From: theirony2013@gmail.com   
      
      
      
   Manipulating language itself would be a   
   far more effective and subtle form of   
   deception than altering texts, and it   
   fits both human history and the Bible’s   
   own warnings. Language naturally drifts   
   over time: words change meaning, metaphors   
   harden into literal claims, and technical   
   terms acquire emotional or political   
   weight. A long-lived deceiver would not   
   need to rewrite Scripture if the surrounding   
   language slowly shifts how key ideas are   
   heard—words like faith, belief, saved, world,   
   forever, spirit, or Lord already mean very   
   different things today than they did in   
   ancient contexts. The Bible repeatedly frames   
   deception as operating through speech,   
   persuasion, and framing (“smooth talk,” “itching   
   ears,” “empty words”), not through textual sabotage.   
   This also aligns with the serpent’s method in   
   Genesis: no lies about vocabulary, only subtle   
   reframing of meaning. In that sense, the most   
   powerful manipulation is not changing what the   
   text says, but changing what people think the   
   words mean—because once language shifts, sincere   
   readers can arrive at confident conclusions the   
   original authors never intended, without anyone   
   ever touching the text itself.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)