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Literal Physical Truth of the Christian
Bible
"Modern New Testament scholarship has shown that
we know far less
about the historical Jesus than
we thought we did." - Karen Armstrong All
Christian documents in existence before the 4th century are on
papyrus.
Papyrus is fragile, only fragments of these works have been
preserved.
Before the invention of the
printing press
documents were copied by hand, the laborious process that invited variations:
misspellings, altered wording, grammatical corrections, stylistic improvements,
insertions, omissions, etc.
Many New Testament versions have marginal
notes added.
These marginalia were often copied into the main text of
later versions.
No two New Testaments written before the 15th century
are identical !
20th century versions of the New Testament are primarily
based on parchment uncial codices of the 4th through the 9th century.
Many of the earliest of these, like Sinaiticus, have undergone
extensive "correction" by later scribes.
parchment uncial codices of the 4th through the 9th
century5th century Codex
Alexandrinus is largely an Alexandrian witness and the oldest text of the
Gospels.
A passage - "All things came into being through him;
and apart from him no single thing came into being. In him was life; and the
life was the light of men."
5th to 7th century
Codex Washingtonensis or Codex Freerianus paleographers have
deduced that the original scribe corrected some of his own errors, followed by
another who made revisions. Finally, two later hands made a few additional
changes.
Codex Washingtonensis is variegated in its
representation and believed to be copied from one that had been pieced together
out of fragments of several manuscripts. Readings representative of all of the
major text types can be found in this manuscript.
A passage - "All
things came into being through him; and apart from him no single thing came
into being. What has come into being in him (is or was) life. And the life was
the light of humanity."
6th century Codex
Bezae: the left hand
page is the Greek and the right hand side is Latin.
As many as nine correctors worked on the manuscript between the sixth and
twelfth century.
"All things came into being through him; and apart from
him nothing came into being. What has come into being in him is life. And the
life was the light of humanity."
9th century
Alcuin of York during the reign of Charlemagne attempts to purify the corrupted
text. This correction is the basis for the Paris edition that was widely
disseminated among the clergy in northwestern Europe.
12th or 13th century Codex 666 reads as follows:
A passage - "All things came into being through him; and apart from him
no single thing came into being that has come into being. In him was life; and
the life was the light of men."
Corrected passage - "All things came
into being through him; and apart from him no single thing came into being.
What has come into being was life in him; and the life was the light of
men."
15th century
Printing press
reaches Europe.
The Vulgate, produced by
Johannes Gensfleisch zur
Laden zum Gutenberg, is not entirely without error as several editions of
the first printed work vary.
Conclusion:
the 66 books that make up the Bible where
written at different times in history, in different languages;
some are compilations of earlier myths
while others synthesize myths of
neighboring cultures;
the inclusion of
the writing of Saul of
Tarsus carry forward the dialectic victim perpetrator
ponerology of the Sadducees.
The choice of the 66 books included in
the Bible at the Council of Rome shift
the subconscious image of
the Creator from Nature to the State.
3rd century BC
The
Septuagint is the
Greek translation named 'The
Translation of the Seventy' for the group of Hebrew scholars that translated
the Tanakh into Greek.
The
Letter of Aristeas requests the Hebrew Tanakh be translated into Greek for
Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–247 BCE).
The date of the 3rd century
BCE is supported for the Tanakh translation by a number of factors including
the Greek being representative of early Koine Greek, citations beginning as
early as the 2nd century BCE, and early manuscripts datable to the 2nd
century.
The Septuagint found widespread use in Hellenistic culture as
well as Jerusalem which had become
a cosmopolitan
city.
Several factors led Hebrews to abandon the Septuagint
including:
Christians favored the
Septuagint;
Greek
scribes were not subject to the same rigid rules imposed on Hebrews;
Gradual decline of the Greek language among Hebrews after they fled the
Greek-speaking Roman Empire into
the Aramaic-speaking Persian
Empire when Jerusalem was
destroyed by the Romans.
1st century BC The Hebrew historian
Josephus canonical list of
sacred Hebrew scriptures has three parts:
five books of the Torah, thirteen
books of the prophets, and four books of hymns.
Sapiential Books or
Books of Wisdom is a term used in biblical studies to refer to a subset of the
books in the Septuagint version.
There are seven of these books - Job,
Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Book of Wisdom, the Song of Songs (Song of
Solomon), and Sirach.
The Testament of Job is a book written
in the 1st century BC.
The author of Wisdom of Solomon was an
Alexandrian Jew during the silent persecution initiated in Egypt
under Caesar Augustus.
The Wisdom of Sirach is a work of ethical
teachings written by Jewish scribe Shimon ben Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira of
Jerusalem about 175 BC.
Ecclesiastes includes the presence of
Persian
loan-words and Aramaisms which point to a date no earlier than 450 BC and
no later than 180 BC, when Eliezer ben Sira quotes from it.
The early
Christian Church used the Septuagint since most of its
earliest members were Greek-speaking and because
the Messianic passages most
clearly pointed to Jesus as the Messiah.
Even when Latin, Syriac,
Coptic,
Armenian appeared, the
Septuagint continued to be used by the Greek-speaking portion of the Christian
Church.
Scribes of the New Testament, written in Greek, quoted from the
Septuagint frequently, though not exclusively, when relating prophesies and
history.
The Eastern Orthodox Church still
prefers to use the Septuagint as the basis for translating the Old Testament
into other languages, and the
Greek Orthodox Church
continues to use it in its liturgy even today.
Many modern Catholic
translations of the Bible, while using the Masoretic text, employ the
Septuagint to decide between different possible translations of the Hebrew text
whenever the latter is unclear, corrupt, or ambiguous.
The Greek of the Septuagint has many
idioms and phrases based on Hebrew, and the
grammatical phenomenon known as attraction is common there.
Some parts
of it have been described as "Hebrew in Greek words".
However, other
sections show an ignorance of
Hebrew idiom, so that the
literal translation provided makes little sense.
The translators
usually, but not always, employed one and the same Greek word for one Hebrew
word whenever it occurs.
Thus the Septuagint can be called a
mostly concordant translation.
However, as in most translations of any
literary work, often more than one Hebrew word gets translated into one and the
same Greek word, removing some nuance from the text.
The main ponerological element comes in the claim the
Hebrews are direct descendents of
Yahweh.
Monotheistic adults,
seeing god as all encompassing, subconsciously
relate God to Nature.
This is not true with children as
adults are gods to them when they are
infants.
This model creates
a subconscious desire in
the child to become a god.
As
Hebrews are descendants of God
a child of god will be of
the same essence as God.
67 AD
Christianity initially followed the
Oral Tradition picking
up right where Jesus left off as
wandering Tannaim, with
Paul as the First
Christian.
There are several references to the "Words of Jesus".
Early collections of sayings are more than likely, fragments still
exist.
The Roman Catholics chose which information was to be made
available.
Without a uniform dogmatized religion the Roman Catholics
realized they would lose control of adherents and, later, even coined the word
propaganda.
From this Church lists of
approved, canonical, and heretical texts issued.
Even now within
the Church, as has always been, there is dissension.
The order of creation of the
Synoptic Gospels of
Matthew, Mark and Luke was debated and revised.
The Synoptic Gospels were originally anonymous.
Decisions of
authorship came about in the 2nd century based on legend.
Christian
writers before 150 years after the birth of Jesus do not generally refer to any
document as their source for Words of Jesus.
The Gospel of John was considered heretical and was
added later.
Revelation was considered heretical and then added
later.
The Gospel of John,
a highly intellectual account of
Jesus' life , is most likely
penned by John the Presbyter.
John the Presbyter most
likely penned Revelation as
well.
120
AD According to Tertullian,
Valentinus, a rejected
candidate for bishop of Rome, founds a Gnostic mystery school.
The
first commentary made on the Gospel of John is by the Gnostics
Ptolemaeus and Heracleon, as quoted by Irenaeus and
Origen.
Ptolemaeus and
Heracleon were disciples of
Valentinus the
Gnostic.
Valentinus
taught that there were three kinds of people.
These were the
material,
emotional and
spiritual.
Those of a material nature were doomed to
perish.
Those of
an emotional nature could attain a lesser form of salvation.
Only those of a spiritual
nature received knowledge that allowed them to return to the divine
Pleroma after inhabiting
a material human
body.
Gospel of Thomas is not included in the Vulgate.
All copies are thought
to have been purged.
Transcribed from Greek to Coptic, about half of
the sayings have direct parallels to sayings recorded in the canonical gospels,
and much of the other half can be linked theologically to the rest of the New
Testament.
Throughout the text of the Gospel
of Thomas, Jesus offers numerous ways to attain the
Kingdom of
Heaven.
This makes redemption personal
bypassing the need for a priest. an intercessor or an organized church
hierarchy.
From an
Orthodox Catholic standpoint, the Gospel of Thomas would have been
dangerously thought
provoking.
177 AD
Irenaeus succeeds
the martyr Saint Pothinus and becomes the second Bishop of Lyon.
From
Smyrna Irenaeus had seen and heard the preaching of Polycarp.
Irenaeus
insisted there could be only one orthodox (literally, "straight-thinking") church outside of
which "there was no
salvation."
(Note: There are
no straight lines in
Nature, everything
orbits.)
Social
engineers began early on to
stamp out any train
of thought which did not strictly adhere to
Roman Catholic dogma which
continued to
evolve.
After the gnostic confrontation and until the Reformation,
the Roman Catholic Church was the overwhelmingly dominant force in
Christianity.
The rigid, entrenched mentality of
Catholic orthodoxy must be taken into account in any reasonable examination
of the Christian religion.
Schisms,
dissensions, and new ideas were crushed by a pronouncement of spiritual death
(excommunication) or physical
death ( inquisition/crusade).
God is supernatural (outside of
nature);
God is three-in-one (Father, Son and Holy Spirit);
God requires humans to
worship him as a descended
God;
Dogma is not to be
challenged as dogma is inflexible to change;
Eternal Soul, existing outside nature,
may end in a place called
hell.
180 AD Clement reaches Alexandria where he attends lectures of
Pantaenus at the Catechetical School of Alexandria.
Clement used the
term 'Gnostic' to describe
anyone who had penetrated deeper into the
Gnostic Mysteries
.
Clement saw sin as involuntary and irrational - removed only through
the Wisdom of the Logos.
Clement states in Paedagogus that only
through conversion to Christianity can man fully participate in the
Logos, which is
Universal
Truth.
Christ is neither male or female; God the Father has both
male and female aspects; the Eucharist is described as
milk from the breast of the
Father.
Clement argues that both promiscuity and sexual abstinence are
unnatural, and that the main goal of human
sexuality is procreation.
In an attempt to demonstrate the primacy
of Moses, Clement gives an extended chronology of the world, wherein he dates
the birth of Christ to May 25, 3 BC, and the creation of the world to 5592 BC.
To Clement, scripture is an
innately true primitive philosophy which is complemented by human reason
through the Logos.
Clement condemns those who
actively seek out a martyr's
death, arguing that they do not have
sufficient respect for the gift
of life.
Clement exhibits extensive knowledge of both
Hellenism and
Judaism.
Clement
emphasized the permanent
importance of the use of philosophy to understand the relation between
knowledge and
faith.
As faith
involves a comprehensive
knowledge of essentials,
knowledge allows the
believer to penetrate deeply into
the understanding of what he
actually believes and by so doing
perfect his faith.
To go beyond reception of truth on
authority metaphysics are a
necessity.
The
test of real wisdom was living a moral life.
Against anti-intellectual
pietists, Clement championed
enlightenment.
Gnosis, communion
with the Father, could be held by common Christians.
Clement
characterization of a Christian as an intellectual
whose life is a moral example for others influenced the development of the
monastic ideal.
Although Clement believed himself to have experienced
the Lumière
Infinie that is unlikely as he was focused on faith rather than Gnosis.
Gnostikos philosophers, in
touch with the Lumière Infinie, never spoke about
Christ Consciousness as something
that required faith.
Clement is succeeded at Alexandria by
Origen.
231 Origen is
ordained presbyter by
Eusebius of
Caesarea.
Origen distinguished between
different types of biblical
interpretation, historical, moral and
spiritual, and argued that
biblical works were primarily
theological compositions.
Origen, the most prolific and influential
Christian writer prior to the legalization of Christianity by Rome, was
responsible for the intellectual triumph of Catholic Christianity over gnostic
Christianity.
This
created ponerological
problems at a contextual moral level when Origen was condemned as a
heretic a century after his
death.
Origen had declared the Son was separate from and less than the
Father.
Origen, mentions the Gospel of Thomas on a
list of Coptic gospels.
Old Latin Vulgate The Latin Bible used before the Vulgate is usually
referred to as the Vetus Latina, or Old Latin Bible, or
occasionally the Old Latin Vulgate.
The Old Latin Vulgate
remained in use in some circles even after the Vulgate translation of
Jerome of Stridon
became the accepted standard throughout the Roman Catholic Church.
Gauls continued to prefer the Old Latin Vulgate for
centuries.
The Old Latin Vulgate was not translated by a single
individual or institution.
Not
uniformly edited each book varies in quality of translation and style.
The Old Latin Vulgate books were translated from Greek, not from
the Hebrew Septuagint as each book varies.
325 Anno Domini
"Persistent attempts were made to
poison the mind of
Constantine
against the most able champion of the
Nicene Creed, namely,
Athanasius, who had become Bishop of Alexandria shortly after the adjournment
of the council.
Slanderous charges were urged, and finally had their
desired effect in securing the banishment of the cold-hearted bishop.
Meanwhile, Arius had
been recalled from banishment and restored to imperial favor, since he
succeeded in convincing Constantine of his substantial agreement with the
Nicene formula, and declared upon
oath that he did not hold the faith for which he had been condemned.
To complete his triumph and that of his friends, it only remained that
he should formally be restored to church fellowship." - Henry C. Sheldon
The Council of Nicaea, held in Nicaea in Bithynia, convoked by the
Imperial Roman Emperor
Constantine in 325, was the first ecumenical conference of bishops of the
Roman Catholic Church.
"Many bore on their bodies the marks of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Paul, Bishop of Neo-Cæsarea, a monastery situated
on the Euphrates, had
been deprived of the use of both hands by the application of a
red-hot iron.
Some had the right eye torn out, others had lost the right arm.
In short, it was an
assembly of martyrs." - Theodoret, noting assembled bishops previous trials
and tribulations under Emperor
Diocletian
Council of Nicaea is historically significant as the
first effort to attain consensus in the fellowship of Christ through an
assembly.
With the creation of the
Nicene Creed, a precedent is
established for subsequent general councils to create a statement of belief and
canons of doctrinal orthodoxy hoping to
create a unifing textual source.
Pauline Christianity is formalized as
the 'official' form of Christianity.
You could become a Christian
layman through baptism but you could only be a Christian clergyman, initially
by being born into the group.
The
Nicene Creed solved this
problem by the decree that after ordination a priest could not marry
(prefigures the pedophilia?) with the likely conclusive theory that Constantine
wanted to reign in the power of the priests.
"He said that
the crimes of priests ought
not to be made known to the multitude, lest they should become an occasion
of offence or of sin.
He also said, that, if he had detected a bishop
in the very act of committing adultery, he would have thrown his imperial robe
over the unlawful deed." - Eusebius speaking of the Emperor Constantine's
opening speech
The primary purpose of the council is to resolve
disagreements in the Church of Alexandria over the nature of Jesus in
relationship to the Father.
Is Jesus of the same or merely a similar
substance to God the Father?
Alexander of Alexandria and
Athanasius took the
first position; presbyter Arius, from whom the term
Arian
controversy comes, took the second.
1,800 bishop invited; 300
attended; huge majority from the Eastern church.
The council decides
against the Arians overwhelmingly.
The council decides in favor of
celebrating the date of the Christian Passover on the first Sunday after the
first full moon following the
Vernal Equinox.
"Athanasius, who succeeded Alexander as bishop
in 328, a violent vengeful man, shaped the future of the church when his side
won the theological war.
His adversaries, who were many, charged him
with bribery, theft, extortion, sacrilege, treason and murder.
He was
excommunicated,
anathematized, beaten, intimidated, kidnapped, imprisoned, and exiled no less
than five times by four Roman emperors, spending 17 of the 45 years he served
as Bishop of Alexandria in exile.
Athanasius felt only a strong God, a
strong Church, and a strong empire could provide people with the security they
craved." - Ed Taylor
Athanasius maintained
God transformed himself into
a man, suffered,
was nailed to a cross,
had his liver pierced,
died, and
then resurrected himself.
"While Athanasius accused the Arians of demeaning Christ
to the point his majesty and saving power were lost, Arians accused Athanasius
of elevating him to the point that his love and God's majesty were lost."- Ed
Taylor
Constantine, Empire builder, agreed with Athanasius'
perspective.
"The essential feature of the Nicene Creed was the
safeguard against denial of the
Son's divinity which, it
provided, through the explicit statement that the Son is homoousion, or
consubstantial, with the Father; not of an essence dissimilar to that of the
Father, or even of an essence merely similar, but of the same essence.
Only two of the assembled bishops, Theonas and Secundus, refused to
sign; and they were excommunicated and banished,
together with Arius.
Eusebius of
Nicomedia and Theognis, while they subscribed the creed, refused to
sanction the sentence against Arius.
For this cause they were deposed
and banished shortly after the adjournment of the council, but ere long were
restored and regarded by Constantine with favor." - History of the Christian
Church by Henry C. Sheldon of Boston University, Thomas Y. Crowell and
Company, New York ©1895
352
Council of Laodicea decrees women are not to be
ordained.
361 Julian the Apostate is
the last Pagan Roman Emperor.
364
Following Julian came
Emperor Valentinian who
sent his brother Emperor Valens
to rule in the East.
Latin Vulgate
382 Emperor Theodosius I orders
Jerome of Stridon under the direction of Pope Damasus I and the Council of
Rome to produce the Latin Vulgate.
When Jerome of Stridon
begins the translation of the Vulgate into Latin he starts with the
Septuagint.
The Vulgate is written in everyday Latin, versio vulgata, as opposed
to Ciceronian Latin of which Jerome of Stridon was a master.
Roman Catholicism unites Western Europe
under the Pope for over a thousand years until
Martin Luther translates the Bible
into German.
The closest equivalent in English to the Latin
Vulgate is the King James Version which shows
a marked influence from
the Vulgate in the vigorous
rhythm of its prose and poetry.
The Vulgate, designed to be
easier to understand, was directly translated from Hebrew rather than the Greek
Septuagint.
Jerome of Stridon was responsible for at least three
slightly different versions of the Vulgate.
The Romana
Vulgate was the first, soon replaced by later versions except in Britain,
where it continued to be used until the Norman Conquest in 1066.
The
Gallicana Vulgate was produced a few years later with
revisions.
The Hispana Vulgate is largely identical to the
Romana Vulgate except for the book of Psalms, which Jerome of Stridon
translated from Hebrew.
Council of Rome makes it a capital offense to
practice any form of religion accept Nicene Christianity or
Judaism.
385 Pope Siricius leaves his wife in
order to become pope then decrees that
priests may no longer sleep with
their wives.
391
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Church of Rome strives to refute the doctrines of Protestantism,
the Vulgate is reaffirmed in the Council of Trent as the sole authorized
text of the Bible.
To reinforce this decree, an attempt is made to
standardize spelling and text of the Vulgate out of the countless
editions written during the Middle Ages.
1590
Pope Sixtus V (1585-90) produces the Sistine
Vulgate.
1592 Clement VIII
(1592-1605) produces the Clementine Vulgate which has been
the official Bible of the Roman Catholic
Church until the 1960s, when worship in vernacular languages
was first permitted.
Results are 7 Sacraments:
Catholicism is
the only religious truth
Pope holds the place of
Christ on Earth
Bread and wine is
physically transubstantiated
Sale of indulgences
ends
Dogma to be clearly defined
List of forbidden Protestant
translations
Mass to be in Latin using the Latin Vulgate
Forbidden: Simony, Nepotism,
Pluralism,
Absenteeism
Seminaries to
train priests 'properly' in the art of flogging
1907 Nova
Vulgata commissioned in by Pope Pius X of the Benedictine Monastery in
Rome, many decades pass before it is completed.
The main difference
between the Nova Vulgata and the Vulgata Clementina is that it
takes account of the modern textual criticism.
There are a number of
changes where the modern scholars felt that Jerome of Stridon had
failed to grasp the
meaning of the original languages.
Many modern scholars believe that
the Greek Hexapla is the main source for "iuxta Hebraeos"
by Jerome.
Jerome's translation of Exodus Iuxta
Hebraeos
[Starting from a careful textual
comparison between Jerome's translation of the Book of Exodus with the Hebrew
and the Greek translations, the dissertation delineates three ways in which
Jerome engages the Hebrew Bible. He interprets the Hebrew by itself, he may
compare the Hebrew with the Greek versions, or he may rely on or respond to an
exegetical tradition. Furthermore, Jerome's method of translation reflects the
influence of a Classical philological model. According to this philological
method, Jerome seeks to render the sense of the text rather than produce a
slavishly literal translation. In addition, like the Classical commentators of
his day, he initially concentrates on the semantics and syntax of the text
before him. Only when the Hebrew is unclear does Jerome consider the other
translations and exegetical traditions. Thus, I demonstrate that the Vulgate
interprets the Bible from a Classical, Christian, and Jewish point of view and
that Jerome integrates these traditions through a philological method.
Therefore, Jerome's rendition must be understood as more than a plain
translation. Rather, it should be read as a text that reflects the intellectual
currents of its day. It must also be read as a Latin
interpretation of Scriptures. The
Vulgate must be treated as a work of Latin scholarship and Latin
literature.]
Spelling reflects a more Classical leaning than the
Renaissance spelling of the Clementine edition.
Nova
Vulgata does not contain some books found in some editions of the
Vulgate - for example the 3rd and 4th Book of Ezra.
The Nova
Vulgata is currently the official Latin version published and approved by
the Roman Catholic Church.
The Nova Vulgata has not been widely
embraced by conservative Catholics, as it sounds unfamiliar to the Clementine,
common in the history of the Bible as new translations attempt to supplant
older, more familiar ones.
The Stuttgart Vulgate is published by
the German BibleSociety (Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft), based in Stuttgart.
In this edition, Biblia Sacra Vulgata, the German BibleSociety
seeks to reproduce the original, pure Vulgate text that Jerome of
Stridon.
The Stuttgart Vulgate attempts, through critical
comparison of important, historical editions of the Vulgate, to achieve
the original text, cleansed of the errors of a millennium and a half's
time.
The critical source for the Stuttgart Vulgate is Codex
Amiatinus, an 8th century one-volume manuscript of the Latin Bible
produced in England, is regarded as the best medieval witness to original text
of Jerome of Stridon.
1952 Papyrus 1 and 655 are
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