Biblical Truth Ministries Information

Biblical Truth Ministries is dedicated to preaching and teaching the truth of God's Word in a world that is in the grips of deception and lies. In today's world a diabolical, deceptive, guiding spirit has taken hold of every aspect of life-from the cradle to the grave. It is a universal problem affecting all nations, peoples and religions of the world! This worldwide phenomenon permeates nearly every institution of government, the electronic and printed media, nearly all schools, universities and religions on the earth. In this postmodern world, people believe that "truth is whatever one believes. Therefore, everyone's opinion is supposedly true because he or she believes it is true and, hence, is equally valid. Consequently, truth is no longer truth that is provable and stands alone as absolute truth. Rather, truth has been exchanged for personal opinion, emotion, illusion, fantasy and lies. Christianity has fallen victim to this sinister deception. Through the centuries, after the death of the original apostles of Jesus Christ, various denominations of Christendom have developed their own religious traditions, doctrines and dogmas. In establishing these beliefs, religious leaders have used some scriptures from the Bible and blended them with the traditions of men grafted in from pagan philosophies and religions. These distorted, erroneous, entrenched teachings-counterfeit "truth"-have been dogmatically taught and accepted by their followers as the true doctrines and teachings of the Bible. Furthermore, very few religious, church-going people ever take the time to study their Bibles in order to prove whether the teachings of their churches are actually the true teachings of the Bible. They have assumed that their priests or pastors would surely only teach the truth from the Word of God. Little do they realize that most of their churches' teachings and doctrines are actually a blend of pagan religious beliefs and philosophies. As such, most of what is taught is contrary to the true teachings of the Bible-yet, it is done in the name of Jesus Christ. As a result, very few people understand that what they have accepted as true Christian teachings are only myths-fabricated by men. Little do they realize that when these teachings are compared to the Bible, fully fifty to ninety percent of what they believe is not true-they believe a lie. Because they have believed a mixture of truth and mostly error for so long that when they hear the true Word of God preached or read their Bibles, they can hardly believe it. To make matters even worse, for centuries most of the true teachings of the Bible have been branded as "heresy" by the leaders of paganized Christendom. Consequently, today, the Christian world is upside down! Truth has been branded as error and lies. Error and lies have been accepted as truth. As Dresden James once noted:"When a well-packaged web of lieshas been sold gradually to the masses overgenerations, the truth will seemutterly preposterous and itsspeaker a raving lunatic."As this proverb relates, you will be utterly astounded at the true teachings of the Bible. At first, you may think that since such teachings are contrary to what particular well-established Christian denominations teach, they cannot be true. In order to begin to understand the real truth of the Bible and the New Testament in particular, you must set aside all religious myths and lies of men. Then you must recapture the original teachings of Jesus Christ and His original chosen apostles. However, men have created many stumbling blocks to keep people from understanding God's truth as contained in His Word. One of the greatest stumbling blocks is various corrupted versions of the Bible itself. Too many men, claiming to be experts and scholars have taken upon themselves to destroy the true Word of God by producing translations that are made from corrupted Hebrew and Greek texts, and rendering translations in modern English that utterly change the meaning of the true teachings of the Bible. Therefore, before you can begin to sort out the truth from errors, you must have a Bible that is a faithful translation of the true Word of God. Today's Dilemma-Which Bible Should You Use? In these end times, we are confronted with the removal of God from the public conscience and the destruction of the Holy Bible-the Word of God-especially the New Testament! The foundation of Christianity has been subverted and corrupted with new translations that change the Word of God so dramatically, it is tantamount to destroying it. In recent years, as evidenced by their translations, translation committees have demonstrated that they are more committed to carnal-minded, special interest groups, who desire to make the Word of God convey a particular political, sexist or ecumenical religious agenda, than to accurately translating the Word of God in truth. Moreover, they have used inferior Alexandrian-type Greek texts for their translations of the New Testament. They have further corrupted the Word of God by using common street language and superimposing a neuter gender language on the Word of God in their efforts to please radical feminists and homosexuals. They are also assaulting the Word of God with a vengeance. Their final coup de grace is the elimination of God the Father and Jesus Christ from the New Testament itself! By changing and corrupting the Scriptures with new versions that use common street language and politically correct, neuter gender language, the sacredness of the Holy Scriptures is debased. Thus, the Scriptures become secularized and profaned! How it Happened: How did such designs against the Word of God ever develop in Western civilization, the bastion of Christianity that has published and distributed the majority of the billions of Bibles in the world today? Why do we see a world so deluded, deceived, degenerate and immoral that it is readily embracing Christianity without God and accepting debased, corrupted, blasphemous, politically correct Bibles with hardly a whimper of resistance? Rather, than rehearsing a broad overview of history, we will examine a listing of the various English Bible versions and translations, which tell the story of a slow but steady, insidious corruption of the Word of God. After the publication of the King James Version in 1611 virtually nothing was done to change the English Bible. However, beginning in 1871, Westcott and Hort, with a committee of revisers, began to change the Greek text of the Byzantine family, commonly known as the Textus Receptus, or the Received Text. They produced a revised New Testament Greek text to conform to the inferior Sinaiticus and Vaticanus Greek texts from which the English Revised New Testament in 1881 came, followed by the complete Bible in 1885, known as the Revised Standard Version. After the RSV, many English versions were produced:Fenton, NT 1895The Emphasized Bible, Rotherham 1897The Bible in Modern English, Fenton 1901American Standard Version in 1901Moffatt, NT 1913, 1917; OT 1926, 1935Douay Bible 1941 (Catholic)New World Translation 1950 (Jehovah's Witnesses)Revised Standard Version 1952New Testament in Modern English, J. B. Phillips 1957The Amplified New Testament 1958Berkley New Testament 1959The Amplified Old Testament 1962New American Standard Bible 1963The Jerusalem Bible 1966 (Catholic)New English Bible 1970New American Bible 1970The Living Bible (Paraphrased) 1971Today's English Version (Good News for Modern Man) 1976New International Version 1978New Jerusalem Bible 1985Revised English Bible 1989New Revised Standard Version 1990Contemporary English Version 1995New Testament and Psalms (Inclusive Version) 1995New Living Translation 1996New American Standard Bible 1997The Bible in Contemporary Language-The Message 2002Today's New International (Inclusive) Version, proposed in 2002Most of these Bibles or New Testaments listed above should never be used to determine the true teachings of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Every Bible student needs to have a Bible that is essentially a literal translation of the original languages. To understand the Word of God and to live by every word of God "…we must first arm ourselves with the sword of the Spirit (Eph. 6:17), namely, the true Word of God, which is found in the printed Masoretic [Hebrew] text [for the Old Testament], the Textus Receptus [Greek text for the New Testament], and the King James Version and other faithful translations" (Hills, The King James Version Defended , 2000, p. 242, bracketed comments and bold emphasis added). Hills protégé, Theodore P. Letis, wrote of the demise of the modern-day Bibles because political and sexists agendas are now controlling the philosophy of Bible translation committees and publishing companies: "The Bible in English has fallen on hard times. Not only do some feminists see it as a format from which to transform Ancient Near Eastern, patriarchal religions [through the use of inclusive versions] into modern, 20th century paradigms of egalitarianism [i.e. Communism, under the guise of liberalism, and world government], but the American Bible publishing industry has reduced it to a commodity, hoping to maximize gains by imposing a marketing-manufactured consensus on conservative evangelicals, calling it the beginning of a 'new tradition [Christianity without God]' " (Ibid., back cover, bracketed comments added). The Flawed Translation Practices Of Most Modern Translations : Today, too many translators are not actually translating; rather, they are interpreting what they think the writer was thinking or intending to write at the time he wrote it. This method of translation is utterly absurd! How can a translator today, thousands of years removed, presume to know what the writer was thinking or intending to write when he wrote the text?