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The following messages (about 20 of them) are all parts of a file
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of contradictions and curious things in the Old and New Testaments.
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It was written by a friend of mine several years ago. I've taken
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it from the WordPerfect file it was originally in, but there are some
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characters that may have been obliterated, particularly some of the
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verse and chapter numbers. In a few cases, I have put a bracketed
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note with question marks; in others, I left the original mangled
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character. I encourage people to look at all the verses first in
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order to appreciate the original verse.
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I found as I was typing this and reading it that I was getting angry:
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there are thousands of people who want us to be good christians and
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believe as they do, and they have no idea what they believe, only
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that It's All True.
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"Every word of God proves true." says the Bible, Proverbs 30:5.
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KJ version). Is the Bible, then, entirely the word of God? Does
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every word prove true? Also, is the traditional King James (KJ)
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bible an inspired translation, literal, infallable, down to every
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jot and tittle, as some denominations have claimed?
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Consider the following. and decide....
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CONTRADICTIONS
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(This first item is apparent in the KJ version. but much clearer
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in other translations, such as the New American Bible.)
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At least two Creation stories appear in the Bible, and they
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disagree. The first is in Genesis 1:1 to 2:3, the second in the
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remainder of Chapter 2.
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In the first version, God (Elohim in the manuscripts)
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created men & women on the same day (1:27). subsequent to the
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creation of all animals (1:25). In the second version, God
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(Jehovah) created Adam first (2:7). then animals & birds (2:19).
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then Eve (2:22). In the first version. trees appeared before man
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(1:11): in the second. the world was barren of vegetation at the
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time of man's creation (2:5). and plantlife was created later
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(2:8-9).
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Compare these with Genesis 5:1-2, a third creation story,
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which strongly suggests the simultaneous creation of man & woman.
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It states that at the time of the creation of men and women. God
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blessed them and called them "man" (in the Hebrew text, adam).
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Most translators and Bible scholars candidly admit the
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differences in the Creation stories. and call the first two the
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Priestly and the Yahwehist versions. (In particular, see the New
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American Bible and its fine commentary.) The versions differ
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strongly in texture and language as #ell as content. ln some
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translations, however, verb tenses are subtly altered to conceal
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the problems.
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(This item is clearest in the New International Bible and the
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Revised KJ Bible.)
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Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim (9iants) lived on earth prior
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to the Flood.
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Genesis 7:23 Only Noah and his family, and the animals
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on the Ark, survived the Flood.
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Numbers 13:33 Long after the Flood, the Nephilim
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(Giants) still lived.
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Genesis 9:3-4 God makes a covenant with Noah: Mankind will
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be permitted to eat the flesh of any living creature, as long as
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the blood is drained.
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Deuteronomy 14:7-20 God goes back on his word.
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Genesis 11:1,6-9 In the days of Babel, generations after the
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Flood, the world had one common language. God "confused the
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tongues" to create many.
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Genesis 10:5 Prior to this. the Bible speaks of many
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"nations", each with its own language.
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Some apologists suggest the Babel story was a "flashback";
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the events in Genesis 11:1-9 actually occured prior to those in
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Genesis 10:5. It's possible, but nothing in the source
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manuscripts support it. The narrative link at the beginning of
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Chapter 11 is the same which elsewhere is translated as "and",
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and invaribly implies a normal sucession of events.
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Exodus 4:11 God admitted He is the cause of blindness.
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deafness. dumbness.
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Isaiah 53:2 It is sometimes God's will to crush people
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or to cause them to suffer.
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Lamentations 3:33 Yet, God does not willingly cause
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grief or affliction.
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(In the KJ version:)
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Genesis 15:13.16 God fortold the enslavement of the
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descendants of Abram (Abraham). but said they would return in the
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"fourth generation".
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The return actually occured in the fifth generation--or the
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sixth. if you wish to count Abraham. The generations were: 1.
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Abraham: 2. Isaac (Gen 21:3): 3. Levi (Ex 1:3); 4. Kohath (Ex
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6:16); 5. Aram (Ex 6:18): 6. Moses (Ex 6:20).
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Genesis 11:26.32 Terah lived 135 years after begetting
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Abraham. Acts 7:4
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Abraham departed Haran when his father (Terah) was dead.
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Genesis 12:4
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Abraham was 75 years old when he departed Haran. Thus,
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after living 135 years. Abraham was only 75 years old!
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(In the KJ version:)
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Genesis 23:1 God tempted Abraham.
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James 1:13 God tempts no one.
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Who brought Joseph to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, the
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courtier of Pharaoh?
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Genesis 37:38,36 The Midianites.
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Geneis 39:1 The Ishmaelites.
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Exodus 3:10. 4:19-23 God sent Moses to Egypt to speak to
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Pharaoh.
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Exodus 4:24-26 God immediately and arbitrarily attempted to
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kill Moses before Moses could carry out the mission. No
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explanation provided.
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Exodus 9:3-6 God killed all the cattle (field animals) of
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the Egyptians with a grevious murrain. including the horses.
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asses, camels, oxen and sheep. None survived the plague.
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Exodus 9:19-21,25 Later. at least some of the Egyptian field
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animals were mysteriously alive again, to suffer a plague of
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hail.
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Exodus 6:2-3 God informed Moses that previousiy His name
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(Jehovah) had been unknown even to the patriarchs. such as
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Abraham. Isaac and Jacob.
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Genesis 4:26 long before this. men began to call on the
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name of the Lord, "Jehovah".
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Genesis 22:14 Abraham named a place Jehovah-jireh. "The
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Lord will provide."
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Note: In each passage in the Pentateuch manuscripts. the
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name given is Yod-He-Vau-He, YHVH. generally interpreted as
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"Yahweh", "Yehovah" or "Jehovah".
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Exodus 20:4 Image-making forbidden.
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Exodus 25:18 Commanded.
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Exodus 20:13 Murder forbidden.
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Exodus 23:27 Commanded.
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Exodus 20:15 Stealing forbidden.
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Exodus 3:21-22 Commanded.
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Exodus 20:16 Lying forbidden.
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I Kings 22:20 Commanded.
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Leviticus 11:6 The Bible maintains that hares chew cud,
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like cows.
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leviticus 11:21-23 Also, that locusts. beetles and
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grasshoppers have four legs.
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Leviticus 3:17, 11:1-47 God gave many rules about what
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may be eaten or handled.
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Colossians 2:21-22 Such rules come from man, not God.
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Leviticus 19:15 You must judge your neighbor.
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Matthew 7:1 Judge not.
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(In the KJ version:)
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Numbers 23:19; I Samuel 15:29 God does not repent.
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Genesis 6:6; Exodus 32:14: I Samuel 15:11.35: Psalms 42:10:
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Jonah 3:10 God does repent.
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Numbers 23:19: Titus 1:2 God cannot lie.
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I Kings 22:20-30: II Chronicles 18:19-22 God
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deliberately sent a "lying spirit" into the mouth of Ahab's
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prophets.
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II Thessalonians 2:11-12 God sends delusions on people to
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make them believe false things and be damned.
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Ezekiel 13:9. 14:9 The Lord deceives prophets (puts false
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words into their mouths) in order to get rid of them.
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Numbers 31:7.9,15-18 The Israelites slew all the
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Midianites. except some of the female children.
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Judges 6:1.5 Later. the Midianites invaded the
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Israelites.
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Numbers 33:37-42 Aaron died on Mount Hor, on the border of
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Edom. Immediately thereafter. the Israelites went to Zalmonah
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and Punon.
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Deuteronomy 10:6-7 Aaron died in Moserah. Right after that,
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the Israelites traveled to Gudgodah and Jotbathah. (See also
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Deut 32:50.)
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Deuteronomy 6:5: Matthew 22:37 We must love God.
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Deuteronomy 6:13: I Peter 2:17 We must fear God.
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I John 4:18 Perfect love cannot be mingled with fear.
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Who inscribed the Ten Commandments on the second set of
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stone tablets?
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Deuteronomy 10:1-2.4 God inscribed them.
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Exodus 34:27-28 God dictated whiie Moses inscribed them.
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Joshua 8:28 Joshua burnt the city of Ai, making it an
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ash heap forever.
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Nehemiah 7:32 Ai still exists as a city.
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Joshua 10:38-39 Joshua utterly destroyed the inhabitants of
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Debir; he did not leave a living soul.
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Joshua 15:15,17; Judges 1:1,11,13 Othniel the son of Kenaz
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conquored Debar. It's evident that this was after Joshua's
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death.
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Judges 4:21 Jael killed Sisera by driving a tent stake
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through his head while he slept, fastening his head to the
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ground.
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Judges 5:26-27 When Jael killed Sisera. he sank to the
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ground at her feet. and died.
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I Samuel 15:7-8,20 Saul completely destroyed the
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Amalekites.
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I Samuel 27:8-9 Then David completely destroyed the
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Amalekites.
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I Samuel 30:1-2,17 Later, David destroyed a raiding
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party of Amalekites. Only 400 men escaped.
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I Chronicles 4:42-43 Finally the Simeonites killed all
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the Amalekites.
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I Samuel 16:10.11 Jesse had seven sons besides his
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youngest, David.
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I Chronicles 2:13-15 David was the seventh son.
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How did King Saul become acquainted with David? Two
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contradictory accounts:
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I Samuel 16:18-23 Saul met David when David entered Saul's
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servce as a royal harper. David was a warrior. A servant
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informed Saul of the identity of David's father. Thereafter
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David remained in Saul's service as both harper and armor bearer.
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I Samuel 17:14-15,26,31-32,55-56, 18:1-2 David was a
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shepherd, and unlike his brothers did not follow Saul to war.
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Saul sent for him. having heard that David was asking about the
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reward for killing Goliath. Saul did not know the identity of
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David's father, and had to ask. Thereafter David remained in
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Saul's service and did not return home.
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I Samuel 28:6 Saul attempted to consult the Lord.
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I Chronicles 10:13-14 Saul did no such thing.
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How did King Saul die?
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I Samuel 31:4-6: I Chronicles 10:4-5 He committed suicide.
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II Samuel 1:8-10 An Amalekite slew him.
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II Samuel 21:12 The Philistines slew him.
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How many horsemen did David take from Hadadezer?
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II Samuel 8:4 Seven hundred.
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I Chronicles 18:4 Seven thousand.
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II Samuel 10:18 David slew 700 Aramean charioteers and
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40,000 horsemen.
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I Chronicles 19:18 He slew 7000 Aramean charioteers and
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40,000 footmen.
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II Samuel 24:9 & I Chronicles 21:5 Contrary census
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totals for Israel.
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I Kings 6:2: II Chronicles 3:3 The size of Solomon's temple
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was about ninety feet by thirty feet by fourty-five feet high.
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I Chronicles 23:4 And yet, managing it required 23.000
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servants.
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How many chiefs or officers did Solomon have to oversee the
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people? I Kings 9:23 Five hundred fifty.
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II Chronicles 8:10 Two hundred fifty.
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I Kings 16:6,8 Baasha, King of Israel. died in the 26th
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year of Asa's reign over Judah.
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II Chronicles 16:1 In the 36th year of Asa's reign,
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Baasha built a city.
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I Chronicles 21:1 Satan "rose up" against Israel and
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incited King David to take a census.
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II Samuel 24:1 It was God who directly incited the census
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(apparently seeking an excuse to vent anger on Israel).
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In both versions, God responded by killing thousands of
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Israelites (I Chron 21:7 onward & II Samuel 24:15 onward). In
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both versions, David criticised God for slaughtering so many
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innocents (I Chron 21:17, II Samuel 24:17).
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II Samuel 24:24 King David paid 50 shekels of silver for the
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threshing floor, oxen, wheat, etc.. which he appropriated for
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ceremonial purposes.
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I Chronicles 21:1 He paid 600 shekels of gold.
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(Most explicit in the New American Bible and the International
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Bible:)
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I Samuel 17:23.50-51 David slew the Philistine, Goliath of
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Gath.
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II Samuel 21:19 Elhanan son of Jair slew Goliath of Gath. Note:
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In the standard KJ translation, the story is altered in the
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second instance, so that Elhanan slays the cousin of Goliath; the
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prevarication is disclosed by the italics in most editions. The
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contradiction stands in the source texts. See any good Bible
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commentary.
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(Clearest in the Revised KJ version:)
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II Samuel 6:23 Michal. the daughter of Saul, was
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childless.
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II Samuel 21:8 She bore five sons.
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Note: The Authorized (standard) KJ version says Michal
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"brought up" the five sons. but the more honest Revised KJ
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version makes it clear that these were her sons by birth. Some
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other translations substitute "Merab" or "Merob" for Michal in
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the same passage, but translators and commentators admit that in
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the majority of Septuagint sources, the name is Michal.
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(In the New International Bible:)
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II Kings 1:17 Joram became King of Israel in the second year
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that Jehoram son of Jehosaphat reigned over Judah.
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11 Kings 8:16 Jehoram son of Jehosaphat became King of Judah
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in the fifth year of Joram's reign over Israel. Note: Joram
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(son of Ahab). the King of Israel. was also sometimes called
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Jehoram. Do not confuse him with the other Jehoram (son of
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Jehosaphat). the King of Judah. Again. see any good commentary.
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II Kings 9:6-9, 10:11,30 The Lord commanded Jehu to destroy
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the house of Ahab. Jehu obeyed. destroying everyone in the city
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of #ezreei who was of the house of Ahab, including friends and
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priests. God commended him for these actions.
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Hosea 1:4 God promises to punish the House of Jehu for
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the massacre.
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(In the KJ and Revised KJ versions only:)
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How old was King Ahaziah when he began to reign?
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II Kings 8:26 22 years old.
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II Chronicles 22:2 42 years old.
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II Kings 16:5 King Ahaz of Judah (Jerusalem) was not
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conquered by the kings of Israel and Syria. (See also Isaiah
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7:1-7. in which God prophesied that Israel and Syria will fail to
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conquor Jerusalem.)
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II Chronicles 28:5-6 The kings of Israel and Syria did
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conquer him.
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II Kings 23:29-30 King Josiah was slain at Magiddo.
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Servants brought his dead body to Jerusalem.
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II Chronicles 35:22-24 He was wounded at Magiddo. Servants
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brought him alive to Jerusalem, where he died.
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II Kings 25:19-20 Nebuzaradan, commander of the invading
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Babylonian army, took five royal advisors as prisoners.
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Jeremiah 52:25-26 He took seven advisors as prisoners.
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Compare Ezra 2:1-67 with Nehemiah 7:6-68 to find a number of
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contradictions. Each passage purports to be a comprehensive
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list, by family unit, of the inhabitants of Jerusalem who
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returned from Babylonian captivity. Compare numbers for each
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family: fourteen of them disagree. Moreover the addition is
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wrong. Both Ezra and Nehemiah put the total at 42,360 plus 2,337
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servants. but simple addition shows it to be 29,818 in Ezra, and
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31.089 in Nehemiah.
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Psalms 104:5 (KJ version); Ecclesiastes 1:4 The Earth will
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last forever.
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II Peter 3:10; Hebrews 1:10-11 The Earth will perish.
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Proverbs 26:4 & 26:5 Contradictory advice, in adjacent
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verses!
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Leviticus, chapters 1-7 After delivering the Jews from
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Egypt, God went into minute detail regarding sacrifices and burnt
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offerings.
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Jeremiah 7:22 God denied that he ever said anything
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about sacrifices or burnt offerings.
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Job 7:9: Ecclesiastes 9:5 The dead will never rise
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again. They will have no further reward.
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John 5:28-29: I Corinthians 15:16,52 The dead will rise
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again to be rewarded or punished.
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Deuteronomy 24:16: II Kings 14:16; II Chronicles 25:4 The
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son should not be punished for the father's sin. Every man bears
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guilt only for his own transgressions.
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Ezekiel 18:20 Again. the son does not bear guilt for the
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sins of the father.
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Exodus 20:5 Ang yet. God blames children for the iniquities
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of the father. even for four generations.
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Deuteronomy 5:9 His curse or punishment may extend far
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beyond the third or fourth generation.
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Romans 5:12,14.19, 6:23 Also, all men are considered sinners
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because of Adam's sin. Death, the punishment for sin, is
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inflicted even on those who did not sin, because Adam sinned.
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Who was the father of Joseph--Jacob (Matthew 1:16) or Heli
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(Luke 3:23)? The Bible provides two geneoiogies for #oseph.
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Jesus's earthly Father, one in Chapter 1 of Matthew and the other
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in Chapter 3 of Luke. Both are by line of male descent. They
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contradict. See Luke 3:23-31 and Matthew 1:6-15 for the
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conflicting Portions. The two versions occasionally come
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together so other questions occur. For example, who was father
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to Sheatiel and grandfather to Zerubbabel? Was it Neri (Luke
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3:27) or Jeconiah (Matt 1:12)?
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More problems arise when we compare the New Testament
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geneologies with the version in the first chapters of I
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Chronicles. For example, in Matthew, the son of Zerubbabel
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(Zorobabbel) is Abiud (Matthew 1:13). In Luke, his son is Rhesa
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(Luke 3:27). But I Chronicles lists seven sons for Zerubbabel (I
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Chron 3:19-20), and neither Abiud nor Rhesa are among them.
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Another problem with the geneology:
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Matthew 1:8-9 Joram was the father of Uzziah (Ozias). who
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was the father of Jotham (Joatham).
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I Chronicles 3:11-12 Joram was the father of Ahaziah, father
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of Joash, father of Amaziah. father of Azariah--who. finally. was
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the father of Jotham.
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Yet another problem:
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Matthew 1:11 Josiah was the father of Jechoniah.
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I Chronicles 3:15-16 Josiah was the grandfather of
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Jechoniah.
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And another:
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Matthew 1:12: Luke 3:27 Zerubbabel was the son of
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Shealtiel (Salathiel).
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I Chronicles 3:17-19 Zerubbabel was the son of Pedaiah:
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Shealtiel was his uncle.
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And another:
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Matthew 1:17 Matthew says there were fourteen generations
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from the Babylonian captivity to the birth of the Messiah.
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Matthew 1:12-16 Count carefully. There were only
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thirteen.
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And another:
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Luke 3:35-36 Shelah was the son of Cainan, and great-
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grandson of Shem.
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Genesis 11:11-12 Shelah was the son of Arpachsnad. and
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grandson of Shem.
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John 1:18, 6:46: I John 4:12 No one has ever seen God.
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Exodus 33:11 God says no man will ever see His face and
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live. But ... the Lord appeared to Abraham
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(Gen 18:1#. Jacob saw God face-to-face (Gen 32:30). Moses
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and the Elders gazed upon God (Exodus 24:9-11). God spoke to
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Moses face-to-face (Exodus 33:11: Deut 34:10). God allowed Moses
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to see his "back parts" (Exodus 33:22-23). Isaiah saw God in a
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vision (Isaiah 6:1,5). Ezekiel also saw God in a vision and
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described Him in some detail (Ezekiel 1:27-28). Amos saw God
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(Amos 7:7).
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Matthew 1:20: Luke 1:26-35 Before Jesus's birth, angels
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appeared and clearly informed both Joseph and Mary that their
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child was the Son of God.
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Luke 2:49-50 In spite of this, Joseph and Mary did not
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understand Jesus when he refered to God as his "father".
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Matthew 2:1,14-15,22-23 Joseph and his family fled Judea
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(Bethlehem) in order to avoid Herod. stayed in Egypt a while,
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feared to return to Judea after Herod's death, and so settled in
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Galilee (Nazareth).
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Luke 1:26-27, 2:1,4-5,39-40 Joseph was an original resident
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of Galilee (Nazareth) at the time of his marriage. only briefly
|
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visited Judea (Bethlehem) to register for the census, and
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returned peacefully to Galilee after fulfilling ritual
|
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prescriptions concerning childbirth.
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Mark 1:7-13 Immediately after Jesus's baptism and encounter
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with Paul, Jesus went into the wilderness for fourty days, and
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dwelled alone.
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John 1:27-40 After the encounter, Jesus continued to live
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near Galilee, and went about gathering disciples.
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Mark 1:14,16-18 Jesus gathered Simon. Andrew and other
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disciples after John the Baptist was imprisoned.
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John 1:40-42. 3:22-24 Jesus already had his disciples--
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including Simon and Andrew--before John was imprisioned.
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Mark 1:29-30,40-42 Jesus healed the leper after visiting
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Simon Peter's house.
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Matthew 8:1-3.14 Jesus heaied the leper before visiting
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the house.
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(Most explicit in the New American Bible and the New
|
|
International bible:)
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Matthew 4:5-8 The Devil took Jesus first to the parapet of
|
|
the temple, then to a high place to view all the kingdoms of the
|
|
world.
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Luke 4:5-9 The Devil took Jesus first to a high place to
|
|
view the kingdoms, then to the parapet of the temple.
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Matthew 11:2-3: Luke 7:18-22 While imprisioned. John the
|
|
Baptist sent followers to Jesus to inquire if Jesus was the
|
|
Messiah.
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John 1:29-34,36 John already knew Jesus was the Messiah.
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John 3:13 Jesus said that no man but himself has ever
|
|
ascended to heaven.
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II Kings 2:11 Elijah ascended to heaven in a whirlwind.
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Genesis 5:24: Hebrews 11:5 Enoch was taken bodily into
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Heaven.
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Mark 2:26 David ate consecrated bread from the House of God.
|
|
and gave some to his companions, in the days of Abiathar the high
|
|
priest.
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|
I Samuel 21:1-6 This event actually occured in the days
|
|
of Ahimelech the high priest.
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|
I Chronicles 24:6: I Samuel 23:6 Abiathar was the son of
|
|
Ahimelech (they were high priest at different times).
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Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus will give rest and peace to his
|
|
followers: his yoke is easy, his burden light.
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|
Hebrews 12:6 God will disciplin and punish, or scourge,
|
|
everyone who comes to him.
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|
II Timothy 3:12 The followers of Christ will suffer
|
|
great persecution.
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|
John 2:14-16 The purging of the temple occured near the
|
|
beginning of Jesus's ministry. two or three years before the
|
|
crucifixion.
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|
Matthew 21:12-13; Mark 11:15-17; Luke 19:45-46 The
|
|
purging occured
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|
|
Note: Some apologists have suggested that Jesus purged the
|
|
temple twice. If so, and if we assume the gospels are
|
|
independent accounts as apologists insist. it is remarkab|y
|
|
unlikely that one of them shouid mention oniy the first purging.
|
|
and three should mention only the second.
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|
John 3:36 Only those who beiieve in the Son of God will
|
|
be saved.
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|
|
|
Luke 10:25-28 No! To be saved. it suffices to love God
|
|
and your fellow man.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 19:16-21 Jesus told one man that to gain "eternal
|
|
life", it was necessary only to obey the Ten Commandments. Only
|
|
if the man wanted to be "perfect" did he need to sell his
|
|
possessions and follow Jesus.
|
|
|
|
Acts 10:34-5 God will accept anyone who fears Him and
|
|
"works righteousness".
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
John 6:17,19.21 Jesus walked all the way across the
|
|
lake: he did not climb into the boat.
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|
|
|
Matthew 14:25,32: Mark 6:48,51 Jesus walked only part
|
|
way. and finished the journey in the boat.
|
|
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|
|
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|
|
Matthew 5:1, 6:9-13, 7:28 Jesus delivered the Lord's Prayer
|
|
during the Sermon on the Mount before the multitudes.
|
|
|
|
Luke 11:1-4 He delivered it before the disciples alone, and
|
|
not as part of the Sermon on the Mount.
|
|
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|
|
Matthew 5:3-11 The sermon contained nine Beatitudes.
|
|
|
|
Luke 6:20-22 The sermon contained only four Beatitudes.
|
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|
|
Matthew 6:5-6 Jesus condemned public prayer.
|
|
|
|
I Timothy 2:8 Paul encouraged public prayer.
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 6:25-28, 30-34 We should take no thought for
|
|
ourselves, or for tomorrow: we should not toil: tomorrow will
|
|
take care of itself.
|
|
|
|
II Thessalonians 3:10 If a man does not provide for himself
|
|
or his own, he has denied his faith. and he is worse than an
|
|
infidel.
|
|
I Corinthians 3:8 If anyone does not work, he should not
|
|
be allowed to eat.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 8:26, 9:9 Jesus acquired Matthew as a disciple
|
|
after stilling the tempest.
|
|
|
|
Mark 2:14. 4:39 Jesus acquired Matthew (Levi) before
|
|
stilling the tempest. Note: The context identifies Levi as
|
|
another name for Matthew. Compare Matt 9:9-17 with Mark 2:14-22
|
|
& Luke 5:27-39. or see any good commentary.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 8:5-7 The Centurion approached Jesus, beseeching
|
|
help for a sick servant.
|
|
|
|
Luke 7:3.6-7 The Centurion did not approach Jesus. He sent
|
|
friends and elders of the Jews.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Compare the names of the Twelve Apostles, meticulously
|
|
listed in four places in the Bible.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 10:2-4: Mark 3:16-19 Lebbaeus Thaddaeus was one of
|
|
the Twelve.
|
|
|
|
Luke 6:14-16: Acts 1:13 Judas the brother of James (not
|
|
Iscariot) has replaced him.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Acts 13:39 All sins can be forgiven.
|
|
|
|
Mark 3:29 Cursing or blaspheming the Holy Spirit is
|
|
unforgivable.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Luke 8:41-42 Jairus approached Jesus for help, because
|
|
his daughter was dying.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 9:18 He asked for help, saying his daughter was
|
|
already dead.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark 6:8 Jesus instructed his disciples to wear sandals and
|
|
take a staff on their journey.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 10:9 Jesus instructed them not to take a staff,
|
|
not to wear sandals.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 11:12,14. 17:12-13 Jesus said that John the
|
|
Baptist was Elijah.
|
|
|
|
John 1:21 John the Baptist maintained that he was not
|
|
Elijah. See also Malachi 4:5. which predicts that Elijah must
|
|
return before the final days of the world. And see Mark 9:13,
|
|
where Jesus insists that Elijah has, indeed. returned.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
John 5:22 God the Father entrusted all judgment to Jesus.
|
|
John 5:27,30, 8:26: Matthew 25:31-32: II Corinthians 5:10; Acts
|
|
10:42 Other verses which imply that Jesus passes judgment.
|
|
|
|
John 8:15, 12:47 Jesus. however, said that he judges no one.
|
|
Luke 12:14; John 8:50 Verses which agree that Jesus does not
|
|
judge. I Corinthians 6:2 It will be the "saints" who judge the
|
|
whole world.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark 8:12-13; Matthew 12:38-40 Jesus announced that no signs
|
|
would be given to that generation. except possibly the
|
|
Resurrection itself.
|
|
|
|
John 20:30: Acts 2:22 Yet. Jesus provided many wonders and
|
|
signs. See also: Mark 16:20: Acts 5:12, 8:13
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 12:40 Jesus predicted that he would spend "three
|
|
days and three nights" in the earth.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 27:57-60,62, 28:1-6: Mark 15:42-43,46, 16:1-6; Luke
|
|
23:53-54, 24:1-3 In fact. Jesus was paced in the tomb on the
|
|
evening of Preparation Day, the day before the Jewish Sabbath,
|
|
and arose by the morning after the Sabbath. Time elapsed in the
|
|
earth: two nights. one day.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 13:55-56: Mark 6:3; Galatians 1:19 These passages
|
|
imply that James the Less, Joseph (Joses), Simon and Judas were
|
|
Jesus's brothers. Jesus also seemed to have several sisters.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 27:56: Mark 15:40,47 These imply that James and
|
|
Joseph (Joses) were sons of some other Mary, not Jesus's mother.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 10:3: Mark 3:18 These state that Alpheus was
|
|
father to James.
|
|
Matthew 27:56 & John 19:25 Taken together, these imply
|
|
that Clophas, not Alpheus. was husband to the Mary the mother of
|
|
James.
|
|
|
|
Note: The Greek word generally translated as "brother" in
|
|
the Gospel manuscripts can also sometimes mean "cousin": this may
|
|
be a partial resolution to these problems.
|
|
|
|
On the other hand. Luke 2:7 imples that Jesus was the first of
|
|
several offspring. and John 1[11? - typist]:26-27 suggests that
|
|
he had at least one sibling.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 17:1-2 Six days after Jesus made his prophecy of
|
|
his second coming. the Transfiguration occured.
|
|
|
|
Luke 9:28-29 It occured after about eight days.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Who requested that James and John, Zebedee's children,
|
|
should sit beside Jesus in his Kingdom?
|
|
|
|
Matthew 20:20-21 Their mother requested it.
|
|
|
|
Mark 10:35-37 James and John made the request.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 20:29-30 Following this last incident, on the way
|
|
out of Jericho, Jesus encountered two blind men.
|
|
|
|
Mark 10:46-47 He encountered only one blind man.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 21:2-7 Next, two of the disciples brought Jesus an
|
|
ass and a colt from the village of Bethphage.
|
|
|
|
Mark 11:2-7 The brought him only a colt.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 21:17-19 Jesus cursed the fig tree after purging
|
|
the temple.
|
|
|
|
Mark 11:14-15.20 He cursed it before the purging.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark 11:12-14,20 The morning after Jesus cursed the fig
|
|
tree. the disciples noticed it had withered. and expressed
|
|
astonishment.
|
|
Matthew 21:9 The fig tree withered immediately. and the
|
|
disciples registered surprise then and there.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 23:35 Jesus said that Zechariah was the son of
|
|
Berechiah.
|
|
|
|
II Chronicles 24:20-22 Zechariah was the son of Jehoiada.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
John 13:34-35 Jesus commanded us to love one another: in
|
|
this #ay. all men will recognize his disciples.
|
|
|
|
Luke 14:26 You cannot be a disciple of Jesus unless you hate
|
|
your father and mother, your siblings, your children. your wife.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark 14:16-18: Luke 22:13-14 The Last Supper was the
|
|
Passover meal.
|
|
|
|
John 13:1. 18:28,39. 19:14-18 The Last Supper occured
|
|
the day just before Passover. The trial and curcifixion occured
|
|
on Passover Day.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
John 18:12 Jesus was arrested by a detachment of Roman
|
|
soldiers and some Jewish officials.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 26:47: Mark 14:43: Luke 22:47 Jesus was
|
|
arrested by "multitudes" sent by the priests.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
John 18:19,24 After his arrest, Jesus's preliminary
|
|
interrogation was before Annas; after that, he was brought to
|
|
Caiaphas.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 26:57 He was led directly to Caiaphas.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 27:28 Immediately after Pilate had Jesus flogged.
|
|
the soldiers dressed Jesus in a scarlet robe.
|
|
|
|
Mark 15:17: John 19:2 It was a purple robe.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark 14:30,57-72 As Peter denied Jesus three times, the
|
|
cock crowed twice.
|
|
Luke 22:34.60-61: Matthew 26:34.69-74 The cock crowed only
|
|
once. Note that each version of the story conveniently adjusts
|
|
Jesus's prophecy to fit the events.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
To whom did Peter make his three denials?
|
|
|
|
First denial: to a maid and others (Matt 26:69-70): to the
|
|
maid only (Mark 14:66-68).
|
|
|
|
Second denial: to another maid (Matt 26:71-72); to a man
|
|
(Luke 22:58): to several people (John 18:55).
|
|
|
|
Third denial: to several bystanders (Matt 26:73-74): to a
|
|
single man (Luke 22:59-60); to one of the servants (John 18:26-
|
|
27).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 27:3-8 Judas returned the thirty pieces of silver to
|
|
the chief priests, then hanged himself. The priests used the
|
|
silver to establish a graveyard.
|
|
|
|
Acts 1:16-18 Judas purchased land with the silver, and
|
|
subsequently died in a fall.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
John 19:17 Jesus carried his own cross.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 27:32: Mark 15:21: Luke 23:26 Simon the Cyrenian
|
|
was forced to carry Jesus's cross.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark 15:25 Jesus was crucified at about 9:00 a.m. (the
|
|
"third hour").
|
|
|
|
John 19:14-15,31 He was crucified after noon on Preparation
|
|
Day (the "sixth hour").
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Each Gospel reports a different wording for the inscription
|
|
placed above Jesus during the crucifixion.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 27:37 The inscription was, "This is Jesus the
|
|
King of the Jews."
|
|
|
|
Mark 16:26 The inscription was simply, "The King of the
|
|
Jews".
|
|
Luke 23:38 It was. ''This is the King of the Jews,'' in
|
|
three languages.
|
|
|
|
John 19:19 It was. "Jesus of Nazareth the King of the
|
|
Jews."
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mark 15:32: Matthew 27:44 Both of the criminals
|
|
crucified with Jesus taunted him.
|
|
|
|
Luke 23:39 Only one of the criminals taunted him.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 27:46-50: Mark 15:34-37 Jesus's last words were:
|
|
"My God. my God. why hast thou forsaken me?" (KJ version).
|
|
(According to Matthew, he cried out once more in a loud voice.)
|
|
Then Jesus died.
|
|
|
|
Luke 23:46 Jesus's last words were. "Father, into your hands
|
|
I commend my spirit." Then Jesus died.
|
|
|
|
John 19:30 The last words were, "It is finished." Then
|
|
Jesus died.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 27:55-56: Mark 15:40; Luke 23:49 The women,
|
|
including Mary Magdalene and Jesus's mother, watched the
|
|
crucifixion from a "distance" or from ''afar".
|
|
|
|
John 19:25 They stood near the cross or next to the
|
|
cross.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(KJ Version only:)
|
|
|
|
Luke 23:44 At the moment of Jesus's death, darkness covered
|
|
the whole earth for three hours.
|
|
|
|
But extensive documents are available from this period in
|
|
history. No historian. no scientist. no astronomer--in Rome.
|
|
Greece. Egypt. Palestine. Arabia. India. China or any other
|
|
land--reported such an unusuai phenomenon.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(In the New American Bible and the New International Bible:)
|
|
|
|
Luke 23:54-56, 24:1 On the day before the Sabath, the women
|
|
prepared spices and ointments for Jesus's body.
|
|
Mark 16:1 They did not purchase the spices until the day
|
|
after the Sabath.
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
How many women visited Jesus's tomb on the morning of the
|
|
Resurrection, and when?
|
|
|
|
What did they discover?
|
|
|
|
John 20:1 Mary Magdalene. alone, first visited the tomb.
|
|
It was "still dark." She found the stone rolled away.
|
|
|
|
Matthew 28:1-2 It was Mary Magdaline and another Mary who
|
|
visited the tomb. It was dawn. They found the tomb still
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covered: thereupon an angel rolled back the stone.
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Mark 16:1-4 The visitors were Mary Magdalene, Mary the
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mother of James, Johanna, and an undetermined number of other
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women. They found the stone rolled back.
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John 20:8-9 The disciples did not know or understand that
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Jesus was to rise from the dead.
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Luke 14:6-8: Matthew 20:17-19. 27:63-64: Mark 8:31, 10:34
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Jesus had carefully explained to them. in simple terms. that this
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was to happen. Even Jesus's enemies understood the prophecy of
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the Resurrection.
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Matthew 28:2.5: Mark 11 [???]:5-6 Immediately upon visiting
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Jesus's tomb. the women met one young man or angel. who
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addressed them.
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Luke 24:4-5 The women encountered two young men or
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angels.
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John 20:8-12 Mary Magdalene met two angels, but only
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later, after the disciples had examined the tomb and found it
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empty.
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Mark 16:1,8 Mary Magdalene, Mary and Salome. discovering
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that Jesus had risen from death. fled in fear and said nothing to
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anyone.
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Luke 24:8-9 Mary Magdalene, Mary. Johanna and other women.
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discovering this, returned and reported to the eleven apostles.
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Matthew 28:9 The women saw Jesus on their way back to
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report to the disciples.
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Luke 24:9,22-23 The women apparently did not see Jesus.
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Matthew 28:1,9 Mary Magdaline obviously recognized Jesus
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when she first saw him after the Resurrection.
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John 20:14 She did not recognize him.
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Matthew 28:16-17 After the Resurrection. Jesus first
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appeared to the disciples in Galilee.
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Luke 24:33.36 He first appeared to them in Jerusalem.
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Luke 24:15,18,32-34.36,50-51 Jesus appeared first to Celopas
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and Simon Peter, then to all eleven disciples; then he
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immediately ascended to heaven.
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John 20:14.19,26. 21:1 Jesus appeared first to Mary
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Magdalene, then to most of the disciples, a week later to a
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larger group of disciples, and later still to the disciples while
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they were fishing.
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I Corinthians 15:4-8 Jesus appeared, in order. to Cephas
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(Peter). then to "the Twelve" (although Judas was dead at this
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time. and the others had not yet appointed Matthias to replace--
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see Acts 1:23.26). then to a crowd of five hundred. then to
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James, then to all the apostles, and lastly to Peter.
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John 2:13. 5:1 (?). 6:4, 11:55 Jesus's ministry spanned
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at least three, perhaps four passovers.
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Matthew 26:1: Mark 14:1: Luke 22:1 The other Gospels mention
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only one passover. and strongly imply that Jesus's ministry
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lasted only about one year.
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Acts 5:21 [???] We ought to obey God rather than man.
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I Peter 2:13-14 Submit yourselves to man's 1aw.
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Acts 7:15-16 Jacob was buried in Sychem. in a sepulchre
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which Abraham had purchased from Emmor.
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Genesis 50:13 Jacob was buried in Canaan. in a cave which
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Abraham had purchased from Ephron the Hittite.
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Acts 9:7 The men travelling with Saul heard Jesus's
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voice.
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Acts 22:9 They did not hear the voice.
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Acts 9:19-20,26-30 After his conversion, Paul (Saul) stayed
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with the disciples in Damascus, preached in the synagogues. fled
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to Jerusalem and preached there also, then went to Tarsus by way
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of Caesarea.
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Galatians 1:16-21 After his conversion, Paul "conferred not
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with flesh and blood" (KJ version). but instead went off to
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Arabia, then returned to Damasucs. Three years later he went to
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Jerusalem; the only apostle he met was James. This account. Paul
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swears before God, the the true one. Thereafter, Paul says, he
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went to Syria and Cilicia.
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Acts 13:18-22 (KJ version) The Israelites wandered 40 years
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in the wilderness after the release from Egypt. After that they
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had judges for 450 years. Then, Saul was king for 40 years.
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Total: 530 years.
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Acts 13:18-22 (New International Bible) The time in the
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wilderness and the subsequent conquest of seven nations in Cannan
|
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took 450 years. After that, the Jews had judges for an
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|
unspecified period. Then Saul ruied for 40 years. Total: more
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than 490 years.
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I Kings 6:1 (both versions) Much, much later, in the fourth
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year of Solomon's reign, only 480 years had passed since the
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release from Egypt. (Some versions of the Septuagint make this
|
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only 440. making the contradiction even more drastic.)
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I Corinthians 11:14 Paul preaches that it is a shame for
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any man to have long hair.
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Judges 13:15; Numbers 6:2,5: I Samuel 1:11 All verses which
|
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imply that long hair on a man is. or can be, a sign of holiness.
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Galatians 2:7-8 Peter was apostle to the Jews.
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Acts 15:7 Peter was apostle to the Gentiles.
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Galatians 4:22: Genesis 16:15-16, 21:2-3 Abraham had two
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sons: first Ishmael, then Isaac.
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Hebrews 11:17 Isaac was his only son.
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I John 4:1-2 If a spirit confesses that Christ has come,
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it is a spirit of God.
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Matthew 8:29; Mark 1:23-24. 3:11, 5:7: Luke 4:41 Cases
|
|
where demons or unclean spirits confessed that Christ has come.
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John 12:3#-40 # Isaiah 6:10 God causes people not to believe
|
|
the truth in order to prevent them from being "healed".
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II Thessalonians 2:11-12 God sends strong delusions on
|
|
certain people in order to make them believe false things and be
|
|
damned.
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|
Romans 9:18 (& subsequent verses) More of the same.
|
|
Salvation is a matter of God's whim: people have no choice or
|
|
control or responsibility in the matter.
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I Timothy 2:4 Contrary to all this, God "desires all men
|
|
to be saved" and to have the truth!
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Galatians 6:2 We should bear one another's burdens.
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Galatians 6:5 Every man should bear his own burdens.
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Romans 2:13 Those who keep the law will be declared
|
|
just.
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Romans 3:19 Keeping the law does not make anyone just.
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Romans 3:23 All men have sinned in God's eye.
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Genesis 6:9 Noah was perfect.
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Job 1:1 Job was perfect.
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Revelations 8:7 Fire will consume all the grass in the
|
|
world.
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Revelations 9:4 Later, an army of locusts will be
|
|
instructed not to harm any of the grass.
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* * *
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|
FAILED PROPHECIES
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Genesis 15:18 God promised Abram (Abraham) that his
|
|
descendants. the Jews, would receive all the land from the River
|
|
of Egypt (the Nile) to the river Euphrates.
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|
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|
Joshua 1:3-4 Israelite territory will extend as far as the
|
|
Euphrates. But Israelite territory has never extended to the
|
|
Euphrates, and it is very doubtful that it ever even extended to
|
|
the Nile.
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|
Genesis 17:3.8 God gave the whole land of Canaan to Abraham
|
|
and his descendants, to inhabit forever. (See also: Gen 13:15,
|
|
Ex 32:13.) Canaan was the land west of the Jordan and the Dead
|
|
Sea, between those waters and the Mediterranean. the general
|
|
region later called Palestine. As a matter of history. the Jews
|
|
did not receive all of Canaan for an everiasting possession.
|
|
Revolts of the Jews against Rome in 132-135 AD led to their
|
|
dispersal throughout the world. For eighteen centuries, Turkish,
|
|
Persian and Arabic peoples occupied Palestine. The Jews began to
|
|
return in significant numbers only in 1921, shortly before the
|
|
creation of the modern state of Israel in 1948.
|
|
|
|
See Acts 7:5 and Hebrews 11:13, which candidly admit that
|
|
God's promise or prophecy, in this case. failed.
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|
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Psalms 89:3-4 God promised David this his royal line and
|
|
throne would last through "all generations".
|
|
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|
Psalms 89:35-37 Again, God promised that David's royal
|
|
throne will last as long as the sun and the moon.
|
|
Yet, after Zedekiah, there was no Davidic king for 450
|
|
years. The royal line was finally restored with Aristobulus, of
|
|
the Hasmonean dynasty, but eventually that ended also. According
|
|
to New Testament prophecy, Jesus will receive the throne of David
|
|
and reign forever (Luke 1:32-33). but even so. the royal line
|
|
has a very evident break and the prophecy has failed.
|
|
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|
Isaiah 17:1 A prophecy of the city of Damascus. It
|
|
will become "a heap of ruins." But Damascus, the capital of
|
|
Syria, thrives today. one of the oldest cities in the world, and
|
|
has been continuously inhabited since its founding. It has never
|
|
been a heap of ruins.
|
|
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|
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|
Isaiah 34:8-10 A prophecy that the land of Edom (which
|
|
borders the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba) will become "burning
|
|
pitch". The streams will become pitch. the soil will become
|
|
brimstone. it will lay waste for generations. none will pass
|
|
through it forever, and the smoke from the burning will go up
|
|
forever. But this has never happened, and people continue to
|
|
pass through Edom to this day.
|
|
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|
Jeremiah 9:11 A prophecy that Jerusalem and the cities of
|
|
Judah will become heaps of ruins, desolate, without inhabitants.
|
|
Neither Jerusalem nor Judah have ever been desolate and
|
|
uninhabited for any period. (The New Testament predits that
|
|
Jerusalem will be an eternal city.)
|
|
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|
Jeremiah 42:17 The Jews who returned to live in Egypt will
|
|
all die by the sword, by famine or by pestilence: none will
|
|
survive. But many Jews have lived in Egypt and died peacful
|
|
deaths. Many live there today. In fact. in Alexandria the Jews
|
|
established a great cultural center in the first century A.D.
|
|
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|
Jeremiah 49:33 Hazor, an ancient city of Israel, will become
|
|
a dwelling place for jackals (or dragons. KJ version). and no one
|
|
will live there, forever. But people have never stopped living
|
|
in the city of Hazor. and continue to do so today.
|
|
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|
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|
Jeremiah 51:24-26.28-31,40,53-55,58 Highlights from a long
|
|
prophecy of the violent demise of Babylon and of all inhabitants
|
|
of Babylonia or Chaldea. Many enemies will attack them: the
|
|
walls of Babylon will be leveled, the gates set on fire: it will
|
|
be as a burned-out mountain, a heap or ruins. a desolation
|
|
forever.
|
|
|
|
Isaiah 14:23 Another prophecy of Babylon's destruction.
|
|
It will become swampland. a haunt for owls. Apologists have
|
|
claimed that the fulfillment of these prophecies proves the
|
|
literal veracity of the Bible. Yet history shows that the
|
|
violent permanent destruction of Babylon never happened. The
|
|
context of the prophesied destruction indicates that it was to be
|
|
a punishment for Babylon's domination of the Israelites. from 586
|
|
to 538 B.C. But when Babylon finally died, it was with a
|
|
whimper, not a bang, in the second century A.D., when its last
|
|
inhabitants abandoned it--long, long after the citizens could
|
|
still be considered responsible for ancient Babylon's treatment
|
|
of Israel.
|
|
|
|
Many enemies marched against Babylon throughout its history,
|
|
and from time to time an enemy would capture or occupy it or
|
|
cause some damage. as occured to most other great cities, but
|
|
there was never a holocaust with permanent effects. In 538 b.c.,
|
|
for example, the Persians conquored Babylon. The city later
|
|
revolted. then the Persians captured it again. destroying the
|
|
city walls in the process. But the walls were rebuilt and the
|
|
city suffered little damage. In 330 B.C.. Alexander the Great
|
|
captured Babylon. Most of the inhabitants move to the new city
|
|
of Selucia. Henceforth, Jews inhabited the city until the second
|
|
century A.D., when it was peacefully abandoned. Babylon is even
|
|
mentioned in the New Testament (I Peter 1:1, 5:13).
|
|
|
|
Ezekiel 26:3-4,7-12, 27:32,36, 28:19 A prophecy of the
|
|
downfall of Tyre (Tyrus). King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon will
|
|
come with an army, batter down the walls and towers, trample the
|
|
streets, kill all the people, and toss the rubble into the sea.
|
|
Tyre will come to a terrible end and "never shalt be any more"
|
|
(KJ version). Despite the prophecy, and in spite of much effort.
|
|
Babylon failed to capture or destroy Tyre. (The Bible admits, in
|
|
fact, that the effort failed -- so God gave Egypt to
|
|
Nebuchadnezzer as compensation! See Ezekiel 29:18-19.)
|
|
|
|
The eventual conquest of Tyre was a feat reserved for
|
|
Alexander the Great, 240 years later. Again. in spite of all
|
|
prophecy. Tyre was rebuilt, and the New Testament even mentions
|
|
it (Acts 7:20; Luke 10:13; Mark 7:24.31). Today, Tyre (Sur) has
|
|
over 10.000 inhabitants.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ezekiel 29:9-12 Egypt will become "utterly waste and
|
|
desolate", and no man or animal will pass through it, and no one
|
|
will inhabit it, for fourty years. The Egyptians will be
|
|
scattered through other nations. None of this has ever occured,
|
|
and history shows that Egypt has been continuously inhabited
|
|
since the days of this prophecy.
|
|
Ezekiel 29:15 Egypt will be "diminished" and never again
|
|
rule over other nations. Yet, in the 1820's, Egypt conquered and
|
|
ruled the Sudan.
|
|
|
|
Ezekiel 30:4-16.22-26 King Nebuchadnezzar will destroy the
|
|
multitudes of Egypt. Ethopia, Libya and "all the mingled people"
|
|
will fall by the sword. The rivers will run dry, the Egyptians
|
|
will be scattered among other nations and dispersed through many
|
|
countries. There will be no more Egyptian prince. Historically.
|
|
this never occured. Egyptians still live in Egypt (the United
|
|
Arab Republic): they were never scattered or dispersed.
|
|
Nebuchadnezzer never destroyed Egypt, nor conquored Ethopia,
|
|
Libya or Lydia. Princes continued to rule in Egypt long after
|
|
Nebuchadnezzar's death. The rivers of Egypt have not run dry.
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Daniel 9:26 Jerusalem will be destroyed by a flood. No
|
|
flood has ever destroyed Jerusalem, nor caused permanent damage.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Micah 7:13: Zephaniah 1:2-3,18 God will destroy everything
|
|
on earth, including man and beast. fish and fowl: the whole world
|
|
will be consumed, and become desolate, because of the wicked
|
|
deeds of its inhabitants. Of course this has never occured. And
|
|
in the light of New Testament prophecy, it never will occur!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matthew 16:27-28 Jesus predicted his Return within the
|
|
lifetime of some of his listeners. He will be accompanied by his
|
|
angels, he said, and will "reward each man according to his
|
|
works" (KJ version).
|
|
|
|
Matthew 24:3-35; Mark 13:24-30; Luke 21:27-32 Jesus's
|
|
extensive and detailed description of the end of the world, and
|
|
of his second coming. All will occur before the present
|
|
generation passed away. (Some apologists have defended these
|
|
passages with the observation that the word "generation" may also
|
|
be translated as "race". But God had promised Abraham that the
|
|
Jewish race would possess Palestine forever, so such an
|
|
interpretation would simply render the passages meaningless.)
|
|
|
|
John 5:25 Very specific statement by Jesus that the "hour
|
|
has now come" when the dead will #hear the voice of the Son of
|
|
God" and "those who hear will live."
|
|
|
|
John 21:20-23 A suggestion by Jesus. after the Resurrection,
|
|
that he would "return" during the lifetime of at least one of his
|
|
disciples. Note that the anonymous author or scribe of the Book
|
|
of John recognized the ostensible failure of this prophecy, and
|
|
attempted to explain it in the subsequent verses.
|
|
I Thessalonians 4:15-17 Another statement, by Paul, that
|
|
Jesus's return would occur within the lifetime of some of his
|
|
contemporaries.
|
|
|
|
I Peter 4:7: I Corinthians 7:29-31: Hebrews 10:37 Further
|
|
statements that Jesus's second coming was imminent. Paul even
|
|
advised people not to make plans for the future.
|
|
|
|
I John 2:18 John was even more specific than Paul. The
|
|
final hour was at hand, and various Antichrists had already
|
|
appeared on the earth. See also: Matthew 23:25: Hebrews 1:2.
|
|
9:26: I Timothy 6:13-14: I Peter 1:20: Revelations 22:20. All
|
|
these passages imply that the apocalypse was very close, not in
|
|
some mystical sense, but in human terms.
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
Acts 18:9-10 In a vision. Jesus guaranteed Paul that he
|
|
would not be harmed or attacked so long as Paul continued
|
|
preaching. Acts 21:20. a crowd attacked Paul: 23:2, the
|
|
priests's attendant struck Paul: 24:27, Paul was imprisoned:
|
|
27:41-43. shipwrecked.
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|
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|
Isaiah 52:1 A prophecy that the "uncircumcised and unclean"
|
|
shall no longer enter the city of Jerusalem. In spite of the
|
|
prophecy. the uncircumcised and the unclean travel in Jerusalem
|
|
to this day.
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** *
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|
CRUELTIES AND INCONGRUITIES
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|
Genesis 3:14,17 God punished Adam & Eve for disobeying.His
|
|
warning and
|
|
|
|
eating of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
|
|
|
|
Genesis 2:25. 3:6-7, 3:22 But as God admits. until Adam &
|
|
Eve ate from this tree, they did not know right from wrong.
|
|
Therefore they could have not known it was wrong to disobey God's
|
|
warning.
|
|
|
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|
|
Exodus 4:21. 7:1. 10:1 It was actually God who caused
|
|
Pharaoh to be obstinate about freeing the Jews. (Pharaoh's
|
|
refusal was not an act of free will.)
|
|
|
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|
Exodus 21:17 God proclaimed that a child must be put to
|
|
death if. in a moment of anger. he reviles either of his parents
|
|
for any reason.
|
|
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|
Exodus 21:20-21 God also proclaimed that it is permissible
|
|
for a man to beat a slave. as long as death does not occur
|
|
immediately. The reason: "For the slave is the man's property."
|
|
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(KJ version only:)
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Exodus 22:28 God commanded us not to revile or denigrate
|
|
other "gods."
|
|
|
|
Exodus 24:12. 31:18, 32:19. 34:1.4,10-28 These passages
|
|
demonstrate great confusion about the identity of the Ten
|
|
Commandments, the Decalogue inscribed on both the first and
|
|
second set of stone tablets, which Moses placed in the Ark of the
|
|
Covenant. The traditional version of the commandments appears in
|
|
Exodus Chap. 20. According to Exodus. however. these are not the
|
|
true Ten Commandments. Read the passages carefully. The true
|
|
Commandments appear in Exodus 34:10-26, and they include such
|
|
curious injunctions as: "Do not cook a young goat in its
|
|
mother's milk," and "Do not offer a sacrifice to the Lord along
|
|
with anything containing yeast."
|
|
|
|
Deuteronomy 5:4-22 The traditional Commandments appear
|
|
here.
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|
Exodus 32:27-28 Moses had the Levites murder their brothers,
|
|
neighbors and companions over a religious difference. Three
|
|
thousand people die.
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|
Leviticus 19:21 God declared it a sin to trim your beard
|
|
or sideburns.
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Leviticus 19:28 God said that tatoos are a sin.
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Leviticus 25:44-46 God authorized slavery.
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Numbers 15:32-36 God commanded a man to be stoned to death
|
|
for gathering sticks on the Sabbath Day.
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Numbers 31:17-18 Moses ordered innocent women and chiidren
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ki|ied. and commanded his officers to keep the virgins alive for
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themselves.
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Deuteronomy 2:34 Again. Moses ordered the slaughter of
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women and chiidren captured in war.
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Further bioody injunctions from Moses to the Israelites:
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Deuteronomy 13:6-10 A man must slay his daughter, wife, son or
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friend for a difference in religion.
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Deuteronomy 13:12-16 Whole cities must be destroyed.
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plundered and burned, the inhabitants all slaughtered, for the
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same reason.
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Deuteronomy 20:12-17 God's injunction to Moses: If a city
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does not enslave itself to him immediately, lay seige to it. kill
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all the males and take women and children as slaves. Some
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cities, however, must be destroyed utterly: even women, children
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and babies must be murdered.
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Deuteronomy 21:11-14 Female prisoners-of-war. said God, must
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be subject to the sexual whims of their captors. They may have
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only one month of mourning for slain parents. Thereafter, when
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the captor grows tired of a prisoner, he may cast her aside.
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Deuteronomy 22:25-29 The penalty for raping a betrothed
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virgin is death: but the penalty for raping an unbetrothed virgin
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is to pay a fine to the father and then marry the woman. (This
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is the only Biblical injunction against rape!)
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Deuteronomy 23:1-3 A man who has suffered sexual injury or
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mutulation has no right to worship in church (enter the assembly
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of the Lord). Illegitimate children. or children of incestious
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relationships, also may not worship or enter. In fact. you may
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not attend if any of your ancestors were illegitimate, up to ten
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generations back.
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Deuteronomy 25:11-12 If a wife attempts to attempts to
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rescue or protect her husband from an assailant. and if in so
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doing she deliberately or accidently touches the assailant's
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private parts, her hand must be cut off. This is God's direct
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command.
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Joshua's acts of mass murder, commanded or condoned by the
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Lord: Joshua 6:21 After capturing Jericho, the Israelites under
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Joshua's command slaughtered women, children and old men. Even
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the animals of the city were killed.
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Joshua 8:2,24-25 Under God's command. Joshua killed all the
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inhabitants of the city of Ai, including women and children.
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Joshua 10:28-37,40 Continuing in this fashion, Joshua
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obliterated the complete populations of Makkedah, Libnah,
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Lachish, Gezer, Eglon, Hebron, and all who dwelled in "the
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country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of
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the springs'' (KJ version). He destroyed everything that
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breathed, and did not even spare suckling babies.
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Joshua 7:20-26 A man named Archen kept some of the plunder
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from Jericho for himself, instead of turning it all over to the
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priests. He confessed to the crime. As punishment. Joshua not
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only had Archen stoned and burned, but Archen's innocent sons and
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daughters as well. This deed appeased God.
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Judges 8:16 Gideon, the son of Joshua (and the same Gideon
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for whom the Gideon Bible is named) used torture on the captive
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elders of Succoth.
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Judges 11:24 The Bible recognizes the existence of the
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Ammonite god. Chemosh.
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Intimations of human sacrifice in the Bible:
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Judges 11:30-32.34.39 God delivered Jepthah's enemies into
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his hands in exchange for a human sacrifice.
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Leviticus 27:28-29 Human beings "devoted" or made sacred to
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God must be put to death. (See also Exodus 22:28-29 in this
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context.)
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II Samuel 21:1,8,9,14 God accepts the sacrifice (by
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dismemberment) of seven innocent men, and removes a famine.
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I Samuel 15:3.8 On God's orders, Saul killed all the
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Amalekits, including women, infants and suckling babies.
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II Samuel 6:6-7 Uzzah saved the Ark of the Covenant from
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tipping over by steadying it with his hand. God's response was
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to strike him dead.
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II Samuel 12:14-18 God punished a man by killing his
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innocent child.
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II Kings 2:23-24 The prophet Elisha (protegee of Elijah)
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caused bears to tear children apart for laughing at his bald
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head.
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David, the "favorite of God," lived by robbery and
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unprovoked massacre of neighboring tribes, slaughtering both men
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and women (I Sam 27:8-9). lied afterwards about the killings (I
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Sam 27:10-11). ordered the blind and lame of the city of Zion to
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be killed (II Sam 5:8). murdered prisoners of war (II Sam 8:2).
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maimed horses (II Sam 8:4)# tortured and killed more prisoners of
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war (II Sam 12:31 & I Chron 20:3, KJ version). With his last
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breath, he betrayed an oath and advocated murder (I Kings 2:8-9).
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I Kings 11:6. 15:3,5; Acts 13:22 David followed the Lord
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completely. All his deeds were right in the eyes of God. except
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for those regarding Uriah (a small matter of adultery, betrayal
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and a single murder: see II Sam 11). David was a man after God's
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heart.
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I Chronicies 16:30 The earth does not move through
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space.
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Matthew 4:8; Luke 4:5 Also, two verses that suggest the
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earth is flat.
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II Chronicles 1:11-12 God promised that Solomon would have
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material wealth greater than any other king, before or since.
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History shows otherwise. Solomon was weathy. but several kings
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in Solomon's day. and many since, were much wealthier. Some have
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been so wealthy that could have misplaced the value of all of
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Palestine without missing it. Note that if you reinterpret
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"wealth" to mean "spiritual wealth", the prophecy also fails.
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because Solomon lived his later years in spiritual darkness.
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Job 1:6-12 Satan saw God.
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III John 1:11 Those who have seen God do not do evil.
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The Bible (KJ version and sourcetexts) seems to insist that
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the soul, or consciousness, exists in the kidneys (reins) and
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heart.
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Psalms 73:21 "Thus my heart was grieved. and I was
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pricked in my reins."
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Psalms 16:7 "My reins also instruct me in the night
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seasons."
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Psalms 7:9 "God trieth the hearts and reins."
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Proverbs 23:16 "My reins shall rejoice when my lips speak
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right things.''
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Reve#ation 2:23 "' am He which searchelh the reins and
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heart. On the other hand, the Bible never mentions the brain as
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the center of anything mental or spiritual.
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Psalms 109:9.10,12 A holy psalm which cruelly calls down
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misery and suffering on a man's innocent wife and children.
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Psalms 139:21.22 A holy psalm which declares "nothing
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but hatred" on those who oppose God.
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Psalms 137:9 This psalm proclaims happiness for those who
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dash Babylonian children against rocks.
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Biblical statements and prophecies about the "son of man"
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(KJ version): Psalms 146:3 Put not your trust in the son of man,
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in whom there is no help.
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Job 25:6 The son of man is a worm, or like a worm.
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Psalms 8:4 & 144:3, in the KJ version, also belittle the
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"son of man".
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Proverbs 14:15 The wise man does not have blind faith in
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everything said to him. but looks for proof. (Clearest in the
|
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New English Bible.)
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Ecclesiastes 3:18-22 Men are as beasts: they have the same
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fate, the same "breath" (spirit): all go to the same place: none
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know if the breath (spirit) of man and beast have different
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destinies.
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Ecclesiastes 12:9-10,12 The preacher or teacher who wrote
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these things was wise, and what he wrote was true. Be warned of
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any attempt to add to his words or change them.
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Isaiah 23:17-18 Revenue from prostitution will be used to
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provide abundant food and fine clothes for those living in God's
|
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grace.
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Jeremiah 19:9 God intentionally forces people into acts of
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cannabalism. The victims are innocent children.
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Hosea 13:16 Because Samaria rebelled against God, God
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ordained that its pregnant women will be ripped open and innocent
|
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children dashed to the ground.
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(KJ version only:)
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Exodus 32:14 God does evil.
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Isaiah 45:7 God creates evil.
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Jeremiah 26:3 God inflicts evil.
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Amos 3:6 God causes evil.
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Lamentations 3:38 Evil comes from the mouth of God.
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Mark 4:11-12 Jesus deliberately spoke in parables in order
|
|
to exclude some people from being converted and being forgiven
|
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their sins.
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See also: John 12:39-40: Isaiah 6:10.
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Matthew 5:31-39 Jesus admitted that scripture contains
|
|
errors. He disagreed with several specific teachings from the Old
|
|
Testament, in particular Deut 24:1, Ex 21:24, Lev 24:20. Deut
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19:21.
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John 14:12 Jesus declared that anyone who believes in him
|
|
will perform the same miracles and greater miracles than He
|
|
performed. (Thus, anyone who does not perform greater miracles
|
|
is. by Jesus's own words, an unbeliever.)
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Mark 16:17-18 Also, that believers will be immune to poison
|
|
and poisonous serpents, and will cure the sick by laying-on of
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hands. Note: The passage from Mark is absent from the two
|
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earliest. most reliable Greek manuscripts of the gospel.
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Matthew 5:33-37 The Bible prohibits oaths or vows in any
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form, even oaths before God or oaths on the Bible.
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Matthew 10:34-36 Jesus's purpose on earth was not to bring
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peace, but conflict, strife, discord.
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Luke 12:49,51 Jesus came to spread fire on the earth, and to
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cause not peace. but division.
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Luke 22:3# Jesus commanded his followers to procure
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swords.
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Matthew 15:22-28 A Canannite woman pleaded with Jesus to
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he|p her aflicted daughter. Jesus refused to answer. She
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continued to plead. The disciples reviled her. Jesus announced
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that he will only help Israelites: to help Gentiles would be
|
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like taking bread from the Jews and casting it to dogs. The
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woman continued to humiliate herself. Finally, Jesus relented
|
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and agreed to heal the child, using the occasion the deliver a
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little homily on the virtues of faith and persistence.
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Luke 7:36-50 By Jesus's own words, a woman was saved by her
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faith even before the crucifixion. Thus the crucifixion was not
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absolutely necessary for salvation.
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Luke 15:7 A verse that implies that some people need no
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repentence.
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(KJ version & New International version:)
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Luke 14:26 Jesus demanded that his disciples hate their
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parents. Matthew 10:35-36 Jesus said he came to turn children
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against their parents.
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Luke 19:27 Jesus implied, in a parable. that those who do
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not accept him are to be killed.
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Matthew 19:17; John 14:28 Verses implying that Jesus
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believed he was not God, but less than God.
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John 14:28 God is Jesus's God as well as our God. Again, it
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appears that God and Jesus are not identical.
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Matthew 19:21; Luke 14:33; Mark 10:21: Luke 3:11 Verses
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implying that those with wealth will never enter heaven.
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Matthew 19:28 Speaking to the twelve disciples, Jesus gave
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his solemn word and prophecy that all twelve of them--including
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Judas!--will sit on twelve thrones in Heaven and judge the Twelve
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Tribes of Israel. (This was clearly when Judas was still a
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disciple.)
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Matthew 24:29: Revelation 6:13 In the days of the
|
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Apocalypse. the stars will fall from the sky and land on the
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earth like ''figs". In other words, the stars are small and
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subject to earthly gravity.
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Matthew 27:52-53 At the moment of Jesus's death, many of
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the Jewish saints or patriarchs rose from the dead. They waited
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in their tombs until after Jesus's resurrection. three days
|
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later, then came forth and wandered about Jerusalem. The
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resurrection of the Jewish saints is easily the most spectacular
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miracle in Jesus's career. yet one hears very little of it. Not
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a word of it appears in the other gospels!
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Acts 5:10 Ananias. a new convert to Christianity, sold his
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land and turned most of the money over to the apostles, but kept
|
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part for himself. Saint Peter. who wanted all the money.
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considered this deceitful. Peter reviled and criticised Ananias.
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and Ananias fell down dead. Heartlessly, Peter's followers threw
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him into a grave without telling his wife what had happened.
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Three hours later, the wife came looking for him. Peter reviled
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her the same way. She also expired on the spot. and the same
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followers threw her summarily into the ground.
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Romans 13:1-7 Civil authorities receive their power from
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God, and everyone should submit to them. To rebell against
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governmental authority is to rebell against God. (See also Titus
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3:1 and I Peter 2:13-14.) Therefore. faithful Christians must
|
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not disobey or oppose laws they regard as distasteful--e.g., laws
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regarding abortion. taxation. the teaching of evolution, and even
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restriction of worship in Communist countries.
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What about Universalism, the doctrine that all souls must
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eventually be saved? Many fundamentalists regard it as a
|
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terrible heresy. and yet some passages in the Bible seem to
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support it.
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Psalm 72:11: Daniel 7:14.27 All nations. all kings, all
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people will serve and obey the messiah.
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Joel 2:27-28 God will pour out his spirit upon all flesh.
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Psalms 103:9:
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Lamentations 3:31 The Lord will not reject anyone forever,
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or keep His anger forever.
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Colossians 1:20 God will reconcile all things to
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himself.
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Romans 11:26 All Israel shall be saved; salvation will
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be universal among the Jews.
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II Peter 3:9 It is God's will that none will perish,
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that all will come to repentance.
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I Corinthians 11:5 When women pray, they must have their
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heads covered.
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I Corinthians 12:24-37 There will be only harmony and no
|
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conflict or disagreement (discord) within the "body of Christ"
|
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(the Christian church). 2000 years of conflict and schism show
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this is untrue. Or else, nearly all Christians are damned.
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I Corinthians 14:34-35 Women may never speak in chruch.
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II Corinthians 12:2 There is more than one Heaven.
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Galatians 5:2-3 Saint Paul insists that Christ is of "no
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use" to those who have themselves circumcised. Anyone
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circumcised is obligated to obey the entire Jewish law.
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Philippians 3:5; Luke 2:21 And yet. Paul himself was
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circumcised: Jesus was circumcised.
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I Timothy 2:11-12 No woman is to teach, nor to have
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authority over men.
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(In the KJ and Revised KJ versions:)
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I Timothy 3:2.12: Titus 1:6 Bishops may wed.
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I Timothy 6:1: Titus 2:9 Two of many passages in the New
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|
Testament which explicitly condone slavery.
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Ephesians 6:5: I Peter 2:18: Colossians 3:22 Slaves should
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serve their masters in all respects: never question: never
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rebell.
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Revelation 21:1 After the Apocalypse, the new Earth will
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have no sea.
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** *
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Scholars have estimated that the Bible contains over two thousand
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explicit or implicit contradictions. Some are major. some
|
|
trivial: this list is only a small selection. Through history,
|
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attmpts to resolve these contradictions have produced thousands
|
|
of volumes, few of which agree. And in the process, men have
|
|
spilled thousands of gallons of blood. Yet, the contradictions
|
|
remain. What do you make of them?
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Perhaps the best answer is the simplest: that the Bible is
|
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not all the perfect, infallable word of God. Interestingly, the
|
|
Bible itself confirms this. It tells us that all scripture is by
|
|
inspiration of God (II Timothy 3:16). but also tells us that
|
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some of its parts are not from divine inspiration (I Corinthians
|
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7:6. 5:12: II Corinthians 11:17). What could be clearer?
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Please understand the purpose of this booklet. It is not to
|
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make believers into non-believers, but simply to make some non-
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questioners into questioners.
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I hope it has succeeded.
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Kenneth E. Nahigian
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Sacramento
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July, 1988
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