How to Save the World Part 2

 Needed to hear Chris Pinto's recent radio show again, titled Bible Skeptics and Progressive Christian Heresy    NOTR - BIBLE SKEPTICS & PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN HERESY - 3.4.21 - Show Downloads - Noise of Thunder Radio with Chris Pinto

When I manage to have my wits about me, which is iffy these days, I realize that it all comes down to the churches.  We can go on and on about how the nation is being dismantled by evil doctrines, we can document them and lament them but we seem to have no power against them.  We get silenced, our best arguments don't persuade many if any, and i for one think "Oh well, we're doomed, we're under God's judgment, it's all over, the next step is most likely the absolute End Game before Jesus comes back -- the Rapture, the Tribulation, the world rule of the final Antichrist and then the End," .

And that may well be, but as I also say, sometimes i get glimmers of hope that it doesn't have to work out that way... yet.   And that takes me back to the churches which is where it all stands or falls.  We're supposed to be "salt and light" to the world, but if the salt has lost its savor, said Jesus, it is fit only to be trampled under foot.  

Here we have access to the power that runs the universe and we seem to have lost the connection.  We're supposed to be the "Church Militant," (as opposed to the Church Triumphant which is in heaven) but we're more like the Church Impotent, losing ground every day.  We're supposed to be able to do battle with the Principalities and Powers in the heavenlies, we can't even win an argument on earth.  Some of us are personally compromised, but the root problem has to be that the foundations of Christian doctrine and faith are compromised.   Our strength is God's strength and if we've abandoned His word we've lost our "sword of the Spirit."

And the sad thing is that we've abandoned His Word and DON'T KNOW IT.  Chris Pinto gets at this problem very clearly in that radio show.  Just about all the churches have bought into the Great Bible Hoax of 1881, accepted the bogus "scholarship" that identifies two Greek manuscripts as the most ancient ever discovered which has given them an immense authority,  an authority  that has undermined the previous Authoritzed Version, the King James.  As Pinto explains, there is NO evidence whatever for the claim that these manuscripts are so ancient and most authentic.  NONE.    Dean William Burgon protested their elevation in his truly scholarly Revision Revised  but the 1881 revision prevailed.  

Why do lies prevail in the churches?  This is a supernatural thing.  It's the way God's Law works.  If there is already sin in the churches there will be more sin, if there is also doctrinal error in the churches there will be more doctrinal error.  It takes a constant vigilance and constant repentance to overcome these things and we lose the fight by not fighting or not fighting with the right weapons.   In the earlier 19th century the discipline of Textual Criticism had already been compromised and undermined biblical inerrancy, leading to Liberal Christianity.  It was the liberal churches in Germany that capitulated to Hitler.  

The Bible was already in doubt thanks to those earlier trends so that when the Revising Committee that was taken over by Westcott and Hort produced the bogus Greek manuscripts it was taken for legitimate scholarship and we got all the modern Bible translations based on it.  The original objective of the revising committe was to do only the absolutely necessary changes IN THE ENGLISH of the King James Bible to bring it up to date.  Instead W and H introduced these bogus Greek manuscripts and corrupted the whole undertaking to the detriment of the churches ever since.  

I tried to document some of this in my blog on the subject.  Chris Pinto's documentaries on the Bible go into the greatest detail in studying the problem.   The series is "A Lamp in the Dark" and the two that deal with this problem are "Tares Among the Wheat" and "Bridge to Babylon."  

The Greek manuscripts in question are Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sinaiticus.  In this radio show linked above Pinto says Vaticanus has had the most influence on the modern Bibles through the Critical Text on which they are based.  It is known to have appeared in 1475 and there is no evidence whatever of any earlier existence of it, but Westcott and Hort purely speculatively place it back in the fourth century.  Also Sinaiticus which showed up in 1859 and also has no known previous history but has been given the same history that puts it back in the fourth centur4y.  On the basis of this purely speculative reasoning these manuscripts acquired  an authority that overthrew the Greek rexts that undergird the King James Bible that have documentary proof back to the tenth century and testimony much further back than that.   Erasmus considered Vaticanus to be a forgery.  Pinto talks about all this.

The problem with these manuscripts is that they leave out certain well-known passages.  They leave out the last twelve verses of the book of Mark, they leave out John 8 and they leave out Luke 23.   The absence of these passages is taken to represwent the original authentic Greek manuscript because of Vaticanus and Sinaiticus.  Dean Burgon considered them both to have been tampereed with by early heretics and says the whole Church had known of such tamperings which is why they were rejected.  Westcott and Hort managed to prevail, however, in giving them an undeserved authenticity which now dominates Bible scholarship in the seminaries and is accepted in the churches.

Westcott and Hort made up the theory that the passages left out of Vaticanus and Sinaiticus but present in the Textus Receptus which underlies the King James, were added to the Bible in the early years and are not authentic.  Although this is pure speculation with nothing to support it the idea took hold and now undermines belief in Biblical inerrancy.  Even some who insist on Biblical inerrancy, insist that the Bible is indeed God's Word, such as James White, by accepting that the absense of some passages represents the authentic original Bible, accepts a view that undermines Biblical inerrancy.   And even if they won't admit to this others see how it does and promote it very aggressively.  Chris Pinto starts out his radio show with the teachings of a church in Nashviolle Tennessee which actively says the Bible is not inerrant and is not God's word.  Thanks to Westcott and Hort's bogus manuscripts.

All that needed to be spelled out for the purpose of identifying it as a major way the churches have lost the superntural power we shouild have to be the salt and light in the culture that might be able to put the brakes on the current downslide into complete destruction.  I've noted many times that the churches have not had a genuine revival for many years, and I suspect that the very few places where a revival did occur were churches that had not given up the King James and most likely also where the women covered their heads in church.   I'm guessing but for sure there hasn't been a REAL revival in America probably during the entire last century.  Some pretty odd charismatic "revivals" yes but if you watch some of them on videos I think the lack of genuine Christian doctrine and Chriwstian feeling is clear 

Certainly there are many good pastors and Christians who use one of the revised Bibles who stand by Biblical inerrancy and preach it, but how do they avoid the endless footnotes in those Bibles that cast doubt on those passages not found in the bogus manuscripts which are of coure referred to as the oldest and best?  Althnough they are included in their Bibles for tradition's sake, tradition is all the authenticity they have if Westcott and Hort's theory is believed.

I've argued strenuously for the literal head covering for women based on 2 Corinthians 11, in my blog Hidden Glory and I do think think that itsw abandonment is based on bad Bible exegesis.  Since it is an emblem of God's creation ordinance of the headship of man over woman I don't think this is a trivial thing and that its abandonment is likely one of the doors to other heresies that have undermined the churches over the last century.  

The acceptance of the modern Bibles is another door to heresy.  

So my thesis is that if we want to be restored to the power we should have as God's people these are two major issues we have to reverse and repent of.  

Sure, I'm nobody.  Ask God.

How to Save the World

 I know i'm a broken record to use a dated phrase, I just keep repeating myself.  Into the void too, nobody listening, but even if they were what good would it do?:   Is it too late?:  I think so but then again I get some hope from here and there that it may not be.   America is coming apart, Western Civilzation is being dismantled.  Can it be turned back?  Again I don't think so, judging by all the signs I can see, but again sometimes I hope.  I'm not sure why.  If we're at the very end anyway then the world does have to come apart, that's the prophesied scenario.  Better to get it all over with.  But so many people will be put through such incredible suffering, so many will die, who wants that?   And again, who's listening?  If you reject the Bible as so many do these days what good does it do to talk about 3what the Bible says is going to happen? 

All that's left is hoping it might be of some value WHILE it's all happening to know WHAT is happening.  I write quite a few posts with that in mind.  Family, friends who aren't going to listen now might listen then.  Hard way to do it but better to be beheaded for finally getting the truth than take the mark of the beast and spend an eternity in Hell.

And again there is a way to postpone the inevitable, a way to save America and Western Civilization, but it's not going to happen swo why bother to mention it?   The west abandoned God decades ago.  Our laws have increasingly actually directly embraced what God's Law prohibits.  No society can survive that for long.   Even Christians have had their minds so twisted they think evil is good and good is evil.  

Abortion for instance is aggressively defended as a good and to oppose it is evil, it's supposedly an attack on women, as if killing your baby is a benefit.  They have to deny it's a baby of course.  Or some do.  Some actually say they know it is but it doesn't matter, human lifre is so devalued in this wonderful utopia that is being constructed.

The death penalty even for murder is aggressively opposed as a great evil, even in God's name although scripture itself says it is the just penalty for taken a human life since humanity is made in the image of God. 

Larry Flint died recently and I've heard many people say how he championed a good cause in the name of freedom of speech and that it was truly justice that prevailed in allowing pornopraphy to pollute the culture in the name of that freedom.   That's not what the first amendment was ever for.  Today it's being denied where it should be applied and applied where it should be denied.   Upside down, good for evil and evil for good.

And you'll be denounced as a terrible person if you believe that homosexuality is a sin and gay marriage is a violation of God's Law.   You're a "bigot" and a "hater" for telling the simple truth.   Good for evil and evil for good.

Does anybody even know these days that for a man to dress as a woman or a woman as a man is forbidden in the Bible?  But the society has gone much further than that and is now demanding that we all treat a person according to what sex he or she WANTS to be although there is no way to change the biological facts.   There's some kind of obsession involved that drives such ideas and I don't know where to start to save people from it, but forcing all the rest of society to accept their fantasy is a great evil.

Now we have political leaders justifying stealing and destruction of property as supposedly justice because of past racism.  Racism is certainly a sin in God's eyes as all hatred without a cause is, but the remedy is as much or more of a violation of God's Law than the sin of racism.  The facts when actually recognized belie the whole idea of systemic racism but those facts are suppressed, a dangerous violation of the commandment against lying.  Lying is done every day by the sources of infomration, all in the service of promoting today's favored evil vision for society that they call good.  And nobody is thinking at all about how such violations of God's Law are bringing God's wrath down on the heads of those justifying them and on the society as a whole.  .

Just that short list covers all the Ten Commandments spelled out in the Bible.  Let's see we've got lots of violations of "Thou shalt not commit adultery" which embraces the sexual sins which are rampant in many forms these days.  And there are plenty of violations of "Thou shalt not commit murder" as  Jesus taught murder to include hatred in the heart.  I think many justifications of murder could be found today and all I mentioned was the opposition to the death penalty.   Of course the death penalty itself is called murder, just another case of evil for good, but to oppose it is actually to justify the murders for which it is justice according to God's Law.   Then we've got all this justifying of looting and burning supposedly int he name of justice, violating "Thou shalt not steal" and worse.  Violations of "Thou shalt not bear false witness" has become an everyday practice, and  of "Thou shalt not covet" would hardly be noticed.  

 All that barely begins to describe the enormity of the problem.   All our institutions are undermined by justified violations of God's Law.   How we maintain any social stability at all is the amazing thing.   There are plenty of voices on the right side of these things but the forces of evil have become so powerful it's hard to see how it could be undone.  It's gone on too long, it's become too entrenched.

"Judgment begins at the house of God" is still the place to start.   A radical reformation is needed, and it's needed in the "good" churches no less than the outright heretical and apostate.   Is anyone seeking God to find out where to start?   I could repeat some of my own suppositions but there's really no point.  If the churches got serious about it and prayed about it and sincerely wanted to know all the ways we Christians have offended God anybody's personal guesses aren't necessary.  He'd tell us where we've gone wrong.   

THAT's the solution, the beginning of the solution.  Is that going to happen?