Preserving His Ancient Landmarks – Why We Walk In God’s Old Paths by William Taylor
Preserving His Ancient Landmarks – Why We Walk In God’s Old Paths
Preserving His Ancient Landmarks – Why We Walk In God’s Old Paths by William Taylor (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Christians will fall away (Thes. 2:2-4) and stop walking in God’s old paths (Jer. 6:16) by giving up ancient landmarks (Pr. 22:28) before the Antichrist is revealed. Satan, the father of lies, asked “Yea, hath God said … (Gen. 3:1)” to deceive Eve by questioning God’s Word in the Garden of Eden (1 Tim. 2:14). Satan has worked to deceive everyone about what God really said ever since.
Satan’s servants have always denied the fact that Jesus is God and has always been God:
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. John 10:31-33
Westcott and Hort, who led the wave of new “bible” versions, were honest about their unbelief:
“In matters of textual criticism, the Bible is to be treated like any other ancient book. No special considerations are to be made concerning its claims of inspiration or preservation.” [emphasis added]
The continuous, unbroken Preservation of Inspired Scripture is an essential doctrine we gave up in the 1880s even though Satan’s servants Westcott and Hort told the truth about their unbelief! Modern scholars (2 Tim. 3:5-7) deny divine inspiration and deny divine preservation of God’s Word. Their corrupt manuscripts throw doubt on Jesus’ sinless perfection and suggest that His imperfect blood can’t pay the price for our sins. Corrupted versions describe “another Jesus (2 Cor. 11:4)” who can’t save anyone.
This book explains why the King James Bible is the path we should walk.
You searched for landmarks – Earnestly Contend For The Faith Jude 3 (awarningministry.com)
Marriage Under Threat: Why We Use the King James Bible (KJB) (successful-marriage.blogspot.com)
WHY WE USE THE KING JAMES BIBLE (KJB)
This is a 2-page explanation why we use the King James Bible instead of one of the “modern” versions:
This is the heart of the doctrinal question whether to use the King James Bible or a newer version:
It summarizes the issue briefly.
This article explains that the controversy between those who favor the KJB and modernists who prefer new versions which use different manuscripts is based on a false assumption about how the King James Bible was produced:
This explains Satan’s plan to stir up heretics to question the Word of God:
Oldest Manuscript
The KJB translators drew on a Greek manuscript called the “Received Text” or Textus Receptus (TR) which has been traced back to apostolic times. Modernists say the Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts promoted by Westcott and Hort in the late 1800s were hidden in the 4th century and “recovered” in the 19th. They are the oldest manuscripts, they say, so a translation based on them is “better” than the KJB. They are filled with errors, crossouts, and disagree with each other 3,000 times in the gospels alone.
The Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus manuscripts from which modern versions are translated fail God’s condition for Biblical authority because they were not continually available. Modernists argue that God allowed His Word to be lost for 1,500 years until scholars “recovered” it. To accept this idea, we must ignore many Scripture passages or believe that God lied when He promised to preserve His Word generation by generation forever.
TR Preserved
This shows how the Textus Receptus, the Greek manuscript behind the KJB, has been available continually since Apostolic times, unlike the corrupted manuscripts.
Christians stopped memorizing the Word of God as so many versions brought confusion about what God said.
The Bible tells us that we’re not supposed to move ancient landmarks (Pr. 22:8), but the question of which Bible version Christians should trust has been an issue since the 1880s. “Fake news” may seem easier to understand, but we need to study the pure words of God.
God gave us the Bible to teach us how to be saved (Jn. 3:16-18) so that we can produce the Fruit of the Spirit in this life (Gal. 5:22, Eph. 5:9), win the lost (Mt. 28:19-20, Mk. 16:15-16), and live forever in Heaven with Him in the next life. Satan confused Eve by asking “hath God said (Gen. 3:1)” and tries to corrupt our minds from the “simplicity that is in Christ (2 Cor. 11:3).” This short article explains why we must use the KJB which properly explains the mind of God.
History shows that the KJB is the version God wanted for all English speaking people.
Imperfect Jesus
The Bible tells us that we’re not supposed to move ancient landmarks (Pr. 22:8). Newer “bible” translations teach an imperfect Jesus who cannot save. Those who excuse mistakes in these versions blaspheme the Holy Spirit – you can see the errors in the English:
Newer “bible” versions do not teach that God came to earth in the flesh. This short article shows how these versions show the spirit of Antichrist:
Preservation
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths
, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Jeremiah 6:16
Modernists say that the pure, inspired Words of God were lost in the 4th century until they were recovered by scholars in the 19th. “Scholars” who promote this idea are pagan idolaters who reject the Divine nature of Scripture:
“In matters of textual criticism, the Bible is to be treated like any other ancient book. No special considerations are to be made concerning its claims of inspiration or preservation
.” [emphasis added]
Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in the Original Greek, Introduction and Appendix, 1881
This is unbelief, pure and simple. They mock God’s many promises to preserve His Word so that it would be continuously available from generation to generation forever. This documents God’s promises to preserve His word. Did God do that, or is He a liar?
The deity of Christ is a foundational doctrine. This shows that every Word God gave was and is preserved and discusses modernist omissions which deny the deity of Christ.
Version Confusion
Satan isn’t able to destroy the Word of God, but he can bring about so many different versions that it’s hard for people to find the true word.
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. I Corinthians 14:33
God is not the author of confusion, so we know that this confusion cannot be of God. There are only two sides, so we know where the confusion originated.
In addition to being hidden for more than 1,000 years, the manuscripts from which new versions come are of exceptionally poor quality. This discusses their many corrections and erasures to show that what “scholars” like Westcott and Hort and other anti-KJB people call the “best manuscripts” cannot be the Word of God. They contain parts of the Word of God, but can’t be trusted to reveal the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27):
The Oxford English Dictionary shows that the English word “baptize” was used to describe a religious sacrament as early as 1297, centuries before the KJB was translated. It is unlike the non-religious Greek word which has secular meanings such as “immerse” or “wash.” “Immerse” was translated to a well-established English word, not transliterated to a sound-alike.
The New Testament teaches that fasting is an important weapon in spiritual warfare. Modern versions leave out nearly all references to the spiritual power of fasting:
Besides denying that Jesus is God and removing references to fasting, modern versions take out or weaken many other Spiritual principles:
This short article shows how studying just two words of Greek gives a very comforting lesson:
The Bible tells us that we’re not supposed to move ancient landmarks (Pr. 22:8). Studying one word of Hebrew reminds us of a landmark that has not only been moved, it’s been largely forgotten by both the church and society:
Translating between human languages is extremely difficult because God did a super job of scrambling the languages at Babel (Gen. 11:1-9). This article shows how translating Japanese words for color leads to so much confusion that my mother-in-law thought I was mentally defective:
THE BIBLE DECLARES THAT THE EARTH IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
Scripture tells us that Christians will fall away (Thes. 2:2-4) and stop walking in God’s old paths (Jer. 6:16) before the Antichrist is revealed. We gave up the doctrine of earth being the center of the universe in the 1680s. Galileo’s telescope showed him Jupiter’s moons orbiting Jupiter. He declared that the earth orbits around the sun even though the Bible tells us that the earth cannot be moved (Ps. 93:1)!
The ancient Greeks proposed the theory of evolution. That heresy couldn’t get far as long as God’s people understood that God has special love for the earth (Jn. 3:16) and that He put it immovably in the center of His creation. Galileo began the process of seeing the earth as one minor dust mote among billions. This made it easier for Christians to abandon the doctrine of 6-day creation in favor of the evolution heresy.
The Bible has more verses telling us that the earth doesn’t move and that everything goes around the earth than verses commanding us to love God! Science tells us that we can put the center of the universe wherever we like:
“We know that the difference between a heliocentric (sun-centered) theory and a geocentric (earth-centered) theory is one of relative motion only, and that such a difference has no physical significance.” Sir Fred Hoyle, Astronomy and Cosmology, A Modern Course, (San Francisco, W. H. Freeman & Co., 1975) p 416 [emphasis added]
All motion is relative, so the idea of what goes around what has no physical meaning. There is no conflictbetween what science says and Scripture saying that the sun goes around the earth.
Scripture tells us that the entire universe revolves around the earth; science says that what goes around what doesn’t matter. We may say that we believe and honor the Word of God with our lips (Mt. 15:8), but do we have enough faith in God to believe His Word in our hearts? This paper shows what science says and explains how it has no conflict with what God says:
Outline for a Marriage Seminar
The Outline describes the talks and has links to each article. Some have a sound file you can play to see how the message will work for you. The goal is to get enough messages for a 2-week seminar and to offer support for English-teaching ministries.
The Apostle Paul had the gift of tongues. He could speak in other languages, was given the gift of healing, and could adapt himself to other cultures. I do not have those gifts. I need help adapting what God gives me to your needs. Please let me know what’s missing, what’s not clear, and what’s not needed.
When my wife and I were married in 1971, most of our friends were already divorced. We saw that God had given us something precious in our marriage but we could not explain it. We had nothing to say when her sister and my brother divorced and we wanted to help others avoid the pain.
We spent the next 46 years trying to explain what God had in mind when He made marriage so that others could enjoy the blessing God wants to give when a man and a woman enter into Holy Matrimony. Everyone knows people whose marriages are in trouble or young people who are thinking of marrying. This article summarizes the lessons:
Starting with eleven fired-up nobodies (Acts 4:13), Jesus’ gospel turned the world upside down (Acts 17:6). Over the next 300 years, a quarter to a half the population of the Roman Empire either converted to Christianity or was sympathetic in spite of great persecution. How did this come about?
… there is neither male nor female
: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:28b
Christianity respects and values women far more than other faiths – they’re equal in value to men.
And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. Mark 15:3
Having opened the temple veil so ordinary people can approach Him, God receives a woman whenever she wishes. This was revolutionary, nobody imagined ordinary people approaching God without permission, especially not women. Did Christianity succeed on its merits, or was there another driving force?
Some say that Jesus’ resurrection drove His followers to risk their lives to spread His message. There would be no Christianity without His resurrection, but that wasn’t why they did it. His resurrection showed His power over death, but that didn’t drive them to spread His gospel, they went fishing instead.
explains what drove Jesus’ 11 nobodies to turn the world upside-down. His resurrection changed them, but didn’t drive them. What made them put their lives on the line to tell everyone about Jesus? The mechanism that should drive marriages and churches and should drive you to spread His Gospel is explained in the second section.
If you meet someone whose life is lost in sin and despair, you know how to give God’s Simple Plan of Salvation. Chapter 3 of this article explains that marriage is extremely simple. The rest of the article builds on that. The goal is to equip you to help others find the joy God offers through marriage. It contains a total of 15 roughly one-hour sessions discussing various aspects of marriage.
WhatDroveJesus11NobodiesTurnWorldUpsideDown.doc is available for free from our shared folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JQV9oEZwRL_H7Whck66UuRGruJQ2nfyk?usp=sharing
We set the price as low as Amazon would permit – 99 cents on Kindle:
SEMINAR OPENING MESSAGE – MARRIED COUPLES SHOULD ONLY PRAISE EACH OTHER
The Bible explains marriage in one verse – this chapter explains it. God’s rules are very simple. Salvation is two words, “only believe.” God’s rule for a man and woman coming together is three words, “only in marriage.” Staying married is as simple as salvation, its two words, “only praise.” We must praise our spouses as much and as often as God expects us to praise Him. Moses warned that the Jews would be carried into captivity unless they loved God with grateful hearts and gave thanks for everything He gave:
Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness
, and with gladness of heart
, for the abundance of all things
; 48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things
: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee
. Deuteronomy 28:47-48 *
God’s people didn’t appreciate the blessings He gave them so He took everything away. They were in want of “all things.” We often take His gifts for granted. “We never miss the water ‘til the well runs dry.” Praising God for what He has given us takes our minds off worrying about what He hasn’t given. Praising your spouse reminds you how blessed you are that God created marriage and that your spouse wants to share life with you.
Marriage is simpler than we think. This paper explains marriage in only two words!
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Marriage Seminar for a Pastor’s Conference
This page links to a series of messages on teaching effective marriage. It describes the messages and the additional background notes. It gives links to make the material easy to share:
It has the shared folder URL where you can download .doc files. The message showing similarities between salvation and marriage is here:
This paper shows how you can explain both marriage and salvation in one minute
Although the Bible commands older women to teach younger women about men, fathers can also teach their daughters important information to prepare them to be God’s good and perfect gifts to their husbands.
The message about marriage disappearing in the Western world is here:
The introduction:
Please improve it by commenting at the end of the web page.
God expects all of His leaders to lead by serving their followers instead of commanding. God holds leaders accountable for how they lead; He holds followers accountable for how they follow.
After Adam caused the fall, God explained what men and women must know about women to have happy marriages. Most marriage issues are because men haven’t understood God’s lessons how to receive the joy women bring to men who love and appreciate them. This talk takes about 20 minutes:
Everyone knows about weeds so everyone sees how God punished Adam after the fall. This explains how God’s punishments of Eve have affected everyone:
Our entire civilization is based on logic – it underlies mathematics, engineering, the Internet, electricity, and all of our high-tech civilization. None of this can thrive without a reasonably competent government. History shows, however, that too much logic destroys culture:
DRAWING CLOSER TO EACH OTHER BY DRAWING CLOSER TO GOD
God gave many Bible verses to explain what women desire from their husbands. A husband should discuss them with his wife. It’s amazing how God made men and women to think so differently. God made women to help their husbands; her different way of thinking will help him understand the Mind of God.
Exploring God’s Word together will help him dwell according to knowledge of her as God commands (I Pe. 3:7). In drawing closer to God by discussing His Word, they’ll draw closer to each other.
CAUSES OF MARRIAGE PROBLEMS
The root cause of marriage difficulties lies in the difference between head knowledge and heart knowledge. Head knowledge is what we know (2 Tim. 3:7); heart knowledge is what we are (Pr. 27:3). Most Christians have important head knowledge about marriage that hasn’t made its way into their hearts:
God expects a man to love his wife with everything he has without reservation. A wife can’t comfort her husband and bless him as God planned unless she fees appreciated and loved as much as he loves God. Your wife can’t bless you fully as you expect unless you love her with everything you have. This article shows how God expects you to love Him, your wife, and, by extension, others:
It can be hard to keep our faith in God when things go badly wrong. Scripture teaches that Ruth sowed in tears, but she reaped in joy after her husband died and God showed her proof of her faith:
The Conflict Between Logic and Traditional Culture
Traditional culture runs on tradition – we’ve always done it this way, so people don’t think about it much. Adopting western logical modes of thought leads people to question longstanding custom. Logic is essential for operating our complex technical civilization – we need many logical workers climbing poles to fix wires to keep the lights on and the Internet working – but overdoing logic destroys a culture.
This paper explains how the wealth that logic brings destroys a culture:
Fatal Flaws in Fundamentalism
What’s wrong with fundamentalism? Churches tried to agree on 10 or 12 “fundamentals” so they could work together. That was anti-Biblical. Some divide Moses’ law into ceremonial, moral, and judicial. Paul wrote in Gal. 5:3 that Moses’ law is indivisible – anyone who follows it “is a debtor to do the whole law.” He wrote “I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God (Acts 20:27).” Moses’ law is indivisible; how can we declare “all the counsel of God” while focusing on a few fundamentals?
We’re to judge ideas by their fruits. There are literally hundreds of Baptist groups focusing on different lists of “fundamentals.” Regardless of the original idealistic goals, the idea was unfruitful from the beginning and has driven many away from the church.
This article goes into more detail about the foul fruits of the fundamental movement.
Making a Career in Computer Science
Logic is so important to our society in general and to computer science in particular that there’s a free online course which explains how to use logic with facts to reach conclusions.
There are logic exercises in this online folder which can be printed and shared:
Someone who likes the lessons on logic might want to earn a living on computer security. There are two faces of computer security which is also called “cyber security:”
1) Defending applications against cyber attack. Application Security is abbreviated “AppSec.”
2) Trying to break into applications to find vulnerabilities. This is called “penetration testing,” “pen testing,” or “ethical hacking.” People who do this are called “white hats” as opposed to the “back hats” who break in to steal money.
There is high demand for people who understand either face of cyber security. I’ve collected a number of free documents about security, ChatGPT, and other topics in a shared folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cXb_3RkE_jM2PPC0wnXaLgZtLlYjJIqr?usp=sharing
AdvancedPenetrationTesting, LearnPenetrationTesting, and BecomingAPenTestHacker go into detail. Some businesses offer “bug bounty” if you find a new way to break into their application; people make a living doing this and there are online discussion groups. Having a record of being able to break into web sites would be a good way to get hired.
KaiLinuxPenTestingBook describes a special edition of the Linux operating system with penetration tools built into it. Being able to install Linux, configure it, and get the tools working would be a good line item for a resume for a job in system administration (sysadmin) as well as in pen testing.
AutomatedMachineLearning explains how to analyze vast quantities of data to reach computerized conclusions.
MachineLearningAndDataScience introduces machine learning from a different point of view.
Feedback welcome!
Is The Bible True?
Christians will fall away (Thes. 2:2-4[1]) and stop walking in God’s old paths (Jer. 6:16[2]) before the Antichrist is revealed. We fell away from the doctrine of earth being the immovable center of the universe in the 1680s. Galileo’s telescope showed him Jupiter’s moons orbiting Jupiter. He declared that the earth orbits around the sun even though the Bible tells us that the earth cannot be moved (Ps. 93:1[3])!
The ancient Greeks proposed the theory of evolution. That heresy couldn’t get far as long as God’s people understood that God has special love for the earth (Jn. 3:16) and that He put it immovably in the center of the universe. Galileo began the process of seeing the earth as one minor dust mote among billions. That made it easier for Christians to abandon the doctrine of 6-day creation in favor of the evolution heresy.
The Bible has more verses telling us that the earth doesn’t move than verses commanding us to love God! This means everything goes around the earth.
“We know that the difference between a heliocentric (sun-centered) theory and a geocentric (earth-centered) theory is one of relative motion only, and that such a difference has no physical significance.” Sir Fred Hoyle, Astronomy and Cosmology, A Modern Course, (San Francisco, W. H. Freeman & Co., 1975) p 416 [emphasis added]
Astronomers know that all motion is relative, so the idea of what goes around what has no physical meaning. There is no conflictbetween what science says and Scripture saying that the sun goes around the earth. This fact of sciences is explained here:
Scripture tells us that the entire universe revolves around the earth; science says that what goes around what doesn’t matter. We may say that we believe and honor the Word of God with our lips (Mt. 15:8[4]), but do we have enough faith in God to believe His Word in our hearts?
[1] That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. II Thessalonians 2:2-4
[2] Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Jeremiah 6:16
[3] The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. Psalm 93:1
[4] This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. Matthew 15:8
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