China’s Communist Party, a censorious group, is opposed to truth, as well as The Truth.
As a sign of how determined they are in controlling their citizens’ minds, Chi-coms apparently altered the Bible to blaspheme Christ in the Philippines. It also made His message more communist.
Christian outlet Faithwire.com reported on a shocking reinterpretation of Sacred Scripture that the government has proposed for Christians in The Middle Kingdom. Apparently the communist bible contains passages in which Jesus admits that He’s a “sinner” just like everyone else. He also takes it upon Himself to stone an adulterous woman. Although we know He did save her from the stone, He also forgave all her sins and freed her as the Gospel of John reveals.
That’s extreme and horrific blasphemy by any measure.
Faithwire cited evidence provided by an anti-communist, Christian-persecution watchdog organization “The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM).” According to VOM spokesman Todd Nettleton, revising the Bible “is a project that the Chinese Communist Party announced in 2019. At the time, they said it would be about a 10-year process … to release a new translation of the Bible”
A VOM Facebook post explained that “the revisions will include adding ‘core socialist values’ and removing passages that do not reflect communist beliefs.” It also provided a photo of the text of the revised and highly blasphemous version of Christ’s interaction with the adulterous woman, which was put in a Chinese government-approved textbook for school kids in 2020.
Of course, the true version of that story involves Christ’s forgiveness of the woman and challenge to the Pharisees and other Jews of His time to forgo the capital punishment that usually accompanied this type of sin, on account that they’re all guilty of sins in their own right.
We’re all familiar with Christ’s merciful quote found in John, Chapter 8: “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” The admonished crowd disperses, and in His mercy, Christ tells the woman to go and “sin no more.”
It’s a powerful story about God’s forgiveness for any sin, no matter the gravity. Although the Chi-com revision has altered the story, it features an unrevealed version of Christ that is harsh, judgmental, not God. That sounds like perfect propaganda for an regime who wants citizens to believe it is perfect.
The disgusting, bastardized passage reads, “When everyone went out, Jesus stoned the woman himself, and said, ‘I am also a sinner.’” Uh, what? Christ then kills the woman, and calls himself a sinner. He murders the woman and then calls Himself a sinner.
It’s a disgusting revision. Nettleton added, “In one sense, it’s just like so arrogant to think, ‘I’m going to rewrite the story of Jesus’… but then you think about denying the deity of Christ. If Jesus is a sinner, then he’s not God.”
But again, it’s obvious to see that this is about control. If Jesus is God, then He’s a threat to the ambitions of a Chinese government that seeks to be seen as omnipotent. Prayers should be made for Christians living in China that are being subjected to such vile and Satanic propaganda.
This post was last modified on February 17, 2022 4:57 pm
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