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in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside
to myths.

As one surveys the landscape of Christendom today they will observe thousands of denominations
and sects all having embraced discordant beliefs. That great error has permeated the body of Christ
is hardly debatable. Millions imbibe the polluted waters of false doctrine weekly as they attend their
myriad houses of worship. Seeing that Yahweh has not preserved the church without error, why
would believers think that the Bible has escaped unscathed through the millennia? The Scriptures
have been in the care of sinful men. They have been copied and translated by people who are subject
to all the failings of the sinful flesh. The Bible has been distorted as translators and copyists have
been motivated by politics, monetary considerations, sectarian beliefs, and various base impulses.

Does it trouble you to hear one of Christ’s ministers declare that all existing Bible versions contain
error today? If it does, perhaps your understanding of the environment that is most suitable for
spiritual growth needs correcting. Spiritual beings need an adversarial environment to provide them
an opportunity to struggle. It is the struggle that transforms fleshly beings into spiritual. Yahweh in
His wisdom has allowed sin to be present in the church, and error to enter into the Scriptures, for He
knows that the struggle of each individual to arrive at truth is essential to their attainment of spiritual
maturity. Yahweh both tests and judges His children as He observes how they respond to the
apostasy that exists in Christendom. Do they struggle against the darkness of error and sin? Or are
they complacent, accepting as truth whatever other men and women tell them? In the kingdom of
God, it is those who stir themselves up, and prepare themselves to do spiritual battle, who make the
most progress. Complacency will consign an individual to become mired in the falsehoods and
myths that thousands of years of sin and deceit have produced.

I would exhort Christians to view the presence of myriad and profound errors in the Bibles available
to them today as an opportunity to exercise themselves spiritually. Do not think that Christianity
cannot exist and flourish without a belief in an inerrant Bible translation today. The fact that the
church is leavened with sin and error does not prevent you from walking as an overcomer in Christ.
You simply need to rise up, exercise yourself unto godliness, and extricate yourself from the morass
that Christendom has fallen into. The fact that all Bibles today contain error, much of it profound,
does not prevent you from arriving at the knowledge of the truth. You have the Holy Spirit as your
helper, and Yahweh will not withhold truth from those who prove themselves to be lovers of it.

Sir Frederic Kenyon, in his book Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts, discusses some of the ways
in which error has been introduced into the Scriptures.

Before the invention of the printing press... each separate copy of a book had to be written by hand;
and the human hand and brain have not yet been created which could copy the whole of a long work
absolutely without error. Often... copies were made hurriedly and without opportunity for minute
revision. Mistakes were certain to creep in; and when once in existence they were certain to
increase, as fresh copies were made from manuscripts already faulty. If the original manuscripts of
the sacred books were still preserved, the errors of later copies would be to us now a matter of
indifference; but since the original manuscripts perished long ago, we have to try to arrive at their
contents by comparison of later copies, all of which are more or less faulty and all varying from one