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By the end of the first century, the New Testament had been
completed and distributed among the churches in Sardis, Laodicea,
Philadelphia, Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, and the largest concentration
in Antioch. These were the letters (epistles) and Gospels written by
the Apostles and Luke the physician. The language used to write these
letters and epistles was the common Greek language of the day.
Once
these were completed and diligently copied, around 120 AD, some of the
brethren from the Waldeness valley of France then translated these into
the common or "vulgar" Latin language and distributed around the Roman
empire.
Later in the 1600's, the letters from Antioch know as the
"Received Text" was translated in their entirety into the English
language giving us the King James Bible. The King James translators
also used the Waldenessian Bible to check their translation so that we
really have the originals translated into the English language without
error.
Now, as for that deception about which this article is
titled, at or around 230-240 AD, Alexandrian scholars got their hands
on the New Testament in Antioch and took them back to their
universities, where a man by the name of Origen Adamantius, c. 185-254
AD began to translate them into the Classic Greek of the day.
To
give you some insight into Origens way of thinking, there was a paper
he wrote called the "Allegorical Exegesis". In this paper we find that
Origen didn't believe that God really meant what He said through the
Apostles and wanted to enlighten the Christian world about what God
really meant to say. I'm not sure about you but that kind of thinking
really bothers me. Doesn't it you?
Once Origen had completed his
translation there was a complete mess. First thing I want you to
clearly understand is that the Alexandrian Text from Origen was not the
original letters and Gospels. They were a translation from the common
Greek into the Classic Greek. And not only this but were translated
using Origens twisted belief that God didn't mean what He said.
With
this simple understanding it should be quite easy to realize why there
are verses missing and meanings changed in the newer versions of the
Bible like the New International Version, the New King James, and the
Holman Christian Standard bibles. They were translated using the
Alexandrian Text or more precisely from the Nestle Text translated by
Westcott and Hort.
The deception is that you and I are being lied
to when publishers say they are translating their new bibles from more
reliable texts. In reality they are translated from a translation that
is purely corrupt.
Tim Davis is a student of Biblical History who
has a new website called "The Old Pathways" which is a message board
for discussions such as this one. The site is at http://101info.org/oldpath/ Please feel free to come and discuss this and many other matters concerning our Christian faith. |
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