Power for Abundant Living

The Translations of the Word of Godwhen a new paragraph should begin. Sometimes translatorsfail to recognize proper subject division. Centerreferences, which run down a long column in the centerof each page, tell what the editors think has someconnection with that verse. Sometimes they are right,sometimes they are' wrong. All these markings havebeen added and they can confuse the average newstudent in the Bible because he may think they havebeen given by God Himself.God gave the original Word. He is not at all responsiblefor the errors that men have introduced by theirchapter headings or by their center references or bytheir paragraph markings. Man made all those mistakes.Punctuation is another man-made trickery. If youwant the Bible to say something to substantiate yourtheology, all you have to do is to manipulate thepunctuation. The Word of God can be made to saysomething that it does not really say by just puttingin a comma. Each translator followed his own plan orhis own pattern which makes all punctuation devoidof divine authority.Let us observe the punctuation in the book of Luke.Luke 23:43:And Jesus said unto him [the malefactor],133