Questions To Be Asked While Reading The Bible
Book
1.
Since manuscripts do not have a date,
how can scholars like Tischendorf promote a very early date that enhances their
careers?
2.
Why did Tischendorf, a German Lutheran,
have an audience with the Pope, an arrangement with a Roman Catholic king, and
a deal with a Russian Orthodox Tzar?
3.
How can anyone claim, as Tischendorf
did, that monks devoted to ancient manuscripts were burning up pages from a
1500 year-old bound volume (codex) with leather pages that could not burn?
4.
How does anyone explain Sinaiticus
having white, supple pages after resting unknown for 15 centuries? Two witnesses
attest to the whiteness, and yet the codex later looked very much darkened, not
so much by age but by special treatments.
5.
Since Tischendorf lied so many times
about Codex Sinaiticus, what does that suggest about his earlier work with Codex
Ephraim Rescriptus[1]
– and his later work embracing Codex Vaticanus – “so much like Sinaiticus?” They
disagree at a 40% level, not exactly a match, except for the sketchy origins.
6.
Why did the mysterious Codex Sinaiticus
suddenly appear at St. Catherine’s Monastery, having no previous history, and
was later stolen by Tischendorf – but never returned – so the Russians “could
set Sinaiticus in print for the whole world.”
7.
How did Tischendorf happen upon a codex
with no history and get away with his garbage to be burned excuse for spiriting
pages away for the Catholic king?
8.
Biblical apostates in England and
America were burning to have the earliest and best possible New Testament Greek
text, but why did they accept the least trustworthy and most heretical
Sinaiticus and Vaticanus?
9.
Indeed, why did the Lutheran Church
Missouri Synod use Vaticanus as the main source for the Gospel of Mark
commentary, 1000 pages long?
10. Since
Westcott and Hort were honored clergy and scholars in England, why were they
allowed to secretly push their Greek New Testament on the KJV Revision
Committee?
11. Why
did the Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament stay hidden until the horrible KJV
Revision came out?
12. The
wild bragging of Tischendorf and the absurd theories of Westcott-Hort are an embarrassment
to text scholars, so why are they still locked into loyalty to these Til
Eulenspiegels but opposed to the clear, well-documented, apostolic sources of
the Byzantine Majority Text?
13. Which
is more likely to be the true apostolic heritage? – 5,000 or more individual
examples of the Byzantine Text from a Christian empire 1100 years old – or a
handful of dubious and heretical exceptions with no history and no children
proving they were never used for anything other than supporting papal supremacy
over the Word of God.
14. When
will the New King James Version and any other KJV copycats stop referring to
the Nestle-Aland-Nida texts as genuine alternatives? Do we join the apostates
in saying a Virgin - or young woman - will bear a son?[2]
Are we so frightened by these hucksters that we whisper the Biblical truths softly in Mequon/Mankato/St.Louis/FtWayne lest we be heard on the streets of Gath?
[1] Tischendorf
claimed to have superb eyesight, enabling him to detect what others could not,
since the pages were erased and overwritten.
[2]
The RSV first used young woman instead of virgin in Isaiah 7:10. After the
firestorm, they used virgin in the text and footnoted young woman. Now the RSV has
young woman in the text and footnotes virgin. A con artist always rigs the game
against the suckers.
