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I heard a sermon a while back given by Dr. DA Waite of The Bible for Today ministries out of Collingswood, New Jersey.

He was discussing the battle for the Masoretic Hebrew text and the Greek Textus Receptus. The texts that were the foundation of the Bible long before 1881. Which was the year that two men, Brooke Foss Wescott and Fenton John Anthony Hort, introduced a new text upon the world.

A text that would introduce corruption in the church by destroying confidence in the purity of God’s words.

Today, about 143 years later, one would be hard pressed to find a church where a Bible translation is used which is not based upon the Westcott/Hort text. In fact, most churches pick and choose from a variety of Bible versions that are translated from that text. Or from the multitude of revisions of that text (such as Nestle – Aland); which have been made since that original text was foisted upon the world. 

A Promise of Christ Denied

Dr. Waite made a statement I think about quite often.

He commented about how the various churches that use these new translations (who logically, by default, must accept the Westcott/Hort text), complain about the “divisions” and “divisiveness” caused by those of us who still insist that the Textus Receptus and the Masoretic Text are the perfectly preserved texts of scripture.

The earlier, “divisive” texts are those that the Lord Himself promised to preserve, in written form, to all generations. Which is an idea I can almost guarantee you have never heard taught in your church.

“For the words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.” (Psalm 12: 6,7). 

This is a doctrine known as the Preservation of Scripture. 

Jesus said His words would remain. “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” (Matthew 5:18) Which refers not merely to the spoken words, nor merely to the general ideas or to the general doctrine or to the “essence” of the word of God, but to His specific written words.

Even preserved to the smallest marks that distinguish one letter from another.

Marks that are like the difference (using English as an example) between a “t” and an “f”. In fact, the preservation of even more miniscule differences than that!

In other words, distinctions in the text that are not discernable except as written letters on a page. On pages with specific words. With specific meanings. With specific punctuation marks.  

Those of us who have continued to faithfully stand upon and to defend the original texts – the preserved texts – are considered divisive, ignorant, uninformed, uneducated, over-zealous, fanatical, and even heretical by the standards of some Evangelicals! And even according to the standards of some Fundamental universities and organizations.

So, Dr. Waite said that if a division actually exists, then, by definition, “someone had to have moved” from an original position. Someone had to have changed from one thing to another thing.  

Well, Golly Gee! Who could have done that?

So, Who Actually Moved?

If there is one consistent characteristic of modern Evangelicalism, New Evangelicalism, and Neo-Fundamentalism, it is the promotion of change.

Everything is about change.

It’s as if change always brings “good” things. Fresh things. Better things. 

It’s kind of like the Evolutionist who places his faith in good changes. Good mutations. The incredibly irrational and illogical idea that the billions of changes required to make the impossible mechanics of Evolution actually work is based on consistent beneficial mutations. 

Which is total crap!

The problem is that those who stand upon truth, as it was “once delivered unto the saints“, and who are standing upon the Preserved text (providentially preserved through God’s infinite, sovereign care through the entire copying process), have not moved. 

It is the other believers who have moved. 

The Stolen Bread of Life

And we’re not just talking about moving the cheese (as that popular book is titled). This is about moving the Bread of Life!

Those who have accepted the corrupt Westcott and Hort text (and all its subsequent edits and revisions) are the ones who have caused divisions. 

They are the ones who have moved the bread of life, the words of life, or the words of God.

It is their love of the new and their love of change and their love of the outward show of unity that has caused great divisions and corruptions in the churches today. 

So that now, they would separate us from their midst in order that we don’t mess up their gig. That we don’t corrupt them!

So that, we don’t rain on their parade. 

“But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.” (Matthew `11:14-20)

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Check out the link below for more information on the Doctrine of Biblical Preservation: 

https://www.biblefortoday.org/