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-----Original Message-----
From: Shomeir
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 10:36 AM
To: House of Israel Newsgroup
Subject: RE : Is the New Testament the inerrant word of God?
Shalom friends,
I am always saddened when people drop off of my list because they just cannot
accept even the possibility of another perspective. I am also mystified by the
mentality that says, "If the King James Bible (aka: Authorized Version) was good
enough for the apostles, it's good enough for me." I guess I need to ask, "Were
5365 Greek manuscripts found in just two dumpsters?" I am also mystified by
those who will not even look into the New Testament and the history of
Christianity and notice a few things:
1) Y'shua never taught a single gentile!
(He may have encountered a few but he never taught any.)
2) Y'shua said, "I was
sent only to the LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL" [Matthew 15:24].
3) Y'shua
said to his disciples, "Go, rather, to the LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL"
[Matthew 10:6].
4) ALL of our Christian ideas about Moshiach (Messiah),
redemption, salvation, the fate of mankind, etc. were created by GENTILES after
130 CE.
Why would anyone allow their heritage to be stolen from them or purchased for a
bowl of soup? Do they despise their birthright that much? Why is it that ALL
endtime prophesies are about Judah and Israel and "the church" is not anywhere
to be found? This is why Christianity had to come up with "replacement
theology." But even this is disingenuous because they believe that Israel is the
church only when good things are prophesied; but Israel is the Jews when bad
things are prophesied. WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND COULD BELIEVE SUCH A THING????
You who are being called back to Torah have a glorious inheritance!! Would you
sell it so cheaply? DISPUTE THE FACTS! DISPROVE THE FACTS! But don't just IGNORE
THE FACTS! If I have ever told you an untruth, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE show me
the error of my ways, but don't just ignore the facts. Blind faith is for the
blind! Open your eyes and see.
Please forgive my rantings, but I love you all and I
want you to come into your inheritance as Hashem promised our father Abraham.
Only then will all the world be blessed.
Kol tov,
Shomeir
P.S. Pastor O. I have removed you from my mailing list.
Please have me removed from your
mailing list.
I am not interested in receiving email from someone who does not believe the
Bible is the Word of God. And who corrects it. We don’t correct the Bible, the
Bible corrects us! We don’t stand in judgment of the scriptures, they judge
us!
The Bible teaches us that it is inspired, and preserved. I believe that God is
able and powerful enough to preserve His Word for us in 2003!
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.
Pro 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a
shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Psa 100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is
everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
I believe that God has
preserved His Words to us through the Antiochan manuscripts, where the
disciples were first called Christians.
I don’t care about the manuscripts that were found in a dumpster in Rome or in
Alexandria, Egypt, (a type of the world).
I don’t believe that Our Lord would have much to do with those places.
We believe the Authorized Version of 1611 is the preserved Word of God for us
English speaking people today, and is our final authority in all matters of
faith and practice. The New Testament IS the inerrant Word of God as well as
the Old.
Pastor O.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Shomeir [mailto:shomeir@alphamall.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 2:38 PM
To: House of Israel Newsgroup
Subject: Is the New Testament the inerrant word of God?
Shalom friends,
There is much to be learned from the New Testament text, but is it the
inerrant word of God?
Let me begin by just telling it like it is.
Somewhere between 5% and 10% of the New Testament text was altered between
the second and fifth centuries. Bart Ehrman just scratches the surface of
this problem in his book "The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture." Later we
will cover some specifics about these alterations.
There are, today, 5366 Greek codices of the New
Testament in existence. But there is a major problem here, because there are
not even two manuscripts among all these codices that totally agree with
each other. There are approximately 100,000 textual variants among these
manuscripts. The oldest manuscripts that we have date back to the third
century. In spite of this problem the bulk of the New Testament text
conforms with both the Torah and Oral Law. The alterations to the NT text,
however, do cause a number of theological problems.
One obvious corruption is 1John 5:7. Most modern
translations do not even include this verse because it does not appear in
any of the oldest manuscripts. It does not appear an any manuscript before
the fifth century. Sir Isaac Newton wrote an important essay exposing this
fraud in 1690 ["A Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of
Scripture."] This was an obvious attempt to provide a proof text for the
doctrine of the trinity.
The fourth century church historian Eusebius had
access to the very earliest NT manuscripts. In his pre-nicean writings
Eusebius reveals that the earliest Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of
Matthew contained only the word "Go" in verse 19 of Matthew 28. This is the
only other place in the Bible that references the trinity. [Note: The
trinity doctrine was first introduce in the third century by Quintus
Septimius Florens Tertullianus. It was considered heresy at the time.]
We also know from Eusebius, Origen, Justin, and
others that the Gospel of Matthew was originally written in Hebrew and that
the Hebrew manuscript did not contain the first two chapters of today's
Gospel of Matthew ["...it contained neither genealogy nor birth account."]
This is good news since the genealogy in Matthew presents us with some
unique problems (even if we ignore that six generations have been dropped
from the list).
Now we have another problem because the genealogy
in Luke is totally bogus. To read more about these genealogies click here:
http://teshuvah.com/articles/Does_Yeshua_qualify_as_the_Messiah.htm
Many of the obvious corruptions documented by Bart
Ehrman deal with attempts to establish the doctrine of the virgin birth
within the NT text. Nearly all of the ancient pagan religions of Egypt,
Babylon, Sumeria, the Hitites, Persia, etc. had demi-gods who were allegedly
born of a virgin during the winter solstice. Since we know that the virgin
birth account in Matthew was a later addition, this leaves only Luke's
account. Since Luke contains a totally bogus genealogy it casts some
suspicion on the reliability of Luke's Gospel. Add to this the fact that
Ehrman has documented several places in Luke's Gospel where the text was
specifically altered where it contradicted the virgin birth account. To read
more about the virgin birth click here:
http://www.alphamall.com/teshuva/jesus.htm and:
http://www.geocities.com/returningtofaithofjesus/genealogy_problems.htm
Is the New Testament important? YES IT IS, but it
is not the inerrant word of God.
Can we establish that Y'shua was the Messiah? Yes
we can. I will cover this in my next email.
Kol tov,
Shomeir
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