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Please use 1Jn1:9 while you read, so to be online ("Filled") with the Spirit, and thus profit.

Thank you, my patient friends who beta-tested this page! GIST: Bible translations amount to hearsay evidence, rather than God's Actual Testimony. (Caveat #2 is longer version of the problem.) You needn't settle for such imperfect, second-hand testimony. God's FANTASTIC Plan is to build Christ's Own Thinking IN you by teaching you to read for yourself the exact words of the PERFECT Bible the actual writers wrote (called "the Autograph" in theology). You WANT supernatural proof of God? Learn The Original Words of THE WORD, IN the Word. His Gift to you: you just bring a willingness to learn and breathe 1Jn1:9 -- He'll provide the power and the teaching system to learn, customized to YOUR needs. Then you'll see the spiritual life is SO much more than merely being rescued from Hell.

Most Christians would love it if they had continual supernatural proof of God. Many would love to be in that first century, among those Christians. And everyone salivates over some ossuary or other relic as 'proof' of God. Yet what bigger proof, than the very WORDS originally penned by the "God-breathed" writers themselves? 'Cost God roughly 1500 years to "yatser", "plassw", sculpt, a whole Book of those words. Well, "books", actually. 66 of them. Biblioi, aka, "the Bible". So if He went to THAT much trouble to preserve the God-breathed Scripture EXACTLY as written by Bible writers, the very words being EXACTLY what He wanted said to mankind; the very words bearing the mark of Divine Authorship; and if He then PROMISED to TEACH you those very words! Tell me: what sane Christian could refuse that Divine Gift?

For that's exactly what 1Cor13 promises, in the very words Paul was given to write. THOSE words tell us that God would replace the temporary and lesser spiritual gifts, with the Greatest Gift: His Son's Thinking IN WRITING, SCRIPTURE. For when the Perfect Soul has been Completed in Writing, teleios! you do away with the partial and childish. Moreover, He promised to preserve this Perfect EXACTLY as THEN written throughout history, so anyone IN history can HAVE HIM "written on your hearts and minds", as they say. Well, the Holy Spirit said that, and often, too; even interrupting the writer of Hebrews' thoughtflow, to remind him, in the Greek of Heb10:15-17. After all, the writer had begun with the Jeremiah 31 theme, of everything now going through, that Soul. So who would miss, the ol' Ark? We have better things! The Anchor behind the Veil, Heb 6:18-20.

And so, He KEPT His Promise, finishing up with Book of Revelation, circa 96AD; no more temporary spiritual gifts, after that; tongues was Isa28 playing out its fulfillment, so ended with Temple destruction in 70AD; healing and miracle gifts phased out too, since they were but letters-of-spiritual-credit; the other temporary gifts of knowledge and prophecy, died as the finished Canon got into people's hands; for, as Hebrews 1 explains, everything now comes through Him. Through Him, the post-Canon spiritual gifts of communication would be primarily two: evangelists and pastor-teachers; the former, to be roving Johnny Appleseeds; and the latter, to be the authoritative husbandmen; everyone else, ranked below, so the crop could be harvested in an orderly manner. All this, to plant and rear, His Seed: all for Him, and through Him, and by Him, and grown via the Holy Spirit ONLY, building His Offspring, His Crop, His Body: that is, NOW, "Church", us; making us into, Bride. Promise of Ephesians, fulfilled: Father's Wedding Gift to Son made by 'mom', The Holy Spirit! For Him, the Groom. Heh: a better begetting, than some ol' snakegod's son Ion, got! [Read Euripedes' play, "Ion", and then Ephesians: the Holy Spirit had Paul use the play as a tweaking framework to show God's superior begetting. "Right" Pastor? link at pagetop reviews the pastoral role in detail.]

"Him", the Son: Him, The Dramatic Accusative, the One Who Created the universe in that nanosecond's breath of Gen1:1, as a Gift to Father Who Ordained it all in the Decree of the Divine Trinity Corporation, to declare and fulfill Their United Intent; Their Love; Their "Oneness", all wordplay on Their Identical, like-Triplets, Infinite Essence, and Their Voluntary Family-ness: Father, Spirit as 'Mother', Son as Heir. To inherit a unique Ruling Priesthood, so that His Thinking, replicated in them, circulates pleasing 'aroma' for Father, eternally. Nurtured, by 'Mother'. All for "Him", the Son; the One Who controls history, the YH+WH, the One Who Always Was and became, Our Savior.

So His painstaking collection of God-breathed manuscripts of His Own Thinking, which we call "Bible", is titled by theology, "the Autograph". As in, Genuine Article. As in, God's Own Handwriting. Graphologists explain that every handwriting has an embedded 'personality', such that you could IDENTIFY THE AUTHOR of it, given sufficient handwitten material. 'Kinda like a fingerprint, only MUCH harder to fake. Very much harder. So much harder, in fact, that anyone trying to imitate that handwriting -- translate it, so to speak -- CAN'T.

For the Hand of the Writer necessarily displays the Soul of the Writer. As in, His Soul. Christ's. In 66 little books. Well, one Book, one "pistis", Doctrine: HIS. His Faith, His Thinking, the Bible, EXACTLY as originally written. So, THE VERY ORIGINAL WORDS! still preserved. Words He learned, when in His Human Body down here. Words He thought, even on the Cross. Words in His Own Head, so THOSE SAME WORDS, can go into our heads. THOSE words. Not, someone else's.

So, OUR Bible is His Soul, for He became the Truth, and the Bible IS Truth. Disclosure ("manifestation"), codified in writing; so now His Soul can get INTO, our own. So His Handwriting, becomes ours, as we are lithoi, stones to be written on, and He's the Hupogrammos, the CopyBook Whose embedded Personality, through those same words He thought down here.. embeds us! Just as He repeatedly promised to David, viz., in Ps138:2. Heh: He 'autographs' us through the Autograph! So, He's REPLICATED in us. One learned Autographic Thought at a time.

The process of building these Perfect Thoughts in a believer is as fragmented and painstaking, as it was to even COLLECT the Word we have. It took CENTURIES of suffering work by thousands of dedicated folks, many risking or otherwise trashing their own lives! for us to even HAVE a Bible. For there has never been a collection of books so persecuted, in history. That is why we have these manuscripts IN PIECES. Thousands of them. Grand trashing-of-Bible scheme began from the day Moses penned Genesis, and has been going on, ever since; however, when the NT was written, the persecution stepped up BIG-TIME. Persecution spawned sequestration, and even today there are probably many caches of Scripture hidden in caves within the more-remote areas of the Middle East; or, directly below the cities, which after all were built on the ruins of prior cities. So who can find them, now? You can't displace a whole population to go looking, can you?

So we have mostly pieces of Scripture. So, in the 1800's, brave folks like Tischendorf and Tregelles and legions of others, fought to get, collect, preserve and protect, what manuscripts we could find. Pieces or no. Amazingly, those two gentlemen were to find the two largest, most-complete of the manuscripts: Sinaiticus and Vaticanus. So, with incredible patience, the manuscripts were assembled, catalogued, compared and a whole "Bible" text, could be proven. Because, what God writes, has God's Personality embedded in it: fakirs then become obvious, and fakers are exposed. Word-by-word, in the Word. So, we've not had the complete Canon in PROVABLE form, until the last 150 years!

So too, in the believer, only fragments of Truth, daily, are painstakingly deposited by the One Who Wrote the Autograph. After all, He knows what the whole content is, all its connections and meanings. So a few dots at a time, doesn't inhibit Him. We who get these dots, for a long time see nothing from them. We just memorize them, or believe them, and as we do, everything in our nature tries to tear those fragments, those little stones, in even smaller pieces. Just as the hunt to destroy Scripture was, such that we have many pieces, so it is in our souls. Still, each such moment requires one VOTE for getting more dots. It hurts, to vote. We're confused, bewildered; God seems unfair; this learning process seems too hard; but a mosaic is being built.

So if we persist (and we won't, unless God is more interesting than the competition), eventually Scripture will collect in our souls. And then, coalesce. Kinda like the knitting of fetal parts, which prompted Paul to quip how he was on the point of giving birth (literal Greek) to the Galatians, anxious for Christ to be born "in" them. (Gal4:19; it's pregnancy wordplay tieing to Isa53:11 in BOTH LXX and Masoretic.) For the Head to get into their heads, had to go in one dot of truth at a time. But the Writer of the Book, knew how to connect all those dots!

So each believer CAN eventually become a living Bible. Head-into-head, a replication of the Autograph. Living, surviving all the fragmenting onslaughts of disbelief. A true miracle, bigger than all others. "Christ in you, the confidence of glory." We were in Him on the Cross, so now He gets in us, by His Thinking getting in us. We are in Him from the moment of our spiritual births, and He indwells us (as do Father and Spirit) from that moment onward; but.. do we ABIDE IN HIM? Or are our minds, 'dwelling' somewhere else? That's the harvesting task, the meaning of life down here. Bringing every thought into captivity to His, heh: learning One Autographic Thought at a time.

So without doubt you can tell Who wrote THIS Book, despite 44+ human agents over 1500 years. Despite thousands of mind-boggling fragments of Scripture which required a good century to piece together. So No 'council' ever proves the Autograph: it proves ITSELF. Daily. To you. In your head. From the Spirit Who Empowered the Head to learn the SAME WORDS. To You, if you are willing to examine it objectively. For, the first meaning of "Bible" is TESTIMONY. Legal documents. Deposition. Will and Testament. So, provability must be claimed. And, it is. "The ear tests truth", Elihu said to Job. And, "judge for yourselves" (refrain in the NT, NIV's version). Notice HOW you prove it: by READING it yourself. For, the claim is supernatural: as you read, breathing 1Jn1:9 as needed, God HIMSELF (no one else) will DEMONSTRATE it to you. All those verses about the Word not 'returning void', are sample affadavits of this demonstration.

See, thought is like handwriting. It has characteristics through which you can identify the SOURCE, if you have enough material. Well, this is God's Thought, and we have a lot of it. Each word, each case ending, each smidgen of etymological and other wordplay is so rich in interconnected MEANING, so incredibly interwoven pan-Bible, flawless, plousios, wealthy! Even the tiniest particle so thoroughly integrates with the entire Bible, it would require a lifetime to write out all the meanings in just one passage! So engrossing is the INTEGRITY of all this Thought, you could go on gazing for YEARS, entirely forgetting everything else. For the "Word of God" is the Autograph, and it is LIVING, since Thought itself is alive, even though printed on a page. Replicating, in you...

How did This Thought get to be in some manuscripts we call "The Autograph", also known as the "original-language manuscripts" of "Scripture"? Well, think: thought is invisible, and it replicates. You are reading the page. The thoughts written on it are now in YOUR head, yet still ON the page. Immaterial, begetting. And that is how Scripture came to be: God's Own Thinking replicated in selected individuals (not automatonic, sheesh -- they LEARNED from the Spirit); then, written out on the page.

So, that's what Scripture is designed to do for YOU: go from the page, into your head. Not mindlessly, but you think over what it means. Constantly, using 1Jn1:9 to stay 'online' with the Spirit, else you will only understand hot air. For, this is Spiritual Thinking, not human. Put into a Human, Christ. So now, His Thinking in you. All this, was promised in Isa53:10-12, centuries ago, since the Christ paid for our sins WITH HIS THINKING. Nailed to a Cross, surely He didn't do anything: lambs EAT and DIE, they don't 'work'. Now, His Thinking is in your hands so you can learn to THINK AS HE DOES. Such always was the biggest promise in the Old Testament, one which every OT writer yearned for. But they only got some; but we Church can get All of Him. Easiest translated verse to see this promise? Jer31:31-34. The fulfillment of it is explained in Heb8-10:17's Greek. [If you reread Hebrews a good 24 times, the first 6 times reading just to get familiar with overall epistle structure and words; then, analyzing more and more during each subsequent 'pass', you might be able to see the explanation in translation. Breathe 1Jn1:9 like crazy, and ALWAYS parse/outline any epistle. Everyone always misses the forest for the trees, when it comes to Scripture.]

This Autograph must be tested, then, á la the command about income taxes in Malachi 3:10. Genuinely preserved all these centuries, so Provable, and you are to do that. Due diligence, baby. Directly from God himself showing it to you: 24/7, as you are willing. No go-betweens. Better still, no more visions, dreams or other feely-thing to doubt afterwards, since you can always check the "Writings". So God has replaced ALL 'tongues', with those Writings, written in the 'original tongues' of Scripture itself. Which 'tongues' the Holy Spirit will ENABLE you to LEARN and really understand, yourself, COMPLETELY irrespective of human handicaps.. [Even the mentally-ill or brain-damaged people benefit from the study. Theoretically there should be some too-great handicap level, but it seems that so long as the person has an active volition (i.e., not comatose, though I'm not sure even that's a hindrance), that's enough. Obviously learning speed may be impacted, but the RELEVANT data, wow -- grasp is brilliant. Don't underestimate the power of the Spirit. IQ thus rises, too. Sometimes, dramatically. Must be a side benefit, or necessary to study.] Just as promised, from 1Cor12:31 on the "better way", as Paul puts it. Enabled, to anyone who wants it; enabled within a sane, supernatural teaching system (1Cor2, 1Cor12, Eph4). The Autograph of God Himself, in your head. The Genuine Article.

The teaching system is covered in the "Right" Pastor? link at pagetop. Gist is that the pastor is the conduit for learning, and you have to find out who is the right one for you. It's strictly a personnel-matching question (so neither institution nor denomination are relevant, nor excluded). Keyed to your LEARNING needs, no one else's. Use 1Jn1:9, ask Father in Son's name to lead you to your right pastor. God does this usually in a witty/ironic manner, so don't close the ears. Because the pastor is a conduit, you still have no go-betweens; rather, your learning is FACILITATED, kinda like a good ventilation system. For the Spirit teaching him, is also teaching YOU, so you get the benefit of BOTH what the pastor is learning from the Spirit, and the Spirit Himself, teaching you. MUCH faster way to learn, much more provable and reliable, than study on your own. Like: zipping through space, rather than hobbling on foot.

The right pastor might solely be teaching from a translation, might know NOTHING about the Autograph, etc. But, if YOU are interested in the Autograph, then your right pastor either teaches from it already, or studies from it and teaches the results of that study. Again, this is a personalized teaching system, so only God can show you who your teacher should be, or should change to be (depending on your growth in Christ). You really can't evaluate this on your own, so depend on Him, talk with Him. You don't need human help, though you will always need a teacher. Unless, of course, you are male and have been given the pastor-teacher's gift from the Spirit. In which case, He will cause you to come to know that.

So, you don't need a translation, since you can learn the Original which Spirit Himself wrote, via those human authors. This Greatest Gift is available to ANYONE. Because He will also empower YOU to learn to read it. Since it's God's Power alone doing all the work, He's not limited by the fact you don't know the original tongues of Scripture. He's not limited by anything, except that He won't coerce your own desire to learn. Love never coerces, see. So the only limit, is how much you WANT what He so carefully preserved.

This Original is a Person, really, not mere text. Oh, for a long time in the beginning, while you 'eat' (=learn+believe+think over, Bible metaphor) Scripture it will seem like any other type of academic knowledge. But you're really learning data about how He thinks. For it's HOW a person THINKS, which makes or breaks enjoyment of his company. So the ideal way to learn the Autograph is by FIRST focusing on stuff about God, Himself. If you're learning basic stuff like salvation and the commandments, can you 'see' aspects of His Personality, Attitudes, WHY He designed/constructed, within the 'printout' of that data? Do you see the Grace, yet the Uncompromising Righteousness? OF course, at this stage words like "Grace" are.. well, still only words. Meaning comes later. But keep on SEEKING meaning, with whatever you know now. Don't just memorize or account growth by how many verses you read. Seek MEANING CONTENT, not quantity consumed.

All too often learning is made dry or rote, collecting data but never learning how to CONNECT it, which is why Christians get into silly debates over whether the God Who AUTHORED science, is compatible with it. As if the RELEVANT data for the debates, could ever be collected! So of course the young believer feels threatened by what sounds 'intelligent' and inimical to Bible study. The idea that God does miracles, is somehow shameful to admit. Never mind, that God by nature IS a miracle (never-born)! Man's objections always betray his genetic urge to FEAR God. See Gen3. We inherit the sin nature GENETICALLY. Duh, since God creates the soul individually, AFTER the body is outside, pattern of Gen2:7 (see Caveat#4 on Home page for details). So it's NORMAL to feel queasy or 'defeated' if you trust God. Stupid Energizer Bunny (old sin nature, my term for it) just has to beat the drums...

So, if INSTEAD the believer just gets into the nature of God Himself (no more fascinating Subject in the universe), the more he learns, the less it will matter HOW the Flood happened, etc. People use 'science' to justify disbelief: they create tautologies of finite measure, which of course INFINITE God will 'fail' (finity can't detect infinity, duh). But their seeming erudition won't bother you, once you know the Person through the Word: you'll realize, hey, there's an answer to all this 'science' stuff, and God knows what it is; so I don't need to find out NOW what it is. Then, AFTER you've stopped the angst, God will just spring the answer on you, lol. And He'll do it, with a GREAT deal of wit! So all that ersatz angst over what the world deems itself 'wise' to question, will become a chuckle of satisfaction. Did for me, anyway. In the OT there's this running refrain that God will answer you when you're not looking for the answer (i.e., because you trust Him). He sure lives up to that refrain!

Again, studying Scripture to see Him is the whole point FOR Scripture, since Scripture is really a Person's Thinking. His. [If Bible was about right/wrong, then its length would be about 30 pages; just the broad rules, from which you could derive the corollaries. So Bible is here for a DIFFERENT reason, 2Pet3:18.] So, the more you learn Scripture and TURN OVER THE MEANING of what you learn, the more you see the PERSON Whose Thinking, Scripture is. That's when life, starts to mean something: seeing Him. For example, this is the One Who, before He added Humanity to Himself, made a COVENANT WITH A PHALLUS. Abram's. What a sense of HUMOR! Nothing degrades Him, see. So He has no degrading thoughts about us, see. We think He is angry, or displeased with us: well, that's projection, a defense mechanism born of Adam's fall. But not the truth. All this, you know just by thinking over, WHY the Lord picked CIRCUMCISION to make a covenant!

In the Autograph, every verse is chock full of humor, irony, wordplay on so many levels you'd have to RETIRE to even write down the categories of them. So as you learn to read the text, you can't help but notice the unending Happiness of Him Who saved us. For example, in Heb5:8-9 there's a pun of two words, emathen and epathen: learning and suffering. Doesn't sound funny, but when you know about Jewish wit, you realize, is it suffering, if it's learning? (Jews PRIZE learning above all else.) So, you really DO come to know Him, as you analyze and turn over, what Scripture you learn. You ARE 'around Him' (aware of Him) in the study, and during the rest of the day; eventually, He 'surrounds' you (the REST of your awareness comes to be 'inside' your awareness of Him): because the Scripture literally runs in your head, 24/7. Not, some endless parade of quotes like chat channel nitwits post. OH NO. Snippets in various languages of Autograph or translations, concepts they illustrate, keywords, VALUES, all kinds of delightful connections, run through the mind: whether focused on some necessary or unpleasant task, or just relaxing. Prayer is conversation, not tiresome i-want listings.

It's a RELATIONSHIP, you see. So you keep on SEEING Him, through 'whatever' in your day. No woo-woo supernaturality. Because, it's a RELATIONSHIP, see. Living. Kinda hard to describe. And you get into and get the most out of that relationship, if you learn to read the Autograph. Because, all those nifty witty uses of every piece of grammar (who thought grammar would ever be FUN?), they are the real key to hermeneutical understanding, and even more, the key to how He sees things in general. Nothing too small. Infinity takes no space. Little is Big. Stuff like that. Sure, if your pastor studies in the Autograph and then gives you the RESULTS without much teaching you the Autograph, you can come to have a VERY happy relationship with the One Who Saved you. But if you want to max out the enjoyment of that Relationship, find a pastor who teaches his congregation the Autograph itself. Nothing like it. What started as a lot of seemingly-dry stuff about tenses and cases and parts of speech, became -- for this believer, anyway -- a treasure of pleasure in knowing HOW HE CRAFTS, hence HOW HE THINKS. Nothing like it. Wish I didn't have to eat or sleep.

With respect to people, learning His Thinking has this marvelous effect of RELAXING YOU. The typical Christian is uptight, á la Eph4:14, so thirsts for either agreement, or conquest. Prone to think his agreement with another benefits him or the other person, not realizing yet how agreement with God, not people, is what "unity" means. Bible to him is all about right or wrong, my-doctrine-is-better-than-your-doctrine. He judges everything, is nervous about anything, is threatened by a feather, and miserable. Spiritual childhood is like this, and the only way to break out of it is to start learning Scripture JUST TO SEE HIM. Never mind about who's unscriptural compared to you. Irrelevant question.

Just study to see Him and how He thinks and Why He thinks as He does in Bible. Just because. When that desire is born, when a person begins to study Scripture to SEE HIM, childhood recedes and finally ends. Then, happiness begins. Because Happiness is knowing Him, and all else is.. well, condimental. So you relax about people (gradual, maybe you won't notice it for some time). So now you don't NEED people so much, you don't NEED things so much, your self-image matters less. Because, you're more and more busy, looking at Him. This is Love built by those deposits of His Thinking, as promised in 1Cor13. And it spills over to other people. Relaxes them, too. Paradoxical, that by not caring for people but for study, makes the life with people better for them and you!

Now look what happens when some human CHANGES the original tongues of Scripture 'for' you, via PUBLISHED BIBLE TRANSLATIONS: you lose the Autograph, and replace it, with HEARSAY. Because, OTHERS looked at the Autograph, NOT you. Upon whom you RELY, to tell you what THEY think It means. Ahhh, so there are 'middlemen' between this Autograph God gifted, and you. So, predictably, the 1Cor13 promise in the Autograph, that His Head is to be poured into yours via the very LEARNING of the Autograph, 'disappears' in translation; never mind, that it's PAUL'S CENTRAL THESIS! Which began, back in 1Cor1:5. (1:5's PITIFUL mistranslation throws the whole letter's translation, off-kilter; since the translator MISSED THE MEANING in 1Cor1:5 (PURPOSE of the letter), he couldn't properly translate the words throughout the letter. This gaffe is common, so most mission-critical verses are messed up throughout Bible; though in defence, it must be said translating the Autograph's ASTOUNDING wordplay is impossible: too many layers. Still, come on, now: in 1:5, "Speech" there is the famous word LOGOS in the plural (it's with one of Paul's favorite buzzwords, ploutizw, very strong; to MAKE YOU FABULOUSLY WEALTHY in Word) so at LEAST should be translated "WORDS", as in "SCRIPTURE"; not mere lip movements of men. Did NO one see the VERY SPECIAL TERMS in the verse? Aaaarrrggghh.)

Thus the translation is NO LONGER God's chosen 'tongue', no longer perfect but corrupted. For, men changed it. Men, not God. So in translation, 1Cor13 is predictably anthropocentric, rather than God-centric. For in translation, 1Cor13 seems to be about some emotion called "love". But the Autograph says the opposite. For the Spirit had Paul choose the word "agape", which is NEVER used for human love; rather, ONLY for Divine Love. For God is Love, and God is Pure Thought: so His Thoughts are INNATELY Love at all times. Love is Thinking, not emotion; for emotion is housed in the body, but Deity is Infinite, non-bodied. Hence 1Cor13 focuses on how, just as Christ's Own Human Thinking was built by the Spirit, so also He will build Him in your own; and He will use this Autograph to do it. Because, IT is Christ's Thinking and hence alive (i.e., Heb4:12, 1Cor2:16, 1Cor13); because, He is Head, and you are part of His Body. That's Christ's Legacy for Church: so you CAN get His Own Thinking. Which the Spirit gradually deposits into you, as you learn Scripture. So YOU too become Love, the more Scripture of the Autograph, NOT a translation, you supernaturally accumulate under the always-unfelt Power of the Spirit. Because it's the Autograph, which is CHRIST'S OWN WORDS. Assiduously-preserved Words. Run-by-Spirit's-power-LEARNED Words. So no human handicap, matters.

So it's a SOUL TRANSFORMATION God has in mind for you (see also Rom12:1-3). But, you won't see any of this in translations. For the translation Cuts God Out as the Actor of 1Cor13. For this chapter is about Christ as Head over the Body, the climactic chapter of the entire letter. But the translation chops His Head OFF: in favor of a human emotion none comprehend!?

At least "agape" should have been translated "Divine Love", since that's the ONLY meaning of the term. Well, the WORDPLAY on Thinking=Love going into the believer is there as well. Since, "Love of God" verses in Greek always have a subjective and objective genitive 'circle', showing how His Love CREATES your own: BECAUSE His Head goes INTO yours. But, noooo, translation instead truncates all to that ever-fuzzy, "Love." Yeah, decapitating Him; wow, then call the decapitated text, 'holy writ'?!

Surely no translator did this decapitation knowingly. One handy device which causes decapitation is the insane "one-English-for-one-Greek-word" rule, which would get you shot for incompetence, in olden days. This incompetent rule is behind what publishers tout as "literal" translations, and you must follow it. (Never mind that when a Jewish guy many centuries ago used the same rule to try to discredit the LXX, the rule proved itself insane; poor guy was discredited.) So you DON'T get literal translation, you get instead, TRUNCATION. No longer literal, really, since as here, HALF THE MEANING AND ALL THE ACTOR, is missing. For "DIVINE LOVE" is the literal translation of "agape", and it's NO LONGER "agape" once you snip out, "Divine" (Greek has other words for non-divine love). So, following the insane one-word-per-word truncation rule, well, heck: cut out "Divine". THUS CHANGING THE ENTIRE MEANING OF THE TRANSLATED TEXT, so now the Head-into-head wordplay is ENTIRELY obscured. Fantastic. White becomes black, but still can call itself white.

So in one fell swoop most DIVINE LOVE verses in the Autograph, REVERSE MEANING in translation. So the translated verses by the hundreds, lie against the True Holy Writ. So when you see a command to "love the brethren" (i.e., 1Jn3:14): since you don't know that's agapaw (DIVINE LOVE, verb, so no human CAN do it), you ALSO won't know that you CANNOT love the brethren; UNTIL, His Head-of-Love is built into your own. So, you can nicely fool yourself that your warmfuzzy emotions are the love God intends, all the way to your date of death. Devastating.

1Cor13, Gospel of John, and 1Jn are used as the main highways of interpretation for what "Love" means in Bible. So to snip meaning HERE in 1Cor13, wrecks any hope of competent interpretation, anywhere else. So you'll occasionally see dippy commentaries that agapaw can actually BE done by humans, due to our position in Christ. NO. In the Autograph (but no translation) of 1Cor13 (and many other passages, adjunctively), you learn EXACTLY the MECHANIC of HOW this Love gets into you, for CHURCH believers. But until you learn it, you DON'T get into the spiritual life; but rather enter into Satan's counterfeit (works, emotion, competition). Utterly devastating. No wonder Christians are so miserable all the time.

But watch how a true expert who wouldn't follow that one-for-one rule, also decapitates. For, if the translator knows the Autograph TOO well (and many do, it's their livelihood); he'll FORGET his audience. Thus, he'll translate it "Love" also, even though he KNOWS it means Divine Love; for, he himself doesn't need elaborative English words, since he already KNOWS the Autograph. So now the READER of the translation who does NOT know the original -- virtually every Christian ever born! -- will misunderstand all "love" verses. Okay, but isn't that's what pastors are for? Yeah, if the pastors know the Autograph. But, if they don't, then pastors (and their congregations!) are misled, too.

There's a more subtle problem, too: if pastors know, they mightn't teach their congregations the real meanings of passages like 1Cor13, judging them to be 'unready'. For, if they DID teach the Head-into-head meaning here, the whole myth about Christian 'works', would instantly dissolve; angry at having slaved for so long in vain, Christians would defect in droves. Because, spirituality is ONLY this process of His Head getting into yours. Quite a political problem, then. If the pastor braves the defection, he'll turn out ok. But he'll need a LOT of Divine Guidance and Comfort, to assure himself that the hurt of all those defecting believers, is beneficial. Don't know of too many pastors, who brave defection like this. When mine did it, he lost many among his congregation, decades ago. Those since who came, were taught this doctrine up front (I was one of them), and because of it, stayed. Funny thing how seeing the Autograph skyrockets your faith and courage...

Satan must be laughing his head off. Do you notice how evil always comes from altruism? You TRY to do something GOOD. And you may even be VERY COMPETENT at it. But what happens, anyway? Evil. It's not deliberate, it's UNAVOIDABLE. It's Satan's world until the Second Advent. No getting around it; all you can do, is decide before the Lord, what should be YOUR OWN RESPONSE.

Since the translation cuts God out of "Love", you can't see 1Cor13's promise of His Thinking being poured into your own. So you don't know to GET it. So you ALSO don't know that Romans 5:5 TIES to 1Cor13 to mean His Thinking; because, Romans 5:5 shows Love being "poured"; because, water=Word all over Bible. So you won't see this promise, even when looking RIGHT AT it. Yet if someone claims it's there, if you want proof in your non-God-'tongue' TRANSLATION, well.. you won't see it. So you'll call the claimant, a heretic. What else can you do, when you don't see proof? Don't you have to be LOYAL? Yet in fact, YOU just became the heretic due to that loyalty. Loyalty to a tongue that is NOT God's. And therefore, DISloyal. Not meaning to be, of course.

Worse -- forget the name-calling -- you'll miss out on the greatest treasure of all time, the entire purpose of Bible, "Christ in you, the confidence of Glory" -- to develop in you, the COMMUNION OF HIS THINKING! But, you'll not know that. Since you don't know this promise, how can you ACCESS it? Nor will you even know HOW; so you'll never know what sharing His Thinking, is like. The Lord Jesus Christ spoke these very languages in the Autograph, and the thinking in it, is all His: a fact you could prove, a Person you can SEE, "if ye did but know". But, you won't. So, Bible will just be a rulebook. So, you'll do something ELSE. Like emote, or work, quote verses to show how much Scripture you know. But it will just be a book, to you. The Mind Behind the Words, you'll never come to see this side of Heaven. And you'll call your SUBSTITUTES, 'holy'. Cuz, you don't know any better. So you ALSO won't know what it means, "We have this treasure in earthen vessels", (water, again); so of course, you won't see what 1Cor2:16 means (His Head, again, "nous" means "thinking", verbal noun).

But, you'll never know all that from a 'tongue' which isn't God's. Because, you COULD have gotten God's Autograph, since the promise IS real: but in effect, you turned it down. So you won't GET ANY of that promise, though forever saved.. since you don't know it's available to get; you can't see the COMMANDS to get it; and if anyone TELLS you about it, you'll call that person a heretic. Because, YOU don't see it, so it's not there. Because also, when you see "know", you WON'T know WHICH "know" is referenced. So, you'll come to know, the wrong knowledge: the knowledge of emoting, works, competition. All this, simply because you chose a translation: not God's Autograph, not God's Own Authorized 'tongue'. So of course, you're not learning His language; but instead, the language of emotion, and the language of works! For, that's all you see.. in translation. So you also won't know how neither emotion nor works, are spiritual. Since all you HAVE, is a non-God-tongue 'talking' to you. So, like the tongues people of the first century, you too will be speaking a language you don't understand, but.. you'll think it's holy language.

There is a truly-peculiar belligerence among people who stick to translated Bibles. They are among the most prickly of humans. The irrationality, the bullheadedness, the stupidity and DEAFNESS are astonishing. It's real easy to empathize with anti-Christians and atheists, after sufficient exposure to these hug-translation folks.

Seems like getting this Autograph, is a pretty high-stakes thing. How did it get so bad, in translation? Short answer: no 1Jn1:9, used. So no Holy Spirit ALERTING the persons to the mistranslating. God never coerces. He never gives you what you don't want. You don't want fellowship with Him, then don't use 1Jn1:9. So: since my other websites illustrate so many translation errors, let's instead craft a PARADIGMAL translation error, which covers all types; to best explain the essential anatomy of how in 1Cor13, the Lord's Head got chopped off.

• Pretend God originally wrote the following 'verse': "Race the Maserati down the Autobahn, nightly."
• Pretend further, that you had to do this to be 'saved'.
• Now: pretend next, that the translation reads, "the vehicle moved down the path."

  Big difference, huh. Now, try to INTERPRET the translation as if you didn't KNOW the original: How do you get 'saved'? What's a "vehicle"? Will a donkey cart 'do'? What's "moved"? Fast, slow, staccato? Measured with reference to WHAT? Geologic time? Quantum mechanics? Your lapdog's walking pace? What's "path"? The footpath to your mailbox, the running path by the office, or the PATH train from Jersey to NYC?

  Notice that no matter HOW you read the translation you still wouldn't be saved, since none of the translated THOUGHT, is what God actually SAID. It WAS possible to better-translate His Thought. The Goal In Translation, as my pastor likes to remind us, "is to reproduce the exact thought of the writer" in the verse. But here, note: the only similarity between God's Thought and translation, is some kind of movement 'in' something that carries you along. But God's Thought was quite SPECIFIC. By contrast, the translation reads like a committee voted for it. A politically-sensitive committee.

  So now, look what evil this translation fosters:

  1. the Equinine Faith uses donkeys for its spiritual journeys, ambling along scenic wooded paths. So holy and pristine, not wasting the Earth's precious resources!
  2. At the opposite end, are the Churches of the Quantum Leap: their spiritual vehicles are astral-planes, zipping vertically around the universe, up-down, up-down: the 'path' of descent being their greatest and most holy achievement. "Down", you see. HUMBLE.
  3. Between them, straddles the Great Temple Mesordensis: not ambling or zipping, eschewing all extremes, all spiritual vehicles being welcome. Because the "path", is "middle order", balance between mind and body. So starts, stops. Starts again, always looking to that holy "Mezzanine".
  Naturally all three faiths are incompatible with each other: so they'll war when one of them grows too popular. Each nonetheless secure, that IT is the 'right' way to God. Sotto voce, of course.

So now, let's examine today's world, and see how the REAL Gospel gets heard via REAL Bible translations. John 3's translations all clearly tell you how to be saved: BELIEVE ONCE IN CHRIST and that's it, baby. Yet people 'monkey' with those words, and the chats are endless pil-pul-pits of speculation: are you PERMANENTLY saved? Did you REALLY believe in the first place, if you commit a shocking sin (defined subjectively, of course). Oh, and gee: what is "believe"? Do you do that with your head, your heart, your crumpled brow? LOL, it's ambiguous? Not in the Autograph, it isn't. God gives you ZERO wiggle room on interpretation: one nanosecond's faith, and you're forever rescued from Hell. Couldn't reverse that decision if you wanted to. You'd have to lie against the Autograph, to say otherwise.

Worse, for over a generation now, almost no one even uses the TRANSLATION of John 3 to evangelize; instead, folks latch onto NON-Gospel verses with DIFFERENT verbs like "invite", "repent" -- or worse, INVENT verses which aren't there, like "come into my heart", "head vs. heart" belief, and "make Christ Lord"; but ho, here's my all-time favorite, that inexcusable bastardization of Rom10:10, you must confess your faith to be saved, brother! Oh, brother. Endless TRIPE! -- but christen those, gospel. Then, trumpet them far and wide over every medium available. Yet one of the (also-many) clear how-to-be saved verses, John3:16, stays silent. Oh, you might see "John 3:16" on a placard at a NASCAR pre-race. But not its text. Heh.

It's downright petrifying! A lot of folks aren't saved, since they claim the WRONG VERBS as 'the' Gospel; millions of UNSAVED deluded 'christians', all misusing MISTRANSLATIONS! Just turn on Christian cable any day, see for yourself. Kinda important, don't you think, to get the REAL Gospel? Since one's entire FUTURE depends on it? How many people are out there today calling themselves "Christians" but ARE NOT? And of course, they don't know that. So: now you know how those "Lord, Lord" verses in Matt7, show people who THINK themselves "in", but are WAY "out". Um, cuz they never BELIEVED; it's not as though John 3 even in translation, isn't plain. What OTHER part of your anatomy besides your soul's volition, BELIEVES? Do you CUT YOUR OWN head off from the verb? Talk about heresy from hearsay!

Notice how HERDBOUND, the hearsay and the heresy. Translations are completely herdbound, rarely daring to differ from their older brethren, unless there's consensus. Never mind, that one should get God's Agreement, not man's. Notice too, how those who hawk the fake Gospel, are likewise herdbound, not even bothering to check the herdbound translations, which nevertheless DO reflect the Autograph, in John 3, Acts 16:31, Eph2:8-9, and like passages. But few look at or teach these passages, anymore. So hearsay of hearsay, no one checking the ACTUAL EVIDENCE even within the hearsay translations. So goats leading the sheep, all going panourgia-astray, loving whatever is dangerous to them.

So translation snips meaning and leaves a nice ambiguity for lots of warring sects. Satan -- "opposing attorney" in Hebrew -- knows this quite well. For in the Second Temptation of Matt4, Satan snipped out an eeentsy bit of text from Psalm 91, thereby REVERSING its import: passage said angels would protect the Lord if He fell, so Satan snipped the common-sense clause; then used it to justify, "Jump". The Lord's Humanity was SO familiar with the verse in both Hebrew and Greek (OT's two inspired flavors) He didn't fall for the ploy.

So, translations snip out OUR understanding. Translators aren't to blame. Teachers aren't to blame. NO ONE ON THIS PLANET ever gets up in the morning and says, "I think i'll abort the BIBLE today!" LOL. No one is smart enough to know how to CONSPIRE to snip Scripture, either. But Satan knows. Do you really think a translator could knowingly CHOP the Lord's Head off in 1Cor13? Poor guy wouldn't know how.

So here's another gem: Romans 5:8 always says Christ died "for" us in any English Bible known. That's not what the Autograph says. The Original says "Christ died as a SUBSTITUTE for us." Just like the Levitical sacrifices, depicted. But "SUBSTITUTE", which is inherent in the Greek preposition "huper" (the Autograph word God had Paul WRITE), is CHOPPED OFF in EVERY translation. Since "huper" occurs a LOT in Bible, that's a lot of sliced salami tactics nicely snipping away our comprehension. Heh. Satan misses no trick: the purpose of the Cross was, as noted in the Autograph's wordplay in Dan9:25-6, to 'cut a covenant'. Like, circumcision. Like, cutting OUT the cut-covenant, by a little deft snipping on "huper"'s translation.

Ok, let's look at the CHOPPED translation again: "Christ died for us". What does it mean? Did He pay PARTIALLY? Does it mean "offered for", like "for 60% off"? Hmmm. Pretty big difference: if "a substitute for", there is nothing to do. But if "for" some-percentage-off (making salvation cheaper, but not free), then.. must I do something ELSE, to get saved? Satan's not stupid. Little snip off the meaning, and the True Gospel, is.. what? EVERY English translation of ANY kind, late, new, old -- does that snipping, with respect to MANY words, not just one. So read them the wrong way, you're not saved, or lose out in some other way. On a path, not the Autobahn.

Yet Another Example: Genesis 2:25 says that they were naked and not ashamed, so they obviously KNEW they were naked. Can't be unashamed if you don't have something to decide 'shame' about. But look: EVERY translation of Gen3:11 says, "who told you that you were naked?" What? Is God a liar? Did He HIDE from them the fact? Of course not. But isn't this an (uh-oh).. CONTRADICTION? Nope. Bad translation, one which DENOUNCES God (Satan never misses a chance). And what's mistranslated? LOL, look! Hebrew verb "nagadth", mistranslated "tell", there, means "denounce"! "Who denounced you for being naked", the Lord asks Adam rhetorically. Yeah, Satan was the one who made Adam start sewing those figleaves. No nakedness in his new kingdom! See what a difference the ORIGINAL text, makes?

• Do you notice that Gen3:11's very mistranslation does EXACTLY what the REAL verb, is SUPPOSED to say? LOL, look: God gets denounced, since the proper translation SHOULD have been, "denounced"!
• We saw earlier how Christ's Substitutionary Payment on the Cross, was SUBSTITUTED OUT by removing "SUBSTITUTE", the essential meaning of the preposition "huper"!
• Before that, we saw (well, I didn't explain the exegesis) that 1Cor13, as indeed all of 1Cor, is about getting His Head into our heads: so in the Climactic Chapter where we get 'crowned' with His Head.. lol, the translation CUTS HIS HEAD OFF! So what's left is man's emotion, awwww.. herding him. And whyever not? Man led on the leash of his emotions to the slaughter, elected to chop out his REASON, so.. what's the loss of an unthinking, head? And so it goes. Ever since 1Cor13 has been in English. What a misused Chapter in Bible.

Do you see this demonstrably-satanic, precision matching of MIStranslation to the exact meaning of the original text? Well, there are hundreds of other verses just like these, so cleverly REVERSED. Some are blatant, like taking all womb verses which in the Autograph say "OUTSIDE the womb" (min preposition, means birth), and reversing them to "inside". Hence the prolife crusade is entirely based on mistranslation, too. But they aren't the only buffoons, nor are womb verses the only ones flipped backwards in meaning. My other websites provide much more data to illustrate and back up what's said, here; if you spend any time on them, you'll realize we are ALL pawns. But God will rescue us (Greek verb sozw, usu. quasi-mistranslated, "to save"). For now, though, just see how DEVASTATINGLY CLEVER Satan is. Oh, pray for anyone who works in Bible; they kill themselves trying to get it right. They -- heck, all of us -- are SO outsmarted. And don't know it. They need our prayer support, big-time!

This is pretty upsetting, huh: Bible translations so anti-God, yet innocent of intent to be that way. BUT RESCUE is available, so there's no need to bonfire our translations. Just remember that they're HEARSAY. Kinda like Windows, they CAN work, but need lots of tweaking. You get to know where Windows will crash, and you learn to work around it. Same, here: all translations are infected with a hopeless-in-Adam, anthropocentric 'spin'. So you read anything that sounds man-centered, with a jaundiced eye: all works verses, for example, largely cut the Actor out, just as happened in 1Cor13. That's one BIG reason you know it's NOT intentional, to mistranslate. So, you get a backhanded way to see how total the DEVASTATION (think not "blame", but "disease"), in Gen3. It's a way to begin to appreciate your so-great salvation. It's PROOF that when Bible says even our righteousnesses are "filthy rags" (Isa64:6, very graphic).. it's true. But take heart: we don't live here very long -- compared to FOREVER. With Him. Ten or 20 or pick-a-number years from now, you'll look back and LAUGH at the trouble down here.

But wait! Can't hearsay can be accurate? Yeah, but not 100%; worse, you don't know WHAT percent, WHERE.. and you CAN'T TEST what percent, without the Autograph. See, even a leaky pipe is 99% OK. But that itsy leak, if not caught, well... So what do you do? You learn to AUDIT your beliefs; AUDIT the translations; AUDIT most of all, the FIT of some idea or verse, with God's Nature. The God's-Nature test works REALLY well. Always 'audit' based on the Uppermost Truth: God. For the truth, will mesh. Falsehood, will only jar. Use 1Jn1:9, practice doing this, don't worry how silly you might feel. REPETITION WORKS. Practice analyzing, and do it over and over. The Holy Spirit knows what your soul needs, 24/7. It's real handy to actually USE 1Cor13 and RECOGNIZE that Chapter really is His Attitude toward you. It's HIS Thinking! God's Thinking! See? God never condemns.

Making mistakes is NORMAL, and no cause for shame. Else, we'd not need salvation. But here's what will kill ya: IT IS EVER WRONG TO CLOSE YOUR EARS. The minute you squinch those ears and eyes shut, you're shutting out the Holy Spirit, the Only One Who can RESCUE you from all this: so use 1Jn1:9, quick! See, it takes the DEPOSITING of His Thinking into you over some years, to rescue you from all the erroneous thinking, which is the NORM. So you become careful; you don't gloss over Scripture; ideally, you immediately start getting INTO the Autograph under whomever is your own God-assigned right pastor. If you are learning the Autograph, you can afford to keep the Hearsay. In fact, it becomes an ADVANTAGE, at that point, acting like a sidekick to your learning the Autograph. You'll see how, as you progress in Christ. [Basically, you'll end up INTEGRATING the Autograph with the translation. This is such a fantastic 'payback' I don't wanna give away its nature. Just keep on learning the Autograph, and over time, you'll see how Beautifully this integration plays, LIVE. That's why dreams, visions, and all that supernatural palaver is mere tinsel, by comparison. Glad He got rid of all that stuff. Perfect is here, NOW.]

But wait! Won't the Holy Spirit attest to any accurate statement in a translation? Well, yeah, if the believer isn't REJECTING Him, if the hearer uses 1Jn1:9 (not carnal). But even then, He'll NOT attest to what's INaccurate, since that would make Him a liar: so the SCOPE of His Attestation, is less than you could get from Him. More to the point, since HE preserves Perfect Bible, which took 1500 years to even MAKE, centuries of fighting to preserve, despite any number of kidnappers; if despite all this loving EFFORT by God, if YOU WON'T USE what He protected.. whose fault is that? Not His. He won't coddle, He won't lower the boom except in Love, but.. if you don't want it, you'll not get what you don't want.

So He'll nudge you to GET that Perfect Bible. You don't need to rely on my hearsay! I see it myself, so I am one witness. But you need His Witness. So use 1Jn1:9, ask Father in Son's Name what you should do here. Your life with Him is always sacrosanct. Each "Him".

But wait! Doesn't God gift pastors who DON'T learn and DON'T teach from the Autograph? Yep, He sure does. And if such a pastor is right for someone, that 'someone' needs THAT pastor, just the same. Pastors have free will just like anyone else, so not all pastors are equally 'obeying' their gifts so to learn the Autograph. On the other hand, they STILL have the gift, so are STILL kitted out for whomever 'belongs' to them (their flock, so to speak). For a sheep (believer), Meaning #2 and #3 of the "Right" Pastor? link at pagetop, focus on the NEEDS of the person and his WILLINGNESS to hear, as the criteria for God's selecting a "right" pastor for THAT person.

So, notice: everyone has a pastoral home. There's no such thing as equality-of-nature, or growth, since we are each unique and have free will. But "better" is who's better for YOU, not the shallow status standard the world pants after. A President shouldn't sweep floors, because that's not compatible with his skillset. A janitor should not determine corporate policy, since that's not compatible with his skill set. Both one and the other can change skillsets, but whatever the skillset is 'now', you use appropriately. So, if a person is UNwilling to learn the Autograph, he needs a pastor who will FIT that mindset, maybe. God knows all the variables. Which is why the pastor depends on God to provide the flock, and the flock depends on God to give them a shepard.

Ephesians 4 and passim in 1Cor and Romans, Paul gets into the issue of believer divisiveness. Eph4 is really about 'unity' with GOD, not among believers, but tangentially, it explains why believers shouldn't compete with each other. 1Cor and Romans are more about the competition problems. Children don't know how to love, but they instinctively are LOYAL. This is why so much fighting goes on in Christianity. As new spiritual species, we have a special kind of human spirit, fitted to Christ. But, it's 'empty' of spiritual function. The human spirit is a CPU through which the Spirit runs your spiritual life. The soul gets the Thinking of Christ built up IN it, even as Christ did (hence we could get His Thought in writing), but that's a VOLUNTARY process; so growth depends on lots of YESSES over a long period.

When those yes votes don't happen, the believer remains childish. So, shows more fundamentally the tragic nature of a spiritual life KITTED OUT for Christ, but without the knowledge fillup (Romans 8 explains). Hence, the ignorant believer will be pushy/pleading; capricious/flighty; flips between voracious desire for and against, knowledge; he shifts between being too agreeable, and too stubborn. He is constantly INSTABLE (Eph4:14). See? "Christian" and "Crazy" really DO begin with "c" for a REASON: Christ. For these baby characteristics evidence the Church believer's spiritual nature, a potential capacity for all-encompassing INTIMACY; but until he gets enough WORD in him to MATURE the nature, he's just a ping pong ball -- all NEED for intimacy, no SATISFACTION of it. Which, only the Word deposited in Him, can satisfy, á la Gen3's "Your STRONG INTIMATE desire shall be for your Husband". [Hebrew word means a strong desire for total intimacy, has sexual overtones, so in translations is truncated to mere "desire".]

When fully matured by Scripture ('takes a lifetime), 'pushy' becomes pour-out (love for others, due to inner happiness); 'capricious' becomes capacious (so is BIG ENOUGH to pour out); voraciousness FLIPS into a hunger to FEED OTHERS (got fed Scripture, so is RICH ENOUGH to pour out); agreeability and stubborness MELD INTO an unbreakable flexibility (underlying structural integrity, so the 'whole' stays intact under all pressure). ["Unbreakable" in that he doesn't permanently give up on the spiritual life no matter what hits him. "Evidence Testing" matures this last characteristic. Term is my pastor's: I extrapolated from what I learned from him about it, the "Thinking Series" on the Home Page. Part IVd and Part III are on the Evidence Tests.] So BETWEEN the baby stage and full maturity, you'll see both sets of characteristics, intermingle.

Why then isn't more said about this problem with translations, and more often? Well, frankly the recognition of this problem is at an all-time high in world history. Maybe it was higher in the 1800's, I can't prove that. The study-on-my-own movement began a generation ago when I was in highschool, now runs in the millions of believers: all of them DISTRUSTFUL of past bad teaching and translations. It's FASHIONABLE now to learn the Hebrew and Greek of Bible -- which STILL means God isn't the focus, sadly -- but the Autograph is more available than ever in the past. You can even get the text free on the internet. (But instead, get good software, shop around.)

POLITICS has a lot to do with what's NOT said about translation errors. Scholars have known these translation problems for centuries, and they'd be at the forefront of wanting correction. BUT! then the politico-religionists get involved, and it doesn't matter at ALL what 'sect' or 'denomination' it is. Pattern is always the same as the reason why Christ was crucified. Oh, people will lose faith in us if we don't get Him Crucified; if BIBLE translations are shown too faulty! Pick your excuse. And it's pretty valid too, because the masses get on their high-horse if THEY think the 'authorities' aren't right. So, no one IN authority, says much.

Of course, the errors aren't exactly hidden today, but the same keep-quiet attitude prevails in certain circles. Frankly, it doesn't matter if they covered everything up. People forget that authority isn't perfect, but even bad authority is better than none. So when the hoi polloi get all huffy about what authority does WRONG -- never mind, that everyone fails, lol -- it's not God they care about. They'll use His Name to justify being iconoclastic.

Of course, it IS upsetting to find out the translations are so flawed, and the believer at that moment is in a kind of crisis; he trusted, the trust seems betrayed, so how can he trust again? The shock of this discovery for me is gigantic, so I empathize with anyone else. Bear in mind, though, that these errors are but a part of a much larger picture of errors we humans all make, and the overall portrait, demonstrates the extreme success of Satan&Co.;, in exploiting both our disinterest in God, and our own sin natures. So fingerpointing is quite irrelevant. The RELEVANT lesson to learn, is God's Grace. He HAS a solution, and it HAS ALWAYS BEEN the initial DESIGN -- get the Autograph. If we don't want it, well.. we get what we do want. Which in this case, are anthropocentric translations. No way to avoid that outcome.

TRUE INTEREST in God, will want the solution, in a crisis; false interest will want to rail about the problem. God the Holy Spirit handles any such crisis for a believer who wants GOD, rather than an excuse to badmouth authority. Can't blame those in authority. If you want God, you'll just move on to the Autograph, as soon as you discover it's superior. Else, you won't, and pride yourself on how pro-God you are .. NOT!

But what about the past? People don't DO this with Scripture. Are they all EVIL or something, if they don't? Well, frankly, the Bible always went missing in the OT when Disinterest In The Word was popular among the people. So too, in the centuries since the Cross. By 200AD even people who SPOKE GREEK couldn't read the NT -- they didn't CARE to keep up on Biblical Greek! So, this phenomenon is cyclical, as interest in God ebbs and flows. So yeah, people DON'T do this with Scripture, and because they DON'T, they lose it. Like losing keys you really aren't USING, you forget where they are.

But in history there have been, here and there (about every 200 years) 'outbreaks' of interest in God in some locale or even a major geographical region of the globe. So, suddenly Scripture is 'found' again, or some tool to STUDY it better, is created. Bible isn't in verses; about 1100AD (I think) some folks in Paris decided it'd be EASIER TO STUDY, if Bible was partitioned off into chapters and verses. So, they did that. A definite prosperity period followed. Then, decline. The TRACEABLE history of how whole societies ebb and flow based on interest in Scripture is fascinating, but can't be covered, here. Key Symptom: people want to just HAVE Bibles for themselves. So, you'll find evidence like the Paris thingy, or Bibles being made easier to read, carry, use, etc. But, it never lasts. The 1800's seems to be the biggest period of interest, though maybe right now we're in an even bigger one. It won't last.

Now let's shift to the macro-historical picture, for you always interpret Bible IN CONTEXT. Until the 1800's, the Autograph has largely been inaccessible to the public. Moses didn't get to see the New Testament, but you do; first-century Christians didn't have a complete Bible until nearly the end of that century, but you do; between the first century and the 1800's, you practically had to be a monk to have access to Autograph texts. So people have been demonstrably UNINTERESTED in Bible, or God would have done then what He did in the 1800's, a Big Bible Rollout. And it's still going on!

This Rollout's importance cannot be overstressed. To read how the Bible got lost, found, trapped, freed from the elites, is an epic kidnapping drama: Bible was RESCUED from the fire, from being torn in pieces, hidden in stuffed crocodiles; one monk hid a whole text in his cell! Makes any action movie look BORING by comparison. The elites held Bibles under lock-and-key, had them deliberately made too heavy to use, lift (partly because theft was a problem); Bibles were chained to altars, you couldn't touch them -- Tregelles had to memorize what became known as Codex Vaticanus, not being allowed to take notes or EVEN TOUCH the manuscript: a Vatican aide turned the pages. If you were rich, you could get a Bible. If you were poor, you couldn't. For Bibles had to be PRETTY, see. So pretty few folks, had them.

Slowly, especially after Gutenberg, Bible ownership widened. But still, not whole sets (parts of Bible, not the whole). So usually, you had to rely on the elites, or those wonderful travelling friars and itinerant evangelists/preachers. And Oh! WRITING was completely indecipherable, even long after Gutenberg! It's TELLING when the illustrations and texts in Bible receive great pictographic attention, but um.. you can't read well what the text, SAYS. Just see the pretty pictures, the pretty letters. Never mind, the pretty letters are UNREADABLE! Never mind, what the pretty words MEAN! Those who nonetheless actually managed to LEARN Bible in those days, boy -- I want to prostrate myself before them in worshipful thanksgiving!

Even the Reformation didn't help much; monolithic religion was replaced by state religion, until the breakout of the 1800's. The 1800's was the most astonishing period of Scripture collection, analysis, and preservation I can find in history. But now, anyone can get and learn the original texts.

For every good side, there's a bad one. So note the problem: IT's AVAILABLE, this ORIGINAL God-breathed text. Copied over the centuries (people didn't have copier machines), and MANY manuscripts, so if someone made a copying error, it is detectable. And for over 150 YEARS, people have been detecting them, so we REALLY KNOW what's God's Word, and can prove it. Exactly. So: if now AVAILABLE, do we have excuse? Sure, if NOT available, that would be different. But it IS available. And with the teaching system from God Himself to ENABLE learning of it: Spirit's power, right pastor. So we don't exactly have an excuse to say no.

But look what's happening now, despite this oh-so-unusual gift of the Autograph. Original Word, God's. Translated like never before, into so many versions, many of which are so bad, you want to scream. So many translations, multiplying hearsays. So see how quickly, heresy: wrong Gospel is prevalent (so many not saved!); wrong teaching prevails (crusading on abortion, works, etc. which Bible excoriates in the original); wrong spiritual life (learning emotional highs and works, BUT NOT Word). All this, because NO translation avoids anthropocentric spinning, so God is cut out from Bible right and left. Bible becomes a fancy rulebook with some neat stories and poems, but remains basically a JUDGING tool: for measuring whether person 'a' is 'more scriptural' than person 'b'.

The trend is now a good 50 years running, and it's running alright, all over the world. Doesn't bode well. Lev26 and Deut28 come into play, more predictable than gravity, when this kind of rampant apostacy prevails in Christendom. As it is now. Despite this GORGEOUS Autograph, more available to more people in easier conditions than at any time in history. We're on the verge of something BIG. Dunno which way it will go, but it's BIG.

Hmmm. So what must GOD THINK of this lame excuse to avoid the Autograph, when there has NEVER been SO LITTLE EXCUSE? It's not as though you can hide the original manuscripts anymore. It's not as though we lack technology. It's not as though we don't have more leisure than ever. So what must happen? We will be held FAR more responsible than other generations, if we say "no" to This Gift. WE ARE RICH IN SCRIPTURE, and WE ARE SQUANDERING THE TIME.

Scullery maids in the Middle Ages couldn't get this. Yet you can bet if ANY of them wanted to know Scripture, God found a way to give it to them (maybe they read over the shoulders of their masters, who knows -- would make a great novel). Lots of people LEARNED ENGLISH or other languages, from whatever pieces of Bible they DID have. I know of an African guy who walks 30 miles, just to get a tape under his WHITE pastor. Do you know what a risk that guy is taking? It's not politic in Africa now to do this kind of thing. While we, fat, rich, happy by comparison.. have the freely-available Autograph. But we spend our time on stupid unconstitutional amendments, getting all hot and bothered over a pasty at a superbowl, whining about steroids and all other kinds of nonsense which in a MORE-DEPRIVED-OF-SCRIPTURE epoch, would never have reached the national level of debate in America. You'd think we Christians had a death wish.

Please don't misunderstand: I account myself just as guilty as anyone else! Actually, more! For unlike most people, I've had a near-perfect pastor for over 30 years, daily Bible study with exegesis in such profusion, the material takes up a whole ROOM of my dwelling!

WHAT do you THINK God THINKS of all this? How do we compare, to that guy walking 30 miles to hear exegesis from a foreigner he's never met, in a language not his own, of a Bible which even itself is NOT in English? Because, oh, THAT GUY is learning Scripture in the original languages at the same time! So that poor guy is learning at LEAST two languages, just to get a tape! And has to WALK 30 miles, then BACK 30 miles? Puts me to shame, boy. I prostrate myself before him, too...

So to what conclusions are we forced?

1. The person alleging that learning the Autograph is elitist, is a liar: since God enables anyone to LEARN it. So the Holy Spirit is not Filling him, 1Jn1:8,10. So the Holy Spirit is not teaching him, either.
2. The person who claims learning Scripture in the original is snobbish, puffed up, or TOO HARD, is also a liar: since God gifts ALL individuals to learn it THAT way ("when the perfect has come", 1Cor13).

Else, there's no need to KEEP the original manuscripts preserved all these centuries of toil. People were persecuted, tortured, chased all over Europe and the Middle East. MANY DIED to preserve these manuscripts. Read up on "Canonicity", sometime. Lots of good books at Amazon.

So if you ONLY want a translation, that's your decision before the Lord: remember you're electing HEARSAY. Which can easily lead to heresy BY IGNORANCE as was earlier noted. Worse, the translations are all politically-sensitive, and always have been. The KJV, for example, though one of the better English translations, was developed as a compromise between Protestants And Catholics, to END a long simmering war; else, no Bible translation could be made. Ever since, the two sides CAN argue about what constitutes salvation, since the translation is so fuzzy. Understand that Bibles like the KJV were used to CONTROL THE MASSES. Bible teaches freedom, and freedom is dangerous to those who need to keep power. So it's not ALL satanic spinning, which accounts for the comport-with-man slant in the translation. Are you SURE you want that kind of hearsay?

No political-correctness in the Autograph, however: Believe Once In Christ, no-added-verbs, and of course no works. Same kind of lucidity, for every other verse. Not that you can get an interpretation in seconds, because there are a BIZILLION LAYERS of meaning, so the difficulty is ARRANGING all the layers so you see ALL of the interpretation. Takes a LOT of time to do this. Hence the need for a qualified PASTOR, who should be doing NOTHING but studying, and teach maybe an hour a day. Find someone ELSE to visit the sick...

Still, Bible is CLEAR, colorful, refreshing, never-abstruse. God is NOT inscrutable, but the translations, are. So in the final analysis, just as always in history, amidst all the roiling and kidnapping of Bible, God will get as close to you, as you wanna get to Him. Your choice. And if you don't want to learn the Autograph, you're not ready to get close. Especially, during this window of history.

On a personal level, what one believes or studies and how, matters not at all vis á vis another human. It doesn't add to my life or yours, if we agree. Nor, if we disagree vehemently. No matter what we humans think, we all know that when rain clouds cover the sky, we better find umbrellas. Or, when the sun comes back out, we know to have fun or make hay while the sun shines. Well, in THIS window of history, the Son is shining like never before, so it HAS to mean, we SHOULD be getting this Autograph. Some big discipline is in store if we don't, because NO ONE IN THE PAST had Scripture so available, as we do. So the urgent tone in this webpage is due to THAT awareness, a sort of due diligence to report a historical connection I see after some four years of researching for these sites.

So, it's not a personal need. Wouldn't help me at all if someone else were as addicted to Bible as I am. I'm just glad it's not WRONG to study the Autograph, because I personally CANNOT understand the fuzzy language in the translations, though English is my native tongue (personal defect, I guess).

So if you want to learn God HIS Way.. start using 1Jn1:9, and ask God who's your OWN right pastor. God via him will TEACH you in THE ACTUAL BIBLE that He wrote, using the text itself, showing you Bible; God's, not men's doctrines. This is a PERSONNEL MATCHING: a teacher matched to a group, not institutional or denominational -- so not necessarily excluding any of them, either.

Your choice. No one can make it for you. "Right" Pastor link at pagetop has a LOT more info you can see in Scripture itself on how this Divine System works; original-language words and their much bigger meanings are roughly translated, but you can SEE HOW. So you can begin right now, to see how vast a difference the Autograph makes, in your understanding of Bible. How much greater your own confidence IN Bible and IN God, can become. [You'll be amazed at the depth, complexity, UNITY and GENIUS of the text; the astonishingly-precise meaning God has packed into the original, vs. a translation. Kinda like looking at a real sunrise or sunset, vs. a mere poster. If this exposure doesn't increase your faith and ability to see Him, then it can't be done. There is absolutely NOTHING more Gorgeous, than the REAL Word of God, the Autograph, the Thinking of Christ, the Bible, Scripture. Matt4:4!]

Added Bonus: in the original-language texts, which even a brain-damaged person can learn (it's not our brains, but the Spirit's), you will see for yourself that GOD wrote it. No doubt: no human being can play with words SO WELL as God does in His Preserved Word. Every word ties flawlessly and CLEARLY to every other word in Bible. No doubts about interpretation, no fuzziness, no uncertainty. It's not instantaneous, because -- lol -- Satan&Co.; Will cause trouble as you learn -- but with plodding, not smarts, you can get it. Two brain-damaged folks in my own church, did. Thus, fulfilling Jer31:31-34, you won't need anyone's hearsay, anymore. You will see it for YOURSELF. Yeah, you need a teacher to SPEED THE PROCESS; not, to take it over. You get taught HOW TO FISH, not merely given some sardines. Needn't take more than an hour a day. Many pastors who teach like this, have tape/MP3 ministries, and there are some in EVERY denomination, if that matters to you. So you can learn privately with more concentration, if need be.

Parting Shot: if someone LIED about you, wouldn't you find that wrong? So if people LIE against Scripture, isn't that more wrong? And if we are LAZY to study it, how 'obedient' is that? You decide. This page can only present a short summary of the problem, so YOU don't get shortchanged. Mankind has been NEGATIVE to Scripture so long, but now.. For the first time in all HISTORY we can get the Bible in the original, God-breathed text, just like Christians had (well, you get it all-at-once, they didn't) in the first century, AD. No elites to hide it so they can give you their hearsay, their dogma, their heresy, instead. Your choice before the Lord, what to do.