A solid foundation allows us to go higher
The Burj Khalifa, tallest building in the world, has a very deep foundation
1 Corinthians 3:11-14 (Modern Translation of the Wycliffe Bible):
For no one can lay another foundation other than what has been laid, which is Christ Jesus. For if anyone builds with gold, silver, precious stones, sticks, grass, or stubble upon this foundation, every man’s work will be exposed, for the day of the Lord will reveal it. And it will be revealed using fire.
The fire will test each person’s work, revealing what sort of work it is. If anyone’s work which he built upon that foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
God wants us to establish a foundation for His Kingdom. The deeper the foundation, the higher we can go once God finally gives us His “building permit”.
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The story of this Bible translation began with a struggle I was facing in Chad, in 2007.
We had just joined a new mission agency.
The budget I was asked to raise from churches was double what it had been.
Our previous supporters easily got on board to support us.
However, I was having a difficult time asking new churches of New England to support us as well. They were already supporting as many missionaries as their budget could afford.
And these pastors were struggling to make ends meet themselves.
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Below is a list of the Bible verses missing from most modern translations of the Bible.
They aren’t missing from Wycliffe’s Bible. Or from Luther’s Bible. Or from Tyndale’s Bible, or the Geneva Bible. We can find them in the King James Version of 1611 and the New King James Version.
Textual Criticism
They disappeared around 1881, when Westcott and Hort developed a new source text for New Testament Bible translation called The New Testament in the Original Greek.
Since then, the study of textual criticism of the Bible has been popular with theologians.
If my understanding is correct, proponents of Textual Criticism believe that they can discern words from the original Books of the New Testament by applying man-made rules by committee to ancient biblical manuscripts.
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