The problem occurred in the translation from the manu.to the printing of the Bible. This was the mistake of a sleepy scribe.
Oh really? That's strange because according to God, His Words will stnad forever. According to the Bible, God's words won't be corrupted. They won't be lost.
According to Isaiah 40:8,
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever."
Isaiah 40:8.
So if thousands errors have crept into the Bible then where is the unerring word of God which we have been promised?
Besides having hundreds of Contradictions I have documented myself, the majority of reputable Christian scholars acknowledge that thousands of errors exist. (For an example of their comments, see below).
Christian scholar, Kenneth Cragg, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, says:
"...Not so the New testament...There is condensation and editing; there is choice reproduction and witness. The Gospels have come through the mind of the church behind the authors. They represent experience and history..."
"The Call of the Minaret," Kenneth Cragg, p 277
"It is well known that the primitive Christian Gospel was initially transmitted by word of mouth and that this oral tradition resulted in variant reporting of word and deed. It is equally true that when the Christian record was committed to writing it continued to be the subject of verbal variation. Involuntary and intentional, at the hands of scribes and editors"
Peake's Commentary on the Bible, p. 633
"Yet, as a matter of fact, every book of the New Testament with the exception of the four great Epistles of St. Paul is at present more or less the subject of controversy, and interpolations are asserted even in these."
Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 12th Ed. Vol. 3, p. 643
Dr. Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin Von Tischendorf, one of the most adamant conservative Christian defenders of the Trinity was himself driven to admit that:
"[the New Testament had] in many passages undergone such serious modification of meaning as to leave us in painful uncertainty as to what the Apostles had actually written"
Secrets of Mount Sinai, James Bentley, p. 117
After listing many examples of contradictory statements in the Bible, Dr. Frederic Kenyon says:
"Besides the larger discrepancies, such as these, there is scarcely a verse in which there is not some variation of phrase in some copies [of the ancient manuscripts from which the Bible has been collected]. No one can say that these additions or omissions or alterations are matters of mere indifference"
Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts, Dr. Frederic Kenyon, Eyre and Spottiswoode, p. 3
So here's my question for you. You admit that there are small "tittles and jolts" that exist in the Bible. How do you know that there aren't "tittles and jolts" in the more important beliefs of Christianity? That is, if you can't trust the Bible on the small details, why do you trust it with the big ones?
If you gave a man a dollar and asked for change and received back 3 quarters, would you trust that man with your life savings?
Matthew 11:13-14,17:13 (Elias is John the Baptist)
John 1:21 (Elias is not John the Baptist)
Luke 3:23-31 + Romans 1:3 ("according to the flesh" 41 men between Jesus and David)
Matthew 1:6-16 + Romans 1:3 ("according to the flesh" 26 men between Jesus and David)
Numbers 33:38-42 Aaron died on Mount Hor. After Aaron's death, the Israelites journeyed from mount Hor, to Zalmonah, to Punon, ... etc. Deuteronomy 10:6-7 Aaron died in Mosera. After Aaron's death, the Israelites journeyed from Mosera, to Gudgodah to Jotbath.
According to,
Matthew 19:26 with God all things are possible.
Mark 10:27 with God all things are possible.
However, we find in
Judges 1:19 "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drove out [the inhabitants of] the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron."
(If I sit in my "iron" train or submarine, will God be powerless against me?) So is God limited in his abilities?
You may be able to accept the Bible knowingly with "tittles and jolts" here and there but I have a problem with it. I don't think God's words should have errors. Man's words do.
May the Peace and Blessings of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful, Be Upon You,
Ray |
