Now at the risk of saying this too much, are you still holding on? Because this section could be very socking to many, especially if one has not excsobed the biblical discrepancies that I have just described. Most all religions push the concept that the Bible is infallible. They will go to great lengths in trying to demonstrate that we are to trust in the WORD. That from the ancient Dead Sea scrolls, until now, that the Word is 99% pure.

But another thing to think about – wasn’t Satan here with deception at the beginning of this world? So maybe, if we could understand more of the purpose for this world – it could be also very evident that God had to allow the deception – or we would never learn the difference.

Now another incident that goes with this - not long ago I heard a pastor giving a sermon on the authority of the Bible as infallible. He used the story in Luke 24 of when Jesus disguised Himself while walking with two people on the road to Emmaus. He gave the reason for Jesus disguising Himself as putting the WRITTEN WORD ahead of Himself as their authority.

Of course, since Jesus knew He was leaving - to point them to the Scriptures would be a natural thing for Jesus to do all right. But are we noticing that Jesus was giving them a method of how to search the Scriptures? You see, Jesus was discussing stories with them from the Scriptures.

In other words, Jesus was giving them the method of how to know the truth about God from the stories - the evidence for what God is like is within those stories. He didn’t want them to believe something just because a voice of authority was saying it.

You see, Jesus knew that there would be hundreds of Bible translator’s trying to slant the truth about God the Father by twisting words to fit their agenda. He also knew that there would be those that would try impersonating Him. But again, Jesus knew to twist all the stories and parables into untruths, would be impossible for the translator’s to do.

The lesson for us - is to realize that when Jesus was no longer going to physically be with us - He didn’t want us or them to rely or trust anything that could be distorted. He wanted them to discern truth by applying common sense to the stories.

So again, Jesus was giving the method of how we are to study Scripture in His absence – not doing away with His authority. So when the pastor was putting the WRITTEN WORD ahead of Jesus as our authority figure – he meant well, but because he misunderstood, he was really transferring the authority of Jesus over to something that could be distorted among hundreds of interpreters. Therefore, missing the whole point of why Jesus disguised Himself.

A finishing comment on this section: The only words that are infallible are those that come from God through the stories – because it’s far too obvious that many things have been distorted coming through the many hundreds of different versions. But fear not because we can know the truth about God through all the stories about Jesus. Remember, He did say that if we have seen Him we have seen the Father.

Now along with claiming that the Bible is infallible – there are those that will even suggest that we are not to use our common sense and reason. This directive means to only go by what the Bible says – they will say that it doesn’t have to make sense – because God’s ways are far above our ways –

To me, that’s a formula for being set up for deception. Simply change a word here and there and the enemy will have the masses following fables.

In fact, Jesus even gave us the example of using our common sense and reason. And it’s found in John 14:8 - Philip, one of the disciples, asked Jesus to show them the Father. And I hear Jesus saying, (my interpretation) Philip, where is your common sense - even after I’ve been among you such a long time – you don’t know me? If you have seen me – you have seen the Father – He’s just like me.

Now you’ve just experienced shocking revelations being revealed with solid evidence that certain things have been tampered with, a hard pill to swallow I know. But hang in there; you’ll soon discover the reason as to why God has allowed it.

There has been much emphasis about real truth being found within the stories. Well, there is a perfect story in 1 Kings 13 that illustrates that things are not always as they seem.

The story is about a young prophet that was being instructed by God to do certain things. He’d displayed strong restraints of not deviating from God’s instructions until an older prophet told him that he too was a prophet of the Lord with a different message. So the young prophet was satisfied that it must be a new message from God, so he went along with the older prophet. But as the story records, the older prophet had lied to him – which ended in disaster for the young prophet.

So listen up - just because we have been taught to believe that every word in the Bible is from God – doesn’t make it so. All the different translations could be saying, “I too are the Bible – you can trust every word I say.” But if the real truth were known, certain statements are telling lies about

God.But at the same time, I’m going to say, have no fear from the hundreds of different translations of the Bible, because the truth about God really does come through within the stories. In other words, it’s safe to trust the stories, but be careful what you believe within certain statements.

You might even discover that our Master Teacher has set the stage so we will finally understand what it means to trust in nothing except the ways of Jesus. Hasn’t it been said that there is no other way into Heaven?

Now more food for thought, there are three questions to ponder.

It’s important to realize that God is most interested in our free will choice – If we are conforming to God’s will out of obligation or the benefits of Heaven – we might want to take another look.

You see - God wants more than the obedience of a well-trained dog. God is really after our intelligent service – where we have become at-one with His ways.

So the questions I’m about to ask (again) are not meant to trash your faith. But they are designed to create constructive thinking within you. Let’s learn to build on what we know so far.

Question 1. I do believe the blood of Jesus saves us, but can you tell me how that works? Tell me how it works without telling me that God the Father or the law required someone to die.

Question 2. How is the blood of Jesus - as a sacrifice to appease the wrath of God the Father - any different from the heathen sun god sacrifices that were made to satisfy their imaginary demands?

Question 3. Within the Christian view, can you explain what makes us safe to save – what’s going to keep us from doing what Lucifer and Adam and Eve did?

Don’t be thinking you have to answer these questions, because (again) they are designed to stimulate and challenge your thinking in how to decipher truth from error.

Now again, listen up for the information that Jesus couldn’t give us long ago. It’s about having all His children witness and experience how easy it can be to be deceived - the same as Adam and Eve were. And to reveal this, He set the stage with real life action within our spiritual beliefs. Demonstrating by revealing how we have gone off in a thousand different directions in believing many different spiritual concepts that if thought about and scrutinized, really puts God the Father in a bad light.

And it isn’t that we haven’t been told – consider the power behind Jesus’ statement in John 5:39 about filtering every Bible statement through His character. Because spiritual things really do have to make sense - or the enemy will surely have us believing in Santa Clause.

Again, this has to be a hard pill for many to swallow, but how else is God going to teach us to be wary and cautious in not allowing wolves in sheep’s clothing to deceive us? And another one, how else is God going to secure the universe for eternity – within our free will choice – while at the same time, promising that there will forever be no more sin?

Our resistance to evil and rebellion must come from our free will choices – not from any threat of Hell or even the promise of Heaven or some special declaration by God. In other words, God doesn’t declare us righteous and make us fit for Heaven without the real thing happening within us by our free will choice.

So the purpose of this world has been to have a place that the results of every evil under the sun could be displayed – even the camouflage over evil within our sacred places of worship – Again, God had to allow us to be deceived or we would have never understood the difference.

He couldn’t tell us early on, that He had to allow this, other wise that would have defeated the purpose; because we had to go through the demonstration before we could understand. That’s the conclusion of John 16:12 – where Jesus said he had more to tell us.

So there you have it – the ‘how and why’ Scripture has been altered to fit the most widely accepted legal view of theology. All of this has been within God’s plan, it’s His method of teaching us to trust in nothing but His inscrutable ways described within the vast number of Bible parables and stories – this is a concept better known, as the Great Controversy view.

Within this understanding, you will soon discover that this was in God’s plan from the foundations of the world to allow the great cover up that was designed by Satan to distort the real reason or purpose for Jesus coming to this earth. We simply need to understand that God is all knowing. He knows what He is doing in securing the universe for eternity.

The plan was meant to reveal to us how important it really is to keep our focus on the ways of God – the kind of person a loving God has to be. The legal concept has diverted our focus on to us dwelling on how to be saved – rather than our focus being on understanding the character of God and His type of government.

Simply understand that God had to allow all kinds of spiritual concepts to spring up among us – or again, we wouldn’t have ever known the difference.

I can’t bring this video to a close without reminding you that God has promised to save all that trust in His ways – the ways we find within the stories. But we may only come to this understanding when we find out what the pearl of great value is. The story is found in Matt. 13:46 - Which, by the way, is not Jesus – but is a statement from Jesus, that my books are full of.

So when the pearl of great value is found - only then will we be ready to take on the commission or assignment of Matt. 24:14? It’s a loud and clear message. It states that when we take the good news of God’s government to the world – the kind of governor He is - then the end will come. So do you have a hint as to what the pearl of great value is – if not, may the search begin?