- from Masoretic vs. Septuagint : Guns, Lies, and Forgeries
A Bible Story by Robert E. Reis
Here is the summary of the article.
The Masoretic Text is part of a tradition that began with Rabbi Akiva. Rabbis rewrote the Jewish Bible to destroy the credibility of the New Testament.The Hebrew versions of the Old Testament have been used to proclaim scores of “messiahs” . The Septuagint was only used once.
It is a pretty bold claim. If you go to this website, you will find that there is a link provided to the original article, along with all the entertaining comments.
As with everything, there is a lot of disagreement and discussion! At least it might get someone to think about why both Catholic and Orthodox Churches consider the Deuterocanonical books - known as the Apocrypha for Protestants - to be sacred Scripture.
In fact, if you are a Protestant you may never have even thought about this.
Why should this interest Christians? Martin Luther decided his Old Testament canon based on the Masoretic text. What if he was wrong, and Protestants have been wrong for 500 years? What if the Deuterocanonical books really are God-breathed Scripture?
One of the rallying cries of the Reformation was “Scripture alone”. Protestants love the Word of God. What if they don’t have the complete canon of Scripture? More than that, what if the Masoretic text was corrupted on purpose?
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