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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Thank God you have got a Father that can be angry, but that loves you as much when He is angry as when He smiles upon you.
C.H. Spurgeon

Consider the irony. At a certain point in time the One who was creator, would actually become part of His creation. The sustainer of the world would be killed by the hands He was sustaining. The One who was loved by the Father, would be predetermined to be rejected by the Father. The One who knew no sin, would become sin. And the One predestined to die for sinners, would be predestined before there ever was sin. First Peter 1:20, says He “has appeared in these last times for the sake of you.” The One who needs nothing, would come to the aid of those who hated Him and purchase a people for Himself.
Randy Smith

    • Did King James Authorize His Tr

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    Did King James Authorize His Tr

    QUESTION: Did King James authorize his translation to be used in the churches in England?

    ANSWER: No. He authorized its translation, but not its usage.

    EXPLANATION: It is difficult for someone in the twentieth century, especially someone in America, to fathom the conditions of nearly four hundred years ago. We Christians not only have a Bible in our language, but more often than not, we have several. Added to that is our concordance and a raft of Bible commentaries and sundry other “Christian” books.

    Yet the world of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was quite different. The common man in England had no Bible. The only copy available to him was chained to the altar of the church. As recently as 1536, William Tyndale had been burned at the stake for the high crime of printing Bibles in the language of the common man, English. When King James commissioned the fifty-four translators in 1603 he did not mandate the upcoming translation to be used in churches. In fact, that it was translated and not intended for the churches left it only one explainable destiny. That is, that it should be supplied to the common man.

    It might be noted that the world has no greater power than the common man with the common Bible in his hand.

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