Both previous breads notable about Lords Prayer.
My thoughts on this change and motivations behind the change.
1st and foremost, God is real.
The bible is real but has been altered in the past to achieve a specific goal.
What might that goal be?
What is the bible and how/why is it used?
What is being changed?
> The Lord's Prayer
Our Father, which art in heaven
> God resides in heaven
> Heaven being a realm hidden from our understanding thus forcing those who choose to believe to do so on faith alone.
Hallowed be thy Name.
> God's name is sacred.
>To speak the lord's name is to declare a power greater than yourself.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
> the Lord will return and reign over this early realm creating heaven on earth.
Give us this day our daily bread.
> Keep us full. Full of wisdom and understanding as to keep us strong in the face of evil.
And forgive us our trespasses,
> We are all sinners in need of deliverance.
> We recognize we give in to evil when we are weak and we're asking for forgiveness.
> The Lord knows our desires, however, we must declare our sins and all for forgiveness of our own free will.
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
> We are sinners as is all of God's children.
> We understand, like ourselves, that the son of man will commit sins against us and we hope God forgives them.
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil.
> Temptation = evil
> Like God, evil is real and ever present
> We recognize it's existence and accept: "if we commit a sin, we do so of our own free will. God is not responsible for our sins."
> If God isn't responsible, why send his son to earth to die for us, washing away our sins?
For thine is the kingdom,
The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever
> The kingdom of heaven is God's and God's alone.
> God's power and glory is unrivaled yet administered with the gentlest of hands
Amen
And lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil.
I understands this portion to be the key to the entire prayer.
Why?
What is this section teaching us?
> God is real
> evil is real
Define temptation.
This portion teaches us that evil is real but, through the grace of God, we can be saved.
Try he might, satan cannot overpower the Lord.
do not let us fall into temptation
The suggested change takes the responsibility for sin away from us and places it back on God.
> almost as if God allowed sin to exist and, thusly so, ultimately responsible when we sin.
This strips God of his power and devalues the love of God as our deliverance is no longer predicated on us accepting our transgressions and asking for forgiveness.
Why this change and why now?
Consider our future.
A small change now
Made under the cover of night
Grows over the years.
Our children's children will be taught that God allows sin and if we "fall into" sin, God not only allowed it but condones/encourages.
Sin/evil/depravity wil becomes the norm.
This is part of the agenda.
To devalue the impact of sin on our spirit.
It is my opinion that this is not the first time the bible has been altered.
Over the years, minor changes are made that change the context all to inch closer to an existence where God had no power.