If the NT is Gods Word then is it a CARDINAL SIN to add or subtract even a single verse ?

Answer 1

Should be.

I mean, if it IS God's word, he obviously put every single word in there for a specific reason. Why would a perfect being not have a good reason behind everything? If it's the word of God, he meant what he said, and he said what he meant.

So why don't we still have slavery? Why are women now granted equal rights?

Under the New Testament and the opinions, customs and norms that God HIMSELF placed in there, we should still have slavery and women should still be property.

There is no room for the "now those things are socially out of context" argument. If GOD wrote it, he would've been able to forsee drastic cultural changes; he's omniscient.

So why, fundamentalist Christians, do you ignore these obvious requirements of your religion?

Answer 2

Interestingly, a paradoxical question. The term cardinal sin, or even the concept (that some sins are worse than others) is itself a concept added to Christian doctrine after the adoption of the New Testament. It is not a concept which most protestant Churches hold to.

Oh, and God simply could not hold people to the notion of literally no addition or subtraction, because there will always be multiple translations and interpretations, especially since there is no single, definitive text source to work from. If that were true, then we would somehow have to know whether the NIV, RV, Good News, etc. translations was "correct" (which we couldn't), otherwise we'd be "sinning." That's just silly--since it is flat out wrong to say that one translation is "correct" and the others incorrect.

Answer 3

The NT was rewritten several times in several places. Right now there are about 5400 scraps, fragments, or pages or the original Greek translation that have survived.........AND NONE OF THEM MATCH! Same verse, but different because scribes would sit and write as a reader read. Some scribes heard the wrong word, or didn't like what they heard so they changed it. This is well documented!

The NT is hardly the word of god.

I know there are some who will vote my answer as a negative ..........but would you at LEAST give it some thought. NOT to question is to give in to blind faith and magical thinking.

Answer 4

It isn't. The early Christians used to modify these texts a lot,what to speak of the authors themselves. The idea you're referring to derives from a misreading of a passage in Revelations,which fundies interpret as applying to the entire selection of texts when in fact it refers only to the text of Revelations. People have done a lot modifactions,even in comparitively modern times. When England broke away from the Roman Church,they hacked out seven books,and then in the early 19th century 'ole Tom Jefferson produced a non-miracle version of the NT for agnostics who admired Christ as a philosopher but did not embrace the idea of divinity.

Answer 5

This myth has arisen, from the Book of Revelation in which John admonishes that no one is to add to or subtract from it, that no new revelation is to be given. John was referring to additions or subtractions to/from his own writings.

The bible as we know it today was not compiled as a group of books until centuries later. The order in which it was bound does not reflect the historical order in which each individual book within it was written. Actually, John's Book of Revelation was not written last.

Also, in the Book of Deuteronomy the writer has written the same admonishment.....not to add to or subtract from it. So for people without historical knowledge of the binding together of all the ancient writtings found in the Bilble it can look like the Bible should stop in Dueteronomy (or Revelations). This is an instance of " a little knowledge being a dangerous thing." It is also revealing of why for so many centuries the bible and its history was not taught to people. It's easy to lead ignorant people so as to retain unjust power.

I pose the questions:

If all the books which are mentioned throughout all the writings of the bible as lost books, about 13, were found would most Christians accept them and add them to the bible?

Furthermore, if the Lord decided to speak again to a man chosen to be his mouthpiece would Christians accept the new revelations?

As for changing the word of God, has anyone counted the number of retranslated bibles there are now......over 150.

"Jesus is the same yesterday,and to day, and forever." (Hebrews 13:8) So if he spoke to one generation whom he loved what is preventing him from speaking to another?

(An interesting aside, the Book of Isaiah as found in the Dead Sea Scrolls is more accurately aligned with the Isaiah verses from the Book of Mormon than to that of those in our King James bible.Do you think the Mormons may be on to something?)

Answer 6

Not just the New Testament, my friend, but the ENTIRE BIBLE is God's Word, and it is a sin to add or subtract even a single verse.

Answer 7

Considering that verse numbers were added a couple years after the books were written (maybe a couple hundred years later), I don't think so. So long as what the original text was trying to get across is still there, it should be okay. Although, the Bible can't be messed with too much. ( check last couple verses of Revelation)

Answer 8

I don't know exactly what a cardinal sin is. Sin is sin. All sins are evidence of our imperfect state, and as the Bible says "The wages sin pays is death."

Having said that, Revelation 22:18, 19 says: "If anyone makes an addition to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this scroll; and if anyone takes anything away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God will take his portion away from the trees of life and out of the holy city, things which are written about in this scroll."

This is why the Book of Mormon is immediate cause for us to discount the LDS church as worshipping God acceptibly.

Answer 9

In Revelation, yes. (verse 22:19) Plus changing God's words is a sin. What would you change it to??? A worldly church? Just doesn't work, just look at what the crazy non Bible teaching churches have come to. Hi I am pastor Adam and this is my signifigant other, Steve...YIKES.

Answer 10

I don't know what Cardinal Sin means, but in Revelation, it does say that "...if anyone adds anything, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. If anyone takes words away, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city..." (Rev. 22:18-19)