"Revisions" (short note)

The recent past and continuing today – too many have altered history and all writings to fit their needs! Then others choose to argue over the revisions forgetting all about the original. Thus the Adversary gains the advantage as he is the Father of all Contention (and we could add: hate, confusion, argument, guile, deception, revisions, anger, murder). Here I’ll only address the disagreement of revisions and the lack of any resolution when distracted from the truth.

In the futility of argument – which of course benefits none but those who feel they’ve won the argument whether with flawed rhetoric – the Founding Father’s knew quite well what they wrote and agreed to and in deed signed their names confirming their deaths if captured before the end of hostilities. Since none of us were sitting in the room – one would guess you could hear the Honorable Franklin saying to the Honorable Adams and Jefferson – “Even ten years from now men/women will reinterpret our intentions as to what we meant for their own selfish gain.” Peter in deed wrote such a letter to James about what he’d taught and what had been written about what he taught.

We had men/women (don’t believe these men were not influenced by their wives and sweethearts) who between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution who were trying to follow God’s Law – and believe me there’s enough evidence they knew it quite well. And there was continuity from one document to the next – as several who were at the June-July 1776 meetings were at the Articles of Confederation and also at the Constitutional meetings. (Note: only one was at all four – the Treaty of Paris, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.)

The presentations of the Federalist Papers laid out so any literate person could understand the full intentions. Thus when current scholars decide to interpret what was meant or intended most have a political ax to grind (and do). When the great scholars undertook to revise the Holy Bible they made changes – but when the real efforts began and most would turn to the 1881 Revision – they made 36,000 grammar and word changes – and as of today there are over 120,000 revisions to the Holy Bible since that time – all for further clarity or better to meet individual representations to prove their various points (even the earliest Councils did this – inventing words, meanings and inserting Greek Philosophy where they didn’t know what else to do). As Paul foretold this about the Bible – one would guess many foretold this about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

“Revisions”

cji

7/5/14

Simple stuff to rewrite

especial when long old

authors gone the way

scraps left of originals

casting doubt on intent

changing meanings

pelf to dole out about

circular footnoting done

research sloppily done

only the ghosts about

with strange leanings

illogical reasons to vent

revisions to originals

confusion thus to lay

many souls now sold

simple stuff to rewrite!

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