When I started studying with the Summer Institute of Linguistics,
with Wycliffe Bible Translators, I had already become
a Bible-corrector.
I actually wanted to make my own new translation of Romans.
I wanted to change "the obedience of faith" in 16:26
to "faithful obedience."
They are not the same. "The obedience of faith"
emphasizes that faith is what God wanted.
So our obedience is believing and trusting Him.
"Faithful obedience" means doing stuff for God
is what matters, with no reference to faith
or trust at all.
But what difference does it make?
What is the difference between faith and faithful?
And why does it help change your Bible
into being "Catholic approved"?
Hi, I'm David Daniels from Chick Publications.
Are we saved by faith or by works?
When I was in Bible college, I was taught that we are
justified by our faithfulness, our obedience
to various commands, but not by faith.
Was Abraham justified by faithfulness?
Habakkuk 2:4 "Behold, his soul which is lifted up
is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith."
In Bible college, my professors said
"This is wrong." They said, "That wasn't Hebrew thought,"
because my lily-white American professors knew
how ancient Hebrews thought.
Look how this teaching has filtered down into the
next generation of translators.
Modern translations change that verse, very quietly.
In the 20th century, the first were Roman Catholic:
The New Jerusalem Bible (1985), "...but the upright will live through
faithfulness.'
and liberal Jewish, the
1985 Jewish Publication Society TANAKH,
"...But the righteous man is rewarded with life for his fidelity."
And then in the 1990s we started seeing the fruit
in that next generation of Protestant translators:
1995 GOD'S WORD translation, "But the righteous person
will live because of his faithfulness."
1996 New Living Translation, "But the righteous will live
by their faithfulness to God."
1996 The NET Bible, "but the person of integrity
will live because of his faithfulness."
1998 Complete Jewish Bible, "but the righteous will attain life
through trusting faithfulness."
1999 Rotherham Bible, "but, one who is righteous,
by his faithfulness, shall live."
2001 Today's New International Version, "but the righteous will live
by their faithfulness"
2003 release of the 1869 Unitarian (Christ-denying)
George Noyes Translation, "But the just shall live by his
faithfulness."
2011 The Common English Bible. (Recognize that?)
"But the righteous person will live honestly."
Now compare the 1984 NIV to the 2011 NIV.
1984 NIV, "but the righteous will live by his
faith." [DING!]
2011 NIV, "but the righteous person will live by his
faithfulness." [BUZZ!]
They changed it! Just like that. Did you notice?
Okay. Do you know, I went through my library,
and here is the Thomas Nelson Voice Bible.
I get emails from them all the time. Look at this one.
Habakkuk 2:4, here it is: "but the righteous one will live
by his faithfulness."
Now don't forget, the apostle Paul wasn't lily-white.
According to Philippians 3:5, He was:
"Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel,
of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews..."
God understood the passage. And by inspiration
of the Holy Ghost, He made Paul, a Hebrew, to understand it.
So look at what God showed the Apostle Paul:
Romans 1:17, "For therein is the righteousness of God
revealed from faith to faith: as it is written,
The just shall live by faith."
Galatians 3:11, "But that no man is justified by the law
in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith."
Hebrews 10:38 "Now the just shall live by"
(you guessed it) "faith: ..."
This is a perfect example of what Dr. Richard Day said in 1969
was going to happen. He's that pediatrician
who was part of the New World Order
that I told you about in Vlog 92, "This Is NOT a Conspiracy Theory."
He said that people would reject Christianity and
accept a new religion. To remind you,
he said these words:
"In order to do this, the Bible will be changed.
It will be rewritten to fit the new religion.
Gradually, key words will be replaced with new words
having various shades of meaning.
Then the meaning attached to the new word
can be close to the old word..." (like "faith" to "faithfulness")
"...and as time goes on, other shades of meaning
of that word can be emphasized. And then gradually that word
replaced with another word."
"Faith" changed to "faithfulness" is just one example, and
I've only picked one verse. Do you see how big
just this one thing is?
And that's just the FIRST step.
Jack McElroy said, in Question 18 of our unrehearsed videos,
"If You Were the Devil, What Would You Do?"
that we need to be able to cross-reference between
the New and the Old Testament.
But changing "faith" into "faithfulness"
in the Old Testament, breaks apart that link
between God's words through Habakkuk and
God's words through the apostle Paul.
In other words, it takes away how the New Testament
agrees with the Old Testament, and it causes DOUBT about
whether God wants us to have "faith" or just for us
to be "faithful" religious do-gooders, with no reference to faith.
As I wrote in Why They Changed the Bible:
One World Bible for One World Religion,
since 1965, Catholics have worked on Bible translations with
Protestants, Orthodox and Baptists. All United Bible Societies,
Wycliffe Bible Translators and SIL Bibles, among others
all around the world, have to be "Catholic-approved."
Works, and not simple faith to be saved,
is a Catholic-approved doctrine. So I guess in that sense,
the new NIV and 11 other Bibles I just listed
are "Catholic-approved!"
I don't care. I'm gonna stick with the Bible
that's NOT Catholic-approved: God's preserved words in English,
the King James Bible.
I hope you will, too. God bless you, and have a wonderful,
faith-filled day.