Category: The Bible
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Was Keturah the Wife or the Concubine of Abraham ?
According to Genesis 25:1, Keturah is described as being Abraham’s wife : “Abraham married another wife named Keturah.” The word used for wife in the Hebrew is (‘ishshah) (Strong’s No. 802)[1] and The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (2001) defines the meaning of the word as “woman, wife, female”[2]. But according to I Chronicles 1:32, we are…
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Contradictory Accounts of the Creation in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2
Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi This is not a new observation. It has been long accepted by scholars that the creation accounts in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 are redacted by different authors. Consider the following : All you have to do to see that the Old Testament as we know it did not come straight from the pen of…
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On The Methodology For Determining The Various Bible Difficulties
The Christian missionaries in their initial response to our list of Internal Contradictions of The Bible have made the claim that we are : …more bothered with seeking excuses not to take the Bible seriously, than finding reasons for their [our] own faith. In light of this “excuse” by the missionaries to avoid the gory details of the…
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George M. Lamsa : Excerpts From “New Testament Origins”
The "Old Syriac" manuscripts of the Four Gospels known as the Sinaitic Palimpsest, discovered by Mrs. Agnes Lewis in the Covenant of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai in 1892, unfortunately was forged by the Monks, deliberately, before it was sold to Mrs. Lewis and her companions. They made a hole in the date of the…
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Differences Between Modern Bible Translations
We will take the most popular Bibles such as the King James Version (KJV), the Revised Standard Version (RSV), the New International Version (NIV), the Good News Bible (GNB), the Living Bible Version (LBV) as well as the Christian Community Bible (CCB) and contrast the same verses within these Bibles.
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Books Mentioned in the Bible But Is Missing From Today’s Text
I have been reading with interest the last few exchanges regarding the reading of Jeremiah 8:8 -- "How can you say; 'We are wise, and the Law of the Lord is with us'? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie'" Note: Whenever you see that term 'Law of…
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On The Integrity of the Bible
Before 1881, all translations of the New Testament (including, most importantly, the 1611 King James Version (KJV), also known as the Authorised Version (AV)), were based on copies of Greek manuscripts known as the Textus Receptus, which is Latin for Received Text. (Abbreviated to TR). But in the 19th and 20th centuries, older Greek manuscripts…
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The Spuriousness of So-Called Pauline Epistles Exemplified by the Epistle to the Galatians
From the standpoint of the ordinary theology of the day it is a psychological riddle how the Paul of the Four Letters can have followed the historical Jesus at so short an interval. Pierson opened the eyes of Loman to this fact. It seemed to him that the developed Christianity of the community and the…
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The Art of the Gospels : Theology as Fictional Narrative
In the first century of the Common Era, there appeared at the eastern end of the Mediterranean a remarkable religious leader who taught the worship of one true God and declared that religion meant not the sacrifice of beasts but the practice of charity and piety an the shunning of hatred and enmity. He was…