Speaking to a small nursing home Bible study, I directed a question to a godly woman who missed her deceased husband terribly. “Did you ever receive a love letter from your husband?”
She smiled back with a nod as she recalled the notes of love she received many years ago.
“If I had intercepted one of his letters to you and changed ten words, what would you wonder? Most likely, you would wonder what I altered and if what you read was really from his heart, or was it something I fabricated.” She nodded again in agreement. The smile from her face disappeared. Her whole relationship may have been changed because of the words I added, deleted, or changed.
Yet, that is what is happening to God’s love letter to mankind. Men with deceptive purposes are taking God’s Words and changing thousands of words in the Bible. In many cases, tens of thousands of words are altered.
The result of the re-writer’s intervention is changing what God wanted man to know. In most cases, what remains of His word after their severe editing is what they want you to believe, not what God had said. He is quite capable of saying what he meant to say. God certainly does not need man’s help to communicate with His creation!
Do not trust what sinful men have interpreted or would like you to believe is what God “really meant to say.” Stick to the King James Bible for English-speaking people. (His preserved words are also kept pure in other major languages.) All other versions are not the love letter God preserved for mankind.
The King James Bible is the very word of GOD. The pure word of God.
What a beautiful way to explain the need to use only the KJV.
The KJV is the true word of God. Our Pastor tells us to use a Noah Webster’s 1828 dictionary to find the meaning of a word you don’t understand, not a corrupt Bible version. Stay with the King James Bible!
Amen!
Your pastor is right! We don’t need other perversions to make it “clearer.” We also don’t need to know Greek or Hebrew. We need to know English better. The 1611/1759 English is more precise than we have today. Using the 1828 dictionary and understanding what the English means will make the Bible so much clearer.
Amen, Amen, Amen!! I appreciate this devotion. Over the last few months, I have been in discussions with people who are straying from KJV. My children who are 10, 12, and 18 years old can tell when something is not KJV. I will make sure to share this devotion with others as I have conversations with them about their change. God’s timing is ALWAYS perfect!!!