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Is Amos 8:11 referring to supernatural changes in scripture?

  You often hear people who say that scripture is being supernatural changed refer to Amos 8:11.  They believe this scripture is evidence of scripture being supernaturally changed.  They say this famine is being caused by the devil systematically taking away words and changing familiar passages of scripture such as the Lion and the Lamb from Isaiah 11:6-9, rather than the wolf and the lamb shall lie down together.  Most people see this as a minor case of misremembering scripture, but proponents of the belief in supernatural changes believe that the scriptures are being supernaturally changed by mysterious external forces such as CERN and other scientific anomalies.  This belief, although not biblical, is held religiously by most of these new Bible critics.  Some have even gone so far as to call the Bible an idol since Jesus is the living word rather than words on pages.  What was Amos talking about in chapter 8? To gain deeper insight into a challenging message, it's beneficial to