Rev 22:18; I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book;
Rev 22:19; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.
I don't think it's an accident that these verses are near the end of the last chapter of the last book in the Bible.
Sometimes people intentionally change the Bible. There is a "gay" Bible, there is a "feminist" Bible, there are all
kinds of Bibles that change the original words to fit whatever they want. It could be argued "this isn't really the Bible". I would agree.
But I also see "less obvious" changes to the Bible. A common phrase you hear is "we are saved by grace alone".
But "grace" and "alone" don't appear together in any scripture in the Bible.
Sometimes you hear, "we won't be judged because we have Jesus in our heart". Where it say that in the Bible?
What does one thing have to do with the other?
It has been said that Jesus is "the lamb", therefore He isn't the lion. Yet the Bible clearly says He is the lion of Judah. (and the lamb of God)
There have been some things posted as "promises", but they don't say they are a promise anywhere in the context of the verse. Or sometimes they (usually) have a condition attached to the promise, which is left out in the commentary.
We may not be physically tearing part of the page out of the Bible and re-writing it. But we are re-writing it in "our" hearts which is the same thing. Some of us believe things that are not in the Bible at all. We believe it "with all our hearts"... because, well.... "that's what God really meant". (He didn't mean what He wrote?)
I have even been in churches where these things are sometimes said from the pulpit.
If you hear them over and over again often enough, pretty soon you start thinking it's in the Bible.
Before you know it you start believing it and building doctrines on it.
I've picked out a few recently discussed passages, but these aren't the only ones by any means.
There have been literally dozens of these "half truths" and "partial scriptures" thrown out here on TalkJesus over the years.
Are the "less obvious" changes any better than the obvious ones? What was the first deception in the Bible? "Did God really say.... "?
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Rev 22:19; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.
I don't think it's an accident that these verses are near the end of the last chapter of the last book in the Bible.
Sometimes people intentionally change the Bible. There is a "gay" Bible, there is a "feminist" Bible, there are all
kinds of Bibles that change the original words to fit whatever they want. It could be argued "this isn't really the Bible". I would agree.
But I also see "less obvious" changes to the Bible. A common phrase you hear is "we are saved by grace alone".
But "grace" and "alone" don't appear together in any scripture in the Bible.
Sometimes you hear, "we won't be judged because we have Jesus in our heart". Where it say that in the Bible?
What does one thing have to do with the other?
It has been said that Jesus is "the lamb", therefore He isn't the lion. Yet the Bible clearly says He is the lion of Judah. (and the lamb of God)
There have been some things posted as "promises", but they don't say they are a promise anywhere in the context of the verse. Or sometimes they (usually) have a condition attached to the promise, which is left out in the commentary.
We may not be physically tearing part of the page out of the Bible and re-writing it. But we are re-writing it in "our" hearts which is the same thing. Some of us believe things that are not in the Bible at all. We believe it "with all our hearts"... because, well.... "that's what God really meant". (He didn't mean what He wrote?)
I have even been in churches where these things are sometimes said from the pulpit.
If you hear them over and over again often enough, pretty soon you start thinking it's in the Bible.
Before you know it you start believing it and building doctrines on it.
I've picked out a few recently discussed passages, but these aren't the only ones by any means.
There have been literally dozens of these "half truths" and "partial scriptures" thrown out here on TalkJesus over the years.
Are the "less obvious" changes any better than the obvious ones? What was the first deception in the Bible? "Did God really say.... "?
.....