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James Version [KJV 1611] and the New King James Version [NKJV]
were translated into English from the Greek Textus Receptus
[unfortunately the changes and modification in the NKJV are from
Alexandrian texts - only the KJV 1611 is from th Textus Receptus] -
This study will show that all other versions have been corrupted and
should be rejected -- Byzantine New Testament Manuscripts - The
major doctrines of the Bible were severely neglected and distorted
during the Dark Ages (476 AD - 1100 AD), "600 years of degenerate,
godless, inhuman behavior" - These doctrines are available today only
because of the 5,000 Greek [Byzantine] manuscripts that survived
Vulgate: The Roman Catholic Church has preserved more than 8,000 copies of the Bible written in Latin and called
the Vulgate which was originally translated from Greek and Hebrew to Latin by Saint Jerome. ... Jerome obtained
his Alexandrian manuscripts (common in North Africa) from which he translated the New Testament portion of the
Latin Vulgate. The Vulgate shows that Jerome did not use Byzantine manuscripts from the Eastern Church. -- The
printing press had been invented no later that 1456 A.D. -- Textus Receptus: The rush was on to produce printed
copies of the Scriptures for the populace. Printer John Froben of Basle contacted Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
(1466-1536) to prepare a Greek New Testament manuscript for printing. Erasmus was a Roman Catholic who was
highly critical of his own Church. He wanted to change the Church from within and was in disagreement with the
Reformers over their harsh methods. He was in a struggle between the two and at times at odds with both. Erasmus'
theology was more in agreement with the Eastern Greek Church than either the Roman Catholic Church or the
Reformers such as Martin Luther. ... Erasmus used approximately six copies of the Greek Byzantine manuscripts as
his source for the new Bible, rejecting copies of the Alexandrian text available in the Roman Catholic Church. The
first printing of the new Greek Bible was in February 1516 and contained Greek text parallel to his own Latin
version. The work was a huge success and in great demand even though the hurried work left many typographical
errors. The second edition was printed in 1519 and the third in 1522. This work became known as the Textus
Receptus or Received Text. Erasmus' work came under criticism because of a few small differences not found in a
majority of the Greek Byzantine manuscripts. The verse giving a good description of the Trinity (1 John 5:7 in the
KJV and NKJV) was inserted in his third edition. However, this was not an addition by Erasmus, because the same
text can be found in four of the older Greek manuscripts. Of the Greek manuscripts used by Erasmus only one is
said to have contained the book of Revelation but was missing the last page. He is believed to have translated the
last six verses from the Latin Vulgate into Greek. Even so, these verses translated today from other Greek
manuscripts give the same English rendering. The critics of the Textus Receptus tend to focus on these minor
occurrences in the work in order to divert the reader from the real status of the work. The Textus Receptus is the
Holy Inspired Word of God. -- Egyptian New Testament Manuscripts: Codex Sinaiticus (Sin.) was discovered in the
library at the Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mt. Sinai in 1859 by German theologian and Biblical scholar
Count Konstantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874). Some of the Old Testament is missing; however, the whole 4thcentury
New Testament is preserved, with the Letter of Barnabas and most of the Shepherd of Hermas at the end. It
was taken to St. Petersburg (Leningrad, Russia) and in 1933 sold by the Soviet regime to the British Museum
Library in London for only 100,000 British Pounds Sterling. It is a partial manuscript believed to be dated about 350
A.D. as shown in the table below. Later revisions representing attempts to alter the text to a different standard
probably were made about the 6th or 7th century at Caesarea. - Codex Vaticanus (B) was discovered in the Vatican
Library, where it remains and is believed to have been since before 1475 A.D. It is a partial manuscript believed to
be dated about 300 A.D. as shown in the table below. The New Testament is missing Hebrews from Chapter 9,
verse 14, Philemon, and Revelation. The text type is mostly of the Alexandrian group. - Codex Alexandrinus (A)
was discovered in the patriarchal library at Alexandria in the seventeenth century and taken to the British Museum
Library in London as well. It contains most of the New Testament but with lacunae (gaps) in Matthew, John and II
Corinthians, and also contains the extracanonical books of I and II Clement. In the Gospels the text is of the
Byzantine type, but in the rest of the New Testament it is Alexandrian. It is believed to be dated about 450 A.D. as
shown in the table below. - Beatty Papyri (P) were made available in the period between 1930 and 1960 from two
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