Riders On the Wrecking Machines: Diminishing the Power of Scripture

Posted : 19 Aug, 2013 03:28 AM

Riders On the Wrecking Machines: Diminishing the Power of Scripture



The wrecking machines diminish the spiritual power of the Word of God, either by changing

doctrines and/or by changing the verse wordings of scripture itself in new English translations.



Paul in II Timothy 3: 5 describes Christians in the last days when perilous times shall come as "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." Something has happened to these Christians so that they follow a kind of Gospel, but redefine key concepts like faith, grace, being born again, being transformed, and salvation itself, and in this process diminish the spiritual power of the Gospel. In fact, many reduce down the Gospel itself, and teach a false doctrine of "essentials" and "non-essentials." They teach a form of salvation almost by procedure rather than by being born again or transformed in Christ.



In Matthew 5: 13, "Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men."



Some may think that "savour" merely refers to how salt gives food a better taste. But the Greek word behind savour is Strong's Exhaustive Concordance number 3471, moraino, from 3474, moros, "dull or stupid, as if to shut up, heedless, blockhead..." Moraino is a cognitive condition. Under the many false prophets operating for decades, the churches have lost their intelligence, and have lost much of their spiritual discernment.



This dumbing down of those who claim to be Christians is partly due to the secular society's educational system. But it is also due to the work of the wrecking machines operating against Biblical doctrines and scripture itself since the falling away of II Thessalonians 2: 3-4 got fully going in the 19th century, which gained momentum after the period of about 1945 to 1948. Many Christians not only do not have a love of the truth of scripture (II Thessalonians 2: 10-12), but they have a cognitive problem in that they do not have a long enough attention span to maintain an interest and understand texts longer than a few short paragraphs.



One wrecking machine makes war on scripture by teaching doctrines that contradict the word of God.



The 19th century cults, especially dispensationalism, created doctrines obviously contradicting New Testament scripture. Dispensationalism's doctrine that God now has two peoples, physical or ethnic Israel, and the church, is an obvious contradiction of John 10: 16. In so giving honor to physical Israel as remaining the chosen people by their blood line, dispensationalism supports the spirit of anti-Christ, and again contradicts some New Testament texts, especially Matthew 23: 38, Romans 11: 17,20, Romans 2: 23-29, Romans 9: 6-8, Galatians 4: 25-25 and also some Old Testament prophecy, like Amos 7: 7-8.



Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910), Ellen G. White (1827-1915), Edward Irving (1792 �1834), John Darby (1800 -1882), Charles T. Russell (1852-1916), and and C.I. Scofield (1843 -1921) were some of the major false prophets of the 19th century who created doctrines, or man made theologies which war against Biblical doctrines.



The most influential 19th century false doctrines, or cults, were the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Mormons, Christian Science and Dispensationalism. Dispensationalism took over the Niagra Bible Conferences of 1876 to 1897, and then excluded non-dispensationalists from speaking. Over the following decades dispensationalists took control of most of the evangelical Christian denominations, and the majority of the seminaries. The publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909 was very important for the acceptance of dispensationalism in the churches.



Amos 7:8 says " I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not pass by them any more." Then Amos 8: 2 says "The end is come upon my people of Israel: I will not again pass by them any more." Matthew 23: 38 says "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate." The house of physical Israel became desolate because Christ left it for that Israel Peter talks about in I Peter 2: 5-9, a spiritual house.



The plumbline of Amos 7: 8 is judgment on physical Israel by God. But God as Jesus Christ in man's flesh did pass by physical Israel one more time. Romans 11: 5, 17-20 records that a remnant of physical Israel accepted Christ but those of physical Israel who rejected him were broken off of a new and transformed Israel.



A second wrecking machine has tried to change scripture itself.



One of these attacks on scripture happened when the Masoretes created the the Hebrew Masoretic Text from the seventh to the tenth centuries A.D. The Hebrew Masoretic text is different in a few verse wordings from the Old Testament in the Greek Septuagint. The Masoretes were into Talmudic Judaism and some of them copied and preserved the Hebrew scriptures and apparently changed some verses.



The famous change that the Masoretes apparently made to combat Christianity was for Isaiah 7: 14, on the doctrine that Mary was a virgin. This is also in Matthew 1: 22-23. But the Hebrew Masoretic text says ""the young woman shall be with child," but the Greek Septuagint uses a Hebrew word meaning virgin.



The KJV English, from the Masoretic for Psalm 40: 6 says "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required."



But the English translation of the Greek Septuagint for Psalm 40: 6 says "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not; but a body hast thou prepared me..."



Changing "but a body hast thou prepared me" with " burn offering and sin offering hast thou not required" might also e consistent with Gnostic theology, which opposes the doctrine that God became

flesh in the physical domain.



Psalm 40:6 was seen by Early Christians as a prophecy of

the Incarnation of Christ, and Hebrews 10:5 quotes it as such, but the

Masoretic Text omits the key phrase entirely, replacing �but a body

hast thou prepared for me� with �mine ears hast thou opened.�

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