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<h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">God Quotes Psalm 2 Over Jesus To Convey He Is Messiah</span>. </span></h1>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">(Why do I say the editor was Calvinist? Because in 1604, John Rainolds -- the leader of Puritan Calvinists of England -- asked King James to commision a new Bible. The King did so. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Rainolds was the main editor until he died in 1609. Was this a coincidence that Rainolds was a Calvinist? Or was it to revise the text to suit Calvinism? Well, we need to know a background on King James. One year earlier,</span> King James' <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">rule in 1603 was expanded to England from only Scotland where the Calvinist-Presbyterian Church was the only official church. With James' rule now expanded over England, Calvinists could make their move on the Bible in English, and make only one dition of the Bible "authorized." It became known as "The Authorized Version" to make it appear as the only one authorized to read in church. </span>That is how the King James Bible originated. Later, Rainolds was replaced by Miles Smith who "like Rainolds was a Calvinist." Gustavus Paine, <strong>The Learned Men</strong> (1959) at 49.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Protestants KJV translators would choose Latin over Greek texts on this verse because the earlier Greek disturbs the "eternal son" doctrine. Even more so this is true for Calvinists such as the KJV primary editor who was Calvinist. Why so? Because in 1553, Servetus was executed at Geneva upon Calvin's legal complaint (as he confessed later drafting) based principally upon Servetus denying Jesus was the "<strong>eternal son of God</strong>." See "<a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/books/didcalvinmurderservetus/330-did-calvin-murder-servetus-knol.html">Servetus & Calvin</a>," Knol Encyclopedia (Google).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">The "eternal son" doctrine is thus not only a firm fixture of Roman Catholicism after Nicea, but also of Calvinist Protestantism. In this doctrine, the belief is that Jesus is "the second person of the Triune God [who] has <strong>eternally existed as the Son...</strong> [as] affirmed in the Nicene Creed." (<a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/eternal-Sonship.html">GotQuestions</a>.) See also the Nicene Creed (Jesus was "begotten b<strong>efore all ages</strong>" but also "begotten <strong>not made</strong>" at this <a href="https://www.crcna.org/welcome/beliefs/creeds/nicene-creed">link</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">When Servetus was killed for his denial that an "eternal son" makes any logical sense, the Protestant recovery of Codex Beza in 1562 was ten years in the future. Thus, when it arrived at Beza's Geneva in 1562, and this passage shockingly vindicated Servetus's view of 1553, one can well-imagine that Beza would <strong>not</strong> spread this "good" news. Nor would the Calvinist Editor in Chief of the KJV wish to include a verse which would embarass Calvin's memory. "Better to use the latest Latin Vulgate," would be the response one would anticipate from that party. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Thus, a vigorous counter-response was necessary. In that era, Roman Catholic authorities of orthodoxy shamelessly admitted elsewhere eliminating portions of a text they were translating which were "discordant" to "our ears" (see e.g., <a href="/topicindex/832-rufinus-corrected-works-he-deemed-heretical.html">Rufinus' debate with Jerome</a>). </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Rufinus (died <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannius_Rufinus">411 AD</a>) -- the main translator of Greek to Latin of Christian texts of prior eras -- boasted in his introduction to Origen's writings that he "deleted" portions of Origen's words in translation to Latin because they are "discordant" to our "ears" -- meaning the present orthodoxy. See <a href="/topicindex/832-rufinus-corrected-works-he-deemed-heretical.html">link</a>. </span></p>
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<p><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">So if any Greek text of the NT appears later than 325 AD -- the year of the Nicean council -- without "this day I have begotten" thee, who can doubt this negation of the "eternal son" doctrine" would be "ripped out" by means of "deleting" whatever is "discordant" to our "ears," as Rufinus put it? </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">After saying many things, this Gospel [of Matthew to the Hebrews] continues: “After the people were baptized, Jesus also came and was baptized by John. And as Jesus came up from the water, Heaven was opened, and He saw the Holy Spirit descend in the form of a dove and enter into Him. And<strong> a voice from Heaven</strong> said, ‘You are my beloved Son; with You I am well pleased.’ And again, ‘<strong>Today I have begotten You</strong>.’ “Immediately a great light shone around the place; and John, seeing it, said to Him, ‘Who are you, Lord? And again a voice from Heaven said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.’ Then John, falling down before Him, said, ‘I beseech You, Lord, baptize me!’ But He forbade him saying, ‘Let it be so; for thus it is fitting that all things be fulfilled.’” (Epiphanius, <strong>Panarion</strong> 30.13.7) [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Gospel_of_Matthew">Wikipedia</a>]</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px 30px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">In the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Gospel written in the Hebrew script</span> that the Nazarenes read, the whole fount of the Holy Spirit descends upon Him, for God is Spirit and where the Spirit resides, there is freedom. Further in the Gospel which we have just mentioned we find the following written: “When the Lord came up out of the water the whole fount of the Holy Spirit descended upon Him and rested on Him saying, ‘My Son, in all the prophets was I waiting for You that You should come and I might rest in You. For You are My rest. <span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">You are </span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold;">My first begotten Son</span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;"> that prevails forever.’</span>” (Jerome, <strong>Commentary on Isaiah</strong> 4) [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentic_Gospel_of_Matthew" style="color: #517291;">Wikipedia</a>] </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The baptismal account with “this day I have begotten thee” appears in "</span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">the Old Latin" Bibles meaning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate">pre-382 AD</a>. Jerome was engaged by the pope in 382 AD to replace them with a new Latin Bible. It was issued for the first time in 405 AD. (E.B. Nicholson, <strong>The Gospel according to the Hebrews</strong> (1879) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QVAVAAAAYAAJ&dq=some%20things%20out%20of%20the%20Gospel%20according%20to%20the%20Hebrews%20and%20the%20Syriac&pg=PA40#v=onepage&q=juda&f=false">40</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The baptismal account of Jesus in Luke 3:22 in old manuscripts likewise had this account that the Father spoke from heaven to Jesus: "This day I have begotten you."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Also, in "Codex Bezae and most of the old Latin manuscripts...the voice instead cites Psalm 2:7: </span><strong style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">'This day I have begotten thee.</strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">" (Barbara Aland, Joël Delobel, </span><strong style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">New Testament textual criticism, exegesis, and early church history</strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;"> (Peeters, 1994) at </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Z4xXSlE_ZvcC&lpg=PA121&ots=K380wpl4Fq&dq=juvencus%20this%20day%20i%20have%20begotten%20thee&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">120</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;"> (article by B. Ehrman, referencing Luke 3:22.</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">A modern study Bible comments on Luke 3:22: "Other ancient authorities read You are my Son,<strong> today I have begotten you</strong>." (Wayne A. Meeks, Jouette M. Bassler, <strong>The HarperCollins Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version</strong> (HarperCollins: 1997) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=aMkEa-Z4shEC&lpg=RA1-PA1962&ots=SWWdDM1c0V&dq=%22Other%20ancient%20authorities%20read%20You%20are%20my%20Son%22&pg=RA1-PA1962#v=onepage&q=%22Other%20ancient%20authorities%20read%20You%20are%20my%20Son%22&f=false">1962</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The New American commentary reads: “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased: this is the best attested [i.e., most numerous] reading in the Greek manuscripts. The <strong>Western</strong> reading, ‘You are my Son, this day <strong>I have begotten you</strong>,’ is derived from Psalm 2:7.” <a href="http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke3.htm">http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke3.htm</a> (last accessed 2005.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This reference to a "Western" text that reads "begotten thee" is because it appears in the Greek Western type text known as Codex D <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/encyclopedia-of-the-bible/Codex-Bezae-D">also known as Codez Bezae</a>. It dates from the 400s. It is called Codex Beza because after being stolen in 1562 from a monastic library in Lyons, France, it was given to the Calvinist scholar Beza who gave it to a library in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Bezae">1581</a>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18pt;">Obviously, both passages as existed at the time of Faustus were erased as a result of Augustine's debate. Augustine implicitly conceded <strong>no</strong> present manuscript of which he personally knew did <strong>not</strong> support Faustus. Instead, Augustine could only claim that some "<strong>say</strong>" that there are earlier Greek codices that lack the language in Luke. However, Augustine did not say he saw them, or knew of them as a fact; he only alluded to some </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">un</span></strong><strong>identified person</strong>(s) "say" there are versions of Luke missing these statements. Augustine never said anything to support likewise there is any one who "says" some Greek manuscripts of Matthew lack this Baptismal "This day" language. Most of Augustine's rebuttal was to conflate the issue with the validity of the virgin birth account, as if that addressed the same issue. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Throckmorton in <strong>Gospel Parallels</strong> (1992) at 14 [<a href="https://airtable.com/shrFroj8MyH80FqBG">PDF of page 14</a>] lists some of the sources for "This day I have begotten thee." He lists - "D [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Bezae">Codex Beza from 400s</a>] it[alic aka pre-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetus_Latina">382</a> Latin], Justin [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr">died 165 AD</a>], Clement [written pre-70 AD; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_I">died 99 AD</a> - more below], Origen [<a href="https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tDP1TcwLUgqM2D0EskvykxPzVPIT1NIzEmtSMxLKcpMBACkYwrM&q=origen+of+alexandria&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS734US734&oq=origen&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j46j0l3j46j0.4006j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8">died 253 AD</a>], <strong>Augustine</strong>, Gospel of the Ebionites [aka the Hebrew Matthew]." </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Tertullian in a passage where he mocksd any idea that Jesus as the Son was simultaneously also God uses this language "This day I have begotten thee" so as to refute Jesus is God. (Bishop Faustus made the same point with Augustine in 383 AD, but more on that later.) Here is cogent reasoning so easily forgotten:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">We will explore below these early quotes of Justin, Clement and Origen.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">First, because Augustine in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustus_of_Mileve">383 AD</a> acknowledges to Festus in a mutual correspondence that "this day I have begotten thee" is <strong>presen</strong>t in "some codices."</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">However, Augustine does not say he knows of any ancient Greek codex of Luke that is lacking "this day I have begotten thee." Instead of proof, he offers an <strong>unattributed</strong> claim that some 'say' it is not in SOME earlier Greek codices of Luke. Augustine offered no scholarly verification of which he was certainly capable of easily checking at Rome. The entire quote is worth reading. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; padding-left: 30px;">But once more, with respect to that rendering which is contained in some codices of the Gospel according to <strong>Luke</strong>, and which bears that the words heard in the heavenly voice were those that are written in the Psalm, "Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten Thee" [Ps 2:7]; <strong>although it is said not to be found in the more ancient Greek codices</strong>, yet if it can be established by any copies worthy of credit, what results but that we suppose both voices to have been heard from heaven, in one or other verbal order?</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;">The full Latin and English translation of this quote comes from Wieland Willker, <strong>A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels</strong> Vol. 3 Luke (Bremen: 2015) at Luke 3:22. Willker made the entire <a href="http://www.willker.de/wie/TCG/TC-Luke.pdf">PDF </a>available free online.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">The Codex Bezae dates to the 400s, and it has "this day I have begotten thee." See George Huntston Williams, <strong>Radical Reformation</strong> (3d Edition.) (Truman State University, 1995) at 452 fn. 42 (“Thou art my son, this day I have begotten thee,’ a wording that <strong>survives in the Codex Bezae</strong> for Lk. 3:22.”) The portion of Matthew 3:17 in Codex Bezae -- the Baptismal Account -- is entirely lost because pages covering Matthew 1:20 to 6:20 are entirely gone.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The original baptism language of "this day I have begotten thee" is quoted in the NT in the Epistle to the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Heb+1:5,5:5">Hebrews 1:5 and 5:5</a>. Each quote refers to the Father speaking these words, rather than the Psalmist being directly quoted:</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">These passages in Hebrews are sometimes said to convey the "adoptionist" view of Jesus. By such a label, if you know the history of alleged heresies, this means they are being dismissed as heresy. This is done despite adoption is not even implied. Rather, Psalm 2 relates God from Heaven saying "this day I have begotten thee" which is an <strong>express creation of the son by a birth</strong>! It is one of the silliest alleged heresies ever. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This smear label obviously was devised to block attention to the seriousness of the forgery of removing the Psalm2-Baptismal language from Matthew and Luke. See the summary "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptionism#:~:text=Adoptionism%2C%20also%20called%20dynamic%20monarchianism,his%20resurrection%2C%20or%20his%20ascension.">Adoptionism</a>" Wikipedia. This article says adoptionism is injecting the false idea of a "<strong>low Christology</strong>" that God simpy "adopted" Jesus as Son at His baptism. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">However, this insinuation is false itself. Instead God is quoted saying at the Baptism that He gave <strong>birth</strong> to Jesus as His Son. There is no adoption at all. However, no one ever mentions this flaw. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Interestingly, anti-adoptionists acknowledge they are merely inferring adoption is intended by the words "This Day I have begotten thee" by claiming it sounds like something which Rashi talks about in the Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 19b. Some claim Rashi says or implies that Scripture says adoption is "as though he [i.e., the adopter] had begotten him." <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">See "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_Judaism#:~:text=Adoption%20does%20not%20exist%20as,in%20Jewish%20Law%20(Halacha).&text=Based%20on%20the%20Talmudic%20teachings,through%20the%20act%20of%20adoption." style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Adoption in Judaism</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">," Wikipedia. </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">However, Rashi in fact does not say that. What Rashi says is that one who teaches Torah to a friend's son is "considered as if he fathered him." See "<a href="https://www.jweekly.com/2002/05/10/torah-students-become-the-children-of-their-teacher/#:~:text=Rashi%20brings%20the%20Talmud%20Sanhedrin,as%20if%20he%20fathered%20him.&text=King%20Chizkiyahu%20calls%20the%20Jewish,he%20personally%20taught%20them%20Torah.">Torah Students Become The Children of their Teacher,</a>" The Jewish News of Northern California (2002). There is no sense of adoption in Rashi's words. There is a begetting in the truest sense, but spiritual, not physical. But it is not adoption.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Moreover would the Psalmist have meant in Psalm 2 someone is adopting a child? Absolutely not!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Under the Law of Moses, there is <strong>NO SUCH THING AS ADOPTION</strong>. See "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_Judaism#:~:text=Adoption%20does%20not%20exist%20as,in%20Jewish%20Law%20(Halacha).&text=Based%20on%20the%20Talmudic%20teachings,through%20the%20act%20of%20adoption.">Adoption in Judaism</a>," Wikipedia. "Adoption does not exist in formal practice in Jewish law." (<strong>Id</strong>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Yet, regardless, the actual language of Psalm 2 in Matthew and Luke would be an <strong>equally high Christology as any other</strong>. However, it is derided as low in comparison to the extreme but preferred trinitarian concept. This smearing of this verse by trinitarian Christians is for the lowly purpose of causing the uninformed to be unconcerned about a <strong>serious corruption</strong> of Holy Scripture that <strong>undermines a key aspect</strong> of who Jesus is: The <strong>Son of God</strong> and <strong>Messiah</strong> depicted in Psalm 2. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Even so, orthodoxy about an "eternal son" appears to have won out by means of the Vulgate of 405 AD and the KJV even though it means we leave Matthew and Luke in an unjustifiable disrepair. We are told we can just dismiss the significance of the very same words in the Epistle to the Hebrews which it says the Father spoke to Jesus. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Regardless of all the foregoing, for purposes of reconstructing the original Mathew and Luke, it still remains significant that the Epistle to the Hebrews' writer in the NT is talking about these passages in Matthew and Luke. The writer is not talking about what the Psalmist says, but instead about what God said to Jesus.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">G. Why is Psalm 2 Important?</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Most importantly, Psalm 2 is crucial to understanding who is Jesus. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">It is one of the only two references to a prophesied Messiah in the Original Covenant writings also known as the Tanak. One is in Daniel 9:24-27. The other is Psalm 2. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This short psalm talks about an "anointed one" (Messiah) who is a begotten Son of God. Is this Jesus? Obviously so.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Psalm 2 talks about a unique Son of God whom will serve as the judge of humankind as its king. The Psalm requires we kiss this "son of God," lest he be angry. This is reference to homage owed toward this king.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This passage and the Daniel passage is why John said that he wrote his gospel so we believe that Jesus is "<strong>Messiah and Son of God</strong>." (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+20%3A31&version=NIV">John 20:31</a>.) It alludes back to Psalm 2 and Daniel 9:24-28, but most clearly to Psalm 2. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This Psalm is also why Peter answers Jesus' question "who do you say I am," with the response: "<strong>Messiah and Son of God</strong>" (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+16%3A16&version=NIV">Matt 16:16</a>). Both titles only appear together in Psalm 2 about the same person. It is obviously a prophecy about Jesus. Yahweh from Heaven said this to call to mind Psalm 2 to make certain we understood what Jesus represents. </span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">H. Psalm 2 Confirmed In The Dead Sea Scrolls</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><strong>The Dead Sea Scrolls' Bible</strong> translates scroll fragments found in 1947 that date to around 200 BC. It covers the first eight verses which survived the centuries in the sand. The other verses crumbled away.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Abegg reconstructed those eight verses at page 512 of <strong>The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible</strong> (1999). (This is from Scroll 11Q7 Psalms -- sadly a highly fragmentary text -- see <a href="https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive/manuscript/11Q7-1?locale=en_US">photographs</a>, but more on that in a moment.) It reads very comparable to how it reads today. Here is the pertinent part: </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"> [N]ations [Gentiles] conspire ... in vain and [they] counsel together against [YHWH] and against his<span style="font-weight: bold;"> annointed [<span style="color: #ff0000;">massiyah</span></span>].... [YHWH] will speak to them in his wrath, ...as follows: "But I have installed <span style="font-weight: bold;">my king </span>upon Zion, my holy mountain." I will make known [YHWH's decree] <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>He said to me</strong></span>:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> [You are] my [son; today I have begotten thee</span> you; Ask of m]e and [I will surely make <span style="font-weight: bold;">the nations your inheritance, and the very ends of the earth your possession]." </span></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"> <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span>(For the full 8 verses, see </span><a href="https://airtable.com/shr1PjNWlyyZQj440">link</a><span> of screen capture.) </span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span>Incidentally, because the Psalmist is declaring a "decree" Yahweh gave him, rather than a promise to the Psalmist himself, Jewish Rabbis understood that this was a promise directed at the Messiah when he would be revealed. </span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">See Talmud Sukha 52 in</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"></span><strong style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Problems of Bible Translation</strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"> (1954) at </span><a href="https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Problems%20in%20Bible%20Translations.pdf" style="color: #517291;">page 145</a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"> (PDF link).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">The bolded words are also the same words that this translator could have rendered "You are my son, this day I have begotten you." See <a href="http://dssenglishbible.com/psalms%202.htm">Dead Sea Scrolls Bible Translations - Psalm 2</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Thus all the material elements are present. All that we </span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="background: white;"><strong>Kiss his son</strong>, or he will be angry</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Incidentally, modern Jewish translations render "Son" -- bar - in Psalm 2:12 as "purifiy" and thereby "kiss the son" becomes in their English version "yearn for purity" or similar renderings.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">However, the truly better translation is "kiss the son." It requires one to know that a non-Hebrew word "bar" -- Aramaic for <strong>son</strong> -- is used in 2:12 to mean "son", just as the Aramaic "bar" is in Proverbs 31:2, and means "son" as even Jewish texts translate it that way as it means "son of my womb." The reason is well explained at this webpage: "<a href="http://www.kjvtoday.com/home/kiss-the-son-or-do-homage-in-purity-in-psalm-212">Kissing the Son or Doing Homage to Purity in Psalm 2:12</a>," KJVToday.com. </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">“God hath <strong>fulfilled</strong> the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up <strong>Jesus</strong> again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son,<strong> this day have I begotten thee</strong>.” (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+13%3A33&version=KJV">Acts 13:33 KJV</a>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">So by dint of training, the churchmen of today continue to close off a truth -- a fundamental truth -- that Psalm 2 is about the Messiah and Son of God, and points to the birth of the Son as a Son, and not an adoption anyway.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">First, the original baptism-of-Jesus account is quoted in Book One, Chapter VI of The Instructor, a work of 160 A.D. by Clement of Alexandria: “For at the moment of the Lord’s <strong>baptism</strong> there sounded a voice from heaven, as a testimony to the Beloved, ‘Thou art My beloved Son,<strong> to-day have I begotten Thee.</strong>’” “Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume II/CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA/The Instructor/Book I/Chapter VI,” at <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_II/CLEMENT_OF_ALEXANDRIA/The_Instructor/Book_I/Chapter_VI.">wikisource</a> </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Again, in the words of Lactantius (A.D. 260-330), in his <strong>The Divine Institutes</strong>, book IV, chapter XV, he quotes the original uncorrupted version of the baptism-of-Jesus account: “Then a voice from heaven was heard: ‘Thou art my Son,<strong><em> </em>today have I begotten Thee</strong>.’ Which voice is found to have been foretold by David. And the Spirit of God descended upon Him, formed after the<strong><em> </em>appearance of a white dove</strong>.” <strong>Ante-Nicene Fathers/</strong>Volume VII/Lactantius/The Divine Institutes/Book IV/Chap. XV,” <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_VII/Lactantius/The_Divine_Institutes/Book_IV/Chap._XV">wikisource</a> (from Schaff).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In the Acts of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (234 A.D.), it says: “Him therefore to whom the Father said, Thou art my Son, <strong><em>this day have I begotten</em></strong> Thee, the chief priests through envy crucified.” .“Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VIII/Apocrypha of the New Testament/Acts of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul/Acts of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul,” <a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_VIII/Apocrypha_of_the_New_Testament/Acts_of_the_Holy_Apostles_Peter_and_Paul/Acts_of_the_Holy_Apostles_Peter_and_Paul">wikisource</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In the First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, XXXVI, written by Clement—a man who was a direct disciple of the Apostle Peter—it says: “But concerning His Son the Lord [Yahweh] spoke thus: <strong>‘Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten Thee</strong>.’” (<strong>Ante-Nicene Fathers</strong> Vol. 1 at <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bPdMAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA15&ots=jUg8QXHgWV&dq=first%20epistle%20of%20clement%20But%20concerning%20His%20Son%20the%20Lord%20spoke%20thus%3A%20%E2%80%98Thou%20art%20my%20Son%2C%20to-day%20have%20I%20begotten%20Thee.&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=first%20epistle%20of%20clement%20But%20concerning%20His%20Son%20the%20Lord%20spoke%20thus:%20%E2%80%98Thou%20art%20my%20Son,%20to-day%20have%20I%20begotten%20Thee.&f=false">15</a>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Because this epistle mentions the sacrifices were still ongoing at Jerusalem, this epistle dates to pre-70 AD. For in 70 AD, the Temple at Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman armies, ending the sacrifices from then until today. <span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">In </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=wEFMAAAAYAAJ&dq=jesus%20%22afraid%20of%20death%22%20jerome&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q=jesus%20%22afraid%20of%20death%22%20jerome&f=false" style="color: #517291; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">17:14-22</a><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">, Clement affirms that we must continue our offerings and sacrifice, and mentions this is not done everywhere except at Jerusalem. Hence, the date of this letter's composition must be pre-70 AD. </span></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">See "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_of_Clement">First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians,</a>" Wikipedia ("internal evidence composed prior to 70 AD.")</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">For this devil, when [Jesus] <strong>went up from the river Jordan,</strong> at the time when the voice spake to Him, “Thou art my Son: <strong>this day have I begotten Thee</strong>,” is recorded in the memoirs of the apostles to have come to Him and tempted Him, even so far as to say to Him, “Worship me;” and Christ answered him, “Get thee behind me, Satan: thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” Id., ch. CII.</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">[2] Hilary, <strong>De Trinitate</strong>, VIII, 25, Tyconius, Reg. 1 [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_of_Poitiers">written in 360 AD</a>] </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Similarly, as discussed above in some depth already, the phrase ‘this day I have begotten thee’ was quoted by the Bishop of the Christian sect of Manicheans -- one Faustus of Mileve -- in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustus_of_Mileve">383 AD</a> from both Matthew and Luke’s Gospel as having been uttered at Jesus’ baptism. Faustus was made later to appear unorthodox as this verse would be removed from Matthew's Gospel post Nicea. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Yet, Faustus held on to the view that Jesus was not born Son of God but became Son of God at his baptism.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">(Manicheans are regarded as a Christian heretical sect which added to Jesus' teachings that Christians supposedly should also follow the teachings of an alleged later "Apostle of Light" named Mani. See <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Manichaeism">Manichaenism,</a> <strong>Encyclopedia Brittanica</strong>.) </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In 383 AD approximately, Augustine disputes only how Luke may have read in some earlier codex, but not attesting he knew this to be the case. See section D above. (Remember, however, the Hebrew Matthew originally had the 'This day I have begotten thee" at Jesus' baptism. See above.)</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">2. I will, for the present, suppose that this person was right in saying that the son of David was born of Mary. It still remains true, that in this whole passage of the generation<strong> no mention is made of the Son of God till we come to the baptism</strong>; so that it is an injurious misrepresentation on your part to speak of this writer as making the Son of God the inmate of a womb. The writer, indeed, seems to cry out against such an idea, and in the very title of his book to clear himself of such blasphemy, asserting that the person whose birth he describes is the son of David, not the Son of God. And if you attend to the writer’s meaning [<em>i.e.</em>, Matthew's meaning] and purpose, you will see that what he wishes us to believe of Jesus the Son of God is not so much that He was born of Mary, as that <strong>He became the Son of God by baptism at the river Jordan</strong>. He [<em>i.e.</em>, Matthew] tells us that the person of whom he spoke at the outset as the son of David was baptized by John, and <strong>became the Son of God on this particular occasion</strong>, when about thirty years old, according to Luke, when also the voice was heard saying to Him, “Thou art my Son; <strong>this day have I begotten Thee</strong>.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The message at the Baptism "this day I have begotten thee" conflicted with a doctrine first adopted in 325 AD at Nicea that Jesus was in effect the '<strong>eternal son</strong> of God.' Jesus was said to be "begotten <strong>not made</strong>" which supposedly meant he was eternal -- 'not made' -- and was begotten in an eternal state of begottenness -- a concept incomprehensible to the human mind but yet affirmed as fact.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Next, let's touch on the time "this day I begotten thee" is erased. We know it exists in the Codex Beza which dates to the 400s. This is also known as Codex D or the Western-type text. It was the form of text of Rome's period of text copying until it transitions to Byzantium text type. Constantine moved the empire's capital from Rome to Constantinople in <a href="https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-worldhistory/chapter/byzantium-the-new-rome/#:~:text=The%20founder%20of%20the%20Byzantine,persecuted%20in%20the%20Roman%20Empire.">330 AD</a>. The text type of Bibles thereafter moved to a different text type known as the Byzantine text type. That took some time. Eventually, a first New Testament will appear and after that <a href="http://www.ukapologetics.net/realbible.htm">literally thousands</a> of versions -- all belonging to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_text-type">Byzantine text type</a> -- will dominate. </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">More plausible objections are founded on certain passages of the Scriptures. In Psalm 2:7, it is said, “Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.” From this it is argued that Christ or the Messiah was constituted or <strong>made the Son of God in time, and therefore was not the Son of God from <span style="color: #ff0000;">eternity</span><em>.</em></strong> (Vol. 1<a href="http://www.ccel.org/ccel/hodge/theology1.iv.vi.vi.html"> section 6</a> at ccel.org.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Initially, notice that Hodges only has to address that it exists in a Psalm. He does not have to cope with the fact that the authentic version of Matthew's or Luke's Gospel ascribed this to the voice of Yahweh from heaven at Jesus' baptism. Yet, clearly he signifies if it were found in a true verse of the NT it would be a "plausible objection" to raise against its validity the "eternal son" doctrine.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">But the "eternal son" doctrine makes no sense. To say Jesus was the "Eternal Son" begotten of God, as was developed at Nicea and thereafter, was always a <strong>contradiction</strong> in terms. As Adam Clarke, a Methodist, explained in his commentary:</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">"…it is demonstrated that the doctrine of the <strong>eternal Sonship of Christ</strong> is<strong> absolutely irreconcilable to reason</strong>, and contradictory to itself. ETERNITY is that which has had no beginning, nor stands in any reference to time: <strong>SON supposes time, generation, and father</strong>; and time also antecedent to such generation: therefore the rational conjunction of these two terms, Son and eternity, is absolutely impossible, as they imply <strong>essentially different and opposite ideas</strong>" (<a href="http://bible.cc/acts/13-33.htm">Adam Clarke Commentary</a>).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">But this suppression of this passage in English and Latin translation is not an isolated incident. It fits a pattern where Christology (trinitarianism) -- the Nicene Creed -- must conquer no matter what the cost to the Bible delivered to the people.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Professor Bart D. Ehrman (Christian background; professor on Christianity) catalogs a whole series of similar alterations (some small, but some big) to the New Testament in his book <strong>The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture</strong> (Oxford University Press, 1993). There he warns us that:</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">...theological disputes, <strong>specifically disputes over Christology</strong>, prompted Christian scribes to alter the words of scripture in order to make them more serviceable for the polemical task. Scribes modified their manuscripts to make them more patently ‘orthodox’ and less susceptible to ‘abuse’ by the opponents of orthodoxy. (<em>Id</em>., at<a href="https://airtable.com/shrcfaaL8uAyp9LFB"> 3-4</a>.)</span></p>
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<p> <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The fact this verse is present from the very beginning in Hebrew and Greek is too well-attested from too many sources, including the Epistle to the Hebrews in our very own NT of today, to deny what it has said from the very beginning. There is no proof it is actually missing from any early Greek text covering either Matt 3:17 or Luke 3:22.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; background-color: transparent;">They are forgerers via translation. They sadly were willing to use guile. They deserve our censure. As the orthodox church leader Tertullian said about Marcion in 200 AD and his followers who changed the earlier gospel accounts via Marcion's translation:</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">[W]e take up arms against heretics for the faith of the gospel, maintaining... that<strong> a late date is the mark of forgers</strong>, and...<strong>truth must needs precede the forgery</strong>, and proceed straight from those by whom it has been handed on. (Tertullian, <strong>Against Marcion</strong>, Bk. 4, ch. <a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/ter_marc4.htm">5</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The Talmud book Sukkha preserves from <a href="https://truthnet.org/TheMessiah/12_Messiah_Objections_Psalms_2_22/">52 AD</a> -- thus likely reflecting pre-Christ understanding too -- the thought of Jewish scribes that something like in the Hebrew Matthew from 37 AD would be how God Yahweh would address Messiah:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">"Our Rabbis taught, The Holy One, Blessed be He, <em><strong>will say to</strong></em></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><em><strong>the Messiah,</strong></em> the Son of David (may he reveal himself speedily in our</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">day), 'Ask of me anything, and I will give it thee,' as it is said, 'I will</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">tell of the decree,' erc., '<em><strong>this day have I begotten thee, ask of me and I</strong></em></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><em><strong>will give the nations for thy inheritance</strong></em>.''' (Talmud, Sukkah 52)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">(quoted in <strong>Problems of Bible Translation</strong> (1954) at <a href="https://www.adventistbiblicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Problems%20in%20Bible%20Translations.pdf">page 145</a> (PDF link). </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Bart Ehrman's book <strong>Lost Christianities</strong> (N.Y. 2003) explained <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 27.6px;">Luke was edited in three places.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 27.6px;">First, Luke 2:33 and Luke 2:48 both contain verses that state that Joseph was Jesus' father. At least, that is what is said in the oldest manuscripts. Verses such as Luke 2:33 <em><strong>s</strong></em><strong>upported Ebionite Christians' belief derogatorily referred to incorrectly as adoptionism, i.e., God spoke "this day I have begotten thee" over Jesus</strong><em><strong>.</strong></em></span></span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 27.6px;">[O]ne is hardpressed to see how the more commonly attested text of Luke 3:22 could be original. For this reading, ("You are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased') constitutes a mere <strong>identification</strong> formula in which Jesus is recognized as the Son of God. It is only in the variant reading, the one that is<strong> attested by virtually all the earliest witnesses</strong>, that God is actually said to confer a new status on Jesus ("<strong>Today I have begotten thee</strong>") Only in theologiclly difficult [sic: meaningful] reading is God said to 'elect' Jesus in a manner presupposed in 9:5, that is, through a quotation of the royal adoption [sic: "this day I have begotten thee"] drawn from the second Psalm.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Jesus said in <a href="https://biblehub.com/john/5-31.htm">John 5:31</a> that "if I testify on my own behalf, my witness would <strong>not be valid</strong>." So if Jesus alone says he is Yahweh's Messiah and Son of Yahweh, we must reject that as invalid. Right? Who can say who is Yahweh's Messiah and Son? Only God. There can be only one who can testify validly. </span></p>
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<h2><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Email On This Topic</span></h2>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Amy wrote me on November 3, 2010 as follows:</span></p>
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