Category: The Bible
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Adding apples and oranges and calling them bananas!
The four gospels cannot be combined into one coherent narrative Adding the gospels together and pretending the result makes sense is like adding apples and oranges and calling them bananas! Some writers of yesteryear attempted to combine the four gospels into one coherent narrative, as if they TRUTHFULLY describe the same events from only slightly…
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All reported speech in the New Testament is only an interpretation of what was actually said
Not many people realise that the entire New Testament was originally written in Greek – a language that Yeshua and his disciples barely knew (if at all). Their everyday tongue was Galilean Aramaic. They may have understood a smattering of Greek since Sepphoris, the capital of Galilee and just a stone’s throw from Nazareth, was…
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Until the early 19th Century few in the West questioned the Bible’s accuracy
Until the early 19th Century few people in the Christian world questioned the Bible’s accuracy. It was considered sacrosanct. Only when the biblical texts began to be studied seriously in the early 1800s and cross referenced with other sources did a better understanding begin to emerge. As result, most Christians at that time had a…
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The Hebrew Scriptures – inaccuracies and contradictions
The Hebrew Scriptures – the Old Testament – is full of contradictions. If they were indeed dictated by G_d, as some Christians believe, it’s a G-d who frequently contradicts itself! We don’t have to look beyond the opening pages to find the first significant example. In the very first chapter of Genesis, G_d creates the…