Tuesday, March 20, 2018

After the foregoing colossal forgeries within the originally forged Gospels of Jesus Christ, there yet remain many other viciously dishonest falsifications of text..A little trinity of them will be noted.. " A Medley of Forgeries: "The Women Caught in Adultery" forgery. CE. has admitted that the so-called pericope adulterae, was regarded as spurious until the Council of Trent, in 1546, declared it divine truth..." The John XXI Forgery" the entire chapter XXI of John is likewise a surcharge of forgery in that Gospel; it may be disposed of with this terse comment of EB." AS xx,30-31 constitutes a formal and solemm conclusion, xxi is beyond question a later appendix. We may go on to add that it does not come from the same author with the rest of the book"[ EB. ii,2543 ].." The Lord's Prayer Forgery".. As may be seen by mere comparison, the "Doxology" at the end of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew[vi,13]:" For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen" is an interpolation into the original text, and is omitted as spurious by the Revised Version; it is not in the Catholic "true" version. But, it may be remarked the whole of the so-called Lord's Prayer is not the Lord's at all; it is a late patch-work of pieces out of the Old Testament. Most errors of this kind proceed,etc.[CE.iv,498] Thus as to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew it variants from Luke are confessed forgeries; every circumstance of the two origins is in contradiction. Like the Sermon on the Mount " the Prayer is a composite of Ancient sayings strung together to form it, as the marginal cross-reference shows throughout..." The Unknown God Forgery": At this point I may call attention to a notable instance in Acts of a fraudulent perversion of text; Paul's use of the pretended inscription of the statue on Mar's Hill, "To the unknown God" on which is based his famous harangue to the Athenians:"Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship him, declare I unto you". This omits the truth, for the whole inscription would have been fatal to his cause. The actual words of the inscription, together with some uncomplimentary comments on "Paul's"manipulation of the truth, are presented by the famous Catholic'Humanist' Erasmus. First he states the chronic clerical propensity to warp even Scripture to their deceptive schemes:" In general it is the public charter of all divines, to mold and bend the sacred oracles till they comply with their own fancy, spreading them[ As Heaven by it's Creator] like a curtain closing together, or drawing them back as they please"Then he discloses the dishonest dodge of the great Apostle of Persecution:" Indeed, St. Paul minces and mangles some citations which he makes use of, and seems to wrest them to a different sense from that which they were first intended, as is confessed by the great linguist St. Jerome. Thus when that apostle saw at Athens the inscription on an alter, he claims from it an argument for the proof of the Christian religion; but leaving out a great part of the sentence, which perhaps if fully recited might have prejudiced his cause, he mentions only the last two words,viz.,' To the unknown God'; and this, too, not without alteration, for the whole inscription runs thus:To The God's of Asia, Europe, and Africa, To All Foreign And Unknown God's"[ Erasmus, The Praise of Folly,p.292]. That the original Greek text of Acts used plural"gods" is shown by the marginal note to Acts xvii.23 in the King James Version. From this dreary exposure of "Gospel" forgeries we pass to the Forged" Epistles of the Apostles"....forgery in Christianity by J.Wheless..

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