Changes in the Bible

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Changes in the Bible

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It is easy to find many passages in the Bible where Jesus is called

Son of God. One is also able to find a few passages where Jesus calls

himself the Son of God, or where he calls God his father. However, a

careful study of the Bible reveals that this is the result of changes

in the Bible. Jesus never claimed that he is the Son of God.

Each time an older manuscript of the Bible is discovered, many

changes are required in the Bible to bring it in line with the

ancient manuscripts. Mark 1:1 reads as follows:

"The beginning of the Gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.b"

(Mark 1:1, New International Version).

At the end of that verse, there is a small letter directing us to

look at the footnote at the bottom of the page. There we find that

some manuscripts do not have "the Son of God." And those were

ancient, reliable manuscripts. The evidence was so compelling that

the editors of one Bible just simply removed the title Son of God

from the verse altogether. Thus in the New World Translation of the

Holy Scriptures the verse reads:

"The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ" (Mark

1:1).

The title `Son of God' is no longer in that verse.

Another such change had to be made in the Acts of the Apostles 8:37

in every honest translation of the Bible prepared in this century.

Evidence from old manuscripts demanded that the verse be removed from

all present Bibles. If you go to your New International Version Bible

and look for Acts 8:37 you will not find it in the text. You will

find verse number 36, and then verse 38, but not 37. If you wish to

know what verse 37 used to say, you need to check the footnote at the

bottom of the page. This verse used to contain a confession that

Jesus is the Son of God. It had to be removed because its absence

from the most ancient manuscripts meant that someone added it to the

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