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Lineage of the
Modern Corrupt Versions

Compiled by Dr. Ken Matto

(THIS is this the foundation for the King James Bible and the others (new versions) …. one foundation is solid and the other sand ….What foundation is your faith build upon? Romans 10:17)

Just as the King James Bible has a rich lineage of un-corrupted transmission through the ages, the modern versions also have a lineage. Their lineage is one of corruption, deletion, omission, addition, rejection and confusion. Modern versions are the fruit of arrogant scholarship which includes homosexuals who worked on the NIV. God never calls unbelievers to preach and neither would He call a sodomite to translate His Word.

If your pastor rejects the pure lineage of the King James Bible and accepts the corrupt translations, then he is a proponent of modern scholarship which exalts the god of education above the God of the Bible. They are seriously deceived and are a danger to spiritual growth.

THE OLD TESTAMENT

Rudolph Kittel’s Biblical Hebraica**

Dead Sea Scrolls consulted

From the Translator’s Preface in the NIV:

“Sometimes a variant Hebrew reading in the margin of the Masoretic Text was followed instead of the text itself.”

“The translators also consulted the more important early versions-the Septuagint; Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion; the Vulgate; The Syriac Peshitta; the Targums; and for the Psalms the Juxta Hebraica of Jerome. Readings from these versions were occasionally followed where the Masoretic Text seemed doubtful and where accepted principles of textual criticism showed that one or more of these textual witnesses appeared to provide the correct reading.”

This is known as “eclectic” scholarship. In other words, if I don’t like what I read in the manuscripts, there is always another writing by an unbelieving, perverted scholar who will tell me what I want to hear.

**The modern versions use Rudolph Kittel’s Biblia Hebraica for the Old Testament. The King James uses the 1524-25 Bomberg edition of the Masoretic Text known as the Ben Chayyim text. There were two editions of Biblia Hebraica in 1906 and 1913. In the third edition, changes took place, 20,000 to be exact from the Ben Chayyim text, when the editors incorporated the readings of the Leningrad Codex (circa 1008 A.D. and believed to be written in Egypt) in his 1937 edition (completed by Albrecht Alt and Otto Esselte – Stuttgart, 1937), and it is also used in the 1977 edition of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Their text was the Ben Asher text which they exchanged from the Ben Chayyim text and it contained the readings of a few minor Hebrew manuscripts.

THE NEW TESTAMENT

30-95———-Original Autographs
150————-Tatian’s Diatesseron
200————-Clement’s Manuscripts
225————-Origen’s Hexapla
331————-Vaticanus (B) – Believed to be one of Constantine’s Bibles by Eusebius
331————-Sinaiticus (Aleph) – Believed to be one of Constantine’s Bible by Eusebius
400————-Jerome’s Latin Vulgate (official bible of Roman Catholic Institution for over 1,000 years)
450————-Codex Alexandrinus (circa)
450————-Codex Ephraemi (circa)
450————-Codex Bezae (circa)
1481———–Discovery of Vaticanus (B) Manuscript in Vatican Library
1582———–Douay-Rheims New Testament
1592———–Clementine Bible (By Pope Clement VIIII 1592-1605)
1610———–Douay-Rheims Complete Bible (Jesuit Bible)
1657———–Brian Walton’s Polyglot
1707———–John Mill’s Edition
1729———–The New Testament in Greek and English (Unitarian tendencies) by Daniel Mace
1745———–The Primitive New Testament – William Whiston
1750———–Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate – Richard Challoner
1764———–A new and literal translation of all the books of the Old and New Testament; with notes critical and explanatory by Anthony
Purver – Otherwise known as the Quaker Bible
1768———–A Literal Translation of the New Testament – Edward Harwood
1774———–Griesbach’s Greek New Testament
1790———–An Exposition of the New Testament – William Gilpin
1791———–A Translation of the New Testament – Gilbert Wakefield – He was a Unitarian
1795———–A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek – Thomas Haweis
1796———–An Attempt toward revising our English Translation of the Greek Scriptures – William Newcome (Unitarian)
1798———–A Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek – Nathaniel Scarlett (A Unitarian Version)
1808———–The New Testament, An improved version upon the basis of Archbishop Newcome’s new translation with a corrected text
and notes critical and explanatory. A Revision of Newcome’s 1796 Unitarian version
1808———–The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Covenant based upon the Septuagint – Charles Thomson
1823———–The New Testament in Greek and English based upon the manuscript of Greisbach
1826———–The Sacred Writing of the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus Christ, Commonly Styled The New Testament. Translated
from the Original Greek by Alexander Campbell
1828———–The Gospel of God’s Anointed, the Glory of Israel, and the Light of Revelation for the Gentiles by Alexander Greaves
1828———–The New Testament in the Common Version by John Gorham Palfrey
1833———–A New and Corrected Version of the New Testament by Rodolphus Dickinson
1836———–The Book of the New Covenant of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ by Granville Penn
1840———–The New Testament translated from the text of J. J. Greisbach by Samuel Sharpe
1841———–The Holy Bible, containing the Authorized Version … with twenty thousand emendations – John Conquest, Editor
1842———–Carl Lachmann’s New Testament
1844———–Discovery of Sinaiticus (Aleph) in garbage pail at St. Helens Monastery in Sinai
1850———–The Commonly Received Version of the New Testament … With Several Hundred Emendations by Spencer Cone and
William Wyckoff
1851———–The New Testament translated from the Syriac Peshitta – James Murdock
1856———–A Translation of the Gospels – Andrews Norton
1857———–Tregelle’s New Testament
1858———–New Testament translated from the Original Greek based on Tischendorf’s text by Leicester Ambrose Sawyer
1859———–Tischendorf’s 7th Edition New Testament
1862———–The Life and Epistles of St. Paul – W. J. Conybeare & J. S. Howson
1863———–A Literal Translation of the New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ based on the Vaticanus Manuscript by
Hermann Heinfitter – Real name Frederick Parker
1864———–The Emphatic Diaglott – Benjamin Wilson
1867———–The Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Book of Revelation: Commonly called the New Testament by J. N. Darby
1867———–The Holy Scriptures, Translated and Corrected by the Spirit of Revelation, by Joseph Smith, Jr. the Seer – Mormon
1869———–Alford’s New Testament
1869———–The New Testament – George R. Noyes (Unitarian)
1872———–Tischendorf’s New Testament
1872———–Rotherham Version – Translated from Tregelles Text – Joseph Bryant Rotherham
1875———–The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
1876————The Holy Bible … translated literally from the original tongues by Julia Evelina Smith Parker
1881———–The Revised Version of Hort & Westcott
1888———–The New Covenant – J. W. Hansen
1890———–The Holy Scriptures – John Nelson Darby
1899———–Douay-Rheims American Edition
1900———–Epistles of the New Testament – Henry Hayman
1901———–The American Standard Version – Phllip Schaff – Editor
1901———–Modern American Bible – Frank Schell Ballentine (Revised in 1909)
1901———–Moffatt’s Historical New Testament – James Moffatt
1901———–Way’s Epistles – Arthur Way
1901———–Young People’s Bible or the Scriptures Corrected – Harriet Jones
1902———–The Emphasized Bible – Joseph Bryant Rotherham (4 Volumes)
1902———–Translation of the New Testament from the Original Greek – W. B. Godbey (Based on Codex Sinaiticus)
1902———–Twentieth Century New Testament (Revised 1904)
1903———–The Holy Bible in Modern English – Ferrar Fenton
1903———–The New Testament in Modern Speech – Richard Weymouth
1904———–Worrell’s New Testament – A. S. Worrel (A mediocre revision of the ASV of 1901)
1904———–Century Bible (Contains both KJV text and RV of 1881)
1905———–LLoyd’s New Testament – Samuel LLoyd
1906———–Forrester Translation – Henry Forrester
1907———–Bourne’s Gospel – A. E. Bourne
1907———–Moulton’s Modern Reader’s Bible – Richard C. Moulton
1908———–Rutherford’s Epistles
1909———–Bible in Modern English
1909———–Weaver’s New Testament – S. Townsend Weaver
1910———–The Cunard’s by F. W. Cunard
1912———–The Improved Bible Union Version – American Baptist Publishing Society
1913———–The New Testament: A Translation in Modern Speech by James Moffatt (Revised 1917)
1914———–The Numeric New Testament – Ivan Panin (Revised 1935)
1914———–Cunnington’s New Testament – E. E. Cunnington (Based on the Western Texts in the 4th Edition Greek nestle Text)
1916———–The McFayden Psalms in Modern Speech – John McFayden
1917———–The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text – Jewish Publication Society Bible
1918———–Anderson New Testament from the Sinaiticus Manuscript – Harry Tompkins Anderson
1919———–The Messages of the Bible – Frank Sanders & Charles Kent
1921———–Common Speech by T. W. Pym
1921———–The Shorter Bible – Charles Foster Kent
1921———–A Plain Translation of the New Testament by a Student – Bird McCarron
1922———–The Plainer Bible – Chaplain Frank Valentine
1923———–The New Testament: An American Translation – Edgar Goodspeed
1923———–The Riverside New Testament – William G. Ballenteen
1923———–The Robertson Translation – A. T. Robertson
1924———–The Labor Determinative Version
1924———–Centenary Translation of the New Testament – Helen Barrett Montgomery
1925———– Askwith’s Psalms – E.H. Askwith
1925———–People’s New Covenant -Arthur E. Overbury
1925———–Children’s Bible – Charles Foster Kent and Henry A. Sherman
1926———–The Moffatt Bible: A New Translation of the Bible – James Moffatt
1926———–Concordant Version – Adolph Ernst Knoch
1927———–Kent’s Student Old Testament
1927———–Smith’s and Goodspeed’s Translation
1928———–The Christian’s Bible – George LaFever
1928———–Good News according to Matthew for use by “Christian Spiritualists” – J. W. Potter
1928———– Czarnomska Version – Elizabeth Czarnomska
1929———–The Galwyn’s Psalms
1930———–The Loux Mark Edition – Dubois Loux
1931———–The Wales Psalms – Frank Wells
1932———–The Chaplain Ballenteen Edition – Frank Shell
1932———–The Kleists Memoirs of St. Peter – James Kleist
1933———–Torrey’s Four Gospels – Chaplain Cutler Torrey
1934———–Royd’s Epistles and Gospels – Thomas Fletcher Royd
1934———–The Old Testament in Colloquial English
1934———–The Wade Translation – G. W. Wade
1935———–The Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures (A Roman Catholic Version) – Revised 1948 – NT Only
1937———–The Cornish Translation of St. Paul – Gerald Warre Cornish
1937———–Greber’s New Testament – Johannes Greber
1937———–Martin’s New Testament – William Wallace Martin
1937———–21 Canonical Epistles
1937———–Spencer’s New Testament – Francis Spencer
1937———–The New Testament: A Translation in the Language of the People – Charles B. Williams
1938———–The Book of Books – United Society for Christian Literature
1938———–Buttonweiser’s Psalms – Moses Buttenweiser
1938———–Clementson’s New Testament – Edgar Lewis Clementson
1939———–The Osterley Psalms – W. O. E. Oesterley
1940———–Dakes’s Gospels – John A. Dakes
1941———–St. Mark in Current English – Mary Matheson
1941———–The New Testament of our Lord and Savior (Translated from Jerome’s Latin Vulgate)
1944———–The Callan’s Psalms – Charles J. Callan
1944———- Wand’s New Testament Letters – J. W. C. Wand
1945———- Stringfellow’s New Testament – Erwin Edward Stringfellow
1946———–Lenski’s Interpretation – by R. C. H. Lenski
1946———–The Revised Standard Version of the NCC – Luther Weigle, Editor
1947———–Eerdman’s Psalms – B. D. Erdman
1947———–Swann’s New Testament – George Swann – Translated from the Greek of Hort and Westcott
1948———–The Letchworth New Testament – Thomas and Ralph Ford
1949———–The Basic Bible containing the Old and New Testament in Basic English – S. H. Hooke, Editor
1949———–The Leslie Psalms – Elmer A. Leslie
1950———–The Sacred Name New Testament – Angelo Traina
1951———–The Authentic Version – Brotherhood Authentic Bible Society
1951———–The New Testament in Modern English – Olaf Morgan Norlie (Reprinted in 1962 as the Children’s Simplified NT
1951———–Vernon’s Mark – Edward Vernon
1951———–The Sacred Writings of the Apostles and Evangelists of Jesus Christ commonly styled the New Testament by G. Campbell,
J. MacKnight, P. Doddridge
1952———–The Revised Standard Version update
1952———–The New Testament, a New Translation in Plain English – Charles Williams
1952———–The Penguin Bible – Emil Victor Rieu & C. H. Rieu
1952———–The Four Gospels, A new Translation from the Greek – Emil Victor Rieu
1954———–The New Testament rendered from the original Greek with Explanatory Notes by James A. Kleist and Joseph L. Lilly
1954———–Kleist and Lynam’s Psalms – James Kleist & Thomans Lynam
1954———–The Kissane’s Psalms – Monsignor Edward J. Kissane
1954———–St. Paul’s Shorter Letters – Hobart G. Hoerber
1954———–The Moore’s New Testament – George Albert Moore
1954———–The Amplified Gospel of John
1955———–The Holy Bible; A Translation from the Latin Vulgate in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Originals by Ron Knox
1955———–The Authentic New Testament, edited and translated from the Greek for the General Reader by Hugh J. Schonfield
1956———–The Inspired Letters in Clearest English – Frank C. Laubach
1957———–The Concordant Version – Concordant Publishing Concern
1957———–The Lamsa Translation – Translated from the Peshitta – George M. Lamsa
1958———–The Amplified New Testament
1958———–The Hudson Translation – James T. Hudson
1958———–The Meissner’s Gospels – Lawrence Meissner
1958———– Tomanek New Testament – James L. Tomanek
1958———–Phillips New Testament in Modern English – J. B. Phillips
1959———–Mark – Annie Cressman
1959———–The Berkeley Version in Modern English by Gerrit Verkuyl and other translators
1959———–The Modern Language Bible
1960———–Reina-Valera Revision (Spanish)
1960———–The New American Standard Version
1960———–The Children’s King James
1961———–The New English Bible New Testament – C. H. Dodd
1961———–The New World Translation (Jehovah’s Witnesses) – Revised from the 1950 edition
1961———–Noli’s Greek Orthodox New Testament – Fan Noli
1961———–One Way Bible
1961———–Simplified New Testament – Olaf M. Norlie
1961———–Wuest Expanded New Testament – Kenneth Wuest
1962———–The Children’s Version
1962———–The New Jewish Version – Jewish Publication Society
1962———–Four Gospels and the Revelation – Richard Lattimore
1963———–Beck’s New Testament – William F. Beck
1963———–Holy Name Bible – A. B. Traina
1963———–The New Testament: A New Translation in Plain English – Charles Williams
1963———–Gelineau’s Psalms – Joseph Gelineau
1964———–The Anchor Bible – William Albright & David Freedman
1964———–The Hadas Psalms – Gershon Hadas
1965———–Bruce’s Expanded Paraphrase of the Letters of Paul – Frederick Bruce, Moulton, & Scrivener
1965———–The Complete Amplified Bible – Frances Siwert
1966———–Today’s English Version (Good News for Modern Man) New Testament – Robert Bratcher
1966———–Jerusalem Bible – Alexander Jones, Editor
1966———–The Bible in Simplified English – The Liturgical Press
1966———–The Burke Translation – Carl F. Burke
1966———–The Living Scriptures – Jay Green
1967———–Dale’s New World Bible – Alan T. Dale
1967———–The Liverpool Vernacular Gospels – Dick Williams & Frank Shaw
1968———–The Cotton Patch Version – Clarence Jordan
1968———–Hanson’s Psalms in Modern Speech – Richard Hanson
1968———–Restoration of Original Name New Testament – Rotherham
1969———–Barclay’s New Testament – William Barclay
1969———–The Children’s New Testament – Gleason H. Ledyard
1969———–The New Life Testament – Gleason H. Ledyard
1969———–New Life Version
1969———– Worldwide English New Testament – Annie Cressman
1970———–King James II New Testament by Jay Green (1)
1970———–New English Bible with the Apocrypha – C. H. Dodd
1970———–New American Bible (Roman Catholic) – Louis F. Hartman and Myles M. Bourke Editors
1971———–Blackwell Exegetical Translation – Boyce Blackwelder
1971———–The Living Bible – Kenneth Taylor
1972———–J. B. Phillips Translation
1972———–The Bible in Living English – Steven Byington (Jehovah’s Witness)
1972———–The Alba House New Testament – Kevin Condon
1972———–Today’s English New Testament – Don Klingensmith
1973———–New International Version
1973———–The Common Bible – RSV plus Apocrypha
1973———–The Translator’s New Testament – W. D. McHardy
1973———–The Better Version of the New Testament by Chester Estes (Based on Greisbach’s Text)
1973———–The Psalms – Mother Maus
1973———–A Child’s Bible – Anne Edwards
1974———–Klingensmith New Testament – Don J. Klingensmith
1975———–The Word Made Fresh – Andrew Edington
1976———–Train Up A Child – Ben Nutt
1976———–The Holy Bible in the Language of Today – William F. Beck
1976———–New Life Testament – Gleason Ledyard
1976———–The Heart of Paul: A Relational Paraphrase of the New Testament – Ben Johnson
1976———–Concise Jewish Bible – Philip Birnbaum
1976———–Good News Bible – both Old & New Testament – Robert Bratcher
1976———–Renaissance New Testament – Randolph O. Yeager
1977———–The Gospels in Scouse – Dick Williams and Frank Shaw
1977———–Marrow Gospels
1977———–The Psalms – David L. Frost
1977———–Christian Counselor’s New Testament – Jay Adams
1977———–Holy Bible for Children – Allan Hart Johnson
1978———–The New Testament for the Deaf – Deaf Missions
1978———–Holy Name Bible – Scripture Research Association
1979———–New King James Version
1979———–English Messianic Jewish Version
1979———–Ephesians – R. Paul Caudill
1979———–Lattimore’s Gospels and Revelation – Richmond Lattimore
1979———–Sasson’s Ruth – Jack Sasson
1979———–The Psalms – Bonaventure Zerr
1979———–Mitchell’s Job – Stephen Mitchell
1980———–The Four Gospels: An Exegetical Translation
1981———–The Simple English New Testament – International Bible Translators
1982———–The Messianic Edition of the Living Bible – David Bronstein
1982———–The Basic Bible
1982———–Reader’s Digest Bible
1985———–New Jerusalem Bible – Henry Wansbrough Editor
1985———–The New Testament Recovery Version
1987———–The Everyday Bible: New Century Version – Ervin Bishop
1988———–McCord’s New Testament Translation of the Everlasting Gospel by Hugo McCord
1989———–The New Revised Standard Version
1989———–The Revised English Version with Apocrypha ( A revision of the 1970 New English Bible)
1989———–Jewish New Testament – David H. Stern
1993———–The Message – Eugene Peterson
1993———–The Five Gospels: The search for the authentic words of Jesus – Robert W. Funk
1994———–The Inclusive New Testament – Craig Smith Editor
1995 ———-New American Standard Version Update
1995———–Contemporary English Version
1995———–New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Version – Victor Gold
1995———–God’s Word – Eugene Bunkowske
1995———–The New Testament: An Understandable Version – William Paul
1995———–Holy Bible: Contemporary English Version – Barclay M. Newman (American Bible Society)
1995———–The Five Books of Moses – Everett Fox
1996———–NIV: Inclusive Language Version – London, England
1996———–The New Testament – Richard Lattimore
1996———–New Living Translation
1996———–Bible in Worldwide English
1996———–New International Readers Version
2001———–English Standard Version (National Council of Churches production)
2001———–New English Translation – W. Hall Harris, Editor
2002———–The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language – Eugene Peterson
2002———–Today’s New International Version
2003———–Holman Christian Standard Bible
2003———–Revolve New Testament (New Century Version)
2004———–The Five Books of Moses: A Translation with Commentary – Robert Alter
2004———–New Living Translation – Second edition – Mark Norton, Editor
2004———–Good As New: A Radical Retelling of The Scriptures – John Henson of the One Community
2005———–Today’s New International Version (Complete Bible)
2010———–Lexham English Bible
2010———–Common English Bible
2011———–2011 New International Version

(1) Jay Green’s translation is listed here because he, like the modern scholars, disputes whether Acts 8:37 & 1 John 5:7 are really in the text. 1 John 5:7-8 has been found in the Old Latin Vulgate (not Jerome’s) and early church lectionaries. Acts 8:37 is found in the Old Latin Vulgate Version, a Middle Egyptian Version and a Syriac Version.

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Apostasy

DOES THE BIBLE SAY TO PRAY FOR FALSE TEACHERS? The Answer May Surprise You.

DOES THE BIBLE SAY TO PRAY FOR OR DOES IT MANDATE THAT WE EXPOSE FALSE TEACHERS?

No, it’s not a sin to pray for the deceived. Yet, isn’t it time we obeying the command of God and stopped giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the LORD and cease caring for them more than the many they are deceiving?

A DIVINE COMMAND: “Now I beseech you, brethren, MARK THEM which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” Romans 16:17-18

Wolf worshippers are first and foremost self-worshipping counterfeits who could care less how many souls their celebrity wolf is leading to hell. All they care about is the sensual thrill they feel in worshipping their demon-possessed false prophet who tells them what they like to hear!

NEVER apologize for exposing false teachings and false teachers. You do such in obedience to the LORD and it results in the protection of the Great Shepherd’s sheep for whom He died (Matthew 10; Hebrews 13:20).

Did Jesus or His apostles ever pray for a wolf? No.

To the false leaders of his day, Jesus says this:

“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers (snakes), how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” Matthew 23:33

Do nothing to “bid God speed” to the enemies of the LORD lest you be judged with those enemies of God (2 John 10-11). Bidding God speed means to condone, to support, or in any way to further the cause of the enemies of God, namely human agents who are teaching contrary to the Scripture.

So he’s not calling out the wolves and you still sit under that devil? You want to go to hell with him? (2 John 10-11) Repent and run now! (Matthew 7:15; 24:11; Romans 16:17-18; Jude 3, etc.)

Of the false teachers at Galatia, Paul says he wishes they, the false prophets, were “cut off.” Make not mistake, this is violent language.

“I would they were even cut off which trouble you.” Galatians 5:12

To “cut off” means to castrate, to mutilate, to amputate and so Paul is either saying that his God fearing desire is for false teachers to be castrated or taken out completely. There’s no getting around this appropriately violent language. It’s fitting for this situation because the eternal souls of men, the sheep of Christ’s pasture are at stake.

Many self-deceived people today have more compassion for Satan’s hell bound false leaders than they do for the beloved sheep who are being being misled by those wolves in sheep’s clothing! Repent now.

Beware of misplaced compassion. Compassion without discernment, compassion while ignorant, is dangerous.

The the false prophet Elymas, the apostle says:

“And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?” Acts 13:10

Can anyone find in this Acts 13 text where Christ’s apostle Paul pray for this Elymas, this named false prophet? I’m sorry, perhaps I missed something here.

There seems to be no end to the novices, perhaps well meaning, who argue out of their own ignorance to defend wolves who are devouring Jesus’ sheep. They come off as if they are highly superior in approaching, dealing with wolves with “love” and accuse those who expose as not doing so. Let’s take a look at who’s walking in true love, and who isn’t.

“Open rebuke is better than secret (hidden, concealed) love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.” Proverbs 27:5-6

Hebrew word for “secret” …..

סָתַר
sâthar
saw-thar’
A primitive root; to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively: – be absent, keep close, conceal, hide (self), (keep) secret, X surely.

As you will see below, it seems accurate to observe that we’ve never seen “love” like the love of prey for the wolf that’s tickled their ears and told them what their unrepentant hearts wish to hear (Isaiah 30:9-10; 2 Timothy 4:2-4).

Most wolf protecting enemies of Christ simply don’t know and don’t want to know what God says about this topic. They are under the control of Satan himself, covering for his agents and will be judged with them (2 John 10-11). God doesn’t like cowards (1 Corinthians 16:13; Revelation 21:8). The “fearful” are the first class listed as going to the lake of fire.

Those who defend Jesus’ enemy’s will be judged, damned with them (2 Pet 2:1-3; 2 Jn 10-11).

TYPICAL DEFENSE OF A WOLF BY HIS PREY:

“But wait, he’s led many thousands to the Lord!”

REPLY:

Jesus saves all by Himself, even using wolves at times. That is a front, intentionally taught to you by the wolf to cover, to keep himself from being detected, like sheep’s clothing (Matthew 7:15). After witnessing the “ministry” of this false teacher for years, I highly doubt most of those people truly were saved. He doesn’t even speak of the chasm their sin has caused so how can they truly be convicted and repent? They can’t in most cases. Luke 13:3…. If God truly did save some of them, it was in spite of White, not because of him.

MESSAGE RECEIVED:

“I do applaud your zeal for truth! I personally just think it is wise exercising prudence about knowing the hearts of men or women, only God knows. He will separate the wheat from the chaff.”

REPLY:

Jesus commanded us to “KNOW (Gr. discern) by their fruits” and told us that “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 15-16, 20; 12:34) ALL men are known by the fruit of what they teach – either sound or false doctrine (Titus 2:1). Why would the Son of God told us to “KNOW” people by the fruit of their lives if He didn’t want us to discern, to “Judge righteous judgment”? (John 7:24)

God knows all men’s hearts yes and yet GOD commanded us to know people also. How? Jesus says to “know (discern) them BY THEIR FRUITS” and thereby we know that anyone teaching “another gospel” is “accursed” and is the very enemy of Christ and to be “earnestly” contended against and marked, scoped out and identified – so as to protect the body of Christ (Matthew 7:16, 20; Romans 16:17-18; Galatians 1:6-9; 2 Peter 2:1-3; Jude 3-4).

HOW DID JESUS tell us to know/discern others? The FRUIT of their lives (Matt 7:16,20) THE FACT that JESUS told us to “know” (discern) people means He wants us to do so! (Matt 7:16,20) Same chapter as “judge not” v1-5 When Jesus taught us to “judge not” He is speaking in that context of hypocritical judgment and wrongly assigned condemnation. The JUDGE has spoken in a book called THE BIBLE. He’s calling us to pay attention when we read it. His written WORD records for us HIS judgments – the judgments of the Judge. So when a man preaches the Word, he is preaching GOD’s judgments, warnings, and not his own.

MESSAGE TO ME FROM A MAN ATTEMPTING TO CURTAIL THE MARKING OF A KNOWN WOLF:

“Dear Lord Jesus Please show Todd White your Holy Truth. May Todd White find peace and assurance in your wisdom and may he become a light upon a hill guiding others to Christ. Help him to leave behind his old self and ignite in him a desire to unashamedly make known Your Truth and disown and depart from the untruths he has held onto. In Jesus Mighty name we ask, Amen. Matthew chapter 5 verse 44’ But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;”

REPLY:

Can you give chapters and verses where Jesus or His holy apostles specifically prayed for a wolf? Ever read Matthew 23?

Interesting that you seem to hate all those precious many souls Todd White is misleading. Interesting. Why don’t all those precious souls matter to you? If you aren’t defending Todd White, why do you seem to care more for him than those many people he’s misleading?

How intense was Jesus’ apostle Paul about protecting Christ’s flock?

“For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. 28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. 31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.” Acts 20:27-31

In Matthew 5:38-45 Christ is speaking of not retaliating against OUR enemies. Jesus is speaking of how we are to react to OUR ENEMIES, not HIS enemies in Matt 5:44. HIS enemies in specific are those who are misleading HIS people, the sheep for which HE bled to save on that cross. You are misguided and taking Scripture out of context. What did He mandate that His disciple do?

“Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.” Jude 3-4

GOD TOLD YOU TO “MARK THEM” – WOLVES – AND NOT DEFEND THEM! (ROMANS 16:17-18) YOU GOING TO OBEY GOD OR REBEL?

“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. 18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” Romans 16:17-18

Todd White is being marked, scoped out (Gr. skopeo) and named, identified as an enemy of Christ, a wolf in sheep’s clothing (Matt 7:15) so His people can be aware and escape being deceived…. no different than warning your children not to go near the street. Danger.

MESSAGE FROM WOLF JUSTIFIER:

“I believe we can still learn from (false) preachers and pastors biblical teaching, but we must test the spirits. Bring what is taught back to the word. Paul Washer, MacArthur, Spurgeon all preachers. Even today’s motivational speakers. I use what the Holy Spirit blessed me with, discernment, knowledge, wisdom.”

REPLY:

Good morning. Yes and yet, the LORD mandates that we separate ourselves from His enemies who pose as His ministers yet Paul says they are actually the ministers of Satan (2 Cor 11:12-15). Jude 3; Rom 16:17-18 …. we know all men, beginning with ourselves by the fruit…. false doctrine is bad fruit which means the root and tree is cursed. Matt 7:15-21; 12:33

Mat 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

Paul Washer, MacArthur, Spurgeon are all calvinist heretics. Everything they say, teach is poisoned with this calvinistic system, a doctrine of devils.

The Holy Spirit blessed you with the Word and so why do you need to even listen to known false teachers? Why would you? (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21, etc.)

How would you feel if your own husband communed with a sworn enemy of yours? How does Jesus feel by what you’ve just said?

SETTING THE BIBLICAL RECORD STRAIGHT

Jesus commanded HIS people to “JUDGE righteous judgment” (John 7:24) And, He commanded us to know/discern others “BY THEIR FRUITS” and that’s exactly what we’re doing under the command of KING JESUS (Matthew 7:16, 20). Dare you interfere with HIS work and become His enemy? You are bidding Godspeed to evil doers, satan’s wolves in sheep’s clothing, and you will be judged with those enemies of Christ if you don’t repent (2 John 10-11).

Jesus and each of His apostles on record in the New Testament canon warned the flock of wolves who would devour! There is no instance where they prayed for an enemy of Christ, a wolf who was misleading the flock of God.

Here is the list of the 8 evil doers the great apostle was divinely inspired to justifiably identify by name in 2 Timothy – in order to protect God’s people:

1) Phygellus 1:15

2) Hermogenes 1:15

3) Hymenaeus 2:17

4) Philetus 2:17

5) Jannes 3:8

6) Jambres 3:8

7) Demas 4:10 (apostate)

8) Alexander the coppersmith 4:14

Read the book of 2 Timothy and underline these deceivers that the apostle was marking.

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Sometimes we think of spiritual formation as formation by the Holy Spirit. Once again. That’s essential. . . . But now I have to say something that may be challenging for you to think about: Spiritual formation is not all by the Holy Spirit. . . . We have to recognize that spiritual formation in us is something that is also done to us by those around us, by ourselves, and by activities which we voluntarily undertake . . .There has to be method.¹—Dallas Willard

Aside from the fact that Spiritual Formation incorporates mystical practices into its infrastructure (remove the contemplative aspect and you don’t have “Spiritual Formation” anymore), Spiritual Formation is a works-based substitute for biblical Christianity. Let us explain.

When one becomes born again (“that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9-10), having given his or her life and heart over to Christ as Savior, Jesus Christ says He will come in and live in that surrendered heart:

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. (Revelation 3:20)

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (Colossians 1:27)

If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Romans 8:11; emphasis added)

When God, through Jesus Christ, is living in us, He begins to do a transforming work in our hearts (2 Corinthians 3:18). Not only does He change us, He also communes with us. In other words, we have fellowship with Him, and He promises never to leave or forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).

This life of God in the believer’s heart is not something we need to conjure up through meditative practices. But if a person does not have this relationship with the Lord, he may seek out ways to feel close to God. This is where Spiritual Formation comes into play. Rather than a surrendered life to Christ (through repentance and faith), the seeking person begins practicing the spiritual disciplines (e.g., prayer, fasting, good works, etc.) with the promise that if he practices these disciplines, he will become more Christ-like.

But merely doing these acts fails to make one feel close to God—something is still missing. And thus, he begins practicing the discipline of silence (or solitude), and now in these altered states of silence, he finally feels connected to God. He now feels complete. What he does not understand is that he has substituted the indwelling of Christ in his heart for a works-based methodology that endangers his spiritual life. Dangerous because these mystical experiences he now engages in appear to be good because they make him feel close to God, but in reality he is being drawn into demonic realms no different than what happens to someone who is practicing transcendental meditation or eastern meditation. Even mystics themselves acknowledge that the contemplative realm is no different than the realm reached by occultists. To understand this more fully, please read Ray Yungen’s book A Time of Departing.

Bottom line, it is not possible to be truly Christ-like without having Christ inside of us because it is His righteousness that is able to change our hearts—we cannot do it without Him. It is His righteousness we need:

Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe. (Romans 3:22)

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. (Philippians 3:9)

It is interesting to note that virtually every contemplative teacher has a common theme—they feel dry and empty and want to go “deeper” with God or “become more intimate” with God. But if we have Christ living in us, how can we go any deeper than that? How can we become more intimate than that? And if going deeper and becoming intimate were so important, why is it that none of the disciples or Jesus Himself ever told us to do this? As Larry DeBruyn states:

Why are Christians seeking a divine presence that Jesus promised would abundantly flow in them? . . . Why do they need another voice, another visitation, or another vision? Why are some people unthankfully desirous of “something more” than what God has already given to us? Why is it that some Christians, in the depth of their souls, are not seemingly at rest?²

Is There a “Good” Spiritual Formation?

One of the most common arguments we hear defending Spiritual Formation is that there is a “good” Spiritual Formation done without contemplative prayer. To that we say, we have never yet seen a Spiritual Formation program in a school or a church that doesn’t in some way point people to the contemplative mystics. It might be indirectly, but in every case, if you follow the trail, it will lead you right into the arms of Richard Foster, Dallas Willard, and other contemplative teachers.

Think about this common scenario: A Christian college decides to begin a Spiritual Formation course. The instructor has heard some negative things about Richard Foster, Henri Nouwen, and Brennan Manning, and he figures he will teach the class “good Spiritual Formation” and leave those teachers completely out. But he’s going to need a textbook. He turns to a respected institution, Dallas Theological Seminary, and finds a book written by Paul Pettit, Professor in Pastoral and Education Ministries. The book is titled Foundations of Spiritual Formation. The instructor who has found this book to use in his own class may never mention Richard Foster or Dallas Willard, but the textbook he is using does. Within the pages of Pettit’s book is Richard Foster, Philip Yancey, N.T. Wright, Dallas Willard, Thomas Aquinas, Lectio Divina, Ayn Rand, Parker Palmer, Eugene Peterson, J.P. Moreland, Klaus Issler, Bruce Demarerst, Jim Burns, Kenneth Boa and Brother Lawrence’s “practicing God’s presence.” You may not have heard of all these names, but they are all associated with the mystical contemplative prayer movement and the emerging church.

Another example of this is Donald Whitney’s book Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life. Whitney is former Associate Professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and currently at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. While his book does not promote contemplative mysticism, he says that Richard Foster has “done much good”³ in the area of Christian spirituality (which we believe is blatantly untrue).

Our point is that even if there is a sincere attempt to teach Spiritual Formation and stay away from the mystical side, we contend that it cannot be successfully accomplished because it will always lead back to the ones who have brought it to the church in the first place.

Spiritual formation is sweeping throughout Christianity today. It’s no wonder when the majority of Christian leaders have either endorsed the movement or given it a silent pass. For instance, in Chuck Swindoll’s book So You Want to Be Like Christ: 8 Essential Disciplines to Get You There, Swindoll favorably quotes Richard Foster and Dallas Willard. Swindoll calls Celebration of Discipline a “meaningful work”⁴ and Willard’s book The Spirit of the Disciplines “excellent work.”⁵ In chapter three, ”Silence and Solitude,” Swindoll talks about “digging for secrets . . . that will deepen our intimacy with God.”⁶ Quoting the contemplative poster-verse Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God,” Swindoll says the verse is a call to the “discipline of silence.”⁷ As other contemplative proponents have done, he has taken this verse very much out of context.

Roger Oakland sums it up:

The Spiritual Formation movement . . . teaches people that this is how they can become more intimate with God and truly hear His voice. Even Christian leaders with longstanding reputations of teaching God’s word seem to be succumbing. . . .

We are reconciled to God only through his “death” (the atonement for sin), and we are presented “holy and unblameable and unreproveable” when we belong to Him through rebirth. It has nothing to do with works, rituals, or mystical experiences. It is Christ’s life in the converted believer that transforms him.⁸

“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” Romans 5:10

What Christians need is not a method or program or ritual or practice that will supposedly connect them to God. What we need is to be “in Christ” (1 Corinthians 1:30) and Christ in us. And He has promised His Spirit “will guide [us] into all truth” (John 16:13).

“But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:” 1 Corinthians 1:30

In Colossians 1:9, the apostle Paul tells the saints that he was praying for them that they “might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” He was praying that they would have discernment (“spiritual understanding”). He said that God, the Father, has made us “partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light” (vs 12) and had “delivered us from the power of darkness [i.e., power of deception]” (vs. 13). But what was the key to having this wisdom and spiritual understanding and being delivered from the power of darkness? Paul tells us in that same chapter. He calls it “the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints” (vs. 26). What is that mystery? Verse 27 says: “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (emphasis added).

For those wanting to get involved with the Spiritual Formation movement (i.e., contemplative, spiritual direction), consider the “direction” you will actually be going.

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel. (Colossians 1:21-23)

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power. (Colossians 2: 8-10)

This article is an extract from the Lighthouse Trails booklet, Is Your Church Doing Spiritual Formation? (Important Reasons Why They Shouldn’t). To order this booklet, click here.

Endnotes:
1. Dallas Willard, “Spiritual Formation: What it is, and How it is Done” (https://dwillard.org/resources/articles/spiritual-formation-what-it-is-and-how-it-is-done).

2. Larry DeBruyn, “God’s Present of His Presence” (https://www.guardinghisflock.org/gods-present-of-his-presence/ ).

3. Donald Whitney, “Doctrine and Devotion: A Reunion Devoutly to be Desired” (http://web.archive.org/web/20080828052145/http://biblicalspirituality.org/devotion.html).

4. Chuck Swindoll, So You Want to Be Like Christ: 8 Essential Disciplines to Get You There (Nashville, TN:W Publishing Group, a div. of Thomas Nelson, 2005), p. 15.

5. Ibid., p. 13.

6. Ibid., p. 55.

7. Ibid.

8. Roger Oakland, Faith Undone (Eureka, MT: Lighthouse Trails Publishing, 2007), pp. 91-92.

This has been an extract from our booklet Is Your Church Doing Spiritual Formation? (Important Reasons Why It Shouldn’t). To order this booklet, click here.

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“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:” Ephesians 1:4

Holiness comes by the Savior in self denial (death and burial – the cross), not by self will or effort. Surrender is the cross – “NOT my will but thine be done” (Lk. 22:42) and “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit” (Luke 23:46). We surrender to Christ by saying “Not my will but thine be done” dear Lord, by Your grace and the deliberate act of my own will I submit to the cross, the crucified life – where You alone reign supreme in this vessel (Luke 22:42; Galatians 2:20, etc.). I love You LORD Jesus! You must increase but I must decrease! (John 3:30)

Holiness, not happiness, is the divine command, the chief purpose and end of Christ’s salvation.

Of holiness, one disciple writes:

“Holiness speaks more to nature than it does conduct. Good conduct is the spontaneous byproduct of the new nature of the new creation man thru the cross and death to the old nature. We are new creatures in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17-18). To preach holiness as conduct without the new nature thru the cross understanding is legalism. Holiness is actually derived from ‘wholeness’ meaning the thorough transformation of the whole tripartite man (1 Thess 5:23). So many of these ‘holiness’ preachers are preaching nothing but conduct under law. Law arouses sinful passions and causes sin to increase and was given in order to provoke transgressions (Rom 7:5; 5:20; Gal 3:21). They are enemies of the cross!”

Holiness comes by way of the cross, not by way of the flesh. Just as sin was conquered by the cross of Christ, so sin in the life of the saint is conquered by the daily cross – the crucified life (Luke 9:23-24; Romans 6; Galatians 2:20; Colossians 3:3, etc.). It’s time to stop trying harder and to simply die deeper.

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