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The JW`s should have found something in the Bible to quote. but that NWT is an enemy of the received text.

THE BATTLE OF THE BIBLES:

Before we start the history lesson where we will follow the body of the Word through History, Please read Luke 24:44-56, and think about the following question: What would the people who were there at that time have said if someone had said to them that it should be decided whether they should carry the body of Jesus to the tomb, or maybe pick another body of their own choosing, perhaps one that has not been beaten so maliciously. This is similar to the choice people ask us to make when they ask us to choose the King james Vesion Bible, that came from the recieved text, at the cost of the blood of the Viscoths, the Vandals, the Waldensas, 18 000 Scotts, and all the Martyrs of the Reformation, or choose one of the hundreds of bibles that come from the Jesuit bible of 1582.

Fundamentally there are only two streams of Bibles. The first stream which carried the received text in Hebrew and Greek, precious manuscripts were preserved by such as the Church at Pella in Palestine where the Christians fled, when in 70 AD the Romans destroyed Jerusalem. So the original manuscripts were not in Rome, they came from the christian area where the Apostles preached. Thats where the original manuscripts were, and that is the logical place for them where the Apostles were.

The received text was also carried by the Syrian Church of Antioch which produced eminent scholarship; by the Italic Church in northern Italy; and also at the same time by the Galic Church in southern France, and by the Celtic Church in Great Britain, by the PreWaldensian, the Waldensian, and the Churches of the Reformation. The Church in northern Italy received their text through the middle eastern route through Syria, and there was a problem with the waldensas and those in Rome because they had different scriptures.

These Manuscripts have in agreement with them , by far the vast majority of copies of the original text. So vast is the majority that even the enemies of the Received Text admit that nineteen out of twenty Greek manusripts are of the received text.

The second stream is one of very few manuscripts represented as follows:

a) In Greek The Vatican MS, or Codex B, in the library at Rome, and the sinaitic, or Codex Aleph, found in Egypt in 1844.

b) In Latin: The Vulgate or Latin bible of Jerome 383AD

c) In English: The Jesuiot bible of 1582 which latter with the vast changes is seen in the Douay, or Catholic bible ( This bible was the first of this stream to be written in the vulgar tongue to counter the Reformation,)

d) In English again: In every modern bible except for the original King James Version Bible.

So the present controversy between the KJV and the modern versions is the same old battle fought out between the early Church and rival sects, and later between the waldensas and the Papist from the fourth to the sixteenth century.

Works go with faith. James 2:26 " . . .faith without works is dead."

Like practice goes with what you preach,

James 1:22-25 "However, become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves with false reasoning. For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, this one is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, and off he goes and immediately forgets what sort of man he is. But he who peers into the perfect law that belongs to freedom and who persists in [it], this [man], because he has become, not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, will be happy in his doing [it].

Faith and works that lead to salvation as God's word TEACHES are intertwined not separated.

No, you are misleading. The citation of 1 John 5:3 has to do with the preceding sentences. A referenced scripture goes with what preceded, not what follows. The citation of 1 John 5:3 wasn't about the sentence that followed.

As for your questions about works, here are just a few scriptures:

(Hebrews 6:9-12) 9 However, in your case, beloved ones, we are convinced of better things and things accompanied with salvation, although we are speaking in this way. 10 For God is not unrighteous so as to forget your work and the love you showed for his name, in that you have ministered to the holy ones and continue ministering. 11 But we desire each one of you to show the same industriousness so as to have the full assurance of the hope down to the end, 12 in order that you may not become sluggish, but be imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

(Philippians 2:12, 13) 12 Consequently, my beloved ones, in the way that you have always obeyed, not during my presence only, but now much more readily during my absence, keep working out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for God is the one that, for the sake of [his] good pleasure, is acting within you in order for you both to will and to act.

(James 2:18-23) 18 Nevertheless, a certain one will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith apart from the works, and I shall show you my faith by my works.” 19 You believe there is one God, do you? You are doing quite well. And yet the demons believe and shudder. 20 But do you care to know, O empty man, that faith apart from works is inactive? 21 Was not Abraham our father declared righteous by works after he had offered up Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 You behold that [his] faith worked along with his works and by [his] works [his] faith was perfected, 23 and the scripture was fulfilled which says: “Abraham put faith in Jehovah, and it was counted to him as righteousness,” and he came to be called “Jehovah’s friend.”

(James 2:26) 26 Indeed, as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

In Eph 2:8, Paul is talking about works of the Law that cannot bring about salvation. If Paul meant that faith alone is all that is needed he would not have written:

(Romans 10:10) 10 For with the heart one exercises faith for righteousness, but with the mouth one makes public declaration for salvation.