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…