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Question #44 -
QUESTION:
Who were Westcott and Hort?
ANSWER:
Two unsaved Bible critics.
EXPLANATION:
Brook Foss Westcott (1825-1903) and Fenton John Anthony
Hort (1828-1892) were two non-Christian Anglican ministers. Fully
steeped in the Alexandrian philosophy that "there is no
perfect Bible", they had a vicious distaste for the King
James Bible and its Antiochian Greek text, the Textus Receptus.
[The infidelity of Westcott and Hort is well documented in this
author's work entitled An Understandable History
of the Bible, 1987, Bible Believer's Press,
P.O. Box 1249, Pottstown, PA. 19464]
It cannot be said that they believed that one
could attain Heaven by either works or faith, since both believed
that Heaven existed only in the mind of man.
Westcott believed in and attempted to practice
a form of Communism whose ultimate goal was communal living on
college campus's which he called a "coenobium. "
Both believed it possible to communicate with
the dead and made many attempts to do just that through a society
which they organized and entitled "The Ghostly Guild."
Westcott accepted and promoted prayers for the
dead. Both were admirers of Mary (Westcott going so far as to call
his wife Sarah, "Mary"),and Hort was an admirer and
proponent of Darwin and his theory of evolution.
It is obvious to even a casual observer why
they were well equipped to guide the Revision Committee of
1871-1881 away from God's Antiochian text and into the spell of
Alexandria.
They had compiled their own Greek text from
Alexandrian manuscripts, which, though unpublished and inferior to
the Textus Receptus, they secreted little by little to the
Revision Committee. The result being a totally new Alexandrian
English Bible instead of a "revision" of the Authorized
Version as it was claimed to be.
It has only been in recent years that scholars
have examined their unbalanced theories concerning manuscript
history and admitted that their agreements were weak to
non-existent.
Sadly, both men died having never known the joy
and peace of claiming Jesus Christ as their Saviour.
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