BY CHANGING ONE WORD OR SENTENCE

BY CHANGING ONE WORD OR SENTENCE

Hugh Fogelman

New Testament manuscripts, dated around the 4^th Century, were found to have been tampered with by the “early church fathers.” This was done to support those who sought to make Christianity more attractive to potential Gentile (pagans); while trying to provide proof text that the events in the fiction of Jesus’ life fulfilled prophecy recorded in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh).

Moreover, these tampered verses are the same examples certain Christian groups use today when trying to convert unsuspecting, trusting people. The pulpit readings from the Christian Bible’s Gospels still incorrectly cite and misquote scripture to convince their listeners that Jesus was prophesied hundreds of times in the “old testament.” ¹

Here are some examples of how a message is changed by simply changing one word:

1. Zechariah 12:10 − The Hebrew Tanakh: “and they shall look upon me whom they have stabbed/ thrust through [with swords”) The King James Version of Zechariah changes one word [stabbed] to “pierced.” However, John 19:37 (New Testament) deliberately misquotes Zechariah to change the entire meaning by saying, “They shall look on him (instead of ME) whom they pierced.”

2. Isaiah 7:14 − The Hebrew Tanakh says “Therefore, the Lord, of His own, shall give you a sign; behold, the young woman (alma) is with child, and she will bear a son and she shall call his name Immanuel.” Take note, this was written in the present tense. However the Greek Septuagint changed “alma,” saying “Behold, a virgin shall be with child and shall bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (Matthew 1:22-23). Yes, the church changed the entire verse from present to FUTURE tense and then went further to change the Hebrew alma, meaning a young woman to virgin. This invented the virgin birth portion of the Jesus story. Yes, it is all fiction, a creation at the hands of those with vested interests. It is all “smoke and mirrors” folks−change a word here and there and presto you have another “virgin-birth man-god,” like Mithras and many others even before him.

3. Isaiah 53:10 − The Hebrew Tanakh says “And the Lord wished to crush him, He made him ill; if his soul makes itself restitution (acknowledge guilt) he shall see children, he shall prolong his days and God’s purpose shall prosper in his hand.” But let the Christian editors get a hold of it and you have the KJV implying Jesus: “Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he had put him to grief: when thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand”..

4. Psalm 16:9-10 − (KJV) “Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. (10) For thou will not leave my soul in hell, neither will you suffer thine Holy One to see corruption”. Why not continue to the next verse? Christians can not because David wasn't talking about Jesus; David was talking about himself. (Psalm 16:11) “You will show me the path of life, in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures for evermore.”

Psalm 16:9-10 in the Hebrew Tanakh says “Therefore, my heart rejoiced and my soul was glad; even my flesh shall dwell in safety. (10) For You shall not forsake my soul to the grave; You shall not allow Your pious one to see the pit.” Where is HELL and CORRUPTION as the New Testament stated? It did not exist! Again, it was invented by Christian editors, writer, copyists or whatever you want to call them. I call them liars and cheats.

The Hebrew translation of Psalm 16:10 tells of David again talking to God, rejoicing that God will not forsake his soul to the grave. While David is alive he will dwell in safety because God will protect his flesh from injury, and God will show him the way. Does verse 11 relate to Jesus? If Jesus is part of the godhead, as Christians say, how can God show him the way? Christianity is fiction, no more, no less!

5. Isaiah 9:5 − The Hebrew Tanakh reads: “For a child has been born to us, a son has been given us and authority has settled on his shoulders. He has been named “The Mighty God” Isaiah was referring to King Hezekiah, son of Ahaz. Ah, but do not forget the Jesus agenda of the Christian editors. Again, in an attempt to insert a Jesus prophecy, the KJV changed the tense from the present to the future, making it, “A child is born, a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God”. [In Hebrew Hezekiah means “the mighty God.”]

6. In John, the New Testament author tries to make Jesus as the perfect sacrificial lamb of God (who then supposedly takes away the sins of the world) and relate this to the Jewish Passover. [Funny, John’s writings have Jesus die on Passover, while the other Gospel authors say he died the day after.] John 19:32-36 tells of soldiers breaking the legs of the crucifixion victims to hasten their deaths, yet sparing Jesus because he was already dead. To this end the author of John supposedly quotes Hebrew Scripture saying, “For these things were done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, a bone of him shall not be broken.” The New Testament “fulfilled prophecy” supposedly refers to Exodus 12:46; Numbers 9:12 and to Psalms 34:20.

Notice how conveniently John changed the entire meaning by simply changing of Exodus 12:46 by changing one word: “it” to “him.” Exodus 12:46 refers to the PASSOVER-offering, “…and you shall not break a bone in it (the animal).”

Numbers 9:12 again refer to the PASSOVER-offering, “…nor shall they break a bone of it”. Again, by changing one word, the original message is lost.

Psalms 34:20 refers to David saying no one becomes truly righteous and great without his share of mishaps, “He guards all his bones, even one of them was not broken.” Nothing ever shows that this Psalm was intended as prophetic, certainly not applying to the future fictitious character of Jesus. By the way, Jesus was physically disqualified as a Passover sacrifice because the female lamb had to be “without blemish.” Jesus was wounded, whipped and mutilated. Do you remember Mel Gibson’s bloody “Passion?”

7. Psalm 2: 11-12. By simply leaving off one Aramaic word, Christians altered the entire verse. The KJV reads, “Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you perish from the way”

The original Hebrew Tanakh records the verses as “Do homage in purity (nash-ku bar) lest He be angry and you perish”. The meaning of the Hebrew word “bar” is pure or clear. Yes, in Aramaic, the word “bar” does mean son, but it is used only as a combination of two words – SON OF. If in Aramaic, the author wanted to mean just the son, he would have used the phrase “ber’a with the letter alef at the end. (Psalm 2:11-12).

8. Matthew 2:23 − “And he (Jesus) came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets”

Which prophets said that?

According to scholars, rabbis and historians, the city of Nazareth did not exist during the writings of Hebrew Scriptures.

The word “Nazareth” does not appear anywhere in Hebrew Scriptures. This is even verified by the New Testament Concordance

Therefore, Nazareth and Nazarene are Christian words, not Hebrew words. Nazareth is not mentioned in non-Christian sources until the third or fourth century. Nazarites are not a sect. but rather it is an individual oath taken by a person to be in effect for a time period. During this time the person is not allowed to cut their hair, go near a corpse, eat grapes or drink wine. Afterward he must bring special offerings to the Beith Hamikdash and shave his hair.

9. Psalm 22:16 from the Hebrew Bible, when correctly translated reads “They surrounded my hands and feet like a lion” (the word “ka’ari clearly means like a lion, as evident from its use in Isaiah 38:13 and other writings, even in the KJV). David was pursued by his enemies and often referred to them as “lions” (see Psalms 7 & 17). Yet, when read out of context and wanting to invent an illusion to Jesus, the KJV deliberately mistranslates: “They pierced my hands and feet.” The passage was intentionally altered to make you think of Jesus.

10. Using Isaiah 59:20, Christians again misquote Hebrew Scripture. The New Testament in Romans 11:26, has Paul supposedly saying, “And so all Israel shall be saved; as it is written. There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.” As you might know by now, the original Hebrew Bible recorded a completely different event. Isaiah wrote, “A redeemer will come to Zion, and to those of Jacob who repent from willful sin. Is it in or out of Jerusalem? Just change “to Zion” to “out of Zion.”

11. Hosea 6:2 − The Christian Bible has the authoress of Luke (24:46-47) telling that Jesus rose on the Third Day: “Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” This could have only been designed to satisfy a prophecy in Hosea 6:2. The New Testament has Paul writing in I Corinthians, “and Jesus was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.” Further 1 Corinthians 15:4.says “After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight.” Which Hebrew Scriptures are these authors talking about?

As usual, the source documents, The Hebrew Scriptures, say something entirely different:

Hosea 6:1-2 “They will say, Come let us return to God for He (God) has mangled us and He (God) will heal us; He (God) has smitten and He (God) will bandage us. He (God) will heal us after two days; on the third day He (God) will raise us up and we will live before Him. We, refers only to the nation of Israel.

The last verse in Chapter 5 sets the scene and explains the situation very clearly: “I (God) will go, I will return to My place until they will acknowledge their guilt and seek My face; in their distress they will seek Me (Hosea 5:15). Hosea explains in verse 5 that God sent a clear-cut message to Israel through My prophets; you heard and refused to repent, so My offer resulted in your death sentence. How could I vindicate you after such defiance? Then Hosea explains: “Come let us return to God”! Is this about Jesus? NO!

12. Supposedly Jesus speaks in Matthew 22:42-46. Christian translators have cleverly managed to mangle the original Hebrew Bible version in Psalm 110:1. In the KJV Jesus is saying “How then does David in spirit call him Lord, saying [the Lord said unto my Lord].” Jesus continues, “if David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him.” The New Testament then quotes Psalm 110:1 to back up this claim. The issue here is the phrase, “The Lord said to my Lord.” Notice, the New Testament capitalized both “L’s” in Lord.

The correct Hebrew translation is; “my master” or “my lord” in small letters: “The Lord God said to my master.” The Hebrew word “adonee” never refers to God by itself, anywhere in the Hebrew Bible. Adonee is only used to describe a person, or a title of a person, not a deity. The Hebrew dictionary defines “adonee” as; sir or my master. Even the Christian Revised Standard Version and the New English Bible correctly render the Hebrew word adonee as “my lord” (small “l”) in Psalm 110:1, thus indicating that it is not speaking of God.

13. Hebrews 10:5-7 − KJV “Wherefore, when he comes into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering thou would not, but a body have you prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.” (Hebrews 10:5-7)

Psalm 40:7-9 in the original Hebrew Bible actually reads: “Neither feast-offerings nor meal-offering did You desire, but you opened my ears for me; burnt-offering and sin-offering You did not request. Then I said, Behold, I have come with the Scroll of the Book that is written for me. To fulfill Your will, my God, do I desire and your Torah is in my innards.”

Notice the KJV leaves out “and Your Torah is in my innards” and adds “a body you prepared for me” clearly changing the original meaning entirely.

14. Deuteronomy 27:26 is intentionally misread so that Paul would have a basis for his assertion that man in under “the curse of the Law.” In the Hebrew Bible the verse actually reads: “Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.”

Paul added one word: “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things written in the book of the Law” (Galatians 3:10). Thus Paul claims that all who break the laws in the Torah will be cursed. This is a deliberate distortion of Hebrew Scripture.

The correct reading of this verse does not mean that any ordinary person who breaks the laws of the Torah is cursed. Only the authorities in power, the priests who fail to enforce the rule of the Law will be cursed. The “he” means the priests in charge.

15. Then Christianity invents another so-called prophesy by simply taking half of a sentence and misquoting its entire meaning. Hosea 11:1-2 “When Israel was a child, then I loved him and called my son out of Egypt. As they called them, so they went from them; they sacrificed unto Ba’alim and burned incense to graven images.” The author of Matthew (2:15) had the unmitigated gall to say “until the death of Herod that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying Out of Egypt have I called my son” Instead of the real meaning, that Israel was God’s son called out of Egyptian captivity; presto, chango and magically you now you have Jesus returning from his “flight” to avoid Herod.

Was this a prophecy? NO! NO! NO! A thousand times NO!

Who tampered with the Hebrew Bible – AND WHY?

Christian authors, copyists, editors and translators are just “selling Jesus.” And you? How are you supposed to know this? Do you devote the time and obtain the scriptures necessary to do such comparative study and analysis? NO, not if you are an average trusting person! Why should you? After all, you innocently trust your “blind-faith” Christian friends who have “found” Jesus! You trust your clergy and cough up money each Sunday and tithe to help the army of “Christian Soldiers” go forward with the “Good News” for all. After all, you have been taught those “unbelieving” heathens need converting or they will burn in hell. And you move forward, certain in your knowledge of Christianity, never once knowing or suspecting the gigantic and elaborate fraud that has been perpetrated on the trusting members of humanity.

The character Howard Beale in the 1976 movie “Network News” said “...I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest, I don't want you to riot, I don't want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write… All I know is that first... You've got to get mad.” Then do as he then did; run to your window, thrown it open wide and yell out “I’m as mad as hell and I not going to take this any more!”

Footnote:

1. The Old Testament = Hebrew Bible + (mistranslation + editing)

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