Saturday, September 20, 2014

How big is God?

I was recently having a discussion with a fellow Christian who was going to tell her Sunday school class she teaches that they needed to get rid of their bibles. She read online that there were 337 differences between the King James and these other translations. She said they should have the oldest and most accurate version. She was even willing to buy them bibles. 

Now I don't wanna start the argument about which version is best. What I want to ask is what I asked her. Do you believe God is big enough to overcome human error? If someone makes a mistake in translation or even teaching, can God overcome that?

I am not talking about intentional misrepresentation. We all know that is wrong. But what about a mistake. Perhaps you quote a verse wrong. Leave out a word while sharing the Gospel. Can God overcome that?

I will say that I believe He is. He was in the business of reconciling people to him before we had the bible. He still saves people who don't have bibles in there language and can't read the word. People have been saved thru videos like the Jesus film YWAM has been backpacking in remote areas around the globe for years. 

I told her my advice was to tell her class the only bible that matters is the one you read. A wore out cover is more important than the version inside of it. God is bigger than translations. 


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