Proverb of the Day 5/30

Proverbs 30:5-6 - “Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.  Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”

Verses about the Word of God are very important in our generation. Never before have fundamentalists attacked fundamentalists over WHAT the Bible is, nor where the Bible came from. However, today I bring you not a gloomy message, but a few statements of encouragement…

“Every word of God” – Many contest that the Bible is not a word-for-word translation, and they are correct. No translation is word for word. If you translated from Spanish into English “word for word” you would end up with some pretty humorous dialogue! Illustration…my pastor has preached before to our Spanish church by means of a translator. Oftentimes, Pastor would say just a few words in English, but Bro. Samuel (our Spanish pastor) would rattle off ten times more words than were spoken in English! Why is that? Because no GOOD translation is “word-for-word”, but rather…word BY word. This is otherwise known as the “Formal Equivalence Method.” A word-by-word translation is a process by which each word in the said translation is translated according to the CONTEXT! So, a word with different meanings, might mean one thing in one passage, yet another thing in another passage. This is because the CONTEXT of the two passages were different and therefore demanded a different word. This is the most accurate way of translation. Hence, this was the method used by the KJV translators! God promised the whole entire world that we would have every word!!! Guess what…”every word” in Hebrew doesn’t do me any good! “Every word” in Greek doesn’t edify me one bit! I need “every word” in ENGLISH!!! And I have in it my KJB!!! Don’t let some liberal theologian tell you don’t have a “word perfect” Bible!!! God promised me EVERY WORD!!! But, not just every word in Hebrew…every word in ENGLISH…and SPANISH…and whatever other language you wanna insert! I have an “every word” Bible!

“Every word of God is pure:” - After God inspired the so-called “originals” (which weren’t really originals anyway…God has the originals in Heaven! They’ve been there before time begun! Psalms 119:89 - “LAMED. For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.”) After those inspired words were translated at Hampton Court word-BY-word, did this promise fade away? Did they cease to be the “pure” words of God? Do you still have a perfect Bible today? Or, did those words somewhere along the line cease to ALL be PURE? NO!!! They were pure/perfect/inerrant/etc., when they were given to Moses/Paul/John/etc., and they are still PERFECT today!!! Don’t try to tell me that my KJV is not pure! God has given me a promise…and the last time I checked, He has gotten a reputation for keeping His promises!!!

“Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee,” – First, God promised us every word, then He promised to keep them pure, and lastly, He commanded that we not tamper with it! Think about this…If the KJV says one thing…and the NIV/Living Bible/RSV/etc., all say and teach thing contrary to the KJV, can both be right??? NO!!! How about it NIV??? The NIV teaches that David didn’t kill Goliath!!! - 2 Samuel 21:19: “...Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite killed Goliath the Gittite, who had a spear with a shaft like a weaver's rod." Uh-oh! What does the KJV say? 2 Samuel 21:19: "...Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.” Can they both be right? Can they both be pure? Can they both be “every word?” NO!!! What happened? Somebody who thinks that they need to “redo” what God has already done, CHANGED HIS WORDS!!! God said, “Don’t you touch My Word!!! Why? Because…”thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.” Ps. 138:2 Somebody felt the initiative to FIX the ERRORS that God had made!!! And guess what happened??? Those men like Wescott and Hort, as we look back on their writings, we see who they really were! They were reproved and found out to be blatant liars! Read the book “Final Authority” by Dr. Bill Grady and you’ll see many quotes by these men created their corrupt Greek text. God has lifted His Word above His own name, and that is the LAST THING you better mess with!!! So, look out RSV, NIV, ESV, ASV, Living Bible, Reader’s Digest Condensed Version (Why would anybody want a CONDENSED BIBLE!!!), NLT, NWT….you better watch out, cuz you’ve made God MAD!!! He said, “Don’t you touch my Words!!! You can curse me and I’ll put up with it, but don’t you are touch my Words!!!”

God has promised us EVERY WORD, and He said that those words would be PURE, and He commanded us not to tamper with those Words!!! Where is this every word, pure, not-to-be-tampered with Bible for English speaking people….THE KJB!!!!!