Recently a man told me a story based on the situation where Jesus fed the 5000.
I thought about what he told and then I looked the story up in the Bible. As a consequence, I wrote the following letter to this man:
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You were talking about the lst miracle of feeding the 5000 and how "Jesus lifted the food up to heaven" and prayed over it.
KJV does not tell this as you did.
(Both the NASB and the NIV say the same thing the KJV said. Jesus did not lift the food up to heaven as this man said Jesus did. These translations say Jesus looked up to heaven.)
Here is what KJV says:
Mt. 14:19 ... And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the
multitude.
Jesus looked up to heaven but there is no accounting of Jesus lifting the food up to heaven as you told.
Again, maybe this is told this way in another version that Jesus lifted the food up to heaven.
It is an important point for it is a very serious matter to add to the Word of God ..
(This is the way false doctrines get started in the church groups.)
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A few years ago, I visited a Wednesday night church service where the pastor of that church group was speaking. He began speaking about the woman taken in adultery, John. 8...Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. 2And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
As he spoke about this matter in Jn. 8, he said, "When this woman was brought to Jesus she was naked from the waist up."
I was shocked. I grabbed my Bible and began to reread Jn. 8. There was no mention of this woman being naked from waist up.
I looked at the other people in the congregation and did not see anyone looking at a Bible to check what pastor said. They were just looking at him and smiling!
It reminds me of the poison gas dream God gave me as follows:
Poison gas dream: In approximately 1980, God gave me the following dream. There
was a room filled with people and a man was speaking to these people. I
went in and sat down and began listening. Then another man rushed into
the room and said, "Stop ... can't you see. It's too late. It's already begun."
The first man resumed speaking. But I looked out the window to see
what was happening. I was shocked in what I saw. There was a civil
defense warning system on top of a tall pole. A type of poison gas was coming out of the speaker.
The shocking thing was this: The system that was set up to warn us was
being used to gas us to death. In the dream, I looked at the man sitting next
to me. His eyes were open. He had a big smile on his face. But he
was already dead! He was a corpse though he was looking directly at the speaker
and seemed to be paying attention. Then I looked at the other people
in the room and they were all dead though they looked alive. And as I
sat there listening to the speaker, I felt myself falling asleep
(dying). I knew it would kill me too if I sat there among them.
Later
God showed me this is what is happening in the church gatherings
today. Instead of being warned, people are being gassed to death with
the doctrines.
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I called this pastor who had taught the woman was naked from waste up (Jn. 8) and I asked him where this is in the Bible. First he said he couldn't remember where it was in Bible. I told him this is very important to me and I asked him to look it up and have his secretary call me and tell me where it is in Bible.
Then pastor became very angry and replied: "All right ... it isn't in the Bible ... Where do you go to church (trying to accuse me of wrong doing) ..."
I have run into this problem many times ... People adding things to the Bible ...
It is a very serious matter to handle the Bible incorrectly, adding things that are not there and putting people into bondage to a doctrine.
Acts 17 ... And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. 11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
There was a man in this church group who was an elder in the group and I knew him through a construction project. I called him and talked with him about Jn. 8. This man was present the night this pastor added the naked woman part to the sermon. This "elder" did not check the Bible as he listened to pastor. Several months later this elder switched church groups because he said is pastor hired a man with a homosexual background (I don't know if he was still homosexual or not but this "elder" disapproved) to be choir director.
Do you love the Bible? If so, how can you just sit there and listen without checking what is said and without asking God about it when you find it does not line up with scripture?