DAVEH: Until I heard Steve Brown's broadcast, I believed Paul wrote Hebrews. Now some TTers are in agreement with SB and are suggesting the headers may be errant. I'm trying to figure out why so many TTers have been so opposed to me suggesting there may have been errors introduced into the Bible, when they agree that the headers were introduced in such a way. If the headers may be errant, then it logically follows that at some point God stopped preventing errant material from being included in the Bible, Kevin. Where do you think that point of time is drawn?
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Dave, most of the believers I know feel that the Bible was given by God to different men at different times, and that they recorded the message that they received from Him. These messages did not have headers and they did not have numbered verses. Those were added by men at a later date.
Why did God allow that? For the same reasons that He allows abortion and other forms of murder. For the same reasons that He allows men to curse His name. For the same reasons that He allows people to worship Allah, or Buddha.
What are those reasons? I do not know. His ways are higher than my ways.
Could men have also perverted the scriptures? If God allowed it, they could. Did He allow it? No one is qualified to say. All that you or I can do is make assumptions. If we assume that some portion of God's Holy word is incorrect, then we must pick and choose what we want to believe. I believe that to be an unacceptable course for myself, because I do not have the wisdom to do that. I doubt that anyone does. In my opinion, the safe way is to believe the whole Word is true, and to live by it. God looks at the heart. If you live for Him with all your heart, He will not send you to an eternity in Hell because you did your best to follow Him, using the information you had available. We are not saved by being inerrant. We are saved by faith.
I don't think that you believe in a literal Hell, but I hope the rest of this makes sense to you.
Terry
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