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 Deliberate Distortions in SDA’s C le ar Wor d B ible”  [c. 1996, revised 1999, 2002] by Dr. V. Streifling G o d ’s Word i s Sacr e d . Indeed He Himself holds it more sacred than His very Own Name. So the Psalmist declared “For You have magnified your word above All Your Name”. (Ps 138:2) For this reason, God Himself  fo r bid s a ny o ne a d d ing t o or dele t ing from H i s Wo r d , and with fearful consequences—for to do so, one exalts himself above God Himself, who declares “My covenant I will not break, nor alter the Word that has gon e out of My lips”. (Ps 89:34). So He commands us: You shall not add to the Word  which I commanded you, nor take anything from it”. (De 4:2) “Whatever I command…  you shall not add to it, nor take away from it” (De 12:32) “Every Word of God is pure. Do not add to His words, lest He reprove you, and you be  found liar”. (Prov. 30:5+6) “…and All Liars will have their part in the Lake which burns with fire and brimstone” (Rev 21:8) “If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues  that are written in this  book: and if anyone takes away from the words of This Book …God will take away his part from the Book of life, and from the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.” (Rev 22:18+19) In His High Priestly prayer, Jesus interceded with the Father “Sanctify them with Thy Word, Thy Word is Truth” (Jn 17:17). Thus any additions or deletions in His Word  will change i t fr o m Pur e Tr ut h, to less than truth, or even lies. So God’s condemnation against Israel was: “And she hath changed My judgments  into wickedness more than the nations, and My statutes more than the countries around her.” (Ezek 5:6) And his condemna tion of those nations was: “Who changed the Truth of God for a Lie…” (Rom 1:25) Thus when Christ comes for His people ‘who ke ep the commandments of God’, o f necessity they will only be those who have not changed, added to or taken away from His Word, for He has repeatedly warned against doing that! There can be no rationale to justify changing, adding to or deleting from The Word of God, whereby one exalts himself above God Himself.  No—not even if I claim it gives “Fresh insights” “To stimulate a new experience of faith and spiritual growth” (!) for Paul says: “If our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say, Is God unjust Who inflicts wrath?…Certainly not! For then how will God judge the world? For IF the truth of God has increased through my lie to His Glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?” (Rom 3:5-7) Taking God’s view of this into account, we should examine the SDA’s 1994 Clear Word Bible  to note numerous exa mples of just to what extent it has be en distorted through additions, deletions & changes  which are made to support their doctrinal views found in their commentaries and Ellen White’s books. As early as July 1994, this ‘Clear Word Bible’ was even receiving negative reviews by SDA’s own writers, as David Newman, editor of Ministry magazine who named several specific difficulties with it:
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3. Mk 9:44 “..where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched” change +add 

“That fire dies its work as thoroughly as worms eat a dead body or a forest fire burns

trees”.4. Mk 9:45 “To be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched” change +omi t 

“sacrificing eternal life for the fires of hell (____)”.

5. Mk 9:46 “where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched” add +change “As I  said, the lake of fire will do its work as thoroughly as worms eat a dead body or a forest 

 fire burns trees”.

6. Mk 9:48 “..where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched” add +change “Let me say it one more time: placing anything above the kingdom of God will have its

consequences as surely as worms attack a dead body or a forest fire burns trees”.

7. Matt 25:41 “into everlasting hell fire prepared for the devil and his angels” change +add 

“and be consumed by the same fire with will destroy the devil and his angels”.

8. Matt 5:22 “whoever says to his brother ‘you fool’ shall be in danger of hell fire” change 

+add “To go a step further, if you treat someone with contempt, because you think you’re

better than they are, you can never be given eternal life”.

9. Matt 5:29 “than for your whole body to be cast into hell” changed “and lose eternal life”.10. Matt 5:30 “than for your whole body to be cast into hell” changed “than to lose out on

 Heaven later”11. Matt 10:28 “fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell” change +omi t “If 

there is some thing to be concerned about, it’s that you don’t lose your faith in God”.

12. Lk 12:4+5 ‘fear Him who after He has killed, has power to cast into Hell.” Change +omit  “the only one to fear is God, who has power over your body and soul. In the end He can

destroy both (_____)”.

13. Matt 18:9 ‘It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than having two eyes, to be castinto Hell fire.” Add change +omi t “If you have to make a choice, its better not to be great 

in this life, and to live Forever, than to lose your childlike innocence and have everything 

end with this life.”14. Matt 23:33 “How can you escape the condemnation of hell?” change +add “How do you

expect to reap anything except eternal exti nction ?”

15. Rev 14:10 “He shall be tormented* with fire & brimstone” *(Gk ‘basanidzo’—vex with

grevous and conscious pain. Thayer’s lexicon) change “He will be consumed in a burning inferno”

16. Rev 19:20 “These two were cast alive into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone” change 

+omit “The two of them will end up (____) in the lake of fire (____)”.17. Rev 20:10 (1000 yrs later) “cast into the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet

ARE, and they will be tormented* day and night, forever and ever”. change add +omi t  

“was also consumed forever in the lake of fire, together with the beast and the false prophet. They all suffered, and then perished, forever…”

18. Rev 21:8 “…idolaters, and all Liars shall have their part in the Lake which burns with fire

and brimstone, which IS the second death” change, add +omi t “..have had to suffer theconsequences of their sins. They were consumed by the flame of the Lake of fire which WAS the second death”.

 Nb. CWB changes hell from ‘tormented day and night forever and ever’ to forever extinct and 

annihilated by fire just the opposite of the Scripture, by additions, changes & deletions to what

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in the MT in Deuteronomy, where the command against images is part of the first command, and

desiring your neighbor’s wife is a separate command from coveting his goods.

Thus Adventism in their trumped up allegations against Rome are proven to be ‘straining ata gnat’. On the other hand, as compared to these 2 verses which Rome supposedly deleted (but

didn’t), the SDA have added to, changed and deleted from literally hundreds of verses from the

Word of God. In this review we only detailed some 190 to which scores more could beappended, as illustrated in Revelation! In keeping with Jesus words of Matt 23, then SDA has

surely swallowed the camel!

Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount has a very clear word “Judge not that you be not judged. For with the same judgment as you judge others, you also will be judged”. But how Ironic and

unbelievable!—that the SDA church who for 150 years called Rome the “beast” and “man of 

sin” and “antichrist” for what she supposedly did to 2 verses of the Bible, should have in turndone the very same, to hundreds of passages from the Word of God in their own CWB! How

amazing that they, who cried “Wolf!” against Rome, would prove to indeed be “wolves in

sheep’s clothing”!

In Rev 14, one of the 3 Angels messages says “Babylon is fallen” and warns “Come out of 

her my people, so you don’t partake of her plagues”. It is an indisputable fact that Babylon pictures false religion and false religious practices. It’s equally indisputable that God will bring

 judgments of Hell upon those who alter, change, add to or delete from His Word. Any churchthat would do these things, to God’s Holy Word, which even He Himself would not change, is

therefore a part of Babylon the Great, which in the end of this age is FALLEN.

Christian, if you Love Jesus, keep His commandment and “Come out of Her, My People…”