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#2)  How can a translation be inspired?  

All apostates today are teaching that a translation cannot be inspired.  Please ask them to give you a chapter and verse.  When they cannot ask them to repent of blaspheming the word of God. 

This is really very basic, but used as a smoke screen to fog ones knowledge of the truth.  Let's just take the Book of Genesis for example.  If we could just find the original writing of Moses according to all the educated liars, we would finally have Gods perfect inspired word.  I would then point out that many parts of that one-and-only original being in Hebrew was made up of translated words.  It contains the conversations between Joseph and his brothers all of which conversed in two languages.   

. . . for he spake unto them by an interpreter. Gen 42:23

 Therefore according to the educated liars the words that Joseph spoke could not be inspired even in the original because Hebrew was a translation of the conversation.  That puts us back to square one.  This truth is demonstrated throughout the Bible.  The Bible teaches good and well that copies and translations are inspired.  Two of the most important things for you to remember are:  1.  Scholars and pastors are fallible; the Bible is not.   2. The Bible does not teach anything about the originals except God had no need of them.  Like when Moses broke the original commandments on the ground etc, etc.        

These things are so simple!

Gen 40:8 . . .Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

To interpret is to translate.  Here is the translation of Dan 5:24-28.

It was written by the very hand of God!
 

Then was the part of the hand sent from him; and this writing was written. And this is the writing that was written,

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

This
is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

Now if a translation cannot be inspired
(which is a stupid thing to say) what are you going to do with those verses?   


Again:

If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.   1 Cor 14:27

Any Church or Sunday School class that uses more than one translation violates the command to keep order in the Church.  In an English speaking Church, 3 people can speak Greek if they want but when it come to translating what they said, the Bible says, LET ONE INTERPRET!  IS THAT CLEAR?  ONE!  Not "what does yours say, and mine says..."  The King James Bible is Gods interpretation of what He said so they better stop replacing it.

If you really want a nugget (never mind the greek) search for every time the word translate or translation is mentioned in the King James Bible.  You will find that every time, the translation is better than the original, try it and see.   

The word "scripture" never refers to anything original.  Compare 2 Tim 3:15,16 with Acts 8:32, look it up and see. 

Thanks for the question

Pastor Steve Sumner


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