Israelite Church Plans to Change the Bible!
Abu Khamr al-Murtad
official site of the Israelite Church of God and Jesus Christ (ICGJC):
http://www.theholyconceptionunit.org/main/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=943#3466
The paragraph of the post which is most relevant to this discussion is
the following:
"The Apostles & Chief High Priests are going to write the entire Bible
in Ancient Hebrew, and everything will be written correctly. These fake
Jews got ahold of the Hebrew and added all kinds of vowels that
shouldn't be in there like e, i, o, and u, the letter v, and also they
influenced it with Russian, German, and Arabic, that's where this
Yiddish that they speak comes from. And along with that, they
completely messed up the proper conjugation of Hebrew words."
In short, this group has started taking issue with the Hebrew text of
the Old Testament. It used to be that they rejected any translation
which was in conflict with their favorite translation: the King James
Version. However, their KJV-only approach has become so extreme, that
now they're even going to reject the Hebrew text of the Bible because
of their inability to square it with the KJV (or at least their
interpretations of the KJV!).
I think their aversion to the Hebrew text (or at least the aversion of
specifically the author of the post to the Hebrew text) began with a
discussion between myself and that poster:
http://www.afrochat.net/forums/showthread.php?t=3962
[NOTE: in the link to the post in the ICGJC forum, the poster employs
the name NapashAhmath, while in the link immediately above he employs
the name IsraeliteSouljah.]
The discussion was on mistranslated verses in the King James Version,
and when the person tried to speak on the Hebrew in Deuteronomy 28:68,
it quickly became apparent that he had no idea what he was talking
about. The person did not understand how the verb relevant to that
verse was conjugate, and now it seems this person (and apparently
people higher up in his church!) have concluded that the conjugation of
Hebrew verbs in the Bible are messed up!
The truth of the matter is that I have never encountered a person from
this Church that actually understands Biblical Hebrew. What they have
tried to pass off as "Lashawan Qadash" seemed to obviously be Modern
Israeli Hebrew without the vowels. In other words, while their
pronunciation was different, the grammar of what they claim to be
"Lashawan Qadash" was the same as Modern Israeli Hebrew (e.g. they seem
to have no concept of the waw-conversive, they speak of "past tense,
future tense, present tense," when really Biblical Hebrew is closer to
Arabic in having perfect tense, imperfect tense, and participles).
Furthermore, I have never seen a person who endorses "Lashawan Qadash"
show any familiarity with the different verb stems of Hebrew (both
Biblical Hebrew and Modern Israeli Hebrew), and the discussion linked
to above revealed that the relevant poster was certainly ignorant of
the fact that Hebrew has different verb stems (a concept alien to a
person who only knows English, or knows no Semitic languages).
But the point is, struggling with their unfamiliarity with Hebrew, and
their inability to square their interpretations of the KJV with the
Hebrew text, it seems now they are going to simply make an attempt at
writing their own Bible (and if they ever pull that off, you can be
sure they'll claim their new version is actually the "original").
Post Script: This group has been known to delete posts from their forum
to hide things they consider embarrassing, so, just in case, I have
saved the text (and a screen shot) of the post here: