Posted on 09/29/2022 6:49:02 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar” (Proverbs 30:5-6).
There are three warnings in the Bible concerning taking away or adding to the word of God. God put those warnings in there, because He never left it up to man commands to preserve what he inspired he intended not only to inspire it which we did all scripture is given by inspiration of God but he intended to preserve what He inspired. He intended, not only to inspire His word; which He did, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God” (I Timothy 3:16), but He intended to preserve what He inspired.
Ronnie Bell, a past president of Bob Jones University, this fundamental college, SAID that God only inspired the original writings and never intended for any translation to be inspired. But folks, that's a lie. What God inspired, He intended to preserve. He didn't leave it up to you and I to preserve it; you see, if He left it up to people to preserve it then obviously we would have left something out. We wouldn't have gotten all these manuscripts and all this stuff, and we wouldn’t know what to put in.it. If God didn't do it, it would be impossible for men to do it.
Right there is an impossible commandment, where He says, “add thou not unto his words,” that's an impossible commandment if he leaves it up to you or me to do it; because we would surely add something. But since he determined to do it Himself, then it's not impossible. David said, “Thou shalt preserve them,” it is not the church, nor the biblical scholars, nor the critics, nor the schools that shall preserve them, but God! You remember that! It's not up to you and me.
So, when God wants to preserve his Bible, He just gathers men together and he says, “Okay, write it like this, fellows.” That’s all there is to it. And “faithful men of God,” wrote it like He said to write it.
If you study those King James Bible translators, they didn't write it like a lot of them believe it. A lot of them did not believe in immersion, yet they wrote baptism in there and they said baptism was a burial (Romans chapter 6). They would not have put it that way, they did not believe in immersion. You can see God had His hand on that book.
“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you” (Deuteronomy 4:2).
The warning here in Proverbs 30:5,6.
“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: 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” (Revelation 22:18-19).
Three warnings, two of them in the Old Testament; you would think that would be enough. Every one of these new Bibles takes out hundreds of verses and hundreds of words out of the New Testament. “Add thou not unto his words lest . . . thou be found a liar!”
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