We may indeed believe that He would not allow His Word to be seriously corrupted, or any part of it essential to man's salvation to be lost or obscured; but the differences between the rival types of text is not one of doctrine. No fundamental point of doctrine rests upon a disputed reading: and the truths of Christianity are as certainly expressed in the text of Westcott and Hort as in that of Stephanus.

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hiram, Ohio,

The lost 1880 A.D. Chinese King James New Testament -Discovered
Free Download: www.lutheranchurch.cn

The most common Bible version used within the Chinese speaking church today is the Chinese Union Version. We can understand some of the problems with its text in Chinese by looking at the HOW and WHY of its existence.

The Chinese Union Version (CUV) was commissioned by the Shanghai Missionary Society in 1890 and published in 1919. What most people don't know is that there was already an excellent Chinese Version of the Bible based on the King James Version that the Presbyterian Mission in Shanghai had already commissioned and was in print and in use by 1880.

So we need to ask a question. Since an excellent Chinese New Testament already existed, thanks to the Presbyterian Mission in Shanghai, why did the Shanghai Missionary Society decide to commission a new translation? What had changed between 1880 and 1890?

Students of the history of the Bible already know the answer: It was in 1881 that the false Greek Text and Revised Version in English by Westcott and Hort was published in England and America.

The Chinese Union Version takes Westcott and Hort's Revised Version in English as its source text, which itself is not based on the King James Version or the Textus Receptus. Despite all the lies and deception to the contrary, Westcott and Hort refused to use the King James Version of the Bible or the Textus Receptus.

The new translation commissioned by the Shanghai Missionary Society was named the "Chinese Union Version" as a reflection of the fact that translators from all the major denominations of the time came together and worked in co-operation with each other in order to produce the finished work. Unfortunately, those "translators" did not use the historic Textus Receptus or King James Bible. They instead used Westcott and Hort's Revised Version in English of the Bible.

The Chinese Union Version has now been available for nearly 80 years and has the longest history of use and the widest distribution for any Chinese translation of the Bible within the Chinese speaking church today. Other contemporary translations of the Bible into Chinese, "Today's Chinese Version" (TCV) and the Bible by Lü Zhen Zhonghas are also based on Westcott and Hort's corrupt Greek Text.

You should know there is no Bible Society on earth that publishes a Chinese version of the Bible that agrees with the King James Version or Textus Receptus.

However, the Kaohsiung Lutheran Mission has recovered the lost 1880/1885 Chinese and English New Testament which is based on the King James Version.

You can freely download the 1880 Version from our website.

Peace,

Pr. JC Smith
Kaohsiung Lutheran Mission - Taiwan
www.lutheranchurch.cn

Pr. John, Kaohsiung,

Westerners like myself don't understand why there is any limitation on how many Bible's a person brings to China. The Great Commission of the Christian faith is to go into all the world and preach the Gospel. As I, and many others travelling to China, don't speak any form of Chinese, that is difficult for me to do in China with my own tongue. However, if I can give Bibles to others, then they can learn for themselves and I am fulfilling the Great Commission.

We in the West don't understand, and in fact have laws against, any form of censorship. While in China to even own a printing press or create your own text you must have government approval and a government stamp on every book to be sold.

I submit to you that religious tolerance is not religious freedom, and religious freeom is what people seek. Bring 1 Bible isn't freedom.

The Bible teaches that the Apostles and Christians met daily to break bread and gather in their homes. These meetings would be declared illegal in China

Jason Roysdon, Modesto, California, Unite States