diminish from it.". And in Proverbs 30:5-6 it seems that the intent at protection is all inclusive: "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.". When there are recriminations and unchristian words and thoughts flying both directions over the battle lines between Christian camps, and for that matter within the twelve tribes of Israel themselves, drawn over which bible, Satan must be extremely gleeful and satisfied. Every war has it's Mata Hari or Tokyo Rose, whose purpose was to distract the troops from their real mission, that of winning the war. In the spiritual war, I feel that the 'which bible' controversy is one of these. When we are busy worrying over which Bible that we and our neighbor read, we are not about our Father's business of spreading the gospel. Which bible? As long as it is read in context, with Holy Spirit guidance, the one that you are comfortable with is right for you. We also, should give our neighbors an equal opportunity to make the same Spirit guided choice of Bible, and quit trying to be like the Most High. I am certain that the apostles were aware of the disinformation attack by Satan in those days, and they were vigorous in warning about his campaign. Somehow we lost sight of the real meaning of those warnings, and have fallen prey to the results of our blind spots. In my past training I was taught that any word, whether noun or personal pronoun, relating to God should be started with an upper case letter, and some of the most sacred names, such as JAH, were to be all upper case letters. In all of the translations, that I have been reading lately, it finally sank in that the personal pronouns are not capitalized. In Isaiah 14:12-14 it says, "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high.". It 139 _______________________________________________________________________________ appears to me that Satan is so extremely subtle, that we can never begin to relax our vigilance, or we are in trouble. When I asked a pastor friend of mine about the upper case difference, he stated that he also, was trained the way I was, but was advised in Bible college that current writing standards dictated lower case on the 'he, him, his' personal pronouns. How long then until the standards are relaxed again so that God is lower cased into equality with Baal and all the others who are now referred to as gods in scripture. How can words reflecting an unchanging God themselves change? I think, only, in one way. That way is indicated in the passage from Isaiah quoted above. Satan in his quest to be like the Most High, will do anything to accomplish this. If he can't attain the height to be equal with God, well then why not reduce the reverence afforded Him, thereby bringing God down to his level. You say I am tilting at wind mills? Why then isn't the personal pronoun I treated equally as i? Seems only fair to me. I will show what, I believe, is scriptural proof of the apostles concern about the subtle attacks of Satan in the section on which church, to avoid redundancy. More and more I am seeing that 'which Bible?' and 'which church?' are inseparable, they must be studied concurrently. 140 ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ |
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