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http://GospelOfTheNazirenes.org The Living Scriptures The Christian Doctrinal Quagmire While most Christians believe that the Bible is the Word of God, what they fail to understand is the fact that the scriptures are the Key of Knowledge that when properly applied and turned within the disciple's own mind and being, enables the seeker to enter through the inner Narrow Gate and learn from the Living Word that is beyond man's misinterpretations and ability to corrupt. The modern Christian perpetually argues over which biblical translation better represents the original text -- without recognizing that none of them at present do. The modern Christian erroneously maintains that God would not permit the scriptures to become corrupted -- dogmatically reasoning that if He did, then mankind would not know what to believe. Yet, the New Covenant is a declaration of a reality that the Living Word of God is within each of us as the lost prodigal sons of our Heavenly Father -- and the whole objective of the Original Teachings of TheWay was to enable man to connect with the Source of Truth and Knowledge that exists within them. Therefore, if modern believers were truly the disciples of Yeshua/Jesus, then they would not be dependent upon other men to teach them -- they would not be dependent upon the church of this world -- they would not be dependent upon the Bibles that men publish -- they would not be dependent upon the commentaries and doctrines of men -- because as disciples of TheWay, they would be permitted entrance into the inner Kingdom, and the Lord would be their Teacher. How much does the modern Church know about either the original Gospels or the original teachings of Yeshua/Jesus and TheWay? Quoting the subheading The Most Important Scriptures Never Given To The Church : Those outside of the original Ebionite/Nazirene core of disciples and followers of Yeshua/Jesus, were quick to corrupt all the copies of the scriptures that were given to them. And this fact is confirmed to us by Dr. F. H. Scrivener where he writes that: "In the second century we have seen too many instances of attempts to tamper with the text of Scripture, some merely injudicious, others positively dishonest" . Scrivener states that "it is no less true to fact than paradoxical in sound, that the worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected, originated within 100 years after it was composed: and that Irenaeus and the African Fathers, and the whole Western, with a portion of the Syrian Church" used inferior manuscripts (F.H.Scrivener, Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament ). Dean Burgon quotes Gaius (AD175-200) who speaks of the source of corruptions that survive in the early papyri: "The Divine Scriptures these heretics have audaciously corrupted. Laying violent hands upon them, under pretense of correcting them." (Burgon, The Revision Revised, p. 323). Eusebius (Eccleastical History), citing the second century Church Father Clement of Alexandria: "The worst corruptions to which the New Testament has ever been subjected originated within one hundred years after it was composed." In the words of Colwell (What is the Best New Testament Text?, p.119) "The first two centuries witnessed the creations of the large number of variations known to scholars today. In the manuscripts of the New Testament most variations, I believe, were made deliberately." G.D. Kilpatrick (Atticism and the Text of the Greek New Testament, pp 125-131): "Deliberate changes in all text types appear to antedate A.D. 200..as distinct from errors... all categories of deliberate alteration... are present in both groups. Tatian is the last author of make deliberate changes. The vast majority of deliberate changes were older then A.D. 200. They came into being in the period A.D. 50-200." Under the title of Bible in the Church , the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics writes: "In the first two centuries nearly all the various readings of the New Testament came into existence, the majority of them by deliberate alteration of the text, many for the sake of style, and several in the interests of dogma Often readings were rejected as falsifications of heretics, but often the heretics were right in their counter-complaint Every province, every order, every monastery, has a tradition of its own " And if we pose the question as to who corrupted the scriptures? Sir William Whiston in his Second letter to the Bishop of London, 1719, p. 15, further confirms that it was the so-called orthodox church which was directly responsible for all the interpolations and corruptions: "We certainly know of a greater number of interpolations and corruptions brought into the Scriptures by the Athanasians, and relating to the Doctrine of the Trinity, than in any other case whatsoever. While we have not, that I know of, any such interpolation or corruption made in any one of them by either the Eusebians or Arians." For additional historical documentation on the insertion of Trinitarian verses into the text of the scriptures, see The Adoption Of The Trinity . The truth and the facts to the matter is very clearly expressed in the words of Prof. Bart D. Ehrman in his book, The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture , where he warns us that: "...theological disputes, specifically disputes over Christology, prompted Christian scribes to alter the words of scripture in order to make them more serviceable for the polemical task. Scribes modified their manuscripts to make them more patently ‘orthodox’ and less susceptible to ‘abuse’ by the opponents of orthodoxy" -- which orthodoxy was to bring the text of the Bible into conformity with the doctrines and tenets of the Church of the Roman Emperor Constantine. To close our hearts and minds to the facts, and ignore the truth, is from a New Covenant perspective synonymous with relinquishing any claim whatsoever with respect to being a follower of Jesus. With regard to the condition of the Bible that the Church presently uses: The surviving Greek texts of the book of Acts are so radically different from each other, that it has been suggested that perhaps there were multiple versions written. In his book The Text of the New Testament , Dr. Vincent Taylor writes that "The manuscripts of the New Testament preserve traces of two kinds of dogmatic alterations: those which involve the elimination or alteration of what was regarded as doctrinally unacceptable or inconvenient, and those which introduce into the Scriptures proof for a favorite theological tenet or practice". To put Dr. Taylor's words in perspective: What Dr. Taylor is stating is that, whatever doctrine Jesus taught which the Church of the Roman Empire did not agree with, there is overwhelming evidence that the church corrupters removed what was objectionable from their dogmatic perspective. In like manner, whatever doctrines the Church regarded as being dogmatically true, regardless of whether that belief was supported in the scriptures, the Church inserted this belief into the Bible in an attempt to make it authentic. What Dr. Taylor is warning us is there is good reason to conclude that our scriptures have been rewritten by the Church of Constantine. Now the question that is being posed here is whether you believe the theological tenets of Rome, or the disciples of Christ -- because the two are not the same (see The Religion Of Roman Emperors ). It is easily demonstrated that any genuine believer can prove that not only were the scriptures corrupted in order to support the doctrines of Pagan Rome, but that the teachings of the nature of Jesus was changed (see The Ten Words ), and the genuine disciples and followers of Jesus were murdered in order to silence them (see The Death Of The Religion Of Jesus ). Thus, Gibbon writes in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: ”Constantine easily believed that the heretics, who presumed to dispute his opinions or to oppose his commands, were guilty of the most absurd and crimina...