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scandalously corrupt ... exhibiting the most TOAKEE TIAN REAM a M in T ONAOrOHM THY Tun ney YUN AN ABE shamefully mutilated texts which are anywhere to be met with; they have become, by whatever process, the oOMeN tu MeTAe OYNTECT ale bs depositories of the largest amount of CIN UICITE MW Ones BACI NTHCAW ACTF, fabricated readings, ancient blunders and HEN OD AD AMOIRH HCMIMEICeAITH intentional perversions of the truth which TAMH CARE you ENA 11CTIF are discoverable in any known copies of the tx - word of God". Dean Burgon's concerns Nae inset 7 PAARL arp apap em mirror opposing aspects of Gospel stories then current, having by now evolved to a RAH ON Tecexonre EicToyCcAICN new stage through centuries of tampering SOAP IM AIH CAATLSYY AIAAXAICIIOIKI with the fabric of an already unhistorical OMENE YAFe CTcm AAICK AIZEN AICMy document TOI WM. TREYAR riAp oe fFec@eKksA th ; BIACKATAEGOYCKN AONT APAPITI RE testing of ultraviolet light FApoe CHMU pr mr BALOYCOETHN EN In 1933, the British Museum in London piss AKIC ALAN OY B POD MAIN purchased the Sinai Bible from the Soviet ee aati rch EN OIC 1CAN ticbe government for £100,000, of which £65,000 Piro AH®OE ca = Irveri was gifted by public subscription. Prior to g Kl bs a He ft pak nat the acquisition, this Bible was displayed in The revelations of ultraviolet light lie teal boa cared (aed LIE as testing oe CH MEU KBAIOYCOETHN kay In 1933, the British Museum in London pis AIC ALAN OF E POM AIH purchased the Sinai Bible from the Soviet a! ae aig J re CW OLCAN cu € government for £100,000, of which £65,000 ? ho AHOFE ca iM = Irverpi was gifted by public subscription. Prior to g Kl Livy a He ft Ah nat the acquisition, this Bible was displayed in the Imperial Library in St Petersburg, Russia, This is a section from the Epistle to the Hebrews in the Sinai Bible. Up until the and "few scholars had set eyes on it" (The eighth century, scribes copying manuscripts left no spaces between letters, words Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 11 or sentences, and they bumped individual consonant letters together in a January 1938, p. 3). When it went on display continuous line without vowel letters. in 1933 as "the oldest Bible in the world" (ibid.), it became the centre of a pilgrimage unequalled in the glaring example is subtly revealed in the Encyclopaedia Biblica history of the British Museum. (Adam & Charles Black, London, 1899, vol. ili, p. 3344), where Before I summarise its conflictions, it should be noted that this the Church divulges its knowledge about exclusions in old Bibles, old codex is by no means a reliable guide to New Testament study saying: "The remark has long ago and often been made that, like as it contains superabundant errors and serious re-editing. These Paul, even the earliest Gospels knew nothing of the miraculous anomalies were exposed as a result of the months of ultraviolet- birth of our Saviour". That is because there never was a virgin light tests carried out at the British Museum in the mid-1930s. birth. The findings revealed replacements of numerous passages by at It is apparent that when Eusebius assembled scribes to write the least nine different editors. Photographs taken during testing New Testimonies, he first produced a single document that revealed that ink pigments had been retained deep in the pores of provided an exemplar or master version. Today it is called the the skin. The original words were readable under ultraviolet light. Gospel of Mark, and the Church admits that it was "the first Anybody wishing to read the results of the tests should refer to the Gospel written" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. vi, p. book written by the researchers who did the analysis: the Keepers 657), even though it appears second in the New Testament today. of the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum (Scribes _ The scribes of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were dependent and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus, H. J. M. Milne and T. C. upon the Mark writing as the source and framework for the Skeat, British Museum, London, 1938). compilation of their works. The Gospel of John is independent of nnd tha late 16th on glaring example is subtly revealed in the Encyclopaedia Biblica (Adam & Charles Black, London, 1899, vol. ili, p. 3344), where the Church divulges its knowledge about exclusions in old Bibles, saying: "The remark has long ago and often been made that, like Paul, even the earliest Gospels knew nothing of the miraculous birth of our Saviour". That is because there never was a virgin birth. It is apparent that when Eusebius assembled scribes to write the New Testimonies, he first produced a single document that provided an exemplar or master version. Today it is called the Gospel of Mark, and the Church admits that it was "the first Gospel written" (Catholic Encyclopedia, Farley ed., vol. vi, p. 657), even though it appears second in the New Testament today. The scribes of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were dependent upon the Mark writing as the source and framework for the compilation of their works. The Gospel of John is independent of those writings, and the late-15th-century theory that it was written later to support the earlier writings is the truth (The Crucifixion of Truth, Tony Bushby, Joshua Books, 2004, pp. 33-40). Thus, the Gospel of Mark in the Sinai Bible carries the "first" story of Jesus Christ in history, one completely different to what is in modern Bibles. It starts with Jesus "at about the age of thirty" (Mark 1:9), and doesn't know of Mary, a virgin birth or mass murders of baby boys by Herod. Words describing Jesus Christ as "the son of God" do not appear in the opening narrative as they do in today's editions (Mark 1:1), and the modern-day family tree tracing a "messianic bloodline" back to King David is non-existent in all ancient Bibles, as are the now-called "messianic prophecies" (51 in total). The Sinai Bible carries a conflicting version of events surrounding the "raising of Lazarus", and reveals an extraordinary omission that later became the central doctrine of the Christian faith: the resurrection appearances of Jesus Christ and his ascension into Heaven. No supernatural appearance of a resurrected Jesus Christ is recorded in any ancient Gospels of Mark, but a description of over 500 words now appears in modern Bibles (Mark 16:9-20). Forgery in the Gospels When the New Testament in the Sinai Bible is compared with a modern-day New Testament, a staggering 14,800 editorial alterations can be identified. These amendments can be recognised by a simple comparative exercise that anybody can and should do. Serious study of Christian origins must emanate from the Sinai Bible's version of the New Testament, not modern editions. Of importance is the fact that the Sinaiticus carries three Gospels since rejected: the Shepherd of Hermas (written by two resurrected ghosts, Charinus and Lenthius), the Missive of Barnabas and the Odes of Solomon. Space excludes elaboration on these bizarre writings and also discussion on dilemmas associated with translation variations. Modern Bibles are five removes in translation from early editions, and disputes rage between translators over variant interpretations of more than 5,000 ancient words. However, it is what is not written in that old Bible that embarrasses the Church, and this article discusses only a few of those omissions. One JUNE — JULY 2007 NEXUS * 57 www.nexusmagazine.com