TWO NEW
TESTAMENTS
Edited by
Hugh Fogelman
Are you aware that there were two
New Testaments (NT); the first one collected in 140 C.E. that reflected
the beliefs of the earliest Christians regarding “the Christ” and the second
New Testament, crafted over the next 3-4 centuries, which change these beliefs
and which Christians have inherited today?
Yes, the 2nd NT replaced the 1st.
It added much to change the religious concepts of “the Christ” that had been held
by the earliest believers. Pastor Craig Lyons says in his message; “the New Testament that we have today is a
far cry from what it once was; let alone reflective of the religious beliefs of
the earliest Christians and followers of Jesus. Let me say it another way: the
Christianity of the second through the fifth centuries is different as night
and day from the earliest Christianity of the first century.”
Pastor
Craig Lyons1 says; “Make so mistake about it; these scribes
‘corrupted’ their texts for theological reasons. The sad fact is that
Christians today and those who attempt to be followers of Jesus and “the
Christ” have inherited a New Testament that is not only a forgery and a
tragic misrepresentation of the religious beliefs held by the earliest Christians
concerning ‘the Christ,’ but have been led into idolatry because of it. Even
early Catholic Church Fathers like Justin Martyr, Eusebius, Irenaeus,
Marcion, and others confirm this when they
changed these beliefs.”
Pastor
Lyons continues; “The Christian church
scribes altered the words of their texts to make them appear more distinctly
orthodox and by so doing prevented their misuse by other sects of Christians
who adopted deviant views. Christian scribes of the second through the fifth
centuries modified the words of scripture they inherited. The words and
religious beliefs and doctrines of the earliest First New Testament (140 C.E.),
reflecting the earliest beliefs of the earliest Christians in the first and
early second century, came to be altered in the course of their transcription.”
There
were various Christian theological debates of the second and third centuries
involving “Christology;” a period of intense rivalry among
various groups of Christians who advocated conflicting ways of understanding
their religion. By the fourth century, one of these groups, Roman
Catholicism, had routed the opposition, co-opting for itself the designation
“orthodoxy” and effectively branding all rival beliefs as “heresies” and all
other Christian sects as “heretics.”
Those
proponents of fourth-century orthodoxy, such as Father Eusebius insisted on
the antiquity of their views and embraced certain authors of the preceding
generations as their own theological forebears. Studies focused on these
earlier Christians -the representatives of a “earliest orthodoxy” of the
earliest follower and disciples of “the Christ” and Jesus illustrate the
scribal alterations of the New Testament text originated during the time of
their disputes, that is, in the ante-Nicene age (before
the council of Nicea in 325 C.E.).
The
proto-Catholic orthodox Christians used religious literature which they
themselves often changed, created, invented, and altered in their early
struggles for dominance, as they produced argumentative treatises, forged
supporting documents under the names of earlier authorities, collected
apostolic works into an authoritative canon, and insisted on certain
hermeneutical principles for the interpretation of these works.
Zealous
Christian scribes who were intimately familiar with the debates over
“Christology” and other doctrines made their scribal labors a necessity if this
new flavor of Christianity―Roman Christianity―was to survive.
A
new religion was being created to replace the faith of the earliest Christians
and followers of Jesus. A New Bible was being written by these zealous
scribes to replace the one used earlier by these earliest Christians.
This
new interpretation of Christianity and its “Christ” needed an authority to
under gird this movement in
The
New Testament thus became a group of very fluid texts; changing with the
evolution of Roman Catholicism and its religious doctrines as hammered out at
the successive Church Councils.
These
books were done most likely in the middle second century. That is why so much
paganism and sunworship is in them...gentiles, not Jews recreated the Jewish
messiah in the form of the sun gods...so that when read today you are shown
portions that just don't fit Judaism. These Christian editors made Jews out to
be stupid and ignorant of their faith. Is that really logical? Christians have
to consider the source, and the Church’s ignorance of Judaism from the oral
traditions that circulated along with so many other gospels after 100 C.E. The
Christian scribes strayed from Biblical Judaism and adopted the
astral-theological religious ideas which had more in common with
Those
ideas were purposefully included in a falsified translation of the Jewish
Hebrew Bible called the Septuagint (LLX) which became the Old Testament for the
Christian Church; thus providing the substrate for all the quotes of the New
Testament; the bottom line being that personified Sun-worship was applied to
the life of Jesus as recorded in the New Testament.
Repeating, Pastor Craig Lyons said; “Make no mistake about it; these scribes “corrupted” their
texts for theological reasons. The sad fact is that Christians today and those
who attempt to be followers of Jesus and “the Christ’ have inherited a New
Testament that is not only a forgery and a tragic misrepresentation of the
religious beliefs held by the earliest Christians concerning ‘the Christ’ but
have been led into idolatry because of it.”
The Christian bible, their New Testament, is like a
rock that hits the water. It causes ripples that blur the true picture of
Judaism.
FOOTNOTES:
1. Pastor Craig Lyons, M.Div:
902 Cardigan,