Mara Reid

Tom: “How much more plain must God be?”

God is plain on a lot of things. His overall themes and commands are clear and understandable.

The problem comes when men put their fingerprints all over God’s Word, smearing and muddying and sometimes even changing the meaning, then calling those changes God’s will or God’s preference, or even God’s laws.

Male translators translate from their own crooked hearts and prejudices against women.
http://journalofanezer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/bible-verses-corrupted-by-misogynists.html

One thing done in Ephesians five, as Cheryl pointed out, is that translators sever verse 21 from 22 thus gutting 22 of it’s verb, “submit” but then they go ahead and add to scripture by putting the word submit in verse 22 where is doesn’t occur thereby doing violence to the text.
(?emember what Revelation said about adding to God’s word? Yet men believe they are justified in doing so because they want the best seats in homes and churches.)

The traditions of men further skew the meaning when they determine that the words of Paul carry more weight in understanding God’s will and preference and purpose than the words of Jesus Christ, Himself.

They take the words of Paul and build those words on the foundation of sand of the traditions of men rather than on the bedrock of the words of Jesus Christ.

Jesus was very plain and very clear. It is men who have twisted and contorted Paul’s words to undermine what Jesus said.
Remember, Peter said that Paul was not always clear or understandable. Yet men are ready to throw the words of Jesus under the bus in order to worship and serve the words of Paul that they have interpreted after the wickedness of their own hearts.