The Bible and Mind Control

When they want you to think it says something it doesn’t.

I sometimes jokingly sound conspiratorial, dropping a line like “That’s what THEY want you to think!” or “But THEY’LL never tell you that!” when “THEY” are a secret powerful cabal that wants to control what we think. We can’t prove “THEY” exist, but nobody can really prove they don’t.

But I found a form of subtle indoctrination in a place I hadn’t thought of before.

I’ve begun a project that involves reading the Bible through fresh eyes. And I noticed something at BibleGateway.com. The site is doing nothing wrong, but it exposes a dubious practice.

I’m not qualified to judge the quality of the various translations, but there is something I will judge: the editorial decision on the part of the translators or the original publishers to add headings to Biblical passages.

As an example, I’ll use Genesis Chapter 3, the famous account of the man and woman (later revealed to have the names Adam and Eve) in the Garden of Eden eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

In four versions: New International Version, English Standard Version, Modern English Version, and Lexham English Bible, the chapter is led off with a heading: “The Fall.”

In none of those translations, however, does the word “fall,” “fallen,” or “fell” appear in the text.