Author: ShapedByTruth

Who is “father” the modern bibles pray to in Luke 11:2?

KJB rightly prays to

Luke 11:2 KJB And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

The following bibles do not specify, leave out “WHICH ART IN HEAVEN”

• American Standard Version 1901 (ASV)
• Amplified 2015 (AMP-2015)
• Christian Standard Bible 2017 (CSB)
• Common English Bible 2011 (CEB)
• Complete Jewish Bible 1998 (CJB)
• Contemporary English Version 1995 (CEV)
• Darby Bible 1890 (DARBY)
• Disciples Literal New Testament 2011 (DLNT)
• Douay-Rheims 1899 (DRA)
• Easy-to-Read Version 2006 (ERV)
• English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
• Expanded Bible 2011 (EXB)
• God’s Word 1995 (GW)
• Good News Translation 1992 (GNT)
• Holman Christian Standard Bible 2009 (HCSB)
• International Children’s Bible 2015 (ICB)
• International Standard Version 2014 (ISV)
• J.B. Phillips New Testament 1972 (PHILLIPS)
• Lexham English Bible 2012 (LEB)
• The Living Bible 1971 (TLB)
• The Message 2002 (MSG)
• Mounce New Testament 2011 (MOUNCE)
• Names of God Bible 2011 (NOG)
• New American Bible Revised Edition 2010 (NABRE)
• New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB)
• New Century Version 2005 (NCV)
• New English Translation 2006 (NET)
• New International Reader’s Version 2014 (NIRV)
• New International Version 2011 (NIV)
• New Living Translation 2015 (NLT)
• New Revised Standard Version 1989 (NRSV)
• New Testament for Everyone 2011 (NTE)
• Revised Standard Version 1971 (RSV)
• Tree of Life Version 2015 (TLV)
• Wycliffe Bible 2001 (WYC)

What do they all have in common? They are all translated from the Critical Text line of texts which is based on the corrupted Alexandrian family of manuscripts.

The 1611 Authorized Bible or King James Bible is based on the Received Text or Textus Receptus.

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Can you be sure of your salvation?

The King James Bible consistently says ARE SAVED in the following verses:

Eph 2:8 KJB For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God

1 Cor 1:18 KJB For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God

Modern bibles

NASB says ‘have been saved’ in Eph 2:8 but ‘being saved’ in 1Cor 1:18

AMP says ‘are saved’ in Eph 2:8 but ‘being saved’ in 1Cor 1:18

NIV says ‘have been saved’ in Eph 2:8 but ‘being saved’ in 1Cor 1:18

HCSB says ‘are saved’ in Eph 2:8 but ‘being saved’ in 1Cor 1:18

Legends and names referring to a special type of unicorn or mysterious beast with one horn, as opposed to the delicate imaginary unicorns of Europe based on narwhal horns, are scattered across the former range of Elasmotherium from China to Eastern Europe. They have been noted there since the first known literature of the Middle Ages.

However there were (and still are) real existing “Unicorns”!   They are actually of the same family as rhinoceros.

Elasmotherium (“Thin Plate Beast”) is an extinct genus of giant rhinoceros endemic to Eurasia. Three species are recognized. The best known, E. sibiricum was the size of a mammoth and is thought to have borne a large, thick horn on its forehead which was used for defense, attracting mates, driving away competitors, sweeping snow from the grass in winter and digging for water and plant roots. Like all rhinoceroses, elasmotheres were herbivorous. Unlike any others, its high-crowned molars were ever-growing. Its legs were longer than those of other rhinos and were designed for galloping, giving it a horse-like gait.

The KJB translators also knew this was referring to as can be seen in their marginal notes:

In Isaiah 34:7 in the 1611 edition the AV translators wrote two slashes || in front of the word UNICORN. Those slashes are known as a siglum, and the 1611 edition makes use of sigla throughout. In the adjacent margin – directly across from this siglum – the AV translators repeat that same siglum, i.e., they write the same two slashes ||, and then immediately after that they write – “or Rhinocerots“

Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Ps 141:3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Prov 15:1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

James 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Prov 15:4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Ecc 3:7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Mt 15:11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Ps 34:13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Ps 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

Ex 14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Col 4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Jms 1:19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Ps 35:28 And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

Prov 21:23 Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.

Prov 14:7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

Prov 18:3 When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

Deut 17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

Prov 8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

Ecc 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Prov 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

Prov 14:10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

Prov 4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

Prov 16:27 An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

Prov 25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Jms 3:9 Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

Prov 13:1 A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

Prov 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Prov 19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Prov 24:24 He that saith unto the wicked, Thou are righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

Prov 14:23 In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.   [less talk, more action]

Ps 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

Prov 10:22

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Satan invented the first doubting footnotes of God’s words

Genesis 3:1 “…Yea, hath God said…?”

Jeremiah ch. 23 is about false prophets.

Jer 23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord.

The phrase “burden of the Lord” is as if the Lord has put a divinely ordered task (or burden) on the person to relay a message from the Lord.  It is the same as saying “The Lord told me…” or “Thus saith the Lord…”

In Jer.23:32-40 the people, the prophets, or priests would go around using this phrase to lend “divine authority” to what they were saying.

Basically they would go around saying “The Lord told me … ” about anything and everything.

This debases, or lowers the value of God’s words and since it is assigning God’s authority to it, is a form of taking the Lord’s name in vain.

We should not attribute something as “the Lord told me” unless we are absolutely sure it is the Lord giving the utterance and it should never be despised or taken lightly (1 Thess 5:20).

If it is a message from the Lord, then it should not be confusing or contradictory to His written words.

Also, if it is a message from the Lord, it should be taken seriously, revered and obeyed — not treated lightly.

Jesus says:

Mt 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil

Jesus also tells us that we will give an account for every idle word…

Mt 12:36-37 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned