You can rest assured that the Bible does not contradict itself. If you want understanding, I suggest two basic tools; One, you must study His Word. The first steap is to come to know Christ as your Savior. When one is saved, that person recieves the indwelling of the Holly Spirit. The H. S. will help you understand God,s Word. However, much study is required.
Re: contradictions
by Asanparambil a v thomas - 7/14/17 7:44 AM
Please do not use the word contradiction as regards Holy Bible is concerned. Cleanse yourself. Sit on the feet of Jesus. Read 1Jn.2:27. Keep the Bible open. Talk to the Holy Spirit to teach you. If you did not get proper reply call me.
Re:contradictions
by ted bruckner - 8/17/19 8:06 PM
I'm a carpenter and member of nothing except the Church / Eclessia in the true use of the word. And have been studying the history surrounding the Scripture and the contradictions / differences for almost 3 years will light the reason for the contradictions, that is in, how of the (i counted) approximately 250 direct quotations of the Old Testament, that the majority of them disagree with the Catholic and Protestant Bible Masoretic Text Old Testament. The textual variants found in the Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles between the New Testament quotations and the quoted verses in the Old Testament are not a matter of translation or that there’s a large number of translations. For example:
Hebrews 10:5
Sacrifice and offering you would not, but a body have you prepared me.
Masoretic Text Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and offering, you did not desire: my ears have you opened.
Matthew 12:20-21 ... till he send forth judgment to victory. And in his name shall the Gentiles trust
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Masoretic Text Isaiah 42:4 ... till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
Acts 15:17
That the remnant of men might seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called
Masoretic Text Amos 9:12
That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called of my name
Justin Martyr (AD 100-165) stated that the scribes deliberately removed, altered or distorted Messianic verses in their Scriptures (Dialogue with Trypho, 71–73), as did Irenaeus (AD 130–210) (Against Heresies, 3.21.1). The diabolic meddling of the Pharisaical scribes goes much further to include effectively trashing about one-half of the book of Proverbs, not to mention the rest of how they messed up the Scripture. Their machination is a large reason why very few people want to read the Jewish Bible or Catholic and Protestant Bibles’ Old Testament.
The reason being is that the scribes / rabbis Lord Jesus exposed and called a bunch of appropriate names to their faces throuu-out his ministry, such as for one, sons of hell, went and throuuly revised the Hebrew Scriptures to not only defeat Apostolic preaching but to produce in people how you feel, that is not to like or trust Scripture thus get the People / Judeans ("Jews") to 'go ask the rabbi' who would tell them the Oral Law instead, the traditions and commandments of men that Christ condemned which later became written down; and the second edition was named the the (Babylonian) Talmud, which has 40-50 satanic verses, one of them is that Lord Jesus / Yeshua is in hell being perpetually boiled in feces. The Talmud is Judaism's revered holy Scripture, leaps and bounds over the Old Testament, which in the version we all have today is falsified and mutilated; or as Augustine put it lighty to Jerome, the apostate who put it into the Bible he made for the Vatican's official Bible, the 405 A.D. Vulgate Bible, Augustine complaining of the yet-to-be-named "Masoretic" (Hebrew) text, wrote in a letter to Jerome: The Greek Old Testament is more faithful in it's renderings and more intelligible in it's sense. (Rabbi Singer said the orthodox Jews today are the Pharisees of 2000 years ago.)
Lord Jesus and friends and Judeans used the Peoples Bible when outside the synagogues and the Temple where the holy Scripture in Hebrew was virtually confined to. It is known from a receipt for a cloth shawl with a verse or two copied onto it which sold for an exorbitant price that the price of scribal copies of Scripture in Hebrew must have been prohibitively expensive, but books in Greek were not because slaves were typically used for making copies, records show that even up to 100 copied while one dictated. (On the side, the word "Jews" wasn't in the Bible until the 18th century or there about.)
The Peoples Bible was the Septuagint / Seventy which is the Greek translation of the Seventy interpreters which was produced in the 3rd century B.C. by sanctioned faithful Israelite elders anticipating the Messiah but the anti-Christ rabbis ended it being the Peoples Bible in the second century A.D. but couldn't take it away from the believers. Today, the Septuagint is still being used exclusively by the tens of millions of the Eastern / Greek Orthodox believers and it’s been in uninterrupted use by an estimated 300 million people since it was translated.
Re:contradictions
by Coemgenus - 3/18/21 11:26 PM
I want to correct a mistaken understanding in the comment by ted bruckner on 2019/8/17, for the sake of anyone reading this:
\"or as Augustine put it lighty to Jerome, the apostate who put it into the Bible he made for the Vatican\'s official Bible, the 405 A.D. Vulgate Bible, Augustine complaining of the yet-to-be-named \"Masoretic\" (Hebrew) text, wrote in a letter to Jerome: The Greek Old Testament is more faithful in it\'s renderings and more intelligible in it\'s sense.\"
The comment above may give an impression that Jerome insisted on the Hebrew while Augustine rejected it. Neither is the case. Jerome says in his correspondence with Augustine that he translated from the Hebrew in the hope that others could determine whether the Seventy had erred in translation or the Rabbis had mangled the Hebrew text, and he avoids giving an opinion favoring one or the other, claiming insufficient knowledgeability on the subject to pass judgment on the superiority or inferiority of the Hebrew. Augustine\'s response shares the same humility, not passing judgment but simply voicing his preference for the Septuagint, since it was proven reliable by the Apostles. I would advise then against calling Jerome an \"apostate\".
The comment also suggests that Jerome\'s translating of the Hebrew in the Vulgate (except the Psalter, which is from the Septuagint) is somehow the responsible cause of the modern loyalty to the Masoretic. However, those problems were hardly present in the West in the ten centuries after Jerome\'s time, since the Ecclesial tradition had kept the interpretation more or less authentic among the Christian experience most of that time.
No, I rather blame the Protestant and post-Protestant rejectionism typical of the five centuries of the modern age, which has blinded any eye of keenness that is necessary to understand the Scriptural discrepancies between the Greek and the Masoretic, and that seems to have shielded the Catholic Christians with their Vulgate for centuries from the potential fallout of a likely faulty Scripture (the Masoretic). Many of today\'s Christians are out of touch with the authentic interpretations of the Scripture, because they lack the keen eye of Ecclesial tradition, and thus they are extremely gullible to the subtle misleadings of the Masoretic corruptions.
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