{"id":294,"date":"2018-05-20T04:48:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T04:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themastersgoods.org\/?p=294"},"modified":"2018-05-20T04:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T04:48:26","slug":"the-big-lie-the-original-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themastersgoods.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/20\/the-big-lie-the-original-greek\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Lie (The \u201cOriginal\u201d Greek)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by: Lacy Evans<\/span><\/p>\n

2 Timothy 3:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them:<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for instruction in righteousness:<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n
  5. That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    One only has to walk a few paces outside of the protective walls of his Bible Believing church to hear the Lie.\u00a0 Walk into nearly any Christian assembly and the Lie is being repeated there with vigorous emotion and \u201cauthority\u201d.\u00a0 And sometimes (like today) I am ashamed that I have not continued to contend with the lie with the same zeal as I have in the past.\u00a0 My sword was so sharp once (by reason of use), so I write this little article to encourage those who once stood so boldly and confidently against the Lie to stir up the gift and contend again for the true Word of God.<\/p>\n

    The Lie to which I am referring\u00a0 deals with inspiration of Scripture.\u00a0 Most are not even aware of the issue; in fact the average proponent of this gross untruth has no idea what the implications of what he is saying are.\u00a0 Most simply parrot the popular catch phrases of the day without ever examining them critically. Here is the lie, the foundational issue of the whole debate over the inspiration of Scripture:<\/p>\n

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    We believe the Holy Scriptures to be verbally inspired<\/strong> by God and are inerrant in the original writing<\/strong>, and that they<\/strong> are supreme and final authority in faith and life.<\/em><\/p>\n

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    This innocent sounding little phrase (and others similar) is one of the most dangerous ideas ever to enter the house of God.\u00a0 It is found in the doctrinal statements of churches around the world.\u00a0 My Daddy used to ask me \u201cif all your friends were jumping off a cliff, would you?\u201d\u00a0 I am afraid that too many churches are jumping off the cliff into the darkness and confusion of modern textual criticism not because they have actually reasoned about it but instead because \u201ceveryone else is doing it\u201d<\/p>\n

    We hear clich\u00e9s like \u201cIt is closer to the \u2018Original Greek\u2019\u201d, or \u201cLiterally this word in \u2018The Greek\u2019 means\u2026\u201d and too often Christians just fail to think about what meaning and implication those words actually carry.<\/p>\n

    I\u2019ll get to the point.<\/p>\n