QUESTION: Who were Westcott and Hort?

ANSWER: Two unsaved Bible critics.

EXPLANATION: Brook Foss Westcott (1825-1903) and Fenton John Anthony 
Hort (1828-1892) were two non-Christian Anglican ministers. Fully 
steeped in the Alexandrian philosophy that "there is no perfect 
Bible," they had a vicious distaste for the King James Bible and its 
Antiochian Greek text, the Textus Receptus. [The infidelity of 
Westcott and Hort is well documented in this author's work entitled An 
Understandable History of the Bible, 1987, Bible Believer's Press, 
P.O. Box 1249, Pottstown, PA. 19464]

It cannot be said that they believed that one could attain Heaven by 
either works or faith, since both believed that Heaven existed only in 
the mind of man.

Westcott believed in and attempted to practice a form of Communism 
whose ultimate goal was communal living on college campuses which he 
called a "coenobium."

Both believed it possible to communicate with the dead and made many 
attempts to do just that through a society which they organized and 
entitled "The Ghostly Guild."

Westcott accepted and promoted prayers for the dead. Both were 
admirers of Mary (Westcott going so far as to call his wife Sarah, 
"Mary"), and Hort was an admirer and proponent of Darwin and his 
theory of evolution.

It is obvious to even a casual observer why they were well equipped to 
guide the Revision Committee of 1871-1881 away from God's Antiochian 
text and into the spell of Alexandria.

They had compiled their own Greek text from Alexandrian manuscripts, 
which, though unpublished and inferior to the Textus Receptus, they 
secreted little by littIe to the Revision CommitteeÄthe result being a 
totally new Alexandrian English bible instead of a "revision " of the 
Authorized Version as it was claimed to be.

It has only been in recent years that scholars have examined their 
unbalanced theories concerning manuscript history and admitted that 
their arguements were weak to non-existent.

Sadly, both men died having never known the joy and peace of claiming 
Jesus Christ as their Saviour.

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