7/25/23

 

Romans 8:38-39  (NIV)

38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38-39 (Codex Sinaiticus - oldest existing NT manuscript.

8:38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers

39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Do you notice the difference?  So next time someone tells me that the Bible has never changed and the words are exact, my answer is they are wrong.  Man has manipulated the words of God in the Bible multiple time throughout history to fit an agenda.  Take the current battle over homosexuality.  First, the word did not exist in the English lexicon until the late 1960s to 1970s, so there was no way it would have been in the Bible.  Secondly, the addition of the word into the Bible anywhere was forced on the publishers by the United State Council of Churches.    Just one example is 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 which is one of the six most quoted scriptures by the LBGQT+ haters.

The actual translation from the oldest known manuscript is as follows

9 Or know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit God’s kingdom? Be not deceived: neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites.

10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Now compared to the one with the anti-gay quote. 

9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men

10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Do you see the substitution?  We need to be very careful about what we quote and the true source.   There is a very vile agenda afloat that has nothing to do with the original teachings of Jesus nor with the teaching of Saint Peter or Paul.