Their claim is it was done under the guise of clarification but has only added to the
confusion.
The undeniable truth is that none has the right to alter the words of God, from
where did he get the right to do such a thing?
Examples of the tampering that has taken place over the years
Mrs. Ellen G. White, a "prophetess" of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, in her Bible
Commentary Vol. 1, page 14, has this confession to make about the fallibility of the
"Holy Bible." "THE BIBLE WE READ TODAY IS THE WORK OF MANY COPYISTS WHO
HAVE IN MOST INSTANCES DONE THEIR WORK WITH MARVELLOUS ACCURACY.
BUT COPYISTS HAVE NOT BEEN INFALLIBLE, AND GOD MOST EVIDENTLY HAS
NOT SEEN FIT TO PRESERVE THEM ALTOGETHER FROM ERROR IN
TRANSCRIBING." In the following pages of her commentary, Mrs. White testifies
further: "I SAW THAT GOD HAD ESPECIALLY GUARDED THE BIBLE" (from what?)
"YET WHEN COPIES OF IT WERE FEW, LEARNED MEN HAD IN SOME INSTANCES
CHANGED THE WORDS, THINKING THAT THEY WERE MAKING IT PLAIN, WHEN IN
REALITY THEY WERE MYSTIFYING THAT WHICH WAS PLAIN, BY CAUSING IT TO
LEAN TO THEIR ESTABLISHED VIEWS, WHICH WERE GOVERNED BY TRADITION."
The mental malady is a cultivated one. This authoress and her followers can still
trumpet from roof tops that "Truly, the Bible is the infallible Word of God." "Yes, it is
adulterated, but pure" "It is human, yet divine." Do words have any meaning in their
language? Yes, they have in their courts of law, but not in their theology. They carry
a "poetic license" in their preaching.
THE WITNESSES
The most vociferous of all the Bible-thumpers are the Jehovah's Witnesses. On page
5 of their "FOREWORD" mentioned earlier, they confess: "IN COPYING THE
INSPIRED ORIGINALS BY HAND THE ELEMENT OF HUMAN FRAILTY ENTERED IN,
AND SO NONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF COPIES EXTANT TODAY IN THE ORIGINAL
LANGUAGE ARE PERFECT DUPLICATES. THE RESULT IS THAT NO TWO COPIES
ARE EXACTLY ALIKE" Now you see, why the whole "foreword" of 27 pages is
eliminated from their Bibles. Allah was making them to hang themselves with their
own erudition.
Dr. Graham Scroggie in his aforementioned book, pleads, on page 29. for the Bible:-
"AND LET US BE PERFECTLY FAIR AS WE PURSUE THE SUBJECT (Is the Bible the
Word of God?). BEARING IN MIND THAT WE ARE TO HEAR WHAT THE BIBLE HAS
TO SAY ABOUT ITSELF. IN A COURT OF LAW WE ASSUME THAT A WITNESS WILL
SPEAK THE TRUTH, AND MUST ACCEPT WHAT HE SAYS UNLESS WE HAVE GOOD
GROUNDS FOR SUSPECTING HIM, OR CAN PROVE HIM A LIAR. SURELY THE BIBLE
SHOULD BE GIVEN THE SAME OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD, AND SHOULD
RECEIVE A LIKE PATIENT HEARING." The plea is fair and reasonable. We will do
exactly as he asks and let the Bible speak for itself. In the first five books of the Bible
— Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy