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Which Bible
is the Word of God?
Which bible is the
word of God?
There
are a multitude of so-called "Bibles" on the market today. They all seem to
claim to be "easier than the others to understand." But it does not take long to
see that that is not the real issue out there. The NIV takes the word "blood"
out of Colossians 1:14, "In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the
forgiveness of sins." Now who does not understand the word "blood?" The
real truth is that there is another motive out there for the multitude of Bible
translations.
I Timothy 6:10 gives one motive. "For THE LOVE OF MONEY is the
root of all evil: which WHILE SOME COVETED AFTER, THEY HAVE ERRED FROM THE FAITH, and
pierced themselves through with many sorrows." This motive is from man. He loves
money. But there is not a lot of money in printing the King James Bible, because it is not
copyrighted, so anyone can freely print it. So to get more money, they support a new Bible
translation — one to which they hold the copyright, and thus be the exclusive
printers, or at least receive a royalty charge, if they allow others to print it.
I Corinthians 14:33 gives another motive, "For GOD IS NOT THE
AUTHOR OF CONFUSION, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." Have you ever
been in a church, and had a hard time following the preacher or Sunday School teacher as
they read the Scripture? Because they were reading out of another translation? There is
nothing but mass confusion out there right now in many churches. Why? Because few seem to
really know what is happening before our eyes. This motive is Satan’s.
What is happening? The same thing as in the Garden of Eden. Genesis
3:1-5 says, "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the
LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, YEA, HATH GOD SAID, Ye shall not eat of
every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden,
God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the
serpent said unto the woman, YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE: For God doth know that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and
evil."
Notice what Satan does first, he "questions" whether Adam and
Eve really had the truth: "YEA, HATH GOD SAID...?" "Has God really said
this...?" "Did God really mean this...?" The first thing that Satan used
against Adam and Eve, was TO CAST DOUBT UPON WHAT GOD REALLY SAID. That is exactly what
many preachers have knowingly and unknowingly done. They have stood up and criticized the
King James Bible based upon a faulty Greek manuscript compiled by two unbelievers named
Westcott and Hort. They have thus stood in their pulpits and preached to their people,
"This verse would better be rendered...", and "In the best manuscripts,
this verse is omitted... or says..." They have been tools in Satan’s hands to
get people doubting whether they have God’s Word. Satan caused Eve to
"doubt" what God really said at first, then he flat out "denied" what
God had said, "YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE." Preachers have done that very thing
when they say, "This verse is not in the best manuscripts..." They have flat out
denied what God has written.
So it
has been a few decades now of casting doubt from the pulpits as to what God has really
said, and that has made fertile soil in the pews to accept anything new that comes out
that seems to have "the latest, most up-to-date corrections from manuscript
evidence." Who is at fault? Preachers and people in the pews. Preachers, for getting
people to doubt God’s Word, just to make themselves look more wise and intelligent;
and people, for not rejecting such false teaching, and for buying up all these false
translations.
Please see the Gospel Tract on this same Web Site called,
"HIV—NIV." Once again, there was no reason to remove the word
"blood" out of Colossians 1:14 in the NIV. And yet, how many thousands and
thousands of professing Christians get mad when you dare to say that the NIV is not the
Word of God? If you let "man" tell you that one word needs to be removed from
the Bible, then you will let man tell you that "two words" need to be removed
the next time that it is "updated." How can you have "new and improved
truth?" How can you improve upon something that is pure and without error? You
cannot. If you change truth, you do not "improve" it — you
"corrupt" it. That is exactly what has been done with all of these Bible
translations.
When people ask me how to know what Bible is the real Word of God, I
simply take them to Psalms 12:6,7, which says, "The words of the LORD are PURE WORDS:
as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. THOU SHALT KEEP THEM, O LORD,
THOU SHALT PRESERVE THEM FROM THIS GENERATION FOR EVER." God says that His Word is as
pure as the purest silver, and that He is going to preserve it that way for every
generation. There is only one group out there that believes that God has fulfilled that
promise, and that is the group that believes that the King James Bible is the pure Word of
God without error.
Ask any preacher who has the NIV if he thinks that the
"Bible" he holds in his hand is perfect and without one error, and he will
reply, "No one has such a Bible." He will not believe that any one has a Bible
that is perfect. He believes that God has preserved His Word "somewhere" out
there in the multitude of manuscripts, but he will not know "where" it is.
God promised that He would preserve His Word pure for every generation.
But man’s theory today makes it "impure" by being scattered all over in
versions and translations and manuscripts that contain errors. So it is not really that
hard at all to know which is the true Bible without error. It is the King James Bible. For
more study on this subject, visit the following Web Site,
"http://wayoflife.org/~dcloud/fbns/versfbns.htm".
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