BIBLE HISTORY AND RELATED WRITINGS
(As the Church has its History, so does the Bible)
DATES:
40-100+ A.D. Apostles’ writings: Matthew’s gospel; both in Hebrew and in Greek, (till before the Council of
Nicea 325 A.D.) Mark, Luke, John, in Greek; as well as the Epistles, plus some early translations to Latin. Then The Ebionites’
writings (The Didache) 100+A.D. Then The Apostles’ (?)Creed and The Athanasian Creed 325 A.D. Then the French Bible
and the Polish Bible.
200+ A.D. Writings of pre-catholic Fathers: Clement, Ignatius, Cyprian, Origen, Donatus and Tertullian who translated the
expression “trias” related to the Godhead meaning His Word, Spirit and Wisdom according to Apostle Peter; but
the Latin meaning adopted was First Person, Second Person and Third Person of the Trinity (Trias) . At that time they were
already planting seeds of pagan-philosophy into Hebrew and Greek
Prophetic and apostolic writings.
300+ A.D. Letters of some Disciples of Disciples of Disciples from The Apostles: Praxeas, Noetus, Sabellius, Theodotian,
Zephrinus, Samosata etc.
325-385 A. D. Presentation, Acceptation and Re-affirmation of the Trinity Doctrine. First by Emperor Constantinus, later
on by Popes. Since then: God would no longer be taught or proclaimed as The Almighty One; The I AM, Yahweh, God in Christ
and The Holy One; instead He became spoken as: The Triune God, The Holy Trinity, The Three Divine Persons and The Three in
One (Three Persons, separate and different as any other thing in the Universe yet they are only One Being, they say!)
Father Victorinus wrote “…the Three are One and the One Three, and the Three are trice One, and the One is
the same and sole” Hanson p.552.
325 A.D. Bishop-Historian Eusebius witnessed both gospels of Matthew Heb/Grk not having the words
“…baptizing in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. (28:19) this words were interpolated
after his death. He wrote 50 Bibles for 50 churches in Constantinople by orders of Emperor Constantinus.
400A.D. Marcellus Bishop of Ancyra, was questioned about his belief and was excommunicated and condemned at the Council
of Constantinople because he denied the “Word” in John 1:1 was a 2nd. Person or 2nd. God.
The pagan belief of another God, was called by God “..detestable poison…” “..an imagination of
the heart..”
Must writers of on the Apostles’ doctrine were burn in a stake together with their writings.
408 A.D. Vulgate Translation. by Jerome, translated from originals (forging scriptures to bring it in line with the orthodox
new catholic doctrine.
Nobody seems to know what happen to the Original scriptures, why the 50 new churches built by the Emperor and the 50 Bibles
written by Eusebius were burn and demolished.
408 - 1533 A.D. Prohibition to read Scriptures began (I wonder why? Since we ARE TOLD “ God gave us the Bible’’)
1139-1179 A.D. The Waldesian movement began ; and two by two visited homes to show and explain the Scriptures from original
copies, that is before the Vulgate. THEY WERE ORDERED TO STOP and their response was “we most obey God rather than any
human authority” According to Acts of The Apostles 5:29.
1382 A.D. Wyclid Trans. First translation of the Bible to popularize it among common people, from (pre-protestant?) Latin
to English; almost in complete line with the Vulgate.
1405 A.D. Council at Oxford forbade translations to English.. (Again why? Since we are told “God gave us the Bible?”)
1516 A.D. Erasmus’ Trans. From Latin to Greek (why back to ORIGINAL GREEK? And what happen to it??? The King got
involved to it by suggestions of the Bishops.
1526 A.D. Tyndade Trans.(only the New Testament to English FROM ERASMUS TRANSLATION BACK TO ORININAL GREEK.. Publication
interrupted by orders of the King, existing copies were burned in London, Bishop Tunstall purchased New Test. Copies solely
to destroy them. Tyndale was arrested
1536 A.D. and tried for “heresy”(?) condemned, strangled and his body burned at the stake. His dying words
were “Lord open the eyes of the King.” (What Tyndale wanted the King to see in his translation?
1534 A. D. Luther’s Trans. From Erasmus’ Greek , to German.
1535 A.D. Coverdale’s Trans. The The FIRST BIBLE IN ENGLISH.
1537 A.D. Matthew’s Trans. By J. Rogers, N.T. from Tyndale, N.T. from writings of both Tyndale and Coverdale.
1539 A.D. The Great Bible Trans. A revised version of Matthew’s Trans. By Coverdale and based on Tyndale’s
Greek and Hebrew Text.
1560 A.D. The Geneva Trans. A version of Tyndale’s N. T. By William Whittingham and others; based on the Great Bible.
From Hebrew, Latin and French texts.
1568 A.D. The Bishop’s Bible Trans. By a largely group of Bishops from England and ordered by the Queen of England.
1610 A.D. The Douay/Rheims Trans. A complete rendering of the Vulgate …to preserve the natural tone of the Vulgate…
( to preserve the NATURAL DOCTRINE of the Vulgate. I say)
1611 A.D. The famous King James Trans. By committees of scholars, mostly in line with Bishop’s Bible, and fine other
protestant translations; the New Testament translated from the Vulgate and with their eyes wide open, they ignored the Theological
corrections made by Erasmus/Tyndale (John 1:1-3, 1st. John 5:7. Matthew 28:19 etc. to prior translations!
1800+ A.D. Mormon Trans. From KJV trans Joseph Smith made 3000 changes to it.
1800+ A.D. New World Trans. Russel, Jehovah’s Witnesses from KJV and others(?)
1814 A.D. Dobson Trans. First Hebrew Bible printed in U.S.A.
1854-5 A.D. Translation from Hebrew to English by Jews in America ( first time)
There are many others translations, and no doubt will be more in the future! Now then, in view of the above historical
records, I am of the opinion that when one reads at the beginning of most translations …translated out of the original
tongues… it, does no means original Scriptures that were written by the prophets or the Apostles or a manuscript from
it; it all goes to tongues spoken by Jerome; Latin, Hebrew, and Greek who after his translation was called “…a
forger and profane person… for having the audacity to alter the Scriptures…” (his own words) What a confession!
And behind every act, there is a reason!
As in previous writings of mine that was mentioned that translations of The Holy Scriptures from Greek to Latin specially,
it was done with the pagan philosophy in mind; and it is what in all reality happen; their transcendental imagination in pagan
philosophy about our Creator, did not only eclipsed the view of The SHEKINAH but their views were ANTI-CHRISTIAN BIAS; Christians
of the 1st, Century, that is.
They, the half converted Bishops; absorbed the teachings of pagan philosopher Democritus that he “distinguished primary
and secondary deities in the heavens.” (New Platonists pp.10,11. Cf. T. Whittaker.
By the same token, they even dared to call themselves “Christian-Platonist” mixing pagan philosophy with the
Apostolic writings; borrowing from pagan philosopher Plato, that …to discover the Father and Creator of the Universe
is a hard matter, and when He is found it is impossible to tell about Him at all… Yes Plato said that, ignoring, yes
that is the word, ignoring what is well known now; that God The Father manifested Himself SHEKINAH to His people Israel. Paul
wrote that …the world in its wisdom knew not God… How true it is. Thanks Apostle Paul, well put.
Modern Christendom/Platonist, insist in what was say by Plato about the impossibility to know God The Father; that bridge
was built by the Father Himself in His personal redeemer’s out reach work for us all.
What other reason the Apostle John would have to write for some special people “ I write unto you … because
your sins are forgiven you for His Name’s sake I write unto you …because ye have overcome the wicked one…YE
HAVE KNOWN THE FATHER.
Why the wisdom of this world, which is …foolishness with God… takes nibbles of pagan beliefs and builds
a pivotal doctrine as a reality of the Creator? This I admit that God “takes a nibble“ from the Bread of Life,
even in our life as sinners we got a nibble here and there and it has been done in His wisdom according to what a man can
receive, those times, unknown to us, at that time, were sign-post to lead the lost sheep to The Fold. The Apostle John writing
about the early ministry of Jesus, mentioned that he said …I have many things to tell you but you cannot receive them
now but you will understand them later… It is the case with all of us humans, because our human minds cannot possible
comprehend all at once the mystery of mysteries! …mystery of God The Father and Christ!
The Stoics who heard Apostle Paul preach, “they believed ” in …strange gods… as well as in a …UNKNOWN
GOD… the foundation of their beliefs was …gods flowing out from the FIRST SOURCE OF LIFE NAMELY GOD FATHER OF
GODS… The philosophy about which Paul wrote …is vain deceit… Yet the inventors of the trinity dogma copied
it from them preaching it that the Son of God was …begotten in the Ages by eternal emanation… …he was generated
from the Father… Nothing less that Stoic philosophy! Acts 17:18.
There is no ambiguity about the declaration of their teaching on the identity of the God that was unknown
to them, and who became human; the Father who became …a child born…a Son given… THAT …shall be
called The Eternal Father… the very One who had say “Ye are my witnesses, saith The Lord, and my servant whom
I have chosen: THAT YE MAY KNOW AND BELIEVE ME AND UNDERSTAND THAT I AM HE before me there was no God formed (begotten)
neither shall be after me. I, even I, A M the Lord and beside me THERE IS NO SAVIOR. An angel said…unto you is born
this day…a SAVIOR, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD. ALELUYA!! THIS TRUTH MAKES PEOPLE FREE!
There has never been such a thing as Eternal Son of God in Scriptural language; but “they” made their invention
of another Savior God; a second god presented in their creeds and from there to the Vulgate translation as it has been mentioned
on previous reading materials of mine; that having made their substitution of the Savior God of Isaiah 43:10,11. 52:13-15.
53:1-12. They gave to Christendom “their” transcendental philosophy of a God from their own, instead of The God
of The Holy Scriptures; that His spoken Word (dabar, in Hebrew) brought time into existence “ For He spoke, and it was
made; He commanded, and it stood fast”
“By the (dabar, spoken) Word of the Lord the heavens were made by the breath of His mouth…”
That … Word was made flesh… that …Word was God… It was God The Father, speaking His eternal purpose;
His mind and plans for His Creation to be, were expressed from the beginning of the beginning; in Greek it was called LOGOS,
(expression of Himself) and in Hebrew, DABAR, ( purpose of Himself) in Latin IPSO (meaning: he, she, or “it” )
“it” singular of “they.” Here John’s Theology shows a single Deity. …with out it was not
anything made…; but philosophers called “it” a “he” and “him” as “they”
called The Logos a person, their “second God” contrary to the saying of Paul “(God)… made known unto
us (the Apostles, that is) the MYSTERY OF HIS WILL, according to His good pleasure, WHICH HE HATH PURPOSED IN HIMSELF.”
(Thanks Apostle Paul for that declaration.)
Since the freedom of His people Israel from Egypt, “it” was the SHEKINAH, God’s very Presence in the
“form of a pillar of fire and a cloud” to be with them to guide them day and night in order to get into their
“promise Land.” Since The Day of the beginning of The Church that Paul calls The Church of God/Christ, that He
bought with His own blood, was then an it is now, The Indwelling Presence of The glorified and exalted Savior that by His
spirit of resurrection, namely Christ in you the hope of glory; the quickened Spirit who lead us and will take The Church
up into our promised Land. It took a personal Savior God to be The Redeemer; and it takes a personal acquaintance with Him
to be …born of Him… in God’s family, that is!
Continuing with History of The Bible; let’s go to some biblical-occurrences that in most cases “they”
have been kept in hash out status by leaders in Christendom, no knowing what to do about them occurrences.
More than fifty years ago I was a door to door salesman peddling idolatry items; it was then that knocking on a door and
after I introduced myself to the lady of the house ; and she been informed of my intentions , she refused to buy any of my
articles and instead, she ask me if I would accept a Bible; this I did accept knowing nothing about what was told to me that
it was the Word of God.
Since then, many Bibles has been given to me; I have never bought one Bible for myself; also many Bibles I have give away
ignoring what translation they have been; few weeks ago, I was in need of a Bible to give to a new acquaintance made in my
last trip to Huntington Beach, Ca. I asked to a good friend of mine if he have one to give away and it was done, he even volunteer
to pay the postage; immediately it was mailed to the person who was anxious to see a Bible for the first time in his life.
Having say that, I want to ask a question about translations of the Bible, and I will answer myself, bear with me if you
please; what translations are good and which ones are faulty?
Well, translations of the Bible are like the “denominations in Christendom” every denomination that has come
to existence , it is for the sole purpose to /preach something that the previous do not have preach; beginning with the Roman
Universal Church, so it is with the case of new translating of the Bible; in order to be sold, the translators all of them.
Have made use of academic knowledge to make the translation be of a better attractively cosmetic beauty.
But what about the things that from the beginning were not TRANSLATED, or WROWNGLY TRANSLATED or TAMPERED even INTERPOLATED
WORDS making a sentence never existing before? It has been mentioned before in past different writings so I will have no difficulty
to write about them again, and be even more specific.
WORDS NOT TRANSLATED: In Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God the aleph and the tau created the heavens and the earth.
Zechariah 12:10 “…and they shall look upon me the aleph and the tau whom they have pierced…”
Alepth and tau= Alpha and Omega as …I AM the Alpha and the Omega…saith The Lord…which is to come , THE ALMIGHTY.
Rev.1:8.
Words wrongly translated: from Acts 4:27 Thy holy child… instead of …THY HOLY SERVANT…
Greek text. Isa. 42:1, 43:10.
From Matthew 23:39 From Original: Truly I say to you, you will not see me henceforth until you will say: blessed is
our savior.
Error in copying: Matthew 27:9 JEREMIAH instead of ZECHARIAH 11:12.
WORDS TAMPERED: 2nd. Thess. 2:16,17 …the Lord of us Jesus Christ even the God the Father of us…may
He comfort of you the hearts and may He confirm in every work… See how many times the word “He” was
willingly ignore at translation; (HE) one previously named by His proper name and titles.
WORDS INTERPOLATED: Matthew 28:19 …baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost…
1st John 5:7 … the father, the Word and the Holy Ghost and these three are one.
Misleading Scripture verse: Hebrews 9:24 “For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,
which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, NOW TO APPEAR IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD FOR US,” (the capitals
give the impression of two divine persons) but in the original was …but into itself the heaven now to appear in the
presence of God on behalf of us. As Peter put it “…Christ who is at right of God having gone into heaven
being subjected to Him angels and authorities and powers.
THE GOTHIC WORDS IN SOME VERSES. The salutations of Apostle Paul to individuals or a group in relation to the word in Greek
KAI meaning : “and,” “also.” “indeed,” “namely,” “even.”
Now then, knowing that the Lord Jesus now in heaven (risen, glorified and EXALTED TO THE HIGHEST) is presented by His Apostles’
writings as: The King of the Saints, The King of Glory, God Almighty, Only Lord God, God our Savior, The Lord our God, The
Father of the spirits, Our God, The
Only Wise God, The Lord of all, The True God, Christ…over all God blessed for ever; it is clear why Paul in his salutations
wrote of One entity Deity, as …peace from God Father of us (kai) Lord Jesus Christ…
I have kept this next topic last because it is very profound, and I want it to be very clear to be detected; nevertheless
it has been hide away by willful ignorance or denominational convenience of the translators.
Which?
No many Christians know who Father Donatus was, or Father Jerome, or Erasmus, or Tyndale, or Wyclif and Coverdale; much
less Lorenzo Valla who was the first man ever to attempt a CORRECTION in the theology of the catholic bible.
But I am almost sure most Christendom knows who Martin Luther was; besides being the first protestant and called heretic
because his belief that salvation of the soul was by faith without the works IMPOSED by the Roman Church; he was a professor
of Theology at the University of Wittenberg, he study Law to be an Attorney, but decided to be a Priest; he was German and
for the German people he wanted a German Bible, ( just like the Apostle Peter he being Jewish and a Pastor of a Jewish congregation;
he wrote his gospel
In Jewish language.)
Why Luther being a Catholic Priest, did not used the Catholic Bible to translate it to German, knowing that the Vulgate
was the official Bible of the Catholic Church? But instead, he used Erasmus Greek translation from the Latin Vulgate! He wrote
about it …we must not …ask the Latin letters how we are to speak German… (by the same token, one must not
ask Plato’s philosophy how to explain the Hebrew’s Theology!
I cannot help but to use this last sentence of Luther as an example how one must approach to the reading of The Holy Scriptures;
one must think what was in the mind of the writer as he made some sentences of double meaning. To ignore this point,
one will easy deviate from the real thought of the writer; and this has been done with sentences of the Apostles’ writings
unpleasant to the bias test of the Trinitarian translators, but get this; even Martin Luther was Trinitarian, he did no allowed
his Trinitarian doctrine to eclipsed what he read on John 1:1-3. Greek Text.
He wrote on his text on German what only the ones with authentic German text bibles have been able to read since then.
Based on the translated work of Erasmus, a Dutch scholar… dedicated to restore the PROPHER THEOLOGY OF THE NEW TWSTAMENT…(that
say something ah!) There were two versions at that time, one in Latin; the other in English, copied word by word from the
Latin; both translated by Trinitarians; both in NEED OF CORRECTION ON THEIR THEOLOGY!
In a nut shell, 5 of 9 translations from the first Latin to the K.J.V. did have the correction needed on John 1:1-3. Tyndale,
Thomas Matthew, The Great Bible, The Geneva and The Bishops Bible. But WHAT HAPPEN to those translations???
At the time of the K.J.V. the translators been so called Christian Scholars, choose not to use the translations with the
Theological correction in the New Testament, and they favored the UNCORRECTED Catholic version Douay/Rheims Bible, which was
a copy of the Latin Vulgate; the very one which has been the Theological faulty pattern of ALL TRANSLATIONS IN EXISTANCE!.
Here it is exhibit #1. From The Vulgate.
In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things
were made through him; and with out him was made nothing that has been made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness grasped it not.
(In their introduction to John 1:1-4 says this: … his eternal existence with the Father; St.John employs the term
WORD; It is so used…and designates the Son as a kind of intellectual emanation from the Father…)
From K.J.V.: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. (same meaning as the Vulgate!)
Martin Luther’s translation: ALL THINGS ARE MADE THROUG THE SAME THING AND WITHOUT
THE SAME THING IS NOTHING MADE WHAT WAS MADE IN HIM WAS LIFE AND THAT LIGHT WAS THE LIFE OF MAN. (SEE THE DIFFERENCE?)
Luther did not used the terms… BY HIM OR WITH OUT HIM… INSTEAD, HE USED THE TERMS…THE SAME THING…
(two times) ; how the Trinity Scholars have missed that?
The Angel Gabriel called the embryo in virgin Mary, …The Holy Thing… A question to Trinitarians:
The Word that was with God as they say; full grown second person of the Trinity; was he …in the boson of the Father…
as …The Holy Thing… that was in the boson of Mary? Or in the boson of the Father means that the Word. DABAR The
Creative Word, that is, was in the …boson of the Father… as the CORE OF HIS PURPOSE, THE CENTRALITY OF GOD’S
POWER AND MAJESTY; THE FIRST PERSONIFIED ACTION OF GOD’S DABAR (SPOKEN WORD) SINCE IT IS WRITTEN …BY THE BREATH
OF HIS MOUTH… …THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE… AND BY “IT” THE HEAVENS WERE GARNISH… …FOR
HE SPOKE AND IT WAS MADE… Can I get an answer?
Yes John wrote “it” and not “He” at the beginning of his gospel and we read “that”
and not “he” or “him” about the …Word of life… at the beginning of his first epistle.
That which was from the beginning…the word of life… 1st. John 1:1 John thoughts were in Hebrew
character, not in pagan philosophical terms . It may seem stranger, ridiculous, even blasphemous, but when one also knows
that in the O.T. some great prophets used the word “it’ in reference to God …one cannot do nothing against
the truth, but by the truth;
Jesus said that !
Now, please take note of the “It” in the following Scriptures: Isa. 11:10 …there shall be a root of Jesse…
to “it” shall the Gentiles seek…, Genesis 3:15 Messiah, the woman’s seed is called “it”.
Isa. 1:1,2. I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne … about “it” stood the seraphims…, Eze. 1:28 …this
was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord And when I saw “it” I FELL UPON MY FACE, AND I HEARD
A VOICE OF ONE THAT SPAKE.
The glory of the Lord , mentioned by Ezekiel, is the same ‘glory’ that Moses asked God to let him see; “it”
is called by God Himself “MY PRESENCE” (THE SHEKINAH)
After resurrection, Christ told two disciples in the way to Emmaus, …ought not Christ to have suffered these things,
and to enter into His Glory?
It is what Apostle Paul mean by saying …Christ enter in the presence of God… indeed; resurrected Jesus enter
into the Presence of God. It is what Stephen saw! …being full of the Holy Spirit, gazing into heaven he saw glory of
God and Jesus standing at right of God. (Greek Text) Thank God for those translations that still have “it”
but we do not know for how long more.
An Angel of The Lord told Cornelius …call for Simon, whose name is Peter; who shall tell thee words, whereby thou
and thy house shall be saved… Acts 11:14.
The Waldenses in France, asked the Catholic Church TO RETURN TO APOSTOLIC SIMPLICITY AND POINTED OUT INTERPRETATIONS OF
THE BIBLE THAT DIFFERED FROM THE ORINAL CHURCH. they (Waldenses) had copies of original text; but from the romish church,
we all have the Bible; even the K.J.V. regardless of what is say on it’s defense. It is a good Bible, but it is was
made an unperfect translation with their eyes wide open.; contrary to the admonition of Apostle Paul; BEWARE LEST ANY MAN
SPOIL YOU THROUGH PHILOSOPHY AND VAIN DECEIT, AFTER THE TRADITIONS OF MEN,…AND NOT AFTER CHRIST.. FOR IN HIM DWELLETH
ALL THE FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY. Col. 2:8,9.
THE DOCTRINES OF THE LOGOS AND THE TRINITY RECEIVED THEIR SHAPE FROM GREEK FATHERS, WHO WERE MUCH INFLUENCED, DIRECTLY
OR INDIRECTLY BY PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY. THAT ERRORS AND CORRUPTIONS CREPT INTO THE CHURCH FROM THIS SOURCE CANNOT BE DENIEDED.
New Shaff-Herzog Encycloprdia of Religious Knowledge.
Gabriel Mendez.
