Palmarian Bible

The Holy Palmarian Bible
Full name	The Sacred History, or, Holy Palmarian Bible According to the Infallible Magisterium of the Church
Abbreviation	SH
Complete Bible published	2001
Textual basis	Latin Vulgate · Septuagint
Translation type	Mystical inspiration Instrumentalism
Copyright	Not sold commercially (freely distributed for all members of the Carmelites of the Holy Face)
Webpage	www.palmarianchurch.org/holy-palmarian-bible/
Genesis 1:1–3 Before Universal Creation, only God One and Three existed, or the Divine Essence in Three distinct Persons; Father, Son and Holy Ghost, since They are one very same Infinite and Eternal Nature, and therefore one selfsame unique God. From all eternity, before anything was created, the name of the Eternal Father was "Ananias", the name of the Son or Divine Word was "Melchisedech" and the name of the Holy Ghost was "Malachias". Before God created anything, the idea of each one of every being possible to create was already in the Divine Mind. This idea, in God, is His very Essence. Outside the Triune God then nothing existed since nothing had yet been created. John 3:16 Not applicable, the Four Gospels (including the Gospel of John) are merged into one single narrative Palmarian Gospel.

The Palmarian Bible is a Catholic Bible and primary religious text of the Palmarian Catholic Church, first published by the Holy See at El Palmar de Troya in 2001 under the title The Sacred History, or, Holy Palmarian Bible According to the Infallible Magisterium of the Church (Spanish: Historia Sagrada o Santa Biblia Palmariana según el Magisterio Infalible de la Iglesia), believed by Palmarian Catholics to be a revelation directly from God (in the person of the Holy Ghost). The Palmarian Church claims that the work is the divinely mandated purification of the Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome. Rather than being a translation based on academic textual criticism it is heavily inspired by the alleged heavenly visions of the Spanish mystic Pope Gregory XVII (born Clemente Domínguez y Gómez), who, as Palmarian Pontiff, claimed to the legitimate Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005.

Following on from the issuing of the Papal encyclical, Divino afflante Spiritu by Pope Pius XII in 1943, within the Catholic Church studies were permitted where academics inspired by biblical criticism were allowed to go back to older sources and re-evaluate the texts of the Bible, moving away from the Latin Vulgate. One of these efforts, inspired by the historical-critical method, the Jerusalem Bible (1966), perceived as a liberal effort, was especially unpopular with Catholic traditionalists and in 1979, was anathematised by the Palmarian Pontiff in favour of the Vulgate.^[1]

Although Pope Gregory XVII had visions relating to sacred scripture since at least 1981, the most direct and specific was one of the Prophet Elias in 1997, who allegedly directed him to begin the project of mystical purification. Within the Palmarian Church, two ecumenical councils took place, which followed on from the Vatican Council (1869–1870); these were the First Palmarian Council (1980–1992) and the Second Palmarian Council (1995–2002). The conclusion of the latter was that various adulterations, simulations and falsifications within the texts, distorting the word of the Triune God and the true history of the people of God, especially in the Old Testament, had taken place at various junctures when the texts were in the possession of the Jewish people.^[2] In the New Testament, the Four Gospels are merged into one single Palmarian Gospel, laying out a single authoritative chronology of Jesus Christ's life.