The horrible deed has been accomplished, for the most part…the task of persuading people that it is okay to change God’s sacred Word, as long as you do it under the guise of a “new translation”. Many can’t wait for the next one to come out.
2 Peter 1:20-21: God inspired the writing of the Bible, word for word, without any latitude for His men to reflect their private interpretation, and, forbidding any reader to do so: “…no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation” – 2 Peter 1:20. But modern versions of the Bible are just that–interpreting the sacred form of the scriptures, into modern day expressions.
Modern English so called translations of the Bible have numerous, deliberate omissions, deletions, additions, and alterations that limit the Word of God, change the doctrine of Christ, delete his blood and eliminate His deity. Some of the better known translations have hundreds of changes in the New Testament alone. All of this, in spite of the fact that the Bible itself absolutely forbids the changing of the scriptures, adding to, or deleting from!
The arguments in favor of changing God’s Word follow the general lines of deceit used by the serpent in the Garden of Eden, such as: “God didn’t really mean for you not to revise the Bible, etc.” And, “God knows if you do revise the Bible, it will open up a broader range of understanding, thus it is desirable to make one wiser.” And, “The new revisions are good for spiritual food, and pleasant to modern eyes, who otherwise are disinterested in the scriptures.”
But perhaps the most beguiling and seductive argument in favor of the new versions is, “Well, modern man needs a modern version in order to understand God’s Word.” But not only is this an argument in favor of violating the sacredness of God’s written Word, it is also a denial of both the spiritual level and nature of God’s Word, as well as denying the spiritually dead nature of mankind: “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.” 1 Corinthians 2:14 True spiritual light and understanding cannot be, and is not conveyed to spiritually dead mankind through a more modern version of the Bible. Light and understanding comes only from the working of the Holy Spirit, using the Word as He inspired it, to bring about repentance unto the acknowledgement of the Truth.
WAKE UP! Rewritten versions of the Bible are a diversion of the mind of the person from the Word which the Holy Spirit authored and uses to give light and understanding. The original King James Version is the time tested and proven translation of God’s Word into the English language.
SHARING
