When I read this a few days back, it caused me to pause and think about what the Psalmist was saying and why. The Psalmist seemed to be bombarded from many sides. He was overwhelmed with trouble. He was afflicted and brought low, even sensing the sorrows of death encircling him. It appears that in the midst of all he was going through that no one seemed to understand. Nearly crushed by it all he tells us: ”I said in my haste, All men are liars.” He’s in a dark spot.
Citizen of America or Heaven?
I think most who come into the Hebraic perspective of viewing the Scriptures feel like they’ve been lied to. I did. We wondered how those we looked to for instruction and teaching had failed to inform us of the things we were beginning to see for ourselves. Was it deliberate? Was it out of ignorance? Was it a combination of both? We have been given “new” information and understanding. We’ve been changed. And because of this, we can never go back to the simpler, warm fuzzy days of our Christian lives. It’s all so apparent to us now; but, it wasn’t always that way.
Popery, Again?
{Please, go to YouTube and watch these films by Adullam Films -- A Lamp In The Dark: The Untold History of the Bible; Tares Among The Wheat; Bridge To Babylon: Rome, Ecumenism and the Bible} I went to Bible college a year and a half after I got saved. I was off to study the Word of God! All Bible major students had to take Greek. I’d learn to read the Word of God in the original language. What could be better?
Ongoing Counter Reformation
What is the Word of God? Where is the Word of God? Does anyone agree on what is the Word of God? Can anybody hold up a Bible and say with absolute authority and conviction that the Book they hold in their hand is the Inspired Word of God? Are all the Bible versions really saying the same things? How many versions of the Bible are in your church? Am I the only one that thinks all this is confusing?
King James Bible 2
Why is virtually any new Bible version looked upon as a worthy scholarly work and yet the King James Bible is relegated to the roll of antiquated inferiority? I’ve been around long enough to see many of the new translations roll off the production lines. My personal experience started with the Revised Standard Version at age 12. I only read a few verses in Matthew and put it down. I never touched a Bible again until I was saved at age 19 in 1973 (New Scofield Bible).