Think that you can trust most English translations of the Bible to accurately tell us what rules and laws God wants us to live by? Brace yourself.
INCREDIBLY, MOST, ONE MORE TIME, MOST TRANSLATORS, STRAYING FAR FROM THE ORIGINAL GREEK, INSERT A LIE, YES, AN ACTUAL LIE AT THE END OF MARK 7:19, TRYING TO TRICK YOU INTO THINKING THE FORBIDDEN, UNSAFE MEAT LAWS HAVE BEEN ABOLISHED, A BLASPHEMOUS TRANSLATION ATROCITY!! THAT BIBLICALLY UNLAWFUL ADDITION OF THEIR OWN PERSONAL OPINION, WHICH DOES NOT SPECIFY THAT THE ORIGINAL GREEK FOR PURGING, STRONG’S 2511, REFERS PRIMARILY TO AN EXTERNAL CLEANSING OF DIRT AND STAINS, IS CONTEXTUALLY INACCURATE, NT INCONSISTENT, AND HIGHLY MISLEADING BECAUSE THE OBVIOUS SUBJECT IS ONLY THE FAILURE TO WASH HANDS BEFORE EATING, NOT THE FORBIDDEN MEATS, “SPELLED OUT” BY MARK 7:2!!
Adding even one word that contradicts the Bible’s original, literal Hebrew or Greek reeks of the stench of Satanic tampering. And the above atrocity, more fully explained about 3/4 down this page, is just the “tip of the iceberg” of the way most English translators AND mainstream Christianity have sinfully and deliberately slanted the translation and interpretation of many New Testament words and verses AWAY from Old Testament law keeping. If you have an open mind and admit that the majority is not always right, then this website should convince you, perhaps little by little at first, but ultimately, that in the last, exhaustive analysis, true, Biblical sin really does include breaking not only the New Testament’s magnified Mosaic laws, but also breaking, deliberately OR IN IGNORANCE THE OLD TESTAMENT’S MOSAIC LAWS excluding the now unnecessary or burdensome sacrifice, circumcision, and Levitical priesthood laws identified by the Apostles as abolished, despite the constant reassurance by your local, impressive, well credentialed minister that most OT laws have been annulled. Just the former sacrifice laws themselves involved a large number, close to one third of all the Mosaic laws. Most ministers are dependent on a regular paycheck from their church, so they of course dare not even question their denomination’s doctrines. This large, American site, which will probably become available in book form eventually, repeatedly, time after time, consistently shows that the popular, verse skipping, mainstream Christian churches cannot even come close to Biblically proving, beyond reasonable doubt, their claim that most or all of the Mosaic laws have been abolished. Their arguments have such glaringly wide loopholes that you could almost “drive a Mack truck through them.” A divinity degree is not needed to see the important verses they steadfastly insist on ignoring. Verse skipping mainstreamers generally also insist on using the usually antinomian slanted English translations for some all important law keeping verses without acknowledging what certain, important, original Greek words really mean and even refuse to acknowledge the obvious context, which could be about as Satanic as Satan expects people to get without actually turning red and growing horns and a forked tail.
Please read the must read page ROMANS 6:14: “…… YOU ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW BUT UNDER GRACE.” ACTS 2:38 AND ROMANS 6:15 SHOW THAT VERSE 14 DOES NOT EVEN COME CLOSE TO PROVING THAT MOST OT LAWS CAN BE ABANDONED. True Christianity is the only path to immortality in God’s incredibly fabulous kingdom (the saved, if they want to, will even be able to look and sound like their favorite movie star [1 John 3:2, Mark 16:12]). A faithful follower of God’s words, the literal Bible, as of course all true Christians should be, is forced, however, to conclude that mainstreamers, probably influenced by evil spirits, have caused mainstream Christianity to stray so far away from its original, apostolic law keeping doctrines that it can no longer guarantee salvation, a major goal of Satan which must make him very happy. This ancient, lying, supreme killer has successfully deceived many to most into thinking that he does not even exist. Few people realize just how true Revelation 12:9 and 2 Corinthians 11:15 are concerning the world’s religions: “…… Satan, he who continually deceives …… the entire inhabited world ……,” “…… his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness ……” Most people also underestimate 1 Peter 5:8’s solemn warning that Satan really is like a prowling, starving, frothing at the mouth, loudly roaring lion constantly trying to catch as many people as possible off guard so that he can, in a frenzy, tear them apart and quickly eat them (description expanded to emphasize the verse’s message). Mainstream Christianity has not escaped the deceptions spread by the Devil, who does not want people to be saved, which is one logical explanation for the wildly, insanely illogical verse skipping and salvation jeopardizing, mindless, pick and choose approach used by mainstream Christians in believing the Bible. This website dismantles and exposes the misinterpretation of New Testament law keeping verses used by popular, mainstream Christianity. Mainstream preachers claim that Christians will not be judged by the Mosaic laws because they have been “abolished.” BUT THE BIBLE, ORIGINALLY WRITTEN/INSPIRED BY GOD HIMSELF, AND NOT BY MAINSTREAMERS, SAYS JUST THE OPPOSITE !!, with the exception of the sacrifice, circumcision, and Levitical priesthood laws which were clearly identified by the Apostles as now annulled.
To better understand what the all important New Testament law keeping verses really say according to the original, literal Greek and obvious context, continue reading below the following green table of contents. Three U. S. based, international, law keeping Christian churches, the Living Church of God, the Church of God, a Worldwide Association, and the United Church of God, an International Association teach what this website explains. The INTRODUCTION page has more information about them.
THE REAL, LITERAL DEFINITIONS OF LAWLESSNESS AND GRACE
ISAIAH 66:23: IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE EVERYONE WILL REST ON SATURDAY
7 VERSES MAINSTREAMERS CLAIM ABOLISH THE SAFE MEAT LAWS
MORE SOLID EVIDENCE OF MAINSTREAMERS’ DELIBERATELY BIASED INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE
THE FIFTIETH YEAR OF JUBILEE, ECONOMIC DEPRESSIONS, CANNIBALISM, AND MORE
Do the following verses refer only to really bad people like murderers and drug dealers, or can they also apply to something else where other people are not always adversely, immediately affected? Read how Joseph H. Thayer, a world class expert on Greek word definitions, defines ANOMIA, the kind of lawlessness that Jesus warned primarily Christians about. ANOMIA, a relatively rare word appearing only 13 times in the Bible, is usually translated loosely as lawlessness or iniquity.
MATTHEW 7:23: “…… I NEVER EVER KNEW YOU, DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO VIOLATE THE TORAH (ANOMIA).” (exeGeses Companion Bible) Exegeses means a “critical analysis.” The Greek word anomia appears in this verse. Not all of the Old Testament laws need to be obeyed, though, since the Apostle Luke revealed that the circumcision law (SPECIFICALLY NAMING IT) has been abolished, and Paul explained that the sacrifice and Levitical priesthood laws (ALSO SPECIFICALLY NAMING THEM) have also been annulled. They never did specifically name the safe meat, festival, enriching tithing, and Saturday Sabbath laws in the same way, so those laws, using a little reasonable logic, remain intact.
IN THE GREEK, ANOMIA, STRONG’S 458, LITERALLY, SPECIFICALLY MEANS “NO OR WITHOUT TORAH.” A MEANS “NO” OR “WITHOUT” AND NOMIA MEANS “LAW,” PRIMARILY THE LAWS WITHIN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT: GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, AND DEUTERONOMY. THAYER’S GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, MARCH, 2005 SEVENTH PRINTING, ONE OF THE WORLD’S BEST LEXICONS, ON PAGE 48 DEFINES ANOMIA AS “1. PROP. THE CONDITION OF ONE WITHOUT LAW, — EITHER BECAUSE IGNORANT OF IT OR BECAUSE VIOLATING IT. 2. CONTEMPT AND VIOLATION OF LAW, INIQUITY, WICKEDNESS ….” ANOMOS, STRONG’S 459, THE ADJECTIVE FORM OF THE FEMININE NOUN ANOMIA, ALSO ON PAGE 48 IS DEFINED AS
“DESTITUTE OF (THE MOSAIC) LAW ….”!!!!
ANOMOS, STRONG’S 460, THE ADVERB FORM OF ANOMIA, SPELLED JUST LIKE THE ADJECTIVE BUT PRONOUNCED DIFFERENTLY, ON PAGE 48 IS ALSO DEFINED AS
“…. TO SIN IN IGNORANCE OF THE MOSAIC LAW ….”!!!!
PROVING CONCLUSIVELY THAT LAWLESSNESS (ANOMIA) REALLY DOES REFER TO THE MOSAIC LAW ITSELF, WHICH OF COURSE WOULD INCLUDE THE MAINSTREAMER DESPISED SAFE MEAT AND FESTIVAL LAWS (MOST OF THE FESTIVALS ARE HIGHLY PROPHETIC).
ROMANS 2:11,12,13: “FOR GOD JUDGES EVERYONE BY THE SAME STANDARD.”
(Good News Translation)
12 FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLE [i.e., Gentiles] WHO HAVE SINNED WITHOUT [knowing] THE LAW OF MOSES WILL ALSO BE LOST WITHOUT [knowing] THAT LAW. AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE [i.e., Jews] WHO HAVE SINNED UNDER [the authority] OF THE LAW OF MOSES WILL BE JUDGED BY [the requirements of] THAT LAW.
13 FOR [it is] NOT THOSE WHO HEAR THE LAW OF MOSES WHO ARE RIGHT WITH GOD, BUT [it is] THOSE WHO OBEY [the requirements of] THAT LAW [perfectly] WHO WILL BE CONSIDERED RIGHT WITH GOD.” (An Understandable Version)
ROMANS 2:12: “FOR AS MANY AS HAVE SINNED (in ignorance of the Mosaic laws, anomos, Strong’s 460) WITHOUT LAW ALSO WILL BE DESTROYED……”
(A Conservative Version Interlinear, one of the most ultra literal translations ever published, parenthesized words added). Apparently Romans 2:12 above refers to the permanent, eternal destruction of ONLY people who were not righteous enough to be in the first resurrection mentioned in Revelation 20. After being resurrected in the second, much larger general resurrection, they will be destroyed if they continue to refuse obeying or learning how to obey Jesus, who literally will be living on the earth during the coming Christian millennium. Just like driving through a red light in ignorance of the law will not excuse one from the penalty of the law, breaking God’s laws in ignorance of them also will not excuse one from the penalties. The Greek word anomos appears in these verses. The statement above that the people (Gentiles) who have never been exposed to the laws of Moses SIN reveals that they are REQUIRED to obey the law to be sinless since 1 John 3:4 defines sin as breaking the law.
MATTHEW 13:41,42: “…… ANGELS …… GATHER …… ALL WHO SCANDALIZE AND WHO VIOLATE THE TORAH (ANOMIA) 42 AND CAST THEM INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE: AND THERE BECOMES WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.” (exeGeses Companion Bible) The Greek word anomia appears in these verses. The gnashing of teeth could suggest that they knew about the laws of Moses but suddenly realized they had made the catastrophic mistake of believing others who had assured them that they had been abolished.
2 CORINTHIANS 6:14: “YOKE NOT UNEQUALLY WITH THE TRUSTLESS! FOR WHAT PARTAKING HAS JUSTNESS WITH TORAH VIOLATIONS? (ANOMIA) ……” (exeGeses Companion Bible) The Greek word anomia appears in this verse.
2 CORINTHIANS 6:14: “DON’T BE UNEQUALLY YOKED WITH UNBELIEVERS, FOR WHAT FELLOWSHIP DO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND INIQUITY (ANOMIA) HAVE?” (World English Bible) The Greek word anomia appears in this verse. That’s right, believe it or not, both Paul and our Creator expect you to marry someone who keeps the laws of Moses.
MATTHEW 23:28: “…… OUTWARDLY YOU ALSO MANIFEST AS JUST UNTO HUMANITY, BUT INWARDLY YOU ARE FULL OF …… TORAH VIOLATIONS (ANOMIA).” (exeGeses Companion Bible) The Greek word anomia appears in this verse.
LITTLE KNOWN, LITTLE PUBLICIZED, ABOMINABLE, HIGHLY BLASPHEMOUS TRANSLATION ATROCITY
How dare frail, human translators, trusted by others to be impartially objective, arrogantly insert their own personal opinions directly between the sacred words of our precious Savior, but that is exactly what most of them have done. Not just a few, but MOST English translations of the Bible are TAINTED (RUINED is probably a better word) with a VERY MISLEADING, ANTI-OLD TESTAMENT, PERSONAL OPINION INSERTED BY TRANSLATORS AFTER THE ORIGINAL GREEK AT THE END OF MARK 7:19, which tries to trick you into thinking that the food laws have been abolished. According to the literal Greek the subject of Mark 7:19 really is the failure of some of the disciples of Jesus to always WASH THEIR HANDS before eating, a strict Jewish custom, NOT forbidden food. Mark 7:2,5: “Now when they saw some of His disciples eat bread with …… unwashed hands, they found fault. 5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, ‘Why do Your disciples …… eat bread with unwashed hands?’ ” (NKJV) Mark 7:18-21,23: “And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] cannot defile him; 19 because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught?} [THIS HE SAID], MAKING ALL MEATS CLEAN. 20 And he said, { That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries …… 23 all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.}” (American Standard Version) Those RED, CAPITALIZED letters are not the original words of Jesus. Those highly deceiving words came from the biased, antinomian mind of the translator. The above red words in Mark are the perfect example of what Jude warned us about, the secret infiltration of shameless scoundrels trying to replace grace with lawlessness. Jude 1:4: “…… some people have infiltrated our ranks …… who beneath their pious skin are SHAMELESS SCOUNDRELS. Their design is to REPLACE the sheer GRACE of our God with SHEER LICENSE—which means doing away with Jesus ……” (The Message) Just that one comment alone at the end of Mark 7:19 by the translator automatically reveals his true attitude towards OT law keeping, which he will try to subtly express throughout the entire NT, seizing the opportunity wherever he can to take advantage of seemingly vague or ambiguous law keeping verses to assert his own theology. Upon discovery of such translation atrocities, Christians of the caliber of law keeping Paul would probably quickly mobilize to unleash “the hounds from Hell” to track down and expose all of these destructive, heretical travvvvnslation atrocities, the unsolicited insertion of personal opinions directly into the Holy Scriptures. For an in depth analysis of Mark 7:19 read the page EXAMPLES OF TRANSLATORS’ WICKEDLY DECEPTIVE, UNJUSTIFIED BIAS AGAINST OT LAWS to see what most translators have been able to get away with, which is tampering with divine instructions for salvation, and to become aware of 7 good reasons why NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the entire chapter of Mark 7 actually refers to the protective, Mosaic dietary restrictions. That unjustified, prejudiced addition plus the widespread, DELIBERATE SLANTING of the literal translation of certain other usually overly concise, over generalized, controversial law verses (Acts 15:24, Ephesians 2:15, Hebrews 7:18, Mark 7:19, etc.) away from all OT law keeping is a major, if not THE MAJOR REASON why mainstream Christianity has sinfully abandoned observing many still valid Mosaic laws. The magnitude of this ABOMINABLE, HIGHLY BLASTPHEMOUS TRANSLATION ATROCITY is so immense that words cannot adequately describe it except possibly one: Satanic. Apparently that old, lying “Serpent” has again successfully slithered his way into what we trust the most, the holy Scriptures.
Christianity is under the New Covenant, but the laws of the Old Covenant have always been SEPARATE from the Old Covenant itself, and still valid. Otherwise, for example, Old Covenant/Old Testament prohibited incestuous sex/marriages, legal in some countries, which produce a higher percentage of terribly deformed children, and using our Creator’s name disrespectfully would no longer be sinful. Also, if the food and Feast of Tabernacles laws were abolished, then Isaiah, who successfully predicted 685 years in advance that our Savior would come from a virgin, lied to us in his Isaiah 66:17 prophesy warning that those who ate pig meat in the distant future would be destroyed, and Zechariah lied to us when he prophesied in Zechariah 14:16-19 that a curse will be placed on any nation that does not observe that feast in the future. If the law really has been annulled, then Micah, who successfully predicted 700 years in advance that Jesus Christ would be born in Bethlehem, in Micah 4:1-3 and Jeremiah in Jeremiah 31:31,33,34 also lied to us when they predicted basically that all Christians in the distant future will be expected to obey the law. It is highly unlikely, of course, that any of these great prophets lied. It is even more unlikely that all of them lied to us. Since their prophecies came true, their predictions about the future are not to be taken lightly. The Old Covenant was an AGREEMENT or CONTRACT between God and Israel to protect and prosper them if and only if they obeyed His laws. The Old Covenant, per se, was merely a PROMISE to protect and prosper them, so the Old Covenant was basically the promise itself, and nothing more than that promise. It was a major, mega promise or agreement. The Apostles revealed that the circumcision, sacrifice, and Levitical priesthood laws, though, have been annulled. The “newness” of the Old Covenant consists of much better, priceless promises such as the gift of the Holy Spirit, forgiveness of sin, and immortality.
Hijacking the first half of John 3:36 and dumping the second half of that verse, most mainstreamers assert that obedience to Jesus is not necessary for salvation. The second half of John 3:36 says: “and he who DISOBEYS the Son SHALL NOT see life, but the wrath of God abides on him,” which “spells out” that obedience is necessary.
When ministers quote the most common translation of Acts 15:24 without explaining that another translation is just as easily possible, they give their congregations the impression that the common translation is the ONLY one possible, which is a LIE, deception by omission. Acts 15:24: “Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, you must be circumcised, AND keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment.” Fact: The Greek for AND is kai, Strong’s 2532, usually translated as “and.” Kai definitely can be translated in other ways, however, depending on the context. It can be translated as “even, so, then, so then, certainly, just, now, while, for, that, therefore.” Kai can mean “as a consequence or result of an action taken” in which verse 24 could very well mean that circumcision would merely be an act or consequence of keeping the law of Moses, and Mosaic law observance in general then was not addressed. Verse 24: “…… subverting your souls, saying, you must be circumcised SO THEN or CERTAINLY or NOW or WHILE or FOR or THAT or THEREFORE keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment” are other very possible translations. The Apostles merely concluded that imposing circumcision, not the law in general, on Christians would be too much of a burden.
Why do mainstreamers misinterpret the Bible so badly? Short answer: The New Testament, according to actual statements by Jesus, appears to have been originally, deliberately recorded/written in a way so as to occasionally in a very subtle way, leave open the possibility for confusion in certain often “controversial” verses making it harder for the casual reader to be converted, or easier for the biased reader to claim the Bible supports his views, if each word in those verses is not closely analyzed, and if the context is also not very closely analyzed. Thus the number of people saved will be temporarily minimized until the return of Jesus. According to some NT verses, God is now “calling,” or drawing to Him only a relatively small number of special people to be in the highly coveted first resurrection to be “kings and priests,” but these saints in training can understand or can learn to understand the Bible correctly now even as it was originally written. According to Revelation 20 mainstreamers may or should be in the much larger, second resurrection occurring a little over a thousand years after the first resurrection.
Merely not explicitly itemizing in the NT all still applicable OT laws is not sufficient, conclusive proof, beyond reasonable doubt, that those laws have been done away with. When the NT was being written, the Apostles knew that Christians were able to read about those laws in the OT, and to record all of them again in the NT probably would have been considered unnecessarily redundant.
Matthew 19:17: “….. BUT IF you want to enter into life, KEEP the commandments.”
Revelation 22:14: “Blessed are those who DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, that they may HAVE THE RIGHT to the tree of life ……” The Ten Commandments contain the one requiring rest on Saturday. Sunday rest was started by the Catholics.
We are COMMANDED to obey the Ten Commandments 13 times in the NT.
HEBREWS 10:16: “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My LAWS into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them.” The Greek for “LAWS” in the above verse is nomos, 3551, which refers primarily to the MOSAIC LAWS.
MATTHEW 7:21-23: “NOT EVERYONE ……. SHALL ENTER …… HEAVEN …… 22 MANY (POLUS) WILL SAY …… ‘LORD, LORD, (desperately crying out fearing rejection), HAVE WE NOT PROPHESIED (preached) IN YOUR NAME …… 23 AND THEN I WILL DECLARE TO THEM, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS!’ ” (ANOMIA)
1 JOHN 3:4: “…… SIN IS THE VIOLATION OF THE TORAH.” (exeGeses Companion Bible) The Bible’s Old Testament (Mosaic) laws are the Torah.
GOD THE FATHER HAS NOT CHANGED (MALACHI 3:6, JAMES 1:17). THE DOCTRINES OF JESUS AND GOD THE FATHER ARE IDENTICAL. THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME. JOHN 7:16: “…… ‘MY DOCTRINE IS NOT MINE, BUT HIS WHO SENT ME.’ ”
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Still wondering why well over 35,000 ordinary, decent people firmly believe that the enriching tithing, safe meat, and mostly prophetic festival laws are still in full force? To answer questions, email the letter answering departments of one or all 3 of the following growing, safe haven, commandment keeping churches that should be among the most qualified to be in the highly coveted first resurrection: The Church of God, a Worldwide Association, info@cogwa.org, The United Church of God, an International Association, info@ucg.org, and The Living Church of God, pcd@lcg.org.