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Neither Lucian nor Erasmus, but rather the apostles, wrote the Greek New
Testament. However, Lucian's day was an age of apostasy when a flood of
deprivations was systematically attempting to devastate both the Bible manuscripts
and Bible theology. Origen, of the Alexandrian college, made his editions and
commentaries of the Bible and deformed them with philosophical speculations, errors,
fallacious reasoning, and lying. Lucian's unrivaled success in verifying, safeguarding,
and transmitting those divine writings left a heritage for which all generations should
be thankful. The King Tames Bible has the Textus Receptus as its New Testament
basis.

We have seen how that 90% of the existing manuscripts or the vast majority are in
agreement with the Textus Receptus, but what about the other 10%? Of the other 10%
there are two groups: the Minority Text, also known as the Alexandrian Texts because
they were produced in Alexandria in Egypt, and the Neutral. The Minority Texts were
rejected by the early Christians and also by all the Protestant Reformers of the
15th, 16th and 17th centuries. The Reformers, who were well aware of the existence of
the Minority Texts, considered them unfit for translation purposes.

It is believed that the Minority Texts were butchered by Egyptian gnosticism with many
changes, which are mostly deletions. The gnostics were a group that did not believe:
In the virgin birth, that Jesus was the Son of God, that Jesus was resurrected to
heaven, that Jesus was the Creator, or that Jesus made atonement for our sins. There
are many alterations in the Minority Texts, often a single manuscript being amended
by several different scribes over a period of many years.

The Minority Texts omit approximately 200 versus from the Scriptures. This is
equivalent to omitting First and Second Peter. The Minority Texts contradict
themselves in hundreds of places. The Minority Texts are weak doctrinally and often
dangerously incorrect. Yet, startling as it may sound, virtually every modern English
Bible relies on the Minority Text as its underlying New Testament text in preference
to Textus Receptus!

The two main manuscripts of the Minority Texts are Vaticanus (or B), and the
Sinaiticus (Aleph). Vaticanus was produced in the 4th century, It was found over a
thousand years later (1481) in the Vatican library in Rome, where it is currently held.
This manuscript omits many portions of Scripture vital to Christian doctrine. Vaticanus
omits Genesis 1: 1 through Genesis 46:28; Psalms 106 through 138; Romans 16:24;
the Pauline Pastoral Epistles; Revelation, and everything in Hebrews after verse 9:14.

It is interesting that a manuscript possessed by the Roman Catholic church omits the
portion of the book of Hebrews which exposes the "mass" as totally useless
(Hebrews 10:10-12). It also omits portions of the Scripture telling of the creation
(Genesis), the prophetic details of the crucifixion (Psalm 22), and, of course, the
portion which prophesies of the destruction of Babylon (Rome), and the great whore
of Revelation chapter 17.

Vaticanus, though intact physically, is found to be in poor literary quality. Vaticanus
has numerous places where the scribe has written the same word or phrase twice in
succession. From one end to the other, the whole manuscript has been traveled over
by the pen of some scribe of about the tenth century. If Vaticanus was considered a
trustworthy text originally, the mass of corrections and scribal changes obviously
render its testimony highly suspicious and questionable.

The Sinaiticus is a manuscript that was found in 1844 in a trash pile in St. Catherine's
Monastery near Mt. Sinai by a man named Tischendoft. It contains nearly all of the
New Testament plus it adds the "Shepherd of Hermes" and the "Epistle of Barnabus"
to the New Testament.

In the 1800's two men, Westcott and Hort made another Greek New Testament
text from the Minority Text which included Vaticanus and the Sinaiticus. Since
the time of Westcott and Hort another revision was created called the
Nestle/Aland. Nearly all of the new translations of the Bible are based upon
one of these two Greek New Testaments and not the Textus Receptus. That
means that the newer versions are based on 5% of the manuscripts in stark
contrast to 90% on the other side.

This is where the differences really come from. We can see that from very early on
there has been a struggle over this issue of the correct scriptures, we now hold in our
hands the offspring of these arguments. Many of the deletions in the modern versions
revolve around exactly what the gnostics did not believe in: The virgin birth, Jesus was
the Son of God and was resurrected to heaven, Jesus was the Creator, or that Jesus
made atonement for our sins.

In the world today, there only really exists tWo classes of Bibles; those based upon the
Textus Receptus and those based upon the Westcott/Hort, Nestle/Aland Greek
New Testaments. If a person has a New International Version, New American Standard
Version, or Revised Standard Version, he is reading from the Westcott/Hort,
Nestle/Aland Greek New Testaments that are only supported by 5% of the
existing manuscripts.

How does the Westcott/Hort, Nestle/Aland differ from Textus Receptus?
These two Greek New Testaments are vastly different from one another. They are
different to the point that only one of them can be the Word of God. If a person
believes that Westcott/Hort is the correct version then they must believe that the
Textus Receptus was added to (with words like "Jesus" and "fasting" and versus like I
John 5:7). If a person holds to the Textus Receptus that person must believe that the
Westcott/Hort version has deletions.

The Westcott/Hort, Nestle/Aland are primarily based upon Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.
These are in contradiction one with the other in over 3,000 places in the Gospels
alone! The Westcott/HortNestle/Aland Greek Text differs from the Textus Receptus in
over 5,600 places, involving almost 10,000 Greek words. There is no way that a
Bible translated from the Westcott/Aland or Nestle/Aland could be anything equal to
the King James Bible which is based on the Textus Receptus.

The Textus Receptus was the Bible of early Eastern Christianity. Later it was adopted
as the official text of the Greek Catholic Church. It was also the Bible of the great
Syrian Church, the Waldensian Church of Northern Italy, the Gallic Church in Southern
France, and of the Celtic Church in Scotland and Ireland. At one point Pope
Gregory ordered all copies of the Textus Receptus destroyed.

Many argue that the Minority Texts are older and therefore must be the accurate
manuscripts, but Texrus Receprus agrees with the earliest versions of the Bible:
Peshitta (AD. 150), Old Latin Vulgate (AD. 157, the Italic Bible (AD. 157) etc. These
Bibles were produced some 200 years before the Minority Texts favored by
The Roman Church.

One scholar, when researching more than 86,000 quotations from scripture of the
early church fathers pointed out that Textus Receptus agrees with the vast majority of
their citations from scripture. Texrus Receprus strongly upholds the fundamental
doctrines of the Christian faith: the creation account in Genesis, the divinity of
Jesus Christ, the virgin birth, the Savior's miracles, His bodily resurrection, His literal
return and the cleansing power of His blood! Textus Receptus was, and still is,

                The enemy of the Roman Church.

Which Bible?
If I were to be tried and the sentence was to be life or death I would rather the jury
base their decision on 90% of the evidence instead of 5%. Yet we are not just
dealing with life or death, we are talking about eternity. A person that uses the New
International Version, The Revised Standard, or The New American Standard is
basing their eternity upon 5% of the existing manuscripts which are not only
obviously corrupted but self contradicting.

The name "Jesus" is omitted in the NIV 38 times and the NASB 73 times.
The New King James Version omits the word "Lord" 66 times, "God" 51 times,
"heaven" 50 times, "repent" 44 times, "blood" 23 times, "hell" 22 times, "JEHOVAH"
entirely, "new testament" entirely, "damnation" entirely, and "devils" entirely.
There are 34 verses in the Bible that discuss the role of "the dragon," the NIV omits 20
of these.

The word "hell" occurs 67 times in the Old Testament. The NASB and the Jehovah's
Witness New World Translation translate it "SheoI" all 67 times.
While the NIV does not sanction homosexuality directly, it certainly does not teach
against it.

It makes it appear that the sin is prostitution and not that of homosexuality in general.
Not all homosexuals are "shrine prostitutes," but all of them are "sodomites."
The KJV calls for honesty 10 times in the New Testament, the NIV and NASB only
once. The NIV also removes fasting 6 times out of the New Testament.

(These are only a few of the changes and deletions. See the chart that follows for a
more extensive view. Complete 24 page booklet free upon request.)
                              Title (He Sent His Word)

Conclusion
We have to all agree that the King James Bible is very different from the newer
versions. It is different to the point that only one of them could be the word of God. I
for one do not think that God waited until 1978 to give the English speaking world His
true Word, nor do I believe that God even waited until the 1800's. From 1611 the
English speaking world has had the Word of God, the King James Version.

This is not just an argument for the King James Bible only, for the Textus Receptus
that underlies the King James also underlies the Spanish Reina Valera and others.
The King James Bible is also in agreement with the Georgian Bible, which is one of the
oldest.

For us to say that the King James is incorrect or filled with errors would be to condemn
the Bibles of many true believers throughout the world and thus say that until the
1800's reviving of the minority Texts the world was in darkness. No our God is greater
than that, far greater. He has kept His Word throughout the ages and we can
confidently know that we have it today in the

                                 King James Translation.

          Dedicated to those who have given their lives for
                            "The Word of God"

Farewell, beloved sufferers, and followers of the Lamb . . . Farewell, night
wanderings, cold and weariness for Christ. . . Farewell, holy Scriptures
wherewith my soul has been many a day refreshed. . . Farewell, reading, singing
and praying. . . Farewell, sweet believing. Welcome, immediate presence oj God
and His Son Jesus Christ, who only has redeemed me with His blood.
                                                                                         Covenanters under sentence of death