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Revelation 22:16
"I Jesus... I am...the...morning star."
Isaiah 14:12
How you have How art thou
fallen from heaven, fallen from heaven,
O morning star O Lucifer
Jeremiah 23:36b "...ye have perverted the words of the living God..."
Even if you're in such denial as to say that the changes in these versions
don't have a negative EFFECT on the readers, you must at least admit that
they are irreverent. If you wrote a book, and someone changed even a few
dozen things in your book without your permission and then republished the
book with the subtitle "Improved Version," wouldn't you be angry?! But
you think God Almighty doesn't care what you do with HIS book?!
Don't use a corrupt Bible version while soulwinning because you think the
lost person will understand it more easily than the "archaic" English of the
KJB. If God Himself came down here and reworded His Bible into more
modern English, lost people STILL wouldn't understand it, because it is
"spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14). That's why you are there to
explain it to them! (Acts 8:28-31)
The question is bigger than "which version should I use?" The question is
"Is what you're reading the word of God or is it not? The Bible is not a
"message" that can be expressed in whatever words you feel comfortable
with. The Bible is a FIXED SET OF SPECIFIC WORDS that have special
significance and supernatural properties and say exactly what God wanted to
say exactly how God wanted to say it. Hence, there can only be one real
Bible in a given language.
For more information on Bible versions, visit
sites.google.com/site/warofwordsministries