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The reality is that God's Word full strength is not popular, and never has been.
Recall what Jesus showed His disciples regarding His warning to beware of the leaven of Herod and the Pharisees...
Mark 8:14-21
14 Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
15 And He charged them, saying, "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod."
16 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have no bread."
17 And when Jesus knew it, He saith unto them, "Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?
18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
19 When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?" They say unto Him, "Twelve."
20 "And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?" And they said, "Seven."
21 And He said unto them, "How is it that ye do not understand?"
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Full Loaf going out = God's Truth full strength, unaltered.
Fragments = men's doctrines breaking up the Full Loaf and presenting only pieces of God's Truth with men's doctrines added.
Example: Luke 4 when Satan tempted Jesus with adding "at any time" when quoting the Pslams 91:11-12 Scripture...
Luke 4:9-12
9 And he brought Him to Jerusalem, and set Him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto Him, "If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down from hence:
10 For it is written, 'He shall give His angels charge over Thee, to keep Thee:
11 And in their hands they shall bear Thee up, lest at any time Thou dash Thy foot against a stone.'
12 And Jesus answering said unto him, "It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."
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That part in red is what Satan added to his quote of Psalms 91:11-12, which changed... the meaning of that Scripture. It suggested that Jesus could tempt The Father at any time, and The Father would send angels to save Him. If that had been true, then Lord Jesus would never have been able to be crucified on the cross, and thus God's Salvation Plan through Christ's Blood shed upon His cross would have failed.
That’s untrue; St. Luke the Evangelist was quoting the Septuagint version of Psalm 91, which makes sense considering that his Gospel was written in Greek as was the Septuagint. The devil did not misquote Psalm 91 - there is absolutely nothing in the text to indicate that.
(Oh, and for many of you folks using a different Bible version, you might not have that "at any time" phrase in your Bible, because the super-duper higher critics on those newer Bible version committee didn't understand this, so they only thought it was a translation error from quoting the Psalms, so they removed it from their Bible translation! You can thank those like Wescott and Hort and the high critics for that!)
Well, that’s not quite correct either. It does illustrate a problem in using the New Testament with a version of the Old Testament other than that used by the Evangelists (this is not the only place where they quote the Septuagint).
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