Are all of the Bibles the same? The answer may surprise you. The fact is, different Bible versions can leave out or add words, verses, or even whole books(!).
Are all of the Bibles the same? The answer may surprise you. The fact is, different Bible versions can leave out or add words, verses, or even whole books(!).
Psalms 100:5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. It is just a single verse that states simple, fundamental truths about God. Few would deny the truth of this verse, but do we actually believe it? The LORD This verse begins with the proposition that the LORD is good. It is a verse…
Matthew chapter 7 is one of the most familiar passages from the gospels. It contains a portion of Jesus’s sermon on the mount, in which he instructs his disciples on how they should live as they declare the message of his kingdom to Israel. The chapter begins with Jesus’s command to his disciples not to let their position as ministers of the…
In consequence of man’s condemnation to mortality, the people of the world are constantly dying, only to be replaced by new babes being born. This means that what the world will look like in a few years, in terms of the people who inhabit it—their ideas, goals, beliefs—will be determined by the children born today, not the adults perishing tomorrow. Though this is obvious, we sometimes lose sight of the implications it has for those who are seeking to change the future: to change the future, we have to affect the next generation.
“And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.”
This is the second in a series of posts detailing each of our beliefs about the Bible expressed on the Our Beliefs page. [We believe that] God preserves his words perpetually to all generations, for ever. In part 1, we discussed the topic of inspiration. We now turn to the topic of preservation, to consider how the words that God originally inspired…