Sabbath 20/6/37/120
Dear Friends
Donovan Schricker did some further checking as to where the definite article is substituted for the indefinite article before: son of God: Daniel 3:25 (KJV) The text states He answered and said: “Lo I see four men and one is like the son of God.” This is a blatant Trinitarian forgery as there is no definite article and the indefinite article is required meaning a son of God and Bullinger makes that note in his fn. to the text in the Companion Bible. He says it refers to a superhuman being or Angel. The disguising of the fact that there were many sons of God is endemic throughout the KJV of the MT. The texts in Job 1:6, 2:1 and 38:4-7 cannot however be disguised and show that they were all going before the Throne of God during the Time of Job including Satan and also that they were ordered to be present when God created the earth including the Morning Stars who were multiple.
We discussed the misapplication of the term in John 10:34-36 in a previous Sabbath Message as below:
Sabbath 28/5/37/120
Dear Friends,
This aspect needs also to be examined in this Sabbath’s message at the end of the Fifth month of Ab.
It deals with the position of the Christ as an elohim. The ministry of the offshoots simply do not realise the implications because of their Ditheist errors under Armstrongism.
We of the churches of God have long been aware that the Trinitarians and the Binitarian predecessors that came into the faith from the worshippers of the Sun and Mystery Cults and especially from the worshippers of the god Attis at Rome have mistranslated the sections of the Bible texts that suited them in an effort to promote their heretical theology. The Ditheists of Armstrongism played along with this through their ignorance.
Nowhere is this more evident than in John 10:33-36.John 10:33-36 (King James Version KJV) says:
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
In order to assert that Christ is God and disguise the fact that he is an elohim and not The Elohim or Ha Elohim of Scripture, in verse 33 they translate the last phrase as: makest thyself God, when the Greek says: makest thyself a god, thereby concurring with the verses 34-35. There is no definite article here in the Koine accusative case.
Then in verse 36 they translate the last phrase as: I am the Son of God, when the Greek has no definite article and must be held to read: a son of The God I am (uios tou theou eimi), therefore confirming that Christ is one of the elohim as sons of God. There is no definite article in the text except in relation to tou theou or The God, and thus the indefinite article must be inferred in relation to Christ as a son of God. The text also is quoting the Psalms and it is beyond dispute that the psalm refers to the elohim as sons of God (Ps. 82:6). Also here the Psalms are included in the law but in Luke 24:44 the usual distinction of the Law the Prophets and the Psalms is used. This gives more emphasis to the Scriptures all being part of the Law of God rather than the emphasis on Torah alone.
These false translations of the Trinitarians appear endlessly in the texts translated from both Hebrew and Greek. The Armstrongite ministry is unequipped to deal with them because of the Ditheism of a large part of the WCG ministry (see the paper Ditheism (No. 076)). These errors carried on to the crisis that destroyed the WCG as explained in the New Moon Message of the Sixth month following this Sabbath.
Other examples of these mistranslations or just plain forgeries are seen at the following texts:
Matthew 4:3,6 has no definite article. The indefinite article must be inferred and should read: If a Son of God your are” etc. and the same structure is found in verse 6 and this it can only be translated “if a son of God you are” etc.
So also in Matthew 14:33. The text also has no definite article and must be translated “Truly of God a son thou art.”
And also Matthew 27:40, 43, 54. In each of these verses there is no definite article and the indefinite article must be inferred under the rules of God; v 40 reads if a son of God thou are; v. 43 also reads He said of God I am a son also lacking the definite article; as is the case with v. 54 also the centurion said Truly of God a son was this man.
Mark 1:1 inserts the words The Son of God when the ancient manuscripts omit this entire text. Mark 15:39 also requires the indefinite article as Truly this man a son of God was.
Luke 1:35 also lacks the definite article and must be rendered a son of God. Luke 4:3,9 also lack the definite article and must be translated if a son of God you are in both cases. Luke 8:28 also lacks the definite article and must be rendered as a son of God Most High.
John 10:36 as discussed above, and 19:7 also has no definite article and should read: because a son of God he made himself.
Romans 1:4; also has no definite article and uses tou uion of Him. Now if tou uion is inferred to read the son in the Koine Greek that it must also follow that Ton Theon or tou Theou in the Koine must be translated The God. They cannot have it both ways and theos alone in referring to the Messiah or Satan (2Cor. 4:4) must read a god except in the texts where it is qualified such as where Satan is referred to as The God of this world. The definite article being conditioned by the place i.e. of this world or the subordinate being such as referring to Christ as the Elohim of David (Pss. 45:6-7; Heb. 1:8-9) or of Thomas in John 20:28.
In each case, in the English following the inserted definite article absent in the Greek, son has been capitalized.
This is just more evidence of Trinitarian forgeries in the KJV texts.
Wade Cox
Coordinator General
Donovan Schricker