Do we believe in God, AND that He keeps His Word, or not? Our true beliefs govern our actions, and our actions prove our beliefs. Our spiritual interest got us this far. Are we willing to seek out what God says about Himself and about
His Word, within the whole Bible, comparing Scripture with Scripture?
William Chamberlin’s “Catalogue of English Bible
Translations”, 1991, lists hundreds of bible versions in the English language! …but God says that He keeps
His Word pure! Purity and confusion do not fit together. Do we want to find, know, and use God’s one true Bible in English, instead being
confused by hundreds of versions, transliterations, and paraphrases?
I
first believed on God and His salvation plan at about 36 years old. I was confused
by the many English versions of the Bible. I read through several, side by
side, comparing what they said and how they said it. As I learned sound
doctrine from biblically sound preachers and teachers, I compared sound doctrines
with how the versions expressed themselves in relation to those sound
doctrines. From cover to cover, only the King James Bible consistently matched doctrine with the biblical statements
of God (including comparisons with the Received or Syrian
text that was the foundation of 1st and 2nd Century Christianity).
David Fuller’s “Which Bible?” is a sound historical reference.
Both
lost and saved people argue about what Bible to use. Some want what feels good.
Some don’t want to use a dictionary. Some desire modernistic language, or
someone else’s scholarship. Too many people want to be spoonfed, neglecting to
study through the Bible, in detail, for themselves, often missing that God insists
that He can keep His own Word pure. The Bible repeats (in many ways) that God’s
prime attributes are omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. IF God is
God and exists according to what the Bible says, then He can do anything He
says, any way that He says, and any time that He says. THAT includes that
He can say anything AND ALSO preserve that for all people in all languages for
all time. God says it, so, it’s true.
“God
is not the author of confusion.” (1 Corinthians 14:33) But, from almost the
beginning of human experience (Genesis 3:1), Satan has tried to tear down human
relations with God. Satan persistently attacks human thought with the doubt-inducing
question, “Yea, hath God said?”. People, themselves, use doubt to dismiss all
sorts of good, godly, established things in life. The devil loves human doubt
or equivocation about God’s Bible. Doubt leads to weakness and contention. Let’s
trust God’s Word, not bow to doubt-inducing versions.
What
does God say? God says His Word is always good, pure, and faithful (Psalm 33:11
& 100:5). He holds His Word higher than His own Name (Psalm 138:2), for
without His Word being eternally pure, true, and faithfully available to us, we,
then, could never trust what He says. Our faith would be vain.
Let
us walk with God in His Word, not in doubt. Here are some phrases to search and
study with a King James Bible computer app, or Strong’s Concordance. Read each
of these God-used expressions to see what God says and means in their proper
contexts. Said by God many times and in many ways, we need to trust His Word,
the Bible. Given how many times God says these things in varying contexts, we should be shocked at how much human debate and confusion is associated with this overall topic, undermining human faith and confidence in God's Word, all that strife and doubt which Satan loves to see. Jas 2:19 "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble." (James 2:19)
- Thus
saith the LORD (116 times)
- The
LORD said (216 times)
- God
said (46 times)
- Know
ye not (17 times)
- Ye
know not (16 times)
- Without
understanding (4 times)
- Will
of man (2 times)
- Mouth
of God (2 times)
- Within
me (20 times)
- God
hath said (3 times)
- LORD
hath said (17 times)
- Than
sacrifice (2 times)
- No
understanding (3 times)
- Without
understanding (4 times)
- My
word/s: especially Luke 9:26, 21:33! John 5:47, 8:31, 14:23, 15:7! (15 times)
- Word
of the LORD (258 times)
- Word
of God (49 times)
- Mind
of the LORD/Lord (3 times)
- Mind
of Christ (1 time)
- Every
word (7 times)
- Is
pure (5 times)
- The
LORD hath a controversy (3 times)
In
English, after 400 years, God still keeps His pure Word in one Bible, the King
James, not in the confusion of the hundreds of English versions.
If you are not sure about your relationship with God and His Word, who He is, or His plan of salvation, please seek His answers via these links.
God bless you to not forget God's warnings in Isaiah 66:1-2 and Revelation 22:18-19.
