Post by Dave on Jul 7, 2024 11:52:12 GMT -5
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Many people – scholars included – criticize The Bible – because of its many errors
Therefore they doubt the Bible because of it many errors
In Fact – sometimes too much information is too much for some to comprehend
Biblical Scholarship and Faith - link.bibleodyssey.com › Galleries
Some biblical scholars have left the faith after discovering historical problems in the Bible. For example, Bart Ehrman, a former fundamentalist who believed the Bible was the word of God without error, began to doubt his views as a graduate student. He found contradictions in the Bible and struggled with the problem of suffering, which led him to lose confidence in his faith.
The Problem is the legacy of Christendom’s infallibility tradition
People who are too extreme in their religious mythos – once awaken to reality – are not prepared for that reality
The problem – which texts are to be considered – how many are to be considered?
The King James translators only used one source – the received text
The King James has 16 ‘Bastered Verses’ – these are verses never in any other ancient text
Modern translation include up to 250 different – and sometimes older – texts to compile a more composite modern translation – so naturally it also contains many more textual differences
These differences are listed in most Study Bibles as marginal readings
If you check – you will see that there are three complete different endings for the Gospel of Mark
And just how ‘nit-picky’ is the difference? – complete sentences - change of words – spelling – omissions – inclusions – punctuations – breathing marks – spacing – arrangements
In the extreme –https://biblequestions.info › ... › Textual Variant
523,000 textual differences exist in over 2500 verses
To date there are 3 main sources for the Hebrew bible
The Aleppo Codex – A.K.A. The Masoretic Text of the 7th century AD - is not complete
The Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) of 1010 AD Russia – is the oldest complete copy
The Dead Sea Scrolls – is the oldest copy discovered – it is also incomplete - in fact the Hebrew text of the Dead Sea Scrolls more closely resemble the Greek Septuagint of 250 BC
What about corruptions – additions – omissions – ‘textual variations’ – do they matter?
A Believer’s Response
Gnostic Valentinus said – there are three types of Christians
1- the lost – pretenders
2- the Believer – saved by faith and conviction
3- the Spiritual – Experiential - Born Again – Baptism of the Holy Spirit – First Fruits
I admit my bias – as a believer I have much more evidence than just scripture to validate scripture
I see God’s Hands in the science of our reality – in the very Nature of reality
I see God’s Hand in the history of humanity – even in the current events of our modern age
Almost as if our world leaders use scripture as a their guide
David Ike – ‘ Just outside our field of vision are entities that are anything but human – and they have been manipulating our world from the outside for eons … Some people call them demonic – some call them the SERPENT RACE – Islam calls them the Jinn’
King Solomon called them the shedim of the Old Testament – Hebrew demons and other gods
King Solomon also verified they are the ‘sons of gods’ (bane elohiym) of Gen 6:1-4
New Testament Greek calls them ARCHON
This is the SERPENT RACE – Gen 3 / Gen 6 / Rev 12 – the BEAST of Revelation and his seed / offspring
They have always co-existed with man from the very beginning –
The SERPENT was in the Garden with Adam and Eve
Christendom has forgotten – before Abram was called from Ur – the known world was firmly in the grips of alien space gods – ancient astronauts - complete with genetic manipulations – demi-gods and chimeric hybrids – posing / impersonating gods – false gods – impressing ancient man with the magic of technology and knowledge from the stars
I see God’s Hand in reality – no matter when and where I look – or even on the scale I look
Scripture – prophesy or reality
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men. In unrighteousness they suppress the truth,
Rom 1:19 because what can be known about God is plain to them—for God has shown it to them.
Rom 1:20 His invisible attributes—His eternal power and His divine nature—have been clearly seen ever since the creation of the world, being understood through the things that have been made. So people are without excuse—
Rom 1:21 for even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless hearts were made dark.
Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools.
Rom 1:23 They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image in the form of mortal man and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the evil desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies with one another.
Rom 1:25 They traded the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this reason God gave them up to shameful passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for what is against nature.
Rom 1:27 Likewise the men abandoned natural relations with women and were burning with passion toward one another—men committing shameful acts with other men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Rom 1:28 And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what is not fitting.
Rom 1:29 They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. They are gossips,
Rom 1:30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents.
Rom 1:31 They are foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Rom 1:32 Though they know God’s righteous decree—that those who practice such things deserve death—they not only do them but also approve of others who practice the same.
Post WWII -
America has been the standard in education
America has been the primary promotor of Godless evolution
Today
America is the exporter of personal liberation and gay rights
America is the primary promotor of LYGBT+ Antifa – rebellious – mobs that disrupt society
Gays for Islamic Palestine is the height of ignorance
How can anyone deny the Hand of God – the validating of scripture = our reality
I admit my bias – as a believer I have much more evidence than just scripture to validate scripture
Even as I turn on the nightly news – I am just turning into the Old Testament 1st Book of Samuel
The Philistines (from the GAZA STRIP and their god Beelzebub) are well known from the Old Testament for their frequent wars with the Israelites.
To the question of Textual Criticism
If you believe in a Creator that created everything seen and unseen – who gave man His Testament – His Word – then it says exactly what God allows it to say.
Is there an element of ambiguity involved - YES
Why is ambiguity involved in a message so important to humanity
Answer – to force each of us to our knees for guidance – to seek that promised Comforter
Joh 14:25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
Joh 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Act 1:4 And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, 'Ye did hear of me;
Act 1:5 because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit—after not many days.'
Revelations – ideas from nowhere – inventions that change our world – ideas that change our world
Revelations – personal gifts – one on one – on the small scale
Scripture as our guide
Isa 28:9 To whom will He teach knowledge? To whom will He explain the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just taken from the breast?
Isa 28:10 For it must be ‘precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.’
Isa 28:11 For through stammering lips and a foreign tongue He will speak to this people,
Isa 28:12 To whom He said, “Here is rest, give rest to the weary, here is repose”—but they would not listen.
Isa 28:13 So the word of Adonai is to them ‘precept on precept, precept on precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.’
Forget the textual variations – even at their worst
The major message of scripture – is told to man over and over and over and over – told in story after story – told in parable after parable – told Book after Book
The major message of scripture = the TRUTH of God and our multi-dimensional quantum holographic reality and our true place in it
Then there is the question of which text to consider
66 books in Protestant Bibles and 73 books in Catholic Bibles
There are 22 books removed from the Bible - www.christianity.com › Life › Bible
There are 21 Books Mentioned in the Bible That Are Likely Lost - revtrev.com › Live LIGHT
The definition of Apocrypha varies, with some sources listing 14 books, while others list 54 - www.ligonier.org
The orthodox Coptic Church has 81 books in their broader canon – including the books of Jubilees and Enoch - The Ethiopian Tewahedo Bible - philarchive.org › archive › KAMFRB
The Jews – even at the time of Jesus Christ – never had a one Book Bible – they had a Temple Library
Yes – all the known books of what we call the Old Testament were there + the “Wisdoms of their Fathers”
Even the Dead Sea Scrolls were a collection of a large library that also contained what we consider scripture – but it also contained several Books / manuscripts considered Gnostic – the War Scroll – the Book of Enoch – the Book of Giants
The Nag Hammadi is a complete Library of 31 titles – only 11 are attributed to James, John, Paul, Peter, Phillip, and Thomas and/or are consistent with their words
The Book of Enoch is quote 64 times with the New Testament – second only to Isaiah at 68 times
Is Enoch a valuable text – or complete nonsense?
Is the Nag Hammadi valuable text – what of the Dead Sea Scrolls – King Solomon?
Using our Gnostic guides of prayer for enlightenment and the concept of precept upon precept, line upon line CONSISTANCY – 1Th 5:21 but test all things, hold fast to what is good,
1Th 5:15 See that no one repays evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good for one another and for all.
1Th 5:16 Rejoice always,
1Th 5:17 pray constantly,
1Th 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Messiah Yeshua.
1Th 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit,
1Th 5:20 do not despise prophetic messages,
It does not matter if we are discussing ancient astronauts – ancient Hindu gods - pagan religions – modern UFO phenomena – demons – or angels – it all speaks to the same reality
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