10. edited, THE MODERN BIBLE IS NOT INERRANT AND INFALLIBLE / YETZER RA

     The Yetzer Ra is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible, we find him though in Jewish literature and he's mainly a mischievous being causing confusion, memory loss and error, as a friend and I just learned.  There's a positive being by a slightly different name.  A couple events were erased from memory until I helped overcome something looking much like the delusion I recently uncovered and his effect on me was to erase most of this posting which I'll now rewrite.  There is much in God's creation that is not in the Bible and I learned today the importance of being open to more correct works.  I know that sounds heretical but read through.

     This posting will mainly be an assimilation of information scattered throughout the earlier blog, with  bit of new that's recently come to me.
     In posting #48. BELIEVE IT ALL OR BELIEVE NONE, I share a paragraph from the Chumash which had been directed to my attention from the ultimate authority. In sum, it says we can't change one letter or word of the Torah, (the Jewish version of, and almost identical to our old testament) because if we can change a single letter, what's to keep us from changing a word, paragraph or any part we don't like?
     I took that to mean I should take every bit of the Bible as truth vs. my old thinking, "It's not quite right, but the truth is in there."  I just spoke with an old friend and homebuyer who recalled my having said that.  I was thinking he'd called out of the blue but there just aren't any coincidences in my life these days.  I had formed that opinion after reading a chronological Bible and not being able to keep from noticing many apparent discrepancies.  To name a few obvious ones, in the gospels, there are 2 accounts of Judas's death, in one case, he hanged himself, in another he fell down in the field of blood and spilled his guts out, in one account the fig tree withers immediately, in another it withers overnight, were there 2 men at Jesus's tomb or one angel, was there one demoniac at Gadarenes or 2 at Gerasenes - I may have mixed up the names here -, was Jesus's robe scarlet or purple, why do Josephs' genealogies differ and what do they matter since he wasn't the biological father of Jesus, etc?  With a bit of online research, I came up with 5 pages of single spaced discrepancies.  A brother who contacted me from CO says they all can be explained, I'm happy to accept this but haven't researched yet.
    When Constantine legalized christianity, forming the catholic church, christianity was combined with paganism.  In fact, on a statue to Semiramis and her son and husband, Nimrod, the names were scratched out and Mary and Jesus were added.  Her name, the Queen of Heaven, passed directly to Mary and Mary is the focus of worship vs. Jesus in catholicism.  The catholics did much to distort and change the Bible which evolved into the christian Bible and added several books to what became their Bible.  I've gone into detail previously on the specifics of satan's historical religion and won't repeat here.  He's been adding to his holdings in recent years.
     This isn't to be a comprehensive work, I can make my point without the research, but I'm told there have been gross distortions in the Bible as well as numerous translational mistakes, a few of which I'll detail here.  The truth is in there but we have to keep things in context and can't pull out just the part we like and leave the part we don't.  We have to take it all or take none.
     For instance, we can't just take EPHESISANS 2:8-9 and forget about 10.  "We are saved by faith through grace, it is not of ourselves, it is a gift from God, not by works so that no one may boast," but we like to forget about verse 10, "For we are all God's handiwork created in Christ Jesus to be doing good works God has prepared in advance for us to be doing."
     Dr. Keyton has emphasized the importance of the King James translation for accuracy and in my personal experience, Jesus seems to stay in this version with much of his terminology.  There is probably much error here from prior translations and changes.  From previous postings, here are 3 examples of translational error I've come across in my work and I haven't studied specifically looking for error:

1. Lucifer's description from the NIV:  EZEKIEL 28:13  "You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.  Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared."

From KJV:  EZEKIEL 28:13  Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx and the jasper,the sapphire, the emerald and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

     I don't know precious stones but unless synonyms are used, these seem to have been changed.  In the KJV, gold was part of Lucifer's covering, in the NIV however, his settings and mountings, for holding the stones were made of gold on the day he was created.  However, in the KJV, we see musical instruments were prepared in him on the day he was created.  Satan was the director of the heavenly choir and this is a huge distortion in meaning between the 2 translations.  He had musical instruments built into his body, not settings and mountings made of gold.

2.  In Ephesian 6:12, Jesus is telling us what our struggles are against, listing, probably in descending order, the fallen angels and ending with the most prevalent but harmless of evil, the demons.  Assume the KJV to be the most accurate and I'll chart what translators, who apparently didn't know what they were looking at distorted the angel names and sequence into:

KJV                principalities                    powers                      rulers
NLT                evil rulers                        authorities                  mighty powers
ESV                rulers                              authorities                  cosmic powers
NAS               rulers                              powers                       world forces
Jubilee             principalities                    powers                       lords of this age
Darby              principalities                    powers                      universal lords
ERV                principalities                    powers                      world rulers
Weymouth      despotisms                       empires                      forces that control and govern

     Wikipedia compounds the confusion by describing powers as being synonymous with authorities, and principalities with rulers, so either KJV is wrong or wikipedia is.  KJV shows principalities and rulers as being a different angel class.  I don't know Hebrew so won't be getting to the source of this problem personally.
   
3. A third example I came across while studying Dr. Keyton's work is related to the naming of fallen angels.  Any time we see the phrase, "spirit of" in front of a word, we may assume the word is an angel, God's or satan's is named by that word and further uses of the word may refer to the angel.  For instance, in the KJV, Isaiah 61:3, we see a "spirit of" (named) "heaviness."  This spirit causes depression.  When inviting this spirit to leave, we must "loosen" the spirit of heaviness, rebuke it and cast it out, IN JESUS'S NAME.
     Here are ways other translations distort this; NLT loses the spirit entirely and says "despair."  ESV renames it "faint spirit," NET loses the spirit and says "discouragement," God's Word translation changes its name to spirit of "weakness," Douay Rheims renames it to a spirit of "weakness," etc. THE SPIRIT'S NAME IS HEAVINESS and he is a fallen angel!
     Our beloved old Bible has gotten a bit ragged coming down through the ages.

     Most of us, with our limited earth eyes and intellectual ability can't conceive of the true nature of our world and universe.  We define everything in terms of what we see and feel, based on our very limited senses.  It is a spiritual universe.
     Recently, when conversing with a friend, I told him Jesus is an angel.  He took offense saying he thought Jesus was the son of God.  Yes, that too.  I suppose my friend visualized a flesh and blood Jesus and a flesh and blood God.  JOHN 4:24 "God is spirit...," Jesus is too and so are our consiousnesses.  As far as truly understanding the Bible, I'm told I have a grain of salt, that every word in jewish books, sometimes every letter, or 3rd letter in a sequence of four, for instance, has a special meaning. That doesn't work with mistranslations. We've lost much.
    The Hebrew Chumash is the pure, unadulterated word of God which takes hidden meaning to an ultra high level and I've just started to take a look at this incredible tome.  A rabbi named Ramban told his students that a certain portion of the Torah had an allusion to every person's name and destiny.  A student named Abner turned heretic and challenged his teacher.  "Where is my name found in the Haazinu?" the student asked.  Ramban answered his student that there were 4 words that described his fate and the third letters in each word contained his name.  The rabbi then showed the student his name and the four words, (God said of those who defy him), "I will scatter them to the four corners of the earth; I will make their remembrance cease from among men." DEUTERONOMY 32: 26.  The student blanched, repented and set off on a self imposed exile.  This book is the inerrant, infallible word of God, maintained throughout history in it's pristine, original condition as handed down from God to Moses.
     I don't enjoy listening to pastors trying to preach in King James english, I don't her it much any more and will only hear it once at any church, but for best results with the true meaning of the Bible and minimum distortion, it should be used for research work.  So the next time you see a pastor waving his Bible telling you it's the inerrant, infallible word of God, now you know better.
      How does God handle so much information?  He has a supercomputer that spans everywhere He goes.  Our electronics systems are modeled after God's. He uploaded some data into me during my recent jail stay, I saw it coming in a couple times and have heard of the exact same experience by another.
     I'm being taught one peculiar thing after the next.  I spent much of the day in confusion and consternation because of a change in memory about a couple events by another, one event pertaining to one I hope to soon be near and dear to me.  For the first time I started this blog, I lost most of a posting, this one, and have rewritten most of it.  That was my experience with a Yetzer Ra.  This evening I broke a chalice for evil and burned it, inviting the evil into the abyss and a couple nights ago, I invited an evil spirit to leave a home, making the homeowner feel much better.  I'm told I have much more to write.  Life is getting exciting, I'm wondering what's next.  I need only one more thing......

In his service, a Misfit Child of God