WHAT BIBLE ARE YOU USING?

If a person is to derive benefit from one's reading and studying of Scriptures,
such a person must be confident and therefore assured, that the copy of Scriptures he or she is using is God's Precious Pure Words.

The question though that one must ask is: Are all Bibles the same? That is: every one of the more than 100 plus Bible versions that are available in the market today?

Many more questions must be asked by a serious student of Holy Scriptures specially those in the preaching, teaching ministry. Many though are not willing to investigate, scrutinize and make sure for their own benefit that what they are using is truly God's Precious Pure word.

One of the things that this blogger could not understand is how is it that many so-called educated and seminary graduates (M. Div and Ph.D holders)seemingly have been blinded and deceived that every Bible is the same.

Plain lay people that this blogger have shared about this controversial topic, in such a short period of time, their spiritual eyes are opened and they clearly see, crystal clear, the deceptions of most of the so-called New Version Bibles.

Unfortunately also, many pastors of many different denominational persuasions, are indifferent or simply ignorant of this most important issue. Many are hesitant even afraid to tackle this issue headlong.

To those who read this blog, I would like for you to answer the following questions that I believe with all my heart, must be answered to the satisfaction of those that are Authentic, Genuine, True Bible Believers like me. These are the following:

What is Dynamic Equivalency?

What is the Theory of Textual Criticism? And who are the men behind this theory?

Who is Brook Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort? Are these two men Bible Believers? Born again & saved?

What was their role in the raging controversy about Bible Translations?

Did you know that Bible Printing & Publishing is a multi-billion dollar business?

Did you know that the major publishers and printers of these new bible versions are also the publishers of books like: The Satanic Bible and many books about homosexual
and feminists books and pornographic materials?

Who is Dr. Marten H. Woudstra and Dr. Virginia Mollenkott?

What was their role in the translation of the NIV in the 1970's?

Do you believe with all your heart that the Bible you are personally using for your reading, study and preparation for your so-called preaching & teaching ministry is without a doubt God's Precious Pure Word? Therefore, you have the conviction that the God of Holy Scriptures will and must bless such? Hebrews 4:12 KJBible describes God's Precious Pure Word as: alive and powerful. Is it so in the Bible you are using?

These and many more questions begs to be answered.

I encourage and challenge serious bible students (every authentic believer in the LORD Jesus Christ is and must be a student of the Bible)to answer the above questions to their own satisfaction. More so, for those in the preaching and teaching ministry simply because not to is irresponsible to say the least. Why? because many are dependent on your declarations concerning Scriptures.

I will say the following: If there is the true, there must be the false!
Genuine or Counterfeit! It is kind of naive to believe that every Bible is the same.

B E W A R E! DO NOT BE DECEIVED! FOR YOUR OWN SAKE AND THE SAKE OF MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE DEPENDENT ON PREACHERS AND TEACHERS OF SCRIPTURES LIKE YOU AND I. REMEMBER WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE LIKE THE PROPHET EZEKIEL.
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VATICAN LIBRARY REOPENS
(Friday Church News Notes, September 17, 2010, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org,)

- The Vatican Library has reopened after a major three-year renovation costing $11.5 million. The bunker where the 150,000 ancient manuscripts are kept was made fireproof and dust-proof and the library’s 70,000 books were fitted with computer chips to prevent loss and theft, among other things.

- The Vatican Library houses the Vaticanus codex which is dated to about 325 A.D. and is the oldest extant copy of the New Testament (though large portions are missing, such as the Pastoral Epistles and all of Revelation). It represents the corrupt Egyptian text upon which the modern Bible versions are based. It omits many entire passages such as Mark 16:9-20 and in John 1:18 it changes “only begotten Son” to “only begotten God,” thus perpetuating the ancient Arian heresy that disassociates the Son of God Jesus Christ from God Himself by claiming that the Word was not the same as the Son. John’s Gospel identifies the Son directly with the Word (John 1:1, 18), but by changing “Son” to “God” in verse 18, this direct association is broken in the Vaticanus.

- Erasmus, the first editor of the printed Greek Received Text, was familiar with the Vaticanus through more than 300 readings that were sent to him by a correspondent in Rome, but he and the other editors of the Greek New Testament of that day rejected it. It was not until the end of the 19th century that its readings appeared in a standard English Bible (the English Revised Version of 1881).

- Westcott and Hort, who published the Greek New Testament upon which the ERV was founded, considered the Vaticanus to be superior to all other manuscripts. It was “their touchstone” (Kurt Aland, The Text of the New Testament, p. 14). The ERV and its U.S. counterpart, the American Standard Version, were not popular, though. It was not until the publication of the New International Version in the 1970s that the Vaticanus readings became widely accepted.

The home of the Vaticanus is unholy and is certainly not the place one would expect to find the preserved Word of God. I toured the Vatican in 1992, 2003, and 2005, and was astounded at how pagan the place is. Fitting to the home of the man who claims the titles and position of Jesus Christ and who accepts adulation, the Vatican is a monument to idolatry and blasphemy and man’s shameless rebellion to God’s Word. The columns of the Vatican Library feature paintings of pagan gods and goddesses, such as Mercury and Isis.