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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, welcome to today's episode of
Walk With Me.
I am your host, jj.
It's so good to have each andevery one of you here.
I know you're probably tired ofhearing that.
If you just skip through this,then that's fine too, but I
really mean it.
It is good to have each andevery one of you here.
Thank you so much for the likesand the shares and the comments,
(00:22):
even on the social medias.
I really do appreciate it.
I have to admit that I'm notgreat at sharing it on social
media.
I am really going to get betterat it, I promise, I promise, I
promise.
I just have to just get betterwith it.
You know, knuckle down and bemore disciplined, right?
But thank you all so much forliking and doing the sharing on
(00:47):
your own.
Thank you all for showing otherpeople about the podcast.
I really appreciate it.
Uh, thank you all, thank you,thank you.
I love you so much and I wantedto say that, um, I'm not just
saying I love you because youguys are listening.
I know that some of that stuffgoes around, but I really do
(01:07):
love each and every one of youwho listen, um, who are out
there, even if you don't listen,even if there are a couple out
of you, a couple of you outthere, that kind of listen to it
to try to have debates, which I, again I am thankful for
because you know if you, whenyou send me the questions, I
kind of can feel where they'recoming from and we're going to
(01:30):
deal with such questions today.
But it actually it actuallyhelps me if I don't know the
answer, because then I have togo and study and research and
that in turn allows me to knowthe word of God better.
So I do appreciate all of yourquestions and your comments.
(01:50):
If you do have questions andcomments, send them to
walkwithmebiblestudy at gmail.
Walkwithmebiblestudy atgmailcom.
Big shout out to Bars Lyricistfor the intro and outro music.
I keep saying I'm going to getwith him about maybe changing
the bump.
Um, I think he's got some bigprojects getting ready to start,
(02:14):
so I guess I better get inwhere I fit in, right.
Big shout out also to exquisitecreations and iron gate
ministries, and one more comingup.
Big shout out to all of you outthere who are supporting this
podcast.
Remember this is for thekingdom of God, it is not for JJ
.
Okay, that's why I don't chargeanything.
(02:35):
I don't have a specialmembers-only podcast or
members-only stream and, pleaseunderstand, I'm not disparaging
anyone who does.
I, that's I.
I'm just saying I don'tdisparage anyone who does.
That's just how god is leadingme on this podcast.
So this podcast which you guysare on here, you guys can be
(02:58):
listening to any of those otherpodcasts.
I, it is what it is, but youguys are listening here and I
really really do appreciate it.
Love each and every one of youall, right?
So for no further ado, big longintro there.
Thank you all so much.
We're going to deal with aquestion that I got and, again,
(03:21):
I love questions.
So this one is not going tohave a lot of scripture in it,
which is why I kind of hesitatedon doing this in the uh, in the
podcast format, but there wasjust so much to type uh, and I'm
sure that other people get thismessage, get this question too.
(03:42):
So the question is how did weget our bible?
Where did that new beautifulking james version bible that
you have sitting on your livingroom table collecting dust?
How did we get access to that,right?
So here's the thing, before weeven get started in that we have
(04:06):
to understand and the reasonwhy this question came up,
because we always get thatsomebody that we know that say
well, that Bible was written byman.
Ok, this is true, this is true.
It is true, the pen and the inkand the paper were all held in
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men's hands as it was beingwritten.
But it was inspired by the wordof God himself.
And the reason why we know thatis because, over the thousands
of years this book was written,none of it contradicts itself.
We've gone over that.
I may revisit that, but that'sthe thing, and this is one of
(04:51):
the things that makes the Bibleso amazing, the word of God so
amazing, god himself so amazingthat God can be walked with
through people, can speakthrough people and not
contradict himself.
Now, I get it.
People are people.
Sometimes people will saythings that contradict the word
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of God.
People may interpret thingsthat contradict the word of God,
but the word of God itself doesnot contradict him and it does
not contradict itself.
So now that we got that out theway and, like I said, we may
deal with that again later, butnow that we got that out the way
, how do we get that bound bookwith the red letters and the
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black letters and the chaptersand the chapters and the
chapters and the books and theverses right.
How do we get?
Well, the first thing we got tounderstand the bible was
originally written.
Not in bible form, it was justmanuscripts that were written on
long streets of parchment andthen they used wooden rollers to
(05:58):
roll it up.
So that's why when you hearpeople say scrolls, that's what
they're talking about.
But they were actually calledmanuscripts, meaning it was
written by the hand.
A lot of these words real fancywords that have real simple
meaning Manuscripts meanswritten by the hand.
Now, the men who copied thatword of God onto these
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manuscripts were called scribes.
Now we often talk about scribesin the New Testament in a
negative connotation.
This is where I think a lot ofpeople get this sort of a bad
taste in their mouth whenthey're talking about scribes.
But the original scribes wereinscribing or writing the word
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of God as it was being told tothem, both by the men of God
themselves or by God himself.
Like, for instance, moses wrotethe first five books of the
Bible, but we only have one bookof Exodus.
Like, for instance, moses wrotethe first five books of the
Bible but we only have one bookof Exodus.
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So God was speaking throughMoses and telling him what to
write down on his paper.
Now, the manuscripts were veryexpensive when they were first
written and at the time whenthey started having you know,
the Hebrew faith, and I'mtalking about the Old Testament
now, when they were veryexpensive to write, you had to
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cut the tree down, you had totreat the tree, you had to
thread it up, you had to make itinto paper and you had to get
wood.
It was a lot.
It was a lot that was just onepage Right.
So lot, it was a lot, that wasjust one page Right.
So they were very expensive andit took a long time to write
them, a long time to get thescrolls ready, to write them.
So what was happening was themanuscripts had to be read to
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the congregation.
By the congregation we mean theOld Testament, nation of Israel
, it had to be read.
And when we consider that theOld Testament, the nation of
Israel, it had to be read.
And when we consider that theOld Testament was written in
Hebrew because we were readingthem to Hebrew people, then that
makes sense.
Now, in the New Testament it waswritten in Greek because Greek
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was the prevalent language atthat time, the Romans.
You know.
He had all the nation statesand a lot of the churches were
actually formed in and aroundGreece and we'll get into that.
At some point Now, about 220years, about 225 or 227 before
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Christ, there was a Greektranslation of the Old Testament
.
That was that they made by 70scholars we're just talking
about just the Old Testament was70 scholars that made the Old
Testament.
They made the well translatedthe Old Testament into book.
They made the well translatedthe Old Testament into book form
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and it was kind of it was madein these two particular
translations I'm pretty sure itwas only two and one of them was
the Latin translation and thatwas the Old Testament.
And then there was the originalGreek of the New Testament.
So there were some things thatwere translated from the Hebrew
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to Latin because when it wasdone, latin and Greek were the
prominent languages of the time.
Now they called that theDecepticons and I may have
butchered that, but that waswidely circulated and they then
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used that translation totranslate to the Vulgate.
Now this is another Latintranslation of the Decepticons
version of the Old Testament,but it still used the original
Greek of the New Testament.
Now that Vulgate it may soundfamiliar to you, but they used
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it to that word actually comesfrom we know that word more as
Vulgar.
Now I know I know when I saythe word vulgar you think of a
lot of things.
But back at that time vulgarmeant to make common or public,
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and that's why we get thefeeling of dirty, because in the
Old Testament to say commonmeant dirty or low value or
inarticulate.
Right Even Peter said you know,hey, these things are common, I
don't eat anything common.
What he was saying was hedoesn't put bulk or things in
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his mouth.
But you know, I'm trying not toget off into the weeds because
this is strictly biblicalhistory as far as the, the
penmanship of it.
Now, this Vulgate version of theLatin and the Greek into this
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new version was made in NorthAfrica and there was a guy by
the name of Jerome in the 4thcentury by 4th century I mean
400 AD that actually revised it.
Now, after Jerome revised it,there was a thousand years that
this was it.
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This was the standard Bible.
You had Latin and you had Greekand that was it.
That was about a thousand years.
So now that brings us up toabout 1400.
Now here's the problem, thatversion being in Latin, that was
the standard Bible.
In what organization?
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The Catholic organization.
Now, why is that?
Because the common people werenot allowed to read Latin.
Remember, I said you just heardwhat I said there the common
people, the vulgar people, thelow quality people, the peasants
, the non-nobility, were notallowed to read Latin.
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So the priest would get upthere and he would read and he
would say whatever he wanted itto say.
Now they also called this age,if you know your world history,
they called this period the DarkAges, and I'm of the impression
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that the reason why it wascalled the dark ages not was
because we didn't really knowanything, but because the word
of god was kind of kept from thepeople and people were quote in
the dark about what god wantedfrom us, right?
So the leader would read to thepeople and then, once the Bible
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was read, with whatever mass orservice or whatever, the Bible
was locked away, like no onecould go in there and say they
pick up a Bible and say, hey,john or hey, leticia, let's go
have a Bible study.
That was not going to happen.
There was no Bible study, right.
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So there was right about thattime the first Anglo-Saxon
translation Came out.
This was done by by Someonenamed Venerable Beattie.
Now, what they did wastranslate only the Psalms and
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the Gospels into Anglo-Saxon,which is the Book of Psalms, and
the Mark, matthew, mark, lukeand John, which is the Gospel.
That's it.
None of the letters, none ofthat other stuff, just the
Psalms and the four G gospels.
Right now, alfred the Greatcame along and said, hey, that
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was a good idea, but now I wantthe whole Bible translated.
But he died and so that got puton hold.
Then the Catholic Church sortof saw the light on this around
1250.
And you can all look this up.
So this is all open information.
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In 1250, cardinal Hugo, which isfrom the Catholic organization,
divided the Bibles into chapterand verse.
No, just for chapters.
And the reason why he dividedit into chapters is because the
book you see right now was notwritten in chapter and verse.
It was just written in thebeginning and then you just kept
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writing.
We had periods and stuff likethat.
You had punctuation for whatit's worth, but there was no
chapter, there was no verse.
We do that now and this iswhere this started.
In 1250, cardinal Hugo says well, you know what?
Let's have factors to make itmore easily referenced, have
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chapters to make it more easilyreferenced.
Now, there are some divisions.
That doesn't make sense, likeif you're reading along and
instead of a chapter in the book, usually when you have a
chapter in the book it actuallystarts a whole new idea or a
whole new storyline or a wholenew string.
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But sometimes in the Bible itjust sort of picks up right
where the last chapter left offand it doesn't, and then there's
like a switch in ideassomewhere about halfway through
the chapter.
That's, honestly, that's kindof unfortunate.
That's just how it is, becausehe's the one that decided this
is how the chapters are going tobe.
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But I will say that when youlook at all the following
translations after that, theyall seem to follow that same
breakdown, same chapterbreakdown.
So you're probably sittingthere, you're probably, you know
, dazed off and drowsy andtrying to figure out oh my God,
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when is he going to get to theKing James?
We're coming to it.
We're coming to it.
As a matter of fact, the firstEnglish translation Was done by
John Wycliffe.
Now, he was the first one Totranslate the entire bible Into
English, for what we call theLatin Vulcan, in other words,
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the Latin Common language.
It took him 22 years Totranslate everything and it was
so expensive that One copy wouldcost 40 pounds and it would
take 10 months to write.
And the Roman Catholicorganization opposed him every
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step of the way.
But wait, I should tell you youshould not think of 40 pounds
as in $40, or if today's 40pounds, no, when you had, when
you generally earned about apound a year.
Yeah, now you see why it's soexpensive and people just didn't
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.
There were more importantthings to worry about Saving up
all that money To get a Bible.
But John Wycliffe died he's nothere today, so he died.
He died around 1384, 1385.
And it was like an ascendingparalysis.
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I think they call one of thosetype of paralysis like the
Gidon-Barré syndrome, where itstarts off as the low extremity
paralysis in the lowerextremities.
It just worked them ways up andthen, when they got to a
certain point, lungs paralyzedand he died.
Okay, 40 years later.
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Now, this is how bad.
This is how bad some things getwhen you threaten people's
power.
This is how bad some things get.
40 years after he died, romanCatholic Dug up his bones.
People's power.
This is how bad something gets.
Forty years after he died,roman Catholics dug up his bones
and burned them.
They spread the ashes of theburnt bones on River Swift.
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Now I just want you to thinkabout just how oh boy, what's
the word I want to use here howgrimy you have to be feeling
right about now to pick up a manafter he's been buried 40 years
and then sprinkle his ashes,burn the bones.
The guy's gone.
You burnt the bones all the waydown the ass and then pour the
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ashes in the room.
That was crazy.
So, that being said, that stilldid not prevent the word of God
from making his next journey,because right around 1450 we
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started seeing things in print,and that's because the printing
press was invented in Europe bynone other than Gutenberg in
1450.
And that's why we have the termGutenberg Fiber the very first
thing that was printed.
And this happened, I would say,around 1451, 1452, don't quote
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me on that Now.
That then was introduced intoEngland by a guy by the name of
Caxon, and it took another 26years to get there, so 1476.
Now, what happened in 1492?
There you go.
But right after that happenedWilliam Tyndale now, if you've
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been in church and stuff likethat.
These names might startsounding familiar.
William Tyndale was the oneProtestant reformer, because
right about that time, duringall this time, you had the
Spanish Inquisition.
The Spanish Inquisition wasbasically the Catholic Church
trying to suppress this Bible,suppress the truth of the Lord
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Jesus Christ, and I know, ifyou're listening to this podcast
and you're Catholic, Iunderstand.
Remember I said in thebeginning you're going to like
some parts of this and someparts you're not.
But the Catholic Church wasreally trying to suppress this
whole Bible thing coming out andgetting into the hands of
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common people.
So that's exactly why peopleended up leaving Europe and
coming to America.
That was the original purposeof coming to America.
It wasn't.
Oh, we got to go establish anew land.
No, no, they were escapingpersecution.
And I would go back like I didand reread all of our Spanish
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Inquisition with the knowledgeof who was actually doing the
inquisiting.
I know Christians kind of gotthe bad rep for that, but it was
the Catholics, right.
So, tyndale, in 1525, he madeanother English translation and
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he was the first one to publishit in print.
What he did was he published anEnglish New Testament.
He had to do that in twodifferent places One in Cologne
in France modern day France andone in Worms.
In order to get it to England,it had to be smuggled into
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England.
I just want you to take amoment to think about just how
precious the word of God is.
Is that now we can go down toBarnes, noble or I don't know,
whatever your favoritebookseller is and you can go
online, amazon?
You can go to a hotel andthere's Bibles everywhere.
Well, I don't know, I don'tthink they even have hotels
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anymore, but there's Bibleseverywhere.
But in England at that time youhad to smuggle the Bible into
England and they had to take itapart and they put it in cotton,
and they put it in fur, ballfur sacks, flour, and every step
of the way you had theCatholics trying to prevent that
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and there were thousands ofcopies that were intercepted and
burned, thousands of copies.
So when you hear peoplecomplain these days about
burning books, what do you thinkthey got that from?
So, anyway, now, what he didwas he translated from Greek and
his translation, a lot of theBible scholars would say was the
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most accurate.
He translated directly fromGreek and he skipped all the
other translations, and peoplesay that this is the most
accurate translation.
I don't know, there aredifferent matters of opinion on
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that, but this one was very,very, very accurate.
And he also translated what wascalled the Pentateuch and Jonah
into English.
And in 1535, he issued arevised version of the New
Testament from the originalGreek.
Now, because I'm sure thatyou're bored now, you probably
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have to get a cup of coffee.
We're going to go ahead and endthis here.
I want, if your homework, if Iwas ever going to issue homework
, is to go back and follow thosedates that we talked about,
because it's important to knowhow the Bible that you hold,
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that we hold.
And I'm going to be honest withyou Before I did all this,
before I saw this, I kind oftook it for granted this thing
took 1,500 years just to getinto a form that we kind of
recognize.
I'm only saying that 1,500years because after Christ it
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actually took longer than that,because it was on scrolls before
that 6,000 years.
My suggestion would be to goahead and look girls before that
6,000 years.
So my suggestion would be to goahead and look back through the
years that I've mentioned anddo your research.
Now I know that you're going tofind some garbage websites out
there that float a lot ofdifferent little weird things
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put out by other organizations.
I know, I know I've come acrossthat.
That's why it's taken me solong to answer your question.
But by the time you chase allthat down, you realize that it
was garbage.
I don't want you to fall intothat, but I also don't want you
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to just randomly take my wordfor it, because this is a Bible
study podcast, not a Bibledictatorship podcast.
But I love each and every oneof you.
Next week we're going to talkabout Miles Glovendale, who
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actually started putting theBible in print.
We're going to keep going on,because now this case is going
to pick up faster, and thenwe're going to go through all of
the more prominent translations.
Ok, love each and every one ofyou.
See y'all on the next one.
Hey, tell somebody that youlove them.
You See y'all on the next one.
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Hey, tell somebody that youlove them, even if you have to
fake it.
I know somebody was like howcan you tell somebody that you
love them when you don't?
You do, because the Bible saysto love your neighbor as
yourself.
If you love yourself, then youcan say hey, guys or tweet.
You don't have to walk aroundlooking all scientific I love
you.
You don't have to be that, butyou can treat them kindly.
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You can hold the door forsomebody and smile.
You can pick up some.
If somebody drops something onthe floor, you can pick that up
for them and then, if God moves,you say Jesus loves you,
because God is reaching out fora lot of people.
There's going to be a revivalsoon and we want to be a part of
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it.
All right, god bless you all.
See you all in the next one.
Bye-bye.
Hello everybody, welcome to today's episode of
Walk With Me.
I am your host, jj.
It's so good to have each andevery one of you here.
I know you're probably tired ofhearing that.
If you just skip through this,then that's fine too, but I
really mean it.
It is good to have each andevery one of you here.
Thank you so much for the likesand the shares and the comments,
(00:22):
even on the social medias.
I really do appreciate it.
I have to admit that I'm notgreat at sharing it on social
media.
I am really going to get betterat it, I promise, I promise, I
promise.
I just have to just get betterwith it.
You know, knuckle down and bemore disciplined, right?
But thank you all so much forliking and doing the sharing on
(00:47):
your own.
Thank you all for showing otherpeople about the podcast.
I really appreciate it.
Uh, thank you all, thank you,thank you.
I love you so much and I wantedto say that, um, I'm not just
saying I love you because youguys are listening.
I know that some of that stuffgoes around, but I really do
(01:07):
love each and every one of youwho listen, um, who are out
there, even if you don't listen,even if there are a couple out
of you, a couple of you outthere, that kind of listen to it
to try to have debates, which I, again I am thankful for
because you know if you, whenyou send me the questions, I
kind of can feel where they'recoming from and we're going to
(01:30):
deal with such questions today.
But it actually it actuallyhelps me if I don't know the
answer, because then I have togo and study and research and
that in turn allows me to knowthe word of God better.
So I do appreciate all of yourquestions and your comments.
(01:50):
If you do have questions andcomments, send them to
walkwithmebiblestudy at gmail.
Walkwithmebiblestudy atgmailcom.
Big shout out to Bars Lyricistfor the intro and outro music.
I keep saying I'm going to getwith him about maybe changing
the bump.
Um, I think he's got some bigprojects getting ready to start,
(02:14):
so I guess I better get inwhere I fit in, right.
Big shout out also to exquisitecreations and iron gate
ministries, and one more comingup.
Big shout out to all of you outthere who are supporting this
podcast.
Remember this is for thekingdom of God, it is not for JJ
.
Okay, that's why I don't chargeanything.
(02:35):
I don't have a specialmembers-only podcast or
members-only stream and, pleaseunderstand, I'm not disparaging
anyone who does.
I, that's I.
I'm just saying I don'tdisparage anyone who does.
That's just how god is leadingme on this podcast.
So this podcast which you guysare on here, you guys can be
(02:58):
listening to any of those otherpodcasts.
I, it is what it is, but youguys are listening here and I
really really do appreciate it.
Love each and every one of youall, right?
So for no further ado, big longintro there.
Thank you all so much.
We're going to deal with aquestion that I got and, again,
(03:21):
I love questions.
So this one is not going tohave a lot of scripture in it,
which is why I kind of hesitatedon doing this in the uh, in the
podcast format, but there wasjust so much to type uh, and I'm
sure that other people get thismessage, get this question too.
(03:42):
So the question is how did weget our bible?
Where did that new beautifulking james version bible that
you have sitting on your livingroom table collecting dust?
How did we get access to that,right?
So here's the thing, before weeven get started in that we have
(04:06):
to understand and the reasonwhy this question came up,
because we always get thatsomebody that we know that say
well, that Bible was written byman.
Ok, this is true, this is true.
It is true, the pen and the inkand the paper were all held in
(04:27):
men's hands as it was beingwritten.
But it was inspired by the wordof God himself.
And the reason why we know thatis because, over the thousands
of years this book was written,none of it contradicts itself.
We've gone over that.
I may revisit that, but that'sthe thing, and this is one of
(04:51):
the things that makes the Bibleso amazing, the word of God so
amazing, god himself so amazingthat God can be walked with
through people, can speakthrough people and not
contradict himself.
Now, I get it.
People are people.
Sometimes people will saythings that contradict the word
(05:11):
of God.
People may interpret thingsthat contradict the word of God,
but the word of God itself doesnot contradict him and it does
not contradict itself.
So now that we got that out theway and, like I said, we may
deal with that again later, butnow that we got that out the way
, how do we get that bound bookwith the red letters and the
(05:35):
black letters and the chaptersand the chapters and the
chapters and the books and theverses right.
How do we get?
Well, the first thing we got tounderstand the bible was
originally written.
Not in bible form, it was justmanuscripts that were written on
long streets of parchment andthen they used wooden rollers to
(05:58):
roll it up.
So that's why when you hearpeople say scrolls, that's what
they're talking about.
But they were actually calledmanuscripts, meaning it was
written by the hand.
A lot of these words real fancywords that have real simple
meaning Manuscripts meanswritten by the hand.
Now, the men who copied thatword of God onto these
(06:19):
manuscripts were called scribes.
Now we often talk about scribesin the New Testament in a
negative connotation.
This is where I think a lot ofpeople get this sort of a bad
taste in their mouth whenthey're talking about scribes.
But the original scribes wereinscribing or writing the word
(06:42):
of God as it was being told tothem, both by the men of God
themselves or by God himself.
Like, for instance, moses wrotethe first five books of the
Bible, but we only have one bookof Exodus.
Like, for instance, moses wrotethe first five books of the
Bible but we only have one bookof Exodus.
(07:03):
So God was speaking throughMoses and telling him what to
write down on his paper.
Now, the manuscripts were veryexpensive when they were first
written and at the time whenthey started having you know,
the Hebrew faith, and I'mtalking about the Old Testament
now, when they were veryexpensive to write, you had to
(07:25):
cut the tree down, you had totreat the tree, you had to
thread it up, you had to make itinto paper and you had to get
wood.
It was a lot.
It was a lot that was just onepage Right.
So lot, it was a lot, that wasjust one page Right.
So they were very expensive andit took a long time to write
them, a long time to get thescrolls ready, to write them.
So what was happening was themanuscripts had to be read to
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the congregation.
By the congregation we mean theOld Testament, nation of Israel
, it had to be read.
And when we consider that theOld Testament, the nation of
Israel, it had to be read.
And when we consider that theOld Testament was written in
Hebrew because we were readingthem to Hebrew people, then that
makes sense.
Now, in the New Testament it waswritten in Greek because Greek
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was the prevalent language atthat time, the Romans.
You know.
He had all the nation statesand a lot of the churches were
actually formed in and aroundGreece and we'll get into that.
At some point Now, about 220years, about 225 or 227 before
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Christ, there was a Greektranslation of the Old Testament
.
That was that they made by 70scholars we're just talking
about just the Old Testament was70 scholars that made the Old
Testament.
They made the well translatedthe Old Testament into book.
They made the well translatedthe Old Testament into book form
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and it was kind of it was madein these two particular
translations I'm pretty sure itwas only two and one of them was
the Latin translation and thatwas the Old Testament.
And then there was the originalGreek of the New Testament.
So there were some things thatwere translated from the Hebrew
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to Latin because when it wasdone, latin and Greek were the
prominent languages of the time.
Now they called that theDecepticons and I may have
butchered that, but that waswidely circulated and they then
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used that translation totranslate to the Vulgate.
Now this is another Latintranslation of the Decepticons
version of the Old Testament,but it still used the original
Greek of the New Testament.
Now that Vulgate it may soundfamiliar to you, but they used
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it to that word actually comesfrom we know that word more as
Vulgar.
Now I know I know when I saythe word vulgar you think of a
lot of things.
But back at that time vulgarmeant to make common or public,
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and that's why we get thefeeling of dirty, because in the
Old Testament to say commonmeant dirty or low value or
inarticulate.
Right Even Peter said you know,hey, these things are common, I
don't eat anything common.
What he was saying was hedoesn't put bulk or things in
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his mouth.
But you know, I'm trying not toget off into the weeds because
this is strictly biblicalhistory as far as the, the
penmanship of it.
Now, this Vulgate version of theLatin and the Greek into this
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new version was made in NorthAfrica and there was a guy by
the name of Jerome in the 4thcentury by 4th century I mean
400 AD that actually revised it.
Now, after Jerome revised it,there was a thousand years that
this was it.
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This was the standard Bible.
You had Latin and you had Greekand that was it.
That was about a thousand years.
So now that brings us up toabout 1400.
Now here's the problem, thatversion being in Latin, that was
the standard Bible.
In what organization?
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The Catholic organization.
Now, why is that?
Because the common people werenot allowed to read Latin.
Remember, I said you just heardwhat I said there the common
people, the vulgar people, thelow quality people, the peasants
, the non-nobility, were notallowed to read Latin.
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So the priest would get upthere and he would read and he
would say whatever he wanted itto say.
Now they also called this age,if you know your world history,
they called this period the DarkAges, and I'm of the impression
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that the reason why it wascalled the dark ages not was
because we didn't really knowanything, but because the word
of god was kind of kept from thepeople and people were quote in
the dark about what god wantedfrom us, right?
So the leader would read to thepeople and then, once the Bible
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was read, with whatever mass orservice or whatever, the Bible
was locked away, like no onecould go in there and say they
pick up a Bible and say, hey,john or hey, leticia, let's go
have a Bible study.
That was not going to happen.
There was no Bible study, right.
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So there was right about thattime the first Anglo-Saxon
translation Came out.
This was done by by Someonenamed Venerable Beattie.
Now, what they did wastranslate only the Psalms and
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the Gospels into Anglo-Saxon,which is the Book of Psalms, and
the Mark, matthew, mark, lukeand John, which is the Gospel.
That's it.
None of the letters, none ofthat other stuff, just the
Psalms and the four G gospels.
Right now, alfred the Greatcame along and said, hey, that
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was a good idea, but now I wantthe whole Bible translated.
But he died and so that got puton hold.
Then the Catholic Church sortof saw the light on this around
1250.
And you can all look this up.
So this is all open information.
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In 1250, cardinal Hugo, which isfrom the Catholic organization,
divided the Bibles into chapterand verse.
No, just for chapters.
And the reason why he dividedit into chapters is because the
book you see right now was notwritten in chapter and verse.
It was just written in thebeginning and then you just kept
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writing.
We had periods and stuff likethat.
You had punctuation for whatit's worth, but there was no
chapter, there was no verse.
We do that now and this iswhere this started.
In 1250, cardinal Hugo says well, you know what?
Let's have factors to make itmore easily referenced, have
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chapters to make it more easilyreferenced.
Now, there are some divisions.
That doesn't make sense, likeif you're reading along and
instead of a chapter in the book, usually when you have a
chapter in the book it actuallystarts a whole new idea or a
whole new storyline or a wholenew string.
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But sometimes in the Bible itjust sort of picks up right
where the last chapter left offand it doesn't, and then there's
like a switch in ideassomewhere about halfway through
the chapter.
That's, honestly, that's kindof unfortunate.
That's just how it is, becausehe's the one that decided this
is how the chapters are going tobe.
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But I will say that when youlook at all the following
translations after that, theyall seem to follow that same
breakdown, same chapterbreakdown.
So you're probably sittingthere, you're probably, you know
, dazed off and drowsy andtrying to figure out oh my God,
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when is he going to get to theKing James?
We're coming to it.
We're coming to it.
As a matter of fact, the firstEnglish translation Was done by
John Wycliffe.
Now, he was the first one Totranslate the entire bible Into
English, for what we call theLatin Vulcan, in other words,
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the Latin Common language.
It took him 22 years Totranslate everything and it was
so expensive that One copy wouldcost 40 pounds and it would
take 10 months to write.
And the Roman Catholicorganization opposed him every
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step of the way.
But wait, I should tell you youshould not think of 40 pounds
as in $40, or if today's 40pounds, no, when you had, when
you generally earned about apound a year.
Yeah, now you see why it's soexpensive and people just didn't
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.
There were more importantthings to worry about Saving up
all that money To get a Bible.
But John Wycliffe died he's nothere today, so he died.
He died around 1384, 1385.
And it was like an ascendingparalysis.
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I think they call one of thosetype of paralysis like the
Gidon-Barré syndrome, where itstarts off as the low extremity
paralysis in the lowerextremities.
It just worked them ways up andthen, when they got to a
certain point, lungs paralyzedand he died.
Okay, 40 years later.
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Now, this is how bad.
This is how bad some things getwhen you threaten people's
power.
This is how bad some things get.
40 years after he died, romanCatholic Dug up his bones.
People's power.
This is how bad something gets.
Forty years after he died,roman Catholics dug up his bones
and burned them.
They spread the ashes of theburnt bones on River Swift.
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Now I just want you to thinkabout just how oh boy, what's
the word I want to use here howgrimy you have to be feeling
right about now to pick up a manafter he's been buried 40 years
and then sprinkle his ashes,burn the bones.
The guy's gone.
You burnt the bones all the waydown the ass and then pour the
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ashes in the room.
That was crazy.
So, that being said, that stilldid not prevent the word of God
from making his next journey,because right around 1450 we
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started seeing things in print,and that's because the printing
press was invented in Europe bynone other than Gutenberg in
1450.
And that's why we have the termGutenberg Fiber the very first
thing that was printed.
And this happened, I would say,around 1451, 1452, don't quote
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me on that Now.
That then was introduced intoEngland by a guy by the name of
Caxon, and it took another 26years to get there, so 1476.
Now, what happened in 1492?
There you go.
But right after that happenedWilliam Tyndale now, if you've
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been in church and stuff likethat.
These names might startsounding familiar.
William Tyndale was the oneProtestant reformer, because
right about that time, duringall this time, you had the
Spanish Inquisition.
The Spanish Inquisition wasbasically the Catholic Church
trying to suppress this Bible,suppress the truth of the Lord
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Jesus Christ, and I know, ifyou're listening to this podcast
and you're Catholic, Iunderstand.
Remember I said in thebeginning you're going to like
some parts of this and someparts you're not.
But the Catholic Church wasreally trying to suppress this
whole Bible thing coming out andgetting into the hands of
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common people.
So that's exactly why peopleended up leaving Europe and
coming to America.
That was the original purposeof coming to America.
It wasn't.
Oh, we got to go establish anew land.
No, no, they were escapingpersecution.
And I would go back like I didand reread all of our Spanish
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Inquisition with the knowledgeof who was actually doing the
inquisiting.
I know Christians kind of gotthe bad rep for that, but it was
the Catholics, right.
So, tyndale, in 1525, he madeanother English translation and
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he was the first one to publishit in print.
What he did was he published anEnglish New Testament.
He had to do that in twodifferent places One in Cologne
in France modern day France andone in Worms.
In order to get it to England,it had to be smuggled into
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England.
I just want you to take amoment to think about just how
precious the word of God is.
Is that now we can go down toBarnes, noble or I don't know,
whatever your favoritebookseller is and you can go
online, amazon?
You can go to a hotel andthere's Bibles everywhere.
Well, I don't know, I don'tthink they even have hotels
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anymore, but there's Bibleseverywhere.
But in England at that time youhad to smuggle the Bible into
England and they had to take itapart and they put it in cotton,
and they put it in fur, ballfur sacks, flour, and every step
of the way you had theCatholics trying to prevent that
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and there were thousands ofcopies that were intercepted and
burned, thousands of copies.
So when you hear peoplecomplain these days about
burning books, what do you thinkthey got that from?
So, anyway, now, what he didwas he translated from Greek and
his translation, a lot of theBible scholars would say was the
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most accurate.
He translated directly fromGreek and he skipped all the
other translations, and peoplesay that this is the most
accurate translation.
I don't know, there aredifferent matters of opinion on
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that, but this one was very,very, very accurate.
And he also translated what wascalled the Pentateuch and Jonah
into English.
And in 1535, he issued arevised version of the New
Testament from the originalGreek.
Now, because I'm sure thatyou're bored now, you probably
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have to get a cup of coffee.
We're going to go ahead and endthis here.
I want, if your homework, if Iwas ever going to issue homework
, is to go back and follow thosedates that we talked about,
because it's important to knowhow the Bible that you hold,
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that we hold.
And I'm going to be honest withyou Before I did all this,
before I saw this, I kind oftook it for granted this thing
took 1,500 years just to getinto a form that we kind of
recognize.
I'm only saying that 1,500years because after Christ it
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actually took longer than that,because it was on scrolls before
that 6,000 years.
My suggestion would be to goahead and look girls before that
6,000 years.
So my suggestion would be to goahead and look back through the
years that I've mentioned anddo your research.
Now I know that you're going tofind some garbage websites out
there that float a lot ofdifferent little weird things
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put out by other organizations.
I know, I know I've come acrossthat.
That's why it's taken me solong to answer your question.
But by the time you chase allthat down, you realize that it
was garbage.
I don't want you to fall intothat, but I also don't want you
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to just randomly take my wordfor it, because this is a Bible
study podcast, not a Bibledictatorship podcast.
But I love each and every oneof you.
Next week we're going to talkabout Miles Glovendale, who
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actually started putting theBible in print.
We're going to keep going on,because now this case is going
to pick up faster, and thenwe're going to go through all of
the more prominent translations.
Ok, love each and every one ofyou.
See y'all on the next one.
Hey, tell somebody that youlove them.
You See y'all on the next one.
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Hey, tell somebody that youlove them, even if you have to
fake it.
I know somebody was like howcan you tell somebody that you
love them when you don't?
You do, because the Bible saysto love your neighbor as
yourself.
If you love yourself, then youcan say hey, guys or tweet.
You don't have to walk aroundlooking all scientific I love
you.
You don't have to be that, butyou can treat them kindly.
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You can hold the door forsomebody and smile.
You can pick up some.
If somebody drops something onthe floor, you can pick that up
for them and then, if God moves,you say Jesus loves you,
because God is reaching out fora lot of people.
There's going to be a revivalsoon and we want to be a part of
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it.
All right, god bless you all.
See you all in the next one.
Bye-bye.
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