06/27/23
My response today that we do not have the word of God, (I saw this on a website today), because we do not have the originals.. the original autographs Etc:
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.....God has His Word in the form that He wants it in at all times. The Lord Himself added to His Words at different times making what was said earlier different than what He said later. There many examples of this...I will give a couple:
In (Jery 36:32 King James), after King Jehoiakim had the Word of God burned, God had Jeremiah re-write the "former words" (28), which the King had burnt. So, number 1, God didn't forget the original words, but also, number 2, in the last verse of (Jery 36:32 KJ) God actually "added" words to the original, i.e., to what was burnt by the king. Thus you have a completely different book now than what was in the Bible before God added more words.
What does this teach? It teaches us that God preserved His original words and also changed them...added to them. Now, does He have the ability to remember the original autographs? Does God also have the authority to add to His Words? Can Almighty God, who made the universe get a book put out, change it, and preserve it for generations forever?
(Psalms 12:6,7 KJ) The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
(7) Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
The issue is not that there were earlier Bibles. There was an earlier Bible one day in Jeremiah's day, and another a day or so later. And God was the One that had Jery rewrite all the words. How could God do that? How could God remember all the words in the 'original' scroll? If 'anyone' has trouble with that answer, they may want to seriously check their salvation.
Another example, in (Luke 4:18,19 KJ). The Lord Jesus quotes from (Isa 61:1, 2a KJ). He doesn't read the last part of verse 2 because He wasn't there in His first coming to bring the vengeance of God. But notice that when He quotes that passage in Isaiah, the Lord Jesus 'adds' a sentence:
..."and recovering of sight to the blind,"
If you read, or "study", another word left out in the so-called 'modern-versions' in (2 Tim 2:15 KJ), you will find that that sentence in (Lk 4:18 KJ) is not in (Isa 61:1 KJ). Once again, the Lord Jesus who is the Word of God (Jn 1:1; Rev 19:13 KJ), 'added' to His Words. What does that tell us? It 'should' tell us that He has all authority over His own Words; that He has all authority over all things; that when He said in (Matt 24:35 KJ) that His Words would "shall not pass away.", and in (Mt 4:4; Lk 4:4 KJ) that man is to live by "every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.", that He actually meant that. And if God means what He says, then He has His Word in the form that He wants it in in all generations and to all people. That is, we cannot live by every Word that proceedeth out of God's mouth if we don't actually have it. The issue is 'not' that we do not possess the original autographs, the issue is that God does...and gives His Word how ever He chooses to do so.
The issue is not man's fallibility and fallen, sinful nature; the issue is Almighty God's faithfulness and Almighty power to perform and do exactly what He said that He would do... i.e. "preserve" His Words.
The great error of the "dispensation of grace" (Eph 3:2 KJ) church, that God started with Paul (1 Tim 1:16 KJ), is in being satanically and self-deceived, to ever believe that man's fallibility is stronger than God's ability to fulfill His Words to us; that we cannot possibly have the Word of God today because we don't have the "originals", the autographs etc.; that because God had His Words different at different times somehow equals that we don't have His Word today. Israel also, in their day, before God temporarily diminished her (Rom 11:12,25 KJ), forsook the Word of God..(2 Kings 22:13; Jery 11:10 KJ),..and we all know the horrible consequences of that great error.
God tells us how to know which Words (Book) is His:
(John 7:17 KJ) If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
...The punishment for despising God's Words is very clear. See also (Rev 22:19 KJ) where, in the very verse that God warns us all about not taking away His Words, the 'modern-versions' change "book" of life to "tree" of life. Note very clearly the punishment for doing that in (Rev 22:19 KJ)
(Proverbs 13:13 KJ) Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
..We can't love the Lord Jesus by keeping His Words if we don't have them:
(John 14:23 KJ) Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus.