the first fact we need to understand: god is perfect i. god is perfect god was perfect. god will be...

The First FACT We NEED To Understand:

I. GOD IS PERFECTGod Was perfect.

God Will be perfect.If God at anytime failed in being perfect, then He was

never perfect to begin with! Perfect cannot fail.

The Second FACT We NEED To Understand Is:

II. GOD IS POWERFUL God Can do Anything

Except:

A. GOD CANNOT LIE:

B. GOD CANNOT CHANGE:

Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God,that cannot lie, promised before

the world began;

Malachi 3:6For I Am the LORD, I change not; ....

C. GOD CANNOT LET ANYBODY

INTO HEAVEN UNLESS THEY ARE BORN

AGAIN!

John 3:3...Except a man be born again,he cannot see the kingdom of

God.

The Third FACT We NEED To Understand Is:

III. GOD WANTS MAN TO KNOW HIM

God wants us to remember what He

didin the past. God wants what is

necessaryin order for our lives to be a

blessing to Him,to others, and joyful for ourselves.

The Fourth FACT We NEED To Understand Is:

IV. GOD IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BIBLE

Moses was the first TRANSCRIBER God used to give us the Bible. He

used Moses (like you use a pen) to write the first 5 books of the Bible.

God had Moses write exactly what God told Him to write.

The Apostle John was the Last transcriber God used in the Bible. God used all the writers (around 40 of them) like you use a pen.

God had them writeEXACTLY WHAT HE TOLD THEM

TO WRITE.

The Fourth FACT We NEED To Understand Is:

The Fifth FACT We NEED To Understand Is:

V. THERE WERE THREE LANGUAGES

IN THE ORIGINAL SCRIPTURES:

C. Greek:

B. Aramaic:

A. Hebre

w:

The Sixth FACT We NEEDTo Understand Is:

VI. GOD WANTS US TO HAVE AND TO USE THOSE SAME

WORDS TODAYExactly the same Words

He gave from the time of Mosesto the time of John.

Galatians 1:7...there be some that

trouble you, and would pervert

the gospel of Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:17For we are not as

many,which corrupt

the word of God: ....

God WARNED and INSTRUCTED:

Psalm 12:6The words of the LORD are pure

words:Proverbs 30:5Every word of God is pure:

Exodus 20:1And God spake all these words, ...

It was NOT just the thoughts or ideas,

it was the EXACT WORDS


Deuteronomy 4:10 …the LORD said unto me, Gather Me the people together, and I will make them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach

their children.


Deuteronomy 11:18Therefore shall ye lay up these My

words in your heart and in your soul,

18:18 I will raise them up a Prophetfrom among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put My words in his

mouth;and he shall speak unto them all

that I shall command him.


God WARNED and INSTRUCTED:Isaiah 59:21

… My words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of

thymouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy

seed’s seed,saith the LORD,from henceforth

and for ever.

Matthew 4:4...Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of

God.


If God expects us to pass His Words down through the ages,

and enoughof His Words for everybody to

have(ample bread provision)He must first Provide it,

then Protect it, then Preserve it.


Proverbs1:23 I will make known My word unto you. 2:1 …receive My word,

4:4 …retain My word:4:20 …attend to My word;

7:1 …keep My word,

John 6:63…the words that I speak unto you,they are spirit, and they are life.


John 17:8For I have given unto them

the words which Thou gavest Me;...


Psalm 19:7The law of the LORD is perfect,

converting the soul:the testimony of the LORD is sure,

making wise the simple.

Deuteronomy 4:2Ye shall not add unto the word

whichI command you, neither shall ye

diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the

LORD your God which I command you.


Proverbs 30:5-65 Every word of God is pure:

He is a shield unto them that puttheir trust in Him. 6 Add thou

not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found

a liar.


Revelation 22:19And 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.


In Review:God gave His Word,

God Protects His Word,God Preserves His Word.

We need His Word.He promised to give His Word that it

wouldbe in supply like bread.

The next logical question is-WHERE & HOW DID GOD PRESERVE

HIS WORD?Did He leave it for man alone to take

care of and preserve or is He orchestrating in that task?

OBVIOUS ANSWER: He is Helping!

I. FIRST, GOD INSTITUTED SCRIBES

A scribes sacred duty was to copy the Scriptures. They took meticulous effort

in it.If they made one mistake, they would

destroythe whole manuscript. When they

cameto God’s name, they would throw awaythe “pen”, take a bath, come back and write the name, throw the “pen” away,

take a bath,and start again. Very meticulous. God

hadthe prophets & scribes write it

perfectly,He had the scribes ultimately copy it

perfectly.

When the older copies showed signs of wear, due to its heavy usage, The scribes would destroy the original to

prevent copyist errors.There would be many copies made

from one,so the Words of God grew and spread

justas God commanded them to do,

and promised it would.Today the original’s do not exist – God did not say He would preserve

the scrolls, He did sayHe would preserve the Words. God did not want us to worship a relic! There

are Millions of perfectly matching copies all over the world.

II. SECONDLY, GOD CAN GIVE A TRANSLATION AND OVERSEE

THATIT IS ALSO CORRECT WITHOUT

ERROR!Acts 2:8-11

8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? ... 11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Then Why Are There So Many “Bibles” That

Read So Differently?

Some are becauseof false

prophets.

SOME WERE CHANGED BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T LIKE WHAT THE

BIBLE TAUGHT:

1 Timothy 3:2 A bishop [Pastor]

then must be blameless,

the husband of one wife,...;

MANY BECAUSE THEY USED THE WRONG “ORIGINAL” TEXT IN

THEIR TRANSLATIONMany are not translated

wrong,The problem is

the they are translated

from a text that is clearly

messed up!

Only ONE can be RIGHT if others say different things! One

perfect, the others messed up. There are only really two sidews to choose from: The One Right

Text And the Other Wrong Texts, the text that we will see clearly proven right one is the

one the King James Bible is translated from:

If there is a God, there HAS to be a perfect text

HOW DOI KNOW WHICH

IS RIGHT?

GOD’S WORDFirst Written

Down

The Translation Truth

Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

GOD’S WORDFirst Written

Down


Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

Perfect Copies

Few Discarded

ErrorsFew Intentional

Errors

70 AD: Few “Original” Bible Copies

2010 AD: Many perfect “Original” Bible Copies-

Big Spike After the Printing Press!

GOD’S WORD

Written Down


Corrupted Copy Corrupted

CopyCorrupted Copy

Corrupted Copy

Corrupted Copy

GOD’S WORD

Written Down



2012 AD: Many perfect “Original” Bible Copies-

Big Spike After the Printing Press!


CopyCorrupted Copy

Corrupted Copy

Corrupted Copy

GOD’S WORD

Written Down

The Translation Trap


Late 1800’s AD: Textual Criticism = Treating the Bible like any other Book. False assumption, oldest dated = best


CopyCorrupted Copy

Corrupted Copy

Corrupted Copy

GOD’S WORD

Written Down



“Scholars” Westcott & Hort (last names) “find out” about two manuscripts that

date older than any others.


CopyCorrupted Copy

Corrupted Copy

Corrupted Copy

GOD’S WORD

Written Down



Multitudes of “newer” matchingfew older non-matching

Multitudes of Corrupted Copies

FALSE CONCLUSION

Best CopyBetter Copy

Okay CopyOkay Copy

Okay Copy

Okay Copy

Older Are Better: Closer to the Originals

GOD’S WORDWritten Down



Multitudes of Good Biscuit Copies

Ellie Mae’sEllie Mae’s

Ellie Mae’s Ellile Mae’s

Ellie Mae’s

Newer Are Better: Copies the Original

GRANNIE’S BISCUIT

Eaten Down


70 AD: Few “Original” Biscuits

GOD’S WORD

Written Down


The only English translated Bible today

from the large Majority of original language

Bibles is the King James Version.Almost All the other modern Bibles

are fromthe fewer “older” manuscripts that

don’t even match each other in what they say! There are

a few that are paraphrases of the KJV,but they are not a translation, and

error filled.

The Translation TrapIn the publication THE BAPTIST

BULLETIN, Aug/Sept issue, there is an article that was first

published in the same paper in 1981. The article entitled THE

HOLE AND THE HEWING: OUR HERITAGE, was written by then

Pastor Paul Tassell.This article states:


“The issue of the day is not which versionof the Bible is best. The issue in

Christendom todayis the inerrancy of the Bible as originally

written.The battle is not over translations, not over the virtues of versions; the battle, ... , is for

the Bible itself. The integrity of the Bible demands its

inerrancy.The infallibility of the Bible demands its

inerrancy.The verbal, plenary inspiration of the Bible demands its inerrancy. Failure to hold to

the inerrancy ofthe Bible has ruined once great

denominations.”

“The issue of the day is not which versionof the Bible is best. The issue in

Christendom todayis the inerrancy of the Bible as originally

written.The battle is not over translations, not over the virtues of versions; the battle, ... , is for

the Bible itself. The integrity of the Bible demands its

inerrancy.The infallibility of the Bible demands its

inerrancy.The verbal, plenary inspiration of the Bible demands its inerrancy. Failure to hold to

the inerrancy ofthe Bible has ruined once great

denominations.”


Truth

Baited Trap

The Translation TrapThere is one MAJOR error in this

statement and it is illustrated in the following experience from a Pastor’s New Convert’s Sunday School class : The church’s Pastor starts to discuss

the inerrancy of the Bible, then one of the new converts raises his hand and

asks, “That just applies to the original doesn’t it?” The Pastor’s response was a hearty, “YES.” Then he continued on to the next point in his lesson. Could

this be true? Is only the original perfect?


This is a valid question consideringthe proliferation of the various

versionsnow on the market.

May we consider some very validquestions concerning these remarks

in getting to the truth:

1. WHERE ARE THE “ORIGINALS?”Those penned by Moses of Genesis, to

Revelation penned by John? They are gone. Nobody disputes

this fact at all. All we have left is copies.2. IF ONLY THE ORIGINALS ARE

ERROR FREE, why do we bother on translations at all when

we can learn the original languages for the Word of God that has less errors than the

translations?3.IF NO “TRANSLATION” OR “COPIES”

ARE ERROR FREE,how can we base church doctrines on them,

and how can we know which verses have errors and which do not?

Many people do not know the facts of the issue and thus are truly ignorant about the importance of this issue regarding Bible

versions. Ignorance is not the mainproblem in Christianity today (everybody is ignorant in life

to some degree), the problem is the one that

knows the truth and has chosen to reject it. Most

people assume that the “scholars” who

presented the new works are reliable and thatthey have done it in sincerity and honesty.

However, God’s Word instructs us to:1 Thessalonians 5:21

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

We are also instructed in Romans 12:2:And be ye not conformed to this world: but beye transformed by the renewing of your mind,

that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

In other words--VERSIONS DO MATTER! New converts are told to rely upon God’s Word, but then they are told that each English version & original language copies contain errors! Why

are they not told by these same people to learn the “original” Greek, Hebrew & Aramaic language if only it is closest to the originals?

What will the new converts think when they do start comparing versions and then find so many profound differences (the following

questions and their verse answers aptly illustrate this dilemma)?:

Translation Evidence

Was JESUS’ FATHER JOSEPH or GOD& Was Mary a VIRGIN?

Luke 2:33KJV: And Joseph and His mother marvelled...

NIV: The Child’s father and mother marvelled...

RSV: And His father and mother marvelled...What is GOD’S STANDARD on

SEPARATION?1 Thessalonians 5:22

KJV: Abstain from all appearance of evil.NKJV & RSV: Abstain from every form of evil.

NIV: Avoid every kind of evil.


How Are We To HANDLE GOD’S WORD? 2 Corinthians 2:17

KJV: For we are not as many,which corrupt the Word of God:

NKJV: For we are not, as so many,peddling the Word of God;

NIV: Unlike so many, we do not peddle the Word of God;

RSV: For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s Word;

(Here’s another good question to go with these verses, Which ones have the copyrights on

them for peddling sake? – All but the King James Bible)

Translation EvidenceWhat Does The Bible Teach About The

TRINITY1 John 5:7

KJV: ...that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are

one.ASV: And the Spirit is the witness, because the

Spirit is the truth.NIV: For there are three that testify:

1 John 3:16KJV: Hereby perceive we the love of God, because

He laid down His life for us:NIV: This is how we know what love is:Jesus Christ laid down His life for us...

RSV: By this we know love, that He laid down His life for us;...

NKJV: By this we know love, because He laiddown His life for us. ...

Translation EvidenceHow Do We TREAT Those With FALSE DOCTRINE?

2 John 10-11KJV: If there come any unto you, and bring not this

doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For He that biddeth him God

speedis partaker in his evil deeds.

NKJV: If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine,

do not receive him into your house nor greet him;for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.

NIV: If anyone come to you and does not bring this teaching,

do not take him into your house nor welcome him; for he who welcomes him shares his wicked work.

RSV: If any one come to you and does not bring this teaching,

do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting;

for he who greets him shares his wicked work.


How DO WE EXPLAIN MISSING VERSES?

In the ASV & NIV in particular are many verses

that have been left out! Example: Acts 8:37!

You can now clearly see the confusion a new convert (or an old one) will be under when comparing what different “Bibles” say for the same verse. For hundreds of

years believers have memorized and based doctrine on these verses that he

“scholars” say no longer belong!

Translation EvidenceBACK TO THE QUESTION

God did not say He would ONLY preserve His Word

error free in the “original” languages.If this were so Jesus and the other disciples

wouldhave been in error when they spoke to the

people God’s Word in the languages of their lands in Acts 2 during

the day of Pentecost. They would have only been able

to give an imperfect translation at best, not God’s perfect Word. Our LORD PROVED He

would preserveit error free in other languages when He

allowedthe people in Acts 2 to hear His Word in their own languages. Did the Holy Spirit lead and

guide themin the speaking of those languages? YES!

Translation EvidenceTEXTUS RECEPTUS

(Received Text, Majority Test):The Greek manuscript usedin the translation of the KJV

New Testament. The Old Testament original language manuscripts (called the Mazaretic) are not criticized like those of the New Testament (Since

most agree on the same ones, and yet there are many changes in the other

versions in the Old Testament).


The Textus Receptus was the prevalent text available before and during the KJV era; today 995 out of

every 1,000 existing old Greek manuscripts match the Textus Receptus. As a result of their

copies down through the years there are also millions of copies

matching this old text. This is the text that was the cause of many

Christian martyr deaths during the dark ages.

Translation EvidenceBible believers were put to death for

theirfaith in the Bible and this was the text

usedby those BIBLE BELIEVERS and others

untilthe translations from the “newly

discovered older texts” showed up in 1880’s. Was God sleeping during the preceding 1,800 years letting His word be totally hid for all that time? No, God was not! He had promised His Word,and He had promised to protect and

preserveHis word - with enough quantity that it

wouldbe compared to bread in number.

Translation EvidenceTHE OTHER 5% OF GREEK LANGUAGE

MANUSCRIPTS: (Westcott & Hort Text, Nestles Text, Scrivener

Text & others)The two oldest and most used are from a very obvious bad source: One of these

Greek manuscripts is called the VATICANUS. It is kept in the Vatican in

Rome. No one outside of the high priesthood of this church had any

continual access to this manuscript. The other Greek manuscript is called the

SINAITICUS. This one was “discovered” in a monastery dump heap, “rescued” just

before the Monks threw it into an incinerator.


The Catholic Church controls these manuscripts. This means that all the translations from these are essentially

Roman Catholic Bibles. The Roman Catholic Church has a doctrine that

says that theBible is for the priests, the common

man cannot understand it, and should not

have access to it.


This same church had a council called the COUNCIL OF TRENT (1545-1563).

In this council they took Bible Believing doctrines and CONDEMNED

THE FOLLOWING ONES AS BEING HERETICAL (In other words they did

not believe the following, and said those that

do are Godless heretics), after we read them,

ask yourself, is this the church and manuscripts that I want as the basis

of my Bible?:


a. Those that believe That the Holy Scriptures contained all

things necessaryfor salvation, and that it was

impiousto place apostolic tradition at

levelwith Scripture, were heretics.

(In other words, they said what thechurch leaders teach is more

importantthan what the Bible teaches!);

They also decided :


b. Those that believe That certain

books accepted as God’s Word in the

Catholic Latin version were apocryphal

and not bible; are heretics(They say the books written between

theNew and Old Testaments are Bible

Books).


c. Those that believe that Scripture

could be studied in the original languages, and that the Catholic

Latin versionhad errors; are heretics.

They also decided that those that believed:


d. Those that believe that the meaning

of Scripture is plain, and that it can be understood without

commentary withthe help of Christ’s Spirit; are

heretics.(They believe that only the priestscan interpret scripture and only

they should have it).


Do you want these people teaching

in your Baptist Church? That is exactly what is happening when we use their “Bibles.” Let us look at the men who were behind the

new versions:


These two men were the leaders in manipulating this change in manuscripts.

Brooke Foss Westcott (1852-1901), and Fenton Anthony Hort (1825-1892).

Both were professors in CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, England. This university still is a major printer of Bibles today.

While reading the following letter excerpts written by these men, ask

yourself,Would I ALLOW these men to TEACH my CHILDREN, in my CHURCH, or in my HOME?

Dr. Hort writing toRev. Roland Williams,Oct. 21, 1858,

“Evangelicals seem to me perverted rather than untrue. There are, I fear, still more serious differences between us on the subject of authority, and especially

the authority of the Bible.”(The evangelicals at that time were the Bible Believers that stood only on the Bible as their

authority.)

Dr. Hort writing to Dr. Westcott,Oct. 17, 1865,

“I have been persuaded for many years that

Mary-worship and Jesus worship have very

much in common in their cause and results.”

Dr. Hort writing to Rev. John Ellerton,April 3, 1860,

“But the book which has most engaged me is Darwin. Whatever may be

thought of it, it is a book that one is proud to be contemporary with... My feeling is strong that the theory is

unanswerable. If so, it opens up a new period.”

Dr. Hort writing to Dr. Westcott,Oct. 15, 1860,

“Certainly nothing could be more unscriptural that the modern limiting of

Christ’s bearing our sins and sufferings to his death; but indeed that is

only one aspect of an almost universal heresy.”

(Don’t limit it to Christ, it is not Him alone, is his meaning)

Dr. Wescott writing to Archbishop Benson,

Nov. 17, 1865,“I wish I could see to what forgotten truth

Mariolatry bears witness.”

Dr. Hort writing to Dr. Westcott,undated,

“I am very far from pretendingto understand completely the

oft-renewed vitality of Mariolatry.”

Dr. Hort writing to Dr. Westcott, undated,

“But this last error can hardly be expelledtill Protestants unlearn the crazy horror

of theidea of priesthood [of the believer].”(By the way, Baptist is not protestant.

They can be traced back to the Apostles as the first church.

Most churches are break-offs of the Roman Catholic Church during the reformation, thus

protest-ant.)

Dr. Hort writing to Dr. Lightfoot,Oct. 26, 1867,

“But you know I am a staunch sacerdotalist.”

Sacerdotalist: A believer in the divine authority

of the Roman Catholic priesthood.

Dr. Westcott writing to the Archbishop of Canterbury,March 4, 1890,

“No one now, I suppose, holds that the first three chapters of Genesis, for

example, give a literal history--I could never understand how any one reading them with open eyes could think they

did.”

Dr. Hort writing to Mr. John Ellerton,undated,

“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 differedfrom the fall of each of his descendants.”

Dr. Westcott came to the conclusionthat all women should be called “Mary,”

and this led him to rename his wife Mary.

KJV 4MENIV

ASV

NKJV

RSV

ESV

By the testimony of God Himself, it must be believed that each Word will be

preserved by God including

The KJV has PROVEN itself to be not the “best”

translation for English speaking people,

translations! In America we need to be concerned with the English KJV. If God’s Word is true, and it is, then He can preserve

His inspired Word.

but THE translation for English speaking people. You cannot improve upon

perfection!

The whole premise of the New versions in their own words “is to make the Bible easier to be understood in

the language of the common folk.” A simple research into the lives of the people involved and the “bibles” they created show this is not the case. The following comparisons of other

versions along with the KJV will show you the obvious ways that doctrine

has been changed and understanding made more difficult, not easier!:

NEW TESTAMENT COMPARISONS - A SMALL SAMPLE!

Ask yourself for each verse1. Does it make it easier to understand?

2. Does it change the meaning?

Matthew 17:21KJV, Howbeit this kind goeth not out

but by prayer and fasting.ASV & NIV, Verse totally Omitted

Matthew 18:11KJV, For the Son of man is come to save

that which was lost.ASV & NIV, Verse totally Omitted

NKJV For the Son of Man has come to savethat which was lost.

Matthew 23:14KJV, Woe unto you, scribes and

Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make

long prayer: therefore ye shall receivethe greater damnation.ASV & ASV, Omitted

Mark 11:26KJV, But if ye do not forgive,

neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

ASV & NIV, Omitted

Luke 2:14KJV, ... and on earth peace,

good will toward men.ASV, ...and on earth peace among

menwith whom he is pleased.

NIV, ...and on earth peace to menon whom his favor rests.

Luke 4:4KJV, ...but by every word of God.ASV & NIV, Phrase omitted

Luke 4:24KJV, And he said, Verily, I say unto you,

No prophet is accepted in his own country.

ASV, And he said, Truly, I say to you, no prophet

is acceptable in his own country.NIV, I tell you the truth, he continued,

No prophet is accepted in his home town.

Luke 16:23KJV, And in hell he lift up his eyes,

being in torments, ...ASV, And in hades, being in torment...NKJV. And being in torments in Hades,

...

John 3:13KJV, And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from

heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

ASV, No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the

Son of man.NIV, No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven

—the Son of Man.

Acts 1:3KJV, To whom also He showed Himself

alive after His passion by many infallible proofs...

ASV, To them He presented Himself alive after His passion by many

proofs...NIV, After His suffering, He showed Himself to these men and gave many convincing proofs that He was alive.

Acts 8:37KJV, ...And he answered and said, I

believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

ASV & NIV, Omitted

THE END

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