The Word of God

@ThePainefulTruth Said

Why are these warnings necessary?

Rev 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.

Deut 12:32 See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.

There are many such warnings in the OT. What is the purpose? The implication is that it's possible to add or take away from the Bible, from what we assume is God's protected word. If not, why are they there? If it isn't protected, then how many times in 3000 years has it been altered? Was it wrong before, or did the alterations make it wrong. Was it ever right to begin with?

If God exists, there can only be one word of God, described never more profoundly than here:

“It is only in the CREATION (Nature) that all our ideas and conceptions of a Word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh an universal language.... It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.”
—Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

@Electric_Banana Said

To paraphrase: "Nature demonstrates itself self better than any religious text can."

But there are things out there with fangs, claws, stingers and venom sacks all eating each other, man.

@Electric_Banana Said

To paraphrase: "Nature demonstrates itself self better than any religious text can."

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But there are things out there with fangs, claws, stingers and venom sacks all eating each other, man.

@Reviso Said

Tell me, Electric Banana, or is that out of the range of objective Consciousness? does the word of God not teach about, ha, ha, Chemistry, meaning the denial of permanence for anything in the World.

That is true, I think, even if the terms about things are there and then for everybody to note in substantial permanent Being.

@Reviso Said

Tell me, Electric Banana, or is that out of the range of objective Consciousness? does the word of God not teach about, ha, ha, Chemistry, meaning the denial of permanence for anything in the World.

That is true, I think, even if the terms about things are there and then for everybody to note in substantial permanent Being.

@ThePainefulTruth Said


Do you know anybody who can proof your posts?

@ThePainefulTruth Said

Why are these warnings necessary?

Rev 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.

Deut 12:32 See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.

There are many such warnings in the OT. What is the purpose? The implication is that it's possible to add or take away from the Bible, from what we assume is God's protected word. If not, why are they there? If it isn't protected, then how many times in 3000 years has it been altered? Was it wrong before, or did the alterations make it wrong. Was it ever right to begin with?

If God exists, there can only be one word of God, described never more profoundly than here:

“It is only in the CREATION (Nature) that all our ideas and conceptions of a Word of God can unite. The Creation speaketh an universal language.... It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.”
—Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason