“Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.” — John 5:39
One reference is named, and two passages stand side by side — Witness A and Witness B. They almost sound the same, but only one is the true King James text: the other carries one small change — a word swapped, a number altered, a name exchanged, two words turned around, or a word left out. Tap the true witness. “…in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.” — Matthew 18:16
Beloved themes — Heaven, Prayer, Love, Faith — and the stranger comes from a far country, testifying to something else entirely. Light and easy, for the youngest soldiers: learn to know a true witness by its testimony.
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Play this level ›The standard themes of the preacher’s working vocabulary — the Door, the Kingdom of God, the Wrath of God — and the stranger is drawn from a different topic altogether. A substantial step up: the verses stand nearer now, and you must listen to what each one actually says.
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Play this level ›Working themes, and the stranger stands in the same neighbourhood — drawn from a key right beside the one named. You must know the testimony itself, not just the country it comes from.
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Play this level ›Fine-grained themes, and the stranger is a near neighbour, often out of the very same book — judgment and wrath and vengeance wearing one another’s coats. Rather difficult: only the words themselves will tell you which witness is true.
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Play this level ›Another scale entirely. The most particular keys in the bank, and the stranger breathes the same air — same family, same book, sometimes the same chapter — yet it does not testify to this theme. Even famous verses will try to claim a theme they do not carry. Name the true witness.
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