RE: Why did God allow his words to be changed?
August 8, 2021 at 4:16 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2021 at 4:20 pm by Mercyvessel.)
(August 7, 2021 at 10:12 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Bart asks a question: if God wanted us to have his words (Bible) why did he allow people to change them so that we don't know which are his and which are made up by humans?
God made a stupid plan when he expected people to know him only by the Bible because he also let this huge mishap to happen, so now we don't have his words.
Even believers in historical Jesus don't know which words are his and which were added later. Some are known to be later additions, like the story of an adulterous woman, but none can be said with certainty to be said by Jesus.
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We can glean from the Holy Bible - the written word of GOD - that there are those since the foundation of this world - supernatural and then natural- that have been in rebellion against GOD and have made and make ultimately futile efforts to corrupt and frustrate GOD's work (Parable of the wheat and tares - Matthew 13:24-30); something that GOD has declared that He has disposed of in judgment (John 12:31, Jude 1:6) and will certainly and effectively put an end to in His own time at the end of time.
So, whether an attempt to obfuscate the holy word comes from a supernatural or natural enemy of GOD over the course of history in an attempt to deceive many, I can tell you that GOD's purposes are never thwarted because "God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God." - Psalm 62:11
Very specifically on this subject GOD says, “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it." - Isaiah 55:10-11
GOD has been and is still saving people despite all the devised and/or unconscious confusion.
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There is power in the word of GOD:
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." - All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." - 2 Timothy 3:16
"for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." - 2 Peter 1:21
"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account." - Hebrews 4:12-13
"So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." - Romans 10:17
