World War 3 is at Hand
While we wait for Iran's annihilation and its regime change to start World War 3, let's check our own Christian faith, doctrine and knowledge of Him and His words.
Gen 3:2-3 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.' "
When God created Adam and Eve in His image, they only have to obey His words to have eternal life and stay in fellowship with Him.
Keep My Words and Live
Prov 7:1-2 My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye.
It is the will of God from the very beginning that men believe and keep His words to be saved and enjoy the abundant life.
To prevent men from being saved, Satan started to corrupt the word of God starting from within the garden of Eden itself and making the truth in His words ineffective .
Deceptions of Eve
Gen 3:4-5 Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
The devil twisted God's command to deceive Eve. With a more logical and beneficial proposal, it changed her attitude of distaste and dislike to that of admiration for the forbidden fruit leading to her downfall.
Gen 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Falsehood of Scribes
Jer 8:8 "How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us'? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood."
Later, the Devil used false scribes to corrupt His words. The Torah and Prophets were often distorted by the devil to deceive the Jews and the Priesthood. All detected flawed copies were to be burned, destroyed or banned.
Satan also sent the false prophets to confuse them and even the priests were lawless. Unfortunately, the Jews loved the lies and deceptions, which is similar to today's carnal and unlearned Christians.
Jer 5:30-31 "An astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land: The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own power; and My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?"
Prophets sent by God
Jer 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
But God sent His true prophets to admonish, judge and rectify these corruptions. So the many rejects (false and erred scriptures) were to be burned, destroyed or banned. Unfortunately, these rejected erred scriptures are kept as religious relics and later used by depraved and heretic Jews and non Jewish historians (agents of Satan) to corrupt His pure words.
Canonised Books of the Old Testament
It seems that as far back as Erza and Nehemiah, the 39 books of the OT were being canonised until about the 3rd Century BC.
These are some of the rejected false and demonic Old Testament books.
Book of Enoch
The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan
The Secrets of Enoch
The Psalms of Solomon
The Odes of Solomon
The Letter of Aristeas
The Story of Ahikar
Translation of Old Testament
God preserved His pure words by getting the Old Testament written in the fading Hebrew language into Greek for common Jews then no longer understood Hebrew.
The Greek Pharaoh of Egypt Ptolemy II commissioned the translation of the Old Testament into Greek in the third century BC. The translation was done by 72 Jewish scholars from Jerusalem, and is known as the Septuagint, which is Latin for "seventy".
The Septuagint was used to translate the Old Testament into other languages for over two thousand years. It was widely used by Greek-speaking Jews, and later by Christians.