China is Rewriting the Bible: The modern form of book burning, information impression through A.I. and control of the internet

Fox News recently reported concerns over China’s recent decision to rewrite the Bible. Christians in the country are worried that the new version of the holy book will be edited to fit the Communist Party’s ideology. The move has been met with criticism from religious leaders and human rights advocates around the world. Many call on China to respect freedom of religion and refrain from altering sacred texts. This caused quite a stir among religious communities, especially those who believed in the traditional interpretation of the holy text. Despite the backlash, China continued with its plans to rewrite the Bible. The new version included certain passages and wording changes and a new introduction and commentary. For instance, in the Gospel of John, Jesus famously confronts the accusers, a woman caught committing adultery, saying, “Let the one among you who is guiltless be the first to throw a stone at her.” The chastened accusers slink away, and Jesus says to the woman, “‘Has no one condemned you?’ ‘No one, sir,’ she replied. ‘Neither do I condemn you,’ said Jesus. ‘Go away, and from this moment sin no more.'” Unless you’re a CCP official. Then it’s a story of a dissident challenging the state’s authority and now ends with Jesus himself stoning the adulterous woman to death. I’m sure this isn’t the first time this has happened in history, where a group that wants to be in power has rewritten history to prop up their place in it. I’m sure the Romans did it when they assembled The Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, which worked to establish a unified understanding of Christian doctrine. No question that they assembled the ancient texts in a way that supported their political power at the time, and that was some of the motivation behind the Quran in the region some 400 years later.

Yet China’s desire to rewrite several religious books, including the Quran, is a consolidation of power to impose their communist ideology upon the world.  It’s a real story; to prove my point, I used an AI program to look up the Fox News article and write an opinion on it.  The response was predictable but was a warning of what was happening worldwide.  The A.I. refused to answer my question, which I show in the picture included.  It’s a real story about a real problem, but the A.I.’s priority is a social message that doesn’t come out divisive, as defined by the communists who programmed the software.  You can imagine an army of mindless writers out there reporting the news, and instead of doing the work the old-fashioned way, they turn to ChatGPT.  Suppose they ask how China is changing religious text. In that case, they won’t learn what the communist party is doing to the Gospel, according to John, where Jesus becomes the killer of an adulteress rather than a redeemer.  Because A.I. is part of rewriting history, people wouldn’t know otherwise if you didn’t know any better.  That’s why I will continue to do things the old-fashioned way even though the A.I. trolls work very hard to keep as few people seeing my work as they can manage, for the same reasons that A.I. gave me that response on this China story.  For those who want to trust the state and its control over opinion and religion, these are apparent justifications for concern because activism is a problem.  The race to capture the message to provide power over the masses by controlling that message is a strategy that is growing in intention.  

I find the Bible an excellent insight into the thinking from 2000 BC to around 900 BC.  Thank goodness the Greeks preserved the ancient Hebrew scrolls.  When I think of the Bible, I think of a book that might have been on the shelf at the Library of Alexandria before the purge by the barbarian hordes of Julius Ceaser, who burnt it down in 48 AD to show their power over the region, to edit out the history in favor of the new administration, which China is doing today.  I am grateful to get what we did get in the Bible because it has survived many years of similar activism.  Even if the Romans interpreted the Bible’s construction to their advantage, at least with the Dead Sea Scrolls, we can cross-reference the original text.  For me, it’s not as crucial that every line of writing in the Bible is true or is the word of God, as much as it gives as authentic insight as possible into what people thought about the state of good and evil during an ancient time.  But over the many thousands of years, there have been a lot of Chinas along the way who have taken some of these old stories and put their spin on them, which we’ll never know about because so much was destroyed in that fire in Alexandria. 

The question here isn’t whether or not China is seeking to censor all forms of communication with a solid submission to the state as its core message.  But they’ve been caught doing it because at least a free media still in America can ask these questions.  But people reading the Bible in China who wouldn’t know any better wouldn’t see the Jesus the rest of us know.  They would read about a guy who picks up a stone and kills a woman who has worked against the state’s rules, and that would be all they would know.  So if you are China, and the media that reports on the efforts of state control who don’t want to have their social credit score turned off and be ostracized from society altogether, their new version of the story of Jesus is of submission, not forgiveness, which then allows them to control their mass population noticeably.  Not the first time for sure, but it’s the clear intentions of China’s goals of world domination and the modern A.I. that wants to help it because their supporters wrote it.  My advice to everyone is not to trust A.I. Don’t trust China.  Don’t trust the World Economic Forum at all.  Be sure to keep old books and not let them trick you into burning them, as most cultures throughout history have done to erase the past so the new power can take control.  That is the move China is making, and they are seeking to erase all influences of the West to advance their state control tyranny everywhere.  Even on TikTok apps, YouTube through Google, and your local banking.  Every part of your life, the movies you see, the music you listen to.  The clothes you buy.  And especially what you believe religiously.  If left to their own devices, they will do to the world what they seek to do to the Bibles their people have access to.  It’s a real danger, and they have been caught doing it.  And the media is already trying to put a wet blanket on the story so that people never learn the truth.  But what is the truth, is it the truth of what China says, that Jesus is a murderer who will kill to support the state?  Or is it that Jesus forgave the adulteress as we all learned from the original text?  What is the original text, when we allow state power to redefine them?  One thing you can know is that state power will always seek to control what you know so they can keep that power, and perhaps grow it.  That’s why Julius Ceaser burnt down the Alexandria Library in the first place.  And why China is trying to do much worse now. 

Rich Hoffman