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NASB | Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 1:1 This is the revelation of Jesus Christ [His unveiling of the divine mysteries], which God [the Father] gave to Him to show to His bond-servants (believers) the things which must soon take place [in their entirety]; and He sent and communicated it by His angel (divine messenger) to His bond-servant John, |
Bible Question: I agree that the whole bible is inspired by god, but to make every word equal to jesus christ testimony no way.Jesus was with god before he came to the earth. John the baptist testified in the gospel of john 3:31 that what comes from above is above all, for he whom God has sent speaks the words of God.Jesus said in John 5:39 you search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life it is these that testify about me and you are unwilling to come to me so that you may have life, I do not recieve glory from men. |
Bible Answer: Years ago I came to the conclusion that any effort to separate the Scriptures into essential parts and non-essential parts is futile, fatuous and inane. It's as pointless as trying to assign different values to links in a chain. God inspired all Scripture (2 Timothy 3:16), and the product of His inspiration is a divinely woven fabric, complete and perfect, that does not lend itself well at all to the severely limited and bumbling efforts of human beings to make a "qualitative analysis" of the relative importance of various passages of Scripture. Better by far to read and study all of God's word as it is written and forget about what's important and what's not: All of it is important God inspired it all and therefore all of it is important. Since all of it is the word of God, all of it is likewise essential. Who are we to suggest otherwise or assign degrees of importance to God's holy book? Black, red, green or blue, it's the words that count, not their hue! --Hank |