A man by the name of Origen (185-254 AD.) was the key architect of the ALEXANDRIAN approach and source of this Family. He became head of a school in Alexandria, Egypt which specialized in Greek studies. Origen edited a six-column Bible known as Hexapla which the translators of today's modern versions hail as the "greatest textual enterprise of ancient times," There is one significant problem with that view. ORIGEN WAS AGNOSTIC! He did not believe in Hell. He did believe in the preexistence of the soul. He tampered with the deity of Jesus Christ. In short, Origen would have made an excellent Jehovah's Witness. Thus, we should not be surprised that the Origen's ALEXANDRIAN FAMILY is the basis, not only for the translation of the New American Standard and New International Versions, but also the New World Translation of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, The ALEXANDRIAN FAMILY is a corrupt line of manuscripts originating with a man who held corrupt beliefs. Yet 99% of all modern Bible translations owe their existence to this Family of manuscripts to some degree.
What about the King James Version? The K.J.V. is translated from a completely different Family of manuscripts known as the Traditional Text. In fact, 80-90% of all existing manuscript particles tend toward agreement with this Text, upon which the K.J.V. is based. The other 10% of existing manuscript particles, which include the ALEXANDRIAN FAMILY, are both divided and inconsistent. The King James Version is translated from a Greek text known as the Textus Receptus, or the Received Text. We may look to Church history and see great men of God quoting the Scriptures in a manner that agrees with the Textus Receptus, The Great Reformation was based upon the use of the Textus Receptus. In fact, every great revival of modern times has been based on the Textus Receptus and, in the English-speaking world, based upon preaching from the King James Version which was translated from the Textus Receptus. God has clearly had his hand of blessing upon every people and church that preached from the King James Version. Yet, this cannot be said for the N.I.V. and the other modern translations. While revivals have followed the King James Version, a decline in spirituality and eventual liberalism has been the fruit of those movements devoted to the modern translations. Example after example could be cited.
The so-called scholars of our day have told us that the doctrine of divine inspiration perished with the original manuscripts. They claim that it must be recaptured through scientific means. They declare that two men who lived in the 19th Century named Westcott and Hort used scientific rules to produce a Greek Text (1881) which has succeeded in recapturing the TRUE READING of Scripture. In effect, they deny God's promise in Psalm 12:6-7 to preserve His Word forever and ignore the words of the Lord Jesus in Matthew 24-35 that, though Heaven and Earth would pass away, His Word would never pass away. This position effectively says that God left His Church for over 1500 years with an inferior and inaccurate reading of His Word. Astonishingly, most pastors and professors in fundamental churches and schools accept this falacy as fact! And in doing so they betray a serious lack of scholarship. Even a cursory examination of the Westcott-Hort Committee, and the attitude of Dr. Hort in particular, reveals a primary goal of the destruction of the Textus Receptus. The translation they produced is biased toward this goal. Where does it have its roots? In the ALEXANDRIAN FAMILY of manuscripts, of course. One does not have to be a Bible scholar to spot the familiar hand of Satan up to his old tricks again.
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