When you read the inspired and preserved words of God,
they ring with the truth. When an archaeologist
digs his shovel in a place where the Bible says a city once was,
he finds it, right where the Bible says.
When critics said Luke was mistaken,
Cyrenius wasn't governor of Syria when Jesus was born...
eventually historians found documentation that he was governor
twice, not once, right when Luke said he governed.
And when the Bible said an entire civilization existed,
that has long ago disappeared, and the Bible was ridiculed
for making up the Hittites, lo and behold!
Now they say the Hittite kingdom was
one of the largest in Old Testament history!
Time and again, God's words prove themselves true,
scientifically verifiable, and absolutely reliable,
and they lift up God the Father and His only begotten Son,
and call, not for works, but for faith in the sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus Christ, shedding His blood
to atone for our sins, by that faith alone,
to be granted eternal life.
The Bible, God's holy and preserved words,
is like no other book in the world.
And that is why the Devil is so hell-bent
to destroy and corrupt it with man's words.
His earliest known attempt was through Alexandria, Egypt,
getting them to insert some folk tales and fiction into the Bible.
Those books are known as Apocrypha.
Would you like to learn more about the Apocrypha?
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
I've spent months talking about what's in Codex Sinaiticus.
Then I spent a week talking about the Septuagint,
the Greek Old Testament.
I started to wonder, how do the different
Alexandrian Greek Bibles compare to each other?
Do they all have the same books? Are they in the same order?
What's in those Bibles?
It was a lot of work to find that information, including
checking photos of the Greek in Codex Vaticanus.
But now that I know it, I want to share it with you,
or at least, part of it. That way you can
share it with others.
The Catholic religion claims that the Septuagint
was the real Old Testament. They say Jesus and the apostles
used it. And they say
that the Catholic Latin Vulgate was based upon it.
So what is "it"? Do all those Greek Old Testaments
say the same thing?
I have expensive Bible software [BibleWorks] that shows me
the Greek text of Sinaiticus, Vaticanus,
and Alexandrinus and of the notes of the people who edited them,
as well as many other Greek texts.
But it only shows the New Testament
of those codices! It doesn't show me
the Old Testament.
Why? It's all one book.
Let me remind you: These codices (big books),
are made up of more than one part.
You already know they have the New Testament.
In addition, all of these codices
have the Old Testament. But it's more than
the books that you find in the Hebrew Old Testament.
It adds other books that we call the Apocrypha.
The origin of the word means something that would be
better stuck into an out-of-the-way drawer
and forgotten about.
It's basically something "better stored out of sight."
That's the reason they called it Apocrypha
and rejected any of it from being included in the Bible.
There are many apocryphal writings. Are these in your Bible Version?
Notice here the Apocrypha that is "better kept out of sight,"
Additions to Esther, Song of the Three Young Children,
and Bel and the Dragon, those are all additions to Daniel.
There's Judith, and Tobit, and Wisdom of Solomon,
and Wisdom of Jesus ben Sirach,
and 1 and 2 Maccabees.
Then there's Pseudepigrapha, where it tells "false names."
Baruch wasn't by Baruch, The Letter of Jeremiah
wasn't by Jeremiah. And just like
at the end of Codex Sinaiticus, The Epistle of Barnabas
wasn't by Barnabas, and The Shepherd of Hermas
had nothing to do with Hermas of the Bible.
There's also the Bible book add-ons, like here (additions to Daniel)
and Esther, the additions to Esther.
But are any of these in your Bible version?
That's the question.
I looked for "Apocrypha" today and I found these versions,
with Apocrypha:
This is the Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha,
Revised Standard (RSV). This was the approved version
when I went to Fuller Seminary.
Then here's the New Revised Standard (NRSV),
the approved version after I went to Fuller Seminary.
Then after that, believe it or not,
there's an English Standard (ESV)
with Apocrypha! How many of you knew that
they made one for the ESV? It's been out with Apocrypha
since 2009.
I just ordered one.
And the World English Bible (WEB)
also has the Apocrypha.
And how about The Living Bible? Well, it's been called
The Catholic Living Bible. It's been out since the 1970s.
But let me break for a second. And I want to tell you something
about the Living Bible a good friend told me.
And I'm gonna quote it right off the recording.
Okay?
He said, "I was in a CBA
(Christian Booksellers Association) convention in the 1970s,
attending the keynote session. The auditorium was filled
with many, perhaps a thousand or more,
Christian booksellers. They served their communities
with Christian books. And [Kenneth] Taylor,
[author of the Living Bible], had been invited as
their keynote speaker.
"Kenneth Taylor stepped up to the podium.
He turned at looked up at the big banner
across the top of the stage that said, "People Serving People."
"The CBA certainly felt that was laudable.
After all, that's what their members do:
serve their communities with Bibles and books,
"people serving people."
"Taylor turned and looked at the banner,
turned back to the microphone, and said --actually whispered--
'I have a problem with that. I have a problem with that.
Because when your goal is to serve people,
you will ultimately make compromise.'
"He went on later to say, to whisper, how he had lost his voice
following doing the Living Bible."
My friend tells me, "And with his own mouth
And I heard him say, 'That may have been God's judgment
for me tampering with God's words.'"
Another one with Apocrypha, The New English Bible (NEB)
with Apocrypha, 1970.
Here's The Revised English Bible (REB) with the Apocrypha, 1976.
Get ready for this one. Brand-new, 2013,
The Common English Bible (CEB), the present approved version
for Fuller Seminary. And the CEB Study Bible
with Apocrypha was edited by
the present Dean of the Fuller School of Theology!
There are 7 or 8 authors from Fuller in this book.
Also a Jesuit, but I'll get to that, later.
Also the Good News Bible (GNB) from the American Bible Society.
This is the text that Bible translators
all over the world have with them,
and that will help Protestants and Baptists translate the Apocrypha
in new Bibles in all mission fields
for the Roman Catholic Religion.
Then there are all the Catholic Bibles,
every single one of which has the apocrypha.
There is a sneaky move out right now,
to get people to put the Apocrypha in their Bibles.
I'm gonna have to go into that more in the next vlog.
This is just an introductory video.
But this much I will say: Everyone,
from the Ecumenical to the Amish (I just got this in the mail),
is being pushed to put the Apocrypha in the Bible.
And one of the lowest methods is to say,
"Well, the King James Bible had the Apocrypha in it!"
I will go more into detail about the many, many
problems with the Apocryphal books, but let me say this
about the King James.
The translators were told by the bishops
of the Church of England that they had to translate
the Apocrypha and put it in the new Bible.
They had no choice.
But they stood firm, like Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego. They refused to put
any apocryphal books in either Testament,
either the New or the Old. They gave seven reasons for this,
which I listed in Answers to
Your Bible Version Questions.
1. "Not one of them is in the Hebrew language,
which was alone used by the inspired historians and poets
of the Old Testament."
2. "Not one of the writers lays any claim to inspiration."
3. "These books were never acknowledged
as sacred Scriptures by the Jewish Church,
and therefore were never sanctioned by our Lord."
4. "They were not allowed a place among the sacred books,
during the first four centuries of the Christian Church."
5. "They contain fabulous statements, and
statements which contradict not only the canonical Scriptures,"
the New and Old Testaments,
"but themselves; as when,
in the two Books of Maccabees, Antiochus Epiphanes
is made to die three different deaths in as many different places."
I have to break in here. Even the Catholic
New American Bible... (Here's mine.
Bought it in '82.) Even the Catholic New American Bible
admits these massive contradictions in their note at
2 Maccabees 1:14-17:
"A different account of the death of Antiochus IV
is given in 2 Maccabees 9:1-29, and another variant account
in 1 Maccabees 6:1-16...."
Why would the Catholic leaders include these books
if they knew they were lies? I'll deal with that
in the next two videos. Back to the list.
6. "It inculcates doctrines at variance with the Bible,
such as prayers for the dead and sinless perfection."
7. "It teaches immoral practices, such as lying, suicide,
assassination and magical incantation."
I will show you examples of these lies and false doctrines
in the next vlog, when I expose the many lies
and a couple serious false doctrines in the Apocryphal Book of Tobit.
But let me show you this. On every page of the Apocrypha,
the translators did this. Where before
it always had summaries of what was on the page,
when it hit the Apocrypha, it just says,
"Apocrypha, Apocrypha, Apocrypha, Apocrypha."
It sounds like they're saying "A pox upon thee."
"Apocrypha, Apocrypha." And then at the very end,
the last page of 2 Maccabees it says,
"The END of Apocrypha."
On the other side it says, "The New Testament
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,"
totally separating it, both from the New Testament,
and from the Old Testament.
So let me ask you, What's in your Bible?
Even the Study Bibles don't believe
what's in the Apocrypha, and even, you will find out,
other parts of the actual Bible.
But I know what is in my Bible. And I believe every single word.
God bless you, and have a wonderful day.