Our number one desire for these Bible lessons are for them to be understandable, defendable, and most important for the Holy Spirit to bear witness that the conclusions are the true, and correct interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.
Guidelines for our Bible studies on this website:
1. We treat the living words of the
living God as spoken by the Lord Jesus and given to the Apostle Paul for the
Body of Christ the
same importance, as the words of the Lord Jesus
recorded in red letters in the books
of Matthew – Acts Chp. 8, as what should be known as the instructions to the
nation Israel.
2. We will not be wresting the scriptures
against each other, we will look at the verses in their context, and will not
try to make the scriptures say anything, but what they say.
3. We will be
using the verses out of the Authorized Version, commonly known as the KJV. It
is fine if you want to look the verses up in other translations if you like,
but we will consider the Authorized Version as our final written authority.
4. We do not and
will not use the Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, or Latin languages to prove any
points, or give any indication that the Authorized Version has been incorrectly
translated.
I hope these studies are interesting enough to provoke you to study your Bible, and for you to grow in the grace and knowledge of our savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul said in 2 Tim. Chp 2 verse [15] “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
It
never ceases to amaze me when I ask people if they think Satan would be
involved in changing or corrupting God’s word every one of them answers yes
immediately.
Funny thing is, when I ask them if they think these new translations could be the corrupted word of God, they almost always say no.
I would like to say I have not plagiarized the following, neither have I ever in my 48 years of being a Christian ever heard anyone reference, or preach, or teach on the Christian’s Tower of Babel.
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Now what I want to share with you what I believe has become the most destructive counterfeit that Satan has ever pulled off, and has virtually destroyed the Christian’s credibility in the world today!
In
the Old Testament there is a story about the Tower of Babel Genesis 11:1, We
read in verse one that “the whole earth was of one language, and of one
speech”, many of you will remember from Sunday School, the account of God (The
Lord Jesus Christ) going “down to to see the city and tower, which the children
of men builded”.
Now we don’t have the whole story, but we know that the people of Babel, were trying to reach heaven with the tower, and God was not happy with them. We also read the account of what God did to stop them from continuing in unity on their project of building the city and tower.
So, the Lord confounded their language Genesis 11:7 “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. We read in Genesis 11:9 “Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”
What we learn from these verses is that when men all speak the same language and can communicate with each other it allows them to do anything they can imagine. Genesis 11:6 “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
So as many of you know, I am a Bible Believer, not a Bible Critic, I believe we the English-speaking people have a Bible without error, found in the King James Version, I believe that the God of heaven and earth was not only interested in his spoken words, but also in recording and preserving those words for future generations.
I
am titling the following,
“THE CHRISTIAN’S TOWER OF BABEL”
Not
to belabor the point but, when I read the footnote on page 328, of the New
Scofield Reference Bible which read concerning Samuel 6:19 “This number is
generally considered to be a scribal error.” I immediately had the following
thoughts which I contribute to the Holy Spirit of the Living God!
1. Errors in my Bible how many are there, how severe are they, who’s going to point them out?
2.
Did Jesus really die and rise from the dead?
Why this really hit me was I had friends that were highly educated, more so than myself, telling me I couldn’t trust my English Authorized Bible (KJV) because the words of God had originally been written in the Hebrew and Greek, and had lost much in the translation, and that it was riddled with errors! The things I heard my lost educated friends say about the Bible, I was now reading in a Bible.
I set out after that night studying and comparing different English Bible versions. I had a bible which I had received at Vacation Bible School, September 25, 1960 with which I had my first experience that something was amiss prior to Aug. 1974, but being a baby Christian did not pursue it, but just logged the experience in my memory bank.
During a meeting with an old friend, I was sharing Bible verses about my new life as a Christian, he stated he didn’t have a Bible. I knew I had an old Bible from vacation bible school, so I went home got the Bible and returned to my friend’s house.
I gave him the Bible and I continued sharing Bible verses, now that he had a Bible, I thought things were going to be easier, than sharing one Bible, and having to hand the one back and forth.
It wasn’t long after we went back to looking at verses, that after I read a verse, he said that’s not what this one says, which of course I said what do you mean, he handed me the Bible, I read the verse, sure enough it read very differently, so I took that version back home, and put it away and didn’t look at again until after the August 1974 incident when I believe the Lord Jesus opened my eyes to Satan’s great deception, “THE CHRISTIAN’S TOWER OF BABEL”.
In
1974 it didn’t take me long to compare the relatively small number of English
Translations, the main ones being the American Standard Version, Revised
Standard Version, New American Standard Version, New International Version, New
World Translation, The Living Bible, Douay-Rheims, and Authorized Version, this
group covers basically all the English Bibles in use between 1901 and 1974.
After comparing the Authorized Version to the other versions, I came to the conclusion that all the others aligned against the Authorized Version, in other words they made all the same changes and omitted the same verses, etc. that were found in the Authorized Version or (KJV).
Move forward, since my becoming a Christian in 1973, There have been over 80 new English translations on average one every six months. How can anyone not see that we do not need 80 new translations of the scriptures, that fact alone should raise a concern for any Christian that can think logically.
This
is a statement out of the Preface of the Revised Standard Version that I
received in 1960:
“The
King James Version of the New Testament was based upon a Greek text that was
marred by mistakes, containing the accumulated errors of fourteen centuries of
manuscript copying.”
In this Revised Standard version that I received at Vacation Bible School September 25, 1960 the word “virgin”, in Isaiah Chapter 7:14 was replaced with “young woman”, big difference between a young woman having a baby and a virgin having a baby!
Today’s modern Christian takes the same Position on God’s Holy Word that the Mormons take in their Articles of Faith!
Mormon’s 8th Article of Faith states “We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.”
Now let’s get to what Satan has accomplished by propagating the Christian Tower of Babel deception, “that none of the English Bibles are without error, and without being able to read the Bible in the Original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts you cannot trust the bible you are reading”
1. Satan, counterfeited God’s action at the Tower of Babel, by confounding the Christians with all the different English versions, making it equivalent to Christians speaking in different languages, which has led to Christian's being confused and their growth in the grace and knowledge in the Lord Jesus Christ stunted to say the least.
2. Satan has successfully corrupted God’s Holy Words in these new translations, such that if someone doesn’t agree with sound doctrine, they simply go get a new translation to support their position. 2Cor. 2:17 “For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.” I could not find one version of the Bible Translations after 1970 where the words “which corrupt the word of God” had not been altered by removing the word corrupt, and in many of them changed to the point that there is no recognition that the verse even refers to the “word of God” as many of them have even deleted the words. For instance, “which corrupt the word of God” (KJV) was replaced with “peddlers of God’s word” (RSV). The two translations (KJV and RSV) of this verse don’t have the same meaning, they are completely different. Although, peddling God’s word is offensive, it’s less severe/dangerous than corrupting the word of God!
3. Prior to Satan successfully replacing the Authorized Version as the final authority with these corrupted translations, Christianity was growing, and people being saved by the multitudes. Today the majority of Christian Churches are experiencing the “death rattle”, and are only being kept alive with the use of rock bands and coffee clubs. I can’t remember the last time I met a recent Christian convert.
4. Satan has made it impossible for Christians to study the Bible and come to the knowledge of the Truth, or sound doctrine, If you don’t have the words of God, you can’t preach the words of God! 2 Timothy 4:1 “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away* their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
5. The words “Thus Saith the Lord” has been replaced with phrases like “this word in the Hebrew or Greek means, unfortunately this is a mistranslation, this word should have been, etc. and the deception just keeps getting worse! I wonder if the world is experiencing the scripture Amos 8 [11] Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: [12] And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Alfred Stephens 7/17/2021
I am so thankful for the Preachers that were my mentors were Bible Believers and not bible correctors!
Satan is having a field day with the Body of Christ with all these modern-day preachers proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom with its earthly kingdom hope, repentance, confession of sins, and water baptism required to be saved or a member of a denomination, Miraculous signs as evidence of salvation, such as speaking in tongues and healing; Teaching the observance of the law, teaching the conditional forgiveness of sins based on forgiving others, teaching forsaking all and selling all to gain eternal life, Having the authority to forgive sins, Reaching Jerusalem and Israel first.
These things are simply incompatible with the truths found in the Pauline epistles, and the gospel of the grace of God. Even if you believe the Bible and you fail to understand the word of truth rightly divided you can still be misled, not lost just misled, and rendered a useless Christian witness.
We are saved not by our works, but by our faith in the crucified and risen Lord Jesus!
With modern day technology being what it is, it is very easy to do word searches and check when someone quotes a Bible verse or tells you something is in the Bible for you to look it up and verify if they are pulling your leg!
The Truth of God’s Holy word is easy to determine if you let the Holy Spirit lead you.
Remember all of the confusion among Christianity/Christians today can be attributed to the simple fact that the church, the Body of Christ, does not recognize the separate, distinct, and unique apostleship, ministry, and message of Paul.
If you have never trusted the Lord Jesus as your savior, I encourage you to believe in him and he will save you today! All one need do is to trust and believe in the Lord Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection for the forgiveness of sins to be made new in him.
Gal.2 [16] Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified
Eph.3 [17] That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, [19] And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
What a great day that will be when Jesus Christ returns in all his glory, friend don’t let that day take you unawares. Today Jesus has his arms outstretched and open to sinners to put their trust in him. One day we will all stand before him either as our savior or our judge, don’t put it off invite Jesus to save you today!
"The crowd that will not accept one truth will decay to the point that it does not accept one God: many denominations, many translations, many gods."
The words of our Apostle Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles!
2Tim.2 [15] Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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