Re-examine Our Faith

 We always hear preachers talking about the twisted teachings of the Roman Catholic church. Twisted in the sense that the teachings do not align with the Bible. There is no doubt about that misalignment. However, are they aligned with the Bible? Many protestant sects claim that they teach according to the Bible. Which Bible?

1. King James Version
2. New King James Version
3. New Living Translation
4. New Internation Version
5. English Standard Version
6. Christian Standard Version
7. New American Standard Bible
8. Legacy Standard Bible
9. New English Translation
10. Revised Standard Version
11. American Standard Version
12. Young's Lieteral Translation
13. Darby Translation
14. Webster's Bible
15. Hebrew Names Version
16. Latin Vulgate
17. Westminster Leningrad Codex
18. Septuagint
19. Morphological Greek New Testament
20. Textus Receptus
21. Open New Arabic Version
22. Reyna-Valera

The basic purpose of the different translations is to make the Bible more understandable to the reader. So, they should be the same. Unfortunately, they are not. For example, the following verse is in the King James Version but not in the other Bibles: 

Matthew 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

It looks like that while Moses, David, the Prophets and the Son of God fasted, there are translators who removed the value of fasting in the Bible.

There are fundamental similarities in all the Bibles we have cited. The name of the Father in more than 6,000 verses was replaced with the phrase "the Lord." The King James Version and the American Standard Version mentioned Jehovah as the name of the Father but that name is not correct. The New Living Translation, the Legacy Standard Bible, and the Hewbrew Names Bible mentioned the name Yahweh, but it is not correct either. The name of the Father has been taken in vain by throwing it into oblivion violating the third commandment:

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORDYahuwah thy God in vain; for the LORD Yahuwah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

None of the Christian religions of the world is guiltless. Instead of looking at each other's imperfection, all Christianity should remember the following:

Matthew 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Let us re-examine our faith and pray for guidance.