Additions and Deletions are Common practices in the Holy Bible
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What God says about interpolations

If we want to believe a book as a Divine ,then it should be the same in every hand. Moreover it should be free from Addition, deletions and interpolations. The Bible also accepts this notion.

In your observance of the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin upon you, you shall not add to what I command you nor subtract from it. (Deuteronomy 4:2)

What thing so ever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it. (Deuteronomy 12:32 )

Every word of God is tested; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. 
Add nothing to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be exposed as a deceiver.(Proverb30 :6)

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy. God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Revelations 22:19)

Missing Verses

The above quoted biblical verses accepts the importance of a Divine Scripture to be free from the interpolations and alterations. But Does Bible has this qualification ? No. Christians differ in recognising the Divine Book. A section of the Divine verses are interpolations to another group of Christians. The Old Testament of the Catholics Bible consists 46 books and the Protestants Bible consists 39 books.

The Difference between the two is not seven words or seven sentence or seven chapters ! SEVEN BOOKS. some Thousands verses. 

We can see these Seven Books consisting  4370 verses in the Catholic Bible. But in Protestant Bible  4370 verses are missing. But there are nearly seven other Books, those verses differ in the two Bibles.

Who is wrong 

Catholic claim that these 4652 verses are God's words, and accuse that the Protestants have wantonly deleted it. At the same time Protestant claim that these verses were mere interpolations and it was the fancies made by the later clerics.

If we accept the Catholic answer, then we are forced to think that the Holy Bible is that much weak and unsafe so that anyone can delete any verse from it. If we accept Protestant answer, it shows that the Bible is much easier to add new items as clerics desires. Whatever the reason, now both scriptures are more doubtful.

How did they dare to touch !

There are some questions to be answered :

1. When did they (Protestants) came ? They came in 16th century. That means 1600 years after Jesus.
2. How did they able to remove such a big amount of verses ?
3. Why couldn't  the Catholic church unable to stop them from this act ?
4. How did the people of that time remained calm on this act ?
5. How did this sect began to grow?

For all these questions, there is only one answer. That is, the people are get used to these kind of interpolations in the past. That's why they accepted it without any resistance.

Why did they delete it

Its very necessary for the Christians to understand why did the Protestants dare to delete these verses ?

The first reason is that, these rejected Books contained verses are anti-thesis to the Paul made doctrines

The fundamental belief of Christians is that, Jesus was crucified and he died on the cross and later he raised or he became alive. Every Christians have to believe this. But unfortunately the books rejected Protestants, stood strongly against these fundamental belief. For example,  

For our lifetime is the passing of a shadow; and our dying cannot be deferred because it is fixed with a seal; and no one returns. (Wisdom 2:5)

Please read the above verse again. This verse strongly crystal clearly emphasised  that no one can become alive after death. If they accept the above verse, then it will be grave contradictions in their belief. So they simply deleted.

Another fundamental Christian doctrine is Original Sin and Atonement. According to Christian belief, all children of Adam are sinful. Adam and Eve were expelled from heaven for their sin and all their children have inherited the sin and hence all are born sinful. It was for this reason that the Son of God did not enter the womb of Mary through the seed of man, but Mary conceived him without knowing a man, so that he may not inherit the sin of Adam, like the rest of Adams children. But again book of Wisdom, book of  Sirach rejects this doctrine.

She (wisdom) preserved the first-formed father of the world when he alone had been created; And she (wisdom) raised him up from his fall (Wisdom 10:1)

Return to the LORD and give up sin, pray to him and make your offenses few (Sirach 17:20)

If we ponder the above given verses, we will come to know that Adam's sin was forgiven and everyone have to bear their own burdens, and others cannot bear them. So the above given verses are against their own fancies (doctrines), so they dared to keep hands in the God's scriptures.

Why did not the Catholics delete it ?

Some may ask this question, that is Catholics also have the same beliefs, so why didn't they delete it?

The answer is that if we identify Catholics and the Protestants in the right manner, it will clear your doubt.

Catholics are not much interested in missionary works. They never engaged themselves in debate or comments. They rarely do missionary work amongst the other religious persons. So they don't face other's criticisms. Even it comes they never reply for it.

But Protestants are anti-thesis. They are always engaged in missionary works and they are much interested in forced conversions. They plan how to approach different communities and different religions. They make gimmick tactics to achieve their goals. They sometimes answer the questions raised by other religions. If they happened to do missionary works  amongst the other religions, they have the moral responsibility to answer the questions which we quoted above. In order to avoid such a bad situations, they deleted those God's words. Actually they did not have any other alternatives.

Why did  the Catholics kept silence

Now, we have to ask why did  the Catholics kept silence when these Protestants kept hands in the God's Scripture? How did the Whole Christians accepted it or kept silence ?

The answer is, before departing as Protestants, when they all remained as Catholics, both parties have already deleted many thousands verses from the God's Scriptures. Because of these interpolations, additions and deletions the Christians forgot the Divine holiness. They do not believe that nothing should be added or deleted on God's Scriptures. That is why Martin Luther able to establish a new sect and deleted many verses. This is the main reason behind the Catholics inability to stop the Protestants. The Catholics have already deleted many books in the past, so how can they criticize Martin Luther for deleting few thousands verses. Do not think this accusations is  fabricated, We have the reasons.

Bible is a collections of books revealed to the Prophets. We can see some of the verses tells about the past Books .For example :

The prophet Isaiah, son of Amos, wrote the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last. (II Chronicle 26 :22)

The above verse from the II Chronicles tells about the Book written by the Prophet Isaiah . We can find the "Book of Isaiah" as the 27th  book in Catholic Bible and 23 rd book in the Protestant Bible.

The rest of Hezekiah's acts, including his pious works, can be found written in the Vision of the Prophet Isaiah, son of Amos, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. (II Chronicles 32:32)

As per above stated, we can find I King and II King in the Bible. So in the Bible, some books tells about some other books. So with those reference we can see few books in the Bible, and unfortunately there many books missing in the Bible. So we can decide that both parties have deleted it. Lets analyse it.

1.Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written a BOOK OF SAMUEL THE SEER, and in the BOOK OF NATHAN THE PROPHET, and in the BOOK OF GAD THE SEER,.(1 CHRONICLES 29:29)

Above verse tells us about three books. Book of the Samuel is still in the Bible. But unfortunately we could see the Book of the Nathan and Book of the Gad, the seer. Where is this two books ? there are many others lost books.

2.Wherefore it is said in the BOOK OF THE WARS OF THE LORD, What He did in the Red Sea, and in the brooks of Arnon...(NUMBERS 21:14)

3. Is this not written in the BOOK OF JASHER?  (JOSHUA10:13)

4  The rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are written, as is well known, in the acts of Nathan the prophet, in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer which concern Jeroboam, son of Nebat( II CHRONICLES 9:29)

5.And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are not written in the BOOK OF THE ACTS OF SOLOMON? (I KINGS 11:41)

6. And Hiil-kiah, the high priest,said unto Shaphan, the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hil-kiah gave the book to Sha phan, and he read it.( 2 KINGS 22:8)

Old Testament Apocrypha or Hidden God's book 

1. 1 Esdras
2. 1 Maccabees
3. 2 Esdras (a.k.a 4 Ezra)
4. 2 Maccabees
5. 3 Maccabees
6. 4 Ezra (a.ka. 2 Esdras)
7. 4 Maccabees
8. Baruch
9. Bel and the Dragon (addition to Daniel)
10. Daniel and Susanna (addition to Daniel)
11. Additions to Esther
12. Judith 
13. Letter of Jeremiah
14. Prayer of Azariah (addition to Daniel)
15. The Prayer of Manasseh
16. Psalm 151 
17. Sirach 
18. Tobit
19. The Wisdom of Solomon

 

"The accession of Josiah and his eagerness to restore the worship of Jehovah led to the renovation of the Temple, and in the course of this, B.C. 621, the book of Deuteronomy was discovered. The priest took it to the king, who joyfully welcomed it and set about putting its program of religious reformation into effect. The dramatic story is told in 2 Kings 22 and 23. Josiah put a stop to the idolatrous practices of the people,..." (Edgar J. Goodspeed 'How came the Bible?' pgs22-23)

Could someone let me know where this books are? Where is Book of Nathan? Where is the Book of Gad? where is Book of the Acts of Solomon ? God knows where these books are ? So We come to know that this kind disease (deleting) prevails from the beginning.

Now lets take the New Testament

Even though they call as " THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST' , yet they deny it.

New Testament is not what God revealed to Jesus. But those are the books written about Jesus by others authors. In Gospel of Mark,  Marks tells about Jesus ; Gospel of John , John tells about Jesus. Many authors have said about Jesus. These were written long after Jesus's departure and theses Gospels were Jesus history mixed with those author's own fancies. This was not reveal to Jesus by God Almighty.

Bible in many places says that Jesus was given with a revelation. 

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogue, and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom .. (Mathew 4:23)

Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of kingdom of God (Mark 1:14)

And saying, the time is fulfilled , and the kingdom of God is at hand, repent ye, and believe the gospel (Mark 1:15)

When Mark and Mathew tells us that Jesus preached the Gospel of the kingdom (book). Mark goes further and calls it Gospel of kingdom of God. Where is that Gospel of Kingdom of God? Christians has allowed various authors books (Mark, Mathew, John, Paul etc..) to be Divine book- Moreover Christians have preserved the books revealed thousands years before the advent of Jesus and if it can safe guard to this date - Then how come they missed the Gospel of kingdom which was preached by their God (Jesus!!) and was given by their God the father ?

The Answer is simple, They forsook or threw away their lord Jesus' book just because it contradicted with the Founder of Christianity, Paul's invented doctrines.

Did Jesus ordered his followers to believe the Gospel of Kingdom ? OR the Gospels, which were written long after his departure, with misinformation. Will the Christians think?

Those who threw away the gospel which Jesus wrote , preached, how can you believe their  sincerity? Still do you think that the Bible is Holy ????

                                                                    the End

 (ICRA) 

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