Month: December 2016

1 Cor 15:29-30 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.  There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

Most modern bible translations say they are a “thought for thought” translation using terms like “dynamic equivalence”.

This is dependent on the thoughts of the translator.

Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Instead God has promised to preserve His words:

Psalm 12:6-7 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.

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It is little wonder why so many of the modern translations agree with the NWT, they are using the same source texts.

Deut 4:2 – Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Deut 12:32 – What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Prov 30:6 – Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Mark 7:13 – making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Rev 22:19 – and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

How many changes to God’s word does it take to change “essential” doctrine?

Take for example the following verse:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god. (John 1:1 NWT)

This is from the Jehovah Witness’s bible version called the New World Translation (NWT).

The King James Bible says:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1 KJB)

As we can see, the simple addition of a single letter not only replaces monotheism with polytheism, it reduces Jesus (the Word) to “a god” among many gods and changes the understanding of all scripture.

Another example of this is in Daniel 3;24-25, notice the phrase “a son of the gods”.

King Nebuchadnezzar then became frightened and quickly rose up and said to his high officials: “Did we not tie up three men and throw them into the fire?” They answered the king: “Yes, O king.”   He said: “Look! I see four men walking about free in the midst of the fire, and they are unharmed, and the fourth one looks like a son of the gods.” (Daniel 3:24-25 NWT)

The King James Bible says:

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.  He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. (Daniel 3:24-25 KJB)

We see how in the King James Bible, it is THE Son of God (singular), meaning that Jesus was in the furnace with the three faithful men.  Again the New World Translation has reduced Jesus one of many gods.

This is the same lie we find from the very beginning when we see Satan lying to Eve saying “ye shall be as gods”.

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. (Genesis 3:5 KJB)

The NWT has hidden the warning about Satan’s lie about many “gods” by changing this verse to:

For God knows that in the very day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and bad. (Genesis 3:5 NWT)

Notice that the warning against man becoming one of the gods is replaced with “you will be like God”, which was already true and hardly a temptation because they were already “like” God, made in His image and likeness (Gen 1:26-27).  Also, after the resurrection we will be “like Jesus” (1 John 3:2).   This is Satan changing the truth of God into a lie (Romans 1:25).

Most people would agree that the NWT is the corrupted bible of a cult.  However these corruptions of scripture are not limited to the NWT.

New International Version (NIV)
He said, “Look! I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

English Standard Version (ESV)
He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.”

New American Standard Bible (NASB)
He said, “Look! I see four men loosed and walking about in the midst of the fire without harm, and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods!”

Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
He exclaimed, “Look! I see four men, not tied, walking around in the fire unharmed; and the fourth looks like a son of the gods.”

Amplified Bible (AMP)
He answered, “Look! I see four men untied, walking around in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt! And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods!”

Even if all the manuscripts were destroyed, the New Testament text could be reproduced almost entirely from quotations of it in the writings of the early Church leaders. To date, over a million quotations from the New Testament by leaders of the early Church have been cataloged.

The King James Bible reads as:

And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Zach 13:6

The 1982 New King James Bible reads similarly as:

And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds in your hands?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’ Zech 13:6 NKJV 1982

New age translations are continually altering the word of God.  Later editions of NKJV change it to “between your arms” yet still market the updated editions as “1982” ed.   This also confuses a prophecy of the Messiah.

And one will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’ Zech 13:6 NKJV (post 1982)

Jesus said “it IS written” (Matt 4:4)

Ecc 3:14 – I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

Psalm 12:6-7 – 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

Matt 5:18 – For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled

Mark 13:31 – Heaven and earth shall pass away: but My words shall not pass away.

1Peter 1:23-25 – Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.  For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Inspiration without preservation is a divine waste of time.

Psalm 12:6 – The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Proverbs 30:5 – Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him
1Peter 1:23 – Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

John 4:24 – God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth

John 6:63 – It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

1 Cor 2:14 – But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned