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[c. 1996, revised 1999, 2002]
By Dr. V. Streifling
God’s Word is Sacred. Indeed He Himself holds it more sacred than His very Own Name. So the Psalmist declared “For You have magnified your word above All Your Name.” (Psalm 138:2)
For this reason, God Himself forbids anyone adding to or deleting from His Word, and with fearful consequences—for to do so, one exalts himself above God Himself, who declares “My covenant I will not break, nor alter the Word that has gone out of My lips.” (Psalm 89:34). So He commands us:
“You shall not add to the Word which I commanded you, nor take anything from it.”(Deut 4:2)
“Whatever I command…you shall not add to it, nor take away from it” (Deut 12:32)
“Every Word of God is pure. Do not add to His words, lest He reprove you, and you be found liar.” (Prov 30:5-6)
“…and All Liars will have their part in the Lake which burns with fire and brimstone” (Rev 21:8)
“If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book: and if anyone takes away from the words of this book…God will take away his part from the Book of life, and from the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.” (Rev 22:18-19)
In His High Priestly prayer, Jesus interceded with the Father “Sanctify them with Thy Word, Thy Word is Truth” (John 17:17). Thus any additions or deletions in His Word will change it from Pure Truth, to less than truth, or even lies. So God’s condemnation against Israel was:
“And she hath changed My judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and My statutes more than the countries around her.” (Ezek 5:6)
And his condemnation of those nations was:
“Who changed the Truth of God for a Lie…” (Rom 1:25)
Thus when Christ comes for His people ‘who keep the commandments of God’, of necessity they will only be those who have not changed, added to or taken away from His Word, for He has repeatedly warned against doing that! There can be no rationale to justify changing, adding to or deleting from The Word of God, whereby one exalts himself above God Himself. No—not even if I claim it gives “Fresh insights” “To stimulate a new experience of faith and spiritual growth” (!) for Paul says:
“If our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say, Is God unjust Who inflicts wrath?…Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? For IF the truth of God has increased through my lie to His Glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?” (Rom 3:5-7)
Taking God’s view of this into account, we should examine the SDA’s 1994 Clear Word Bible to note numerous examples of just to what extent it has been distorted through additions, deletions and changes which are made to support their doctrinal views found in their commentaries and Ellen White’s books.
As early as July 1994, this ‘Clear Word Bible’ was even receiving negative reviews by SDA’s own writers, as David Newman, editor of Ministry magazine who named several specific difficulties with it:
1. Its disclaimers in the preface are seldom read, so not being heeded. Thus it is widely used for Bible study and even preaching from the pulpits and as a textbook!
2. Claiming to be a paraphrase, it’s not for ‘a paraphrase is not a loose rendering of someone else’s words with added commentary’. Paraphrase does not add to or subtract from the original meaning.
3. The author replaces ‘ambiguity’ with ‘his interpretation’ as changing “Lord’s day” to ‘Sabbath’.
4. It ‘intertwined so much of Ellen White…that the general effect has been to canonize Ellen White’.
5. The title ‘Clear Word Bible’ “is most unfortunate. This is not a “Bible.”
6. The format is not by paragraphs, as paraphrases do, but verse by verse to appear like the KJV.
7. “I fear what our critics will say when they find how much Ellen White has contributed to this “bible.”
8. People will begin memorizing it and quoting it as Scripture. Already used for Sabbath School class.
9. Even though the author of CWB may not feel that Rev 22:18-19 apply to this book, since it is called a Bible some will draw the opposite conclusion. “I hope the author (of CWB) will withdraw or at the very least drastically revise this book.” (see http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/clearword/reservations.htm )
Sadly, J. David Newman’s warnings landed on deaf ears, and it began selling at SDA’s Book and Bible houses, like hotcakes at a country fair, being heavily promoted at camp meetings and in magazines etc. Several years later, after more alarming reviews, the Clear Word Bible was renamed “the Clear Word” and though having some modifications, yet remained largely the same as before.
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Deliberate Distortions in Beginnings
Part A
Words and Definitions of Time
Before looking at specific places where ‘day’ ‘night’ ‘evening’ ‘morning’ ‘light’ and ‘darkness’ are used we should first note their respective Hebrew words, as being distinct words, not just different word uses:
Light number 216 (Strong’s). Owr – illuminate, light.
Day number 3117 (Strong’s). Yom—day, daytime. Eg. “God called the light ‘day’ (Gen 1:5). Also used this way in Gen 1:14, 16 and 18 as 12 hrs of light, being ‘daytime’
Darkness number 2 822 Koshek – Dark. To darken.
Night number 39 15 Layelah—night, fig., adversity. Eg. “God called the darkness ‘night’” (vs 5, egs above)
Evening number 6153 Ereb – Dusk. Evening. Sunset Nb. “Dusk” is only brief time before and after sunset.
Morning number1242 Boqer—Dawn. Dawning. Nb. “Dawn” is only brief time before and including sunrise.
We note that it was God who called the light (216) ‘day’ (3117) and the darkness (2822) ‘night’ (3915). For us to change these to something else, elevates us above God, redefining and correcting His words. The Bible does not say ‘night’ and ‘day’ were the first day (yom), but the ‘evening’ (dusk) and the ‘morning’ (dawn) were the first ‘day’ (yom). Here dusk and dawn are the 2 ends of the 12-hr light time God called ‘day’ in vs 5. Thus ‘day’ in this context is about 12 hrs time—not 24 hrs. It’s also used figuratively for an undefined time, for in Gen 2:4 God calls the time of creation a ‘day’, before separation of light from darkness, and before there was ‘evening-morning’ (1:3-5) for the first ‘day’. In 5:2 the whole creation time is called ‘day’ (yom). This shows deliberate distortions in CWB re. Creation Time:
1. In Gen 2:4 the CWB omits the line “in the day in which the Lord made the earth and the heavens” to 7.
2. In Gen 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23 and 31 CWB changes ‘ereb-boqer’ into ‘layelah’ and ‘yom’ to redefine ‘day’ from 12 hrs ‘light’ (1:5) to ‘daytime and nighttime’ or 24 hrs of time!
8. In Gen 2:2 CWB adds ‘creation Week’ to make each ‘ereb-boqer’ time to be 24 hrs. But only 6 days occurred—not 7 which is a ‘week’. This forces God to create on the 7th day when He ceased from that.
9-10. In Gen 5:1-2 CWB changes ‘yom’ (day) for ‘when’ and ‘right after’ confuting its 24-hr days.
11-20. In Gen 5:4-5, 8, 11,14, 17, 20, 23, 27 and 31, ten times ‘Yom’ is equated with Years. To evade this Bible proof that ‘day’ is not only 24 hrs, in Genesis, CWB omits it in vs 4, using ‘altogether’ in The 9 other citings.
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Distortions in Beginnings
Part B
In the Text of Genesis 1 to 3
1. Gen 1:26 CWB adds “But that did not end His work for that day” and “to His Son” and CWB changes ‘according to our likeness’ to ‘to reflect our thinking and personality’.
2. Gen 1:27 CWB adds “who would reflect the oneness of the Godhead”; changes “God created man” to “THEY created two human beings” (Mormonism) and omits “In the image of God He created him to…He created them.”
3. Gen 1:28 CWB adds “And His Son”
4. Gen 1:31 CWB adds “through His Son”
5. Gen 2:18 CWB adds “On the sixth day of creation” and “and His Son said to each other.”
6. Gen 3:4 CWB adds “That’s a lie”
7. Gen 3:5 CWB adds “There are magical powers in the tree”
8. Gen 3:6 CWB adds “As the serpent ate it” and “Suddenly she felt a strong urge to eat it” and “and instantly felt a surge of energy. Excited, she took more fruit and ran to her husband” also adding “When Adam saw her, he knew what she had done and also what the consequences would be. But in the blush of her excitement, she looked more beautiful than ever. He couldn’t bear the thought of living without her. He quickly took the fruit…”
9. Gen 3:15 CWB adds “of sin in the heart of the woman…and this hatred of sin will find its ultimate expression in one of her offspring” also adding “Satan like a striking serpent will try to kill Him but as a man crushes the head of a poisonous snake with his bear heal to save his children, knowing he will die, so the Savior will sacrifice His own life to save those who love Him…”
10. Gen 3:20 CWB adds “Including the One who would break the power of sin and death.”
11. Gen 3:21 CWB adds “God allowed them to continue to live because He had a plan to save them later. He told Adam to sacrifice a lamb as a token of what that salvation would cost. He helped them to prepare the lamb…”
12. Gen 3:22 CWB adds “to His Son”
13. Gen 2:2 CWB adds “of creation week” also “to enjoy …and rest in the beauty of it all” and omits “He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done”
14. Gen 2:3 CWB adds “as a day of spiritual refreshment and joy…” and omits “because in it He had rested from all His work which god had created and made.”
15. Gen 1:2 CWB changes “Then the earth became waste and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep” to “the earth was only a mass of matter floating in space covered with water vapor”
16. Isa 45:18 CWB omits “He did not create it waste…”
Notes: References to ‘His Son’ and ‘through His Son’ etc detract from Jesus’ true Deity as in Heb 1:10 etc. Here CWB upholds the Arian views of the SDA pioneers including Ellen White. (see more below). Other additions as number 8-13 also come through Ellen White—but not found in Scripture. Number 13 and 14 lay faulty grounds for SDA Sabbath doctrine, making the 7th day a ‘Sabbath’ while the text only says ‘God ceased from all He had created and made’. Other changes to make the ‘days’ to be 24 hrs time are blatantly obvious.
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Distortions Upholding Anti-Biblical SDA Doctrines
Part A
Arian Views vs. Christ’s Deity
A number of cults, as JWs, hold views of Arias, that the Father alone is Almighty God, who first created his Son, Jesus, who in turn created all else. As a created being, Jesus as the Son of God is not Almighty God. In Heb 1:5-6; Luke 1:31-35 we find Jesus became the Son of God through his incarnation--not by being created. In order to uphold Ellen White’s early Arian views, the Clear Word Bible has numerous additions, deletions or changes, to force the Word of God to agree with SDA’s prophet, so she’ll appear to be a True Prophet.
1. John 8:58 CWB changes “before Abraham was, I AM” (eternalness) to “I existed before Abraham” (allowing his prior creation)
2. Col. 1:16 CWB changes “By Him all things were created” (creator) “through Him the Father created” (only a channel—not source of creation)
3. Col. 1:15 CWB changes “He is firstborn over all creation” (nature) to “He has the right to be placed over all creation” (promoted authority).
4. Col. 1:18 CWB changes “He is the Beginning” (source of creation) to “He existed from the beginning” (only places him in time—from his creation)
5. Col. 1:18 “He is…the firstborn from among the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence” (what He has of his own self and work), is changed and added “He was the only human who ever died and yet conquered death, therefore He is worthy to be given first place above everything in heaven and on earth.”
6. Col. 1:19 “It pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell” changed and added “…the Father acknowledged Him as fully God, in spite of His human nature.”
7. Heb 1:10 “You O LORD (Yehweh), in the beginning laid the foundations of the earth and the heavens are the works of your hands” changed and added “You existed before the beginning of time (Gen 1:5 CWB) You carried out our plan and created the earth, shaping the sky above it (Gen 1:16 CWB) with your own hands”
8. John 1:1 “In the beginning, was the Word” (the person and name of Jesus (Rev 19:10) changed and added “In the beginning, going further back in time than can be imagined, the Word of God was there.” (the impersonal words spoken by the Father)
9. John 20:28 “My Lord and my God” (Jehovah) CWB adds and deletes “Lord, you’re alive! They were right! I believe! You are the Son of God.”
10. Acts 2:25 “I foresaw the LORD always before My face, for He is at My right hand” changed and added “I have seen the presence of God in all my life, and because he is at my right hand” (here future to past; face to life; why I see him to why I shall not be moved; ‘Yhwh’ to presence)
11. Titus 1:3-4 “But has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the command of God our savior…Jesus Christ our Savior” CWB adds, deletes and changes “When the right time came, God kept his promise, entrusting me with preaching this message of salvation, as ordered by Him, our Savior and God…and from the Lord Jesus Christ. [makes the Father ‘God our Savior’ instead of Jesus Christ]
12. Titus 2:13 “…the glorious appearing of our Great God and Savior Jesus Christ” changed to “the glorious appearing of our Great God, and our Savior Jesus Christ .” [makes Father God and Savior instead of Jesus Christ, as per Granville Sharpe’s Greek rule]
13. Titus 3:4-6 “But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared…Whom he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior” CWB adds, deletes and changes “But when the kindness and love of God was shown to us in Christ and we welcomed him in our lives, a new power began to operate within us…God held nothing back which would be for our spiritual good, and He did all this for us, through Jesus Christ our Lord” [God our Savior (4) and Jesus as Savior (6) deleted so Jesus is not God; the Holy Spirit’s personality and baptism deleted, changed for spiritual good]
14. Rev 16:5 CWB deletes ‘Who is and Who was and Who is to be’; changes “You are righteous” to “your judgments are righteous”; adds “You always have been just, and will continue to be so forever.”
15. 2 Pet 1:1 “…to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ” CWB deletes, changes and adds “to those who received the same precious faith as we have, through ( ) our ( ) Savior Jesus Christ.” [omits Jesus’ deity]
16. Eph 5:5 “…the kingdom of Christ and God” changed to “the kingdom of Christ and the Father” [as per Sharpe’s rule, Christ is God. CWB makes it ‘the Father’, deleting Jesus’ deity]
17. Rev 3:14 “the beginning of the creation of God” changed to “who is in charge of God’s entire creation” [in Greek, Christ is source of creation; in CWB he’s the watchman over it]
18. John 10:30 “I and my Father are One” (same nature and essence) changed to “I and my Father are so close we’re one” (same position, not nature).
19. Rom 10:9-10 “you shall be saved” changed to “you have the relationship with God that you need” CWB deletes “that Jesus is LORD (Yehweh)”; also changes and adds “So we witness for God not in order to be saved, but because we are saved.” (here confessing Jesus’ deity is essential for salvation, but CWB deleted it for SDA founders denied this vehemently)
20. 1Thess 4:14 “…even so God will bring with Him, those who sleep in Jesus” CWB changes and adds: “…those who died believing in Him will be raised to life by God just as Jesus was” Nb. Jesus as God by nature, raised Himself from death (John 2:19-21; 10:18 etc) He’ll also raise the dead (John 5:25-29; 11:25) for He is the ‘resurrection and the life’.
SDA Present Jesus as an Angelic being (Arian theology)
21. Rev 10:1 “Next I saw a Mighty Angel coming…(CWB adds) …Then I knew it was the Lord Jesus”
22. Rev 10:5 “Then this Mighty Angel…(CWB adds) …the Lord Jesus…”
23. Rev 10:8-9 “Go and take the little open book our of the hand of the Mighty Angel…so I went up to (CWB changes).. the Son of God and asked Him if I could have the little book…”
24. 1 Thess 4:16 “When Christ descends… (CWB adds) He as Michael the Archangel will give a shout…”
25. Rev 12:7 CWB adds…God’s Son Michael and the loyal angels fought against the dragon…”
26. Jude 1:9 CWB adds…the Lord Jesus Christ, also called Michael the Archangel…”
27. Prov 8:22 CWB adds and changes “The Son of God is the source of wisdom. He says…” Nb. Arian theology says Jesus was the Son of God by having been created by the Father, who then created all other things through Jesus, who of himself did not have power to create. This accounts for Ellen White’s many statements of Jesus as ‘the Son of God’ at the creation of the heavens and the earth, which CWB adds as noted above. One text often used to show Jesus’ initial creation before all else is Prov 8:22-30. “Jehovah made me in the beginning of His way…” (New World Translation of JW’s). Here the KJV uses ‘possessed me’ but Arians explain the Hebrew word ‘kawnaw’ means ‘to create’. So Ellen White applies Prov 8:22-30 to Jesus (Patriarchs and Prophets p.34, 1913 ed). Thus CWB adds and changes the text to accommodate her. Of this Gesenius’ Heb Lexicon notes there’s no valid reason to apply ‘to create’ to ‘kawnaw’ for in all cases the “true meaning appears to be ‘to possess’” (buy, buy back, redeem). Here Solomon (pen name ‘wisdom’) says Jehovah redeemed me before creating all else. Jesus as creator (Heb 1:10) is Jehovah our Redeemer! Several of Ellen White’s other statements explain other changes above:
· 1903 “The man Christ Jesus was not the Lord God Almighty”(ms 150, SDA Commentary V, p.1129)
· 1904 “To Christ had been given an exalted position… made equal with the Father ”(Test viii, p 268)
· 1900 “The mighty angel who instructed John (Rev 1:1) was no less than the person of Christ” (ms 59)
· 1905 “The instruction…was so important that Christ came…to give it…” (ms 129; SDA Commentary vii, p.971)
· Rev 10:6 “In swearing by the creator, the angel who is Christ, swore by himself” (ibid, p. 978)
· Rev 8:3 “The ministry of the angel … is representative of Christ’s intercession.”(ms 15, 1897)
EGW called Jesus ‘Michael the
archangel’ in Desire of Ages, so too the SDA Commentary iv 860 and vii 706.
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Distortions Upholding Anti-Biblical SDA Doctrines
Part B
“Sanctuary’ Doctrine”
1. Dan 8:13 “How long will the vision be concerning the daily sacrifices, and the transgression of desolation of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and the host to be trampled underfoot?” (NKJV) CWB changed, adds and deletes: “How long will God allow the little horn to try to take God’s place? How much longer will God let it continue to pervert the truth about Himself and the sanctuary in heaven and allow it to persecute His people?” … “to my angel”… “and my angel”… (added)
2. Dan 8:14 “Unto two thousand and three hundred evening-mornings (Heb. ‘ereb-boqer’), then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.” (ie. 2300 evening plus morning sacrifices) CWB changes and adds: “After two thousand, three hundred Prophetic days (or, two thousand three hundred Years), God will step in, proclaim the truth about Himself, and restore the ministry of the sanctuary in heaven to its rightful place. This is when the judgment will begin, of which the cleansing of the earthly sanctuary was a type.”
3. Dan 9:23-27 (words as in NKJV normal; CWB adds and changes italicized) “As soon as you started praying, God asked me to come and help you. So now I’m here to give you the help you need. You are dearly loved by God and by everyone else in heaven. So listen carefully to what I have to say. I’ll explain to you how you and your people fit into the vision and into the explanation I gave you earlier. “Seventy prophetic weeks have been allotted to your people and to Jerusalem—each day representing a year. This comes to four hundred and ninety years. This period is the first part of the two thousand three hundred year prophecy I told you about before. These four hundred and ninety years have been given to your people to stop their rebelliousness, repent of their sins, accept God’s offer of salvation, do what is right, and reach the high level of morality He has in mind for them. Before this period ends, the Messiah will come, the vision and the prophecy will be confirmed and the Heavenly sanctuary will be anointed. “This prophecy has nothing to do with the end of the seventy years of the Babylonian captivity that you’ve been studying about and the time for your people to go home. What you need to understand is that when a Persian king commands the rebuilding of Jerusalem, that’s the point in time when the two thousand three hundred year prophecy will begin. Seven weeks, or forty nine years later, the city will be rebuilt in spite of great opposition. “Sixty-two weeks or four hundred and thirty-four years after the city is rebuilt, the Messiah will come and be anointed, the one whom you and your people have looked forward to for so long. These two periods of seven weeks, and the sixty-two weeks I just mentioned, make up the sixty-nine weeks. This means that one week or seven years are left of the time allotted to your people. During this week The Messiah will carry out his mission and lay down His life for all people. A few years later, Jerusalem and the temple will both be destroyed. War, destruction and desolation will come in on the land like a flood. These things have already been decreed. “It’s during this week that God through the Messiah will ratify His covenant, and extend one last call to His people. But in the middle of that week, just three and a half years into his ministry the
4. Messiah will be rejected by his own people and allow Himself to be crucified. That’s when the ancient sacrifices and offerings will come to an end. His followers will offer God’s mercy to Israel for another three and a half years to complete the seventieth week. But the rulers will again reject God’s offer of mercy, and this is what will bring about the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple that I mentioned to you above. Those who would destroy the city and the temple, will also come to their end.”
5. Dan 12:1 “…and there shall be” changed to “…but before this” Adds “to announce the verdict of the Judgment and bring all things to an end.”
6. Matt 24:15, 21-29 adds “…come and surround Jerusalem, then suddenly withdraw its troops” “those in Judea flee” changed to “those in Jerusalem flee” (vs 16); “Then there will be great tribulation such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, nor ever shall be” changed to “People will experience intense physical suffering, not only when Jerusalem is destroyed, but also in the centuries that follow” (vs 21); “immediately after the tribulation…the sun will be darkened…” changed and added to “These signs will come after centuries of persecution. During those days” (29)
7. Heb 10:1 “the law, having a shadow of good things to come, but not the very image of things” changed and adds “the sanctuary here on earth was not made to duplicate everything in Heaven”
8. Heb 10:19 “…boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Christ” changed, adds and omits “to come to the sanctuary in heaven and with confidence come into the very presence of God.”
9. Heb 10:20 “By a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is through His flesh” changes and adds “Christ opened a new way through the sanctuary curtain, when His flesh was torn on the cross. In this sense, the curtain is His humanity. Through Him we can always come into the very presence of God, because Christ is alive evermore.”
10. Rev 21:22 “But I saw No Temple in it for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple” changed and added “I didn’t see any temple in the New Jerusalem, because there was no need of a temple since God and the Lamb are personally there. The temple or Sanctuary I had expected to see were outside the city as a reminder of what God had done for His people.”
11. Rev 14:18 “Then another angel came out from the altar…” changed and added “Then the angel who had been in charge of the fire on the altar of incense came out of the Sanctuary…”
12. Rev 16:1 “Then I heard a loud voice from the temple…” changed and added “an authoritative voice from the smoke-filled Sanctuary..”
13. Rev 15:5 “…the Temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in Heaven was opened…” changed and added “The Sanctuary in heaven was opened, a sign that Christ’s Priestly ministry was over…”
Note: These 12 samples have 569 words added, the worst being in Dan 8:13-14 (83 added) and 9:23-27 (338 added). All these serve as absolute admission that the Scriptures alone do not support this SDA doctrine, but must be violently assaulted and rewritten to even allow! Worse yet, are the many other changes to other scriptures to allow the other false teachings which this heretical doctrine precipitates. SDA wrongfully calls the Papacy “the man of sin” and “antichrist” for supposedly omitting 2 verses of the Decalogue. Yet they assault God’s Word 100 times worse!—without even a blink or a blush!
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Distortions Upholding Anti-Biblical SDA Doctrines
Part C
“Man’s Nature and Death”
In Word to the Little Flock, 1847, Ellen recorded her vision of Dec 12, 1844 and tells of being taken up into Heaven and seeing Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Daniel and other saints. However, SDA’s unscriptural sanctuary teaching with its investigative judgment are contrary to the Bible teaching that we have an inner man called a ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ that goes to be with Christ when we die. Thus that part of Ellen’s vision of the departed in heaven were, with her own approval, deleted among some 200 lines from other early publications where her ‘visions’ were reprinted for the church. Below we list a number of Scriptures, now distorted by the CWB, to deny the Biblical teaching in this area:
14. 2 Cor 4:16 “…though our outward man is perishing, yet the inner man is being renewed day by day” adds and changes “though physically we’re wearing out, yet every day new life and determination spring up inside of us.”
15. Eph 3:6 “to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man.” CWB deletes “will strengthen you with power through the Holy Spirit.” Nb. This inner man is his person having personal qualifications: mind, will, emotions; called ‘soul /spirit’.
16. Psalm 49:11 “Their inner thought is that their houses will continue forever and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.” Change and adds “Everyone who dies is lowered into a narrow grave even if he owned hundreds of acres while he was alive.”
17. Psalm 5:9 “For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is destruction; their throat is an open tomb” changes and adds “Lord it seems as if I can ’t trust anyone anymore or lean on others for help Because I am a King everyone flatters me and says what they think I want to hear…”
18. Luke 11:39 “Your inward part is full of greed and wickedness” changed “But many of them care very little about how clean they are on the inside.”
19. Matt 7:15 “…but inwardly they are ravening wolves” change and add “but you can’t always be sure which way they are leading you.”
20. 2 Cor 7:15 “…his inward affection for you is greater as he remembers your obedience” changed and adds “as a result of his experience with you his devotion to you is much greater.”
21. Psalm 51:6 “Thou desirest truth in the inward parts” omits “You look for purity and truth from me.”
22. Jer 31:33 “I will put my Law in their inward parts” changed “I will put my laws in their minds…”
23. NB. Job 38:36 CWB “Who puts wisdom in the Inward Parts of man, or gives understanding to his Soul.” In this parallelism, the ‘Inward Parts of man’ is ‘His Soul’.—an obvious Freudian slip in CWB!
24. Rom 7:22 “I delight in the law of God according to the inward man” CBW deletes “I really appreciate having God’s law to guide me.”
25. Zech 12:1 “Thus says the Lord who…forms the spirit of man within him” change and delete “this is a message from the Lord, who …gave life to man.”
26. James 4:5 .”.the spirit who dwells in us yearn to envy” change and adds “…God jealously longs for His people to be what He wants them to be.”
27. Gen 6:5 .”.every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” change and delete .”.all day long they thought of nothing else but sinning.”
28. Job 32:8 “But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding” change and delete “But it is the Spirit of the Almighty that gives men wisdom.”
29. Acts 17:16 “his spirit was provoked within him” change and delete “he became more and more provoked by what he saw…”
30. Dan 7:15 “I, Daniel was grieved in my spirit within my body…” change and delete “ was really bothered by the vision”
31. Zech 12:1 “Thus saith the Lord, who… formeth the spirit of man within him” change and omit “This is a message from the Lord who…gave life to man”
32. Isa 26:9 “With my soul I have desired you…by my spirit within me, I will seek you…” change and delete “our souls long for you …our souls search after you .”
33. Psalm 42:6 “O God, my soul is cast down within me” change and omit “My strength seems to be gone.”
34. Prov 19:2 “It is not good for a soul to be without knowledge” omit and add “It’s not good to have enthusiasm without knowledge.”
35. Job 10:1 “My soul loathes my life” change “I hate my own life”
36. Psalm 139:4 “…and that my soul knows very well” change and add “and I know that it all didn’t just happen.”
37. 2 Pet 2:8 “(Lot) tormented his righteous soul day to day” change and delete “that good man didn’t have a moment of peace.” (Soul deleted)
38. Prov 20:27 “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord” to “The Lord uses man’s conscience as a lamp.”
39. John 3:3,5-6 “Unless one is born again…born of water and of the Spirit…that which is born of flesh is fleshly, that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” change and delete “…born again through the Holy Spirit and through baptism…that which is physical is one thing, that which is spiritual is another .”
40. Rom 8:16 “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” change plus add “When we claim God as our Father, it is the Holy Spirit who testifies with us, that we are truly God’s children. (here ‘our spirit’ is given as ‘us’)
41. Ezek 11:19 “I will put a renewed spirit within them” changed “I will put a unity of spirit within them”
42. Eph 4:23 .”.and be renewed in the spirit of your mind” add and change “Determine to live totally for Him. Begin each day with a commitment to live for Christ .”
43. Ezek 18:31 “get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israel?” omit and changes “get new hearts and new minds for yourselves. Why should you die? .” NB. Both Psalm 51:10 and Ezek 3 6:26-27 in NKJV and CWB show man’s spirit is within him, but needs renewal.
Death: Biblically defined as separation of the spirit from the body.
44. James 2:26 “…the body without the spirit is dead” changed “a person’s body is useless without breath” (Nb ‘breath’ does not have mind, will, emotions, and is not renewed as is man’s spirit (above)
45. 2 Cor 4:16-18 “for that which is seen (outward man) is temporal; but that which is not seen (inward man) is eternal” CWB change and add “what we see around us is temporary and will soon be destroyed, but that which can’t be seen now will last forever.”
46. Matt 10:28 “Do not fear those who can kill the body, but not the soul, but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell.” change, add and omit “they can kill your body, but not your spirit or loyalty to me. Now if there’s something to be concerned about, it’s that you don’t lose your faith in God.”
47. Eccl 8:8 “No one has power over his spirit, to retain his spirit…in the day of death.” changed “no one has power to hold onto life, to keep himself from dying.”
48. Matt 27:50 .”.He cried out again with a loud voice, yielded up His spirit.”(‘aphiemi’=sent away, divorce). change and add “Suddenly Jesus cried with a loud voice “It is finished” and bowed his head and died”
49. John 19:30 “…bowing His head He delivered up His spirit” (paredoke= deliver into one’s care) changed “cried out with an unusually strong voice “It is finished” Then he bowed his head and died.” Nb Acts 7:59 “Stephen…cried out “Lord Jesus, I give myself to you, receive my spirit.” CWB
50. Phil 1:21-23 “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain…For I am hard pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ which is far better.” add and change “If I am released it will be to the glory of Christ, if I receive the death sentence, it will also be for the glory of Christ, and maybe even more so…So I’ve been wrestling with mixed emotions. One the one hand I would prefer to be sentenced to death, and in the next moment of consciousness see Christ which would be much better than staying in this old world.”
51. Gen 35:18 “And so it was, as her soul was departing, (for she died)…” change and omit “But Rachel didn’t survive the birth and as she was dying…”
52. 2 Tim 4:6 “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand” change and add “As for me, I’m ready to spill my blood as an offering to God. I believe this time Caesar will not hesitate to hand down the death sentence.”
53. 2 Cor 5:8 “We are…pleased rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” change and omit “We would like to be there with the Lord rather than being here.”
54. 2 Pet 1:13-15 .” ..as long as I am in this tent…I must put off my tent just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me…after my departure” change and omit “as long as I can …I’ll soon be arrested and crucified just as the Lord Jesus Christ told me…after I’m gone .”
55. 2 Cor 5:1-4 nb .clarified “We know that if this earthly body which we now inhabit should be destroyed, we have a new body waiting for us…an immortal body made by the hand of God…since we’re still living in our earthly bodies…we groan because we wish our frail mortality could be exchanged for the vibrancy of immortality .”
56. Psalm 73:24 “You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory” change and add “I know you will continue to guide me, and when my life is over you will let me sleep, then come back to take me home .”
57. Eccl 12:6-7 “Remember your creator before the silver cord is loosed…then the dust will return to earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it” change add and omit “…the silver chain that holds you to your loved ones will finally break…your body will decay and return to dust, and the spark of life which God gave will go back to him.”
58. Psalm 90:10 “For it (our life) is soon cut off and we fly away” omit/change “then we are gone.”
59. Rev 6:9 .”.I saw under the altar, the souls of those who had been slain for the Word” change/add “I saw the altar and under it were human bones representing those who died for the Lord…” nb. Parallels Rev 15:1-4 saints in Heaven, before 7 last plagues poured (ch 16) and Jesus comes (16:15-21)
60. Matt 22:32 “I am the God of Abraham…Isaac…Jacob. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living” change and add “He is not only the God of those who are dead, but He is also the God who gives life.”
61. Mark 12:27 “He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living” change/ add “What was God telling Moses? He was telling him that He was the one who activated Sarah’s dead womb giving through Abraham life to Isaac, who in turn gave life to Jacob. Therefore God is not the end of life, but the Giver of life.”
62. Luke 20:3 8 “For He is not the God of the Dead, but of the Living, for all live to Him” change/add/omit “From the experiences of these three patriarchs you can tell that They BELIEVED That God is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.”
63. Heb 12:22-23 “But you have come to…the Heavenly Jerusalem…to God the judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect” change and add “you’ve come to the heavenly Jerusalem …you have come into the presence of God the judge of all the earth, to join righteous men and women who figuratively are already there.”
64. Heb 12:9 “…be in subjection to the Father of Spirits and live” change and add “have more respect for God and be willing to submit to His discipline.”
65. 1 Thess 5:10 “(Christ) who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him” change and add “He died for us, and whether we ’re alive or dead when he comes, we belong to him and He will take us home to beg with Him forever.”
Resurrection—the departed Spirit returns into the dead body
66. 1 Kings 17:21-22 “O Lord my God, I pray, let this child’s soul come back to him…and the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived” change and omit “O Lord God please give this boy ’s life back to him…and life came back into the boy’s body .”
67. Luke 8:55 “Then her spirit returned, and she arose immediately” change/ add “immediately her life returned and she sat up and looked around.”
68. 1Thess 4:14 “God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus” (when he comes to raise the dead vs15-16) change and add “those who died believing in Him, will be raised to life by God just as Jesus was.”
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Distortions Upholding Anti-Biblical SDA Doctrines
Part D
“Changes to Mandate Old Covenant Sabbatism
upon New Covenant Christians”
We recall in I. A. re ‘day’ ‘evening’ ‘morning’ ‘night’ etc, we saw some 20 deliberate changes in Gen 1 so the days at creation become 24 hrs, which can’t be held by linguistic exegesis. These are there to sustain the next link in the chain to make the 7th day become a 24-hr Sabbath, supposedly observed by God and Adam and Eve, which again can’t be held by linguistic exegesis, but only be manufactured by added Biblical distortions. This faulty start leads to many other textual distortions to sustain other errors needed to mandate Sabbatism upon new covenant Christians. In each case these distortions are excused on basis of what is taught in the other areas of this doctrine (that were also based on distortions), forming a magnificent circular argument which the laity most likely will not see.
1. Gen 2:2-3 “And on the 7th day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the 7th day from all His work which God had created and made. Then god blessed the 7th day and sanctified it, because in it He had rested from all His work which God had created and made” add, change and omit “Then on the 7th day of creation week, God stopped to enjoy what He had made, and to rest in the beauty of it all. So He blessed the 7th day, and set it apart, as a day of spiritual refreshment and joy.”
2. Exod 5:5 “And Pharaoh said “Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor” add, change, omit “You’ve created enough problems by making them rest every week on your Sabbath. That’s a huge economic loss. Have them get back to work immediately!”
3. Exod 16:5 “And it shall be on the 6th day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily” change and add “… twice as much as on the other days, so as to have enough for the 7th day which is the Sabbath, the day I set apart for worship and rest.”
4. Exod 20:11 “For in 6 days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the 7th day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it” change and add “Because in 6 days I, the Lord your God created the earth, the sky, the seas and everything in them and on the 7th day I rested in the joy of having made it all. That’s why I blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy, so you can rest and rejoice with me.”
5. Deut 5:15 change and add “Don’t forget that you were slaves in a foreign land, but I brought you out from there with my power and strength so you could be free to keep the Sabbath as the Lord Your God commanded you.”
6. Exod 31:13 “Speak also to the Children of Israel saying “Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you, throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you” change and add “Say to the people “most importantly remember to keep the Sabbath holy because it is a very special day for me, and it’s a day of rest for you. It is a sign between me and you for all time to show that you are the people whom I have chosen, and set apart.”
7. Exod 31:14 “You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among the people” add and omit “the Sabbath is holy and anyone who desecrates it by working on that day will be put to death, since that would be an act of rebellion against God’s government.”
8. Exod 31:15 add and change “There are 6 days in which you should do your work to earn a livelihood, but the 7th day is the day that’s set apart for me. Anyone doing unnecessary work on that day is to be put to death.”
9. Exod 31:16 “Therefore the Children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.” add, change and omit “My people are to keep the Sabbath celebrating it as a sign they belong to me.”
10. Exod 31:17 “…He rested and was refreshed” omit and add “He rested in the joy of what He had made.”
11. Lev 23:3 add “There has AL WAYS BEEN a Weekly Sabbath”
12. Lev 23:4 add “In addition to the weekly Sabbath.”
13. Neh 9:14 “(in the Exodus) You made known to them (Israel) your holy Sabbath.” Add and change “It was then you wrote the Ten Commandments and made the Sabbath plain .”
14. Deut 5:14 add “The 7th day of the week is the Sabbath…you are to do NO regular work”
15. Heb 4:4 “For He has spoken in a certain place of the 7th day in this way: “and God rested (katapauo) on the 7th day from all His works” (katapauo=ceased). Entirely changed “That’s why at creation He gave man the 7th day Sabbath, no only as a reminder of creation week, but also as a symbol of spiritual rest. According to the Scriptures, God Himself rested on the 7th day and enjoyed His special time with man.”
16. Isa 1:13-14 “Your new moons and your Sabbaths…my soul hates” change and omit “I don’t like what I see you doing to yourself. I hate the evil you’re caught up in .”
17. Mark 2:28 “Therefore the Son of is Lord also over the Sabbath” change and add “I am the Lord of the Sabbath. I know what’s right to do on the Sabbath and what isn’t.”
18. Luke 6:5 change “The Son of Man knows what’s right to do on the Sabbath, because He’s the one who set it apart as a Holy Day.”
19. Mark 3:5 “So when He looked around at them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts…” change and add “Jesus was hurt as He looked around the congregation because no one of them seemed to know what He was talking about. Their minds were already made up about what should and should not be done on the Sabbath…”
20. John 5:18 “Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because HE not only BROKE the Sabbath…” add and change “This answer enraged the Jews. They were more determined than ever to execute Him not only as a Sabbath breaker…”
21. Acts 20:7 “On the first day of the week…” changed “After sundown Saturday night…”
22. Rev 1:10 “on the Lord’s Day” (Kuriakos=Sunday) changed “One Sabbath morning”
23. Heb 4:9 “Thus there remains a rest* for the people of God” *(sabbatismos by context = katapausis, cease) add and change “…The offer of a spiritual rest that God intends for each generation to have, of which the Sabbath is a symbol .”
24. Col 2:16 “Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink or regarding a festival, or a new moon or the Sabbath” change and add “Don’t let anyone control your life by giving you a set of ceremonial rules about what to eat, what to drink, and what monthly festivals or special Sabbaths to keep.”
25. Rom 14:4 “One person esteems One day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.” change and add “the same thing applies to religious festivals. One person thinks he has to keep every Jewish festival, while another thinks it doesn’t matter whether he does or not. About nonessentials like these, everyone needs to make up his own mind.”
26. Heb 9:26 change and add “If this were true, Christ would have to come to earth every year, be crucified, rise from the dead and then go back to heaven to carry on His work as a High Priest. He would have had to do this every year, since the entrance of sin. But He needed to die for sin only once, to fulfill the ceremonial law, and to cancel the debt of our sins, once and for all by the sacrifice of Himself.”
27. Psalm 118:24 “This is the Day that the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” change omit plus add “Today He has given us the victory! He is the one who defeated our enemies and set us free. This is His victory, so let’s rejoice and celebrate!”
28. Psalm 111:4 “He has made His wonderful works to be remembered” (Heb. zeker= ‘commemorated’) change and add “He is well known for His wonderful deeds. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion.” NB. Each change, addition and omission is for specific reason to give appearing basis for Christian sabbatism or to remove the Biblical basis for celebrating the first day of the week as the Lord’s day it is. For example:
a. Scripture nowhere makes the 7th creative day a Sabbath, as CWB in number1, 4, 6, 10 and 14 tries to show.
b. Scripture nowhere says man sabbatized before Exodus 16, as CWB number 3, 11, and 15 would make us believe.
c. Lev 23 “There has always been a weekly Sabbath” dates it as eternal as God, and before Genesis 1:1.
d. Lev 23:3-4 changed to prevent seeing that the Sabbath is Biblically one of the Feasts of Yehweh!
e. While the Sabbath commanded “NO Work” (period), CWB changes this to ‘no regular work’ and ‘to earn a livelihood’ (number 8 plus 14), and ‘unnecessary’ work, so if I can justify work, as necessary, then it’s OK!!
f. That Christ broke the Sabbath is beyond question. He pointed out the Father has always been working as he too will, since Creation. Thus CWB changes number 4, 6, plus 20.
g. References to the Lord’s day, as number 21, 22, 27 and 28 are mistranslated to devoid Apostolic celebration of this day while texts as Rom 14 and Col 2:16 are relegated to ‘ceremonial’ law (which doesn’t exist)
h. The ‘rest’ of Hebrews is Katapausis, 10 times in the context, thus NOT ‘Sabbath keeping’ as read into 4:9.
i. Scripture NOWHERE teaches 2 laws—a moral and a ceremonial. Over 7 places call it ONE law, thus adding ‘ceremonial’ law in number 26 is essential to uphold false SDA teaching.
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Distortions Upholding Anti-Biblical SDA Doctrines
Part E
“Denials of the Biblical Doctrine of Hell (Gehenna)”
While in the original languages, the Bible teaching of punishment for the wicked speaks of two places of this punishment, using separate words for these places, yet our English language has only used one word for these two places—hell. The first of these is Sheol (Heb) or Hades (Gk), a place below the Earth’s surface to house the departed spirits of the dead; while the second is Gehenna (Gk) which speaks of the Lake of Fire as Hell ie, the place of final and eternal punishment for the wicked. In this part of our study, we’ll begin by dealing with ‘Gehenna’, as the Lake of Fire.
1. Isa 66:24 “Their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched” add plus change “But just as worms don ’t stop eating until they devour the dead, and fire doesn’t stop until it destroys, so the fire of the Lord will destroy the wicked and consume them all.”
2. Mark 9:43 “…to go to hell, into the Fire that shall NEVER be Quenched” change plus add “and be consumed in the lake of fire.”
3. Mark 9:44 “...where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched” change plus add “That fire dies its work as thoroughly as worms eat a dead body or a forest fire burns trees.”
4. Mark 9:45 “To be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched” change plus omit “sacrificing eternal life for the fires of hell.”
5. Mark 9:46 “…where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched” add plus change “As I said, the lake of fire will do its work as thoroughly as worms eat a dead body or a forest fire burns trees.”
6. Mark 9:48 “...where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched” add plus change “Let me say it one more time: placing anything above the kingdom of God will have its consequences as surely as worms attack a dead body or a forest fire burns trees.”
7. Matt 25:4 1 “…into everlasting hell fire prepared for the devil and his angels” change plus add “and be consumed by the same fire with will destroy the devil and his angels.”
8. Matt 5:22 “whoever says to his brother ‘you fool’ shall be in danger of hell fire” change plus add “To go a step further, if you treat someone with contempt, because you think you’re better than they are, you can never be given eternal life.”
9. Matt 5:29 “than for your whole body to be cast into hell” changed “and lose eternal life.”
10. Matt 5:30 “than for your whole body to be cast into hell” changed “than to lose out on Heaven later”
11. Matt 10:28 “fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell” change plus omit “If there is some thing to be concerned about, it’s that you don’t lose your faith in God.”
12. Luke 12:4-5 ‘fear Him who after He has killed, has power to cast into Hell.” Change plus omit “the only one to fear is God, who has power over your body and soul. In the end He can destroy both.”
13. Matt 18:9 ‘It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into Hell fire.” Add change plus omit “If you have to make a choice, its better not to be great in this life, and to live Forever, than to lose your childlike innocence and have everything end with this life.”
14. Matt 23:33 “How can you escape the condemnation of hell?” change plus add “How do you expect to reap anything except eternal extinction?”
15. Rev 14:10 “He shall be tormented* with fire and brimstone” *(Gk ‘basanidzo’—vex with grievous and conscious pain. Thayer’s lexicon) change “He will be consumed in a burning inferno”
16. Rev 19:20 “These two were cast alive into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone” change plus omit “The two of them will end up in the lake of fire.”
17. Rev 20:10 (1000 yrs later) “cast into the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet ARE, and they will be tormented* day and night, forever and ever.” change add plus omit “was also consumed forever in the lake of fire, together with the beast and the false prophet. They all suffered, and then perished, forever…”
18. Rev 21:8 “…idolaters, and all Liars shall have their part in the Lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which IS the second death” change, add plus omit .”.. have had to suffer the consequences of their sins. They were consumed by the flame of the Lake of fire which WAS the second death.”
Nb. CWB changes hell from ‘tormented day and night forever and ever’ to forever extinct and annihilated by fire just the opposite of the Scripture, by additions, changes and deletions to what the Scripture really says. The CWB changes eternal existence IN hell fire for Eternal NON existence as the RESULTS from Hell Fire! To this there should be special notice of Rev 22:18-19 as well as 20:15. All this was necessary to sustain the SDA’s teaching of soul sleep, resulting from their false Investigative Judgment that came from the 1844 Jesus’ return failure.
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Part E
“Denials of the Biblical Doctrine of Hell (Hades)”
Vine’s Expository Dictionary defines ‘Hades’ as “the region of departed spirits of the lost (but including the blessed dead in periods preceding the ascension of Christ?” (p.517) After noting its erroneous rendering as ‘hell’ or ‘the grave’ in the AV, Vine says “in the NT the Revisers have always used the rendering ‘Hades’…it NEVER denotes the grave, nor is it the permanent region of the lost; in point of time it is, for such, intermediate between decease and the doom of Gehenna. For the condition, see Luke 16:23-31.” There Christ describes Hades as a place of ‘torments’ being ‘tormented in this flame’ saying ‘torment’ 4 times (vs 23, 24, 25, plus 28), using the Gk ‘basanidzo’ meaning to ‘vex with conscious pain’ (Thayer). That it’s extreme Pain is seen here as well as it being used for labor pains. Vine equates ‘Hades’ with the OT ‘Sheol’, since it’s so done by the LXX translators. Thus, what’s remarkable is The CWB while denying the reality of ‘Hades’, so well defined by Vine and Thayer, yet in the OT it defines ‘Sheol’ as ‘the spirit world’ (Isa 57:9) and ‘the world of the dead’ (Psalm 16:10). Hades appears 11 times in the NT While being referred to in other passages as Eph 4:9-10. Below we see how the CWB distorts these:
1. Matt 11:23 “You will be brought down to Hades” changed “You will be brought down to your knees”
2. Matt 16:18 “…the gates of Hades will not prevail” changed “the gates of wickedness will not…
3. Luke 10:15 “And you (Capernaum)…will be thrust down into hades” change plus add “And Capernaum is even worse of…they don’t even care if they are saved nor not.”
4. Acts 2:27 “You will not leave my soul in hades” change plus add “He will not allow His Son to rot away in the grave.” (nb. ‘grave’ is Gk ‘mnameon’ – not ‘hades’)
5. Acts 2:31 “His soul was not left in hades” add plus delete “He ( ) would not stay in the grave”
6. 1 Cor 15:55 “O hades (Nu Txt, Thanatos—death) where is your victory?” change “O grave (mnameon) where is your victory?”
7. Hosea 13:14 LXX “O hades where is your destruction”; MT “O sheol where is your destruction?” CWB add plus change “Where O grave (Heb ‘queborah’) where are your plagues? Where is your destruction?”
8. Rev 1:18 “I have the keys of hades and death” (‘personified’ Vine) change “I have full power over death and the grave (change ‘hades’ for ‘mnameon’).
9. Rev 6:8 “And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and hades followed with him” add, change pl