It's ironic that the success of a good translation should not be by how many people accept it, but by how few people accept it; and also if Salvation was possible by reading the Scriptures only, the Messiah would not have to come. It makes sense then that after all the falsifications I've discovered and corrected in the modern translations, that none of the churches have admitted that my translation of the New Testament is truly better than theirs.
I believe it was necessary for the modern churches to distort the Scriptures in order that they could take the authority of the Scriptures away from the Jews and further claim that they were the keepers of the faith.
The Jewish Apostles were persecuted by the Babylonians, the Greeks and the Romans, as they spread the teachings of Jesus Christ throughout the world. The Romans decided to take over the leadership of the church and they needed to establish that the kingdom that the New Testament spoke of was taken away from the Jews and given to the Gentiles, so they had to falsify the Scriptures in order to do that.
How they did this is very subtle. They started with the Old Testament. For the Jews the Torah is the story of Creation, Adam and Eve, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, until the death of Moses. For the Christians the first five books of the Old Testament Scripture became the story of Jesus Christ's lineage, how God sent His Son to the world and so on. It's ironic that most people don't know that the Torah of the Jews is identical to the first five books of the Christian Old Testament. And even with the rest of the Old Testament, there have been only a few books that are different. For example, the Book of Tobit was included in the Scriptures at one time by the Jewish scribes and later taken out. It's still in the Catholic Bible. I think it's a beautiful book. However, there has to be a difference in the interpretation of the Scriptures for the Jews of today and the modern-day Christians to both claim the Old Testament as their own Bible.
Both Jews and Christians accept that a Messiah will come and that he will be of the lineage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Therefore, the origin of Abraham and his descendants had to be falsified in order that each religion could make a different claim. Since Abraham came from Padan Aram,* the name of the Aramaeans later was replaced by "Greeks" in those passages that referred to the Aramaeans being the first converts to Christianity, but first the heritage of Abraham had to be falsified with respect to the fact that they also believed in the true God.
This was accomplished in the mistranslation of Genesis 31:53. "'The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor will judge between us, for He is the God of our ancestors.' And so Jacob swore by the faith of his father Isaac."
In the Roman church translation, the "God of Nahor" is translated as "the god of Nahor," ("god" in lower case,) but the "God of Abraham" is left the same. Thus the modern-day interpretation of Scriptures is falsified with respect to the fact that all the people of the Holy Lands believed in the true God. Later in their interpretation of Scriptures, the descendants of Ishmael and Esau were called Arabs, thus further driving the racist wedge between all the people who believed in God. First there were only Aramaeans and the Hebrew people in the Holy Lands. Then later, at the time of Jesus, there were Arabs, Africans, as well as Greeks and Romans, who converted to Christianity.
But if the Roman church was correct, then where did that leave the Jews? The Jews are still waiting for the Messiah to come, so what happened to the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Will the Messiah come from this line according to the Jews of today? If, according to the modern churches the God of Nahor was not the true God, then the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob came to an end when Jesus came; but if the God of Nahor was the same God as the God of Abraham, then the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob brought us Jesus and produced the first converts to Christianity and continues to this day. To me this makes more sense, and it's what the Scriptures tell us. Individuals have different destinies, but God's will is always done. God doesn't choose on the basis of race.
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