Nowhere does the Bible threaten to erase people's names from the book of life.
The idea that Revelation 22:19 teaches this is based on a scribal error in some copies of Jerome's Latin Bible (A.D. 382–405). In 1516, with pressure to beat others into print and lacking a complete Greek manuscript of the book of Revelation, Desiderius Erasmus simply made up his own Greek text by translating this erring Latin manuscript into Greek. Pope Clement VIII made an erring Latin text the official Bible of the Catholic Church in 1592, until it was corrected following Vatican II.
But Revelation 3:5 promises that true Christians will never have their names blotted out of the Book of Life. The powerful Greek double negative Jesus uses there is the same one he used in John 6:37, when he promised he would never cast out anyone who came to him.
Revelation 17:8 states that our names were written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world. In other words, we do not write our names there, God the Father did that before the worlds began.
Revelation 20:11-15 mentions the Book of Life twice. From there we learn that no one is good enough to escape hell. People's thoughts, words, and deeds are recorded against them (Revelation 20:12), and everyone will be cast into the Lake of Fire, except for those whose names are recorded in the Book of Life (Revelation 20:15).
Revelation 21:27 states clearly that the only people who will enter heaven are those whose names are in that book.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
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