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Where Most Bibles in Circulation Today Have Been Changed to Suit Man Not God Behold, he cometh with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, and they also that pierced him. And all the tribes of the earth shall bewail themselves because of him. Even so. Amen. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, saith the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. Revelation 1:7–8 Where Most Bibles in Circulation Today Have Been Changed to Suit Man Not God Charles Pritchard, 22/02/2019 In October 2013 in an open-hearted prayer to God, questioning the meaning of life and seeking God’s guidance in my life, amongst many tears, our Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me on the cross in a profound vision. His presence enveloped the entire sky. There I was at about 10am in the morning in Cape Town, with the Twelve Apostles Mountain range behind me, overlooking the ocean, sitting at the foot of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, looking at him through my tears. While in vision it immediately struck me that, in my search for God, I had forgotten about Jesus. Also, as if looking back at my past, the Catholic Church came to mind, the Church that I used to frequent when I was young while living with my parents but from which I had gone astray in my adult years. As I was staring at our crucified Lord Jesus Christ, drawn to a deep cut on his neck, his peace and calm started to engulf me. In time to come, I came to understand that the meaning of the cut was that Jesus’ voice has been cut in the world today and he is calling me and all of us to be his voice. While encapsulated in this vision (literally feeling the beam of prayers of my late mother, who had died of cancer in February of the same year, coming down from heaven onto upon me), the words “vale of tears” kept being repeated in my mind over and over again. In the ensuing weeks, in trying to understand the meaning of this phrase, I was led to Psalm 83:6 of the Latin Vulgate by St Jerome where it exclusively appears: “Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, in the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set.” (DR: Psalm 83:6, Other Bibles: Psalm 84:6) I also came to discover that this phrase was also included in the Hail Holy Queen prayer. As the months passed, in my pursuit of God and for his truth, the Holy Spirit led me to read the books written by Alan Ames, a visionary in Australia who receives messages from the Holy Trinity, Mother Mary and some angels and saints1. About a year later I was also led to Fernanda de Sequeira whom the Lord Jesus asked me to assist in publishing her daily messages from the Holy Trinity and Mother Mary2. In my subsequent personal experiences as a result of working in Christ’s harvest, much prayer, reading the Word of God and making an effort to live the way of Christ, I took to writing by linking my personal experiences to Holy Scriptures. In this process, I soon came to discover that the only Bible that was aligned with the truth, which the Holy Spirit was revealing to me, was the Douay-Rheims Bible (DR), a direct vernacular translation of the Latin Vulgate. I found inconsistencies and contradictions in the other Bibles I encountered and over time I came to understand that these changes were not of God. In addition, I noticed that the terminology the Holy Trinity and Mother Mary used in their divine conversations with Fernanda (and other Catholic Church approved messengers and saints who received divine messages) aligned perfectly with the terminology encountered in 1 See www.alanames.org 2 See www.alpha-omega.org.za Alpha Omega Mission NPC www.alpha-omega.org.za Johannesburg, South Africa [email protected] the Douay-Rheims Bible. One such example is the use of the word “Tabernacle” were the Lord of Hosts resided in the Old Testament and where he (Jesus Christ, the Blessed Sacrament) resides today in his Adoration Tabernacles around the world: “We will go into his tabernacle: We will adore in the place where his feet stood. Arise, O Lord, into thy resting place: thou and the ark, which thou hast sanctified. Let thy priests be clothed with justice: and let thy saints rejoice.” (DR: Psalm 131:7-9; Other Bibles: Psalm 132:7−9) The verse also affirms the truth that Mother Mary, the Ark of the New Covenant, the most sanctified saint in heaven, is always at the side of Christ. This document has been prepared to highlight some of the errors and contradictions in the many other Bibles in circulation today. As it will show, we are not speaking of nuances of errors in translation, as many incorrectly claim is the case, but of deliberate changes in the Bible to which many, even within the Catholic Church, the true Church of God, have fallen prey to accepting as truth. The verses prepared in this document, which are only a small taste of the extent of defilement of the original Word of God that has taken place, can be used to cross-check the authenticity of any other Bibles in circulation. I pray that this research will plant a seed for more projects to translate the Latin Vulgate into the various languages of the world to remove all the confusion that is found in Christianity today. A project is underway at the Alpha and Omega Mission to put the Douay-Rheims Bible into modern English, for which I humbly ask for prayer to come to fruition. Contents Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Why the Catholic Church ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Which Bible Has the Catholic Church Officially Declared as Authentic? ............................................................. 7 Nuances in Translating Latin to English ............................................................................................................... 8 Bibles Used in the Comparative Study ................................................................................................................ 9 Tabular Summary of Some Changes .................................................................................................................. 10 A Closer Look at Some of the Scriptural Changes ............................................................................................. 13 “Modesty”, “longanimity” and “chastity” have been removed as fruits of the Holy Spirit .......................... 13 Being of one mind of Christ in humbleness towards one another is gone ................................................... 13 “Abstinence”, “patience”, “charity” and “good works” have been removed ............................................... 13 “Harlotry” and “fornication” have been removed to create a loophole for sex before marriage ................ 14 Married women have been silenced ............................................................................................................. 14 The Gospel of peace and patience has been defiled to an earthly prosperity one ...................................... 15 A warning of hell to the selfish wealthy has been changed to a reward of peace in the grave ................... 15 Obedience to the Word brings Godly direction and understanding, not personal goals or success ............ 15 God doesn’t hate sinners − he died for them................................................................................................ 15 God wants unity in his Church of saints, not a loophole for division ............................................................ 15 Making collections in the churches of the saints has been incorrectly stated against income earned ........ 16 Alpha Omega Mission www.alpha-omega.org.za Page 2 of 113 We must not “despise” or “disdain” sinners, but pray for them .................................................................. 16 Jesus didn’t contradict Matthew 5:22 by cursing the scribes and Pharisees, he said they were being foolish and blind ........................................................................................................................................................ 17 Offering to God, doing good and giving to the poor has been replaced with giving to friends only and treating self well ............................................................................................................................................ 17 Mercy, faith, purging of sins and God’s call to obedience are gone ............................................................. 17 God is patient and merciful, he doesn’t get angry and punish us: we punish ourselves .............................. 18 Jesus’ suffering continues today: he didn’t suffer once, he died once ......................................................... 21 Jesus reveals his stigmata wounds: he will turn against those who hurt him, not against those who love him or the little ones ..................................................................................................................................... 22 Jesus had bretheren (not birth brothers) and the apostles had sisters in Christ with them, not wives ....... 22 God’s charity, sacrificial love, has been diluted with a generalised love ...................................................... 22 God’s chastity, modesty and persuasiveness have been removed ............................................................... 24 Chastity for kings and those in high stations has been removed .................................................................
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