texts
and English translations, believers will soon be offered the synthesis
-- the Semitic New Testament based on various Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts
such as the Syriac Peshitta.
The facilitators of this Process do not make
known to the warring factions that, while they are preoccupied with a divisive
controversy, they are also being channeled into a planned resolution or
synthesis. These facilitators
are strategically placed in leadership with assignments to conduct the
debate with as much acrimony as possible, thereby dividing and eventually conquering
the bewildered Christians. The facilitators, who originally framed the
issue in a biased and adversarial context, are skillfully bringing the
dialectical process to its desired conclusion or consensus.
Thesis (KJ/TR) + Antithesis (Modern Versions/Westcott-Hort)
= Synthesis (Judaizers/Hebrew-Aramaic texts)
The
Third Way is the objective of the One World Religionists,
and the preordained method of attaining synthesis is through the dialectical
process. Modern translations have already prepared the way of apostasy
for multitudes to accept counterfeit scriptures. Fundmentalism is the last
stronghold contending for the Received Text as found in the KJV. Now that
these brethren have been assured by their revered scholars that the Syriac
Peshitta and the Old Latin Bibles, the texts of Antioch, are also based
upon the TR, they will not suspect otherwise. In this way, the last bastion
of orthodoxy will be drawn into the camp of the new Christianity, of the
Nazarene variety which characterizes the Eastern Churches. The infiltration
of Protestant and Catholic churches by the Hebrew Roots / Nazarene Movement
is already well advanced and their Rebbes will soon be offering the Judaized
Church a Semitic New Testament which supports the historic heresies.
To assist the reader's evaluation of doctrines
altered in the Syriac Peshitta, researcher Jan Moser has compared the Greek New
Testament with the Peshitta, which she obtained from the William Tyndale Library
in Michigan. The compilation of her research on the Syriac Peshitta is as
follows:
THE DOCTRINE OF SIN
Matt. 9:13 - omit "to repentance"
Matt. 15:6 - change "commandment" to "word" (cf. Is. 55:11 - i.e., cannot make
God's word of none effect)
Luke 16:9 - change "ye fail" to "it fails (Arminians believe in sinless perfection
and must fulfill the Law)
Rom. 8:1 - omit "but according to the spirit" (Origen, Marcion and Chrysostom also
made the change; Chrysostom quotes exactly as Syriac Peshitta)
Titus 1:4 - eliminate "mercy" (Chrysostom and
Theodore same)
Heb. 8:12 - eliminated "and iniquities"
Jude 1 - change "sanctified" to "love"
JESUS CHRIST THE SON OF GOD
I Tim. 3:16 - "He" who was manifest in the
flesh (Origen and Theodore same)
Matt. 24:36 - change "my Father" to "the Father"
John 1:18 - only begotten "God" rather than
"Son" (Origen and Clement same)
Acts 3:26 - change "son" Jesus to "servant"
Acts
8:37 - whole verse in brackets (Chrysostom same)
Eph. 3:9 - omit "by Jesus Christ"
FREE WILL VS. ELECTION
I Cor. 2:4 - omit "man's" wisdom
Gal.
4:26 - omit "all" (can lose salvation) (Marcion, Origen, Chrysostom same)
Gal. 3:1 - omit "that you should not obey
the truth"
SALVATION
Luke 9:56 - change "save" to "quicken"
Col. 1:14 - omit "through his blood"
DOCTRINE OF NICOLAITANS / PRIESTHOOD
Rev. 2:15 - omit "which thing I hate"
Luke 8:3 - change "him" to "them"
(Origen uses same reading)
GENERAL
/ ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
Matt. 24:36 - added "nor the son" after heaven
(Origen and Chrysostom picked up reading)
Matt. 11:19 - changed "of her children" to "of
her deeds" (works salvation)
Matt. 13:40 - omit "this" world (age) and
insert "the" age
Matt 14:24 - change "in the midst of the sea"
to "many furlongs away from the land" (diminishes depth of water; no miracle)
Matt. 23:8 - omit "Christ"
Matt. 25:13 - omit "wherein the son of Man
comes"
Matt 27:35 - omit "that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them and
upon my vesture did they cast lots." (Origen same)
Mark 9:24 - omit "Lord"
Mark 11:10 - omit "in the name of the Lord"
Mark 12:32 - change "there is one God" to
"he is one"
Luke 1:78 - change "hath" to "will" visit
us
Luke 22:31 - change "Lord" to "Jesus"
John 4:1 - change "Lord" to "Jesus"
John 7:39 - omit "holy"
Acts 2:30 - omit "as concerning the flesh
he would raise up Christ"
Acts 9:5,6 - omit "it is hard for thee to
kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what
wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him"
Acts 9:20 - substitute "Jesus" for "Christ"
Acts 9:29 - omit "Lord"
Acts 10:6 - omit "he shall tell thee what
thou oughtest to do"
Acts 12:24 - change "word" to "gospel" of
God
Acts 18:25 - changed "the Lord" to "Jesus"
Acts 19:10 - omit "Jesus"
Acts 22:16 - change "the name of the Lord"
to "His name"
Romans 1:16 - omit "of Christ"
Romans 13:9 - omit "thou shalt not bear false
witness"
Romans 15:19 - change "spirit of God" to "holy
spirit"
I Cor. 2:13 - change "spirit of God" to "spirit"
I Cor. 7:17 - change "God" to "the Lord";
change "as the Lord has called everyone" to "as God has called everyone"
(instead of Christ calling and distributing, it is God doing it)
I Cor. 14:16 - change " bless with the spirit"
to "bless in spirit" (denial of Holy Spirit, could be man's or other spirit)
II Cor. 4:10 - remove "the Lord" from "bearing
about in the body the dying of the Lord"
II Cor. 4:14 - change "raised up" to "resuscitated"
(questionable - depends on Aramaic rendering in S.P.)
Eph. 5:9 - change "fruit of the spirit" to
"fruit of the light"
Eph. 5:29 - change from "Lord" to "Christ"
Philippians 3:11 - change "resurrection of
the dead" to "resurrection from among the dead"
Col. 1:2 - omit "and the Lord Jesus Christ"
Col. 3:15 - change "God" to "Christ"
Col. 3:22 - change "fearing God" to "fearing
the Lord"
I Thess. 1:1 - omit "from God our Father and
the Lord Jesus Christ"
I Thess. 2:19 - omit "Christ"
II Thess. 2:2 - change day of "Christ" to
day of "the Lord"
I Tim. 1:17 - omit "wise"
(they alone are wise)
I Tim. 2:7 - omit "in Christ"
I Tim. 6:19 - change "eternal" to "that which
is truly" (Origen same)
II Tim. 2:19 - change "Christ" to "our Lord"
Philemon 20 - change "the Lord" to "Christ"
Heb. 1:3 - omit "our" sins
James 1:12 - change "Lord" to "God"
I Peter 1:22 - omit "through the spirit"
I Peter 1:24 - change "man" to "it"
(glorify flesh)
I Peter 3:15 - change "Lord God" to "Lord
Christ"
I Peter
4:1 - change "for us" to "for you" (Nicolaitan)
I Peter 4:14 - omit "on their part he is evil
spoken of, but on your part he is glorified"
I Peter
5:5 - omit "be subject" (Nicolaitan)
I Peter 5:14 - omit "Jesus"
II Peter 2:11 - omit "before the Lord"
II Peter 2:17 - omit "forever"
II Peter 3:10 - omit "in the night"
/ change "will be burned up" to "will
be discovered"
I John 1:7 - omit "Christ"
I John 5:2 - change "keep his commandments"
to "follow his commandments"
I John 5:7,8 - omit "in heaven, the Father,
the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three
that bear witness in earth" (Clement same reading)
Jude 25 - omit "wise"
Rev. 1:5 - changed "washed" us from our sins
to "loosed"
Rev. 1:6 - changed "kings" to "kingdom"
Rev. 1:8 - omit "beginning and ending"
/ added "God" to "Lord" (referring to God the Father)
Rev. 1:11 - omit "I am Alpha and Omega, the first
and the last"
Rev. 5:10 - changed "us" to "them"
(changed "we shall reign" to "they
reign"}
Rev. 5:14 - omit "and liveth forever and ever"
Rev. 8:13 - change "angel" to "eagle"
Rev. 11:4 - change "God" to "Lord" of earth
Rev. 11:8 - change "our" Lord to "their" Lord
Rev. 11:15 - change "the kingdoms of this
world are become" to "the kingdom of this world is become" (see Time of
Enthronement of Antichrist)
Rev. 11:17 - omit "and art to come"
Rev. 12:17 - omit "Christ"
Rev. 13:1 - change "name" to "names" of blasphemy
Rev. 14:1 - added "and his name" to his Father's
name
Rev. 14:5 - omit "before the throne of God"
(human perfection)
Rev. 15:3 - change "king of saints" to "king
of ages"
Rev. 16:5 - omit "O Lord"
(omit "and shalt be" and change to "the holy One")
Rev. 16:17 - omit "of heaven"
Rev. 17:8 - change "is" to "shall be present"
Rev. 17:16 - change "upon" to "and" the beast
Rev. 19:1 - omit "the Lord"
Rev. 20:5 - omit "again"
Rev. 20:12 - change "God" to "the Throne"
Rev. 22:6 - change "holy prophets" to "spirits
of the prophets"
PROGRESSION OF NEW
TESTAMENT CORRUPTION
The
Hebrew Roots Movement
The
Semitic New Testament - Part I
ENDNOTES
1. David Bivin and Roy Blizzard,
The Difficult Words of Jesus, 1984, reprinted 1994 and 1995, pp. 19,20
(pp. 2,3 in 1994 edition).
2. Ibid. p 19-20 (pages
2 and 3 in 1994 edition).
3. Peter A. Michas &
Robert Vander Maten, The Rod of An Almond Tree in God's Master Plan, WinePress
Pub., 1997, p. 19.
4. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/363_Transp/Orthodoxy/Chabad.html
5. Messianic Friends Network,
http://www.ezl.com/~peterm/Links.html http://www.messianic.com/friends.htm
.
6. The Rod of an Almond
Tree, p. 179.
7. Ibid., p. 180-81.
8. William R. Newell, Romans,
Kregel Classics, Grand Rapids, MI, 1994, p. 415.
9. Kenneth Barker, The
NIV: The Making of a Contemporary Translation (Zondervan Corp., 1986),
pp. 166, 110.; New Age Bible Versions, p. 594.
10. D.A. Waite, Defending
the King James Bible, Bible for Today Press, 1992, p. 39;
11. Email: From: James
Trimm <jstrimm@swbell.net>, To: losttribes@nazarene.net <losttribes@nazarene.net>,
Subject: (losttribes) SNTP update (sources), Date: Monday, February 22,
1999 7:00 PM.
12. David Otis Fuller,
Which Bible?, Grand Rapids Int. Pub., 1970, pp. 197-98.
13. Which Bible?, p. 130.
14. D.A. Waite, Defending
the King James Bible, p. 45.
15. Jack Moorman, Modern
Bibles - The Dark Secret, Foundation Magazine, Sept-Oct. 1992, p. 30; Forever
Settled, p. 116.
16. Edward F. Hills, The
King James Bible Defended, Des Moines, IA, Christian Research Press, 1993,
1956, p. 121.
17. William P. Grady, Final
Authority: A Christian's Guide to the King James Version, Shererville,
IN, Grady Publications, 1993, p. 34.
18. Peter Ruckman, The
Christian's Handbook of Biblical Scholarship, Bible Baptist Bookstore,
1988, p. 94.
19. Samuel Gipp, An Understandable History of the Bible, 1987,
p. 67.
20. G.A. Riplinger, New
Age Bible Versions, p. 488.
21.
James H. Sightler, M.D., A Testimony Founded Forever, Sightler Publications,
Greenville, SC, 1999, p. 12.
22. "When Manuscripts Collide,"
Wendy Murray Zoba, Christianity Today, Oct. 23, 1995, p. 30-1.
23. Gordon Fee and Douglas
Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth, Zondervan Publishing
House, 1981, 1993, p. 114.
24. "Thus Spake Jesus Christ,"
Gregg Garrison, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dec. 12, 1998, Religious News
Service.
25. Columbia Encyclopedia,
"Maronites," p. 1700.
26. Which Bible?, p. 197-8.
27. Interpreter's Bible
Dictionary, Supplementary Volume, Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1993, p. 853.
28. Britannica Online,
"Syriac Peshitta," http://www.eb.com/ . '
29. Hastings Encyclopedia
of Religion & Ethics, "Antiochene Theology," p. 585.
30. D.A. Waite, Defending
the King James Bible, Bible for Today Press, 1992, p. 45.
31. David Otis Fuller,
Which Bible?, Grand Rapids International Publications, 1970, p. 125.
32. Secret Books of the
Egyptian Gnostics, Jean Doresse, p. 13.
33. "Outline of Christology,"
William G. Most, http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/CHRI602.TXT '
34. Arius-The Trinity Controversy
in the Church, Fazal Ahmad - UK The Review of Religions, September 1996
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35. Mircea Eliade, Encyclopedia
of Religion, "Arianism", Vol. 1, p. 405.
36. New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia
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Rapids MI: Baker Book House, 1964, p. 435.
37. Hastings Encyclopedia
of Religion & Ethics, James Hastings, NY: Charles Scribner Sons, 1951,
"Antiochene Theology", p. 587.
38. New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia
of Religious Knowledge, "Chrysostom," p. 75.
39. Devotional Classics,
Richard Foster, p. 326.
40. New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia
of Religious Knowledge, James Hastings, NY: Charles Scribner Sons, 1951,
"Antiochene Theology", p. 591.
41. Ibid., p. 592.
42. Ibid., p. 590.
43. "Outline of Christology,"
William G. Most, http://www.ewtn.com/library/THEOLOGY/CHRI602.TXT
44. Columbia Encyclopedia,
"Theodore of Mopsuestia", p. 2728.
45. Encyclopedia Britannica,
1910, "Nestorius," p. 409.
46. True or False?, David
Otis Fuller, Grand Rapids International Publications, 1973, 1983, Terrence
H. Brown, "God - Was Manifest in the Flesh...(I Timothy 3:16)", p. 33-4.
47. Encyclopedia Britannica,
"Nestorius," p. 407.
48. Hastings Encyclopedia
of Religion & Ethics, James Hastings, NY: Charles Scribner Sons, 1951,
"Antiochene Theology", p. 592.
49. Ibid., p. 593.
50. Ibid., p. 585.
51. Which Bible?, p. 198,
citing Dean John Burgon and Miller, The Traditional Text, p. 128.
52. Jack Moorman, Modern
Bibles: The Dark Secret, p. 29.
53. Jean
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54. The Holy Bible, Authorized
King James Version, Footnote: II Timothy. World Bible Publishers.
55. Roland H. Bainton,
Erasmus of Christendom, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969, p. 139.
56. Robert J. Sargent,
Landmarks of English Bible: Manuscript Evidence, Bible Baptist Church Pub.,
p. 159.
57. Alan Axelrod, The International
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1997, p. 47-8.
58. Laurence Gardner, Bloodline
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59. The Messianic Legacy
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1986, p. 119.
60. The Messianic Legacy,
p. 120.
61. The Messianic Legacy
, p. 124
62. Prince Michael Stewart,
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63. The Forgotten Monarchy
of Scotland, p. 30.
64. Bloodline of the Holy
Grail, p. 189.
65. The Messianic Legacy,
p. 122.
66. Jack Moorman, Forever
Settled, p. 121.
67. Which Bible, p. 187.
68. Defending the King
James Bible, pp. 45-6.
69. David Cloud, Rome and
the Bible, Way of Life Literature, 1996, p. 34, 36, 37.
70. David Cloud, Way of
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71. The International Encyclopedia
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72. Columbia Encyclopedia,
p. 1680.
73. Lady Queenborough,
Edith Starr Miller, The Occult Theocrasy, Los Angeles, 1933, pp. 162-3.
74. Biagent, Lincoln &
Leigh, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Dell Pub., 1982, pp. 51-2, 61-2.
75. Arthur Edward Waite,
The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal, London: Rebman Ltd., 1909, p. 681.
76. Bloodline Of The Holy
Grail, "The Stone Of Destiny," p. 299.
77. "Ancient Aramaic New
Testament," Victor N. Alexander, http://www.v-a.com/bible/confession.html
78. Testament of Matthew,
Matthew 15; http://www.v-a.com/bible/matthew-15.html
79. Peter Michas, op.cit.,
p. 80.
80. Ibid, p. 82.
81. Ibid., p. 205.
82. "The Torah and the
Shekinah," Chris Kirk, http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/torah/tor.html
83. Daniel C. Matt, The
Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism, HarperSanFrancisco,
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84. "Requital Document,"
Chris King , 1997, http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genesis/requital.htm