{"id":8815,"date":"2019-08-22T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T21:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/?page_id=8815"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T12:36:04","slug":"bible-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/bible-history","title":{"rendered":"Bible History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ORIGINAL BIBLE TEXTS<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen religious people say that the Bible is God&#8217;s inerrant word, they reflect an attitude that says all Bibles are the same and that every word in every Bible is God&#8217;s spoken word. This attitude shows gross ignorance of the history of Bibles and how they are written. They are not all the same and every word in them is not God&#8217;s spoken word.<\/p>\n<p>It is beyond the scope of this website to discuss the origins of original Bible texts and the history of how they were used to create Bibles down through the ages. Many Bible scholars have done that and written many reports for study. The following is a short list of articles that begin to inform us about the long and complicated history of Bibles:<\/p>\n<div class=\"vote qa\">\n<ul>\n<li id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Septuagint\">Septuagint\u00a0 <\/a>(Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masoretic_Text\">Masoretic Text <\/a>(Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aramaic_New_Testament\">Aramaic New Testament <\/a>(Wikipedia)<\/li>\n<li class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zondervanacademic.com\/blog\/the-history-of-the-bible\">The History of the Bible<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/irr.org\/todays-bible-real-bible\">Is Today&#8217;s Bible the Real Bible?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ebible.com\/questions\/16980-what-bible-translation-is-closest-to-the-original-written-scriptures\">What Bible translation is closest to the original written scriptures?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u200e<br \/>\nWhat we learn from these articles is that the history is not simple. The Bibles we read did not come from God&#8217;s mouth and transfer directly and purely to words\u00a0 on paper. The Bibles we read had their origins in many original texts, and it was written and re-written by thousands of Bible scholars over thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>It is accurate to say that the Bible is not one, complete, uniform, inerrant work. It is accurate to say that no Bible includes words that are all perfect translations of God&#8217;s words. It is accurate to say that large percentages of all Bibles were written by men &#8212; not by God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\">GOD&#8217;S WRITTEN WORD AND HIS VOICE ARE NOT THE SAME .<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These statements will shock and offend religious people who believe that all words of all Bibles are God&#8217;s words, and may discourage anyone who wonders if they can trust any Bible to teach them about God and the way to salvation and heaven. The good news for everyone is that God has a perfect solution that overcomes all questions and problems regarding the written word: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">Listen to his voice<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/4#reasonforthelaw\">Listening to his voice while studying the Bible is the way to salvation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All Bibles have problems and shortcomings. This is predictable because Bibles are written by <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/jeremiah\/8-8.htm\">scribes who have made the written words of the Bible into lies and deceptions<\/a>. The sooner Bible readers accept these\u00a0 truths, the better off they will be. The sooner that religious people accept these truths, the sooner they will obey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/god-is-calling-people-out-of-religion\">God&#8217;s call to come out of religion<\/a> and enter into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/time-hours-days-weeks-and-ages\/eternity\">eternal life.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This process will seem unfair until religious people accept the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/study-tips\/12\">good news<\/a> that God never intended that written Bibles would be the authority regarding him and his ways. The good news is that the Bible is only a<a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/jeremiah\/8-8.htm\"> tool that will lead people to faith<\/a>. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">Bible will lead us to faith if we make a point of listening to his voice while reading the Bible.\u00a0<\/a> Readers who do not listen to God&#8217;s voice while reading the Bible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/study-tips\">study for the wrong reasons<\/a>. They are only feeding their intellectual minds and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\/pride\/2\">religious pride<\/a>. Coming to faith only happens to those who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+29:1-4;+isaiah+6:9-10;+matthew+13:19;+mark+8:17;+ezekiel+12:2;+matthew+13:14-19;+acts+28:26-27;+ezekiel+3:10;+malachi+2:2\">listen with their heart.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHICH BIBLE IS THE BEST?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt should be obvious to both Jews and Christians that there is more than one Bible. First, we have the Jewish Bible which is basically the Old Testament. Then we have the Christian Bible which includes the Old Testament and the New Testament. That seems simple enough, but the history is much more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at this <a href=\"https:\/\/catholic-resources.org\/Bible\/Heb-Xn-Bibles.htm\">comparative chart of the Old Testament<\/a>, we see that all Bibles are not the same. Then, if we <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_English_Bible_translations\">look at only the New Testament in English, we see that there are dozens upon dozens of Bibles, some of which are complete and some are not<\/a>. These fact confirm that there is not just one Bible but that there are many Bibles.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 100px;\">\n<p>STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bible_translations\">this Wikipedia article<\/a> where we learn that there are as many as 3,350 publications that include at least part of the Bible. In English alone, there are more than 450 versions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>These facts prompt these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are there so many versions?<\/li>\n<li>Do they all say the same thing?<\/li>\n<li>Are they all reliable translations of God&#8217;s spoken voice?<\/li>\n<li>If they all say the same thing, and if they are all reliable translations of God&#8217;s spoken voice, why was it necessary to publish more than one version?<\/li>\n<li>If they do not all say the same thing, and if they are not all reliable translations of God&#8217;s spoken voice, how can anyone discover which version is a reliable translation of God&#8217;s spoken voice &#8212; if such a translation actually exists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are difficult questions to answer. One way to proceed might be to compare several Bibles to see which one seems to best agree with our personal tastes and theological leanings. Or, some people might just go on the recommendations of trusted pastors or friends who have made evaluations based on their own tastes and theological leanings. Either way, personal opinions are the standards by which judgment is made, and that does not seem quite right. If we are serious about knowing God&#8217;s word, we need something more precise than personal opinion to guide us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblesociety.org.uk\/explore-the-bible\/which-is-the-best-bible-translation\/\">this link<\/a> for a guide to the differences in several versions of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>This challenge to find the best\/perfect Bible is further complicated by the fact that the origin of all Bibles is a matter of some dispute by Bible scholars. Here are some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;q=esoteric\">esoteric<\/a> topics that scholars\/theologians study and discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historical_criticism\">Historical criticism.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historical_criticism#Source_criticism\"><span class=\"toctext\">Source criticism<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historical_criticism#Form_criticism\"><span class=\"toctext\">Form criticism<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historical_criticism#Redaction_criticism\"><span class=\"toctext\">Redaction criticism<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">AUTHOR&#8217;S NOTE: These Wikipedia articles are useful only for intellectual\/scholarly studies of Bible sources. They are not useful for understanding God&#8217;s spoken word. Nevertheless, they do have value in this web page because they tell the average Bible reader that the historical sources of the Bibles they read are not all the same. This fact is important because it contradicts the popular notion that all Bibles have the same pure history and the same pure content.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">It is worth noting here that any desire to consider these conflicting scholarly theories is eliminated when we consider that the only source worth investigating is God&#8217;s spoken voice. If our goal is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+6:5;+joel+2:12;+jeremiah+3:10;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+30:2;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+30:6;+zephaniah+3:14;+matthew+22:37;+matthew+7:7;+mark+12:33;+luke+10:27;+luke+11:9;+deuteronomy+4:29;+1-chronicles+28:9;+1-chronicles+22:19;+2-chronicles+12:14;+2-chronicles+15:12;+2-chronicles+19:3;+psalm+27:8;+psalm+119:2;+jeremiah+24:7;+jeremiah+29:13\">seek God with our heart,<\/a> we will not be concerned with historical facts and human theories that excite the intellectual mind.<\/p>\n<p>What we have is a situation where not even Bible scholars agree on Bible origins.\u00a0 If the experts can&#8217;t agree, how can non-academics decide which is the best Bible for them. They may find answers to who wrote it, when they wrote it, and why they wrote it, but these answers don&#8217;t help them compare one Bible against another. If there is are no standards for comparing Bibles, thinking people might therefore wonder if they can trust any Bible at all.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these questions, people still assume that almost any Bible is still the best source for learning to know God. We might assume that this is why so <a href=\"https:\/\/brandongaille.com\/27-good-bible-sales-statistics\/\">many Bibles are sold<\/a>. We might also assume that every Bible sold is evidence of hunger to know God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"https:\/\/brandongaille.com\/27-good-bible-sales-statistics\/\">this link<\/a> for interesting statistics about Bible sales and publishing.<\/p>\n<p>But, despite heavy sales of Bibles, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/248837\/church-membership-down-sharply-past-two-decades.aspx\">church attendance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barna.com\/research\/the-bible-in-america-6-year-trends\/\">Bible literacy <\/a>are declining in the USA. Heavy sales might also indicate that Bibles are purchased as gifts, and we must also allow that some Bible sales are to people who already have many Bibles and are still looking for the one that will answer all their questions.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reasons for Bible sales might be, the Bible publishing industry is willing and eager to satisfy the appetite for more Bibles. There is an ever-expanding selection of Bibles from which to choose to satisfy this appetite. For example, there are hundreds of English Bible versions. Choosing the right\/best one is not an easy decision to make. Here are some of the many different ways Bibles are packaged:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Size (e.g. <span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\"> study, pocket, thinline, slimline and trimline<\/span><\/span>).<\/li>\n<li>Type of binding (e.g. hard cover, soft cover, leather, etc.) and color.<\/li>\n<li>Size of print (e. g. small, regular, large print etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Pictures, maps, charts, historical timelines.<\/li>\n<li>Study helps (e.g. notes, commentaries, footnotes, indexes, concordances, dictionaries, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Titles that include the names of popular preachers (e.g. Swindoll, MacArthur, Stanley, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Price (e.g. economy, mid-range, deluxe).<\/li>\n<li>Study themes (e.g. recovery, family, faith and values, life principles<\/li>\n<li>Age of reader (e.g. children, teen, family) and sex (men, women, boys girls).<\/li>\n<li>Bibles targeted to specific religions (e.g. Catholic, Lutheran, Messianic, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>Internet and phone apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If Bible readers<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=2-corinthians+4:18;+2-corinthians+5:7;+hebrews+11:1;+hebrews+11:24-27;+romans+8:24\"> walked by faith and not by sight<\/a>, they would not place any value on any Bible packaged to appeal to natural eyes and the intellectual mind. That does not mean, however, that they do not assign any value to the Bible&#8217;s written words. They see the Bible (i.e. the law) for what it is: A tutor\/guide that leads them to Christ (i.e. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">anointed spirit of God<\/a>) which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+16:13;+isaiah+11:2;+john+14:26;+1-corinthians+2:10-13\">teaches them all things<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=job+22:22;+psalm+119:11;+jeremiah+31:31-34;+hebrews+8:10;+hebrews+10:16;+deuteronomy+6:6-9;+deuteronomy+11:18;+psalm+37:29-31;+deuteronomy+32:45-46;+deuteronomy+29:1-4;+ezekiel+3:10;+psalm+40:8\">writing God&#8217;s laws on their hearts<\/a>. This is the attitude of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/#disciple\">disciple: One who learns by listening to God&#8217;s voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Disciples can be tutored by any Bible. They know that none of the marketing features (i.e. optional frills) of Bibles are necessary to knowing God because their focus is on listening &#8212; not on reading.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">this link for tips on how to listen while reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The multitude of Bible choices clearly indicates that Bible readers, publishers and authors believe that the written words are the keys to faith. They waste their time, however, if they don&#8217;t understand that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=galatians+3:2;+romans+10:17;+galatians+3:5\">faith comes by hearing <\/a>&#8212; not just by reading.\u00a0 Reading the Bible is good and profitable to do only if people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">listen to God&#8217;s voice while reading.\u00a0<\/a> If they would listen while reading, any simple Bible would lead them to faith. They wouldn&#8217;t need a Bible with any of the frills that Bible publisher offer. The frills are a distraction to hearing.<\/p>\n<p>It is safe to say that, in general,\u00a0 Bible sales indicate that people are looking to know God by reading written words. Religion has wrongly taught them that reading the Bible will help them know God better. Bible reading is a key feature of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/servants\">fleshly religion because it satisfies the need to be religiously active<\/a>. Religion has not taught that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=galatians+3:2;+romans+10:17;+galatians+3:5\">faith comes by hearing<\/a> &#8212; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/ezekiel\/passage\/?q=ezekiel+14:1-11\">not by hearing the words of false prophets.<\/a> They do not understand that the written Bible is useful only if they also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">listen to God&#8217;s voice while reading<\/a> and only if they stop listening to the preaching, and reading the writings of false prophets.<\/p>\n<p>Those who do listen to God&#8217;s voice won&#8217;t look to buy new, better Bibles. Because they understand that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\">God&#8217;s written word and God&#8217;s spoken word are not the same thing,<\/a> their focus is on listening &#8212; not on reading. For them, one Bible is as good as another. They understand God&#8217;s commands to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/passage\/?q=psalm+81:8-12;+luke+11:28;+deuteronomy+6:3;+jeremiah+22:1-6;+revelation+1:3;+2-kings+18:12;+deuteronomy+30:12-14;+deuteronomy+5:1;+leviticus+26:14-28;+job+36:8-11;+nehemiah+9:13-17\">hear, listen to, and obey his voice.<\/a> He never said to only &#8220;read&#8221; his word.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><br \/>\n<strong>HOW BIBLES ARE WRITTEN <\/strong><br \/>\nReligious people support their beliefs with claims that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Historicity_of_the_Bible\">Bible is historically accurate.<\/a> They do this because they need to have something real and tangible to believe in. Their thinking goes something like this:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 7.07692%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 92.9231%;\">\n<ol>\n<li>If the people of the Bible were real, and,<\/li>\n<li>If the events of the Bible really happened, then<\/li>\n<li>My trust in the words of the Bible is justified, and<\/li>\n<li>My religion based on those words is justified.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>It is this kind of thinking that predisposes religious people to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\">interpret the Bible literally and not symbolically. <\/a>It is this kind of thinking that causes religious people to believe that the natural world was<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-2\/3\"> created i<\/a>n seven natural days. It is this kind of thinking that causes religious people to believe that the story of Noah and the great flood actually happened. It is this kind of thinking that causes people to believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/jesus\">Jesus<\/a> was a real person who was\u00a0 raised from the dead. It is this kind of thinking that causes people to believe in a physical place called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/nations\/kingdom-of-heaven\">heaven<\/a> where they will go after they die. It is this kind of thinking that inspires people to create and participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/circumcision\">religious rituals and traditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In general, this kind of thinking exemplifies<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=2-corinthians+4:18;+2-corinthians+5:7;+hebrews+11:1;+hebrews+11:24-27;+romans+8:24\"> walking by sight &#8211;not by faith.<\/a> This kind of thinking, with its irrepressible focus on things that can be seen, is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;q=antithesis\">antithesis<\/a> of walking by faith. This kind of thinking, with its constant focus on historical Biblical facts and literal Biblical words, effectively obstructs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice\">hearing God&#8217;s spoken<\/a> voice which is a matter of pure faith.<\/p>\n<p>With this kind of thinking firmly in place, religious people think of the Bible as history that informs them about things that they should and should not do. Reports of Biblical events are the foundation of religious doctrines. God didn&#8217;t speak to the prophets and apostles to teach them history. Here is why Bibles exist and why we should read them:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/2-timothy\/passage\/?q=2-timothy+3:16-17\"><span class=\"verse-number\">2-timothy 3:16-17<\/span><\/a><span class=\"verse-16\"> All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17<\/span> so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.<\/p>\n<p>If we really want to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:23-30;+deuteronomy+4:39;+deuteronomy+5:29;+deuteronomy+6:1-6;+deuteronomy+8:1-2;+deuteronomy+11:18;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+11:13;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+29:1-4;+psalm+37:31;+jeremiah+31:31-34;+jeremiah+32:40;+1-thessalonians+4:9;+1-john+2:27;+john+14:11-17;+john+14:26;+1-corinthians+2:12;+hebrews+8:10-11\">know God,<\/a> if we really want to be trained in righteousness, we\u00a0 can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\">learn from experiences of Bible characters<\/a>, and we can learn from Biblical events but we must also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">listen to his voice<\/a> to hear what he is telling us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/time-hours-days-weeks-and-ages\/2\">today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">COMMENTARY ON LISTENING TO GOD&#8217;S VOICE: Curiously, the command to listen to God&#8217;s voice is one command in the Bible that religious people do not take literally. They do their best to obey the Ten Commandments and Jesus&#8217; commands, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">listening to God&#8217;s voice<\/a> is a command that they do not obey. They wrongly believe that if they listen to the voices of religious leaders who interpret the Bible, they have fulfilled the command to listen to God&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">Failure to listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice is the reason people are religious. That is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/god-is-calling-people-out-of-religion\">God is calling people out of religion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">LISTEN FOR GOD&#8217;S VOICE WHILE READING.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If what we read does not result in <span class=\"verse-16\">rebukes, correction and training in righteousness that<\/span><span class=\"verse-17\"> equips us for good work, we have not learned what God wants to teach us through the Bible. We may have learned some facts, and some history, and may have memorized some scripture, but we have not listened to God&#8217;s spoken voice. And if we have not heard God&#8217;s voice we do not have faith because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/romans\/10-17.html\">faith comes by hearing God&#8217;s voice.<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Bible can be useful in this process, but the Bible is not absolutely necessary to have faith. Consider the heroes of faith in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/hebrews\/11.html\">Hebrews 11<\/a>. They did not have Bibles, but they did hear God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">this link<\/a> for understanding on how to use the Bible as a tool for hearing God&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We first come to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:23-30;+deuteronomy+4:39;+deuteronomy+5:29;+deuteronomy+6:1-6;+deuteronomy+8:1-2;+deuteronomy+11:18;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+11:13;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+29:1-4;+psalm+37:31;+jeremiah+31:31-34;+jeremiah+32:40;+1-thessalonians+4:9;+1-john+2:27;+john+14:11-17;+john+14:26;+1-corinthians+2:12;+hebrews+8:10-11\">know God in our hearts<\/a>. That does not mean that we do not have an intellectual awareness of God, but that happens only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+29:1-4;+isaiah+6:9-10;+matthew+13:19;+mark+8:17;+ezekiel+12:2;+matthew+13:14-19;+acts+28:26-27\">after we understand in our heart<\/a>. Modern Bibles with frills appeal to human intellect and senses &#8212; not to the heart. All the frills are distractions from listening to God&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+31:31-34;+jeremiah+32:39-40;+jeremiah+33:14;+jeremiah+24:7;+ezekiel+37:26;+ezekiel+39:29;+luke+22:20;+1-corinthians+11:25;+2-corinthians+3:1-6;+hebrews+8:8-12;+hebrews+10:16-17;+psalm+40:8;+psalm+37:31;+genesis+17:7-13;+2-kings+18:11-12;+exodus+19:3-6;+judges+2:16-23;+deuteronomy+5:1-4\">know God when his laws are written on our hearts<\/a> &#8212; not when we follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/6#religiouslaws\">religious laws<\/a> based on the literal words of Bibles written by man. Knowing God is accomplished when any individual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">reads any Bible version while listening to God&#8217;s spoken voice<\/a>. What they will hear is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+8:1-3;+deuteronomy+30:15-20;+psalm+119:160;+psalm+119:142;+john+6:63-68;+matthew+4:1-4;+luke+4:1-4;+john+5:24;+deuteronomy+32:45-47;+1-peter+1:22-25;+hebrews+4:12;+1-john+1:1-3;+john+1:1-4\">unadulterated truth in the life-giving word of God<\/a> &#8212; not dead historical facts.<\/p>\n<p>Given all of these options, choosing a Bible in these modern times is not a simple task. For most people, making a choice comes down to this: Who\/what do you trust to guide your decision about which Bible to read? Here are some of the possibilities:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>Publisher<\/li>\n<li>How Bible looks<\/li>\n<li>Recommendations of others<\/li>\n<li>Price<\/li>\n<li>Availability<\/li>\n<li>Your personal tastes\/instincts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The greater, more important questions that most people will not ask are these: Why are there so many versions of the Bible to choose from? Do I really need a Bible with decorative, non-essential frills to know God?<\/p>\n<p>In the world of religion, trust in man for instruction about God is how people learn religion. But, is that what God really wants? Might he want people to put their trust in him instead of man? This is a critical question.<\/p>\n<p>So we see that not even Bible scholars agree on Bible standards. But, where does that leave a non-clergy, English speaking person who wants to know which Bible is the best translation of God&#8217;s spoken word?<\/p>\n<p>Even though all Bibles have the same origins, they look different (e.g. bindings, size, large\/small print, colors, pictures, etc.) and have different content. When we look at all these choices, it is clear that all Bibles are not the same. In fact, it is clear that Bible have more differences than similarities. It is clear also that humans, not God, have had the most control over the shape and content of modern Bibles.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these differences in packaging and content, it is true that all Bibles originated from unique ancient texts which God authored when he spoke to Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles. Since then, however, generations of religious scholars and book publishers have greatly controlled the shape and content of today&#8217;s Bibles. This history is not understood by people who believe in the inerrancy of the bible and trust that every word in it was spoken by God and is absolutely true. Perhaps they will think differently when they understand the full history of how bibles came to be.<\/p>\n<p>The origins of the bible are Hebrew and Greek texts written by people who heard God&#8217;s voice in their hearts. The original Greek text are their interpretations of what they heard in their hearts when God spoke to them. They translated what they heard into Hebrew and Greek texts which are the source material for all bibles.<\/p>\n<p>Since God&#8217;s words are more like dreams and visions, The job of Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles was to translate dreams and visions into human language. Anyone who has tried to remember a dream and translate into human language knows how difficult this is to do. We should not be surprised, therefore, that the bible is so difficult to understand and has inconsistencies and contradictions.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a brief summary of how what we read in the bible came to be:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 2.98087%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 97.0191%;\">\n<ol>\n<li>God spoke to bible authors (i.e. prophets and apostles) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice#whatgodsvoiceislike\">his own, unique spiritual language<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bible authors did their best to capture the spiritual words they heard in their hearts and convert the images of those spiritual words to Hebrew and Greek.<\/li>\n<li>Bible theologians and publishers studied the Hebrew and Greek texts and made personal decisions about how to translate those words into human languages.<\/li>\n<li>When bible publishers were unsure about how to translate Hebrew and Greek texts into human languages, they adopted interpretations that agreed with their personal religious beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>Religious people read bibles and try to make sense out of the literal words that they read.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>When we look at this history of how bibles are written and think about how difficult it is to convert dreams to words, we can appreciate the effort prophets and apostles made to record an honest interpretation of dreams and visions spoken to their hearts by God. And then, when we think about the many ways Hebrew and Greek words can be translated into our native languages, we can easily understand why there are so many different versions of the bible and why there is so much room for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/land-and-earth#commentaryonbiblemisinterpretation\">misinterpretation of bible texts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">STUDY TIP: See<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/bible-history\"> this link<\/a> for a more detailed discussion about how bibles are published.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge to understand any part of the bible is further compounded by the fact that religious people are strongly inclined to interpret what they read literally &#8212; not symbolically. And when we consider that different religious teachers also add their personal interpretations of the literal texts, we should not be surprised that there is so much confusion and disagreement about the bible that leads to different religions and denominations within religions.<\/p>\n<p>When we consider the many variables that go into the process of publishing a bible, we can see why literal interpretations can lead to gross misinterpretations of God&#8217;s intended meanings of the dreams and visions that he revealed to prophets and aposltes of bible texts.<\/p>\n<p>We must always remember that God is well aware of the many ways his original words (i.e. dreams and visions) are misinterpreted and that these misinterpretations result in wrong understandings of him and his ways. The truth is that no one gets it right. In fact, God says all bible scribes are liars. Too many religious people with religious motives have had opportunities to shape the bible in ways that agree with their religious inclinations. That is why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+numbers+12:5-6;+jeremiah+44:26;+isaiah+66:5;+deuteronomy+4:10;+psalm+141:6;+jeremiah+6:19;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;+genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;+daniel+9:9-11\">God says that his people should listen to his voice themselves.<\/a> Listening to God&#8217;s voice in our hearts is the only way to avoid the misinterpretations that result from all the human variables that go into the process of developing the bible.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 5.1605%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 94.8395%;\">\n<ul>\n<li>God spoke in his unique spiritual language Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles.<\/li>\n<li>Prophets and apostles did their best to record and report what they heard God say in their native languages (i.e. Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek).<\/li>\n<li>Since then, the Bible has been written, rewritten, and rewritten again by hundreds, maybe thousands, of humans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Every time a new Bible was written, a group of editors\/scholars (it is usually a group effort) collaborated to write it. What they wrote was guided by their unique religious, financial and political agendas and biases. The Catholics were first, and then reform protestants followed after the printing press was invented.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the editors\/scholars\/publishers cover the full spectrum of Christianity. Each group was highly motivated to write a better Bible for religious reasons and perhaps for financial rewards. It is impossible to say exactly what motivated any one of them, but we can be sure that somewhere in their mind was the noble goal of writing the more-or-less perfect Bible that would help Bible readers know the God of their chosen religion.<\/p>\n<p>Considering this history, it is safe to say that not all Bibles are the same. They are different because authors\/editors\/publishers created them to differentiate their new version from all other existing versions. It can be said without fear of contradiction, therefore, that many humans have put their personal stamps on the Bible they have written. God&#8217;s spoken word is buried in the text, but, when we look at the history and the wide array of Bibles for sale today, we are forced to conclude that the greater portion of each Bible is the work of man.<\/p>\n<p>Because of human influence on the Bible, it is impossible to say that there is one, original, absolutely accurate Bible. God&#8217;s spoken word is inerrant, but he speaks in dreams and visions &#8211;not human words. It cannot be said, therefore, that any Bible that man has written is inerrant. People who make such a claim are woefully deceived about the history of the Bibles they read. They believe the lie that their religious leaders have told them about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biblical_inerrancy\">Bibles being inerrant. They wrongly believe that when they read a Bible, they are reading the equivalent of God&#8217;s word spoken to the prophets and apostles.<\/a> Not understanding that the only way to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:23-30;+deuteronomy+4:39;+deuteronomy+5:29;+deuteronomy+6:1-6;+deuteronomy+8:1-2;+deuteronomy+11:18;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+11:13;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+29:1-4;+psalm+37:31;+jeremiah+31:31-34;+jeremiah+32:40;+1-thessalonians+4:9;+1-john+2:27;+john+14:11-17;+john+14:26;+1-corinthians+2:12;+hebrews+8:10-11\">know God is when he writes his laws on their hearts,<\/a> they wrongly believe that by reading the Bible they will learn to know God. They even believe that the words that report events that might better be called history are God&#8217;s words. Fortified by this belief, they insist on interpreting the Bible literally, leaving little room for symbolism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice\">this link <\/a>for understanding on how to know God.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt they have missed or ignored what God said about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+8:7-9\">scribes (i.e. people who write Bibles and other translations of God&#8217;s spoken words) making God&#8217;s word a lie. <\/a>That is a shocking thing for God to say, but it is worth considering.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few truths that must be remembered about the Bible and God&#8217;s voice:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 1017px; width: 100.728%; border-color: #000000;\" border=\"1\" width=\"100.728%\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 77px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.6364%; text-align: center; height: 77px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid;\"><strong>TRUTHS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE BIBLE<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56%; text-align: center; height: 77px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid;\"><strong>TRUTHS ABOUT GOD&#8217;S WORDS<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 40px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.6364%; height: 40px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid;\">The written Bible is a collection of human words. God does not speak in human words.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56%; height: 40px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid;\">\n<ul>\n<li>God\u2019s voice is like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=1-kings+19:1-13;+job+4:12-19\" data-slimstat=\"5\">whisper of gentle wind, <\/a>but also like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:8;+psalm+135:7;+ecclesiastes+11:5;+ezekiel+37:9;+acts+2:1-5;+acts+4:31;+jeremiah+10:13;+jeremiah+51:16\" data-slimstat=\"5\">wind<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=job+37:1-2;+job+40:9;+revelation+6:1;+revelation+14:1-2;+revelation+19:1-6\" data-slimstat=\"5\">thunder<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=exodus+19:16;+exodus+20:18\" data-slimstat=\"5\">lightning. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=matthew+13:10-17;+mark+8:17;+acts+28:27;+deuteronomy+29:4;+isaiah+6:1-10\">God\u2019s voice cannot be heard by people with dull, hard hearts.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It causes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=psalm+119:161;+joel+3:16;+isaiah+6:1-4;+hosea+11:10;+amos+1:2;+joel+2:11;+ezekiel+38:19;+joel+2:10;+haggai+2:6\" data-slimstat=\"5\">trembling in the heart<\/a> that is like an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=revelation+11:19;+revelation+16:18;+ezekiel+3:12-13;+ezekiel+12:18;+ezekiel+37:7;+zechariah+14:5\" data-slimstat=\"5\">earthquake<\/a>. But. it can also be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=ezekiel+43:1-2;+revelation+1:15;+revelation+14:2\" data-slimstat=\"5\">like the sound of many waters and like the sound of harpists playing on their harps<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>God\u2019s voice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=exodus+19:19;+exodus+20:18;+job+26:14;+job+37:2;+job+40:9;+psalm+77:18;+psalm+81:1-7;+psalm+104:1-7;+1-samuel+2:10;+1-samuel+7:10;+1-samuel+12:18;+revelation+6:1;+revelation+8:5;+revelation+10:1-4;+revelation+11:19;+revelation+14:2;+revelation+16:18;+revelation+19:6\" data-slimstat=\"5\">resonates as truth in our hearts (i.e. spirits) like thunder and enlightens our spirits like lightning flashes of truth<\/a> that we cannot anticipate and can\u2019t quite believe we have seen\/heard because it happens so fast.<\/li>\n<li>It is very hard to translate God&#8217;s words into human words.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 40px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.6364%; height: 40px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/1-corinthians\/2.html\">God does not speak in human languages such as those found in Bibles. God speaks in a unique spiritual language<\/a>.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56%; height: 40px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Only people who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/the-law-is-a-stumbling-block\/signs-wonders-and-miracles\/5\">born again<\/a> are able to understand God&#8217;s spiritual language.<\/li>\n<li>For people who are not born again (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#oldcovenant\">Old\/First Covenant<\/a> religionists), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=isaiah+28:11;+isaiah+33:19;+1-corinthians+14:21;+deuteronomy+28:49-50;+jeremiah+5:15\" data-slimstat=\"5\">God\u2019s voice is perceived like another language (i.e. tongue) that has not been heard before.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>One of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/#rewards\">rewards of being born again is the gift of hearing God speak in his spiritual language and understanding what he says.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 40px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 43.6364%; height: 40px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid;\">God did not write the Bible.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 56%; height: 40px; border-color: #000000; border-style: solid;\">\n<ul>\n<li>In\u00a0 both Old Testament and New Testament times,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/hebrews\/1-1.html\"> God spoke in many ways<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">anointed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\">prophets, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\" data-slimstat=\"5\">angels<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\" data-slimstat=\"5\">messiahs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/the-high-priest\" data-slimstat=\"5\">high priests<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#witnessdefined\" data-slimstat=\"5\">witnesses<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\" data-slimstat=\"5\">warriors<\/a> whom he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+ezekiel+3:4-11;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">sent to speak to religious people<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/passage\/?q=leviticus+26:26-28;+leviticus+26:14-18;+jeremiah+7:1-13;+jeremiah+7:24-28;+jeremiah+11:1-10;+jeremiah+26:2-6;+jeremiah+17:23-27;+jeremiah+35:15;+jeremiah+44:1-5;+malachi+2:2;+ezekiel+3:4-8;+ezekiel+5:1-6;+ezekiel+20:8;+exodus+6:9;+2-kings+17:40;+zechariah+1:1-4;+zechariah+7:11-14;+proverbs+1:24-28;+2-kings+17:13-15;+jeremiah+5:21\">refused to listen to God&#8217;s voice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice\">heard God&#8217;s voice<\/a> and did their best to translate God&#8217;s spiritual language\u00a0 into human language (i.e. Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek).<\/li>\n<li>A long succession of religious leaders\/scholars translated the texts written by Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles into thousands of Bibles in their own native languages with words that reflected their individual religious perspectives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Considering these truths, it must be said that the Bible began as God&#8217;s\u00a0 spoken word but that, beginning with Old\/Testament prophets and New Testament apostles, it has also been heavily interpreted and translated by man.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it is not stretching the truth to say that, during the past two thousand years, God&#8217;s original spoken word has evolved through the written translations of thousands of Bible scholars. We must also conclude that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\">God&#8217;s spoken word and God&#8217;s written words are not the same<\/a> because man has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+12:1-6;+deuteronomy+4:2;+revelation+22:18-19;+proverbs+30:6;+joshua+1:7\">edited (i.e. added to and subtracted from)<\/a> what God said every time man wrote\/rewrote a Bible. This is one of the main reasons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=micah+7:5;+psalm+146:3;+psalm+40:4;+jeremiah+17:5;+isaiah+2:22;+psalm+118:1-11;+proverbs+29:25;+isaiah+51:7;+ezekiel+2:1-6;+ezekiel+14:1-11;+psalm+56:1-11\">God warned us not to trust man<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The stark truth about the Bible is this: No human person, no matter how well-trained he or she may be, is able to perfectly translate God&#8217;s spoken words into human language. Therefore, no human person can report God&#8217;s spoken word with complete accuracy. Anyone who has ever tried to record and report a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=numbers+12:6;+genesis+15:12;+genesis+46:2;+daniel+2:19;+daniel+7:1;+daniel+8:18;+job+33:9-19;+job+4:12-17;+job+33:15-18;+1-kings+3:5\">dream or vision<\/a> to human words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 200px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice#whatgodsvoiceislike\">What God&#8217;s Voice is Like<\/a> for understanding of the difficulty of translating God&#8217;s spoken word into human language.<\/p>\n<p>The history of the Bible can be summarized like this: It is a collection of a series of man&#8217;s translations of translations of translations of visions and dreams of spiritual words spoken by God to prophets and apostles thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, interpreting a dream or vision, as the prophets and apostles did, is also impossible to do with absolute accuracy. That is why the written Bible is not perfect and cannot be trusted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+9:20;+isaiah+45:23;+isaiah+55:11;+jeremiah+9:12;+psalm+106:24\">The only word that can be trusted is the spiritual word that comes directly from God&#8217;s mouth<\/a>. This is the word that you hear when you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice\">hear God&#8217;s spoken voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who claims that his\/her translation or interpretation of the original Hebrew or Greek Bible texts is the true, perfect, word of the Lord is an arrogant fool. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=psalm+33:4;+psalm+119:160;+psalm+19:7;+psalm+18:30;+psalm+119:138\">Only God&#8217;s spoken word is true and perfect<\/a>. That is why he insists that people listen to his spoken voice.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, anyone who accepts the written words of a human translator of the original Hebrew and Greek texts as absolute truth, is a fool who does not understand that God wants to do the speaking himself, directly, or through his spirit speaking through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">anointed <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\" data-slimstat=\"5\">true prophets<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\" data-slimstat=\"5\">angels<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\" data-slimstat=\"5\">messiahs<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/the-high-priest\" data-slimstat=\"5\">high priests<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#witnessdefined\" data-slimstat=\"5\">witnesses<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">, <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\" data-slimstat=\"5\">warriors.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRUST NO MAN<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen religious people think about trusting others, they typically think in terms of trusting with matters related to everyday life (e.g. finances, personal safety, relationships, health, jobs, etc.). They will also think in terms of their life after they die physically. This thinking is the curse of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\">interpreting the Bible literally instead of symbolically.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/death-resurrection-life\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Death, Resurrection, New Life, Salvation, Forgiveness, Heaven and Hell <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/time-hours-days-weeks-and-ages\/eternity\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Eternal Life.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortified by this thinking, they say &#8220;trust God&#8221; whenever a difficult circumstance arises. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\/pride\/making-a-name-for-yourself\/9\">religious language<\/a> sounds good and seems to agree with scriptures that tell us to trust God, but these life situations are not the circumstances that God is referring to in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=proverbs+3:5;+matthew+6:25;+psalm+9:10;+psalm+31:14;+psalm+52:8;+psalm+56:4;+psalm+56:11;+psalm+78:7;+joshua+1:9;+isaiah+26:3;+romans+8:28;+psalm+112:7;+2-corinthians+1:9\">scriptures that encourage us to put our trust in God.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are two problems with this kind of thinking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is impossible to live in a community of any size, large or small, without trusting others to one degree or other. Every human transaction and relationship includes a measure of trust. Religious people believe, therefore, that they obey God&#8217;s command not to trust man, but the reality is that all of their relationships, whether close and intimate as in a family, or distant as in government, all involve trust.<\/li>\n<li>The other problem is that God&#8217;s focus on trust is not on trusting in everyday relationships or in the business of our natural lives. It is a nice, religious thing to say that you trust God for everything (e.g. money, wealth, health, safety, weather, etc.)\u00a0 but God is not impressed with such talk. Others may be impressed, but God is not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>God&#8217;s focus regarding trust is on who you listen to in your search to know him. Do you listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeoflife\">Trees of Life<\/a>, or do you listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil<\/a>. This basic trust is introduced in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/genesis\/3.html\">Genesis 3 where Adam and Eve chose to trust the words of the serpent rather than God&#8217;s words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trust comes down to this choice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you trust God&#8217;s voice spoken by him directly and\/or through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">those he sends to speak for him <\/a>(i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\" data-slimstat=\"5\">true prophets<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\" data-slimstat=\"5\">angels<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\" data-slimstat=\"5\">messiahs<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/the-high-priest\" data-slimstat=\"5\">high priests<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#witnessdefined\" data-slimstat=\"5\">witnesses<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">, and\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\" data-slimstat=\"5\">warriors),<\/a> who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=luke+6:45;+deuteronomy+30:14;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+psalm+49:3;+romans+10:8-10;+psalm+37:30;+job+33:3;+job+33:33;+psalm+45:1;+proverbs+16:23;+proverbs+4:23;+matthew+12:34\">speak out of the overflow of their hearts<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Or,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you trust (i.e. listen to and obey) the voices\/writings of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\" data-slimstat=\"5\">False Prophets,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/egypt-and-babylon\/5#pharaohs\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Pharaohs,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/judas\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Judas,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/balaam\" data-slimstat=\"5\">\u00a0Balaam,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/kings-queens-and-princes\" data-slimstat=\"5\"> Kings, Queens and Princes,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/pharisees-and-scribes\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Pharisees and Scribes<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/serpent-devil-satan-adversary-demons-evil-spirits-and-anti-christs\" data-slimstat=\"5\">, Serpent, Devil, Satan, Adversary, Demons, Evil Spirits, Anti-Christs,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=zechariah+10:2;+zechariah+11:15;+jeremiah+10:21;+jeremiah+12:10;+jeremiah+13:17;+jeremiah+23:1-2;+ezekiel+13:3;+zechariah+11:17;+jeremiah+50:6;+ezekiel+34:1-5;+numbers+27:16-23;+john+10:8;+john+7;+john+10:26;+psalm+74:1;+2-chronicles+18:16;+matthew+9:36;+mark+6:34;+matthew+26:31;+mark+14:27\" data-slimstat=\"5\"> foolish, worthless, stupid shepherds <\/a>who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=colossians+2:18;+jeremiah+27:9-17;+jeremiah+23:16;+jeremiah+28:15;+jeremiah+29:8;+1-john+4:1;+matthew+7:15;+2-corinthians+11:13-15;+galatians+1:8-9;+jeremiah+14:14;+ezekiel+13:1-6;+ezekiel+13:23;+ezekiel+21:29;+ezekiel+22:28;+proverbs+12:6;+proverbs+1:11;+proverbs+1:16;+ecclesiastes+10:12;+ezekiel+33:31;+revelation+13:1-5\">speak out of the deceptive visions and imaginations of their minds.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">Religious people who interpret the Bible literally do not understand that they are, in fact, putting their trust in the scribes\/authors of the Bible. To restate that fact bluntly, it can be said that they are trusting man. They do not understand that God&#8217;s spoken word and the literal Bible are not the same thing. For them, Bible study is an intellectual exercise in which they use their eyes and mind to gain <\/span><a style=\"background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5#ginosko\">intellectual knowledge<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\"> which they use to <\/span><a style=\"background-color: white; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/fakefaith\/2018\/02\/18\/making-a-name-for-yourself\/\">impress other religious people<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\"> with Bible quotes.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"vote qa\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p>New Covenant disciples, on the other hand, always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">listen for God&#8217;s voice while reading\/studying the Bible<\/a>. For them, Bible study is a spiritual activity in which they use their eyes, ears and heart to gain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5#epiginosko\">spiritual wisdom and knowledge <\/a>that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=matthew+7:24-26;+john+14:10;+john+3:34;+john+5:19;+john+7:14-18;+john+14:24;+matthew+24:35;+mark+13:31;+luke+4:32-36;+luke+6:47;+luke+6:46-49;+luke+9:26;+luke+21:15;+john+4:41;+john+6:63;+john+6:68;+john+7:38-39;+john+12:47-50;+john+15:7;+john+17:8;+1-peter+4:11;+exodus+3;+exodus+4:1-12\">share with others as God directs them to speak.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because man has always changed God&#8217;s spoken word when translating it into human words, it it is impossible for any Bible version to claim that it is an accurate translation of what the original authors of the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek scriptures thought they heard God say. The Bible has evolved. It is the written version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/icebreakerideas.com\/telephone-game\/\">Telephone Game.<\/a> It gets distorted a little every time someone rewrites it.<\/p>\n<p>This reality should be a caution to Jews and Christians of any denomination who say that they categorically believe what their version of the Bible says. They may make such a claim with all sincerity, but their sincerity does not insure the truth of their claim.<\/p>\n<p>So, what should any religious person who wants to trust in scripture do? Is there any part of scripture that can be trusted? Is there one Bible translation that is more accurate than others?<\/p>\n<p>The answers to these questions are no and no.<\/p>\n<p>These negative answers should not discourage anyone who wants to know what God said. Instead of trying to find perfect truth in words written by humans, they should do what God always said they should do: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">Listen to his voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>God said &#8220;listen to my voice&#8221; because he knows that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/romans\/10-17.html\"> faith comes by hearing<\/a> &#8212; not by reading. Religious people, however, believe that they will acquire faith by simply reading the Bible using their natural eyes and human intellect. They believe that because that is what their religions have taught them.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s spoken words are the only words that do not change or evolve. That cannot be said of any Bible written by man. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=malachi+3:6;+james+1:17;+hebrews+7:20-21;+numbers+23:19;+psalm+102:27;+1-samuel+15:29;+ezekiel+24:14;+titus+1:1-2\">God&#8217;s laws (i.e. his spoken words) are true and perfect. <\/a>Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=malachi+3:6;+james+1:17;+hebrews+7:20-21;+numbers+23:19;+psalm+102:27;+1-samuel+15:29;+ezekiel+24:14;+titus+1:1-2\">God does not change,<\/a> his spoken<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/1-samuel\/15-29.html\"> word does not change<\/a>. That is a statement that cannot be made regarding any Bible. The written Bible has been changed many times, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=psalm+119:89;+matthew+24:35;+1-peter+1:23-25;+psalm+119:152;+isaiah+40:8;+revelation+14:6;+john+1:1;+john+1:14\">God&#8217;s spoken word is eternal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What we have is a situation where people sincerely want to know what God &#8220;said&#8221; in Bible times, but do not know enough to listen to what God &#8220;says&#8221; to them<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/time-hours-days-weeks-and-ages\/2\"> today<\/a>. Lacking understanding that God will actually speak to them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/time-hours-days-weeks-and-ages\/2\">today,<\/a> they hopelessly try to discover what God and\/or Jesus said thousands of years ago by reading lifeless Bibles written by other humans. Thus the Bible is little more than a history lesson of what God might have said (according to the opinions of Bible scribes\/authors and preachers), and is never current, applicable and alive to them<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/time-hours-days-weeks-and-ages\/2\"> today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When God said that his word is living and active, he was referring to his spoken word today &#8212; not to words on paper. People who read the words on paper without listening to God&#8217;s spoken voice receive only a shadow of God&#8217;s voice &#8212; not the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>And the following remedy is available to people who want to know God but do not trust the Bible: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">Listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is probably not a very satisfying suggestion for people who are more accustomed to listening to, and reading the words of religious leader. Because they have never been taught how to listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice, to suggest that they all of a sudden start listening to God&#8217;s voice is not helpful or encouraging. Lay people have been taught that it was only the religious leaders who had the ability to hear God&#8217;s spoken voice. To suggest that they, who have no calling and no special training, can hear God&#8217;s voice would seem to require more faith than they have. Indeed, this is the exact kind of response that God expects. Some faith is required for trusting religious leaders for instruction, but that minimal kind of faith is not the degree of faith that God wants in his people. He wants the kind of faith that says &#8220;God will speak to me and I will be able to hear his voice.<\/p>\n<p>While some people may be willing to stop listening to religious leaders, and they might accept that God will give to them the kind of faith they need to actually hear his spoken voice, they are probably not willing to give up reading their Bibles. This is a good and appropriate response. God does not want, nor does he expect that his people would give up reading their Bible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/#definitionofsin\">Giving up listening to religious leaders is an absolute threshold for hearing God&#8217;s voice<\/a>. But, it is not necessary or desirable to give up reading the Bible. Even though the Bible is not perfect because so many people have had their hands (i.e. minds and religious biases) in it, it is still the best tool available for learning how to hear God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">LISTEN FOR GOD\u2019S VOICE WHILE READING.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY THE BIBLE MAN WROTE IS NOT PERFECT<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the previous page, these questions were asked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is there any part of scripture that can be trusted?<\/li>\n<li>Is there one Bible translation that is more accurate than others?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the following answers were given: No and no.<\/p>\n<p>These answers will be hard to accept for people who have been taught that the literal words of the Bible are the same as God&#8217;s spoken words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\">GOD\u2019S WRITTEN WORD AND HIS VOICE ARE NOT THE SAME<\/a> for some understanding about the differences between the written word and God&#8217;s spoken word.<\/p>\n<p>Some Jews and Christians might think that God has created a situation where God has deceived people into believing that the Bible is true even though it is not completely trustworthy. For sure there has been deception, but God is guilty only in the sense that he allowed it to happen. Religious leaders, including, Bible authors\/editors are responsible for the deception.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\/religion-is-deception\">Religion is Deception<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>God did not deceive. He was clear in his warnings about religion and the written Bible. The problem was not with God. He spoke his word of truth, the prophets listened, and the prophets wrote what they thought the heard. After that, man had control of the written word.<\/p>\n<p>Having an imperfect written Bible may seem unfortunate. It is true that editors\/authors could have done a little better job of translating God&#8217;s spoken words into human language, but no human could do that perfectly. There will always be a problem translating\/converting spiritual things into natural things. It cannot be done by human intellect. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/1-corinthians\/passage\/?q=1-corinthians+2:6-13\">Only the spirit of God understands the mind of God.<\/a> That is why we must always trust the spirit of God to teach us and never depend on man to teach us.<\/p>\n<p>God understands the difference between spiritual things and natural things. Man, however, does not understand the difference between spirit things and natural things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/2\">DISCERNING BETWEEN CLEAN AND UNCLEAN, HOLY AND PROFANE, SOUL AND SPIRIT, and GOOD AND EVIL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lacking understanding of the difference between spiritual things and natural things, religious people think that the written Bible is spiritual. They do not understand that, in effect, there are two Bibles: literal\/written and spiritual. Indeed, the written Bible is a tool to access the spiritual Bible, but physical Bibles are not spiritual.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some key differences between the natural Bible and the spiritual Bible:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 638px; width: 94.5508%; border-color: #000000;\" border=\"1\" width=\"94.5508%\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\"><strong>LITERAL BIBLE WRITTEN BIBLE<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000; text-align: center;\"><strong>SPIRITUAL BIBLE:\u00a0 GOD&#8217;S VOICE<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">It is a physical object.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/john\/3-8.html\">spiritual thing.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Has physical substance of paper and ink.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Consists of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=2-corinthians+3:1-3;+jeremiah+31:33;+ezekiel+11:19;+ezekiel+36:26;+ezekiel+3:10;+proverbs+3:3;+proverbs+4:4;+proverbs+7:3;+jeremiah+17:1;+jeremiah+15:16;+job+22:22;+deuteronomy+32:46;+proverbs+23:12\">spiritual words written by the spirit of God on human hearts.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Can be seen, touched, read and understood by anyone.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Can be understood only by spiritual people who have<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=isaiah+11:1-3;+isaiah+32:1-3;+ezekiel+12:1-2;+jeremiah+5:21;+ezekiel+40:1-4;+deuteronomy+29:1-4;+isaiah+6:8-10;+ezekiel+12:2;+matthew+13:14;+acts+28:23-28;+romans+11:8;+mark+8:18\"> ears to hear God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Created by human hands.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/the-law-is-a-stumbling-block\/signs-wonders-and-miracles\/5\">Created by God.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Will eventually decay.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=psalm+119:89;+matthew+24:35;+1-peter+1:23-25;+psalm+119:152;+isaiah+40:8;+revelation+14:6;+john+1:1;+john+1:14\">Words are eternal.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Can be destroyed by human hands or natural causes.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=psalm+119:89;+matthew+24:35;+1-peter+1:23-25;+psalm+119:152;+isaiah+40:8;+revelation+14:6;+john+1:1;+john+1:14\">Words are eternal<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Can be studied, interpreted and preached by anyone.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Can be heard only by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#newcovenant\">New Covenant disciples<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Words in these Bibles are<span class=\"css-133coio etbu2a32\"> fixed, <\/span><span class=\"css-133coio etbu2a32\">inert, tasteless and stagnant.<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Is <span class=\"verse-12\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/hebrews\/4-12.html#\">living and\u00a0active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+23:29;+jeremiah+5:14\">like fire and a hammer.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=revelation+10:9;+psalm+119:103;+ezekiel+3:1-3\">tastes like honey<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine#goodspiritualfood\">good spiritual food.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Accessed through the human eyes, ears and mind.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Is accessed through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=isaiah+11:1-3;+isaiah+32:1-3;+ezekiel+12:1-2;+jeremiah+5:21;+ezekiel+40:1-4;+deuteronomy+29:1-4;+isaiah+6:8-10;+ezekiel+12:2;+matthew+13:14;+acts+28:23-28;+romans+11:8;+mark+8:18\">spiritual eyes and ears.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+29:4;+matthew+13:15;+matthew+13:19;+daniel+10:12;+acts+28:27;+1-kings+10:24;+ezekiel+3:10;+isaiah+32:4;+john+12:40;+isaiah+6:10;+ecclesiastes+7:25;+proverbs+17:16;+psalm+119:34\">understood with the heart.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/isaiah\/29-18.html\">book that is heard by the deaf and seen by the blind.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Educates and informs the natural mind with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5#ginosko\"> intellectual knowledge<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\"><span class=\"verse-12\">Gives <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5#epiginosko\">deep spiritual knowledge to the heart<\/a>.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 51.2059%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Stimulates human emotions and imagination to create religion.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 48.2375%; border-style: solid; border-color: #000000;\">Teaches that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/how-god-sees-religion\">God hates religion.<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"jeremiah8:8\"><\/a>God understands what religious people do not understand: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=romans+7:1-6;+2-corinthians+3:1-6;+colossians+2:8-14;+romans+2:27-29;+2-corinthians+3:14\">letter\u00a0 kills, but the spirit brings life.<\/a> The letter is the written word of the Bible and the spirit is the spoken word of God. The letter is the foundation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#oldcovenant\">Old\/first Covenant<\/a>, and the spirit is the foundation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#newcovenant\">New Covenant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his wisdom,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=romans+9:22;+romans+2:4;+joel+2:13;+2-peter+3:9;+2-peter+3:13-15;+romans+13:11\"> God is patient and gives religious people time to come to repentance for practicing Old\/First Covenant religion.<\/a> The timing of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/death-resurrection-life\">death to religion and new life in the spirit<\/a> is a matter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=mark+13:28-33;+acts+1:7;+matthew+24:32-44;+matthew+25:13\">known only to him<\/a>. In the meantime, God is willing to allow religious people to suffer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/time-hours-days-weeks-and-ages\/end-times-rapture-and-tribulation\/3\">tribulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/time-hours-days-weeks-and-ages\/end-times-rapture-and-tribulation\/3\">this link for understanding of tribulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was man&#8217;s unwillingness to carefully listen to hear God&#8217;s voice while reading the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the warnings God gave:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">Listen to my voice. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=micah+7:5;+psalm+146:3;+psalm+40:4;+jeremiah+17:5;+isaiah+2:22;+psalm+118:1-11;+proverbs+29:25;+isaiah+51:7;+ezekiel+2:1-6;+ezekiel+14:1-11;+psalm+56:1-11\">Trust no man<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=psalm+62:8;+psalm+56:4;+psalm+56:11;+psalm+91:2;+psalm+78:7;+2-corinthians+1:9;+psalm+52:8;+hebrews+2:13;+isaiah+12:2;+psalm+20:7;+psalm+31:14;+psalm+78:22;+mark+11:22;+acts+27:25;+romans+4:5\">Put your trust and faith in God.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Jeremiah 8:8: Because this verse is so important, the actual text is reported below in many Bible versions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 8.2518%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 91.7482%;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\">Jeremiah 8:8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/kjv\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">King James Bible: <\/a><span class=\"verse-8\">How do ye <a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 0559\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=0559\" data-strongs-number=\"0559\">say<\/a>, We are <a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 02450\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=02450\" data-strongs-number=\"02450\">wise,<\/a> and the <a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 08451\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=08451\" data-strongs-number=\"08451\">law<\/a> of the <a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 03068\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=03068\" data-strongs-number=\"03068\">LORD<\/a> is with us? Lo, <a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 0403\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=0403\" data-strongs-number=\"0403\">certainly<\/a> in <a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 08267\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=08267\" data-strongs-number=\"08267\">vain <\/a><a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 06213\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=06213\" data-strongs-number=\"06213\">made<\/a> he it; the <a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 05842\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=05842\" data-strongs-number=\"05842\">pen<\/a> of the <a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 05608\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=05608\" data-strongs-number=\"05608\">scribes<\/a> is in <a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 08267\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=08267\" data-strongs-number=\"08267\">vain.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Jeremiah 8:8 <span class=\"versiontext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">New American Standard Bible: \u00a0<\/a><\/span><span class=\"versiontext\"><span class=\"verse-8\">How can you say, &#8216;We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us&#8217;? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\">Jeremiah 8:8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">New International Version\u00a0<\/a><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;How can you say, &#8220;We are wise, for we have the law of the LORD,&#8221; when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely?<span class=\"p\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/msg\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">Jeremiah 8:8 The Message: <\/a><span class=\"verse-8\">&#8220;&#8216;How can you say, &#8220;We know the score. We&#8217;re the proud owners of God&#8217;s revelation&#8221;? Look where it&#8217;s gotten you &#8211; stuck in illusion. Your religion experts have taken you for a ride! <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nlt\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\"><span class=\"versiontext\">Jeremiah 8:8 New Living Translation: <\/span><\/a>\u201c\u2018How can you say, \u201cWe are wise because we have the word of the LORD,\u201d when your teachers have twisted it by writing lies?<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"p\"><span class=\"versiontext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nkjv\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">Jeremiah 8:8 New King James Version<\/a><\/span>: \u201cHow can you say, \u2018We <i>are<\/i> wise, And the law of the LORD <i>is<\/i> with us\u2019? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/esv\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">Jeremiah 8:8 English Standard Version: <\/a><\/span>\u201cHow can you say, \u2018We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us\u2019? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/jeremiah\/8-8.htm\">Jeremiah 8:8 Berean Study Bible: <\/a><\/span>How can you say, \u2019We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?\u2019 But in fact, the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/gnt\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">Jeremiah 8:8 Good News Translation: <\/a><\/span>How can you say that you are wise and that you know my laws? Look, the laws have been changed by dishonest scribes.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/gw\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">Jeremiah 8:8 GOD&#8217;S WORD\u00ae Translation: <\/a><\/span>&#8216;How can you say that you are wise and that you have the LORD&#8217;s teachings? The scribes have used their pens to turn these teachings into lies.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/jub\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">Jeremiah 8:8 Jubilee Bible 2000: <\/a><\/span>How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Behold, certainly in vain did he make the pen; the scribes were in vain.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/asv\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">Jeremiah 8:8 American Standard Version: <\/a><\/span>How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.<span class=\"p\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">COMMENTARY ON JEREMIAH 8:8: We see here how Bible scribes make choices about how to translate into English from the original Hebrew texts. Even though they all began with the same Hebrew words, they all say it differently. But they do get the idea of what God meant when he spoke to Jeremiah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">Here are the Hebrew words that the editors of the King James Version had to work with:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/amar.html\">&#8216;amar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/chakam-2.html\">Chakam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/towrah.html\">Towrah<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/yehovah.html\">Yehovah<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/aken.html\">&#8216;aken<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/sheqer.html\">Sheqer<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/asah.html\"> &#8216;asah<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/et.html\">`et<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/caphar.html\">Caphar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/sheqer.html\">Sheqer<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span class=\"versiontext\"><span class=\"verse-8\">And her is how the King James Version editors translated those word into English:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span class=\"versiontext\"><span class=\"verse-8\">say (&#8216;amar ) wise (Chakam) law (Towrah) LORD (Yehovah)certainly (&#8216;aken)vain (Sheqer)\u00a0made (&#8216;asah) pen (`et)scribes (Caphar) vain (Sheqer)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">And here are other words and punctuation in <strong>bold<\/strong> that the KJV editors added to make the verse understandable to their cultures:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 240px;\"><span class=\"versiontext\"><span class=\"verse-8\"><strong>How do ye <\/strong>say<strong>, We are wise<\/strong>, and the law<strong> of the <\/strong>LORD <strong>is with us? Lo, <\/strong>certainly <strong>in <\/strong>vain made <strong>he it; the <\/strong>pen <strong>of the <\/strong>scribes <strong>is in <\/strong>vain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"leftbox\">\n<div class=\"padleft\">\n<div id=\"par\" style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span class=\"versiontext\">All editors of all Bible versions went through the same decision-making process. When we look at the different translations of Jeremiah 8:8 above, we see that they all got the essence of the few Hebrew words that God spoke to Jeremiah: <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 200px;\"><span class=\"versiontext\">The words of the scribes (i.e. Bible editors) are vain, false, deceptive, lies. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span class=\"versiontext\">God&#8217;s words (i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/amar.html\">&#8216;amar <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/chakam-2.html\">Chakam<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/towrah.html\"> Towrah<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/yehovah.html\"> Yehovah <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/aken.html\">&#8216;aken<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/sheqer.html\"> Sheqer<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/asah.html\"> `asah<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/et.html\"> `et <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/caphar.html\">Caphar<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/sheqer.html\"> Sheqer<\/a>) spoken to Jeremiah are true because<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=psalm+33:4;+psalm+119:160;+psalm+19:7;+psalm+18:30;+psalm+119:138;+psalm+119:142\"> everything God says is true and perfect.<\/a> But, the words that the scribes add are vain &#8212; or at least questionable &#8212; because they have the potential to deceive readers. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span class=\"versiontext\">It is worth noting here that everything God says has the value or weight of law. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/towrah.html\">Towrah<\/a> means law. We should never think, therefore, that the meanings of any of the original Hebrew or Greek words can be amended or minimized in any way. We should think of every word that comes from God&#8217;s mouth as a fixed, unalterable law that applies to us personally. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span class=\"versiontext\">Unfortunately, Bible readers find it easy, or convenient to disregard words in the Bible that they do not understand. And, even though they may understand, they find it easy to minimize the importance and application of those words to their personal lives. This does not happen, however, when we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice#whatgodsvoiceislike\">hear God&#8217;s voice<\/a>. When you hear God&#8217;s voice, it is impossible to ignore. You may choose to disobey God&#8217;s voice, but you cannot ignore it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 240px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/study-tips\">Study Tips<\/a> for more about application of the Bible to our personal lives.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 160px;\"><span class=\"versiontext\">The purpose of this analysis is to make these points:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\">God&#8217;s spoken word is the only word that can be trusted. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"versiontext\">We cannot trust what man (including those that write Bible) does with God&#8217;s words because man will always add to God&#8217;s words to make what he\/she writes understandable and saleable.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>We must ultimately listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/li>\n<li>If we only believe what we read in the Bible, we run the risk of being deceived about God and the nature of religion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/8-9.html\">Jeremiah 8:9:\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> <span class=\"verse-9\"> &#8220;The wisemen are put to shame, They are dismayed and caught; Behold, they have\u00a0rejected the word of the LORD, And what kind of wisdom do they have? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">COMMENTARY: The wise men referred to here are the scribes\/authors\/editors of Bibles. The kind of wisdom that they have is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/6\">worldly wisdom &#8212; not Godly wisdom.<\/a> These wise men will eventually be put to shame when religious people discover that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">written Bible is a lie.<\/a> They will be put to shame when they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\/pride\/20\">humbled to learn that everything they believed and taught about religion is a lie. <\/a>The reason these wise men are caught in this deceptive trap is that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/passage\/?q=leviticus+26:26-28;+leviticus+26:14-18;+jeremiah+7:1-13;+jeremiah+7:24-28;+jeremiah+11:1-10;+jeremiah+26:2-6;+jeremiah+17:23-27;+jeremiah+35:15;+jeremiah+44:1-5;+malachi+2:2;+ezekiel+3:4-8;+ezekiel+5:1-6;+ezekiel+20:8;+exodus+6:9;+2-kings+17:40;+zechariah+1:1-4;+zechariah+7:11-14;+proverbs+1:24-28;+2-kings+17:13-15;+jeremiah+5:21\">did not listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+31:31-34\">Jeremiah 31:31-34<\/a>: <span class=\"verse-31\">\u201cThe days are coming,\u201d declares the LORD, \u201cwhen I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. <\/span><span class=\"verse-number\">32<\/span> <span class=\"verse-32\"> It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, \u201d declares the LORD. <\/span><span class=\"verse-number\">33<\/span> <span class=\"verse-33\"> \u201cThis is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,\u201d declares the LORD. \u201cI will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. <\/span><span class=\"verse-number\">34<\/span> <span class=\"verse-34\"> No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, \u2018Know the LORD,\u2019 because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,\u201d declares the LORD. \u201cFor I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><a id=\"learningtoknowgod\"><\/a>COMMENTARY ON LEARNING TO KNOW GOD: The only way to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:23-30;+deuteronomy+4:39;+deuteronomy+5:29;+deuteronomy+6:1-6;+deuteronomy+8:1-2;+deuteronomy+11:18;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+11:13;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+29:1-4;+psalm+37:31;+jeremiah+31:31-34;+jeremiah+32:40;+1-thessalonians+4:9;+1-john+2:27;+john+14:11-17;+john+14:26;+1-corinthians+2:12;+hebrews+8:10-11\"> know God is when he writes his laws on your hearts. <\/a>Before he does that, however, we must first do the following<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:23-30;+deuteronomy+4:39;+deuteronomy+5:29;+deuteronomy+6:1-6;+deuteronomy+8:1-2;+deuteronomy+11:18;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+11:13;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+29:1-4;+psalm+37:31;+jeremiah+31:31-34;+jeremiah+32:40;+1-thessalonians+4:9;+1-john+2:27;+john+14:11-17;+john+14:26;+1-corinthians+2:12;+hebrews+8:10-11\">:<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Stop seeking for knowledge about God through the teachings of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil<\/a> (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\">false prophets<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=matthew+3:1-2;+matthew+4:17;+matthew+11:20-21;+matthew+12:41;+acts+2:38;+acts+5:31;+acts+20:18-21;+acts+26:18-20;+mark+1:14-15;+luke+24:45-47;+ezekiel+18:30;+ezekiel+33:9-12;+revelation+2:16;+psalm+4:1-4;+isaiah+59:20;+ezekiel+3:19\">Repent<\/a> for practicing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-sin\">sin of religion<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\/pride\/10\">Humble yourself<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+6:5;+joel+2:12;+jeremiah+3:10;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+30:2;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+30:6;+zephaniah+3:14;+matthew+22:37;+matthew+7:7;+mark+12:33;+luke+10:27;+luke+11:9;+deuteronomy+4:29;+1-chronicles+28:9;+1-chronicles+22:19;+2-chronicles+12:14;+2-chronicles+15:12;+2-chronicles+19:3;+psalm+27:8;+psalm+119:2;+jeremiah+24:7;+jeremiah+29:13\">Seek God with our heart and soul. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=ezekiel+14:6;+leviticus+19:4;+1-samuel+7:3;+1-samuel+12:21;+jonah+2:8;+jeremiah+4:1-2;+1-thessalonians+1:9;+revelation+9:20;+psalm+40:1-5;+hosea+3:1-2;+joshua+24:23;+isaiah+30:22;+ezekiel+18:30\">Turn away from your idols<\/a> (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-sin\/religion-is-idolatry\/10\">religious leaders<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/teach\">Teach others <\/a>how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\">study<\/a> and how to know God.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u200e<\/p>\n<p>Religious people say that you learn about God when you read the written words of the Bible and\/or by participating in religious activities and\/or by listening to good preaching. This thinking is only partly true. It is not true that participating in religion reliably leads to knowing God. It is also not true if people who read the Bible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:23-30;+deuteronomy+4:39;+deuteronomy+5:29;+deuteronomy+6:1-6;+deuteronomy+8:1-2;+deuteronomy+11:18;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+11:13;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+29:1-4;+psalm+37:31;+jeremiah+31:31-34;+jeremiah+32:40;+1-thessalonians+4:9;+1-john+2:27;+john+14:11-17;+john+14:26;+1-corinthians+2:12;+hebrews+8:10-11\">study for the wrong reasons<\/a>. And it is especially not true if people listen to the preaching of false prophets. This thinking is true, however, for people who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">listen to hear God&#8217;s voice while reading the Bible.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before trying to listen while reading, however, it is critical to know that God has placed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice#howtoheargodsvoice\">conditions on who can hear.<\/a> The main condition is that you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/ezekiel\/passage\/?q=ezekiel+14:1-11\">do not listen to false prophets.<\/a> If you are not ready to stop listening to pastors and rabbis and other religious leaders, you are not ready to hear God&#8217;s voice. You have already made your choice and God respects your choice because he allows us to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+30:15-20;+genesis+2:16-17;+deuteronomy+11:26-27\">choose between life (i.e. listening to his spoken voice) and death (i.e. listening to false prophets).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>God is very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\/3\">jealous<\/a> on the point of who people listen to.\u00a0 In God&#8217;s view, people who are unwilling to stop listening to religious leaders for instruction about God still trust them and have affection for them. If that is the case, God&#8217;s view is that you do not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/passage\/?q=matthew+22:35-37;+mark+12:28-30;+luke+10:25-27;+deuteronomy+4:29;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+6:1-6;+joshua+14:1-8;+1-chronicles+29:17;+psalm+95:10;+isaiah+51:7;+isaiah+65:1-2;+jeremiah+4:1-4;+jeremiah+5:23;+jeremiah+7:24;+jeremiah+11:20;+jeremiah+13:10;+jeremiah+17:1;+jeremiah+20:12;+jeremiah+24:1-7;+jeremiah+31:31-34;+ezekiel+11:14-21;+ezekiel+14:1-11;+ezekiel+33:27-33;+hebrews+8\">love him with all your heart, mind, soul and strength<\/a>. People who don&#8217;t satisfy those conditions, you will not be able to hear his voice. But, people who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=psalm+37:4;+psalm+21:1-7;+psalm+145:18-19;+isaiah+58:13-14\">delight in hearing God&#8217;s voice will hear it in their hearts.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When listening, it is critical to understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice#whatgodsvoiceisnotlike\">what God&#8217;s voice is not like, <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice#whatgodsvoiceislike\">what God&#8217;s voice is like.\u00a0<\/a>When what you think you hear agrees with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice#whatgodsvoiceislike\">what God&#8217;s voice is like<\/a>, and when you find that you seek <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\">understanding of the symbolic meanings of scripture instead of literal understanding<\/a>, you are probably beginning to hear God&#8217;s voice. If you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/oil-water-face-hands\/3#changeofheartevidenceofmiracle\">notice that God is changing your heart <\/a>as you read, you can be sure that you have actually heard it. Change of heart is God&#8217;s reason for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/deuteronomy\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+29:1-4\">giving you a heart to know his voice and ears to hear his voice. <\/a>Little by little he is doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/the-law-is-a-stumbling-block\/signs-wonders-and-miracles\/5\">creative miracle<\/a> in you as you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">listen while reading.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5\">two kinds of knowledge<\/a> to be acquired by reading the Bible. When we listen while reading, we put the emphasis on listening for God&#8217;s spirit to teach us in spiritual language. That is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5#epiginosko\">epiginosko<\/a> knowledge. We do not hear audible words, but we hear God&#8217;s voice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+29:1-4;+isaiah+6:9-10;+matthew+13:19;+mark+8:17;+ezekiel+12:2;+matthew+13:14-19;+acts+28:26-27;+ezekiel+3:10;+malachi+2:2\">speaking to our hearts<\/a>. Epiginosko knowledge is the kind of knowledge that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#newcovenant\">New Covenant<\/a> disciples have<\/p>\n<p>When we read without listening, our emphasis is on intellectual understanding of human words. In effect we are trusting that the religious leaders who wrote the Bible are absolutely accurate in translating God&#8217;s spoken word into human language. At that point you trust the Bible authors more than you trust that God will speak to you. You lack faith that God will tell you what he wants you to hear. When we read in the absence of trust, we acquire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5#ginosko\">ginosko<\/a> knowledge. This is the kind of knowledge that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#oldcovenant\">Old\/First Covenant<\/a> religionists have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bibletools.org\/index.cfm\/fuseaction\/Lexicon.show\/ID\/G1921\/epiginosko.htm\">Epiginosko knowledge is the preferred kind of knowledge because it allows us to know God thoroughly and accurately.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When people read without listening, they value the written words as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\">law<\/a> from which they make Old\/First Covenant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/6#religiouslaws\">religious laws<\/a>. When people read while listening, God&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#newcovenant\">New Covenant<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/6#spirituallaws\">spiritual laws<\/a> are written on their hearts. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/5\">New Covenant is a covenant of life, while the Old\/First Covenant is a covenant of death.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>God made it very clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+12:1-6;+deuteronomy+4:2;+revelation+22:18-19;+proverbs+30:6;+joshua+1:7\">man should not add to or subtract from his word.<\/a> When we bother to investigate, however, we see that man has violated this command throughout the Bible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/sacrifices-tithes-and-offerings\/2593-2\">TITHES<\/a>, we presented an example of scripture where words were added to the original Hebrew to make the thoughts complete.<\/p>\n<p>Disciples who are willing to verify that adding to God&#8217;s spoken word is a common practice in Bible editing may do so by looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/parallel-bible\/passage\/?q=John+1%3A1&amp;t=kjv&amp;t2=nas\">John 1:1<\/a> in two different Bible versions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"verse-1\"> In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was withGod, and the Word was God. <\/span>(KJV)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"verse-1\">In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. <\/span>(NASB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The highlighted words are the original words in Greek. Words not highlighted are filler words added by the editor\/scribe to make the original thought understandable in English.<\/p>\n<p>If the filler words were not included, here is how John 1:1 would read in\u00a0 the KJV:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"verse-1\">In beginning was Word and Word was withGod and Word was God<\/span><\/p>\n<p>And here how it would read in the NASB:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"verse-1\">beginningWordWordGodWordGod<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clicks on the highlighted words go to the Greek <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lexicon\">lexicon <\/a>which shows in detail the various ways the Greek words have been translated into English. When we do this, we begin to see how editors\/scribes have wrongly influenced the content and meaning of the Bible by their choices.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/nas\/logos.html\">Greek lexicon for the word &#8220;word<\/a>&#8221; which appears three times in each version, we see that the Greek word &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/nas\/logos.html\">logos<\/a>&#8221; is translated into the following words in the <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">NASB: <span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\">account 7, account* 1, accounting 2, accounts 2, answer 1, appearance 1, complaint 1, exhortation* 1, have to do 1, instruction 1, length* 1, matter 4, matters 1, message 10, news 3, preaching 1, question 2, reason 2, reasonable 1, remark 1, report 1, said 1, say 1, saying 4, sayings 1, speaker 1, speech 10, statement 18, story 1, talk 1, teaching 2, thing 2, things 1, utterance 2, what he says 1, what* 1, word 179, words 61.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">And when we look at the same word &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/kjv\/logos.html\">logos<\/a>&#8221; in the KJV, we see that it is translated in the following ways: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">word 218, saying 50, account 8, speech 8, Word (Christ) 7, thing 5, not translated 2, miscellaneous 32.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We might rightly wonder how there can be any confusion about the translation of such a simple word (i.e. word). The simple answer is that the words chosen for translation into English are editorial decisions. Some editors\/scribes choose to translate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/kjv\/logos.html\">logos<\/a> one way in one place in the Bible and another way in other places. It gets more confusing when we see that other editors\/scribes in other versions of the Bible choose to translate it another way. Thus it can be said that the words found in the Bible are words chosen by men &#8212; not God. Bible authors chose to translate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/kjv\/logos.html\">logos<\/a> into words that seemed\u00a0 right to them according to their intellectual understanding of the scripture and according to their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The consequences of these decisions are found throughout the Bible. This truth verifies God&#8217;s claim that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+8:7-9\">lying pens of the scribes has made God&#8217;s ordinance into a lie<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/5\">God&#8217;s ordinance is his word, his law, his commandments. <\/a>God&#8217;s word was not a lie when God spoke it to the prophets and apostles who wrote the Hebrew and Greek texts, but it becomes a lie when editor\/scribes translate it wrongly.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to John 1:1, the practice of Bible scribes\/authors has had an immense impact on Christianity. Because of the way John 1:1 was written in the KJV, NASB, and <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/john\/1-1.htm\">all other versions of the Bible,<\/a> most Christians wrongly believe that &#8220;the word&#8221; refers to Jesus. And because the Bible says that &#8220;the word was with God,&#8221; they also believe that Jesus always existed with God. This is one of the primary Christian arguments for the trinity.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a reasonable argument except for the fact that the original language of John 1:1 does not say, or in any way imply that &#8220;the word&#8221; refers to Jesus. The Greek word translated as &#8220;word&#8221; is logos. Logos is translated with many different words in English, but there is nothing in the original Greek or English translations that suggests, or implies, that logos means anything other than &#8220;word.&#8221; It is a great mistake to interpret logos as Jesus. Logos is logos, and word is word. Logos and word do not refer to Jesus!<\/p>\n<p>This is one case in the Bible that there is no symbolism. Logos is the Greek word that describes God&#8217;s spoken word &#8212; not Jesus. This is a fact worth repeating: Logos refers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/oil-water-face-hands\">God&#8217;s spoken word<\/a>. To say or imply that logos refers to Jesus is an example of &#8220;adding to&#8221; scripture.<\/p>\n<p>Christians have made the mistake of adding the symbolic interpretation of logos as Jesus. That is one of the main reasons why Christians believe that Jesus always existed with God. And that is why many accept the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/jesus\/3#trinity\">trinity doctrine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why Christians make this mistake is not really surprising. It is true that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/jesus\/5\">Jesus spoke God&#8217;s words,<\/a> and it appears that he performed miracles that would suggest he had unusual spiritual powers. To make the jump to the conclusion from speaking for God and doing miracles to &#8220;Jesus is equal to God&#8221; is a mistake made for lack of understanding that it was not the human person Jesus who had spiritual power. Here are the truths that must be understood to avoid making the mistake of the trinity doctrine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/jesus\/5\">Jesus only spoke for God &#8212; he did not speak\u00a0 his own words<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/oil-water-face-hands\/3\">words Jesus spoke had spiritual power to heal people<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/the-law-is-a-stumbling-block\/signs-wonders-and-miracles\/4\">miracles are parables for transformed hearts.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Only God&#8217;s voice has the power to change hearts.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/the-law-is-a-stumbling-block\/signs-wonders-and-miracles\/4\">miracle of changing hearts<\/a> is accomplished only by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/oil-water-face-hands\/3\">power of God&#8217;s spoken voice<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the main point that Christians need to understand: Speaking God&#8217;s words does not make Jesus equal to God. God has always sent many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\">prophets, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\">angels, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#godspeaksfromcloud\">witnesses,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\">warriors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/nas\/apostolos.html\">apostles <\/a>to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=hebrews+1:1-2;+john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+ezekiel+3:4-11;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21;+mark+13:27;+matthew+24:31;+revelation+22:6\">speak for him. <\/a>None of these<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/servants\"> servants<\/a> of God are interpreted to be equal to God. Those whom God sent, and those he continues to send, are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/hebrews\/1-1.html\">spokespersons for God<\/a>, but they are not God. Accordingly, Jesus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/jesus\/8\">who is called a servant<\/a> of God, also is not God. He is a servant of God, a spokesperson for God, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/jesus\/7\">mediator between man and God<\/a>, but he is not in fact God.<\/p>\n<p>The symbolic interpretation of logos as Jesus ignores the Biblical emphasis on God&#8217;s spoken word. Everything in the Bible points to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/oil-water-face-hands\">God&#8217;s spoken word<\/a>. Any translation or interpretation that deflects from the focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/oil-water-face-hands\">God&#8217;s spoken word<\/a> breaks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:2;+revelation+22:18-19;+proverbs+30:6;+joshua+1:7\">God&#8217;s command that no one should add or subtract from his word.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/oil-water-face-hands\">God and his word are the same thing.<\/a> Therefore, anything said or done in writing the Bible or creating doctrines from the written Bible that adds to or subtracts\u00a0 from God&#8217;s spoken word, adds to or subtracts from God. He takes great offense when religious people do misrepresent him in any way.<\/p>\n<p>The written Bible is full of these kinds of mistakes. That is why it can be said that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\"> the written Bible and God&#8217;s spoken word are not the same<\/a>. The reasons these mistakes are made is that Bible authors used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/6\" data-slimstat=\"5\">worldly wisdom to interpret scripture instead of listening to God\u2019s voice.<\/a> The differences between Bible versions exists because the editors (i.e. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/capher-aramaic.html\" data-slimstat=\"5\">scribes<\/a>\/writers) used their personal, worldly wisdom to make translation decisions. These scribes\/bible editors began with the original Hebrew and Greek texts and then translated them according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/kjv\/passage\/?q=proverbs+3:5;+hosea+13:1-2;+proverbs+18:1-2;+2-peter+1:20;+proverbs+23:4\">their own understanding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Without excusing Bible authors for lying, we can understand why they wrote Bibles the way they did. First of all, they were Old\/First Covenant religionists who could not hear God&#8217;s spoken voice. If they could have heard God&#8217;s voice, they would not have tried to write the Bible because they would have known that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/oil-water-face-hands\/3\">God&#8217;s power exists in the spoken word &#8212; not in the written word.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scribes had the impossible challenge of translating the original Hebrew and Greek texts into their native languages. In the example of John 1:1, we see that all the scribes\/authors had to work with were these few Greek words:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/nas\/arche.html\">Arche<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/nas\/logos.html\">Logos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/nas\/logos.html\">Logos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/nas\/theos.html\">Theos<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/nas\/logos.html\">Logos\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/greek\/nas\/theos.html\">Theos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clearly, editors needed to do something to make these words understandable in English. The first thing the did was choose to translate the Greek words into these English words:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"verse-1\">beginningWordWordGodWordGod<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But these words alone do not make sense to English speakers\/readers. The editors needed to add words to the translated word to satisfy the expectations of English readers. Thus, the editors\/scribes were forced to insert filler words (see words in <strong>bold<\/strong>) between the Hebrew words to give meaning and understanding to the scripture. And here is what they choose:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"verse-1\"><strong>In the<\/strong>beginning<strong>was the<\/strong>Word, <strong>and the<\/strong>Word<strong>was with<\/strong>God, <strong>and the<\/strong>Word<strong>was<\/strong>God. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The words in <strong>bold<\/strong> are filler words added by the editors\/scribes to create a sentence or thought that would make sense to an English speaker. These words were not included in the original Greek text. The challenge to create a complete, coherent thought existed for all editors\/scribes (past and present) who translated Hebrew and Greek into any other language.<\/p>\n<p>English speakers would be hard pressed to understand what God intended if all they had to read was the few words (i.e. <span class=\"verse-1\">beginningWordWordGodWordGod<\/span>) that could be translated from the Greek text in John 1:1. Thus, the editors were forced to add the filler words to make it all readable and understandable.<\/p>\n<p>A Bible without all the normal parts of English speech would not be attractive or saleable to English readers. Therefore, in order to make Bible publishing a profitable enterprise, the scribes\/editors inserted English filler words as necessary to make the Bible they were writing readable, understandable and saleable. Plus, they needed to write it so that it would be acceptable to the Christians who would buy it and read it.<\/p>\n<p>In doing this, the scribes\/editors had many choices to make as they worked their way through the original Hebrew and Greek Bible texts. For another example, we can look at the Hebrew words in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/numbers\/18-8.html\">Numbers 18:8,<\/a> where we find these original Hebrew words:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/yehovah.html\">Yehovah <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/dabar.html\">Dabar\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/aharown.html\">&#8216;Aharown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/aniy.html\">&#8216; aniy <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/nathan.html\">Nathan <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/mishmereth.html\">Mishmereth <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/teruwmah.html\">T@ruwmah <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/kol.html\">Kol <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/qodesh.html\">Qodesh <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/ben.html\">Ben <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/yisrael.html\">Yisra&#8217;el <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/nathan.html\">Nathan <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/mishchah.html\">Mishchah <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/choq.html\">Choq <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/owlam.html\">`owlam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bible editors translated these words as follows in the NASB:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"verse-8\">LORDspokeAaronbeholdMyselfgivenchargeofferingsallholysonsIsraelgivenportionsonsperpetualallotment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then, because these words alone would not make much sense, the editors\/scribes added filler words and punctuation to tie it all together in a way that made sense. The filler words are the <strong>words in bold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"verse-8\"><strong>Then the <\/strong>LORD spoke <strong>to <\/strong>Aaron<strong>, &#8220;Now <\/strong>behold, <strong>I <\/strong>Myself <strong>have <\/strong>given <strong>you <\/strong>charge <strong>of My\u00a0<\/strong>offerings<strong>, even <\/strong>all <strong>the <\/strong>holy <strong>gifts of the <\/strong>sons <strong>of <\/strong>Israel<strong> I have <\/strong>given <strong>them to you as a\u00a0<\/strong>portion <strong>and to your <\/strong>sons <strong>as a\u00a0<\/strong>perpetual allotment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Now they had a Bible verse that was understandable.<\/p>\n<p>Editors of the KJV translated the original Hebrew words as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"verse-8\"><a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 03068\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=03068\" data-strongs-number=\"03068\">LORD<\/a> spake Aaron given charge offerings things children Israel\u00a0given anointing sons ordinance ever<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Then, because these words alone would not make much sense, the editors\/scribes added filler words and punctuation to tie it all together in a way that made sense. The filler words are the <strong>words in bold.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"verse-8\"><strong>And the <\/strong><a class=\"strongs\" title=\"Strong's Number: 03068\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/interlinear-bible\/strongs\/?t=kjv&amp;ll=h&amp;sn=03068\" data-strongs-number=\"03068\">LORD <\/a>spake <strong>unto <\/strong>Aaron,<strong> Behold, I also have <\/strong>given <strong>thee the <\/strong>charge <strong>of mine heave <\/strong>offerings <strong>of all the hallowed <\/strong>things <strong>of the <\/strong>children <strong>of <\/strong>Israel<strong>; unto thee have I\u00a0<\/strong>given <strong>them by reason of the <\/strong>anointing<strong>, and to thy <\/strong>sons<strong>, by an <\/strong>ordinance<strong> for<\/strong>ever<strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And the editors of the NIV translated them with these words:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span class=\"verse-8\">Then the LORD said to Aaron, \u201cI myself have put you in charge of the offerings presented to me; all the holy offerings the Israelites give me I give to you and your sons as your portion, your perpetual share. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clearly, these three examples read differently, and the reason they read differently is that Bible editors choose to translate the Hebrew words differently and choose to include different filler words and punctuation.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, very few English readers could make any sense out of the translations without the filler words and punctuation. Lacking the filler words and punctuation, it is hard to understand this verse, or any verse in the Bible. It is understandable, therefore, why the editors\/scribes made the choices they made. But that understanding does not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;q=exonerate\">exonerate<\/a> them from the guilt of lying as God said.<\/p>\n<p>We might rightly ask why God can say that the editorial decisions made by Bible scribes\/authors constitute lying. There are at least four answers to this question:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 7.38462%;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 92.6154%;\">\n<ol>\n<li>When they added the filler words, they disobeyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:2;+deuteronomy+12:32;+revelation+22:18-19;+proverbs+30:6;+joshua+1:7;+jeremiah+26:2\">God&#8217;s command not to add or subtract from his spoken word.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>By representing that the written Bibles they translated and published are God&#8217;s pure, authoritative, inerrant word, they effectively say that their written words have the same value and power as God&#8217;s spoken word. This is a false, arrogant claim. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/oil-water-face-hands\/3\">God&#8217;s power exists in his spoken word &#8212; not in the written word<\/a>. The written word only has power when God&#8217;s spirit is activated to speak. Thus, they effectively subtracted from God&#8217;s spoken word when they insert their words as substitutes for God&#8217;s spoken words. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/death-resurrection-life\/2#spirituallife\">Spiritual life is contained only in God&#8217;s spoken word.<\/a> There is no substitute or equal to God&#8217;s spoken word.<\/li>\n<li>God&#8217;s spoken word is available only through anointed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\">true prophets<\/a>. People who write Bibles are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/3\">false prophets<\/a> because they receive pay for their writing work and because they use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5\">human knowledge &#8212; not Godly knowledge &#8212;\u00a0<\/a> to do their writing. They are always employees or consultants to established religious institutions or businesses such as publishers who produce Bibles and sell them for a profit.<\/li>\n<li>No written, human word has power and authority equal to God&#8217;s spoken word unless readers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice while reading the written word.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>There may be other reasons why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+8:5-11\">God said that the scribes\/authors of the the Bible lied.<\/a> Even if we don&#8217;t know what those reasons are, we must still accept that he did say that scribes are liars.<\/p>\n<p>Some Hebrew words are translated to many different English words in different parts of the Old Testament. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/dabar.html\">Dabar<\/a>, for example, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/5#dabarwordcommandment\">translated as word, thing, commandment<\/a>, and several other ways. The variety of word choices available for each word is the reason why there are so <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_English_Bible_translations#Complete_Bibles\">many different versions of the Bible:<\/a> Different scribes made different choices about how to translate the Hebrew words to make the resulting text agree with their personal theologies. We see the a small example of this dynamic decision-making process in the examples of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/numbers\/18-8.html\">NASB<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/kjv\/numbers\/18-8.html\">KJV<\/a> versions of Numbers 18:8. We see the results on a global scale when we consider the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_English_Bible_translations#Complete_Bibles\">multitude of Bible versions that exist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It must be said that scribes\/editors of each Bible were guided in their decisions by personal theological beliefs &#8212; not by God&#8217;s voice. They were compelled to choose filler words that agreed with and support their personal religious, theological beliefs. For them it was an intellectual exercise &#8212; not a matter of listening to God&#8217;s voice. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\/religion-is-a-stronghold-of-wrong-thinking\">stronghold of wrong thinking<\/a> that shaped their religious beliefs also shaped the Bibles they wrote. And it all happened because they didn&#8217;t know<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice\"> how to listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Bible scribes\/authors are guilty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">lying as reported in Jeremiah 8:8<\/a>, God has always had a plan for overcoming their influence and the influence of their religious co-conspirators (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\">False Prophets,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/egypt-and-babylon\/5#pharaohs\">Pharaohs,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/judas\">Judas,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/balaam\">\u00a0Balaam,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/kings-queens-and-princes\"> Kings, Queens and Princes,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/pharisees-and-scribes\">Pharisees<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/serpent-devil-satan-adversary-demons-evil-spirits-and-anti-christs\">, Serpent, Devil, Satan, Adversary, Demons, Evil Spirits, Anti-Christs)<\/a>.\u00a0 Scribes are just one small part of a world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\">false prophets<\/a> with whom God has always contended.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s response to their lies and deceptions has always been to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">send true prophets to speak for him. <\/a>True prophets are also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\">angels<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">messiahs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/the-high-priest\">high priests<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#witnessdefined\">witnesses<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\">warriors. <\/a>These all have God&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">anointing <\/a>which equips them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=exodus+4:10-12;+matthew+10:19-20;+mark+13:11;+luke+12:11-12;+luke+21:14-15;+john+7:16;+john+12:49-50;+john+14:10;+john+14:24-31;+john+16:13;+1-corinthians+2;+psalm+143:10;+matthew+10:17-20;+1-thessalonians+2:13;+exodus+4:12;+deuteronomy+18:18;+john+5:19;+matthew+26:39;+john+5:30;+john+6:38;+john+6:68;+john+8:28;+acts+4:29-31;+1-peter+4:10-11\">speak for God<\/a> to people who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/passage\/?q=hebrews+3:7-19;+hebrews+4:1-7;+john+12:36-40;+isaiah+6:9-10;+jeremiah+5:21;+ezekiel+12:2;+matthew+13:14;+deuteronomy+29:4;+acts+19:9;+2-chronicles+30:8;+nehemiah+9:25-26;+ezekiel+2:1-6;+mark+6:45-52;+job+22:22;+deuteronomy+6:6;+deuteronomy+11:18;+psalm+37:31;+deuteronomy+32:46;+ezekiel+3:1-10\">hard hearts<\/a> and who always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\">interpret the Bible literally &#8212; not symbolically. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scribes and other false prophets speak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+27:9-17;+jeremiah+23:16;+jeremiah+28:15;+jeremiah+29:8;+1-john+4:1;+matthew+7:15;+2-corinthians+11:13-15;+galatians+1:8-9;+jeremiah+14:14;+ezekiel+13:1-6;+ezekiel+13:23;+ezekiel+21:29;+ezekiel+22:28;+proverbs+12:6;+proverbs+1:11;+proverbs+1:16;+ecclesiastes+10:12;+ezekiel+33:31;+revelation+13:1-5\">lies and visions out of the imaginations<\/a> of their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/passage\/?q=psalm+17:7-13;+matthew+12:34-35;+matthew+15:18;+luke+6:45;+psalm+73:7-8;+ephesians+4:29\"> evil, impure hearts<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=matthew+12:34;+deuteronomy+30:14;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+psalm+49:3;+luke+6:45;+romans+10:8-10;+psalm+37:30;+job+33:3;+job+33:33;+psalm+45:1;+proverbs+16:23;+proverbs+4:23\"> True prophets, however, speak out of the overflow of good, pure hearts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The competition between false prophets and true prophets is symbolically called &#8220;war&#8221; in the Bible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Religion is the Enemy,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\/gods-at-war\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Gods at War <\/a>and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\/sibling-warfare\" data-slimstat=\"5\"> Sibling Conflict for understanding of spiritual conflict.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warlike competition is also described as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/2\">good versus evil <\/a>and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3\">two kinds of food: clean and unclean. <\/a>Competition between false prophets and true prophets is introduced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=genesis+2:8-9;+genesis+2:16-17;+genesis+3:2-3;+deuteronomy+30:15-20\">book of Genesis<\/a> as two trees that compete for Eve&#8217;s attention. Both trees looked attractive and appeared to be good for food. But, eating of one tree led to spiritual life, and eating of the other tree led to spiritual death.<\/p>\n<p>The parable of the two trees previews the basic theme of the Bible: From which tree do we eat? Do we eat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine#goodspiritualfood\">good spiritual food<\/a> from the mouth of God (i.e. fruit from the Tree of Life), or do we eat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine#evilsoulishfood\">evil, soulish food<\/a> from the mouths (and pens) of false prophets (i.e. fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil)? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/deuteronomy\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+30:15-20\">choice is a life and death matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\">True prophets<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">,<\/a> are symbolically called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeoflife\">Trees of Life.<\/a> They are also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\">angels<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">messiahs<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/the-high-priest\">high priests<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#witnessdefined\">witnesses<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">, and\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\">warriors.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#newcovenant\">New Covenant<\/a> disciples are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">anointed<\/a> by God and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">sent by God<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=exodus+4:10-12;+matthew+10:19-20;+mark+13:11;+luke+12:11-12;+luke+21:14-15;+john+7:16;+john+12:49-50;+john+14:10;+john+14:24-31;+john+16:13;+1-corinthians+2;+psalm+143:10;+matthew+10:17-20;+1-thessalonians+2:13;+exodus+4:12;+deuteronomy+18:18;+john+5:19;+matthew+26:39;+john+5:30;+john+6:38;+john+6:68;+john+8:28;+acts+4:29-31;+1-peter+4:10-11\">speak for God<\/a> to people who do not know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice\">how to hear God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\">False Prophets,<\/a> (including scribes) are symbolically called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil.<\/a> They are also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/egypt-and-babylon\/5#pharaohs\">Pharaohs,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/judas\">Judas,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/balaam\">\u00a0Balaam,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/kings-queens-and-princes\"> Kings, Queens and Princes,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/pharisees-and-scribes\">Pharisees and Scribes<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/serpent-devil-satan-adversary-demons-evil-spirits-and-anti-christs\">, Serpent, Devil, Satan, Adversary, Demons, Evil Spirits, Anti-Christs,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=zechariah+10:2;+zechariah+11:15;+jeremiah+10:21;+jeremiah+12:10;+jeremiah+13:17;+jeremiah+23:1-2;+ezekiel+13:3;+zechariah+11:17;+jeremiah+50:6;+ezekiel+34:1-5;+numbers+27:16-23;+john+10:8;+john+7;+john+10:26;+psalm+74:1;+2-chronicles+18:16;+matthew+9:36;+mark+6:34;+matthew+26:31;+mark+14:27\"> foolish, worthless, stupid shepherds.<\/a> These Bible characters are all symbolical representations of religious leaders (e.g. pastors, rabbis, evangelists, missionaries, prophets, etc.). These are all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#oldcovenant\">Old\/First Covenant religionists<\/a> who eat from Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil because they, like Eve, do not know how to discern between the two kinds of trees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/2\">The distinction between the two kinds of trees is important because God wants\/expects that his people will only listen to his voice.<\/a> In fact, the Bible says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\/3\">he becomes very jealous when people listen to false prophets instead of listening to him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: God uses several terms to help people understand the difference between the two trees:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/2\"> Clean and Unclean; Holy and Profane; Spirit and Soul; Good and Evil.<\/a> He has also given us clues to help us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/11\">identify True Prophets<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/3\"> identify False Prophets, <\/a>and he has given us clues to understand the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/5\">differences between pure religion and defiled religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This brief review about the two kinds of trees is necessary in the context of the accuracy of the Bible because, symbolically speaking,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/wood-gold-silver-stone\"> wood and trees represent people.<\/a> Scribes that write Bibles are Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil because they are products of religion.<\/p>\n<p>Most religious people believe that the <a href=\"https:\/\/overviewbible.com\/authors-who-wrote-bible\/\">Bible was written by Bible characters<\/a>. In a sense this is true, but this belief ignores the fact that much of the Bible has been written by contemporary religious leaders (i.e. scribes.) All scribes must have religious credentials before they are hired to engage in the laborious work of writing a Bible. They must have religious training (e.g. Bible school, seminary, graduate studies in Hebrew and\/or Greek, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>They are Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil because they do not<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\"> listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice<\/a>. And if they are Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil, their fruit (i.e. their writings) is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">fruit of trees of Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That means that the literal Bible written by scribes contains the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">fruit of trees of Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People who interpret the Bible literally effectively eat the fruit of trees of knowledge of good and evil. In Bible terms, they sin. They did not listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice. If they were able to hear God&#8217;s voice, they would not have undertaken the impossible task of using human language to report spiritual language with definitive, absolute, &#8220;thus saith the Lord&#8221; certainty. No human can do this.<\/p>\n<p>The remedy for this situation is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">listen to hear God&#8217;s voice while reading the Bible.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\">true prophets<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\">angels<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">messiahs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/the-high-priest\">high priests<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#witnessdefined\">witnesses<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\">warriors<\/a> will try to report or interpret spiritual language with definitive, absolute, &#8220;thus saith the Lord&#8221; certainty. What true prophets always say, however, is this: Stop listening to false prophets! Start listening to God&#8217;s spoken voice. Even though they know that they speak for God, they will never presume to be a substitute for God. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/philippians\/passage\/?q=philippians+2:5-7\">Jesus did not consider equality with God to be something to be grasped<\/a>. Speaking for God is not the same thing as being God. God&#8217;s servants who speak for him know that they are only servants.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE BIBLE IS MAN&#8217;S CREATION<\/strong><br \/>\nIt is critical to understand that many of the words in the Bible are not in the original Hebrew or Greek texts which was inspired by God. Perhaps as much as half of the words are filler words chosen by Bible scribes\/editors. The inspiration for these filler words comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+27:9-10;+jeremiah+27:14-17;+1-john+4:1;+matthew+7:15;+2-corinthians+11:13-15;+galatians+1:8-9;+jeremiah+14:14;+ezekiel+13:3;+ezekiel+13:6;+proverbs+12:6;+proverbs+1:11;+proverbs+1:16;+ecclesiastes+10:12;+jeremiah+23:16;+ezekiel+33:31;+revelation+13:1-5\">imaginations<\/a> of human writers &#8212; not from God. Moreover, translation of Hebrew and Greek words to English and other languages is always done with words that agree with and support the religious biases of the scribe\/author. The consequence of these editorial choices is a Bible that is man&#8217;s creation.<\/p>\n<p>The truth that most of the words found in the Bible are there because men put them there will not be accepted easily by Jews or Christians who hold on to the belief that every word in the Bible came from God. People who believe that every word in the Bible came directly from God have been deceived by the teachings of religious leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that man (i.e. Bible scribes\/authors ) has had such an influence on the Bible is extremely important to recognize because God said that we should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=micah+7:5;+psalm+146:3;+psalm+40:4;+jeremiah+17:5;+isaiah+2:22;+psalm+118:1-11;+proverbs+29:25;+isaiah+51:7;+ezekiel+2:1-6;+ezekiel+14:1-11;+psalm+56:1-11\">trust no man<\/a>. But, when we interpret the Bible literally, we are trusting men (i.e. scribes) on two accounts:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<ol>\n<li>They have interpreted the original Hebrew and Greek words correctly.<\/li>\n<li>They have chosen the correct English filler words to make the scriptures consistent with God&#8217;s intent while trying to make the Bible readable and saleable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>When we pause to think about all the Hebrew and Greek words that scribes must translate to write the Bible, we conclude that tremendous trust is put in their translating abilities. And when we pause to think about all of the English filler words that scribes insert between the Hebrew and Greek words, we conclude again that much trust is invested in their abilities to know the mind of God well enough to make all those decisions correctly.<\/p>\n<p>When we look at the process of writing the Bible this way, we can see that claims that the written Bible is God&#8217;s inerrant word is a false claim. Indeed, some are God&#8217;s words, but, for the most part, the Bible is the words of men (i.e. scribes). How much is God&#8217;s word and how much is man&#8217;s word is debatable. No one can say for sure which is which.<\/p>\n<p>The good news in this dilemma is that knowing which words are God&#8217;s words and which are man&#8217;s words is not critical to understanding the Bible. The critical element is now, and always has been, the desire to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeoflife\">hear God&#8217;s voice<\/a> instead of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">voices\/words of false prophets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The understanding of people who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:29;+psalm+119:2;+jeremiah+24:7;+jeremiah+29:13;+deuteronomy+6:5;+joel+2:12;+jeremiah+3:10;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+30:2;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+30:6;+zephaniah+3:14;+matthew+22:37;+matthew+7:7;+mark+12:33;+luke+10:27;+luke+11:9;+1-chronicles+28:9;+1-chronicles+22:19;+2-chronicles+12:14;+2-chronicles+15:12;+2-chronicles+19:3;+psalm+27:8\">seek to know God with all of their heart <\/a>are not limited by the errors and shortcomings of Bible scribes\/editors. God makes up for the limitations of the written word by interpreting the spiritual meaning of the written word as people read.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/study-tips\/12\">LISTEN FOR GOD\u2019S VOICE WHILE READING.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>God has always known that scribes could never write the Bible so that it would be in complete agreement with his words. God understands full well<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=1-corinthians+2:10-13;+romans+11:33-34\"> that no man can know his mind or his thoughts<\/a> well enough to accurately represent him in written, human words. And yet he has given us the Bible to teach us about him. It seems like a problem without a solution.<\/p>\n<p>The reality of the Bible is that God does not need it to be a completely accurate recitation of his words. He knows that it is impossible for scribes to get it right and he is OK with that. Thus he does not interfere with their writings or the teachings of false prophets who add their own wrong interpretations of what God meant to the scribes&#8217; wrong interpretations. Instead of intervening to ensure that scribes and religious teachers get it right, God lets them run with the deceptive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+27:9-17;+jeremiah+23:16;+jeremiah+28:15;+jeremiah+29:8;+1-john+4:1;+matthew+7:15;+2-corinthians+11:13-15;+galatians+1:8-9;+jeremiah+14:14;+ezekiel+13:1-6;+ezekiel+13:23;+ezekiel+21:29;+ezekiel+22:28;+proverbs+12:6;+proverbs+1:11;+proverbs+1:16;+ecclesiastes+10:12;+ezekiel+33:31;+revelation+13:1-5\">visions and imaginations of their minds.<\/a> God knows that the literal Bible is a lie but, he is not concerned because he compensates for the lies of the scribes by speaking truth to people who are ready to hear his voice. He dares to take this &#8220;hands off&#8221; attitude because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+29:11-14\">he has a plan for revealing the truth<\/a> that will offset the lies of the scribes and religious teachers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">Listening to his spoken voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was never God&#8217;s plan that people would learn to know him just by reading the written Bible. Indeed the Bible teaches some things about God, but written words are no substitute for the intimacy of hearing God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/3#adulteryandprostitution\">this link for understanding of intimacy of hearing God&#8217;s voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s plan has always been that people would listen to his spoken voice. If having access to a written Bible was necessary to knowing God and acquiring faith, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/hebrews\/11.html\">heroes of faith in Hebrews 11<\/a> would not be heroes of faith. The only reason they are heroes is that they heard God&#8217;s spoken voice. They did not have any written texts to teach them about God, but they did hear God&#8217;s voice and that is why they did the things that God says are commendable in Hebrews 11.<\/p>\n<p>Although the written Bible is not absolutely necessary to knowing God, it is nonetheless useful to learn to know him. God says that the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=galatians+3:15-25;+galatians+5:18;+romans+6:14\"> law (i.e. Bible) is a tutor\/guardian that leads his people to faith. <\/a>Religion is based on the literal words of the written Bible, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/3\">faith is based on God&#8217;s spoken word. <\/a>Thus it must be said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\">religion and faith are not the same thing. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It must be said also, however, that the act of reading the words of the Bible does not constitute faith and does not always lead to faith. Reading is basically an intellectual activity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/flesh\">flesh<\/a>. Reading is not a matter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=2-corinthians+4:18;+2-corinthians+5:7;+hebrews+11:1;+hebrews+11:7;+hebrews+11:24-27;+romans+8:24\">faith because it involves things that can be seen and does not involve things that cannot be seen<\/a> (i.e. God&#8217;s voice). True faith only comes by hearing God&#8217;s spoken voice. Reading can lead to faith, but it will not lead to faith unless the reader has the right heart attitude and listens to God&#8217;s voice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/place-where-god-will-place-his-name\/4#goodpureheart\">this link<\/a> for understanding of the right heart attitude. Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">LISTEN FOR GOD\u2019S VOICE WHILE READING.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>People who trust the written Bible are deceived on the following points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Belief that all the words of the Bible are all words spoken by God.<\/li>\n<li>Belief that the words found in the Bible are the complete collection of all the words ever spoken by God.<\/li>\n<li>Everything God wants us to know about him is contained in the\u00a0 written words of the Bible.<\/li>\n<li>Religious leaders have a God-given ability to explain Bible words that are hard to understand.<\/li>\n<li>If there is anything else that God wants us to know, he will tell us what that is through the teachings and writings of religious leaders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are all wrong beliefs. We can see how absurd these beliefs are when we consider that no two Bibles contain the same written words. Perhaps as many as half of the words in any version of the Bible are filler words inserted by scribes\/editors. This begins to explain why the total number of words varies from one Bible version to another, and begins to explain why it is absurd to claim that any Bible includes a complete collection of all of God&#8217;s words.<\/p>\n<p>Unless we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">listen to God&#8217;s voice while reading the Bible<\/a>, the words of the Bible are inadequate to teach us about God. This is true because Bible editors\/writers have religious, theological biases that determine thousands of word choices they make when they write the Bible in their native language. Their theological beliefs affect the filler words they choose to make the Bible understandable and\u00a0 the words they choose to translate the original Hebrew and Greek words into their native language.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to understand the difficulty Bible editors face when choosing words for their Bibles. We can begin to appreciate the challenge, however, when we look at the following example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/numbers\/18-8.html\"> Numbers 18:8 <\/a>in the English version of the New American Standard Bible (NASB):<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span class=\"verse-8\"> Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, &#8220;Now behold, I Myself have given you charge of My offerings, even all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual allotment. (44 words)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is Numbers 18:8 in the original Hebrew:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/yehovah.html\">Yehovah <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/dabar.html\">Dabar\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/aharown.html\">&#8216;Aharown<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/aniy.html\">&#8216; aniy <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/nathan.html\">Nathan <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/mishmereth.html\">Mishmereth <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/teruwmah.html\">T@ruwmah <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/kol.html\">Kol <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/qodesh.html\">Qodesh <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/ben.html\">Ben <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/yisrael.html\">Yisra&#8217;el <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/nathan.html\">Nathan <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/mishchah.html\">Mishchah <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/choq.html\">Choq <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/owlam.html\">`owlam<\/a> (15 words)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This is how the original Hebrew was translated into English:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span class=\"verse-8\">LORD spoke Aaron behold Myself given charge offerings all holy sons Israel given portion sons perpetual allotment (17 words)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Then, the words and punctuation in <strong>bold<\/strong>\u00a0 were added as filler words to make the original Hebrew thought understandable and complete in English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span class=\"verse-8\"><strong> Then the <\/strong>LORD spoke <strong>to <\/strong>Aaron<strong>, &#8220;Now <\/strong>behold<strong>, I\u00a0<\/strong>Myself <strong>have <\/strong>given <strong>you <\/strong>charge <strong>of My <\/strong>offerings<strong>, even <\/strong>all <strong>the <\/strong>holy <strong>gifts of the <\/strong>sons <strong>of <\/strong>Israel<strong>I have <\/strong>given <strong>them to you as a\u00a0<\/strong>portion <strong>and to your <\/strong>sons<strong> as a <\/strong>perpetual allotment<strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We see from this analysis that he original 15 Hebrew words have been translated into 44 English words.\u00a0 This shows how much influence man has on the Bible. Only one-third of the words in this one verse are God&#8217;s words. This shows that claims that the Bible is God&#8217;s word is a false claim. Man clearly has put his words in it.<\/p>\n<p>When we look at the English interpretations of the Hebrew words, we see that interpretations of a particular Hebrew word also vary from one verse to another. This means that a Hebrew word from God is not always translated the same way. This shows again how much influence Bible editors\/scribes have on the words written in the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>The Hebrew words of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/numbers\/18-8.html\">Numbers 18:8<\/a> are useful examples to study to see the many different ways one word is translated into English and the number of times it is translated to different English words:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/yehovah.html\">Yehovah:\u00a0<\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\">LORD\u00a06510, GOD\u00a04, JEHOVAH\u00a04, variant\u00a01<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/dabar.html\">Dabar <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/aharown.html\">&#8216;:<\/a> \u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">again 2, assert 1, boast* 1, commanded 1, counseled 2, declare 2, declared 5, declared* 1, directed 2, discuss 1, made 1, meant 1, named 1, passed sentence 3, preached 1, proclaimed 2, promised 34, promising 1, pronounce 3, pronounced 6, proposal 1, repeated 2, said 50, say 18, saying 1, saying* 1, says 4, sing 1, speak 297, speaking 61, speaks 34, speaks fluently 1, spoke 333, spoken 188, state 2, statements 2, subdues 2, talk 7, talked 7, talking 9, tell 18, telling 4, tells 2, threatened 1, told 16, utter 1, uttered 1, utters 1<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/aharown.html\">Aharown<\/a>&#8216;: \u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\">Aaron 345, Aaronites 2<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/aniy.html\">aniy: <\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\">alone 1, Myself 12, myself 5<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/nathan.html\">Nathan : <\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\">abandon 1, add 1, added 1, allow 14, allowed 3, applied 1, appoint 5, appointed 15, apportion 1, appropriated 1, ascribe 2, ascribed 2, assigned 5, bear 1, bestow 1, bestowed 2, blame* 1, bring 10, bring down 2, bringing 2, brings 2, brought 3, cast 3, cause 2, causes 1, certainly be given 1, certainly give 1, comes 1, commit 1, committed 1, conferred 1, consider 1, consign 1, contribute 1, cried 1, dedicated 1, defeat 1, deliver 26, delivered 26, delivers 3, designate 1, designated 1, direct 1, display 1, displayed 1, distribute 2, divide 1, enabled 1, entrust* 1, entrusted 2, entrusted* 1, establish 1, established 1, exchange 1, execute 1, executes 2, fasten 2, fastened 1, find 1, furnishing 1, gave 293, generously give 1, gift 1, give 491, given 259, gives 67, giving 37, grant 18, granted 11, growl* 1, had 3, hand over 2, hang 3, has had 1, have 2, have* 1, heap 1, held 1, hung 1, impose 1, imposed 3, indeed deliver 1, indeed give 1, inflict 2, inflicted 1, injured* 1, injures* 1, inserted 1, instilled 4, issued 5, kept giving 1, laid 5, lay 12, laying 1, lays 1, left 2, left hanging 1, lend 1, lends 1, let 7, lies* 1, lift 5, lifts 1, made 42, made turn 3, make 67, makes 3, making 3, marry off 1, offer 2, offered 4, Oh* 13, open* 1, over 1, paid 7, pay 6, performed 1, permit 2, pierce 1, pitch 1, place 13, placed 19, planted 1, pledged 2, pledged* 1, present 2, presented 1, prevent* 2, produces 1, provide 1, provided 2, provides 1, put 192, puts 4, putting 2, raised 2, reduces 1, render 2, repay 1, Requite 2, requited 1, roared loudly* 1, roared* 1, send 4, sends 1, sent 4, set 74, setting 5, show 2, showed 1, slander* 1, sounds forth 1, sparkles* 1, speaks forth 1, spend 1, spread 1, strike 1, submitted* 1, supplies 1, surely be given 1, surely give 2, take 2, taken 1, takes 1, to pay 1, took 1, traded 1, turned 6, used 1, utter 1, uttered 2, uttered forth 1, utters 5, wept* 1, wholly given 2, work 1, would* 7, yield 13, yield* 1, yielded 2, yields 2, yours 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/mishmereth.html\">Mishmereth : <\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica;\">charge 50, ward 9, watch 7, keep 7, ordinance 3, offices 1, safeguard 1<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/teruwmah.html\">T@ruwmah:\u00a0 <\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\">offering 51, oblation 19, heave 4, gifts 1, offered 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/kol.html\">Kol : <\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\">all 4045, all for every 2, all his and every 1, all his everything 1, all its the entire 1, all the and every 1, all the of every 1, all the everywhere 1, all the throughout 1, all your concerning everything 1, all your to every 1, all your throughout 1, all men 2, all these 1, all things 11, altogether 1, always* 15, annually* 2, any 176, any or by all 2, any* 5, anyone 12, anyone* 2, anything 31, anything* 6, anywhere 3, anywhere* 1, both 2, complete 2, completely 5, continually* 15, countryside* 1, during 1, each 4, each one 1, each* 1, earnestly* 1, else 1, entire 16, entirely 1, every 366, every and everyone 1, every in all 1, every of all 4, every of any 1, every pertaining to all 1, every man 1, every one 1, every one 12, every thing 1, every way 1, everyone 96, everyone&#8217;s 3, everyone* 3, everything 52, everything* 4, everywhere 2, everywhere* 2, far 1, farthest 1, forever* 10, full 2, gaping 1, health* 1, just* 6, life* 1, lifetime* 1, long* 9, mere 1, much 1, no one 1, no* 33, none* 13, nothing* 12, one 3, only 1, perpetually* 2, plenty 1, something* 1, there is everywhere 1, throughout 20, throughout and all 1, throughout the whole 1, throughout all 1, throughout* 1, total 6, totally 2, utter 1, variety 1, whatever 24, whatever* 40, whenever 4, wherever* 20, whoever 45, whoever then any 1, whoever* 6, whoever&#8230;any 3, whole 125, whole and let all 1, whole and all 3, wholehearted* 1, wholly 2, whomever* 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/qodesh.html\">Qodesh : <\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\">holy 262, sanctuary 68, (holy, hallowed,&#8230;) things 52, most 44, holiness 30, dedicated 5, hallowed 3, consecrated 1, miscellaneous 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/ben.html\">Ben:<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\"> afflicted\u00a01, afflicted*\u00a01, age\u00a07, aliens*\u00a02, Ammonites*\u00a07, anointed*\u00a01, arrow\u00a01, arrows\u00a01, Assyrians*\u00a03, baby\u00a01, Babylonians*\u00a03, beasts\u00a01, being*\u00a01, Ben-hinnom*\u00a07, bough\u00a02, breed\u00a01, brothers*\u00a01, builders\u00a01, bull*\u00a021, bulls*\u00a05, calf*\u00a02, calves\u00a02, calves*\u00a01, child\u00a02, children\u00a0111, children and on the grandchildren\u00a01, children and their grandchildren\u00a01, children and your children&#8217;s\u00a01, children and children&#8217;s\u00a01, children&#8217;s\u00a02, children&#8217;s children\u00a05, colt\u00a01, colts\u00a01, common\u00a02, descendants\u00a014, descendants of the son\u00a01, deserves\u00a02, exiles*\u00a05, father*\u00a01, fellow*\u00a03, fellows\u00a02, fertile*\u00a01, foal\u00a01, fools*\u00a01, foreigner*\u00a06, foreigners\u00a01, foreigners*\u00a010, Gileadites*\u00a01, grandchildren\u00a01, granddaughters*\u00a01, grandson\u00a06, heir*\u00a01, high*\u00a01, homeborn*\u00a01, Israelites*\u00a01, lambs*\u00a02, lay\u00a04, Levites*\u00a01, low degree*\u00a01, low*\u00a01, man\u00a05, man one old\u00a01, man*\u00a01, men\u00a019, men of low degree*\u00a01, men*\u00a04, mortal\u00a01, must\u00a01, must surely\u00a01, nephew*\u00a02, nobility*\u00a01, offspring\u00a01, old\u00a0167, old when his son\u00a01, one\u00a01, one\u00a02, one born\u00a01, ones\u00a01, ones*\u00a01, opening*\u00a01, overnight*\u00a02, people\u00a05, public*\u00a01, revelers*\u00a01, satellites\u00a01, scoundrels*\u00a01, sired\u00a01, slaves\u00a01, son\u00a01876, son and his grandson\u00a01, son and your grandson\u00a01, son of and grandson\u00a01, son was old\u00a01, son&#8217;s\u00a016, son&#8217;s son\u00a01, sons\u00a02369, sons and his grandsons\u00a02, sons and his sons&#8217;\u00a01, sons and on his sons&#8217;\u00a01, sons and their sons&#8217;\u00a01, sons and your grandsons\u00a01, sons and your sons&#8217;\u00a01, sons and grandsons\u00a02, sons of the son\u00a014, sons&#8217;\u00a07, sons&#8217; sons\u00a02, sparks*\u00a01, those\u00a01, those who\u00a02, those who are doomed\u00a01, those who were doomed\u00a01, troops*\u00a01, unfortunate*\u00a01, valiant*\u00a03, warriors\u00a01, whelps\u00a01, wicked*\u00a03, young\u00a028, young goats*\u00a01, young men\u00a01, youths\u00a01<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/yisrael.html\">Yisra&#8217;el:\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\"> Israel 2485, Israel&#8217;s 13, Israelites 5, Israelites* 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/mishchah.html\">Mishchah:\u00a0<\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\">anointing\u00a024, anointed\u00a01, ointment\u00a01<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/kjv\/choq.html\">Choq : <\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\">statute 87, ordinance 9, decree 7, due 4, law 4, portion 3, bounds 2, custom 2, appointed 1, commandments 1, miscellaneous 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/lexicons\/hebrew\/nas\/owlam.html\">`owlam: <\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px;\">ages 1, all successive 1, always 1, ancient 13, ancient times 3, continual 1, days of old 1, eternal 2, eternity 3, ever 10, Everlasting 2, everlasting 110, forever 136, forever and ever 1, forever* 70, forevermore* 1, lasting 1, long 2, long ago 3, long past 1, long time 3, never* 17, old 11, permanent 10, permanently 1, perpetual 29, perpetually 1\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When we see the number of different ways a Hebrew word is translated into English, we begin to appreciate the difficulty that Bible scribes\/authors had when making decisions about which words to choose to put in the Bible. Sometimes the differences in the words are subtle, and sometimes they are significant to the point of being unrelated. The fact that they chose to translate a Hebrew or Greek word differently in different scriptures proves that human judgment &#8212; not God&#8217;s voice &#8212; controlled the words that appear in the Bible. The fact that there are many different Bibles and not just one Bible proves that human judgment &#8212; not God&#8217;s voice &#8212; controlled the words that appear in the Bible. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=malachi+3:6;+james+1:17;+hebrews+7:20-21;+hebrews+6:17;+numbers+23:19;+psalm+102:27;+1-samuel+15:29;+ezekiel+24:14;+titus+1:1-2;+psalm+89:34\">God does not change his mind or his words.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most religious leaders are not aware that man has had this kind of influence on Bibles. Lacking this awareness, religious leaders would never say that the Bible is a deception produced by lying scribes. If they were to admit such a thing, the religious doctrines that they preach would all be disqualified. They must believe that every word written in a Bible is God&#8217;s word. If they didn&#8217;t believe this to be true, neither they, nor the religion they preach, would be credible.<\/p>\n<p>Bible scribes\/editors have ultimate\u00a0 control over the words of the Bible. And because religious leaders believe that the Bible is a complete and accurate recitation of God&#8217;s words, their editorial decisions have shaped religion. That fact makes them God&#8217;s enemy because religion is God&#8217;s enemy and because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/how-god-sees-religion\">God hates religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>God spoke to the prophets who did their best to record the words of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=numbers+12:6;+genesis+15:12;+genesis+46:2;+daniel+2:19;+daniel+7:1;+daniel+8:18;+job+33:9-19;+job+4:12-17;+job+33:15-18;+1-kings+3:5\">vision that God spoke<\/a>, but after that, Bible scribes\/editors controlled what was written. God said what he said, and then let the scribes\/editors write what they wanted to write.<\/p>\n<p>God took this hands off approach to the Bible because his emphasis always was, and always will be, on his spoken word. He knew that Bible authors would not accurately report what he said to the prophets and apostles who wrote the original Hebrew and Greek texts. They would get some of it right but could not get all of it right, but that was OK with God because he knew that he could always override the errors of the written Bible with his spoken voice. That is why he always said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">listen to my voice<\/a> and never said read my words.<\/p>\n<p>When God said we should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=micah+7:5;+psalm+146:3;+psalm+40:4;+jeremiah+17:5;+isaiah+2:22;+psalm+118:1-11;+proverbs+29:25;+isaiah+51:7;+ezekiel+2:1-6;+ezekiel+14:1-11;+psalm+56:1-11\">not put our trust in men<\/a>, he meant not to trust what any religious leaders say or write. When God said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/biblehub.com\/jeremiah\/8-8.htm\">lying pens of scribes produced a deception<\/a>, he was talking about all writers\/editors of\u00a0 the Bible. When<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=proverbs+3:5;+psalm+62:8;+matthew+6:24-34;+psalm+9:10;+psalm+20:7;+psalm+31:14;+psalm+52:8;+psalm+56:4;+psalm+56:11;+psalm+78:7;+psalm+91:2;+joshua+1:9;+isaiah+26:3;+romans+8:28;+psalm+112:7;+2-corinthians+1:9\"> God said to trust him<\/a>, he did not mean to trust the written Bible, he meant to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=psalm+119:42;+psalm+56:4;+psalm+56:10-11;+psalm+143:8;+proverbs+30:5;+jeremiah+9:20;+isaiah+45:23;+isaiah+55:11;+jeremiah+9:12;+psalm+106:24;+2-samuel+22:31;+psalm+18:30;+psalm+33:4;+deuteronomy+1:32\">trust the words of his mouth.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY THE BIBLE WAS WRITTEN <\/strong><br \/>\nScribes\/editors of each Bible were guided in their decisions by personal theological beliefs &#8212; not by God&#8217;s voice. They were compelled to choose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/bible-history\/5#fillerwords\">filler words<\/a> that agreed with and supported their personal religious, theological beliefs. For them it was an intellectual exercise &#8212; not a matter of listening to God&#8217;s voice. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\/religion-is-a-stronghold-of-wrong-thinking\">stronghold of wrong thinking<\/a> that shaped their religious beliefs also shaped the Bibles they wrote. And it all happened because they didn&#8217;t know<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice\"> how to listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Bible scribes\/authors are guilty of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/8-8.html\">lying as reported in Jeremiah 8:8<\/a>, God has always had a plan for overcoming their influence and the influence of their religious co-conspirators (i.e. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\">False Prophets,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/egypt-and-babylon\/5#pharaohs\">Pharaohs,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/judas\">Judas,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/balaam\">\u00a0Balaam,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/kings-queens-and-princes\"> Kings, Queens and Princes, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/pharisees-and-scribes\">Pharisees<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/serpent-devil-satan-adversary-demons-evil-spirits-and-anti-christs\">, Serpent, Devil, Satan, Adversary, Demons, Evil Spirits, Anti-Christs)<\/a>.\u00a0 Scribes are just one small part of a world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\">false prophets<\/a> with whom God has always contended.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s response to their lies and deceptions has always been to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">send true prophets to speak for him. <\/a>True prophets are also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\">angels<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">messiahs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/the-high-priest\">high priests<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#witnessdefined\">witnesses<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\">warriors. <\/a>These all have God&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">anointing <\/a>which equips them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=exodus+4:10-12;+matthew+10:19-20;+mark+13:11;+luke+12:11-12;+luke+21:14-15;+john+7:16;+john+12:49-50;+john+14:10;+john+14:24-31;+john+16:13;+1-corinthians+2;+psalm+143:10;+matthew+10:17-20;+1-thessalonians+2:13;+exodus+4:12;+deuteronomy+18:18;+john+5:19;+matthew+26:39;+john+5:30;+john+6:38;+john+6:68;+john+8:28;+acts+4:29-31;+1-peter+4:10-11\">speak for God<\/a> to people who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/passage\/?q=hebrews+3:7-19;+hebrews+4:1-7;+john+12:36-40;+isaiah+6:9-10;+jeremiah+5:21;+ezekiel+12:2;+matthew+13:14;+deuteronomy+29:4;+acts+19:9;+2-chronicles+30:8;+nehemiah+9:25-26;+ezekiel+2:1-6;+mark+6:45-52;+job+22:22;+deuteronomy+6:6;+deuteronomy+11:18;+psalm+37:31;+deuteronomy+32:46;+ezekiel+3:1-10\">hard hearts<\/a> and who always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\">interpret the Bible literally &#8212; not symbolically. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scribes and other false prophets speak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+27:9-17;+jeremiah+23:16;+jeremiah+28:15;+jeremiah+29:8;+1-john+4:1;+matthew+7:15;+2-corinthians+11:13-15;+galatians+1:8-9;+jeremiah+14:14;+ezekiel+13:1-6;+ezekiel+13:23;+ezekiel+21:29;+ezekiel+22:28;+proverbs+12:6;+proverbs+1:11;+proverbs+1:16;+ecclesiastes+10:12;+ezekiel+33:31;+revelation+13:1-5\">lies and visions out of the imaginations<\/a> of their<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/passage\/?q=psalm+17:7-13;+matthew+12:34-35;+matthew+15:18;+luke+6:45;+psalm+73:7-8;+ephesians+4:29\"> evil, impure hearts<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=matthew+12:34;+deuteronomy+30:14;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+psalm+49:3;+luke+6:45;+romans+10:8-10;+psalm+37:30;+job+33:3;+job+33:33;+psalm+45:1;+proverbs+16:23;+proverbs+4:23\"> True prophets, however, speak out of the overflow of good, pure hearts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The competition between false prophets and true prophets is symbolically called &#8220;war&#8221; in the Bible. Warfare is discussed in these pages: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Religion is the Enemy,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\/gods-at-war\" data-slimstat=\"5\">Gods at War <\/a>and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\/sibling-warfare\" data-slimstat=\"5\"> Sibling Conflict. <\/a>The competition is also described as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/2\">good versus evil <\/a>and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3\">two kinds of food: clean and unclean. <\/a>Competition between false prophets and true prophets is introduced in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=genesis+2:8-9;+genesis+2:16-17;+genesis+3:2-3;+deuteronomy+30:15-20\">book of Genesis<\/a> as two trees that compete for Eve&#8217;s attention. Both trees looked attractive and appeared to be good for food. But, eating of one tree led to spiritual life, and eating of the other tree led to spiritual death.<\/p>\n<p>The parable of the two trees previews the basic theme of the Bible: From which tree do we eat? Do we eat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine#goodspiritualfood\">good spiritual food<\/a> from the mouth of God (i.e. fruit from the Tree of Life), or do we eat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine#evilsoulishfood\">evil, soulish food<\/a> from the mouths (and pens) of false prophets (i.e. fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil)? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/deuteronomy\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+30:15-20\">choice is a life and death matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\">True prophets <\/a>are symbolically called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeoflife\">Trees of Life.<\/a> They are also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\">angels<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">messiahs<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/the-high-priest\">high priests<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#witnessdefined\">witnesses<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">, and\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\">warriors.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#newcovenant\">New Covenant<\/a> disciples are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">anointed<\/a> by God and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">sent by God<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=exodus+4:10-12;+matthew+10:19-20;+mark+13:11;+luke+12:11-12;+luke+21:14-15;+john+7:16;+john+12:49-50;+john+14:10;+john+14:24-31;+john+16:13;+1-corinthians+2;+psalm+143:10;+matthew+10:17-20;+1-thessalonians+2:13;+exodus+4:12;+deuteronomy+18:18;+john+5:19;+matthew+26:39;+john+5:30;+john+6:38;+john+6:68;+john+8:28;+acts+4:29-31;+1-peter+4:10-11\">speak for God<\/a> to people who do not know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice\">how to hear God&#8217;s spoken voice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\">False Prophets,<\/a> (including scribes) are symbolically called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil.<\/a> They are also called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/egypt-and-babylon\/5#pharaohs\">Pharaohs,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/judas\">Judas,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/balaam\">\u00a0Balaam,<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/kings-queens-and-princes\"> Kings, Queens and Princes,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/pharisees-and-scribes\">Pharisees and Scribes<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/serpent-devil-satan-adversary-demons-evil-spirits-and-anti-christs\">, Serpent, Devil, Satan, Adversary, Demons, Evil Spirits, Anti-Christs,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=zechariah+10:2;+zechariah+11:15;+jeremiah+10:21;+jeremiah+12:10;+jeremiah+13:17;+jeremiah+23:1-2;+ezekiel+13:3;+zechariah+11:17;+jeremiah+50:6;+ezekiel+34:1-5;+numbers+27:16-23;+john+10:8;+john+7;+john+10:26;+psalm+74:1;+2-chronicles+18:16;+matthew+9:36;+mark+6:34;+matthew+26:31;+mark+14:27\"> foolish, worthless, stupid shepherds.<\/a> These Bible characters are all symbolical representations of religious leaders (e.g. pastors, rabbis, evangelists, missionaries, prophets, etc.). These are all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/2#oldcovenant\">Old\/First Covenant religionists<\/a> who eat from Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil because they, like Eve, do not know how to discern good food from evil food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/2\">The distinction between the two kinds of trees is important because God wants\/expects that his people will only listen to his voice.<\/a> In fact, the Bible says that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\/3\">he becomes very jealous when people listen to false prophets instead of listening to him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-the-enemy\/3\">this link<\/a> for discussion of God&#8217;s jealousy.<\/p>\n<p>God uses several terms to help people understand the difference between the two trees: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/2\">Clean and Unclean; Holy and Profane; Spirit and Soul; Good and Evil.<\/a> He has also given us clues to help us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/11\">identify True Prophets<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\/3\"> identify False Prophets, <\/a>and he has given us clues to understand the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/5\">differences between pure religion and defiled religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This brief review about the two kinds of trees is necessary in the context of the accuracy of the Bible because, symbolically speaking,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/wood-gold-silver-stone\"> wood and trees represent people.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scribes that write Bibles are Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil because they are products of religion. This fact is a warning that we should be very careful when reading the Bible. Indeed, <span class=\"verse-16\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/2-timothy\/passage\/?q=2-timothy+3:16-17\">all Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness,<\/a> but some scripture is created by scribes (i.e. religious people who write) and some is created by God. Knowing which is which is a matter of critical discernment. People who don&#8217;t know the difference between the God-inspired parts and the human-inspired parts of scripture will make the mistake of creating religion out of what they read. People who do know that God&#8217;s written word and spoken word are not the same will be trained in righteousness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/2\">DISCERNING BETWEEN CLEAN AND UNCLEAN, HOLY AND PROFANE, SOUL AND SPIRIT, and GOOD AND EVIL. <\/a>Also see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">LISTEN FOR GOD\u2019S VOICE WHILE READING.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem with religious scribes and teachers is that they have all been trained by religious people. All scribes and most teachers must have religious credentials before they are hired to engage in the labors of writing a Bible or preaching. They must have religious training (e.g. Bible school, seminary, graduate studies in Hebrew and\/or Greek, etc.) Thus they are full of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/6\">religious wisdom<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5\">religious knowledge<\/a> because they have trusted other humans and the books they write for knowledge of God. And what they do not receive from religious teachers they create out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=genesis+6:5;+genesis+8:21;+jeremiah+16:12;+jeremiah+7:24;+jeremiah+11:8;+jeremiah+14:14;+jeremiah+18:12;+jeremiah+3:17;+jeremiah+13:10;+luke+1:51;+colossians+2:18;+jeremiah+27:9-17;+jeremiah+23:16;+jeremiah+28:15;+jeremiah+29:8;+1-john+4:1;+matthew+7:15;+2-corinthians+11:13-15;+galatians+1:8-9;+ezekiel+13:1-6;+ezekiel+13:23;+ezekiel+21:29;+ezekiel+22:28;+proverbs+12:6;+proverbs+1:11;+proverbs+1:16;+ecclesiastes+10:12;+ezekiel+33:31;+revelation+13:1-5\">imaginations of their mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scribes are Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil because they do not<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\"> listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice<\/a>. And if they are Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil, their fruit (i.e. their writings) is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">fruit of trees of Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That means that the literal Bible written by scribes contains the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/breadfood-and-wine\/3#treeofknowledgeofgoodandevil\">fruit of trees of Trees of Knowledge of Good and Evil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What they listen to is religious leaders who shaped the religious beliefs that influenced their decisions about words they used to write the Bible. They did not listen to God&#8217;s spoken voice. If they were able to hear God&#8217;s voice, they would not have undertaken the impossible task of using human language to report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/1-corinthians\/2.html\">spiritual language<\/a> with definitive, absolute, &#8220;thus saith the Lord&#8221; certainty. No human can do this.<\/p>\n<p>Not even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\">true prophets<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/angels\">angels<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">messiahs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/the-high-priest\">high priests<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenants-part-2\/7#witnessdefined\">witnesses<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/model-warriors\">warriors<\/a> will try to report or interpret spiritual language with definitive, absolute, &#8220;thus saith the Lord&#8221; certainty. What true prophets always say, however, is this: Stop listening to false prophets! Start listening to God&#8217;s spoken voice. Even though they know that they speak for God, they will never presume to be a substitute for God. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/philippians\/passage\/?q=philippians+2:5-7\">Jesus did not consider equality with God to be something to be grasped<\/a>. Speaking for God is not the same thing as being God.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for studying these differences is to point out that many of the words in the Bible are not in the original texts (i.e. Hebrew or Greek) which was inspired by God spoken to his chosen prophets and apostles. Perhaps as much as half of the words in the Bible are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/bible-history\/5#fillerwords\">filler words<\/a> chosen by scribes. The inspiration for these filler words comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+27:9-10;+jeremiah+27:14-17;+1-john+4:1;+matthew+7:15;+2-corinthians+11:13-15;+galatians+1:8-9;+jeremiah+14:14;+ezekiel+13:3;+ezekiel+13:6;+proverbs+12:6;+proverbs+1:11;+proverbs+1:16;+ecclesiastes+10:12;+jeremiah+23:16;+ezekiel+33:31;+revelation+13:1-5\">imaginations<\/a> of human scribes. Moreover, translation of Hebrew and Greek words to English and other languages is always done with words that agree with and support the religious biases of the scribe\/author. The consequence of these editorial choices is many Bibles that are all man&#8217;s creations.<\/p>\n<p>The truth that most of the words found in the Bible are there because of man put them there will not be accepted easily by Jews or Christians who hold on to the belief that every word in the Bible came from God. People who believe that have been deceived by religious leaders who have told them that. Believing what religious leaders say that can be credited more to humans than to God.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that man (i.e. scribes) has had such an influence on the Bible is extremely important to recognize because God said that we should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=micah+7:5;+psalm+146:3;+psalm+40:4;+jeremiah+17:5;+isaiah+2:22;+psalm+118:1-11;+proverbs+29:25;+isaiah+51:7;+ezekiel+2:1-6;+ezekiel+14:1-11;+psalm+56:1-11\">trust no man<\/a>. But, when we interpret the Bible literally, we are trusting that men (i.e. scribes) on two accounts:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<ol>\n<li>They have interpreted the Hebrew and Greek words correctly.<\/li>\n<li>They have chosen the correct English filler words to make the scriptures consistent with God&#8217;s intent while trying to make the Bible readable and saleable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>When we pause to think about all the Hebrew and Greek words that scribes must translate to write the Bible, we conclude that tremendous trust is put in their translating abilities. And when we pause to think about all of the English filler words that scribes insert between the Hebrew and Greek words, we conclude again that much trust is invested in their abilities to know the mind of God well enough to make all those decisions correctly.<\/p>\n<p>When we look at the process of writing the Bible this way, to say that written Bible is God&#8217;s inerrant word is a wrong statement. Indeed, some of it is God&#8217;s word, but, for the most part, the Bible is the word of men (i.e. scribes). How much is God&#8217;s word and how much is man&#8217;s word is debatable. No one can say for sure which is which.<\/p>\n<p>But knowing which words are God&#8217;s words and which are man&#8217;s words is not the issue. God never expected that scribes would write the Bible so that it would be in complete agreement with his intent. Because he understands full well<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=1-corinthians+2:10-13;+romans+11:33-34\"> that no man can know his mind or his thoughts,<\/a> it would be unfair and unreasonable for God to expect that scribes would accurately translate the original Hebrew and Greek texts or add the right filler words to make his intent\u00a0 understandable in any language.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that God does not need the Bible to be a completely accurate recitation of his words. He knows that it is impossible for scribes to get it right and he is OK with that because he will\u00a0 overcome their errors when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">speaks his words to Bible readers who listen for his voice while reading<\/a>. Thus he does not interfere with their writings or the teachings of false prophets who add their own wrong interpretations of the literal Bible to the scribes&#8217; wrong interpretations. Instead of intervening to ensure that scribes and religious teachers get it right, God lets them run with the deceptive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+27:9-17;+jeremiah+23:16;+jeremiah+28:15;+jeremiah+29:8;+1-john+4:1;+matthew+7:15;+2-corinthians+11:13-15;+galatians+1:8-9;+jeremiah+14:14;+ezekiel+13:1-6;+ezekiel+13:23;+ezekiel+21:29;+ezekiel+22:28;+proverbs+12:6;+proverbs+1:11;+proverbs+1:16;+ecclesiastes+10:12;+ezekiel+33:31;+revelation+13:1-5\">visions and imaginations of their minds. <\/a>He dares to take this &#8220;hands off&#8221; attitude because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/jeremiah\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+29:11-14\">he has a plan for revealing the truth<\/a> that will offset and nullify the lies of the scribes and religious teachers.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><strong>BIBLE READING WITHOUT LISTENING TO GOD&#8217;S VOICE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF FAITH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was never God&#8217;s plan that people would learn to know him just by reading the written Bible. God&#8217;s plan has always been that people would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">listen to his spoken voice<\/a>. If having access to a written Bible was necessary to knowing God and acquiring faith, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/hebrews\/11.html\">heroes of faith in Hebrews 11<\/a> would not be heroes of faith. The only reason they are heroes is that they heard God&#8217;s spoken voice. They did not have any written texts to teach them about God, but they did hear God&#8217;s voice and that is why they did the things that God says are commendable in Hebrews 11.<\/p>\n<p>Religion is based on the literal words of the written Bible, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/two-covenantspart1\/faith-grace-mercy-peace-love-heart-glory-blessing-spirit-and-truth\/3\">faith is based on God&#8217;s spoken word. <\/a>The Bible is something that can be seen and touched, but God&#8217;s word is heard &#8212; not seen. The written Bible, therefore, is not a thing of faith\u00a0 because it can be seen. Thus it must be said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\">religion and faith are not the same thing. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It must be said also, however, that the act of reading the words of the Bible does not constitute faith and does not always lead to faith. Reading can lead to faith, but it will not lead to faith unless the reader satisfies the following conditions exist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+6:3-6;+joel+2:12-14;+jeremiah+3:10;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+30:1-2;+isaiah+31:1-6;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+30:6;+zephaniah+3:14;+matthew+22:37;+matthew+7:7;+mark+12:33;+luke+10:27;+luke+11:9;+1-samuel+7:3;+deuteronomy+4:25-30;+1-chronicles+28:9;+1-chronicles+22:19;+2-chronicles+12:14;+2-chronicles+15:12;+2-chronicles+19:3;+psalm+27:8;+psalm+119:2;+jeremiah+24:7;+jeremiah+29:13;+jeremiah+4:1-2;+ezekiel+33:11;+malachi+3:7;+hosea+12:6;+1-samuel+7:1-6;+joel+2:12;+jeremiah+4:1;+hosea+12:1-6;+nehemiah+1:8-9\">Repents for practicing religion and turns to God with all their heart<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/religion\/religion-is-not-faith\/pride\/20\">Humbles himself\/herself<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=micah+7:5;+psalm+146:3;+psalm+40:4;+jeremiah+17:5;+isaiah+2:22;+psalm+118:1-11;+proverbs+29:25;+isaiah+51:7;+ezekiel+2:1-6;+ezekiel+14:1-11;+psalm+56:1-11\">Does not trust the spoken or written words<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/religion-is-the-kingdom-of-false-prophets\">false prophets.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=deuteronomy+4:29;+psalm+119:2;+jeremiah+24:7;+jeremiah+29:13;+deuteronomy+6:5;+joel+2:12;+jeremiah+3:10;+deuteronomy+10:12;+deuteronomy+30:2;+deuteronomy+26:16;+deuteronomy+30:6;+zephaniah+3:14;+matthew+22:37;+matthew+7:7;+mark+12:33;+luke+10:27;+luke+11:9;+1-chronicles+28:9;+1-chronicles+22:19;+2-chronicles+12:14;+2-chronicles+15:12;+2-chronicles+19:3;+psalm+27:8\">Seeks God with all their heart.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/how-to-hear-gods-spoken-voice\/4\">Asks questions like a little child about words of the Bible they do not understand<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/teach\">Teaches others<\/a> what he\/she has heard God say.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See this link for tips on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/study\/2\">how to learn how to hear God&#8217;s spoken voice while reading the Bible.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/place-where-god-will-place-his-name\/4#goodpureheart\">this link for understanding of the right heart attitude.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the things that religion deceives people about is heart attitude. Religion says that if you earnestly, sincerely, and faithfully follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/6#religiouslaws\">religious laws,<\/a> and if you read your Bible, you will please God. That is not what God wants. What he wants is that people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/rsv\/passage\/?q=exodus+15:22-26;+exodus+23:20-25;+exodus+19:1-5;+jeremiah+7:23-26;+jeremiah+11:1-4;+matthew+4:1-4;+deuteronomy+8:1-3;+job+22:21-23;+psalm+119:9-13;+psalm+138:4;+isaiah+28:23;+jeremiah+11:1-7;+jeremiah+22:21;+psalm+106:25;+nehemiah+9:29;+jeremiah+11:10;+jeremiah+13:11;+zechariah+7:11;+isaiah+46:12;+matthew+13:15;genesis+22:18;+exodus+23:21-22;+numbers+7:89;+numbers+14:22;+deuteronomy+4:12;+deuteronomy+4:30;+deuteronomy+4:36;+deuteronomy+5:22-26;+deuteronomy+8:20;+deuteronomy+9:23;+deuteronomy+13:4;+deuteronomy+13:18;+deuteronomy+15:5;+deuteronomy+26:14;+deuteronomy+26:17;+deuteronomy+30:20;+joshua+5:6;+joshua+10:14;+joshua+22:2;+joshua+24:24;+psalm+81:11;+psalm+95:7;+psalm+106:25;+jeremiah+3:13;+jeremiah+3:25;+jeremiah+7:23;+jeremiah+7:28;+jeremiah+9:13;+jeremiah+11:4;+jeremiah+11:7;+jeremiah+18:10;+jeremiah+22:20-21;+jeremiah+26:13;+jeremiah+32:23;+jeremiah+40:3;+jeremiah+42:6;+jeremiah+42:13-14;+jeremiah+43:1-7;+jeremiah+44:23;+isaiah+28:23;+isaiah+32:9;+isaiah+55:1-3;daniel+9:9-11\">listen to his voice<\/a> so that his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/the-law\/6#spirituallaws\">spiritual laws<\/a> will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=jeremiah+31:31-34;+jeremiah+32:39-40;+jeremiah+33:14;+jeremiah+24:7;+ezekiel+37:26;+ezekiel+39:29;+luke+22:20;+1-corinthians+11:25;+2-corinthians+3:1-6;+hebrews+8:8-12;+hebrews+10:16-17;+psalm+40:8;+psalm+37:31;+genesis+17:7-13;+2-kings+18:11-12;+exodus+19:3-6;+judges+2:16-23;+deuteronomy+5:1-4\">written on their hearts<\/a>. It is his spiritual laws that he wants us to obey &#8212; not the literal words of the written Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Religion is able to deceive people into following religious laws because it teaches that the words of the Bible are all God&#8217;s spoken word. Religious people sincerely desire to please God so they find it believable that following his written word is what they need to do. They do not understand that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\">God&#8217;s written word and his spoken word are not the same.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps as many as half of the words in any version of the Bible may be the filler words inserted by scribes\/editors. This begins to explain why the total number of words varies from one Bible version to another.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 160px;\">STUDY TIP: See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/bible-history\/5#fillerwords\">this link<\/a> for understanding of how and why scribes\/editors added filler words to the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>It must be said that all Bible editors\/writers have four, basic, personal agendas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promoting personal theological beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>Preserving and advancing the beliefs of the organizations that hire him\/her to write the Bible.<\/li>\n<li>Displaying their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/gods-written-word-and-gods-spoken-voice\/literal-or-symbolic-interpretation-part-1\/5#ginosko\">intellectual knowledge<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Earning income by applying their intellectual knowledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>God is not concerned with these matters. His only concern is that people suffer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/death-resurrection-life\/2#spiritualdeath\">spiritual death because they do not listen to his spoken voice.<\/a> That is why he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/true-prophets\/messiah\">anoints<\/a> prophets and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+ezekiel+3:4-11;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">sends them<\/a> to speak <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudytools.com\/nas\/passage\/?q=john+3:34;+jeremiah+26:1-5;+ezekiel+2:1-7;+ezekiel+3:4-11;+2-chronicles+36:15;+acts+3:26;+revelation+1:1;+deuteronomy+18:18;+isaiah+51:15-16;+john+17:1-8;+isaiah+59:21;+deuteronomy+32:1;+job+22:22;+psalm+19:14;+proverbs+12:6;+jeremiah+1:9;+jeremiah+5:14;+hosea+6:5;+daniel+9:9-11;+2-peter+1:19-21\">words of life<\/a> to the dead. And prophets do this willingly, without any personal agendas or rewards as an act of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaywesee.com\/religiondetoxnetwork\/mystery\/symbols-signs-types-copies-shadows-and-patterns\/people\/friends-brothers-and-sisters\/#greaterlove\"> greater love<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGINAL BIBLE TEXTS When religious people say that the Bible is God&#8217;s inerrant word, they reflect an attitude that says all Bibles are the same and that every word in every Bible is God&#8217;s spoken word. 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