I could not believe what happened
this morning.
There I was, walking quietly, stepping carefully,
hoping that nobody would notice me as I stealthily crept by
the people around me.
I had no idea what I'd stumbled into.
I was right in the middle of a field of zombies!
No, I wasn't dreaming. As a matter of fact,
I was wide awake!
I had unknowingly stumbled into a website full of
New Testament textual critics!
I even found the rotting corpse of one of my old professors at Fuller!
And I'm sorry to say it, but this largely came to pass
because of that mess of contradictions and errors
known as the Codex Sinaiticus.
Want to hear what I've learned the last few days, and
how you can escape being a victim?
And you Bible and theology students -- doubly so?
Listen carefully. This could save your life.
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
You think I'm joking. But I'm not. This is serious.
I'm not talking about movie zombies. I'm talking about the real ones,
the dry husks of people who teach in theological seminaries.
I've never seen a zombie movie in my life.
But this weekend I watched a review of one.
And I think they get their material From the theological seminaries.
I prayed for a year before I entered Fuller Seminary
that God would keep me away from there,
if He didn't want me to get my Master's degree there.
I visited one day. I told you in another vlog
about meeting the president's secretary,
and how she didn't believe in the Old Testament miracles.
Well, I didn't tell you about how I talked
with some professors, and found out
they were almost all evolutionists! They believed Genesis 1-11,
the basis of all Christian and Jewish belief
about sin, righteousness, and judgment,
was a poem and nothing more.
Creation scientist Henry Morris once changed my life
in my Bible college, by saying if you don't believe Genesis 1-11,
you have no reason to believe John 3:16.
If there was no "first Adam," then Christ can't be
the "second Adam."
He was so right.
I only had two professors who still believed the Bible at Fuller.
Both of them were women: Julie Gorman,
who took the scriptures as literally as she could;
and Dean Meye's daughter, Marianne Meye Thompson,
who confided to our class the extremely controversial fact
that she had found a way to actually believe
the apostle Peter wrote 2nd Peter!
Imagine that!
I had Dr. Ralph P Martin, who said, "That wouldn't hurt your faith,
would it?" when I pointed out in front of class
how his re-translating "from the beginning" in Luke 1
would make Luke not written until the 2nd century AD.
I told about him in another vlog.
I also had Don Hagner for New Testament.
He would always read passages directly out of his Greek Critical Text,
then offer his interpretation as we went into each topic.
Well, guess what? I found a zombie
munching on his brains on a website just this morning!
I hear that zombies feed on other people's brains.
One movie claimed that was how they could
absorb the memories of a person. Well, that's what I found this morning.
Some guy was making a paper about the beliefs of Don Hagner
about the Pastoral Epistles, 1 and 2 Timothy, and Titus.
This article showed that after I went to Fuller,
Hagner slowly started doubting that Paul
wrote some of letters in the Bible with Paul's name on them.
He called them "pseudonymous" -- that means "fake name" --
the guy used Paul's name, but it wasn't Paul,
and probably wrote after Paul died.
This is a real quote from the article: The author says,
"I don't get the impression that he has confidently
changed his stance on authorship, but has edged over the line,
so to speak, with the balance of evidence
ever so slightly disposing him to a rather agnostic position
of pseudonymity."
So professors and pastors throw out words like "pseudonymity,"
but they say people can't understand "thee" and "thou"?
Such hypocrites.
Anyway, one article on the site was about Bart Ehrman,
who disbelieves in the whole Bible.
How about these topics? From the website,
this morning: Okay?
Could Jesus read?
Does the gospel of Mark even teach that Jesus is God?
Or is He just a human messiah?
How Jesus became God, and whether His resurrection
was historical or just "eschatological"
Did the Council of Nicaea invent the idea
that Jesus was God?
Was 1 Peter written much later after Peter's death?
This is what I've been telling you about.
It's not "Bible-believing." It's Bible doubting
and disbelieving
You see, it's important to me
how Jacob felt, after he wrestled with
how he could face Esau his brother and how he wrestled with
God the Son the night before.
It's important to me how Job felt,
while listing out all the many things
he did for the hurting people around him,
before he was confronted with the Living God
speaking out of the whirlwind.
And it's important that God's Son,
the Lord Jesus Christ, said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away,
but my words shall not pass away," in Matthew, Mark and Luke.
These guys think it's fair game to debate
when Jesus "became God"!
How did this start?
Mark 16:9-20 is missing from Codex Vaticanus --
and was changed with a cancel sheet
to be missing those verses in Codex Sinaiticus.
(Vaticanus is over here.)
So, as it says in one Sinaiticus book, if Mark is the first Gospel,
and Mark doesn't contain the resurrection, then
maybe the other gospels and books just made it up!
And they believed that lie, because Sinaiticus
was supposed to be, "oldest and best."
But you need to know this: Codex Sinaiticus was
pretty much accepted as-is, no questions asked.
They accepted Tischendorf's fourth century,
300s AD date, even though his
claiming that early date is what made Tischendorf
a superstar.
That couldn't be a motive for claiming Sinaiticus was old,
could it?
They never even tested the animal skin --parchment--
or the age of the inks!
And what did they get? To us, a really sloppy, erased,
rewritten, corrected and re-corrected, ripped apart, colored and
partially hidden document.
But to those who criticize the Bible, the textual critics,
it's a gold mine! Everything you could ever want,
to pick at and dice and slice and devour.
And the more you trust those zombie text scholars,
the more zombie-like you get.
Until finally, one day, you become just like them,
doubting everything, and wanting to devour
other people's brains, to see if there is any other way
you can slice and dice the Bible,
2 Timothy 3:7 "Ever learning, and never able to come
to the knowledge of the truth."
And yet the true Jesus of the Bible, God the Son,
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is He
"Who will have all men to be saved,
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth,"
1 Timothy 2:4.
God never wanted you to be a Bible-doubting scholar.
There is not a single benefit to doubting God or His words
anywhere in the scripture.
Don't catch that zombie-making virus!
As it is said in scripture, 2 Kings 4:40,
"there is death in the pot!"
But Jesus said, in John 5:39-40
"Search the scriptures; for in them
ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they
which testify of me. 40 And ye will not come to me,
that ye might have life."
Life is why Jesus came. He wants us to have eternal life,
starting right now.
Those Bible doubting scholars have justified their disbelief
in ever-growing numbers, starting with
publishing the Sinaiticus in 1862.
And all they leave behind them is a mass of either dead bodies,
or spiritual zombies.
I graduated from Fuller in 1987.
And gradually, the Lord delivered me
from the zombie-making virus of doubt.
And 11 years later, on November 30th, 1998,
the Lord brought me to a fullness of faith
that He had preserved His words, and that those words were preserved
in English in the King James Bible.
400 plus years, tried, tested, and proved.
And just like Romans 1:17 says, I went "from faith to faith,"
believing God and trusting Him more
every day.
Don't believe Bible-doubting professors.
Don't trust their doubt-inducing Sinaiticus.
It's a trap to make you a spiritual zombie.
Many of them are walking dead people,
devouring the life out of anyone
who comes too near.
Give them the truth, just as you would anybody else.
But don't follow them. Remember Jesus,
Matthew 8:22.
"But Jesus said unto him, Follow me;
and let the dead bury their dead."
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.