by Dr. Ken Matto
When I was bringing you verses each week which are mutilated in the
modern versions, I mention two manuscripts on a regular basis. Those two
manuscripts being the Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. To better understand why
these two manuscripts differ so much from the Textus Receptus, I would
like to describe these manuscripts to you so you may see how corrupt
they are which means they are absolutely unreliable, yet the modern
scholar sees these two manuscripts as the crowning glory of manuscripts
and they believe that God has preserved these manuscripts to give us a
better Bible. When we look at the characteristics of these manuscripts
we will see if God is the one who really endorses them or is it Satan’s
people who could better identify with them.
The History
(Acts 20:29 KJV) For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous
wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
The Apostle
Paul knew that Satan would waste no time in planting his false prophets
and scholars in the church. Paul’s prophecy was right on target because
no sooner was the Bible completed, Satan had already launched a campaign
to destroy it by using intellectuals and Gnostics. The Apostle John had
died about 100 AD and in the same year a man named Justin Martyr was
born. Martyr combined Christianity with Greek Philosophy when he
preached.
“Justin Martyr (d c 165 AD) was a Christian
Apologist and Martyr. He was born around the turn of the century in
modern day Palestine. He claimed to have been raised a Gentile, and in
his search for truth he studied with the Stoics, Aristotelians,
Pythagoreans, and Platonists. Impressed by the devotion of Christian
martyrs, he was eventually converted to Christianity by an old Christian
who taught him about the Hebrew prophets. According to Justin,
Christianity filled the highest aspirations of Platonic philosophy and
was, therefore, the "true philosophy." During the reign of Antoninus
Pius he taught in Rome, influencing Tatian and Irenaeus. He was one of
the first to consistently use Greek philosophy (especially Platonism) to
explain Christian doctrine, thereby setting himself in dramatic
opposition to Tertullian, who would ask "what does Athens have to do
with Jerusalem?" The Logos (God immanent), he believed, was "other than"
the Father (God transcendent) in number, but not in will. Three of his
writings, The First Apology, The Second Apology, and The Dialogue with
Trypho, the Jew, exist in complete form, though there is some question
about the precise relationship between the First and Second Apology.
Justin, a central figure in the history of second century Christian
thought, suffered martyrdom early in the reign of Marcus Aurelius under
Junius Rusticus (prefect 162-168 AD)” ----- Elise M. Bender
A student of Justin Martyr was a man named Tatian. Tatian had recorded
Justin Martyr’s heresies and placed them in a Bible version called “The
Diatesseron” about 150 AD. About this time some Christian missionaries
went from Antioch to Alexandria, Egypt where they wanted to reach the
pagan philosophers. Keep in mind that in the Bible Egypt represents the
kingdom of Satan and the world. Although the Diatesseron had some Textus
Receptus readings in it, it was considered to be corrupted. In fact, a
Syrian Bishop named Theodoret (397-457 AD) found 200 copies of it in his
church and threw them out. Tatian had a student named Clement (Not
Clement of Rome) who founded the school at Alexandria, Egypt around 200
AD. This school was solely for intellectuals and philosophers. They
scorned the Christians at Antioch as morons and know-nothings. Clement
was a great believer and proponent of the Gnostic heresies of the day
and his influence over his students was great. His most famous student
was Adamantius Origen (184-254 AD) who was an Arian.
Origen was a
heretic and Gnostic and along with Clement of Alexandria helped to
corrupt the manuscripts giving us the false versions of today. Here are
some of Adamantius Origen's beliefs. When he taught, he wore the pagan
robes of the pagan philosopher plus he castrated himself based on his
Gnostic views of the evil of the flesh.
1) He believed the Holy
Spirit was a feminine force.
2) He believed in Soul Sleep
3) He
was a very strong proponent of Baptismal regeneration
4) He believed
that Jesus was only a created being and Gnosticism taught that Jesus
became Christ at his baptism but that he was never God. He was a just a
good man with very high morals.
5) He believed in the doctrine of
Purgatory
6) He believed in transubstantiation
7) He believed in
the transmigration of the soul and reincarnation of the soul.
8) He
doubted the temptations of Jesus in Scripture and claimed they could
have never happened.
9) The Scriptures were not literal. He was the
father of allegory.
10) Genesis 1-3 was a myth, not historical or
literal, as there was no actual person named "Adam."
11) Based upon
Matthew 19, a true man of God should be castrated, which he did to
himself.
12) He taught eternal life was not a gift, instead one must
grab hold of it and retain it.
13) Christ enters no man until they
mentally grasp the understanding of the consummation of the ages. (It
was Frederick Dennison Maurice in the 19th century who defined eternal
life as coming to a knowledge of God. This is the essence of
Gnosticism.)
14) He taught there would be no physical resurrection
of the believers.
Origen's belief system clearly indicates that
he was a Gnostic Greek Philosopher and not a true child of God. For who
can hold these 14 beliefs and still consider themselves saved. The
greatest corruption of the biblical manuscripts happened in the 2nd
century in Alexandria when the true Antiochan manuscripts were mutilated
to adapt to the beliefs of the Gnostics and Arians. A 2nd century
heretic named Marcion, discounted Matthew, Mark, and John and only
accepted Luke, but only after he "corrected" it to fit his Arian
beliefs. Today Origen could be classified as a Jehovah’s Witness.
Origen’s claim to fame was his masterpiece of corruption called “The
Hexapla.” It consisted of six versions juxtaposed, and he would freely
change any verse he didn’t like. His first victim was 1 John 5:7:
(1 John 5:7
KJV) For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
A watershed event took place in 313 AD when Emperor Constantine
saw a vision in the sky of a cross and he then believed he became saved.
However, when he described the shape of the cross, he had described the
Egyptian Ankh. Satan had deceived this unsaved man into thinking that
God gave him the vision. From that time, the persecutions against the
Christians had stopped. Satan could not defeat Christianity through
murder and torture so he devised a new method called “spiritual
espionage.” He used Constantine to stop the pogroms and declare
Christianity was now the state religion. In effect, he became the first
Pope.
Constantine’s first edict in 331 AD. was to have fifty
Bibles made up so he called on a man named Eusebius. Eusebius was
mightily influenced by the teachings of Origen which resulted in him
believing the same way, which means he was not a Christian. Eusebius had
a good opportunity to use the pure manuscripts from Antioch but instead
he chose the corrupted texts from Alexandria and thus the foundation for
the modern bibles were formed. He used the fifth column in Origen’s
Hexapla. It is strongly believed in both camps that the foundational
texts for the modern bibles, the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts,
were two of the original fifty bibles that Eusebius made up. However,
there is no specific evidence for this since both the Vaticanus and
Sinaiticus differ from each other in over 3,000 places in the Gospels
alone, which in my mind, would tell me that they could not have been
made by the same scribes from the same manuscripts at the same time. If
they were copied from the same manuscripts, there would not be that much
divergence.
The Vaticanus Manuscript (B)
The word “Vatican” in Latin means “Hill of Divination.” (Deu 18:10 KJV)
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his
daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, The Vaticanus manuscript was found in
the Vatican library in 1481. It was rejected by Erasmus in 1516 and the King James
Translators because it was very corrupt and unreliable. The following
portions of Scripture are missing from the Vaticanus: Genesis 1:1-46;
28; Psalms 106-138; Matthew 16:2-3; Mark 16:9-20; The Pastoral Epistles
(1 & 2 Timothy and Titus) and everything after Hebrews 9:14. These were
intentional omissions because the manuscript was found in excellent
condition with no pieces missing. In the Gospels it leaves out 237
words, 452 clauses, and 748 whole sentences. These omissions were
intentional since there was room left on pages to write these in. The
Vaticanus manuscript was written on expensive Vellum and was in good
condition when found which means that the missing areas were not due to
missing sections but intentional omission also there is no history of
the Vaticanus before 1481.
The Sinaiticus Manuscript (a) Aleph
Since this
manuscript came into existence in 1844 it was thought to be a fourth
century document. In the late months of 2015 and early months of
2016 this manuscript has been proven to be a nineteenth century
counterfeit. The pages of this manuscript were purely white but in
a few short years the pages turned brown giving it the appearance of
being old. The reality is that it was darkened by tea giving it
the appearance of age.
It
was penned by Constantine Simonides.
Tischendorf was blessed by the Pope for this manuscript because
he knew that it would be used to help displace the King James Version.
The Sinaiticus is a total fake! The sorry situation is that this
is one the main 45 manuscripts which underlies all the modern versions,
which means that the modern versions are all based upon a counterfeit
manuscript making them all null and void. There are over 6000
manuscripts but the modern versions are based on only 45 and some of
them are very corrupt in nature such as Sinaiticus, Vaticanus,
Alexandrinus (A 02), Bezae Canatbrigiensis (D 05).
Sinaiticus is one of the two manuscripts, Vaticanus being the other,
where Mark 16:9-20 is omitted intentionally while it appears in 618
other manuscripts. It also contains the "Shepherd of Hermes" and
"The Epistle of Barnabas."
For more information on this go to www.scionofzion.com/sinaiticus_fake.html
There you will find an entire series of videos
giving the details of this counterfeit manuscript and its Catholic
connection.
Textual
Variations between Vaticanus and Sinaiticus
There are 3036 textual differences in the Gospels alone. 656
in Matthew - 567 in Mark - 791 in Luke - 1022 in John. With
these amounts of disagreements in the Gospels alone, how can these
manuscripts ever be trusted for accuracy, yet all your modern versions
rely heavily on these two manuscripts.
Summary
These two manuscripts are the foundational manuscripts of all the modern
versions. When we see the characteristics of the two manuscripts as
being inferior and loaded with false books plus many scribal errors and
writings, and now proof exists that Sinaiticus is a fake, we can see
plainly why the modern versions lack integrity and why they are missing
so much. The sad part is that the modern scholars claim these two
manuscripts are the “Oldest and Best.” This is such an outright lie that
the publishers should be sued for false advertising. Just because
something is old does not make it the best. Would you like to have an
operation according to 1905 medical knowledge? After all, oldest is
best! Would you like to drive across country in winter in a 1905 car?
After all, oldest is best! That theory is nothing but a lie and should
not and must not be believed. Just taking a look at these two
manuscripts, we see how corrupted they are and how they completely
violate the Scriptures.
(Rev 22:18-19
KJV) For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy
of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto
him the plagues that are written in this book: {19} And if any man shall
take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take
away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and
from the things which are written in this book.
These modern bibles have definitely taken away the words of
God, to the tune of thousands in the Greek and thousands in the English,
which means that all the modern bibles are under the curse of God and in
no way can ever be blessed. When we also factor in the fact that these
translation committees all have unbelievers on them, we can know
instantly that these modern bibles are nothing more than false
versions.
(Psa 50:16-17
KJV) But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my
statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? {17}
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
The above verse teach that unbelievers hate the Word of God.
Why then would a Holy God commit His Holy Word unto Satan’s people for
correction? The NIV had two sodomites working on it. The Revised Version
of 1881 had a Unitarian working on it. The 1901 ASV had Philip Schaff as
it’s committee head and he was one who wanted reunification with Rome.
The Good News Bible had Robert Bratcher who was an unbeliever and
disbelieved the first three chapters of Genesis as Westcott did. The
Lockman Foundation refused to divulge the names of the translators of
the New American Standard Bible. What have they got to hide? When we
look at the beliefs of men like Origen and Justin Martyr who tried to
combine Greek philosophy with the Gospel, would God commit His Holy Word
to unbelievers like that? We must ask those questions of the modern
versions and demand an answer.