millennium.fortunecity.com/lincoln/666/clearwordbible/clear-word.htmThe "Clear Word Bible", printed by the Adventists, is a far cry from a Bible. After much outrage by many from all walks of life, The SDA Church is trying to say the "book" is not a "Bible" at all
They show a verse from the SDA text vs. NIV text....It won't copy from the image.....but the text is vastly different. Use the link to see for yourself. There are serveral examples of verses that have been changed.
There are some c and p-able verses.....
It is clear (pardon the pun) that the SDA Church has accomplished several distinct things here on the Bible jacket/cover.
They call the book a "Bible", or use the word Bible, no less than fourteen times on the cover jacket.
No place on the book cover or jacket (or anywhere I can find inside), does the phrase "Seventh-day Adventist" appear.
Every paragraph inside the book is laid out just like other "Bibles" with chapter and verse numbers.
It is clear (pardon the pun) that the SDA Church has accomplished several distinct things here on the Bible jacket/cover.
They call the book a "Bible", or use the word Bible, no less than fourteen times on the cover jacket.
No place on the book cover or jacket (or anywhere I can find inside), does the phrase "Seventh-day Adventist" appear.
Every paragraph inside the book is laid out just like other "Bibles" with chapter and verse numbers.
The problem with the book is not the cover. The "Adventist Bible" is by far the most blasphemous undertaking I have ever witnessed.
The first time I ever looked at the "Book", I opened to Deuteronomy chapter five. This is where you can find the Ten Commandments. The SDA's NEVER quote the Ten Commandments from Deuteronomy, because of the following verse.
Deut. 5:3 The Lord did not make this covenant long ago with our ancestors, but with all of us who are alive today. The Holy Bible, New Living Translation.
Deut. 5:3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. KJV
Adventists teach that the Ten Commandments were not first given at Sinai, but were given to Adam and Eve before the fall of man, before sin began.
Now notice the same verse from the "SDA Bible".
Deut. 5:3 It wasn't only with our ancestors that He made a covenant , but with us and with all who are alive today.
The problem with the book is not the cover. The "Adventist Bible" is by far the most blasphemous undertaking I have ever witnessed.
Read those two verses again and notice the 180 degree difference. The REAL Bible says that the Lord did not make this covenant with our ancestors. The SDA bible clearly implies or states just the opposite. This leads to some questions.
Why did the Adventist's change the meaning to read the complete opposite of what ALL other Bibles read in Deut. 5:3? (look for yourself)
How many other verses in their "Bible" did they change, and if they do change others, why?
On closer inspection of the SDA bible we find literally hundreds of major changes to the real meaning of Scripture. From simple movement of commas, to out-and-out blasphemy, the SDA Bible is a real shame. Someone is going to pay a big price for tampering with God's word, and changing the meaning of Scripture.
Bible scholar, former SDA Pastor, Dale Ratzlaff says on his web site:
Many Christian groups still consider Seventh-day Adventists to be part of mainstream Christianity. It is time that Evangelicals everywhere stand up and speak up about the multitude of deliberate, destructive changes to the Word of God in SDA's popular Clear Word Bible.
The gravity of deliberately changing the meaning of God's word cannot be overemphasized! Psalm 138 equates the sacredness of God's Word with His holy name, "Thou hast magnified Thy word according to all Thy name." Deuteronomy 4:2 says, "You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it…" Proverbs 30:5, 6 states, "Every word of God is tested…Do not add to His words lest He reprove you, and you be proved a liar." Since God's Word is pure and truth (Ps. 12:6; John 17:17) any changes to His Word will ultimately change the truth of God into a lie with resulting disastrous consequences. (Rom. 1:25ff; Ezek. 5:6; Rev. 22:18,19; 21:8)
We should inquire as to why anyone would want to make numerous additions, deletions and changes to God's word. True, we allow paraphrases take certain liberty in loosely rendering God's word with the goal to make it plain for our generation. However, when a paraphrase sets out to deliberately distort the truth of God's Word, then what? The fact that additions, deletions and changes "need" to be made is a clear sign of doctrinal weakness if not outright error. We will soon see that The Clear Word Bible has changed God's Word so that it supports Adventist doctrines in general and writings of their prophetess, Ellen G. White, in particular. Her writings are still held by the SDA church to be "a continuing and authoritative source of truth" (Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists, No. 17) Following are just a few examples where the Clear Word Bible corrupts the statements of Scripture to make it line up with Adventist theology. We will compare the CW (The Clear Word Bible) with the NASB (New American Standard Bible).
Rhonda, get a life! The Clear Word is nothing more than a PRAPHRASE. It is not a study bible. In other words, a paraphrase version is nothing more than a story book written with certain understandings.
IT IS NOT A STUDY BIBLE because it is only the words of the one who is paraphrasing.
Any person with any kind of understanding would be aware of this fact.
It is not comparable to what the JW's or the RC's have done and is not called scripture.
Again, get a life!
