2024.08.02 2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1 contradict one another -- what gives? Created by James on 8/3/2024 4:31:03 PM A few days ago I received the following message from Jess and thought it would be worth sharing my response as it deals with some key issues regarding what one believes about the Bible and Yah.
Jess:
“Hiya, hope you’re doing great?
“What do you make of
“2 Sam 24:1 and 1 chronicles 21:1?
“Who was angry do you think? Yah or Satan?”
2024.08.02 2 Samuel 24:1 and 1 Chronicles 21:1 contradict one another -- what gives?
A few days ago I received the following message from Jess and thought it would be worth sharing my response as it deals with some key issues regarding what one believes about the Bible and Yah.
Jess:
“Hiya, hope you’re doing great?
“What do you make of
“2 Sam 24:1 and 1 chronicles 21:1?
“Who was angry do you think? Yah or Satan?”
Note:
The relevant verses are:
2 Samuel 24:1: “Now again the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing {the LORD} burned against Israel, and He incited David against them to say, “Go, count [the people of] Ysrael and Yahoodah.””
1 Chronicles 21:1 “Satan [the adversary] stood up against Israel and incited David to count [the population of] Ysrael.”
The context of this is that Yah had said that the people of Yisrael would number as many as the sands of the sea and the stars of the sky and therefore it was an act of distrust to number the people.
The two verses relate to the same event, see the full chapters in Appendixes 1 and 2, with diametrically opposite causes offered. Note that the two passages differ radically on many details which has a direct bearing on what follows.
Response:
I responded by sending a link to Biblehub Chronicles 21:1
And said:
“I would go with this.
“The way I know Yah He would NOT do this no matter how angry He was.”
Jess responded:
“Yes, not bad thank you. Very busy at the moment but my days still revolve around Yah 😅 I will take a look at the article. Thank you!
“Do you think it is possible that Satan pretended to be Yah in Judges, Kings, exodus? I always struggle with these books and how they portray Yah to be devious and brutal (especially in Kings).
“It has been a thought of mine for a while and I always ask Yah to have mercy on me for having these thoughts but he knows my heart and that I’m just trying to figure out the truth.
“Also the way Yahushua doesn’t mention Yah by name (YHWH) the whole time (allegedly) and in Luke 11:11-13, it sounds like Yahushua is talking about the exodus in the desert (I’m probably wrong).
“Have you ever thought about Satan mimicking Yah in some of the old testiment stories? I struggle to understand the love of Yah when the OT portrays Him so differently to Yahushua in the NT.
“Just wondered if you had had these thoughts?”
James Robertson:
I then responded with the following voice message:
“I guess that’s about a 2-hour dissertation that you're asking me there.
“Simply, the first thing to remember is that Yah didn’t write the Bible. So the Bible is fallible, as you see with the two examples that you contacted me about.
“Further, as a general principle, the people who wrote the books were not particularly highly anointed ones. They therefore didn’t really understand what was going on.
“I've written about this a few times that people who are not strongly filled with the Spirit and led with the Spirit do not understand those who do.
“I've had, I don’t know, how many instances where people have challenged me on things simply because they don’t understand the anointing. So, the example that you sent me was it Satan, was it Yah, that’s just some human being's interpretation of the situation, that’s not necessarily accurate.
“The other thing is that even the anointed ones, there is an article somewhere on the website, if you look in the Table of Contents about ‘anointed ones also make mistakes’.
“I've seen this.
“I've made mistakes in my own life. I misunderstood things or misinterpreted things or didn’t hear clearly, there are times when I've heard Yah very clearly and there are times when I've not heard Him all that clearly, and there are times where I've inferred things and got it wrong.
“So, anything that a human being writes about Yah or says about Yah is coloured by their experience, by their attitude, by their inference.
“So, a person who is naturally inclined to violence will attribute violent characteristics to Yah.
“You see that particularly with Islam. You see it to a point as well with some of the, particularly the earlier, Old Testament writings.
“But Mohammed was inclined to violence and therefore the Quaran is filtered through that paradigm and is inclined to violence. The followers of Islam are inclined to violence as we see today.
“When it comes to Yahooshua, he referred to Yah all the time. The problem is not that he didn’t talk about Yah, the problem is that the English translations and even the Greek translations have completely mistranslated, which is why I've done my own version of the Bible.
“So, if you go to the website, up near the top of the website, you will find the ETI Bible version, drill down on that.
“Read the Introduction to MattihYahoo to Revelation, Matthew to Revelation, the New Testament.
“Read that and then read MattihYahoo {Matthew} and you will get a gist of what I'm saying here.
“Then, once you've done that, read the Introduction to Bereshith to Malaki, Genesis to Malachi, and see more.
“I've gone through and I have corrected of the order, I think it's 4,000 instances where I have inserted Yah into the so-called New Testament, and I think it's about 11,000 places I've inserted Yah into the Old Testament where it is completely lost because of bad translation.
“So the whole flavour of things changes.
“While I'm still rendering, I'm still proofreading and editing and what have you, both the New Testament, I have done to the end of – about just do Timothy when I get time, but I've got side-tracked with all these articles I've been writing in the last few weeks.
“You can reliably read my version from MattihYahoo to the end of Thessalonians.
“With a little bit of caution, you can read the rest of the New Testament. Likewise with a little bit of caution, read the Old Testament, but broadly speaking, barring – I've been done global search-and-replace and I've been fairly specific, but there are places where it hasn't gone right, but that’s second order for the most part. So just read it with a little exclamation mark of caution.
“If you're in the process of reading the Bible now, I would really encourage you to drop whatever version you're reading and read my version, and I'm not bragging. Yah has taught me a hang of a lot. In the bits that I've done, as I say, MattihYahoo {Matthew} to Thessalonians, I've put in a lot of commentary and particularly with the Good News regarding Yahooshua, the Gospels.
“Read MattihYahoo, then read Yahoochanan {John} and then the other two, Mark and Luke. There is quite a lot of commentary which illuminates and elucidates things, all of which have a bearing on the questions you're asking me.
“Regarding Yah being devious and brutal, I think I've answered that for you.
“Look at Samson. The thing to understand and I'm just shooting from the hip here, Jess, the thing to understand is that it doesn't matter how strongly anointed a person is, they can still exercise their will to override the Spirit of Yah. Yah is gentle,
“He is meek. He is not aggressive, He is not harsh. He doesn't want wars, etc. And you pick that up if you read through the Good News, the Gospels. You pick up repeatedly that Yahooshua and if you listen to the last few broadcasts, where I've been reading MattihYahoo and reading my commentary and adding to that commentary. If you listen to that, if you read that, if you pick it up, I make the point that Yah is gentle.
“I've never experienced Him in 31 years to be harsh or aggressive toward me or toward anybody else. I have experienced Him telling me not to be harsh or aggressive to other people.
“So, I hope that helps. If you want to get on a call at the weekend, just let me know.”
Addendum:
I then sent a further voice message:
James Robertson:
“Hi Jess, just some further thoughts. Not sure that I made it clear.
“I'm not convinced that either of those passages are necessarily accurate, that either Yah stirred up David to number Israel or that Satan stirred up David to number Israel.
“That’s just what two different human beings' interpretation of why it happened.
“They don’t necessarily know.
“You know, as much as people want to believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of the Almighty and without error, its just not true. As you're seeing there, it's potentially got substantial error. So I wouldn’t get hung up on it, I wouldn’t attach too much significance to that to be quite honest.
“And if there is some truth in it, then it's Satan stirred up David to rebel against Yah's injunction. It's certainly not Yah stirring up David to commit sin. So, absolutely categorically not Yah stirring up David. So I hope that helps. Chao!”
Further thoughts on the Bible:
I shared the above on WhatsApp with a few people who follow me relatively closely and, in response, received the following link from Carlos:
An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture from Wikipedia – see Appendix 3.
The key point is substantial evidence that various people have tampered with the text of various verses in the Christian Bible to support the false doctrine of the Trinity and other matters. These are issues I have spoken on at various times but this is useful corroboration.
Conclusion
It is clearly apparent from the two passages from the Bible cited in the Appendix that the Bible is NOT the Word of God or Yah but is simply a useful history book. See the article “2022.11.07 Can YOU prove that the Bible IS The Holy Word of God?”
Please feel free to email me at James@ETIMin.org and I will answer your questions and support you in your journey to become a Friend of Yah.
I look forward to hearing from you.
May Father bless you and keep you and make His face to shine upon you and grant you His Peace
May Yah judge me severely and correct me harshly and show me the level of my present deception and how to correct it with regard to everything that I write and publish
Warm regards and blessings,
Dr James A Robertson
Spokesman and Emissary of Yah
End Time Issue Ministries
03 August 2023
Appendix 1
2 Samuel 24 from the Amplified Bible with Corrections
The Census Taken
1 Now again the anger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing burned against Israel, and He incited David against them to say, “Go, count [the people of] Israel and Judah.” 2 So the king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, “Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan [in the north] to Beersheba [in the south], and conduct a census of the people, so that I may know the number of the people.” 3 But Joab said to the king, “May Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your Mighty One add to the people a hundred times as many as there are, and let the eyes of my lord the king see it; but why does my lord the king want to do this thing?” 4 Nevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and the commanders of the army. So they went from the king’s presence to take a census of the people of Israel. 5 They crossed over the Jordan and camped in Aroer, on the south side of the city which is in the middle of the river valley [of the Arnon] toward Gad, and on toward Jazer. 6 Then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon, 7 and they came to the stronghold of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba. 8 So when they had gone about through all the land [taking the census], they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. 9 And Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were 500,000.
10 But David’s heart (conscience) troubled him after he had counted the people. David said to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O LORD, please take away the sin of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.” 11 When David got up in the morning, the word of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 12 “Go and say to David, ‘Thus says Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, “I am giving you three choices; select one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you.”’” 13 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your enemies as they pursue you? Or shall there be three days of pestilence (plague) in your land? Now consider this and decide what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.” 14 Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us fall into the hands of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hands of man.”
Pestilence Sent
15 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent a pestilence (plague) [lasting three days] upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. 16 When the [avenging] Messenger stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing relented from the disaster and said to the Messenger who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now relax your hand.” And the Messenger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. 17 When David saw the Messenger who was striking down the people, he spoke to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing and said, “Behold, I [alone] am the one who has sinned and done wrong; but these sheep (people of Israel), what have they done [to deserve this]? Please let Your hand be [only] against me and my father’s house (family).”
David Builds an Altar
18 Then Gad [the prophet] came to David that day and said to him, “Go up, set up an altar to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite [where you saw the Messenger].” 19 So David went up according to Gad’s word, as Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded. 20 Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants crossing over toward him; and he went out and bowed before the king with his face toward the ground. 21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, so that the plague may be held back from the people.” 22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up whatever seems good to him. Look, here are oxen for the burnt offering, and threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood. 23 All of this, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May Yah the Eternally Self-Existing your Mighty One be favorable to you.” 24 But the king said to Araunah, “No, but I will certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my the Almighty which cost me nothing.” So David purchased the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver. 25 David built an altar to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was moved [to compassion] by [David’s] prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.
Appendix 2
1 Chronicles 21 from the Amplified Bible with corrections
Census Brings Pestilence
1 Satan [the adversary] stood up against Israel and incited David to count [the population of] Israel. 2 So David said to Joab and the leaders of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan, and bring me their total, so that I may know it.” 3 Joab said, “May Yah the Eternally Self-Existing add to His people a hundred times as many as they are! But, my lord the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? Why then does my lord require this? Why will he bring guilt on Israel?” 4 But the king’s word prevailed over Joab. So Joab left and went throughout all Israel and came to Jerusalem. 5 Then Joab gave the total of the census of the people to David. And all Israel were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword; and in Judah 470,000 men who drew the sword. 6 But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, because the king’s order was detestable to Joab.
7 Now the Almighty was displeased with this act [of arrogance and pride], and He struck Israel. 8 Then David said to the Almighty, “I have sinned greatly because I have done this thing. But now, I beseech You, take away the wickedness and guilt of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
9 And Yah the Eternally Self-Existing said to Gad, David’s seer, 10 “Go and tell David, saying, ‘Thus says Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, “I offer you three choices; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you [as punishment for your sin].”’” 11 So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says Yah the Eternally Self-Existing: ‘Choose for yourself 12 either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your enemies, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing and plague in the land, and the Messenger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing bringing destruction throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.” 13 David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; please let me fall into the hands of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”
14 So Yah the Eternally Self-Existing sent a plague on Israel, and 70,000 men of Israel fell. 15 the Almighty sent an Messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was destroying it, Yah the Eternally Self-Existing looked, and relented concerning the catastrophe and said to the destroying Messenger, “It is enough; now remove your hand [of judgment].” And the Messenger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16 Then David raised his eyes and saw the Messenger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered in sackcloth, fell on their faces. 17 David said to the Almighty, “Is it not I who commanded the people to be counted? I am the one who has sinned and done evil; but as for these sheep [the people of Israel], what have they done? O Yah the Eternally Self-Existing my Mighty One, please let Your hand be against me and my father’s house, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.”
David’s Altar
18 Then the Messenger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up and build an altar to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing on the [b]threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19 So David went up at Gad’s word, which he spoke in the name of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. 20 Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and he turned back and saw the Messenger; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. 21 As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw him, and went out from the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground. 22 Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of this threshing floor, so that I may build an altar on it to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing. You shall charge me the full price for it, so that the plague may be averted from the people.” 23 Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself; and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. See, I will give you the oxen also for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges (heavy wooden platforms) for wood and the wheat for the grain offering; I give it all.” 24 But King David said to Ornan, “No, I will certainly pay the full price; for I will not take what is yours for Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, nor offer a burnt offering which costs me nothing.” 25 So David gave Ornan 600 shekels of gold by weight for the site. 26 Then David built an altar to Yah the Eternally Self-Existing there and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings. And he called on Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, and He answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering. 27 Then Yah the Eternally Self-Existing commanded the [avenging] Messenger, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
28 At that time, when David saw that Yah the Eternally Self-Existing had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 29 For the tabernacle of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time in the high place at Gibeon. 30 But David could not go before it to inquire of the Almighty, for he was terrified by the sword of the Messenger of Yah the Eternally Self-Existing.
Appendix 3
An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture
This is a sobering account of corruption of Bible texts to support doctrinal error, no doubt in the name of truth. The key point is that the Bible is at best a reasonably reliable historical text albeit by NO MEANS DEFINITIVE!
It is NOT “Scripture” if one considers the word Scripture to relate to words given by and breathed by Yah!
An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture
An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture is a dissertation by the English mathematician and scholar Isaac Newton. This was sent in a letter to John Locke on 14 November 1690. In fact, Newton may have been in dialogue with Locke about this issue much earlier. While living in France, Locke made a journal entry, dated 20 December 1679, where he indicates that while visiting the library at Saint-Germain-des-Prés he saw:
[T]wo very old manuscripts of the New Testament, the newest of which was, as appeared by the date of it, at least 800 years old, in each of which 1 John, ch.v. ver. 7, was quite wanting, and the end of the eighth verse ran thus, "tres unum sunt;" in another old copy the seventh verse was, but with interlining; in another much more modern copy, ver. 7 was also, but differently from the old copy; and in two other old manuscripts, also, ver. 7 was quite out, but as I remember in all of them the end of the eighth verse was "tres unum sunt."[1]
Newton's work also built upon the textual work of Richard Simon and his own research. The text was first published in English in 1754, 27 years after his death. The account claimed to review the textual evidence available[2] from ancient sources on two disputed Bible passages: 1 John 5:7 and 1 Timothy 3:16.
Newton describes this letter as "an account of what the reading has been in all ages, and what steps it has been changed, as far as I can hitherto determine by records",[3] and "a criticism concerning a text of Scripture".[4] He blames "the Roman church" for many abuses in the world[3] and accuses it of "pious frauds".[4] He adds that "the more learned and quick-sighted men, as Luther, Erasmus, Bullinger, Grotius, and some others, would not dissemble their knowledge".[5]
Newton's work on this issue was part of a larger effort of scholars studying the Bible and finding that, for example, the opinion that Trinity is not found in the original manuscripts in explicit view. Such scholarship was suppressed, and Newton kept his discoveries private.
Contents
1 John 5:7
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Main article: Johannine Comma
In the King James Version of the New Testament, 1 John 5:7 reads:
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
Using the writings of the early Church Fathers, the Greek and Latin manuscripts and the testimony of the earliest extant manuscripts of the Bible, Newton claims to have demonstrated that the words "in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one", that support the Trinity doctrine, did not appear in the original Greek Scriptures. He then attempts to demonstrate that the purportedly spurious reading crept into the Latin versions, first as a marginal note, and later into the text itself. He noted that "the Æthiopic, Syriac, Greek, Armenian, Georgian and Slavonic versions, still in use in the several Eastern nations, Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Eastern European Armenia, Georgia, Muscovy, and some others, are strangers to this reading".[6] He argued[7] that it was first taken into a Greek text in 1515 by Cardinal Ximenes. Finally, Newton considered the sense and context of the verse, concluding that removing the interpolation makes "the sense plain and natural, and the argument full and strong; but if you insert the testimony of 'the Three in Heaven' you interrupt and spoil it."[8] Today most versions of the Bible are from the Critical Text and omit this verse, or retain it as only a marginal reading. However, some argue that the verse is not a later corruption.[9]
1 Timothy 3:16
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The shorter portion of Newton's dissertation was concerned with 1 Timothy 3:16, which reads (in the King James Version):
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Newton argued that, by a small alteration in the Greek text, the word "God" was substituted to make the phrase read "God was manifest in the flesh" instead of "which was manifested in the flesh".[a] He attempted to demonstrate that early Church writers in referring to the verse knew nothing of such an alteration.[b] This change increases textual support for trinitarianism, a doctrine to which Newton did not subscribe.[12][13] There is evidence that the original Greek read 'ος' but was modified by the addition of a strikethrough to become 'θς' (see the excerpt from the Codex Sinaiticus, above). 'θς' was then assumed to be a contraction of 'θεος'. The biblical scholar Metzger explains, "no uncial (in the first hand) earlier than the eighth or ninth century [...] supports θεος; all ancient versions presuppose ὃς or ὃ; and no patristic writer prior to the last third of the fourth century testifies to the reading of θεος."[14] In other words, Bible manuscripts closest to the original said 'who' and not 'God' in verse 16.
Summary of both passages
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Newton concludes: "If the ancient churches in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not, why we should be so fond of them now the debates are over."[15] With minor exceptions, it was only in the nineteenth century that Bible translations appeared changing these passages. Modern versions of the Bible from the Critical Text usually omit the addition to 1 John 5:7, but some place it in a footnote, with a comment indicating that "it is not found in the earliest manuscripts".[16] Modern translations of 1 Timothy 3:16 following the Critical Text now typically replace "God" with "He" or "He who", while the literal Emphasized has "who".[17]
A number of papers in the years following responded to Newton, notably John Berriman in 1741, who had seen at least some of Newton's text prior to publication. Later, Frederick Nolan in 1815, Ebenezer Henderson in 1830 and John William Burgon in the Revision Revised in 1883 all contributed substantially to the verse discussion.
Historical background
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Newton did not publish these findings during his lifetime, likely due to the political climate. Those who wrote against the doctrine of the Trinity were subject to persecution in England. The Blasphemy Act 1697 made it an offence to deny one of the persons of the Trinity to be God, punishable with loss of office and employment on the first occasion, further legal ramifications on the second occasion, and imprisonment without hope for bail on the third occasion. Newton's friend William Whiston (translator of the works of Josephus) lost his professorship at Cambridge for this reason in 1711. In 1693 a pamphlet attacking the Trinity was burned by order of the House of Lords, and the next year its printer and author were prosecuted.[18]
The dissertation was published in 1754.[19]
See also
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Notes
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- ^ Newton only gave in translation the literal texts, "which" (from the Latin) or "who" (from some Greek manuscripts). "These ancient Latins all cite the text after this manner, Great is the mystery of Godliness, which was manifested in the flesh" (p. 231); in quoting Cyril of Alexandria, Newton translates, "'Ye err,' saith he, 'not knowing the Scriptures, nor the great mystery of godliness, that is Christ; who was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit.'" (p. 238) and "'Moreover,' saith he, 'in my opinion, that mystery of godliness is nothing else than he who came to us from God the Father; the Word, who was manifested in the flesh.'" (p. 239). Newton contends that the original Greek was ὅ (which), changed to ὃς (who) and then to θεός (God) (see p. 230 and p. 232: "Chrysostom, I am satisfied that he read ὅ", p. 234 Nestorius, p. 237 John Cassian, and pp. 252–253 "it is more reasonable to lay the fault on the Greeks... in the Greek the sense was obscure; in the versions clear".)[10] About this from Newton, John Burgon commented "Over this latter reading, however, we need not linger; seeing that ὅ does not find a single patron at the present day. And yet, this was the reading which was eagerly upheld during the last century: Wetstein and Sir Isaac Newton being its most strenuous advocates."[11]
- ^ In 1731 Johann Jakob Wettstein turned his attention to this passage.
References
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- ^ King, Peter (1858). The Life and Letters of John Locke. London: Henry Bohn. p. 81.
- ^ Newton, Sir Isaac (1841). An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture: In a Letter to a Friend. J. Green.
- ^ Jump up to:a b An Historical Account, p. 1
- ^ Jump up to:a b An Historical Account, p. 2
- ^ An Historical Account, pp. 1–2
- ^ An Historical Account, p. 25
- ^ An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture, p. 32
- ^ An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture, p. 55
- ^ "Johannine Comma (1 John 5:7)". 23 March 2022.
- ^ Two Notable Corruptions
- ^ Revision Revised, p.100
- ^ "John Maynard Keynes: Newton, the Man". Maths History. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- ^ "Newton's Arian beliefs". Maths History. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
- ^ Bruce Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, 2nd Ed., (New York, NY: American Bible Society, 1975), 641.
- ^ An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture. p. 88
- ^ Biblegateway.
- ^ Biblegateway
- ^ The Watchtower April 15, 1977 page 245 paragraph 5
- ^ "John Locke Manuscripts – Chronological Listing: 1690". Archived from the original on 9 July 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
Further reading
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- John Berriman Theos ephanerōthē en sarki (romanized form) or A critical dissertation upon 1 Tim. iii. 16: wherein rules are laid down to distinguish in various readings which is genuine : an account is given of above a hundred Greek manuscripts of St. Paul's Epistles (many of them not heretofore collated) : the writings of the Greek and Latin Fathers and the ancient versions are examin'd and the common reading of that text, God was manifest in the flesh, is prov'd to be the true one : being the substance of eight sermons preach'd at the Lady Moyer's lecture in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, in the years 1737 and 1738
- The History of the Works of the Learned 1741 p. 29–144 (A very readable review of the John Berriman book that goes chapter by chapter.)
- Ebenezer Henderson The Great Mystery of Godliness Incontrovertible; or, Sir Isaac Newton and the Socinians foiled in the attempt to prove a corruption in the text, 1 Tim. III. 16, [theòs ephanerōthē en sarki]: containing a review of the charges brought against the passage; an examination of the various readings; and a confirmation of that in the received text on principles of general and biblical criticism , 1830
- John William Burgon Revision Revised "GOD was manifested in the flesh" Shown to be the true reading of 1 Timothy III.16 A Dissertation, 1883 p. 424–501
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Prayer on coming to Belief in the Almighty Creator Yah the Eternally Self-Existing
If you have come to Belief in the Creator, please pray along the following lines – note that belief in Jesus / Messiah / Yahooshua counts for nothing, it is belief in the Almighty Creator Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that matters:
“Father Yah, I come to you in the name of Yahooshua, I now Believe that you exist. I confess my sin of unbelief and repent of my unbelief and I ask you to forgive my sin.
[If applicable “I repent of my sin of belief in Yahooshua, I ask you to forgive me]
“I now commit my life to You and I ask you to take me by the hand and lead me into deep relationship with you.
“I ask you to fill me with your Spirit and to change me and help me to become the person you want me to become.
“I ask you help me find people who can help me and help me find books, websites, articles and other resources that will help me.
“I ask You to show me what I can do to actively serve you and lead others to deep personal relationship with You.
“I thank you for saving me!”
There is a period of eight days from sincerely coming to Belief for the first time during which there is extreme Grace to help you. See the article “Critical Actions on First Belief” for actions you should take immediately.
Drop me an email at james.website@end-time-issue-ministries.org so I can help you, pray with you, counsel you, etcetera.
Take the Bread and Wine (Grape Juice) of the Covenant as soon as possible.
Start reading the articles on the website at the top of the menu and putting into practice all you find. Use the Table of Contents, Article Search, Keyword Cloud and Google Search to find particular information you are looking for. The entire Bible with my corrections is available on the ETI Bible Version page.
Prayer on realizing you have neglected the Creator
If you previously Believed but you have now realized that you have neglected the Creator and are headed for the Outer Darkness or, at best, a very low rank in the Throne Room, please pray along the following lines – note that belief in Jesus / Messiah / Yahooshua counts for nothing, it is belief in the Almighty Creator Yah the Eternally Self-Existing that matters:
“Father Yah, in the name of Yahooshua, I confess that while I once Believed I have largely ignored you and lived life as though you do not exist. I recognize this as sin and repent now and confess my sin. I ask you to forgive me.
“I now commit my life to You and I ask you to take me by the hand and lead me into deep relationship with you.
“I ask you to fill me with your Spirit and to change me and help me to become the person you want me to become.
“I ask you help me find people who can help me and help me find books, websites, articles and other resources that will help me.
“I ask You to show me what I can do to actively serve you and lead others to deep personal relationship with You.
“I thank you for accepting and forgiving me!”
Drop me an email at james.website@end-time-issue-ministries.org so I can help you, pray with you, counsel you, etcetera.
Take the Bread and Wine (Grape Juice) of the Covenant as soon as possible.
Start reading the articles on the website at the top of the menu and putting into practice all you find. Use the Table of Contents, Article Search, Keyword Cloud and Google Search to find particular information you are looking for. The entire Bible with my corrections is available on the ETI Bible Version page.
The Almighty Creator Desires a DEEP Personal Relationship with YOU
If you die as an Unbeliever your spirit will live for a very long time as a disembodied Ancestor Spirit or Demon -- the Creator has said regarding Unbelievers "why would I want someone to spend Eternity with me when they do NOT Believe I exist?”
If you die as a Believer without any form of relationship with the Creator you will end up in the Outer Darkness – a cold, black, terrible place with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth (your teeth) – the trash heap of Heaven – Father has said concerning such Believers “why would I want someone to be close to me in Heaven, which inherently means I will give them great prestige and authority, if they do NOT have a deep personal relationship with me and have NOT proven to me that they can be trusted in this life?”
In stark contrast -- IF you make a real effort to seek relationship with the Almighty the rewards in the Life to Come are HUGE – a glorious resurrected body, great prestige, great authority and a permanent close relationship with the Creator AND with Yahooshua {who you may mistakenly know as Yahooshua}
To put this all in context the Almighty has said "I created Human beings, this planet and this universe for men and women to be my Friends, my companions, to explore and learn and develop together, my greatest grief is that almost NO person understands this let alone seeks such a relationship with me!“
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* Words in curly brackets {xxx} are words which are commonly used but technically incorrect. Some of these words are simply incorrect, others like “God”, “the LORD”, “Yahooshua” are abominations in the sight of the Almighty Creator which He has, in His mercy tolerated up to now but for which grace has now been withdrawn – see https://www.ETIMin.org/essence-of-message-re-names
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Most Recent Broadcast – Friday 2nd August 2024 -- The Good News Regarding Yahooshua the Anointed of Yah {incorrectly Jesus Christ} according to MattihYahoo – Part 4
Summary: The first book in the so-called “New Testament” in the Bible – MattihYahoo {Matthew} provides an authoritative eye witness account of the life, death and resurrection of Yahooshua the Anointed of Yah, incorrectly Jesus Christ. I have corrected the core translation errors and added commentary based on my personal experience and revelation. I will share this in the next few broadcasts. This is part 4.
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YouTube Why Seek Relationship: https://youtu.be/bvSLs-T0Q0U
YouTube on Global Flood: http://www.YouTube.com/user/ProofOfGlobalFlood
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