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The ISR is well used and promoted within Hebrew Roots. Lets look as some facts concerning this translation:

What the so called unnamed translators of this ISR "bible" did, was to take a text that was used in the translation of the KJV Bible, and then alter it by inserting other texts in various areas to promote an anti Christian theological bias. This version alters key passages that would demonstrate the Deity of Christ. The late Chris "CJ" Koster was one of the people apparently involved with this project. A perusal of the numerous articles written by Mr. Koster, reveals that he called his messiah YAHshua (he insisted that the Name Jesus was "pagan).

Koster also wrote a book called "Come out of her my people" which is also heavily promoted within HR. In Koster's book, it was stated that all things that Christians believe originated from paganism, including the words Lord, God, Jesus, etc. He did not believe that Jesus was divine, denying His Deity, and therefore denying Him as the Christ. Mr. Koster also taught that the Name of Jesus was the same as zeus, which many HR associates also claim, and are also just as wrong.

One of the distributors for his ISR "bible" listed all of the words that were removed from his "translation" because of their supposed pagan origin.

http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Scriptures/...eathen.htm

I have never heard of the "ISR" bible. What do the letters "ISR" stand for?

(03-24-2009 04:00 PM)LindaR Wrote: [ -> ]I have never heard of the "ISR" bible. What do the letters "ISR" stand for?

Hi Linda,

ISR is Institute for Scripture Research which published their The Scriptures. Many refer to it as the ISR simply to clarify what Scriptures are being discussed. I probably should have clarified that info.

(03-24-2009 04:28 PM)Vic Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-24-2009 04:00 PM)LindaR Wrote: [ -> ]I have never heard of the "ISR" bible. What do the letters "ISR" stand for?

Hi Linda,

ISR is Institute for Scripture Research which published their The Scriptures. Many refer to it as the ISR simply to clarify what Scriptures are being discussed. I probably should have clarified that info.

Thanks Vic! From the description in the OP, it sounds like another "perversion". There are just so many "new" perversions of God's Word being published in these last days. This is just another sign that time is about to wrap up.

Yes, it's one of several in the HR camp. Here's some more information on it.

The ISR uses the Textus Receptus [NT] and the Masoretic text [OT] as it's base text. Those are the same base texts for the King James Version. They then modified those texts as they saw fit, by utilizing the Nestle-Aland texts and Shem Tob.

From Tyndale, discussing the ISR sources: ]"... The Old Covenant is based on the Massoretic Hebrew and Aramaic text, according to the 1937 edition of Kittel's Biblia Hebraica. The New Covenant is based on the Textus Receptus, being modified with the use of such other texts as the Nestle-Aland and Shem Tob, as seemed appropriate. ..." 14 http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Scriptures/SISR.htm

Unfortunately, after use of the corrupted Alexandrian texts as well as Shem Tob Matthew, the ISR inserted their "choice" of sacred names, which compiled into a pseudo "corrupt" KJV version.

The ISR omits the reference to the Messiah's Deity [Theos/God] from 1 Timothy 3:16. They clearly did not follow the Received Text on this and other very definitive passage that illustrates the Deity of The Messiah. For those important verses such as Colossians 2:9, the ISR appears to have switched to the Alexandrian text, which is what the Westcott and Hort, Nestle Aland and other base texts are and which most new Bible translations are based on.

For example, the NIV, which has been used extensively in Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA) documents, for example, such as their Statement of Faith.

Surprisingly, Colossians 2:8-9 is actually not used in relation to the Deity of Christ, in the MJAA statement of faith. The NIV states:

Colossians 2:8-9
8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.
9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,

Colossians 2: 8-9
KJV - Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

LITERAL - Watch that there not be one robbing you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

Here is some more info on the ISR that was compiled into a nice doc The ISR is one of the favorite Bibles in the Messianic HR movement - as popular as the Complete Jewish Bible, I would say.

Quote:Here is an example of how the ISR changes doctrine to fit their personal theology by changing words and meanings that were writtten in the Greek and the Hebrew manuscripts. Keep in mind, that this is only one of the many, but it seriously alters the truth of the Scriptures as given by God Almighty.


Matthew 26:28 ( see also Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20, 1 Corinthians 11:25)

28 “For this is My blood, that of the renewed covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Mark 2
21 “And no one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, otherwise the renewed piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse.

John 13
34 “A renewed command I give to you, that you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

2 Corinthians 3
6 who also made us competent as servants of a renewed covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills but the Spirit gives life.

2 Corinthians 5
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Messiah, he is a renewed creature – the old matters have passed away, see, all matters have become renewed!

Galatians 6
15 For in Messiah יהושע neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but a renewed creature.

Ephesians 2
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity – the Torah of the commands in dogma – so as to create in Himself one renewed man from the two, thus making peace,

Ephesians 4
23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 and that you put on the renewed man which was created according to Elohim, in righteousness and set-apartness of the truth.

Hebrews 9
15 And because of this He is the Mediator of a renewed covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance

The correct word in the passages listed below should be new. By altering the word to renewed, they are promoting that those who keep Torah are still included. If that was the case, there there is no need to preach the Gospel, because all of our Jewish brothers and sisters are already included. This is also presented by others as the “dual covenant” theology. What did Jesus/Yeshua say?

John 3
1 And there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
2 He came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no man can do these miracles which you do unless God is with him.
3 Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Unless a man is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

Now here is where the ISR people really blew it. Hebrews 8:8 quotes Jeremiah 31:31. Looks like they forgot to alter that one.

Hebrews 8
8 For finding fault with them, He says, “See, the days are coming,” says יהוה, “when I shall conclude with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah a renewed covenant,

Jeremiah 31
31 “See, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah

Take a look at the inside cover of your ISR , and try to find the name(s) of the translator(s). You won’t find any because there were no real translators. They took someone elses base text, and then added Hebraic words (YHWH, YHSWA), and then changed words to shift doctrine. In the Hebrew of Jeremiah 31, the word is chadash, and in the context of that verse in the Hebrew, it means new. The Jewish Publication Society translators, who have also done a job on the Hebrew Scriptures while trying to eliminate Messianic prophecies, missed that one. It reads “new” in the JPS TeNaKh as well still.

Here is a final example from the ISR, which makes absolutely no sense at all:

Revelation 21
1 And I saw a renewed heaven and a renewed earth, for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea is no more.

How can you renew what is passed away? Go figure.