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345-page ONE NATION UNDER ISRAEL Almost FREE (see end)
Published by Truths Press
ENABLING WAR: HOW A BIBLE PUBLISHER CORRUPTED CHRIST'S WORDS
Why Celebrity leaders accept a form of Judaism and call it Christianity
By Charles E. Carlson (Director of We Hold These Truths)
This study is not written to convince anyone of what Jesus said; it quotes a
small but important part of the Christian New Testament of Jesus, explaining
how these words have been reinterpreted to justify serial wars. This analysis
is important to persons of all beliefs, faiths, and races who are trying to
understand why wars dominate our world, and why many of those who call
themselves by Jesus Christ's name find themselves pitted in support of wars
against other races. It is undeniable that our current wars are directed at
Islamic populations. We focus on one bible that is used every day as a war
enabler.
This is a re-written and abbreviated version of our more far reaching 2006
series, The Sheep and the Goats Parts 1 2, which are drawn from a study of
book of Matthew, chapter 25. Your author is responding to requests that we
more clearly prove and document the essence of popular biblical distortion
about Heaven and Hell in the book of Matthew. Chapters 24-25, which evangelical
believe to contain Jesus' words, are intentionally distorted by these same
persons, both in the text and footnotes to the text in most popular bible study
versions.
Self professed CHRISTIAN-ZIONISTS at the pulpit of mega-churches are left with
an untenable problem. It is impossible for them to tell the truth about what
certain New Testament Bible passages say, or even to read them, without
contradicting their own support for wars and for the constantly warring state
of Israel. Evangelical teaching and preaching often directly contradict that
which Jesus taught about love and peace, and more surprisingly, celebrity
Christian statements often directly conflict with Jesus' statements about
Heaven and Hell.
Church economics may be a factor in scriptural compromise. Opposition to war is
less popular than ignoring or accepting it. Celebrity Christian leaders may
feel financial pressure to warp the New Testament into a wide and easy path
interpretation, which they say points, not to Heaven and Hell, but to a second
coming. Simply stated, pastors have learned they can't fill 10,000 seat
arenas by leaning too heavily on sin, repentance and judgment as Jesus
portrayed it in this carefully worded chapter. It is just not good for
mega-church business.
Nor do they want to refute what is public policy at the highest levels. Some
pastors no doubt justify compromise to choose the wide path to build their own
empires in contrast to what Christ called the narrow path or Strait gate. Our
government's public policy includes war, which has also become many churches'
policy.
Evangelical celebrities generally believe in politically activism, and every
politician knows it pays to be born again. Thus an unspoken, unholy alliance
has been created between financially successful biblical teachers on one hand,
and politically successful politicians and businessmen who thrive on serial
wars, on the other. The cost has been untold lives in several unholy wars in
the 20 years. But where to the war-accepting pastors find their scriptural
support for war? We will examine only once example in a corrupted version of
the book of Matthew, in one corrupted bible the Scofield Reference Bible 1967
version.
Oh that my adversary would write a book
The famous Scofield Reference Bible, perhaps the most powerfully promoted Bible
ever written, is the godfather of modern bible distortion, which is now
emulating and even exceeding in radicalism by other popular study bibles
including the NIV Study Bible and the MacArthur Study Bible.
Matthew 25 contains one of the most directly written and clearly self-explained
passages on Heaven and Hell, which was once taken at face value in most
churches. But the explanation of Matthew 25 we find so simple and straight
forward is now rejected in almost every evangelical (Christian Zionist) church.
And the Oxford/Scofield re-write is increasingly influential in a growing
number of mainline churches where are members attend dispensational bible
studies, and while there hours before celebrity-Christian media. Members of
most Catholic or mainline protestant church are also deeply influenced by the
“end times controversy.
Matthew, the first book in the New Testament, contains the most outrageous
example of added words that directly contradicts Jesus words. A quote from the
Scofield Reference Bible footnotes directly contradicts what Jesus Christ is
quoted to have said, His simple words, taken from the King James Edition,
describing the basis upon which Jesus told his followers He himself will
someday judge every man from every tribe (nation). We
