Steven Avery
Administrator
According to Homestead Heritage, the pure and perfect scriptures are nowhere to be found.
In fact, they even insist that there has to be errors in all the Bibles and versions today, in any language. In order to force a type of reliance on ministry (called 'relationship with God') directives and literature. And in order to foster confusion about the identity and integrity of the Bible. Please note that this is rather analogous to views of the Bible expressed in the Roman Catholic Church and in Mormonism.
The following book is printed under the faux byline of Blair Adams (the actual author and assistants are unmentioned) and used internally by Homestead Heritage as a Bible apologetic handbook. I do not know if it has ever been sold through the press to outsiders.
They are trying to partly mask this problem by using the tricky phrase "minor errors". However, Homestead Heritage in daily use simultaneously switches back and forth between alternate and contradictory English versions and Greek texts that include or omit over 40 full verses as scripture, or not! Many of critical importance. Thus, "minor errors" is obvious a smoke-screen. Once you open the door to such supposed "minor errors", you do not have a real Bibliology. And no verse is sure.
Better go the elders for all truth, as the various acceptable corruption versions we have are all contradicting one another.
And if Homestead Heritage does not like a verse or a word, they can now simply say ..
In the Homestead Heritage economy the errors could be … anywhere. No verse is sure. And we have no plumb line, there is only a skewed line.
All this is false, the word of God today is 100% pure and perfect. The weak view they espouse of embracing errors is helpful if a ministry would like to have its members unsure of the word of God. And subject to the temporal textual and translational decisions of an eldership.
How did they get into this mess? The unlearned gentlemen who developed this vapid and erratic Bibliology were unlearned. They did not understand the nature of the Reformation Bible or the clarity and significance of the historic Confessions about the Bible. Instead they relied on the popular liberal views in seminarian scholarship. They followed liberal and errant Bible text philosophies and then tried to tweak those into Homestead Heritage literature. In so doing, they often made rather glaring blunders in scholarship as well.
In fact, they even insist that there has to be errors in all the Bibles and versions today, in any language. In order to force a type of reliance on ministry (called 'relationship with God') directives and literature. And in order to foster confusion about the identity and integrity of the Bible. Please note that this is rather analogous to views of the Bible expressed in the Roman Catholic Church and in Mormonism.
The following book is printed under the faux byline of Blair Adams (the actual author and assistants are unmentioned) and used internally by Homestead Heritage as a Bible apologetic handbook. I do not know if it has ever been sold through the press to outsiders.
Homestead Heritage is saying there is no perfect word of God today. Homestead Heritage is de facto claiming that there is not, and cannot be, a pure, error-free infallible Bible, inspired and preserved. Ironically, and sadly, they are directly denying their own historical position that the Bible is our perfect plumb line of faith.The Bible
Is it or Is It Not God’s Word and the Divine Measure of Truth for Human Lives? - 2006 Edition
Question 3
“ … copyist and similar errors may appear, but there are enough manuscripts to ensure that the Holy Spirit can lead us to the correct copy and why would God ever want to give us a Word so completely free of such minor errors that we could rely on it apart from relationship with God?” - p. 93
They are trying to partly mask this problem by using the tricky phrase "minor errors". However, Homestead Heritage in daily use simultaneously switches back and forth between alternate and contradictory English versions and Greek texts that include or omit over 40 full verses as scripture, or not! Many of critical importance. Thus, "minor errors" is obvious a smoke-screen. Once you open the door to such supposed "minor errors", you do not have a real Bibliology. And no verse is sure.
Better go the elders for all truth, as the various acceptable corruption versions we have are all contradicting one another.
And if Homestead Heritage does not like a verse or a word, they can now simply say ..
Is this Bible belief? I trow not.oh, we know that this is one of the minor errors, listen to us, do not trust your Authorized Version, do not trust your Greek New Testament, our anointed ministry will tell you what is error-free. And please, do not notice our errors in writing and speaking about the Bible, we really are anointed and our views should be received as perfect.
In the Homestead Heritage economy the errors could be … anywhere. No verse is sure. And we have no plumb line, there is only a skewed line.
All this is false, the word of God today is 100% pure and perfect. The weak view they espouse of embracing errors is helpful if a ministry would like to have its members unsure of the word of God. And subject to the temporal textual and translational decisions of an eldership.
How did they get into this mess? The unlearned gentlemen who developed this vapid and erratic Bibliology were unlearned. They did not understand the nature of the Reformation Bible or the clarity and significance of the historic Confessions about the Bible. Instead they relied on the popular liberal views in seminarian scholarship. They followed liberal and errant Bible text philosophies and then tried to tweak those into Homestead Heritage literature. In so doing, they often made rather glaring blunders in scholarship as well.