Can God Lie?
Mark 1:1-3
NIV
The beginning of the
gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
It is written in Isaiah the prophet: "I will send my
messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way"
"a voice of one
calling in the desert, `Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight
paths for him.'"
NASB
The beginning of the
gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: ""BEHOLD, I SEND MY
MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY;
THE VOICE OF ONE
CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS, "MAKE READY THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE HIS
PATHS STRAIGHT.'''
But wait!
"Behold, I will send my messenger,
and he shall prepare the way before me"
is not found in Isaiah! It is found
in Malachi 3:1!!
"The voice of him that crieth in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord..." is found in Isaiah 40:3
Even the NIV and NASB footnotes
admit this! Click
here to see.
But what does the KJV say?
"As it is written in the
prophets..." (Mark 1:2)
Isaiah + Malachi does not equal
"Isaiah the prophet."
Isaiah + Malachi equals "the
prophets."
Apparently the modern scholsrs can't
tell the differnece between "Isaiah" and "the prophets."
If they didn't they wouldn't have
made this contradiction in their translations.
But, what if the manuscripts they
used are in error?
What if they really do say "Isaiah
the prophet?"
Can these manuscripts be trusted?
Can God lie?
"Thy word is TRUE" Psalm 119:160
"...God, that CANNOT LIE..."
Titus 1:2
Another lie in the NASB:
John 7:6-11
6 So Jesus said to
them, " My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune.
7 " The world
cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its
deeds are evil.
8 "Go up to the
feast yourselves; I do not go up to this
feast because My time has not yet fully come.''
9 Having said these
things to them, He stayed in Galilee.
10 But when His brothers had gone up to the feast,
then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in
secret.
11 So the Jews were
seeking Him at the feast and were saying, "Where is He?''
In verse 8, Jesus is saying that He is not
going to the feast, but in verse 10, He went anyway.
This makes it appear that Jesus lied.
The King James says:
6 Then Jesus said
unto them, My time is not yet come: But your time is alway ready.
7 The world cannot
hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works
thereof are evil.
8 Go ye up unto
this feast:
I
go not up yet
unto this feast: for my time is not yet full come.
9 When he had said
these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee.
10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he
also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in
secret.
11 Then the Jews
sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
It is only a
one-word difference, but in the KJV, the Lord Jesus is NOT made a liar.
If debating this
minor change seems unimportant to you,
one new Christian
almost lost his faith over it.
Is Jesus in Danger of
Judgment?
Matthew 5:22
"But I say unto you, That whosoever
is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of
the judgment..." KJV
"But I tell you that anyone who is
angry with his brother will be subject to judgment..." NIV
"But I say to you that everyone who
is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court..." NASB
The newer versions omit "without a cause."
Another "minor" change, right?
Read Mark 3:5
He [Jesus] looked around at them in
anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts..." NIV
After looking around at them with
anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He said to the man..."
NASB
In this verse, Jesus was angry, but he had a
reason, "the hardness of their hearts."
In the NIV and NASB, anyone who is angry is in
danger of judgment, period.
This would make our Lord Jesus in danger of
judgment!!!
Blasphemy in the new Bible versions:
NIV calls Satan "Jesus!!!"
Lucifer is another name for Satan. It is
found once in the Bible:
Isaiah 14:12:
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! KJV
But the NIV and the NASB (and
others) leave it out:
How you have fallen from heaven, O
morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the
earth, you who once laid low the nations! NIV
How you have fallen
from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut
down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations! NASB
But wait? Who is the
"morning star?"
The NIV reveals that
the morning star is none other than Jesus Christ:
"I, Jesus,
have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am
the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning
Star." Revelation 22:16,
But wait!
Didn't the NIV say that the morning star is an evil creature that
is fallen from heaven?
Didn't the NIV
replace "Lucifer" with "morning star?"
Jesus and Satan are
one in the NIV!
But wait, you say.
The Isaiah 12:14 "morning star" is not capitalized, but the
Revelation 22:16 one is.
They have to be
different then, because of this.
Wrong. The NIV
also calls Jesus, "morning star" with all lower case letters:
And we have
the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do well to pay
attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day
dawns and the morning star rises in your
hearts. 2 Peter 1:19,
I will also
give him the morning star. Revelation 2:28--
What about
the NASB?
The NASB
changes "Lucifer" to "star of the morning" which is means the exact
same thing as "morning star." They are gramatical equivalants.
The NASB, in effect, makes Satan Jesus. too! This is much
more subtle than the NIV, but it is still there.
Another
thing about this confusion over the identity of "morning star" the
Bible says that God is not the author of confusion (1 Corintians
14:33). If God is not the author of confusion, then who is behind
these new "Bible" versions? Who would want us to believe that Jesus and
Satan are one?
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