A JUNGLE Out There

The Important Issue of Bible Versions

Due to a number of situations over the years (such as this example from the "King James Only" side, and this one from the "multi-version" perspective), we've increasingly been burdened to share truth when it comes to the multiplicity of Bible versions that are available today. Instead of beginning with a modern perspective and working backward, we're going to use Genesis as our starting point.

First, let's look at some basics:

(I feel for folk who are learning English with all of its double meanings and illogical wording!)

Look at these signs and take note of the double (unintended) meaning!

What WERE the "words" to which Jesus was referring--and what were the languages? For starters, the Luke 24 passage originally was written by Luke in GREEK, one of THREE ancient languages that the Creator chose to use in communicating His Revelation to all mankind.

Second, Jesus specifically was referring back to the Old Testament which is comprised of ancient Hebrew with some parts in Aramaic.

Next, let's look at some reasons for this study...

We truly desire to pass along a...

Some years ago, our family was visiting Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina. As I have distributed our creation cards for many years now, I recall offering one of our earlier ones to a gentleman which resulted in a brief conversation. His belief in evolution was behind the above response!

Truly, the issue of Bible translations is FAR from "simple" as it deals with literally THOUSANDS of years of Bible and linguistics history, and multitudes of fallible copyists of the ancient texts! But while it is no simple subject, what IS simple to realize from the Scripture is that God HAS provided us the reliable Revelation of His Word!

Every issue must be taken back to a foundational world view. The ideology of "evolution" is the basis for many notable evils in our culture, as illustrated below:

How could space exploration be traced to evolutionary ideology? (See quotes below.)

(Note the word "cause" and realize that it is the thinking that man is continuing to "evolve.")

(I like living on earth! Burrows is some kind of BOZO to think dinosaurs could have a "space program"!)

(There is absolutely NO Biblical basis for asserting that "leviathan" in Scripture "represents" anything!)

(Quote from the same missionary. See illustration below that contradicts the above statement!)

John Eldredge's book, "Wild at Heart"

So...God, the Creator of all things..."rigged the world"?

See if you can catch the "gap theory" terminology below...

First red flag: the word "story" concerning actual the historical account of Scripture.

For someone reading this who may wonder, "What's the 'gap theory'?" it's basically the idea that between the first two verses of Genesis 1 is a "gap" of an indeterminate amount of time. This thought allows for the "millions of years" of the evolutionary worldview. It also places man in charge of determining what took place during that hypothetical stretch of time. And with the Creator supposedly making everything before the account of verses 2 and following, those verses would then concern God remaking everything with Satan around already there to wreak havoc. What's more, He called it all "very good." (!) As one can see, there are serious issues with this view of Scripture!

Extremely dangerous belief that "God's Word comes to me in many ways..." (!)