Many stand in pulpits across this nation and around the world, waving their Bible and declaring it to be the standard for all matters of faith and practice. If that’s true, then shouldn’t the Bible practice for handling the words of God guide our thinking in this area?
First, no one in the Bible had competing authorities for God’s word. Search the scriptures, as Jesus Christ commanded (John 5:39). From Genesis to Revelation, no one ever questioned the text or compared it with a variant reading from a more “reliable translation.” Why then does the body of Christ waste so much time in this unbiblical practice? When Hilkiah “found the book of the law in the house of the Lord” (2 Kings 22:8), neither Shaphan the scribe nor Josiah the king wasted a moment’s time questioning its authenticity or comparing it with previous versions of the text. No, they simply read and and believed. That is what the Lord–“who gave the word” (Ps 68:11)–is looking for: a believing heart that will “receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls” (James 1:21). Peter’s audience never questioned his reading of the prophet Joel on the day of Pentecost. And when Jesus Christ stood up to “in the place where it was written” (Luke 4:17), the Lord did not give a better rendering of Isaiah’s text or suggest another version to his listeners. If God’s book does not set a precedent for undermining the words of the Lord, why should we partake in such an ungodly practice?
Second, no one in the Bible honored the “original writings”. Rather than proclaim “Thus saith the Lord,” most teachers and preachers undermine the word of God by deferring to some mystical “originals.” Such a practice is completely foreign to the word of God. You won’t find Isaiah, Peter, Daniel, or John sitting around wondering what a better rendering would be or what it might have said in the “original” languages. This trend of questioning God’s words originated in the Garden of Eden with the serpent’s first question of man, “Yea, hath God said…?” (Gen 3:1). And yet Bible scholars so-called, and preaches so-confused continue this Satanic undermining of God’s words by following the trail of the serpent. When Jesus Christ met the disciples in the upper room after his resurrection, the Bible says, ” Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written…”(Luke 24:45-46). No one interjected about what the original writings might have said. And the Lord Jesus Christ did not waste five seconds conferring with a lexicon. I know this might seem a bit outrageous a point, but you and I need to see how foreign and absurd the modern practice of Bible-correcting is to the Bible we supposedly honor and obey. If the Bible is our final authority in all manners of faith and practice, should we give heed to anyone who venerates the “originals” when no one in the Bible practiced such idolatry?
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