I wrote this post because many preachers, Bible teachers, prophecy teachers, and Bible students may feel that because they studied some Greek or Hebrew in college, they have the right to change God's Holy Spirit-inspired Words. It's a scary thing to do that. Please read further to find out why.
Bold in Scripture verses is for emphasis.
1. The authors of the Bible were inspired by God’s Holy Spirit to write the words God gave them to write.
2 Peter
1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2 Timothy 3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
1 Corinthians
2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
2. The authors of the Bible knew Hebrew and Greek better than you could ever know those languages because they lived every day of their lives speaking those languages!
3. Since God inspired these men to write the Bible in the Hebrew and Greek languages that were used during their lifetimes; who are you to say that the words they used were an “unfortunate translation” or “mistranslated"?
God's Holy Spirit inspired those men to write what God wanted in His Holy Word!
I guess it should not be a surprise to us that in these End Times that spiritual leaders, college professors, and worldly scholars are causing people to doubt God’s Word. Now that Satan’s time is running short, his biggest target is the True Word of God, the King James Bible!
Read the book 'Did the Catholic Church Give Us The Bible?' by David W. Daniels to learn the truth about the two streams of Bible history of the Word of God, and why we need to know the truth about which Bible is God's Word. Link here.
God's Holy Spirit inspired those men to write what God wanted in His Holy Word!
I guess it should not be a surprise to us that in these End Times that spiritual leaders, college professors, and worldly scholars are causing people to doubt God’s Word. Now that Satan’s time is running short, his biggest target is the True Word of God, the King James Bible!
Read the book 'Did the Catholic Church Give Us The Bible?' by David W. Daniels to learn the truth about the two streams of Bible history of the Word of God, and why we need to know the truth about which Bible is God's Word. Link here.
Also, please read my post called "Proofs the KJV is the Word of God", which lists a number of resources (YouTube videos, online articles, books, DVDs, etc.) that will help you find answers for yourself, plus notes from me on what I have learned as I studied about the different Bible versions and Bible history. Link here.
The King James Bible was around for hundreds of years, and then sinful mankind decided that the Bible needed editing to change or remove what they didn't like! Wow. I don't know about your God; but mine is all knowing; and I would trust what He had to say over what some professor or preacher thinks God's Word should say! I sure wouldn't want to change God's Words that He gave us through His Holy Spirit.
In the Garden of Eden Satan tempted Eve to doubt God’s Words by asking her, “Yea, hath God said?” (Genesis 3:1). Consequently, she doubted God's Words and thought she knew better than God what was good for her; and so she chose to sin against God. Today Satan is still tempting you to doubt God’s Words (the preserved words of God, the KJV) by asking you the same question that he asked Eve, perhaps through a college professor, teacher, preacher, or author.
Pride also played a part in Eve’s sin because Satan lied and told her that she and Adam would become “as gods” if she ate of the forbidden tree (Genesis 3:5). And Eve said that she thought that eating of the tree would make her wise (Genesis 3:6).
4. God promised us many times that He would preserve His Word forever.
Psalms
12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Psalm 119:160
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Psalm 119:89
LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Jesus Christ's Words are in red.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Mark 13:31
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Luke 21:33
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 Peter
1:24 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:
1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Do you believe God lied in all those verses where He promised that He would preserve His Word FOREVER? The Bible tells us a number of times that God cannot lie. One example:
Numbers 23:19(a)
God is not a man, that he should lie;
5. There is also nothing God cannot do, and that includes preserving the Bible.
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
Jeremiah 32:27
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Mark 10:27
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
6. Before you change one of the words in the KJV Bible because you think you know better than God what He “meant” to say, I beg you before doing it, keep reading to find out why that is a bad idea.
Psalms
12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
12:7 Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
Psalm 119:160
Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Psalm 119:89
LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Isaiah 40:8
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Jesus Christ's Words are in red.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Mark 13:31
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
Luke 21:33
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 Peter
1:24 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:
1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Do you believe God lied in all those verses where He promised that He would preserve His Word FOREVER? The Bible tells us a number of times that God cannot lie. One example:
Numbers 23:19(a)
God is not a man, that he should lie;
5. There is also nothing God cannot do, and that includes preserving the Bible.
Jeremiah 32:17
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
Jeremiah 32:27
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Mark 10:27
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
6. Before you change one of the words in the KJV Bible because you think you know better than God what He “meant” to say, I beg you before doing it, keep reading to find out why that is a bad idea.
Perhaps you are thinking that you are not adding or taking away words from the Bible. But, if you change God's Words (using a lexicon or a Greek dictionary, etc.), you are "taking away" God's Words and "adding" Your own choice of words! Think about it... And that means that every you use a lexicon or Greek dictionary to change the Holy Spirit-inspired Word of God to what YOU think it should read, you are writing your own bible!
God says that scripture is not of any private interpretation as if only you and your Greek or Hebrew professor or lexicon author know what the Bible really means! It's the same as saying you or they know more than God what God's Holy Bible should say!
2 Peter 1:20
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
The Bible God preserved forever (the KJV) was given to men who were inspired by God's Holy Spirit to write the words that God gave them to write - for us to have in our hands today. What kind of a cruel God would deprive people for thousands of years from having His Word that would show them how to avoid hell and get to heaven? That is not how our loving God operates. He loved us enough to sacrifice his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to suffer and die on the cross to pay for our sins. That loving God would not deprive billions of people through the centuries of having His Word to lead them to Christ for salvation! It is ludicrous to think that God would deprive countless generations of people of having His Word just waiting for some scholars to tell us what God meant to say in His Bible? That is not even logical thinking, let alone Holy Spirit inspired thinking. Our God is more loving than that!
Now, please take this to heart, dear reader...
These last two verses in the Book of Revelation are scary warnings from God to us not to change His Holy Spirit inspired Words! Please, I pray that you take heed. I tell you this in Christian love. And God always means what he says! Please keep reading to be forewarned.
Revelation
22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
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.
The Bible also tells us that God does what He says He is going to do! That means that God will do what He has warned us about in the verses above.
Numbers 23:19(b)
...hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
The Bible also tells us that God does what He says He is going to do! That means that God will do what He has warned us about in the verses above.
Numbers 23:19(b)
...hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
