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Updated Friday, June 27, 2008

Wonders about VBS song

I am dumfounded by this one!

Were the writers/editors of this year's Vacation Bible School materials from LifeWay trying (blatantly?) to indoctrinate our children in their ideology? Or was it just ignorance?

The lyrics of the song (click "The Word" at this link) the children were supposed to sing after "I pledge allegiance to the Bible" began like this: "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and was God" (quoting John 1:1 about Jesus).

Then, "Before an eye had seen or an ear had heard there was the word." Seemingly this is an attempt to paraphrase and change John 1:2, carefully avoiding the pronoun He.

John says, "He was in the beginning with God."

Then, without a musical interlude or transition words the song continues. "I know the Bible' is God's word." A mind-boggling error! It says the eternal Word of God was the Bible, not the Son, Jesus our Savior! And sung to a winsome melody to make it stick in children's minds.

Jack Partain

Boiling Springs

 
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