To demonstrate how significant slight changes are let me ask you to compare the following statements...
Abortion is the removal of the products of conception from the uterus.
Abortion is the killing of a baby while still inside the mother's womb.
Or consider how powerful just the changing of one single word is...
Oh, shoot! I forgot my shoes!
Oh, shit! I forgot my shoes!
What the heck are you doing?
What the hell are you doing?
I can't find my freakin' keys!
I can't find my fuckin' keys!
Sorry bout that...but it proves the point. The fact that the "f" word makes me (and many) cringe to read or type says it all. There is power in specific words that is lacking in others.
The world was created by the Living Word who spoke the world into creation. There is power in the tongue. Power in words.
There is supposed to be power in the words God left for us in the Bible. Changing them...takes away their power. Any Bible version that's not aimed at being specifically "word-for-word" has changed God's word...
(And, what a subtle and tricksey way to take away our power by offering us pretty covers and "easier" wording...We live in a world where the US Church has become a joke with its 50% divorce rate and worship of politics and meaningless Christianese explanations for all the evil in the world...)
You can choose a pretty Bible with a trendy cover and wording any elementary school student can read...or you can choose to read/study what God actually said. The choice is yours...I can't for the life of me understand why any lover of the Living Word would be OK with it...
