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A Deeper Bible Study
Who Changed the Bible and Why?
Why the Bible is NOT inerrant, infallible, and perfectly inspired
If I had a dollar for every time a Christian told me that Bible was perfectly inerrant, inspired, and infallible, I would be a wealthy man… well, I’d have enough to buy a good coffee and a bagel at least.
The fact of the matter is, the Bible has been changed.
A lot.
500 years ago, a group of men, chief among them, Martin Luther, decided to make some serious edits to the Bible. Why? What did Luther and the other Reformers see that we in the modern era of Christianity cannot? What gave these men the authority, not to mention audacity, to challenge long-held established Christian holy tradition and make such an Earth-shattering move against Almighty God?!
Actually, the Reformers weren’t challenging God. They were challenging the Church or, getting very specific, they were challenging the very fallible men who had been running the Church since day one.
I didn’t learn about how and why the Bible was changed by reading the Bible. The Bible never mentions that it was changed. Martin Luther, John Calvin, and the other Reformers didn’t acquire their knowledge to demand a change in the Bible by just reading the Bible either.
How was the Bible changed?
Today, if you suggest that you’d like to change to the Bible, you’d be met with everything from gasps of horror to outright mobs of angry Evangelicals with torches and pitchforks looking to burn you at the stake for being a God-hating apostate!
But it wasn’t always that way. Most people don’t know that the Reformers changed the Bible—the same Bible that God had assumedly wrought.
So, what did they do?
The Reformers essentially dropped several books from the ostensibly inerrant and wholly inspired Bible. These “unholy books” — collectively called the Apocrypha — were excised from the Christian Bible because the Reformers decided that they were not inspired writ.
Just so we know, these Apocryphal books are not “Catholic” books; they are “Jewish” books, written during what…
