Masoretic and Textus Receptus  

Essens

Can we depend on the Dead Sea scrolls?

How accurate are the Dead Sea scrolls?

The Dead Sea scrolls of the Essens are not reliable for the following reasons. First the Essens have added vowels to the Hebrew text that were not there in the original Masoretic text for the purpose of reading. The addition of these vowels is a proof that the Essens did not know how to chant the Bible. The Bible was song like hymns in the temple and not read. The Jews start teaching their children to chant the Bible and memorize it. Up until the fifteen century the Bible was not dotted and the Jews kept the Bible alive by chanting it. In the fifteen century a Jewish rabbi from Yemen became a Christian and he could not teach any Christian to learn and memorize the whole Bible so he convinced the Bible Society to dot the Bible with the dotting to reveal the vowels and the dotting to reveal the chanting. Students studying the Bible in Hebrew they can read the vowel dotting but nobody at the present know how to read the dotting for chanting. Israel has a reward for anybody who will be able to deciphers the music in the Bible.

When copying (1) the Bible the scribe must read and pronounce aloud each word as he copies it to avoid making mistakes. When three mistakes are found in a manuscript they must correct these mistakes and then burry the manuscript not to be used again. They reverence  the Word of God and they will not burn it or destroy it but they can burry it. The Dead Sea scrolls were found buried in caves which means that these scrolls were discarded for having mistakes.

What is your opinion of a scholar who corrected the Masoretic text with corruptible dead sea scrolls? Correct the perfect Masoretic text with buried miscopied texts. The Masoretic text which was dotted by and then was printed and was checked by the rabbi who became a Christian and chanted the Bible to music. My Hebrew teacher said if there is one mistake it will appear as he sang the Bible after they printed it.

If we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is God became flesh and he knows every thing then when he read the bible in Capernaum he never said throw this bible and get me the right Bible from the Essens or from the  Samaritan. 

The Lord Jesus Christ preached the Samaritans but nothing is mentioned of preaching the Essens. John the Baptist stayed not far from where the Essens lived but he never contacted them. If the Essens were pleasing to God, why John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus Christ never referred to them? So we must not correct the word of God the Masoretic text by manuscripts written by Essens because the Lord did not recommend us to listen to them.

Can we correct the Masoretic text with the Septuagint?

Christians in all ages never claimed translation as inspired, but they considered it reliable. Never in the church history translator, translated the bible from a translation to the original except in our times. Now we see some believe KJV is inspired and they want to correct the original manuscripts from KJV. Another group changed the Masoretic Hebrew text using the Septuagint. They are correcting the inspired Word of God with the translation of man. The Bible declares the Bible as inspired, but no where the Bible declares that God inspired the translations. We also have to remember that the Septuagint was tempered with. “The labours of Pamphilus and Eusebius in editing the Septuagint have already been spoken of. They "believed (as did St. Jerome nearly a century afterwards) that Origen had succeeded in restoring the old Greek version to its primitive purity". The result was a "mischievous mixture of the Alexandrian version with the versions of Aquila and Theodotion" (Swete, "Introd. to O. T. in Greek", pp. 77, 78).

  Open the Septuagint and look at the bottom of the page and you will find the different readings vary between one forth the page to one half the page. To change the original Masoretic text with the Septuagint you have to decide what reading you have to choose. When we choose what God have said it is no more the word of God. Like the people who believes the Bible contain the inspired word of God, so they pick and choose what is inspired and what is not inspired. So the Bible becomes a man made Bible and not the word of God.

Wescott and Hort

When you start finding faults in the Bible, then you are not a man of faith. You want to write your own Bible. What agrees with your mentality and logic you accept and what does not agree with your limited understanding you want to find a way to change it.So you go to all the mutilated texts to find what suits you. You will be doing what Wescott and Hort have done.  This passage is taken from the Chicks publication on the Internet.

“Westcott and his famed partner, Hort, were among the founders of the Ghost Society in the 1850s. Fascinated by the spirit world, their club was dedicated to pursuing knowledge of ghostly encounters with spirits.

It was also Westcott and Hort who worked together to discard the centuries-old preserved words of God upon which the King James English Bible was based, replacing them with a polluted text gleaned from manuscripts provided by the Roman Catholic Church. Little wonder that their texts omitted many Scriptures which the pope found embarrassing!

When they were working on this Greek text, preparing to destroy the world's faith in the Greek scriptures which had served generations, they began to worry that things like their "ghost chasing" would undermine their efforts.

Hort cautioned Westcott to hide their strange views saying, "This may sound cowardice I have a craving that our text should be cast upon the world before we deal with matters likely to brand us with suspicion. I mean a text issued by men who are already known for what will undoubtedly be treated as dangerous heresy will have great difficulty in finding its way to regions which it might otherwise hope to reach…"

People who tempers with ghosts they temper with fallen angles or in reality they are witches. Do you ask a witch to tell you which Bible is the right one? No wonder Westcott and Hort preferred the text Arius tempered with and he himself added to what Arius have added and subtracted and changed as the fallen angles dictated to him.