FEBC's evil trinity

Three wicked individuals make up this wicked trinity: Jet Fry Cool, Quak Swan You, Prubu-Ass.

Imagine these three evil figures standing before the warehouse of God’s Word — shelves of Greek, Syriac, Coptic, Latin, Armenian, and Georgian manuscripts, each copied by weary hands that loved Christ. These three men raise torches, they want to destroy and burn a large amount of these manuscripts, and declare, “Only one narrow stream is pure; the rest are devil’s work.”

Such a declaration is not zeal for truth. It is arrogance that forgets how God works through history, not in spite of it. It is a sin of presumption — the same spiritual disease that afflicted Haman, who sought to destroy what he did not control.

A prophetic rebuke

1. Against their pride — Romans 11:20–21

“Do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.”

The manuscripts of Scripture are branches of the same tree of faith. To cut off all but one is to presume mastery over God’s providence. It is to declare that His Word lives only where you approve.

2. Against their false witness — Proverbs 14:25

“A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies.”

To call thousands of ancient copies “devilish” is bearing false witness against generations of believers who risked their lives to preserve them — monks, scribes, and martyrs who copied the Word under persecution.

3. Against their violence toward the Word — Jeremiah 36:23–24

When King Jehoiakim cut up Jeremiah’s scroll and burned it, “yet they were not afraid.” The Lord answered by commanding the prophet to rewrite it again.

Those who burn manuscripts stand with Jehoiakim, not Jeremiah. God’s Word does not perish in their flames. It rises again in the next copy, the next translation, the next generation’s heart.

4. Against their sectarian spirit — 1 Corinthians 1:12–13

“I am of Paul,” “I am of Apollos,” “I am of Cephas”… “Is Christ divided?”

When they say, “I am of the Textus Receptus, and all others are of the devil,” they repeat the sin of Corinth — dividing Christ’s body over allegiance to men rather than to the living Word.

5. Against their contempt for providence — Psalm 12:6–7

“The words of the Lord are pure words… Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”

Preservation is God’s act, not man’s. To burn manuscripts in His name is to tell the Preserver of Scripture that He failed.

6. Against their hatred of knowledge — Proverbs 1:22

“How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?”

True faith does not fear evidence. The same Spirit that inspired the Word can withstand the light of study. Those who destroy manuscripts prove they fear truth, not that they defend it.

A theological rebuke

Every Greek manuscript — Alexandrian, Byzantine, Western — bears witness to one truth: Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh. (John 1:14).

Each variation of wording is the testimony of a scribe who loved that Word enough to copy it by hand before printing presses existed. To destroy them is to erase part of the Church’s memory, to burn her family photos, to silence her grandfathers in the faith.

When men decide that God can speak only through their favorite textual stream, they shrink the Holy Spirit into a local idol. They confuse their tradition with God’s revelation. That is blasphemy in the language of scholarship.

A closing rebuke in the spirit of Mordecai

As Mordecai said to Esther concerning Haman (Esther 4:14):

“If you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish.”

So too, if these destroyers silence one witness, the Lord will raise up another. His Word cannot be chained (2 Timothy 2:9). The ashes of burned manuscripts will bear silent witness against them — that they tried to destroy what the Spirit preserved.

Therefore, repent.

Turn from the sin of presumption. Put down the torch.

For the Word of God is “not bound” (2 Tim 2:9), “living and active” (Heb 4:12), and no human faction can declare which manuscripts are “God’s” and which are “trash.”

To love the Word is to guard all its witnesses, not burn them.