2/10/2019

Is the Codex SINAITICUS a Forgery ?

Early "manuscripts" do not equal early "texts" of the Bible, especially the New Testament.

Nor does "early manuscript" equal PUREST or BEST Greek Text of the New Testament.  

SEE UP-DATED LINKS ON TARES AMONG THE WHEAT.

PAGES of the Codex SINAITICUS

The white pages, in contrast, with the "aged"-looking pages. 

PAGES of the Codex SINAITICUS
 Courtesy of THIS LINK: 
 FROM  CODEX SINAITICUS AUTHENTICITY RESEARCH . . .

This page walks the reader through a series of transitions in the Codex Sinaiticus.  Transitions between the Codex Frederico-Augustanus pages (located at the Leipzig University Library), and the bulk of the pages located at the British Library.  Distinct colour differences are notable between the two collections.

Images used on this page have been obtained from the Codex Sinaiticus Project at www.codexsinaiticus.org in accordance with the non-commercial personal, and educational use provision in their copyright statement.

As of December 2016, many of the images as well as the Physical Description of the individual folia of Codex Sinaiticus are no longer available on the project website.  We certainly hope that the images and data will be made available again soon.
~ See : CODEX SINAITICUS AUTHENTICITY RESEARCH at the link under the picture.

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The Codex Sinaiticus was discovered in St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai during a 15-year period , 1844 - 1859, by Constantine Von Tischendorf, a German Bible scholar. [ The "Von" in his name was awarded to him by the Russian Czar, at that time.  See Wikipedia, Tischendorf
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Codex SINAITICUS, along with the Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, provide the foundation of the Alexandrian manuscripts ( mss ) upon which the modern translations of the Bible rest.  

These Codices are supposedly early, from the 4th,  4th,  and 5th Century AD, respectively.
And, supposedly the earliest manuscripts which we have. 

The suppositions are great, however. 

For, early "manuscripts" do not equal early "texts" of the Bible, especially the New Testament.

Nor does "early manuscript" equal PUREST or BEST Greek Text of the New Testament.  

 [To wit, Papyrus 66, the book of John, is as early as these codices.  It is very corrupt, with approximately 2 errors per verse and about 200-plus nonsensical readings, 482 singular readings, 400 itacistic spellings. See:  Wilbur N. Pickering's The Identity of the New Testament Text, IV, page 130-131, quoting E.C. Colwell in his "Hort Redivivus," page 157. ]
Because of just two "early" Codices, the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, scholars have removed --- or marked as doubtful or spurious --- the last 12 verses of Mark 16 from modern English Bibles, which relate the Resurrection and Ascension of The LORD . . . ignoring ALL THE OTHER testimony of hundreds of New Testament Greek manuscripts and lectionaries which ALL HAVE THE LAST 12 VERSES OF MARK 16. 

These Codices have been used to re-write the Greek Text of the New Testament, starting with Westcott and Hort in 1880's.  Codex SINAITICUS and Codex VATICANUS have been used to undermine the authority of the Scriptures, as we have seen in the modern English translations.

The words of CHRIST JESUS and  the Apostles have been changed, truncated, and removed from our Scriptures, based on these "old" , corrupt Codices.  


 Tischendorf's "discovery" was directly challenged at that very time by  a well-known manuscript / language scholar, Greek by birth, by the name of Dr. Constantine Simonides, who claimed he wrote this Codex for the Czar of Russia. He challenged Tischendorf OPENLY about the authenticity of Codex Sinaiticus for four years, in England. 
Chris Pinto, of Adullam films, has published a 10-part documentary about this controversy from the correspondence of Tischendorf and others and from the articles printed in the newspapers in England. He included documentation from other scholars' writings as well.

Each part of this historic and factual documentary is about 14 minutes long.  
Here is part 1. TARES AMONG THE WHEAT. TARES AMONG THE WHEAT --- PART 1


The entire documentary is available to watch on the internet at: Tares Among the Wheat -- Full length Documentary BUT YOU MUST MANUALLY INSERT THE TITLE ONTO THE YOUTUBE SEARCH ENGINE; UPLOADING IT ON A WEBSITE / BLOG  IS PROHIBITED.

The DVD can be purchased at this link: 
CHRIS PINTO's Tares Among the Wheat video

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