The churches are being told by the textual critics that the latest manuscript discoveries and the most recent scholarship demand that we accept a mutilated New Testament. A N.T. where the last 12 verses of Mark, the story of the woman taken in adultery (John 7:57-8:11), and the testimony of the three heavenly witnesses to the Deity and incarnation of Jesus Christ, (1 John 5:7) are edited out, and scores of other deletions, interpolations, and changes are required in an ongoing attempt to get us back to the real text of the New Testament.
However, as Solomon stated it, there is no new thing under the sun, and Satan has been attacking the word of God ever since Adam and Eve were in the Garden. Frederick Nolan published his defense of the Textus Receptus in 1815. At that time already these issues were known and the false theories of the textual critics refuted. Nolan was aware of the manuscripts and the theories of modern textual criticism and his thorough examination of their arguments and his competent defense of the Received Text are still as timely today as they were almost two centuries ago.
Nolan's work consists of 6 parts and they are listed below with the links to each section.
Chapter 1 (An Inquiry into the Integrity of the Received Text by Frederick Nolan) This chapter is an examination of the system of the textual criticism by which the Received Text came under attack and especially showing their classification of the known manuscripts of the Greek New Testament and the reasoning by which they reject the vast majority of the manuscripts supporting the Received Text in favor of a few corrupt manuscripts.
Chapter 3 (An Inquiry into the Integrity of the Received Text by Frederick Nolan) This is a defense of the class of manuscripts that form the basis of the Received Text. Nolan shows that the other two classes are based on rescensions of the Greek Text by errorists or heretics with theological axes to grind, and that the manuscripts underlying the Received Text are copies of the authentic and original text of the Greek New Testament.
Chapter 6 (An Inquiry into the Integrity of the Received Text by Frederick Nolan) In this final chapter Nolan documents the general corruption by heretics of the other two classification of manuscripts (the Palestine Text and the Egyptian text), and again thoroughly and convincingly defends the readings of the Byzantine or Received Text.
Bible Versions Controversy EXPLAINED (full sermon) by The Underground Christian Network (free MP3) This is an easy-to-understand overview of the Bible version controversy. It contains a lot of shocking information that all Christians need to know. From the occult leanings of the fathers (Hort and Westcott) of the faulty texts underlying virtually all modern Bible translations, to the amazing story of how Satan has worked through history to corrupt the Bible, this fascinating message is jam packed with facts you will hear in many other places. The summary attached to this MP3 reads (with slight modifications): "In simple words, this message explains to you dangerous trends and teachings in the so-called 'modern versions of the Bible.' This message takes you through the 'new versions' (NIV, NASV, NRSV, etc. -- NKJV is covered in part 2) and lets you see with your own eyes some of the things these corrupted versions have DELETED FROM the Bible, the anti-Christian doctrines added to the 'new versions,' and even some of the occult teachings added to the 'new versions'! A must hear for all Christians."
The Errors of Modern Textual Criticism (Part 1) by David Cloud (free MP3) Textual criticism is based on unbelieving theories which deny four crucial points in coming to a proper understanding of scripture: The Bible's supernatural origin, Satan's attacks on the Bible, God's promise of preservation and the necessity of faith in believing what the Bible says about itself. The three free MP3s in this series on the errors of modern textual criticism, by David Cloud, cover these four crucial points.
The Traditional Text Was a 3 to 2 Favorite with Those Church Fathers Who Died Before to 400 A.D.
Dean Burgon wrote:
"No one, I believe, has till now made a systematic examination of the quotations occurring in the writings of the Fathers who died before A.D. 400 and in public documents written prior to that date. . . . The testimony therefore of the [76] Early Fathers is emphatically according to the issue of numbers in favour of the Traditional Text, being about 3:2. But it is also necessary to inform the readers of this treatise, that here quality confirms quantity. A list will now be given of thirty important passages in which evidence is borne on both sides, and it will be seen that 530 testimonies are given in favour of the Traditional readings as against 170 on the other side. In other words, the Traditional Text beats its opponent in a general proportion to 3 to 1." [Dean Burgon, The Traditional Text, pp. 94, 101-102]
Some of the leading Westcott and Hort followers of today are very bold to say that the Traditional Text, or the Textus Receptus type of readings, did not exist prior to 400 A.D., and certainly not before the 6th Century A.D. Here you have statistical data on 76 Church Fathers who died prior to 400 A.D., showing, not only that the Textus Receptus readings did exist prior to 400 A.D., but that they were in the majority. This was not merely a simple majority of barely over 50%, but it was a majority of 60% to 40% over the Westcott and Hort false text. Dr. Jack Moormans recent and careful research on this same subject revealed an even greater percentage--70% to 30% in favor of the Textus Receptus as opposed to B and Aleph. This can be found in his excellent book, Early Church Fathers Witness to the Antiquity of the Traditional Text, pages 34-35. It is B.F.T. #2136, 63 large pages @ $6.50+P&H. Don't believe any of the Westcott and Hort/B and Aleph devotees if they tell you that the Traditional Text readings or the Traditional Text itself was not in existence before 400 A.D.
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