Christian Churches of God
No. 164H
Choosing and Using the Bible
(Edition 1.0 20230715-20230715)
The Church of God
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doctrine and the promulgation of God's Calendar in accordance with Scripture.
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Introduction
We published the compilation of the Canon in the text The Bible (No. 164). The Text of the early church was
the Septuagint or LXX for centuries. It was translated from the original Hebrew
text into Greek. Mathew was written in Hebrew and then translated to
Greek. It is important that we
understand the compilation of the Canon and its use. The Texts were introduced
to Britain and Europe and all over the Middle East and India under the Seventy
in the First Century. The Temple Calendar (No. 156) was in use over that time and
continued to be so for 1,700 years over the periods of time known as Ephesus,
Smyrna, Pergamos, and Thyatira.
After the fall of the Temple in the War with Rome (No. 298) the Temple scrolls of
the Bibe texts were taken to Rome in 70 CE. The pharisees took over and in 220
CE when the emperor Severin returned the original Temple Scrolls, the Jews
found that there were 32 places in the later Masoretic Text (MT) that differed
from the Temple Scrolls (see #164F below). This alteration went on by the later
Masoretes to change significant texts. These
alterations also had an effect on the later texts.
At the fall of the Parthian Empire in the Second Century CE, the
Celtic/Semites as an Hg. R1b/I(AS) etc.
group moved north west from Parthia into
Northwest Europe (see 212F). They brought with them the Almanac/Middle
Eastern Calendar compiled on an annual or multi-year basis with an average two
59-day months based on the conjunctions of the moon. It was in the Almanac
which is Arabic for the counting. An original of the Almanac is in
Cambridge University (Brady J. B. Clavis Calendaria.
Vol. 1. 1812) (This text also states Christ was born at Tabernacles, ibid pp.
313-314.) The same New Moon calendar was used by the British in the Celtic
Church system which was established in the early First Century at Glastonbury
on the twelve hides of land given by Arviragus king
of the Silurians at the request of Joseph ben Mattat of Arimathea, his grandfather in law, and Linus his
nephew, who was ordained by Christ in the Seventy and was first bishop of Rome,
and the British Church was established by Aristobulus (Rom. 16:10), also
ordained by Christ (see Establishment of the Church under the Seventy (122D); Origin of the Christian Church in Britain (No. 266)). This church was still
extant with the entire British Celtic Church in operation as at 597 CE when The
Roman Catholics sent Augustine (later of Canterbury) to Britain at the request
of the French wife of Ethelbert king of the Angles. (It was later burnt down
under the Trinitarians.) Augustine “baptised” 10,000 Angles by sprinkling at
the midwinter fires of 597. By 663/4 they became prominent and subjugated the
Sabbath-keeping Quartodecimans by force of arms from
the synod at Hilda's Abbey in Whitby in 663/4 CE). The Celtic Sabbatarian
Churches were suppressed and then driven underground in Wales and suppressed in
Scotland by Queen Margaret, the Athelings daughter. The same happened in
Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France and
Germany. The last to be suppressed and driven underground were the Hermanduri and Thuringians. The churches were operational
in Transylvania up to the end of the Nineteenth century and
also in the Palatinate states in the end of the Eighteenth Century. The
Paulicians were observed in the Taurus area by Lady Mary Wortley Montague (see
also Nos. 122 and 170).
The Trinitarians tried to suppress the Bible everywhere in Europe,
Scandinavia and Britain. They had emerged successful
in Southern Italy and Greece. They used the power of the Normans to achieve
this supremacy and finally they elected a pope from Britain, (Aiden IV) who
gave Ireland to the British Normans in the Twelfth century to suppress the
Irish Sabbatarians established by Patrick and Colum Cille or Columba of Iona
and finally the Scottish Sabbatarians established by Aiden of Lindisfarne
trained by Columba at Iona. To talk to the average Irishman or a Scot today
they will tell you they were always Trinitarian Sunday worshippers from the
beginning, the brainwashing is that complete.
To eliminate Quartodeciman Sabbatarianism the Trinitarian Sunday
worshippers, of the Sun and Mystery Cults, had to get rid of the Bible and they
supressed it, wherever they had control. However, the Sabbatarian system began
to emerge all over the world and the Protestant Reformation began to emerge
under the Sabbatarian Quartodecimans. To defray the
massive movement in Britain and Northern Europe they had to alter the Bible to
make it appear as though it supported the system of the Triune God where no
such support existed in the actual Bible texts. So, to enable publication, and
only from Switzerland, they had the Textus Receptus compiled under the Elzevir
brothers over the early 1400s. They began publishing Bibles in Switzerland in
English and smuggled them into England, Scotland and
Ireland as well as in German and other languages. The English and Scottish
bishops were buying what they could get their hands on and destroyed them. All
they achieved was to enable economies of scale and the Bibles kept on coming.
The Textus Receptus included the massive forgeries that were used to delude the
British and European people and make it appear as though the Triune God was
enshrined in the original texts which they were not. Also
they were based on the teaching that the NT had done away with the Laws of God
based on a complete misuse and misrepresentation of the writings of Paul.
The Reformation in Europe was circumvented by Trinitarian plants
such as Martin Luther and Menno Simons and others to maintain the doctrines of
the Sun Cults and their festivals where possible (see also Origins of Christmas and Easter (No. 235)).
The full horror of the forgeries was concealed from the lay
populace everywhere. These forged texts were enshrined in the King James
Version of 1611 (KJV) and all subsequent texts based on the Receptus including
the NKJV and the NIV. These serious forgeries are explained in the texts:
Alleged Bible Contradictions (No. 164B);
Antinomian Destruction of Christianity by Misuse of Scripture (No. 164C);
Antinomian Attacks on the Law of God (No. 164D);
Antinomian Denial of Baptism (No. 164E);
Forgeries and Additions/Mistranslations in the Bible (No. 164F);
Forgeries and Mistranslations Relating to the Position of Christ (No. 164G).
The result of these forgeries and misrepresentations is to delude
the entire populace that the KJV and other texts based on the Receptus are the
true Bible texts and have been used as the authentic and true texts, and to
question that claim is regarded as incorrect. The same falsehoods are advanced
in Europe in the Bible of the other languages based on the same errors. Nothing
could be further from the truth. The amazing thing is that the Churches of God
have become so ignorant and uneducated that they endorse the very basis of the
heresy that they have fought against for millennia. The result has been that
the last two eras of the Sabbatarian Quartodeciman Churches of this age are
utterly heretical and compromised by the Bible texts they use and the False
Calendar their ministry brought in from the Judaisers
that they allowed to administer them over the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries.
If one relies entirely on the KJV or NKJV and NIV one has no
chance of eliminating the heresies of Ditheism (No. 076B), or Binitarianism
and Trinitarianism (No. 076), for which the Churches of God
were persecuted for rejecting as heresies over the ages (see Nos. 122 and 170).
Choosing a Bible
The fact of the matter is that one should avoid relying on the KJV
and NKJV, NIV and other Protestant Trinitarian Texts. If one is forced for some
reason to use such texts in English, then there is one text that is the result
of an authoritative examination of the original Greek Biblical texts against
the texts of the Receptus. That work has been done by Bullinger in the
Companion Bible and the notes tell you which verses are original
and which are later additions to the Receptus and which should be omitted. An
Interlinear text is Green's Interlinear based on the Receptus and linked to
Strong's Concordance of the Bible.
The major text that should be used is the Revised Standard Version
and the best of those is the New Annotated Oxford Version of the RSV.
So also the Concordant Literal Versions by
A.E. Knoch are useful texts.
The LXX or Septuagint has been translated into English by Sir Lancelot
Brenton and that is a very useful tool.
Whiston's translation of Josephus is also important.
Avoid abridged works such as that of Frazer's Golden Bough. The
Original is in multiple volumes (13 vols.) and the abridged work avoids the
true texts that show the massive influence of the pagan doctrines of Attis,
Adonis, Osirus, Mithras and the Sun and Mystery Cults on Christianity.
Other useful works are the Ante-Nicene Fathers (ANF) and also The Encyclopedia
of Religion and Ethics (ERE). See also CCG Commentaries on the Koran and the
Bible. See also Mysticism (the B7 series) and the Sabbatarians in Transylvania
(A_B2).
CCG uses the RSV on which to base its commentaries and also using other important prophetic and historical
commentaries in its extensive library. So also CCG
considers Marshall's RSV Interlinear Greek English New Testament is also
useful. The Soncino is also an important text with rabbinical commentaries. However,
many of the notes are not Christian or Messianic in view
point. The CCG commentaries will
contain explanations of the Bible Prophecies not found elsewhere and are
important learning texts.
The text of Jeremiah contains the RSV and also
the LXX translations and identifies the reorganisation of the texts and has a
chart for comparison of the texts. The
explanations of the Psalms (F019, i, ii, iii, iv, v), are a powerhouse
of prophecy, and the Latter Prophets are an outstanding example of the long
term structure of God's intervention and plan for mankind under the Messiah and
the Churches of God.
Each person of the Churches of God wishing to attain to the First
Resurrection (No. 143A)
should study the texts re the Forgeries and Misrepresentations
discussed in Nos. 164F and 164G above. A workman is only as good as the tools they
use. If your minister insists on the KJV then you will not make the First
Resurrection. Shun those people trying to push those texts and false doctrines.
If your group and church also use the Hillel Calendar (Nos. 195; 195C), then you have virtually no
chance of reaching that First Resurrection, and perhaps not even of entering
the millennial system at the return of Christ, unless you repent. Your only
option is to shun these people and get as far away from them as possible and
find a group with true doctrines and the correct calendar (No. 156). The Church of God is not a social club. It is
indeed a family that looks after one another but it serves the One True God
under Messiah, whom He sent (John 17:3), and keeps the Law of God and the
Testimony of Jesus Christ (Isa. 8:20; Rev. 12:17; 14:12).
It is also important that you use a good concordance such as The
New Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.
Avoid all texts written by Trinitarians who teach Heaven and Hell
doctrines and who are revisionists teaching, for example, that some of the
Psalms were written in the reign of other later kings such as Hezekiah or who
place the Bible texts as late as the Second Century BCE. Their commentaries
will be worthless. Do not waste time on them. So also avoid any text that
teaches a Heavenly scenario on death even partially for some people or in any
so-called investigative judgment, or any elitist 144,000 under separative doctrines,
or also Hell as a place of torment. Remember God is not a respecter of persons,
nor is He a sadist.
Using the texts and Why
Once you are set up with the necessary tools you are ready to
work. However, you must understand your role and aim to do so correctly. Messiah stated: “Is it not written in your
law, ‘I said you are gods’? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came
(and Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of him whom the Father consecrated
and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said
'I am the Son of God’? (Jn. 10:34-36).
God has established a plan using a national vehicle as the
instrument of that plan into which all nations will be amalgamated under
Messiah (see Nos. 001A,
001B and 001C). The plan is
that we shall all become Elohim (see Elect as Elohim (No. 001)).
Each of us must qualify to enter the First Resurrection (143A) and we cannot
do so libelling and defaming each other among the elect or the world in
general. We dare not make a railing accusation against one another. Satan is
the accuser of the brethren and that is more than enough for all of us.
God knows what all of us has done and will do and remember that
all things work together for the good for those who love God and are called
according to His purpose (Rom. 8:28). All of us are predestined and at our
baptism all our sins are put as far as the east is from the west. You are not a
judge of each other, but it is God that judges us in the Spirit. We are to
judge Angels and that means the fallen host (No. 080) and not those
who have been wiping our runny noses for millennia.
We are judged according to the Law and the Testimony (Isa. 8:20; Rev.
12:17, 14:12).
The Law of God (L1) under which we are
judged and tested is in two divisions. These are under the Two Great
Commandments of the Law. The First Great Commandment (No. 252): “You shalt
love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all
your might. That Commandment covers the First Four Commandments.
Law and the First Commandment (No. 253);
Law and the Second Commandment (No. 254);
Law and the Third Commandment (No. 255);
Law and the Fourth Commandment (No. 256).
These Commandments cover the Law and the Testimony concerning the
Nature of God and the proper worship and respect of God and then the sanctity
of God and the keeping oneself free from idolatry under the Second Commandment
and free from blasphemy under the Third Commandment and sanctified in worship
under the keeping of God's Sabbaths and New Moons and Feasts under God's
Calendar (No. 156)
through the Fourth Commandment.
See also the God We Worship (No. 002).
These texts are encapsulated under the Shema (No. 002B).
All these Commandments are contained in the text The Law of God (L1).
So also the other elements of the Law are detailed in the Second
Great Commandment (257)
which is encapsuled in the phrase “You shall love your Neighbour as yourself.”
These are detailed in the texts:
Law and the Fifth Commandment (No. 258);
Law and the Sixth Commandment (No. 259);
Law and the Seventh Commandment (No. 260);
Law and the Eighth Commandment (No. 261);
Law and the Ninth Commandment (No. 262);
Law and the Tenth Commandment (No. 263).
On these
Two Great Commandments and the Ten Commandments that subtend from them hang all
the law and the prophets. It is by the Law of God and the Testimony and Faith
of Jesus Christ that we are all judged.
It is by this overarching code that our capacity to become elohim is
judged. The antinomians who claim the law is done away and who keep pagan
doctrines and holidays in contradiction to the Fourth Commandment will be consigned
to the Second Resurrection and the Great White Throne Judgment (No. 143B). They will not
be allowed to remain unrepentant and alive in the Millennium. They will die and
go straight to the Second Resurrection at the end of the millennial system.
Remember
this fact. No one is going to Heaven or Hell. All mankind will be dealt with on
earth. God will come here after all mankind have become Elohim. If they fail
then they will die, and they will be cremated in the Lake of Fire. God will not
deal with them until that process is over when the Second Resurrection is
finished.
Some
perverted ministry, among some of the Churches of God,
have invented a false doctrine regarding a Third Resurrection (No. 166). Such a
doctrine is a blasphemy against the Nature of God. It was developed to compel
people to remain in the churches and pay tithes instead of voting with their
feet. The ministry that teach it will be sent to the
Second Resurrection and all who believe and teach it will be sent to the Second
Resurrection for retraining with them. Your job is to identify and explain why
such a doctrine is utter blasphemy, along with all heaven and hell doctrines,
along with the rituals of the Mystery and Sun Cults, from Scripture. If your
minister believes and teaches such errors, then vote with your feet. Such
people may well keep you from the First Resurrection. Your task is to familiarise
yourself with the Bible texts so as to be able to link the texts to the Law and
the Testimony and so as to be able to give an account of the hope that lies
within us and to teach and train the next generations that are arising among us
so that they are able to survive and serve the One True God and Jesus Christ
whom He sent (Jn. 17:3); as that will enable us to attain Eternal Life (No. 133).