Category: The Bible

  • Who Killed Goliath?

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi In 1 Samuel 17: 51, we are told that David slewed the Philistine champion Goliath: Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion…

  • Various Numerical Contradictions Between Verses in the Old Testament

    Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi Various numerical contradictions can be seen between the verses contained within the Old Testament. We note the following numerical discrepencies, as follows: II Chronicles 36:9 says that Jehoiachin was 8 years old when he became king. II Kings 24:8 says Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became king. II Samuel…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Excerpts From “New Testament Origins” By George M. Lamsa

    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…