In this series we've seen how the Bible was translated from ancient manuscripts.

The original languages were Hebrew for the Old Testament and Greek for the New.

There are also some Aramaic

manuscripts.

Once these translations were reworked they became versions.

We've also acknowledged the additions added to the text by the scholars who worked it.

The originals had no punctuation, no upper or lower case letters, no chapter or verse references, no chapter headings and no red letter text.

All of which were intended as helps and aids for the Bible student.

However, they are misleading at times and never to be considered as having any Divine authority.

We thus conclude that no Bible scholar (recent or otherwise ) dare add to or delete from the information gathered from these critical manuscripts. The same would apply to the Bible itself.

Even should they be legion who would elevate their vapid egos above the Word of God, we would do well to consider them the anathema their words declare them to be.

Revelation 22:18-19

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book. (1769 Authorized Version)

The Bible isn't full of stories and myths, men are!

History is full of those who stop at nothing to further their own desires. Their labors are aimed at discrediting God Himself. Men come and go, but the Word of God lives and abides forever.

Who would you rather believe? The man whose hollow words die with him, or the Word of the Living God!

Just what do they believe who think the Bible is a &#8220story” book? What is their &#8220Christian” rule for faith and practice if not the Bible?

Perhaps the greatest secret in the world today is that the Bible is the revealed Word AND Will of God! Many believe the Bible to be the Word of God but few believe it to be His Will.

Now that you know, you need never again pray &#8220Lord IF it be thy will.” I John 5:14-15

And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.. (1769 Authorized Version)

The following record is possibly the most concise explanation in all the Bible of how we got this wonderful Word of God: Jeremiah 36:1-2,4

And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, [that] this word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Take thee a roll [scroll] of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, evenunto this day.

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll [scroll] of a book. (1769 Authorized Version)

God spoke to Jeremiah who spoke to Baruch who then wrote it down.

His purpose for doing this:

Jeremiah 36:3

It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purposeto do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin. (1769 Authorized Version)

All got to hear this Word when Baruch read it to them per Jeremiah's charge. But the king and others rejected the Word and treated it disrespectfully by cutting it up and burning it. What they could not do was dispense with the Author.

Jeremiah 36:27-28

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

(1769 Authorized Version)

You can bind men, but not God and His Word [II Timothy 2:9]

Reject the apostates and take God at His Word!

The Reverend Linus A. Mathis III is the founder and director of Frontier Christian Ministries. Contact him at fcm@mtaonline.net.