Featured Corrupted Translation?

Here are some of the modern translations of Luke 1:37:
ESV - For nothing will be impossible with God.”
NASB - “For nothing will be impossible with God.”
NIV - For no word from God will ever fail.”

Or

Nothing with every declaration of God will be impossible.

The question is how did the text get altered to say nothing will be impossible with God, rather than nothing God declares will be impossible?

Here are the modern translations that present the actual idea:
NIV, NLT, BSB, ASV, D-RB, ERV, WNT, and WEB. All the rest present an alternate idea.

If you take the meaning of "rhema" as "thing", then every "rhema" (declaration) becomes "every thing."

 

Every "thing" corrupts the message, expanding it way beyond the intended scope. We are not looking for the "broad" way but for the narrow way that leads to life.

 

Hi Mikoo,

The KJV translates "no declaration" as "nothing."
YLT translates "no declaration as "nothing."
NASB95 footnotes "nothing" as literally "not any word."

But if we consider the context, this sentence addresses the fact (Luke 1:13) that God had declared Elizabeth would give birth even though she was beyond the normal age for conception.

So "Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren because no declaration of God is impossible, and God had declared she would conceive in Luke 1:13..

 

Right, every place "rhema" is translated as "thing" is a poor translation and when coupled with a positive (any, all, every) or negative (nothing, no thing) the resulting expansion is a corruption.

 

No, both statements do not mean the same thing. Full Stop.

We should understand what scripture actually says, not what we could read into it if we had an agenda.

Scripture does not say Nothing is impossible with God, but it does say what ever God says He will do, He can and will do it.

Having the power and authority to do something in no way suggests God has chosen to do it. I could say God has put invisible pink elephants in orbit around Mars. You say wait a minute. And I say, show me in scripture where it says God does not have the power and authority to do it!!!

 

Did I say you were talking about invisible pink elephants? Nope. Please address what I actually say!

You claim "nothing is impossible" does not expand the scope of a claim "no declaration of God is impossible."

Can God change His immutable attributes? After all, nothing is impossible with God.

 

Did I say you were talking about invisible pink elephants? Nope Stop wasting posts with falsehoods.
I answered your question several times. Why are you wasting posts with falsehoods.

 

Thanks,

 

All things, everything, anything, nothing and such expressions leave open the interpretation that more is included then actually intended by God. When you see such terms, look carefully at the immediate context and see if you can determine what things are actually in view. In Luke 1:37, only the statements or declarations (rhema) of God are in view, not everything imaginable.

In 1 Corinthians 2:14, "the things" of the Spirit of God does not refer to all the things, but only the spiritual solid food (meat) things. However a whole false doctrine has been built partially on the erroneous interpretation that the things means all the things.

There are many opportunities for the Bible student of go astray in his or her understanding of the text by inadvertently expanding the intended scope of an ambiguous phrase or word. A question we should all keep in mind is "what is the least God is saying."

For "the things" which might mean all the things or only some of the things, such discernment might of kept many a believer on the straight and narrow.

 

For example, when we see "with God all things are possible" (Matthew 19:26) it might be more accurately and contextually translated as "with God all salvations are possible."

Note that in the prior verse, the question is asked, who can be saved? And then the answer, with people "this" is impossible, but with God all "things" are possible.

However, "things" is not in the text, it just reads with God all are possible. So the question leaps from the page, "all what?" And looking back at the sentence structure we see "this" referring to salvation.