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Question #12
QUESTION: Aren't there some great men
who use other versions?
ANSWER: Yes, but they are all in subjection
to the perfect Bible.
EXPLANATION: There are preachers who
are considered "great" by many who either openly or covertly
disdain the concept of the Bible being perfect. They correct it with
regularity and openly attack those who claim to accept it as infallible.
There are also many Christian colleges and universities
where a student is shown "mistakes" in the King James Bible.
The obvious question is: "How can these great men and institutions
be wrong and still have God bless them"? The answer is found in
the Bible, our final authority in all matters of faith
and practice.
As we turn to II Kings 17 we find Israel in a sad state.
They have been conquered by Assyria and the Israelites were carried
away captive, II Kings 17:23. The king of Assyria then planted heathen
foreigners in the land of Israel, II Kings 17:24. These people did not
fear God so He sent lions among them to kill them, verse 25, causing
them to cry out for Jewish priests to be sent to teach them how to worship
"the God of the land", II Kings 17:26-28. The result is found
in verses 32 and 41. The Bible says that, "They feared the LORD,
and served their own gods".
This same thing is true among our fundamental preachers
and colleges. Many fundamental preachers really do not believe that
the Bible is infallible, but they dare not admit it. So they "fear
the LORD," ie, they stand in the pulpit, hold the Bible in the
air and declare, "This Book is the absolute word of God without
a mixture of error". Then, out of the pulpit they "serve their
own gods" in that they privately point to what they consider mistakes
in the Bible and ridicule anyone who really believes what they
had just said in the pulpit. This may seem hypocritical. It
is. It may seem two-faced. It is. But rest assured, they would never
say that they believe the Bible is perfect while standing in the pulpit
if they didn't "Fear the LORD " enough to know that they would
be ruined if anyone knew what they really believed.
In other words, you'll never hear one of them stand in the pulpit, hold
up the Bible and say, "I believe that this Book is poorly translated
and full of errors and that there isn't a perfect version on
the face of this earth that you can hold in your hand".
If they ever made such an honest confession they know that they would
be "through". Thus God's "lions" MAKE
them bow their knees to the perfect Bible even if they
do it only as lip service.
Likewise, our Christian colleges and universities dare
not say, "Come to our school and we will destroy your faith in
the perfect Bible and show you that it is filled with errors".
No, to only "serve their own gods" in such a way would bring
the "lions" to the campus doors. They "Fear the LORD"
enough to advertise themselves as schools who "Stand without apology
for the absolute authority of Scripture" or some even go so far
as to boast "We use only the King James Bible". Then, after
the student has been accepted, after the student has
committed himself to the school, then and only then, do they begin ever
so subtly to destroy their faith in the perfect Bible and show
that the "good old King James" is full of errors.
But they know, and God knows that they were too scared not to bend their
knees to "the God of the land" and His Book, the King James
Bible.
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