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johnfolton 
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Message 140 of 152 (74510)
12-21-2003 1:43 AM


God is responsible for preserving his Word, interestingly the preserved copy rested within both the believers, and the catholic church. It does appear though that the catholic church changed the wording of the new testament except for the book of revelation, perhaps heeding the warning in the book of revelations not to change the wording for this particluar book, however, the believers didn't feel it was right to change any of the wording of the other books, and died for their faith preserving the Word of God that conflicted with the changed wording of the catholic church. It is interesting that God chose a Catholic believer to restore the believers texts, the recieved texts, however, he used the Catholic Church copy of revelation, which is the Revelation of Jesus Christ given to the apostle John. It is interesting that the bible is a mix of the believers preserving the gospel, epistles, and the catholic church preserving the testimony of Jesus Christ fearing the warning to the changing the wording of this particular book.
P.S. We all know it was the advent of the printing press, that God used Britian to print the word of God, causing the Catholic Church to provide their laypeople with the douay rheim, etc...though one needs only to accept Jesus Christ, thus we have Catholic believers, and protestant believers, though feel that the authorized kjv is the only bible version that stands out, as the preserved words of God for this generation, etc...Jesus did say heaven and earth will pass away, but his words will never pass away, etc...
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johnfolton 
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Message 147 of 152 (74653)
12-22-2003 8:35 AM
Reply to: Message 144 by docpotato
12-21-2003 11:17 PM


I thought God doesn't answer the why question, but looking back at the heretics, the waldenses, we find they were not heretics at all, they were preserving the gospels, epistles, in spite of the Catholic inquisition, and the Catholic Church preserved the book of revelation, from my perspective the copies of the waldenses going back to the apostles were in need of being restored, this is why Erasumus recieved the texts from the believers, and restored these texts, to these believers, its called the textus receptus the restored texts, the majoritiy texts recieved even to today, the textus receptus is the texts that survived the inquisition. Interestingly Erasamus remained a catholic to his death, and its said the Erasamus is the egg that hatched Luther and the reformation, however, what I found interesting is that Gutenburg was used to develop the printing press, and as soon as he perfected the press they called in his loan and confiscated his printing press, for Gutenburg was starting to print the textus receptus in german, and for this cause they confiscated his printing press.
P.S. If it wasn't for England standing up to the monopoly of the catholic church, and God protecting England in the storm that took out the Spanish Armada, the Catholic douay rheim bible would still be in the closet, as is the Catholic Church was forced to allow their laypeople the Jerome bible in english or face losing these laypeople to the textus receptus written in English what we now call the authorized KJV. It is interesting the only errors in the translation were copy error of the printing press people not the translators, which were corrected, to give us the inerrant words of God for their generation and our generation.

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