In a recent news report this week it was announced that the CCP or Chinese Communist Party has recently printed a translation of the Bible in Mandarin Chinese but they changed some of the verses. We all know that there is no real religion allowed in the dictatorship of China. But they do allow a Chinese-run version of the Catholic Church there. How do they reconcile these two opposing philosophies?
Since the days of Mao Zedong’s revolution in China in the last century, almost 80 years ago, the state was placed upon the pedestal as the new deity. No other idol or icon was allowed and all religion was banned basically.
Nevertheless, about 12 million Chinese are today practicing as Catholics. The curious paradox is that some of them are following state run Catholicism and others follow more secretly the Pope as ultimate head of their religious lives on earth.
Unfortunately the latter have to practice underground for fear of their lives and right to worship as they wish. Somehow, I can not imagine how, the Vatican has recently come to an agreement with the CCP to allow China to appoint its own bishops, as well as the Pope confirming them. It’s like a double standard, or someone turning a blind eye in regard to the leadership of the Catholic Church in China.
The CCP would rather control the opposition. They even plan to bring out their own Dalai Lama as spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism. It seems like a joke to us, but that is their genius. Don’t ban the old gods, just usurp them. It has been done for centuries already throughout history.
In this way the CCP has controlled every aspect of the lives of their people, always streamlining all levers of control toward themselves. And now they have actually rewritten the Bible to suit their own ideology as a Communist philosophy, run by the state as final head.
The verse that they now have in their Mandarin translation of the Bible says:
“Jesus stoned the woman to death, saying: ‘I too am a sinner. But if the law could only be executed by men without blemish, the law would be dead’”.
Jesus picked up a stone and threw it at the woman, helping to kill her basically, according to the Chinese version of the Bible story.
Practicing Christians may recognize the new translation as being quite different from the original. It makes out as if Jesus called himself a sinner. It also places the law as the final arbiter and the fact that even if the leader is impure, they can still execute the law, which is the ultimate head of everything. And the state makes the law.
This has been approved by the Chinese education ministry, so that this can be taught to the youth already as the gospel of the Bible. This kind of thing has occurred hundreds of years ago among the early Catholic fathers or patriarchs in around the fourth century AD. There at the Council of Nicea, the early church fathers decided which books of the gospel to keep and which to exclude when finalizing the doctrine of Catholicism.
In other words there were numerous other texts available back in those days, like the Gospels of Thomas and Enoch, that are excluded from the final Bible since that date. It seems like political leaders in their time like to edit and redesign the doctrine of the masses to suit their personal power.
Politicians use the myth or religion of the day to keep their control over the masses. Even before Catholicism existed, their were pagan religions that were usurped when the new dogma of Christianity arrived in Europe. The new church simply took the old pagan festival days and imposed their new religious dates on top of the old.
Yet, what the CCP is doing in China now does seem a bit more rude or corrupt, but then I am not the one to say as I know very little about all of it. I have only heard brief reports and read some stories. As to what really happened in the past – it is usually the victors who rewrite the histories, sometimes eradicating the old history so as to force the people to forget their own legacy and their own roots.
This is how the elite or the state disempower the masses, steal their ancestral wisdom and knowledge in order to control them all the more. So China is not banning Catholicism outright but is simply taking it over and rewriting it to make the state as powerful as the deity of that religion. Is is a dark and sinister plot that keeps the masses in the dark.
And we are all kept in the dark to a certain degree regarding what is really going on. We get bits and pieces from our past history, that is much richer than we even know about today. Let’s focus on preserving what we have as well as tapping in to our ancient ancestral legacy and potentials. If nothing, it is within us all, in our very DNA, like a library awaiting unlocking when we are ready.
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