Most are unaware of what Westcott and Hort actually said, in their own writings:
They believed Jesus' sacrifice was a payment to Satan:
"I confess I have no repugnance to the primitive doctrine of a ransom paid to Satan. I can see no other possible form in which the doctrine of ransom is at all tenable; anything is better than the doctrine of a Ransom paid to the father." (Hort, The First Epistle of St. Peter, p. 77)
Oh, forgot to mention: "Our Bible as well as our faith is a mere compromise." -Wescott, On the Canon of the New Testament, p. viii
They disagreed with Christians on both the authority and infallibility of the Holy Scriptures:
"I reject the word infallibility of the Holy Scriptures overwhelmingly." -Wescott, The Life and Letters of Brook Foss Westcott, Vol. 1, p. 207
"Evangelicals seem to me perverted... There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, especially the authority of the Bible." -Hort, The Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, Vol. 1, p. 400
They did not believe Jesus was the Word, in deity, nor a distinct person of the Trinity:
"(John) does not expressly affirm the identification of the Word with Jesus Christ." -Westcott, The Gospel According to St. John, p. 16
"He never speaks of himself directly as God, but the aim of his revelation was to lead men to see God in him." -Westcott, The Gospel According to St. John, p. 297
This is why the NASB changed John 1:18 to match the Jehovah's Witness' belief on the matter: they changed it to say Jesus was a "begotten God" rather than the "begotten Son". Jesus was already God and the Word by which all things were created from eternity past, he was not merely revealing to people "God in him", as we do today.
They were Socialist Communists staunchly against America and Democracy:
"America is a standing menace to the whole civilization. I wish the American Union may be shivered to pieces." -From Hort's Biography, section on "My Deep Hatred of Democracy and All its Forms"
Westcott and Hort took the traditional Greek text underlying the English translations and changed it in 8,000 places by diluting it with the wildcard manuscripts Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, Bezae, etc.
The end result was the equivalent of erasing the entire books of 1 Peter and 2 Peter from the Bible: that's how many phrases, verses, half-verses, and total words were removed. Every single New Version since has incorporated these manuscripts in their translations.
The Nestle Aland Text (which incorporates Westcott and Hort's manuscripts) in the 25th-28th Editions has actually had to add 400 Textus Receptus readings back into the text because had to finally concede that they were more accurate and shouldn't have been removed. Even still, the recent New Versions have not significantly changed to reflect them doing so from the days of Westcott and Hort.
Vaticanus and Sinaiticus contradict each other in over 3,000 places in just the Gospels alone. But because they are dated as being around longer (meaning they survived because they were sheltered and not burned), Westcott and Hort were able to convince modern Christianity to reconsider them, even though Erasmus clearly rejected them, which James White has lied about (source: Al Hembd, Trinitarian Bible Society).
Westcott and Hort dabbled with the occult and communicating with spirits, and had a club called the "Ghostly Guild", which included a man named Lightfoot, who created a Lexicon to support their new Greek Text. This club became the "Society for Psychical Research", who interviewed the founder of the Satanic religion of Theosophy, Helena P. Blavatsky (Sublime Elect Scotch Lady, Masonic Patent issued by John Yarker), and were favorably impressed with her.
Theosophy involves channeling demons through a process called "automatic writing", from which they receive their instructions which have since been championed at the world government level at the UN, through Blavatsky's protégé Alice Bailey, who founded Lucifer Trust Publishing (since changed to "Lucius Trust"), which is held in high regard by the UN.
Blavatsky believed she was reviving the ancient Mystery Religions of Babylon, essentially the original religion of Satan that split into the world religions today: all of the fundamental aspects of which, such as dualism, survived in Hinduism (different gods over dualistic aspects of nature), Buddhism (yin yang), Islam (sun and moon), etc. The original source of this was Nimrod and Semiramis, who originally became allegorized as the sun and moon.
At the First Annual Congress of the Theosophical Society, which took place around 1900 (the same time Westcott and Hort's new versions were just entering churches), the original transactions of which states, quote, "I believe it is through the churches, and NOT through the Theosophical Society, that Theosophy [the worship of Lucifer] must and should come to large bodies of people... The work of destructive criticism [Westcott & Hort's Textual Criticism / Critical Text] and has paved the way, sweeping away certain passages that grate on the ears: the phrase 'washed in the blood' is one. "
This is why Col. 1:14 "through his blood" has been removed in the NASB and NIV.
Rom. 3:25 through faith "in his blood" has been removed.
Rev. 1:5 "washed" us from our sins has been removed.
Luke 22:20 "blood which is shed" has been removed and replaced with "cup which is poured". Gotta love allegories.
We see here clear evidence of these relationships and the outworkings of their stated motives found plainly in the New Verisons.
Henry Travers Edge was a friend of Blavatsky's who stated, "The New Versions have produced a rendering much more in accord with the views of a Theosophist [Satanist]." -Henry T. Edge, Esoteric Keys
The Chief Editor of the NIV, Edwin Palmer, called verses that support Salvation by Grace a "great error", and stated: "This shows the great error that is so prevalent today in some Orthodox Protestant circles, and that namely the error that Regeneration depends upon faith, and that in order to be born again, one must first accept Jesus as savior." He called the Gospel of Grace a "great error".
This is why Matt. 7:14 was changed to say, "difficult is the way" instead of the original "narrow is the way" in support of Catholic works salvation doctrine.
Mark 10:24 was also changed to say, "Children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God" in support of works salvation, rather than the original, "how hard it is for them that trust in riches to enter", was we must recognize our need for a savior and trust Christ's payment on the cross.
At this point I don't even need to mention Isaiah 14:12, which replaced Satan, the shining falling angel, with Jesus Christ, the Morning Star. This is all part of their clearly stated plan to bring Lucifer worship in through the churches to prepare them to worship the Antichrist, as many of them don't even believe an Antichrist will come, are Amillennial just like the Catholic church, and are now turning to Replacement Theology, in part due to these New Versions and in part due to infiltration of Satanic ministers the Bible warns against.
In addition to this there must be a clear move against Dispensationalism, which retains the sound reading of Biblical End Times Prophecy, which depends entirely on the crucial distinction between Israel and the Church. This is why they've created blatant lies about Dispensationalism, claiming it and the pre-trib rapture were "invented" by Darby in the 1800's (debunked in the books Ancient Dispensational Truth and Dispensationalism Before Darby), while notice that no such lies about the history of Covenant/Replacement Theology were needed. Because these theologies are already Satanic. This is how Satan combines books like Hebrews, which is for Hebrews in the Great Tribulation under the Gospel of the Kingdom, with the Body of Christ in the Church Age, in order to create muddy, distorted, sometimes outright false works, "persevere" gospels (no doubt why he made Calvin famous) promoted in megachurches (I have witnessed firsthand) and sending many to hell.
They believed Jesus' sacrifice was a payment to Satan:
"I confess I have no repugnance to the primitive doctrine of a ransom paid to Satan. I can see no other possible form in which the doctrine of ransom is at all tenable; anything is better than the doctrine of a Ransom paid to the father." (Hort, The First Epistle of St. Peter, p. 77)
Oh, forgot to mention: "Our Bible as well as our faith is a mere compromise." -Wescott, On the Canon of the New Testament, p. viii
They disagreed with Christians on both the authority and infallibility of the Holy Scriptures:
"I reject the word infallibility of the Holy Scriptures overwhelmingly." -Wescott, The Life and Letters of Brook Foss Westcott, Vol. 1, p. 207
"Evangelicals seem to me perverted... There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, especially the authority of the Bible." -Hort, The Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, Vol. 1, p. 400
They did not believe Jesus was the Word, in deity, nor a distinct person of the Trinity:
"(John) does not expressly affirm the identification of the Word with Jesus Christ." -Westcott, The Gospel According to St. John, p. 16
"He never speaks of himself directly as God, but the aim of his revelation was to lead men to see God in him." -Westcott, The Gospel According to St. John, p. 297
This is why the NASB changed John 1:18 to match the Jehovah's Witness' belief on the matter: they changed it to say Jesus was a "begotten God" rather than the "begotten Son". Jesus was already God and the Word by which all things were created from eternity past, he was not merely revealing to people "God in him", as we do today.
They were Socialist Communists staunchly against America and Democracy:
"America is a standing menace to the whole civilization. I wish the American Union may be shivered to pieces." -From Hort's Biography, section on "My Deep Hatred of Democracy and All its Forms"
Westcott and Hort took the traditional Greek text underlying the English translations and changed it in 8,000 places by diluting it with the wildcard manuscripts Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, Bezae, etc.
The end result was the equivalent of erasing the entire books of 1 Peter and 2 Peter from the Bible: that's how many phrases, verses, half-verses, and total words were removed. Every single New Version since has incorporated these manuscripts in their translations.
The Nestle Aland Text (which incorporates Westcott and Hort's manuscripts) in the 25th-28th Editions has actually had to add 400 Textus Receptus readings back into the text because had to finally concede that they were more accurate and shouldn't have been removed. Even still, the recent New Versions have not significantly changed to reflect them doing so from the days of Westcott and Hort.
Vaticanus and Sinaiticus contradict each other in over 3,000 places in just the Gospels alone. But because they are dated as being around longer (meaning they survived because they were sheltered and not burned), Westcott and Hort were able to convince modern Christianity to reconsider them, even though Erasmus clearly rejected them, which James White has lied about (source: Al Hembd, Trinitarian Bible Society).
Westcott and Hort dabbled with the occult and communicating with spirits, and had a club called the "Ghostly Guild", which included a man named Lightfoot, who created a Lexicon to support their new Greek Text. This club became the "Society for Psychical Research", who interviewed the founder of the Satanic religion of Theosophy, Helena P. Blavatsky (Sublime Elect Scotch Lady, Masonic Patent issued by John Yarker), and were favorably impressed with her.
Theosophy involves channeling demons through a process called "automatic writing", from which they receive their instructions which have since been championed at the world government level at the UN, through Blavatsky's protégé Alice Bailey, who founded Lucifer Trust Publishing (since changed to "Lucius Trust"), which is held in high regard by the UN.
Blavatsky believed she was reviving the ancient Mystery Religions of Babylon, essentially the original religion of Satan that split into the world religions today: all of the fundamental aspects of which, such as dualism, survived in Hinduism (different gods over dualistic aspects of nature), Buddhism (yin yang), Islam (sun and moon), etc. The original source of this was Nimrod and Semiramis, who originally became allegorized as the sun and moon.
At the First Annual Congress of the Theosophical Society, which took place around 1900 (the same time Westcott and Hort's new versions were just entering churches), the original transactions of which states, quote, "I believe it is through the churches, and NOT through the Theosophical Society, that Theosophy [the worship of Lucifer] must and should come to large bodies of people... The work of destructive criticism [Westcott & Hort's Textual Criticism / Critical Text] and has paved the way, sweeping away certain passages that grate on the ears: the phrase 'washed in the blood' is one. "
This is why Col. 1:14 "through his blood" has been removed in the NASB and NIV.
Rom. 3:25 through faith "in his blood" has been removed.
Rev. 1:5 "washed" us from our sins has been removed.
Luke 22:20 "blood which is shed" has been removed and replaced with "cup which is poured". Gotta love allegories.
We see here clear evidence of these relationships and the outworkings of their stated motives found plainly in the New Verisons.
Henry Travers Edge was a friend of Blavatsky's who stated, "The New Versions have produced a rendering much more in accord with the views of a Theosophist [Satanist]." -Henry T. Edge, Esoteric Keys
The Chief Editor of the NIV, Edwin Palmer, called verses that support Salvation by Grace a "great error", and stated: "This shows the great error that is so prevalent today in some Orthodox Protestant circles, and that namely the error that Regeneration depends upon faith, and that in order to be born again, one must first accept Jesus as savior." He called the Gospel of Grace a "great error".
This is why Matt. 7:14 was changed to say, "difficult is the way" instead of the original "narrow is the way" in support of Catholic works salvation doctrine.
Mark 10:24 was also changed to say, "Children, how hard it is to enter the Kingdom of God" in support of works salvation, rather than the original, "how hard it is for them that trust in riches to enter", was we must recognize our need for a savior and trust Christ's payment on the cross.
At this point I don't even need to mention Isaiah 14:12, which replaced Satan, the shining falling angel, with Jesus Christ, the Morning Star. This is all part of their clearly stated plan to bring Lucifer worship in through the churches to prepare them to worship the Antichrist, as many of them don't even believe an Antichrist will come, are Amillennial just like the Catholic church, and are now turning to Replacement Theology, in part due to these New Versions and in part due to infiltration of Satanic ministers the Bible warns against.
In addition to this there must be a clear move against Dispensationalism, which retains the sound reading of Biblical End Times Prophecy, which depends entirely on the crucial distinction between Israel and the Church. This is why they've created blatant lies about Dispensationalism, claiming it and the pre-trib rapture were "invented" by Darby in the 1800's (debunked in the books Ancient Dispensational Truth and Dispensationalism Before Darby), while notice that no such lies about the history of Covenant/Replacement Theology were needed. Because these theologies are already Satanic. This is how Satan combines books like Hebrews, which is for Hebrews in the Great Tribulation under the Gospel of the Kingdom, with the Body of Christ in the Church Age, in order to create muddy, distorted, sometimes outright false works, "persevere" gospels (no doubt why he made Calvin famous) promoted in megachurches (I have witnessed firsthand) and sending many to hell.
