Is there a relationship between God’s perspective on marriage and the Bible, especially the King James Bible? The impetus for this writing was a concern posed by someone confused regarding this question. He stated that he found it odd that some who put the Authorized King James over modern watered-down versions still reject God’s perspective on marriage; yet, others, who strongly teach one man for one woman until death they do part, use modern translations.
Can God’s perspective on marriage and the authenticity of the Bible be separated?Just because someone uses the King James Bible, or any other version, doesn’t prove that person is saved or lost. Because a man and woman celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary does not mean they are saved. Just because someone attends church services or is a pastor or ministry leader doesn’t mean that he or she teaches God’s perspective on marriage; or for that matter, even believes what God says about the life-time permanence of His one-flesh joining. We don’t follow men; we follow the Word of God, and what It says. God lets the wheat and the tares grow up together. He uses both the saved and the lost to bring about His plan for our lives and for His overall Master plan! The point is that it is more than just reading from the King James Bible that saves someone. The Standard is Jesus Christ.It is a relationship with Jesus Christ that should be “gleaned” from a study of the Word of God. Furthermore, it’s not JUST hearing the Word but obeying it: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James 1:22
Standards* will “staunchly” obey, What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (Mark 10:9) Mark 10:9 IS a “salvanic” TRUTH, especially when linked with corollary scriptures such as Luke 16:18 and Romans 7:2-3. However, there are other equally vital Truths that also must be obeyed. One of those is the LORD’s many commands to not change the Word of God.
(*A Standard is a term adapted from Isaiah 59:19 by those whose covenant spouse has left the marriage and/or gone on to marry someone else, under civil law; yet, he or she, the Standard, remains faithful to his or her God-ordained, life-time covenant and attendant vows to love and cherish until physical death comes upon either the husband or wife.)
The STANDARD is the Word of God—that which a Christian upholds. |
It’s a Biblical principle.It’s important to understand the principle behind why some of us have chosen to use only the King James Bible. God says man is not to change His word, or put it in the words of Jesus:
It is also written:For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of *THE BOOK OF LIFE, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Revelation 22:18-19
*The Book of Life is changed by most new version authors, either directly in the text or in a man-made critical footnote. Here’s how the authors of the NKJV malign God’s Word for this important teaching. They write in their critical footnote: “NU-Text and M-Text read tree of life.” However, there’s a huge difference between the Book of Life and the Tree of Life. If you don’t understand this egregious error, you may need to do some additional study. We discuss this change inserted by authors of the new versions in our Bible Versions Volume 2, Family Feud and Your Part in The Book of Life available on our under the category Materials.
The above selected Scriptures are a SAMPLING of the hundreds of verses that are attacked (either directly in the text or through man-created and inserted “critical footnotes”) by the new version authors and used by many committed Christians. By attacked, I mean rewritten; they substitute their words for God’s. There are reasons, most times beyond our understanding, why God uses the words He had Holy men of God pen as they were moved by the Holy Ghost (See 2 Peter 1:21.) and which He has promised to preserve:
We do not see the whole picture. For example, I have written many pages (See book “Finding Loopholes in the Bible on Divorce and “Re-marriage” is like … Riding a Bike to Jamaica” on our Website.) to teach the underlying reasons why jot and tittle must be retained in Matthew 5:18 and their vital interwoven, contextual link between the Old and New Testaments. Because, the words jot and tittle are not recognized by man today, perhaps he thinks he should “modernize God” by changing these deeply embedded “canonized” words specifically chosen by Jesus Christ. After all, wrongly, “thinketh man,“ God did not anticipate that most today would not understand the terms, jot and tittle! No, God has, INSTEAD, given us:
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The Bible has been relegated lower than man.
Sadly, the Bible has been relegated to even a lower level than man’s writings, which it is not. What secular book, for example, do people consistently approach by preferencing it (editorializing) with, “Here’s what the author really means …”? It’s not the typical secular writing which such a statement overshadows. No, it’s the Word of God to which man gets puffed up and decides he knows more than God and has no fear of practicing what the father of lies, Satan, is so well known for initiating: questioning the words of God:
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said … Genesis 3:1
Man’s subtlety lies in the new versions, in critical footnotes; lurking behind computer screens, Facebook, and even some behind pulpits.
The King James Bible is God’s autobiography of Himself, penned through His chosen holy men, that I fear to “touch.” There are even some very important, deeply embedded warnings for us against touching (changing) His Word. This is in the recording of events surrounding the ark of the covenant. What was symbolically being protected within the ark? God’s Word!
How serious is God about “touching”?
And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it*: but they shall not touch any holy thing, LEST THEY DIE … (*the ark which they were to bear on their shoulders, and not make use of wagons to carry it) Numbers 4:15
And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God. 2 Samuel 6:6-7
And he smote [killed] the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the 
LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter. 1 Samuel 6:19
God considers not only His words but also a man’s wife to be a holy vessel. Neither is to be “touched” by another. Such a transgression of the latter, God warns is adultery; and not turned from, also brings with it the wages, payment for unrepented sin: death:
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, … shall inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
I personally revere and have a godly fear for the Words which have been supernaturally preserved through the hand of God throughout history and now contained within the King James Bible. Apparently many others feel the opposite. However, we must each decide. Westcott and Hort (authors of the underlying Greek text for new versions), the Catholic Church, and a host of others make up the theological historical background of the new versions with their thousands of copyrighted doctrinal changes. Westcott and Hort founded several occult societies, two of which were The Hermes Club and The Ghostly Guild. Yes, they have recorded and taught many Truths; however, within these are also many egregious untruths hidden behind their copyrighted works and to which innocent BLINDED sheep fall prey.
The foundational issue is authorship and/or change: ©
God clearly and repeatedly warns us to not change His words. All new versions of the Bible (not the King James Bible) are copyrighted. For an author to have his works qualify for a derivative copyright (the law under which modern Bibles are subject) and to publish and distribute his works, he must affirm he has CHANGED thousands of words from the original, et al. That in itself is a huge violation of God’s many warnings to not change His words and should be an immediate red flag. However, these writers make themselves professed authors of their Bibles.
It is an individual decision each person must make to determine what God’s commands mean and if and when he or she wishes to choose to obey them: For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 1 John 5:3 Is it a command or just a suggestion to not change the Word of God; to not add to or subtract from It? Is it a command or a suggestion to not put away [divorce] a wife/husband and marry another?
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery. Luke 16:18
One of the thousands of changes made by the new version authors is one which maligns a very important doctrinal issue that is also deeply vetted and interlinked in the King James Bible. That is one of God’s teaching on the permanence of a one-flesh marriage. Specifically targeted is a popular phrase man calls “the exception clause” used to describe the words of Jesus included in Matthew 19:9: except it be for fornication.
Man wrongly tries to misuse these words by rewriting the text to excuse the sin of adulterous marriages (what most call remarriage). Even though the same underlying Greek word is recorded in the underlying Greek text from which the English is translated, the new version authors change the English word for fornication, either directly in the text or in a critical footnote. This verse includes a statement directly from Jesus Christ; yet, man changes the words of Jesus to what he wants to hear rather than what Jesus teaches. This man-made change is so powerfully deceitful that it is quoted by many well-meaning pastors, teachers, and lay people; and, the deception is accepted by some of the millions living in adulterous marriages.
How much arsenic is acceptable?
Why does God warn: Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman? 1 Corinthians 7:1 Why does He state: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matthew 5:28 Why does God say: What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it, or Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar? Deuteronomy 12:32; Proverbs 30:6
Jesus KNOWS that these are the first steps that can lead man to the depths of forever being separated from the LORD. Many, it seems, do not believe, A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, from Galatians 5:9; when it comes to Biblical Truths. However, I wonder, would these same people who reject the words of the LORD believe that a little arsenic leavens the whole lump if the same were put in the dough for a loaf of bread!
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the “LORD. Joshua 24:15
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In Christ’s Service,
Judith Brumbaugh
President/Founder
Restoration Of The Family, Inc.
