The head of the Roman Catholic Church is talking about changing one of the best-known and most widely recited passages of scripture.
The Lord’s Prayer is recited by millions of Catholics and Protestants every day across the globe. But the pope is open to changing the Lord’s Prayer. The line he has a problem with is: “And lead us not into temptation” – and he suggests, for the sake of theological clarity, that a better translation might be something along the lines of: “Do not let us fall into temptation.”
“This is not a good translation,” the pontiff said. “It is not he that pushes me into temptation and then sees how I fall. A father does not do this. A father quickly helps those who are provoked into Satan’s temptation.” Francis indicated this, or a similar translation, should be implemented worldwide.
“What the pope has done here is very, very dangerous and is really quite breathtaking in its hubris,” says Dr. Richard Land, the president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary.
“I looked it up,” Land continues, “and what is translated is what is actually said by Jesus in the New Testament: ‘Do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from evil.’”
James 1:13 teaches that God is not the author of temptation. “I understand the Pope’s concern, [but] I just am horrified by his solution,” Land offers. “You interpret the Bible with the Bible.”
The prayer asks “the Lord to protect us… so that we don’t come into the path of temptation; and if we do, to deliver us from the wiles and the treachery of the evil one.”
“When you start thinking that you can change the very words that Jesus spoke to his disciples, then what can’t you change?” he asks. “This strikes at the bedrock of the Christian faith.”
The popes remarks should not be a surprise for the Christian who thinks that the Catholic Church can change the word of God at will. After all, they claim authority over the Bible because they changed the Sabbath to Sunday, which most Christians now observe. If the pope can the change the Sabbath, which is in the Ten Commandments, what is to stop him from changing anything he wants.
“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” Daniel 7:25.
Comments
Morton Masinino
Friday December 15th, 2017 at 05:16 PMVery true.The Pope claims to be the vicer of Christ and so he can do anything. We can’t be surprised one to worry is a Sunday keeper and not us the worry must be to Pentecostal pasotrs for they claim to worship God on a day they don’t know and wherever the day came from
Walton
Saturday December 16th, 2017 at 11:51 AM“Our Father [in the Vatican]??? Will that be the next level down the slippery slope of human arrogance?
Henry Taylor
Saturday December 16th, 2017 at 03:00 PMDeuteronomy 4:2 “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.”
Revelation 22:18, 19, 20 “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. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen.
Even so, come Lord Jesus.”
Vanessa Cunningham
Thursday February 8th, 2018 at 12:45 PMMr. Taylor, I FULLY AGREE…. PEOPLE GET READY for they are the SEAT OF THE DEVIL, AND ALL ALL ALL WHO ENTER IN ARE THEIRS TO COMMAND they do it willingly thinking or saying they didn’t really know but they do they all do…. Because GOD GAVE US ALL CHOICES….. FREE WILL….AMEN
Brian Johnson
Saturday December 16th, 2017 at 09:23 PMWe don’t know the Popes intentions. We do know the words of the Lord. No man should think to change God’s word. This elevates people above the Divine. This is not a good place to be. Rather practice what Micah 6:8 says and out walk with God and others will be on a more solid foundation.
Angeline Neimam
Tuesday August 27th, 2019 at 09:51 PMThis is wrong we got this Pope bowing down to Muslims kissing their feet and now he wants to change the Lord’s word you can’t do that the Lord’s word is the Lord’s word it’s not the Pope’s word or the Pope’s interpretation Des Pope needs to be ousted from the Catholic Church
Angeline Neimam
Tuesday August 27th, 2019 at 09:55 PMIt’s called the Lord’s prayer. It’s not the pips prayer., NOT EVEN THE POPE CAN CHANGE GODS WORD.