Westcott and Hort Speak from the Heart of the Great Apostasy

Just a few quotes to show the apostasy of Westcott and Hort, the fathers of all our modern Bible versions. Quotes from David Cloud's The Modern Bible Version Hall of Shame, Way of Life Literature, 2005:

No need to believe in the Biblical account of the Creation and Fall, just a myth-based "Gospel":

No one now, I suppose, holds that the first three chapters of Genesis give literal history -- I could never understand how any one reading them with open eyes could think they did -- yet they disclose to us a Gospel. So it is probably elsewhere.
-----(WESTCOTT, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1890, cited in Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, Vol II, p. 69) -- Cloud, p. 100.

Even Moses and David are really only mythical beings:

If you feel now that it was, to speak humanly, necessary that the Lord should speak of the 'sun rising,' it was no less necessary that He should use the names 'Moses' and 'David' as his contemporaries used them.
-----(WESTCOTT, same source as above)

No need to believe in a real Eden or a historic Fall of man:

I am inclined to think that no such state as 'Eden' (I mean the popular notion) ever existed, and that Adam's fall in no degree differed from the fall of each of his descendants, as Coleridge justly argues.
-----(WESTCOTT, Life and Letters of Brooke Foss Westcott, Vol. I, p. 78) -- Cloud, p. 101.

Probably we could have done without the Protestant Reformation too:

I have been persuaded for many years that Mary worship and Jesus worship have very much in common in their causes and their results.
-----(HORT to Westcott, 1865, cited in Life of Hort, Vol. II, p. 50) --Cloud, p. 101

The pure Romish view seems to me nearer, and more likely to lead to the truth than the Evangelical.
----- (HORT, cited in Life of Hort, 1848, Vol. I, p. 76) --Cloud, p. 101

Christ didn't really need to die for us either, in fact the very idea is a "heresy":

...the popular doctrine of substitution is an immoral and material counterfeit. ... Certainly nothing could be more unscriptural than the modern limited of Christ' bearing our sins and sufferings to his death; but indeed that is only one aspect of an almost universal heresy.
-----(HORT to Westcott, 1860, cited in Life of Hort, Vol. I, p. 430.) -- Cloud, p. 101

Nothing divine or supernatural about God's word:

In matters of textual criticism the Bible is to be treated like any other ancient book. No special considerations are to be made concerning its claims of inspiration and preservation.
-----(WESTCOTT AND HORT, The New Testament in the Original Greek, Introduction and Appendix, 1881) --Cloud, 102

No need to believe in the virgin birth, the Deity of Christ etc.:

[on John 14:1] The belief is 'in Christ' and not in any propositions about Christ.
-----(WESTCOTT, The Gospel According to St. John, 1881, p. 200). --Cloud, p. 103

There's lots more where I got these. I tried to select the most obvious ones that need no explanation, but Westcott in particular was a master of using orthodox language to mean something very unorthodox when you finally figure out what he's saying. I left those subtler ones out. Many of them are in his commentaries on the Bible. Hate to think how many might read those and miss his camouflaged heresies. Maybe it would be worth going through them and including Cloud's explanations when I'm up to it.