Westcott & Hort

Westcott & Hort (RV) & Genesis -

I am going to try to post the letter written by Westcott. I will also post the source for this
letter, so that if it does not post right, others can still view it.

in which he makes it quite clear that 1) he did not take Genesis Literally and He did not think others would...


Notice on pp 69, how he states that no one who
Critically examined the first 3 chapters of Genesis would take them literally.

If this is what this Westcott believed about the Genesis, then what are the implications for the Fall of Man, and the Sin Nature, and the Need for Jesus Christ as A Redeemer and Savior ??? The Fall of Man is in the First Three Chapters of GENESIS.


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Westcott & Hort (RV) & Genesis -

Here is the letter written by Westcott in which he makes it quite clear that 1) he did not take Genesis Literally and He did not think others would...

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[If it does not post, the source is at: www.geocities.com/churchill333/Westcott1JPG.jpg]


Sorry that the image is so big. But it does make the point...that Westcott rejected the message of the Bible though he translated it (or claimed he did...)

The following letter was written by Westcott,
One of the 2 main translators of the RSV, whose
Greek Text also serves as the basis
For the NASB, the NKJV and the NIV.

Notice on pp 69, how he states that no one who
Critically examined the first 3 chapters of Genesis
would take them literally. If this is what this
Westcott believed about the Genesis, then what
are the implications for the Fall of Man, and the
Sin Nature, and the Need for Jesus Christ as
A Redeemer and Savior ??? The Fall of Man is
in the First Three Chapters of GENESIS.


That is the reason why Jesus came to save us


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What was going on ? Westcott says that he never could understand how anyone could Genesis literally, but having said that - he also states that those chapters disclose to
us "A" gospel...and then says "so it is probably elsewhere".

What was he talking about ?

Remember that Westcott & Hort were trained in Textual Criticism. The goal of this anti-God philosophy [which has a scientific sounding name: "textual criticism"] was to re-write the Bible in every way possible, to prevent people from putting their faith in it. 99% of those who taught Textual Criticism were not Christian, including Westcott & Hort, Tischendorf, and Griesbach.


If all of this sounds impossible, it won't once you investigate the lives of the translators.

In order to understand translations, you have to know the background of the purpose of the Revisions. THey were done because the Textual Critics determined - a priori - that the KJV and the Textus Receptus HAD to be a false text. In other words, they began by rejecting the Bible that had been used by Christians for 2000 years. Then, they began to try to find other texts to justify their research.

Look into the lives of those who started the field of Textual Criticism, and see what they believed about Jesus, and about the Bible, and about Christianity.
Names of Textual Critics
- Bengel
- Semler
- Wettstein
- Griesbach
- DeWette
- Lachman
- Tischendorf
- Westcott
- Hort

These were anti-Protestant, anti-Reformation "scholars". Most of them acquired their reputations by attacking the Bible that so many of us revere. And the claim that these men loved God, or knew him personally, is hardly a claim that most of them made themselves. More often, these claims are made today by those who try to excuse the work of the bible-attackers (textual critics).


Most of these men hated God, never made a profession of faith, and spent their entire lives in the pursuit of religion, but rejecting God, the Bible and the personal message of salvation by Faith alone through Christ Jesus (and for the record, they were protestants officially, but subverters actually).


Westcott believed that within the Bible there were several texts that were overlapped...according to Him, those texts were transposed wrong, and the real Bible had been lost.

[This is not something that 1) they ever proved and 2) it flat out disagrees with the Thousands of Greek Manuscripts of the Bible that we have recovered...but that did not interest Westcott & Hort.]
For example, Christians believe that God in the Old Testament has several names including Jehovah and Elohim. But Textual critics said that the separate names had to be different Gods and not the same one. From that premise, the texts of Jehovah had somehow become mixed in with the texts of Elohim and the texts of El-Shaddai, etc.

Therefore textual critics took the Bible appart verse by verse, offering instead their own unscientific analysis of the text. They ASSERTED that the Bible Manuscripts had to have been changed, because they asserted this to be true.

In actual fact, these men simply hated God, and Jesus Christ and the Reformation.

But Westcott & Hort lived in the 1800s, and this discovery had not yet been made. As a result, they led the charge against the King James Version and the Greek text it relies on
the Textus Receptus.

The Textual Critics (Westcott & Hort, Tischendorf & others)thought that they had won. But their victory was very premature.

Westcott & Hort believed that the Bible used today contained portions of a "real" Bible authored by the followers of Jesus. But they themselves could not state which portions of the Bible were the true ones, and which ones were the false.

What they actually did was use already corrupted manuscripts
that disagree with the Textus Receptus (the historical Bible in Greek) and 95% of the Bible Manuscripts that exist.

Their false version of the Bible (in Greek and English) continues to be used in the production of the Modern Versions of the Bible.


The Source for this letter, is Life & Letters of Westcott.

 

Ok. This link to that page of Westcott should be bigger and Clearer.





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Lets try this again.

http://www.geocities.com/churchillfive/Page15.html

Ok, it does appear to be working. This is a letter by Westcott which is at the Bottom of page 68 and the top of page 69 (That is why you will see the pages #s).

Now, at least it can be read a bit more clearly than before...

 

Homebound,

I only wish you were wrong, but I have not found this to be the case yet. I also would like to be able to believe in the integrity of Westcott & Hort, though research did not lead me in that direction.

One of the things that is not being addressed is the public side of W & H versus the private side of W & H. Many of their friends wrote biographies and articles, and how MV advocates represent W & H, and how the friends of W & H represent them, are not the same. One side [MV Advocates] or the other [friends of W & H] is missing the full picture.

Keep up the good work.

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Well know you see the problem ? Whether it is this westcott or that westcott, He says he does not take the 3 chapters of Genesis litterally. You say that this only applies to creation, but I have not found anywhere where he states that he believes in Original Sin or in the falleness of man.

So you suggest that the quote applies only to creation but the quote itself takes about the First THree Chapters of Genesis. That includes the Spiritual Fall of Man into Sin.

If WEstcott says he does not believe in the first 3 chapters of Genesis, that would mean the entire content of those 3 chapters. You cannot pick and chose how you wish to qualify the statement that is by Westcott's choice of what to say, itself not qualified.

I think that this statement of Westcott is in context. And I think the conclusion is clear: Westcott rejected Original Sin and the Fall of Mankind.

 

ummmmmm...I wish that were true. The Nestle-Aland Text is the Greek Text of Nestle. Now Nestle on Page 1 of his Greek Translation lists 2 sources for his Greek Version:

1. Westcott & Hort, and

2. Tischendorf


Seems as though there may be relevance about Westcott & Hort, and their Greek text - after all.

 

Yes, when you can - in the next few days - I would have a great interest in seeing those...

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