I hope this letter finds you rejoicing today. I have often spoken about different translations of the Bible leaving major parts out to agree with the authors personal views. The latest New International Version (NIV) has several glaring omissions and is not one I would suggest you read. There are many passages that are made gender neutral for instance, they changed Fathers discipline to Parents discipline.
What do you think of this verse: Luke 9:56, KJV READS:
Whereas the new NIV reads:
If that is not eye opening, this should be:
However, in the NIV this verse does not exist. If you would do a more extensive search on this matter, you can go to bible gateway and check this out for yourselves.
There is a foundation for every heresy, and this is one of those that started a long time ago. In American history, Thomas Jefferson created his own stripped-down version of the Bible that included only the life and teachings of Jesus (with most of the miracles removed). Depicting Jesus's teachings as a radical break from Judaism, Jefferson denounced the God of the Old Testament as "cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust" and attacked the ethics of the Jews as "repulsive and anti-social." It is a well-known fact that what Jefferson did not believe to be true, he just cut those passages out. A real emphasis was text which spoke of the miraculous. You can find this quote in "Stockholm Syndrome Christianity" published by discovery institute press.
I thought it may a good time to share some of our, what many have called "Cleddie-isms." Enjoy!
Keep looking up, God is looking down!
What do you think of this verse: Luke 9:56, KJV READS:
"For the son of man is not come to destroy men's lives but to save them and they went to another village."
Whereas the new NIV reads:
"Then he and his disciples went to another village."
If that is not eye opening, this should be:
"For the son of man is come to save that which was lost." Matthew 18:11
However, in the NIV this verse does not exist. If you would do a more extensive search on this matter, you can go to bible gateway and check this out for yourselves.
There is a foundation for every heresy, and this is one of those that started a long time ago. In American history, Thomas Jefferson created his own stripped-down version of the Bible that included only the life and teachings of Jesus (with most of the miracles removed). Depicting Jesus's teachings as a radical break from Judaism, Jefferson denounced the God of the Old Testament as "cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust" and attacked the ethics of the Jews as "repulsive and anti-social." It is a well-known fact that what Jefferson did not believe to be true, he just cut those passages out. A real emphasis was text which spoke of the miraculous. You can find this quote in "Stockholm Syndrome Christianity" published by discovery institute press.
I thought it may a good time to share some of our, what many have called "Cleddie-isms." Enjoy!
- What is gained by intercession is kept by intercession.Every expectation has its visitation.
- It's too late for prevention, it s time for intervention.
- The extent of humiliation, will be the extent of exaltation.
- What God asks you to do, never ends with what God asks you to do.
- My limitation, is an invitation, to God's participation, in my situation.
- I'm coming to a King, my petitions I bring. His grace and power are such, that I can never ask too much.
- God is in a good mood!
- You may get what you want, but you may not want what you get.
- Keep on keeping on.
- Keep looking up God is looking down.
- When your out go exceeds your income, your up keep becomes your down fall.
- The world is dying and going to hell and your out to lunch.
- Your drunker than Cooter Brown.
- MY GOD!
- When you preach I want you to hump up like a rat on a rafter and shell the corn.
- You can't split an eagles tongue and teach it to say "Poly wants a cracker."
- Don't put a live chick under a dead hen.
- When your knees are knocking kneel on them!!!!
- More!!! Fire!!!! Shewwww!!!
- The call is greater than the fall.
- I'm pushing my chips to the middle of the table, I'm betting' on God.
- There ain't no party like a Holy Ghost party cause a Holy Ghost party don't stop.
Keep looking up, God is looking down!
Pastor Cleddie and GayNell Keith