Is the Bible Corrupted? Part 1- How God Opened My Eyes [Investigating- "Can we Trust the Bible?"]

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Welcome to This Week in the Word!

This is where I am sharing the work God is using to grow me. How I am preparing for his calling on my life, and being a witness to his glory. I am not a graduate of seminary, a theologian, or godly scholar. I am just a born again BIBLE believing disciple of Jesus.

My mission is to encourage people to seek God through reading his word.

This weeks study:
Investigating- “Can We Trust the Bible?”
2nd Series: “Is the Bible Corrupted?”
Today’s study is Part 1: How God Opened My Eyes

Intro:
This study changed my view.

Ask yourself “Why are there so many versions of the Bible?”
How many version are there of the Quran?
Or the Torah?
According to google there are “more than 450 translations into English”. Ever wonder why that is? Is it about money? Is it an attack against God from satan?

Why do versions matter?
The answer is very simple, because Words matter. God said it and that settles it. Either God’s words are enough or they are not. This is what faith is about!
The Bible says it is available: Deu 30:10-14, Romans 10:4-13
The Bible says it is Pure: Psalms 12:6
The Bible says it is Perfect: Psalms 138:2
The Bible says it is Settled in heaven: Psalms 119:89
The Bible says it is Preserved: 1 Peter 1:25, Psa 12:6-7
This means that there has to be a version of the Bible that is the pure word of God, perfect and preserved here on earth.

Its an issue of authority. There is absolute truth. God says he is our authority and he speaks to us through his word.
Choice of 2, only 2. God or “other” and you can’t serve both: Mat 6:24, Jas 1:8, Jas 4:8
His word has authority: Luk 4:32, 36
His word is Absolute Truth: John 17:17
None of the “versions” say the same thing so which one is correct? Which one has authority? God said his word is perfect and that he preserved it, so either that is true or it is not. YOU picking which version of the Bible YOU like isn’t submitting to authority, but rather it you elevating yourself to authority in YOU deciding based on YOUR preferences of what YOU like best.
Which is easier to believe? A or B?

Only one version??? WHAT!!!
Isn’t that divisive to say that there is only one version? I thought Jesus was about love, peace
God is divisive. He created our world by division: Gen 1:4
Jesus came to bring division: John 7:43, Luke 12:51
The way of Jesus is narrow, exclusive and singular: Matt 7:13-23
Are the differences between versions enough to matter? Are the changes attacking the instructions of the Bible?
Isa 14:12 KJV says Lucifer, correctly identifying who was thrown out of heaven, why do all other versions take out his name? And some versions even give Satan a title that belongs to Jesus!!! Why would they do that?
2 Tim 3:16 KJV says to study the word of God. Every other version takes out that word and changes it to something else, why? Is the word study too archaic?
1Tim 6:20 every version changes the word science, Why?
“Act 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;” Jesus is who brought the tabernacle into the promise land, why does every version change it to Joshua?
1 Tim 6:10 every version adds to the word all, why?
There are many more examples that I will dive deeper in later episodes of this series.
“Ancient manuscripts”, “Greek” and “Hebrew”:
First there are none of those “original” documents around today. Even IF there were no one could read them. Coin A greek is not the same as what’s spoken today, it's been dead for over a 1000 years. The old Hebrew has been dead for over 3000 years.
Do you have faith in God’s abibllity to preserve his word or do you have faith in the Scholars (AKA men)?

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