Lie Number Four - Erasmus Was A Catholic, so the King James Bible is also a Catholic Bible. It is a proven fact that modern versions that are based on the UBS/Nestle-Aland ever changing Critical Greek text like the ESV, NIV, NASB, NET, Holman, etc. are the new Vatican Versions. See Undeniable Proof the ESV, NIV, NASB, Holman Standard, NET are the new Vatican Versions brandplucked.webs/realcatholicbibles.htm Here you can see the documentation of this fact from right out of their own Nestle-Aland critical Greek textbook, the UBS homepage and the Vaticans own website. Then go on to Part Two where you can see the literally thousands of words that have been omitted from the Reformation Bibles in all languages (including the older Catholic bible versions as well) and are omitted in these new Vatican Versions and the MODERN Catholic bibles too. They are ALL based on the same Vatican supervised inter confessional texts. Here is just a sample of what you will see - If you have a copy of the Nestle-Aland 27th edition, open the book and read what they tell us in their own words on page 45 of the Introduction. Here these critical Greek text editors tell us: The text shared by these two editions was adopted internationally by Bible Societies, and FOLLOWING AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE VATICAN AND THE UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES IT HAS SERVED AS THE BASIS FOR NEW TRANSLATIONS AND FOR REVISIONS MADE UNDER THEIR SUPERVISION. THIS MARKS A SIGNIFICANT STIP WITH REGARD TO INTERCONFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS. It should naturally be understood that this text is a working text: it is not to be considered as definitive, but as a stimulus to further efforts toward defining and verifying the text of the New Testament. There it is folks, in their own words. They openly admit that this text is the result of an agreement between the Vatican and the UBS and that the text itself is not definitive - it can change, as it already has and will do so in the future, and is not the infallible words of God but merely a stimulus to further efforts. The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity This from their own site - vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/documents/rc_pc_chrstuni_pro_20051996_chrstuni_pro_en.html Collaboration for the Diffusion of the Bible “Following the responsibility undertaken by the then Secretariat for the preparation of the dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, the PCPCU (Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity) was entrusted with promoting ecumenical collaboration for the translation and diffusion of Holy Scripture (Dei Verbum, n. 22). In this context, it encouraged the formation of the Catholic Biblical Federation, with which it is in close contact. TOGETHER WITH THE UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES IT PUBLISHED THE GUIDELINES FOR INTERCONFESSIONAL COOPERATION IN TRANSLATING THE BIBLE.” (1968; new revised edition 1987). The Erasmus Was A Catholic Argument So once the modern version user sees all this documentation, they usually come back with Well, Erasmus was a Catholic and that makes the King James Bible a Vatican Version too. What these people deliberately choose to ignore is the fact that Erasmus himself criticized many of the Romish doctrines. He tried to reform the Catholic church from within, whereas Luther tried from without. The King James Bible translators did not even primarily use the Greek text of Erasmus at all, but rather those of Beza and of Stephanus. And, more importantly, NO Catholic bible version has EVER used the Greek text of Erasmus for their translations. In fact, the Council of Trent (1545-1564) branded Erasmus a heretic and prohibited his works. In 1559, Pope Paul IV placed Erasmus on the first class of forbidden authors, which was composed of authors whose works were completely condemned. But guess who one of the chief editors of the UBS/Nestle-Aland/Vatican critical Greek text was. It tells you who on the opening page of the Nestle-Aland Critical Greek textbook; it was the Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Martini.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 07:49:44 +0000