Traditions of Men

Many if not most Christians believe that the bible they hold in the hands on a Sunday morning is the inspired word of God. These people also know that the old and test testaments were not written by people who did not speak English. For instants the old testaments was written in Ancient Greek and the New Testaments were written in Ancient Greek. There are currently over one hundred different translations of the Bible.

I came from a church that had bilingual services and the people who spoke both languages would always laugh when translations just could not match.  They would say when you translated into English it loses it meaning or it has a different meaning in English.

Sometimes reading a different translation gives the reader a better meaning or a deeper understanding. However, the Hebrew and Greek manuscripts are the inspired word of God not the Bible translations. In short man wrote the Bible and God inspired the Holy Scriptures (manuscripts).

If the Bible was the inerrant word of God every translation would have the same words and there would be no need to have more and more revisions.

But make no mistake about it; the King James Bible is “Catholic” in many ways. Anyone with a copy of the 1611 King James Bible knows that it contains the fourteen books of the Apocrypha still retained by Catholic Bibles to this day. The King James bible is a series of revision from these books..

God Warning about playing with his words

“Adding to” or “taking away from” His Word (Rev. 22:18-10)

We are to rightly “divide” God’s Word (II Tim. 2:15-18)

We are to “…distinguish the things that DIFFER” (Phil. 1:10)

We are to have a “PATTERN OF SOUND WORDS” (II Tim. 1:13-14)

Also, we are to shun the “TRADITIONS OF MEN” (Col. 2:8)

and the “WISDOM OF THIS WORLD” (I Cor. 1:20 & 3:19)

Let see how man has changed words to suit his doctorines

TWO DEFINITIONS OF HELL

First the “hell” of four centuries ago: Webster’s Twentieth Century Dictionary:

“hell, n. [ME, helle; AS, hell, hell, from helan, to cover, conceal.]”

 Second the “hell” of the 21st Century: The American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary:

“The abode of condemned souls and devils… the place of eternal punishment for the wicked after death, presided over by Satan… a state of separation from God… a place of evil, misery, discord, or destruction… torment, anguish.”

Many modern language translations are dropping the translation of “hell” in the Old Testament. That’s because they have checked and found that the KJV translations were in absolute error on this subject.

When a New Testament writer quotes from the Old Testament Hebrew, the Holy Spirit inspired them to translate the Hebrew word “sheol” (the grave, erroneously translated hell half of the time) into the Greek word “HADES.”

So the Hebrew “sheol” (grave) and the Greek “hades” are synonymous–they have the SAME MEANING, and yet, and YET the KJV translations translate the Greek word hades (the UNSEEN, the abode of the dead, the GRAVE) into the word “hell” 99% of the time!!!

Why not only 50% of the time as in the Old Testament? But now to the 1%. What about that ONE PERCENT (actually only ONE TIME) that the KJV did NOT translate

the Greek word “hades” into the English word “hell.” What happened there? I’ll show you.

 I Cor. 15:55, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave [Greek 'hades' always

translated 'hell' elsewhere in the New Testament], where is thy victory?”

I Cor. 15:55 the KJV translators translated the Greek word not “hell” but “GRAVE.” Why? Why just this ONCE? Why because there is “VICTORY” over THIS “HADES” over THIS “GRAVE” over THIS “HELL” but the deceitful translators following their pagan traditions wanted to deceive their readers on this one verse.

They didn’t want anyone to KNOW that there is VICTORY OVER HADES WHICH THEY ALWAYS TRANSLATE HELL in the New Testament!!!

Below is a list of all 65 Scriptural references to sheol in the King James. It appears that they might have used the flip of a coin to determine whether to translate any particular verse as heads or tails. I do this to impress upon your minds the unscholarly, unscriptural, and silliness employed to come up with 31 graves and 31 hells by using the same one word, sheol.

In one verse they would have us believe God is speaking of an “ETERNAL LIFE OF TORTURE IN FIRE,” and in another verse using the very same word sheol, they would have us believe all are “DEAD.” And they did this SIXTY-FIVE TIMES!

A count on the 31 times that Sheol is translated into the English word hell, and count all of the times that we find the words: condemned souls, devils, eternal punishment, Satan, separation of God, evil, misery, discord or destruction, torment, anguish.