The Cepher: Scriptures for such a time as this - [1.27.40]

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The Cepher: Scriptures for such a time as this - [1.27.40]

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The world seems to be coming unglued. The things which we have believed don't seem to yield the certain answers we had at our fingertips just a generation ago. The world seems to have gone upside down and topsy turvy. What do we really know about our faith anymore?
There are those who blame our condition on the failure of the pulpit - the failure to identify sin and to call the penitent into repentance. Yet is it more than that? Can a redacted, sixty-six book bible stand up against a world where knowledge is doubling even 10 hours? Where Artificial Intelligence appears to have all the answers to the questions of life?
In the study of the bible, we have found that Western churches today not only use a redacted book from which the Apocrypha has been removed, but also a distorted text which relies mainly on the work of Westcott & Hort and their presentation of the modern pseudepigraphal Codex Sinaiticus married to the hopelessly corrupted Codex Vaticanus as the ultimate text upon which all English versions should be based. The fruit of this tree has manifested in the failure of the pulpit today.
It is the Cepher that has undertaken a massive restoration of scripture in the English language to restore that which was lost. At Cepher Publishing Group, we sought to restore the books that were originally found in the 1539 Coverdale (The Great Bible); the 1560 Geneva Bible; the 1611 King James Bible, and as were subsequently published in the Blaney KJV and the Brown Bible well into the 19th century. We noted, however, that at the time these books were published, the Dead Sea Scrolls had yet to be discovered.
Our review of the Dead Sea Scrolls made it clear that both the books of Jubilees and Enoch were taken as important texts, given that multiple copies of each were found within the fragments. We discovered that in the Ethiopian, Eritrean and Assyriac traditions, these texts were always included as scripture. Upon this review we concluded that other texts should be incorporated within a single binding to provide the reader with those texts being read by the writers of the New Testament.
As a result, we compiled the Cepher for the first time in 2012, and it has become that set of Scripture for such a time as this! Join me tonight as we discuss this very important work.