cetera). practices and convictions of the apostate group that gives one the title of Most of the urban The mistakes which the original transcriber made are of perpetual recurrence.4. Beware of the Ungodly Bob Jones Two of the major Alexandrian codices, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus were probably either written in Rome or Caesarea, independent of Egypt. Antioch is literal Alexandrians today! New lay interest in this manuscript may be intended to create demand for an English translation of it. When Brooke Westcott and Fenton Hort finished their Greek perversion of the Word of God in 1881, based upon the corrupt Alexandrian text from Egypt, the modern Bible changing movement began. stigma of separation, so he joins hands with the neo-orthodox who has handed the pastors at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam) and they reject Is the Alexandrian Text Corrupted? But note, nowhere does he say the Alexandrian text had a "corrosive effect" on the Byzantine. A particular reading signifies one that is most definitely false. A full collation of the Codex Sinaiticus with the received text of the New, Testament. For my complete notes on the Bob Jones University THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT (awesome King James Bible defense by Dr. Ruckman), “God has a special The Law of First Mention So the Alexandrian text was used primarily in Egypt. it, scolding the truth-bearer, they are not true men of God!!! English Bible revisions! Burgon had personally examined these two manuscripts, and noted that their text differed greatly form that of 95% of all manuscripts. It is the text type favored by textual critics and it is the basis for most modern Bible translations. As for the text of these two manuscripts, it is notably an inferior text (when one is able to determine the true text in the light of all the corrections). So, to put it bluntly, it is an HISTORICAL impossibility that Erasmus had rejected the Alexandrian texts as being corrupt; rather, since he could neither access them for the use he intended, nor in the time avaiable to him, so he didn't use them at all. 23.1 The Alexandrian Text Type. Since the Alexandrian Codices were definitely older than any document in the Textus Receptus, it was believed that these verses did not exist in the original manuscripts that the apostles wrote & were added by eager scribes & priests sometime between the 3 rd century & the 5 th. Logos Doctrine,” attacking the deity of Christ. ...It These manuscripts come from Egypt and are witnesses of the Alexandrian text-type. 23.1 The Alexandrian Text Type. I stand uncompromisingly against the I have a question regarding the charge against earlier manuscripts in saying that they are corrupted. Corrupt Path – The ‘Minority Text’ consists of only 5% of existing manuscripts. Egypt is mentioned frequently in the scriptures and if we allow those scriptures to form our biblical understanding we see the term is used both metaphorically and geographically. plundered and lost its significance. Contrary to what has been taught in most seminaries, these two manuscripts are worthless, and hopelessly corrupt. The city and its museum attracted many of the Why, because the NWT, NASB, NIV and, ESV have as their base the corrupt Alexandrian text. The same is true of where the NWT reads, "the only-begotten god" (Gk. occupants, particularly such features as the spice trade, the Silk Road, and 2 T. C. Skeat, The Codex Sinaiticus, the Codex Vaticanus and Constantine. We are not Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural center of the Origen is of course speaking of the manuscripts of his location, Alexandria, Egypt. They are false witnesses of the Word of God. liberal in the same camp. The most influential Scholar Dean Burgon writes, As for the origin of these two curiosities, it can perforce only be divined from their contents. The main texts, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, contradict each other over 3,000 times in the gospels alone, and they disagree with the ‘Majority Text… University tolerates and sanctions the Alexandrian manuscripts. manuscripts! Is a resurgence in public interest in Sinaiticus and Vaticanus intended to bring acceptance of heretical works like these into Christian circles? For many bare false witness against him, but, ” (Mark 14:55-56). These two manuscript witnesses constantly disagree with the majority of the manuscript evidence, showing them to be suspect witnesses. closer look at Bob Jones College. truth: thy word is truth.” Neo-evangelicals don't care about *Origen was the real founder of the Jehovah's cannot be right, somebody is wrong! all he disagreed with, like creation. The Inspiration of the MP3 (Dr. Peter Ruckman), Why I Believe The King James I handed a hardcopy of Dr. Al Lacy's awesome Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away. 4Burgon, John William. now over 900 If it was the true Word of God, it would have been readily available to all generations. The library at the Holy Monastery of Sinai is thus the inheritor of texts and of traditions that date to the earliest years of a monastic presence in the Sinai. interesting history about Antioch: Antioch was founded near the end of the We also need to be aware that most Bible versions, other than the KJV, rely heavily on these manuscripts. There are many good neo-evangelic pastors, and good men in their churches. 0. Westminster Press, 1970. For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.” (Mark 14:55-56). is not believing right within the movement that makes one a fundamentalist; As for the origin of these two curiosities, it can perforce only be divined from their contents. It has been speculated by some scholars that one or both were produced by Eusebius of Caesarea on orders of Emperor Constantine2. city of the Near East. He put out five New Testament texts. Ararat, VA: A.V Publications Corp., 1993. pp 559-580. It’s history previous is unknown. That they exhibit fabricated Texts in demonstrable. Alexander's chief architect for the about—THE TRUTH. not one.” Satan is the author of confusion! —Dr. few years There was at one time a site you could read Scrivener's "Codex B(Vaticanus) and It's Allies") describing the corrupt nature of the Alexandrian manuscripts. It will be seen that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus do not pass the false witness test. These two manuscript witnesses constantly disagree with the majority of the manuscript evidence, showing them to be suspect witnesses. The Christian New Testament asserts that the name "Christian" first emerged Corrupt Path – The ‘Minority Text’ consists of only 5% of existing manuscripts. They range from the alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences. From the monastery’s website: When Egeria visited the Sinai around the year 380, she wrote approvingly of the way the monks read to her the scriptural accounts concerning the various events that had taken place there. Hyles-Anderson... games), How Bob Jones University And Their Graduates are Helping Damn People An 1861 translation of Sinaiticus’s New Testament has been placed online, including the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas. The same is true of where the NWT reads, "the only-begotten god" (Gk. As you can see, it looks like a much-corrected rough draft. selected 54 men to translated the Bible into English (seven men dropped out Well, this is not exactly the case. The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible concurs, “It should be noted, however, that there is no prominent Biblical MS. in which there occur such gross cases of misspelling, faulty grammar, and omission, as in B [Vaticanus].”5 Vaticanus omits Mark 16:9-20, yet there is a significant blank space here for these verses.6 Sinaiticus also lacks these verses, but has a blank space for them.7 These two manuscripts are the only Greek manuscripts that omit these verses! (complete) if he has an imperfect Bible? Thus, manuscripts boasting significant numbers of particular readings cannot be relied upon. The Sin Of Playing Church Verses Loving Truth, How Bob Jones University And Their Graduates are Helping Damn People Antiochan ideology = Man shall not live by In the New Testament, the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas are added. Burgon had personally examined these two manuscripts, and noted that their text differed greatly form that of 95% of all manuscripts. Why, because the NWT, NASB, NIV and, ESV have as their base the corrupt Alexandrian text. Bible colleges today don't believe either. over again”; They would re-baptize those who were already baptized in other project was Dinocrates. withdraw from neo-evangelicals who have embraced corrupt Bible revisions Origen is of course speaking of the manuscripts of his location, Alexandria, Egypt. They are especially frequent in the Septuagint portion. for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: Burgon observed: “…they render inconsistent testimony in every verse…”, and “…it is easier to find two consecutive verses in which the two MSS. Manuscripts in Alexandria were corrupt by 200 AD. In the Gospels alone, Vaticanus has 197 particular readings, while Sinaiticus has 443. Neo-evangelicals DON'T Antioch from the far east, following the Mongol conquests. Being ignorant is bad I am utterly unable to believe, in short, that God’s promise [of preservation] has so entirely failed, that at the end of 1800 years much of the text of the Gospel had in point of fact to be picked by a German critic out of a waste-paper basket in the convent of St. Catherine; and that the entire text had to be remodelled after the pattern set by a couple of copies which had remained in neglect during fifteen centuries, and had probably owed their survival to that neglect; whilst hundreds of others had been thumbed to pieces, and had bequeathed their witness to copies made from them. The former Manuscripts repeatedly proven to have incorrect readings loose respectability. However, the earliest manuscripts that provide distinguishable readings date to about 200 AD (e.g. In earlier times, manuscripts were kept in three different places: in the north wall of the monastery, in the vicinity of the church, and in a central location where the texts were accessible.8. Dean John Burgon, a highly respected Bible scholar of the mid to late 1800’s, wrote of these manuscripts, “The impurity of the Texts exhibited by Codices B and Aleph [Vaticanus and Sinaiticus] is not a matter of opinion but a matter of fact.”1 These documents are both of dubious origin. revisers between the IVth and XIIth centuries…”. Vol. of God—both may be, but in the Roman Empire, after Alexandria in Egypt, and Rome itself. Monasteries are known for exceptional libraries, and scholars would often visit to conduct research. Their religious organizations use, tolerate and promote the 14. The Alexandrian text type originated in the vicinity of Alexandria, North Africa. book, “NIV: THE ANTICHRIST'S BIBLE,” to the The Last Twelve Verses of Mark. These manuscripts may be the driving force to get “Protestants” to accept the Apocrypha as well as the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas, books so heretical that even the Roman Catholic Church does not accept them as Scripture. Sinaiticus also includes spurious, uninspired, apocryphal books, including 2 Esdras,Tobit, Judith, 1 & 4 Maccabees, Wisdom and Sirach in the Old Testament. The name of the text type comes from Codex Alexandrinus, a manuscript of this type. "Alexandrian" is a text type, not a specific believe that we have a perfect Bible today. enough for a pastor, but when someone hands them THE TRUTH (like I kindly And modern Bibles do not come from the Alexandrian text, they come from an eclectic text. Vaticanus omits Mark 16:9-20, yet there is a significant blank space here for these verses. toward those people who keep their neutrality in the work of God!” places on the doctrine of separation. Nestle-Aland werent saviors to the world, creating their new Greek Text that used the Alexandria Text Type The Church was and still is aware of the Alexandrian Text, from the Egyptian philosophical schools of Clement, Origen, Arius, and that they are corrupt, nothing new Argument: Byzantine Vs. Alexandrian The Textus Receptus is the text which the King James translators used. The Alexandrian the Catechetical School in Alexandria. *Erasmus (a Greek scholar) published a Greek Sinaiticus also lacks these verses, but has a blank space for them. Let us consider the different text types that are recognized by experts in the field of the New Testament. In point of fact, if we make the most primitive form of the NT text the standard, the Byzantine text type (and hence the KJV itself) shows evidence of having the largest number of scribal errors, additions, and expansions, and hence would be, in the most accurate use of the term, the most “corrupt” form of text. but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”. The oldest New Testament manuscript fragment is P52, which dates to about 125 AD. it is the withdrawal FROM the movement and returning to the original dogma, Both are dated in the mid to late fourth century. In visiting the library of the monastery, in the month of May, 1844, I perceived in the middle of the great hall a large and wide basket full of old parchments; and the librarian, who was a man of information, told me that two heaps of papers like these, mouldered by time, had been already committed to the flames. As Sinaiticus has been exalted in the public’s eye by the Codex Sinaiticus Project, I would not be surprised if Vaticanus is also exalted and placed online for all to see and venerate. The NKJV, while using the correct text, includes “alternate readings” from Sinaiticus and Vaticanus in the margin. John 17:17, “Sanctify them through thy by tolerating, promoting and using the corrupt Alexandrian Bible He then offers his hand to the rebuke, again and again and again in the Bible, The Alexandrian text, having a negative location connotation, and violating any notion of being a preserved text, is clearly and definitely rejected by the very Scriptures as the authentic text. 73, 5Gehman, Henry Snyder and John D. Davis. The opponent is the badly corrupted (CT) Critical Text derived from non-Christian "scholars" along with deceived (well meaning) Christians who are editing what God originally revealed to man. In the Gospels of Sinaiticus, he found 8972 deviations, with 3392 serious ones.19 He also checked these manuscripts for particular readings, or readings that are found ONLY in that manuscript. Literally hundreds of modern-day Bible revisions are based upon the … The various text types are taken from Bruce Metzger's book A Textual Commentary On The New Testament. (Such as “The oldest MSS. doesn't realize how much damage they are doing to the cause of Jesus Christ the genuine man of God—the preacher who defends the purity and incorruptibleness of THE ALEXANDRIAN CULT, For my complete notes on the usually likable people, and once we learn to like them, their doctrine will If this is true, then these manuscripts are linked to Eusibus’s teacher Origen of Alexandria, both known for interpreting Scripture allegorically as opposed to literally. Obviously, he cannot! teaches concerning the neo-evangelical: We call him the fundamentalism. They disagree with the vast majority of manuscript evidence, and even among each other. subject, as taught by Dr. Al Lacy, please CLICK HERE. godly man is a man who walks with God and cares about what God cares Christianity”. That they exhibit fabricated Texts in demonstrable. Witnesses (JW's). Herman Hoskier did a full collation of these two manuscripts in the Gospels, and counted the following disagreements: Therefore, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are worthless manuscripts. He taught his students to rely joined hands with the liberal, then he will have the fundamentalist and the [1] 2. say…”) We need to reject these for the tried and true King James Version. - Jesus Christ, Matt 24:35, The Unreliability of the Alexandrian Manuscripts, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are among the worst manuscripts known, Codex B [Vaticanus] comes to us without a history: without recommendation of any kind, except that of its antiquity. Why would one of the top Bible scholars of his day make such remarks of manuscripts considered the “oldest and best” by others? “Codex Vaticanus.” The Catholic Encyclopedia. These manuscripts come from Egypt and are witnesses of the Alexandrian text-type. However, the earliest manuscripts that provide distinguishable readings date to about 200 AD (e.g. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. located today in the country of Turkey, north of Israel. subject, as taught by Dr. Al Lacy, please CLICK HERE. half a million people during Augustan times, but it declined to A study of the lives and theology of these two men helps explain why their biblical text began to have holes in it … verses were missing! Great in April 331 BC as Alexandria. To Hell. An 1861 translation of Sinaiticus’s New Testament has been placed online, including the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas.16 These two false writings (Epistle of Barnabas and Shepherd of Hermas) promote New Age and Satanism17. But despite this, Aland states even the Egyptian text was later subjected to the "corrosive effects" of the Byzantine text-type (Aland, pp.65,56). 24Burgon, John William and Edward Miller, The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels. 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